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No Matter Who Voters Choose On Tues., US Foreign Policy To Remain Unchanged
Post Date: 2010-11-03 11:44:03 by Brian S
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Regardless who comes out ahead in US legislative elections, US peace efforts in the Middle East will remain unaffected, the US State Department said Tuesday, as President Barack Obama's Democrats brace for a drubbing. "Democratic and Republican administrations supported by Congress under Democratic or Republican leadership have all supported our pursuit for comprehensive Middle East peace," department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters. "So this is a significant national interest and I would not expect any electoral results to have an impact on that," he added. Analysts consulted by AFP in Jerusalem have predicted that a weakening of Obama's Democratic ...
ChyrslObama Motors opens $570 mil Mexican Motor factory
Post Date: 2010-11-02 14:06:44 by Happy Quanzaa
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Chrysler opens 570 million dollar engine plant in Mexico MEXICO CITY (AFP) – US automaker Chrysler inaugurated a 570-million-dollar engine plant in northern Mexico Friday, the Mexican presidency said in a statement. Chrysler plans to produce its new Pentastar V-6 engine at the plant in Saltillo, in Coahuila state, for Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles. Chrysler's sixth plant in Mexico will produce up to 440,000 engines per year, the statement said. President Felipe Calderon said the plant would create 700 jobs. Mexico produced 1.66 million vehicles in the first nine months of 2010, 67 percent more than in the same period the previous year, according to the Mexican ...
Who saved the day in Yemen bomb plot? Once again, a Muslim.
Post Date: 2010-11-02 12:32:00 by Brian S
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One of the key lessons emerging from the Yemen bomb plot is that, in the shadowy world of tracking militants and winnowing out rumors from the real thing, some of the most vital intelligence comes from countries and individuals in the Muslim world. To be sure, the failure of what US, British, and Yemeni officials say was a plot by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to deliver its bombs is the latest in a long string of militant efforts that have come up short thanks to dramatically improved coordination of international intelligence and security efforts since 9/11. But many of the key pieces of intelligence that set those networks into action came from Muslims – some former ...
MI Chief: Iran And Russia Giving Syria Advanced Weapons
Post Date: 2010-11-02 12:20:11 by Brian S
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Outgoing Head of Military Intelligence General Amos Yadlin made his final appearance in front of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday, saying that he has seen "three defense ministers, two chiefs of the general staff and two prime ministers, gone through two wars and dealt with two nuclear programs in enemy countries." The last comment, apparently making reference to a Syrian nuclear program. "I stood in front of a group of thousands of people who work 24 hours a day to gather information that the enemy does not volunteer, information that needs to be extracted from difficult places in order to be processed, to investigate and prepare analyses so that ...
Beleaguered Haiti Braces For Possible Hurricane
Post Date: 2010-11-02 11:48:36 by Brian S
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haitians have yet another problem - a hurricane may hit this week, adding to the woes of a nation where cholera is spreading in the countryside and thousands upon thousands of earthquake survivors are still living in flimsy shelters. A U.S. Navy vessel, the amphibious warfare ship Iwo Jima, was steaming toward Haiti on Tuesday to be on hand to provide disaster relief in case Tropical Storm Tomas appears late in the week as forecast, possibly after strengthening again into a hurricane. The storm has already caused 14 deaths in the eastern Caribbean. Aid groups are rushing to do what they can but are already short of needed supplies because of the strains of ...
Four Americans Killed in Separate Attacks in Border City, Mexican Authorities Say
Post Date: 2010-11-02 11:25:05 by WhiteSands
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday. Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Edgar Lopez, 35, of El Paso, Texas, was killed Sunday along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house. On Saturday, a 26-year-old U.S. woman and an American boy were slain shortly after crossing an international bridge from El Paso. Giovanna Herrera and Luis Araiza, 15, were shot to death along with a Mexican man traveling with them just after 11 a.m., Sandoval said. Sandoval said authorities also identified a 24-year-old woman killed ...
Iran Plans to Execute Woman in Stoning Case
Post Date: 2010-11-02 11:19:27 by WhiteSands
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Human rights observers warn that Iran plans to execute a woman whose sentence to stoning has drawn international condemnation. Contacts inside in Iran say authorities in Tehran have given the go-ahead to prison officials in Tabriz to execute Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, possibly as early as Wednesday, though it's not clear yet by what method, Mina Ahadi of the International Committees Against Execution & Stoning told Fox News. The 43-year-old mother of two had been sentenced to stoning for alleged adultery. The Iranian government also claims Ashtiani had a hand in the murder of her husband. Ahadi and her organization are calling on foreign governments to put pressure on Iran to ...
Maher Says He’s ‘Alarmed’ By British Babies Being Given Muslim Names, Worried Islam Will Take Over World
Post Date: 2010-11-02 01:32:03 by WhiteSands
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Last week, the British Office of National Statistics (ONS) released data on a variety of different topics pertaining to the United Kingdom, including the most popular baby names in 2009. The ONS statistics reveal that different variations of the name Oliver were the most popular name for English babies during that year, and also that if different spellings are not counted together, that Mohammed was the name most often used by parents to name their children. On Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher, host Bill Maher referenced the ONS data and asked, “Am I a racist to feel that I’m alarmed by that?” He continued, “I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting ...
Canada bans cargo from Yemen
Post Date: 2010-11-01 22:44:20 by WhiteSands
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Canada has banned all air cargo from Yemen. Transport Minister Chuck Strahl made the announcement Monday. It comes in the wake of last week’s discovery of two U.S.-bound bombs sent in air cargo from Yemen. Strahl said immediate restrictions were put on cargo out of Yemen as soon as the government learned of the bomb plot last Friday. All cargo from Yemen was set aside for secondary screening to ensure it was safe. "I signed off since then on an interim order that will prevent air cargo from transferring from Yemen while we do an analysis of the situation,” Strahl told reporters in Ottawa. "Of course governments around the world are reacting similarly and obviously we ...
CNN Poll: Those who say things going poorly higher than 1994 or 2006
Post Date: 2010-11-01 22:19:06 by WhiteSands
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Washington (CNN) -- The number of Americans who say things are going badly in the country, at 75 percent, is higher than it has been on the eve of any midterm election since the question was first asked in the mid-1970s, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that the economy remains, by far, the top issue on the minds of Americans. Fifty-two percent of people questioned say the economy's the most important issue facing the country. "That's more than the deficit, education, health care, terrorism, energy, illegal immigration and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined," says CNN Polling Director ...
With Visit, Russia Reinforces Its Custody of Islands, Angering Japan
Post Date: 2010-11-01 19:48:18 by Brian S
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MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday visited one of the southern Kurile Islands, which the Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II, making it clear that Russia had no plans to cede the mineral-rich territory despite Japanese demands. Mr. Medvedev is the first Russian or Soviet leader to visit the disputed Kuriles, part of an archipelago that stretches from the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia to Hokkaido in the northernmost part of Japan. The four southernmost islands, called the Northern Territories by Japan, are home to only around 20,000 people, but grant access to prize fisheries and promising oil and gas fields. Mr. Medvedev ...
ADL: Carter Returns To Anti-Israel Bias, Despite Apology To U.S. Jews
Post Date: 2010-11-01 17:17:52 by Brian S
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter continues to unfairly criticize Israel despite a recent announcement he would refrain from anti-Israel bias, Anti-Defamation League chief Abraham H. Foxman said in an open letter on Monday. Late last year, the former U.S. president apologized to the American Jewish community for "stigmatizing Israel" in a letter published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and asked for forgiveness for his actions. "We must recognize Israel's achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help Israel continue to improve its relations with its Arab populations, but we must not permit criticisms for improvement to ...
What's Really Going to Destroy the Gulf Coast
Post Date: 2010-11-01 15:29:34 by WhiteSands
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(Oct. 30) -- Six months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the areas affected by the massive oil spill are beginning to recover. But for years the Mississippi River delta has faced a threat even more insidious than that of a geyser of oil, and for many in coastal wetlands, "recovery" is a dicey proposition at best. Amid spills and storms, the land in the delta itself is falling away, and some fear that if something isn't done to curb erosion and saltwater intrusion soon, the entire area may just fall into the ocean. "I'm not saying the oil spill was child's play," Eric Hansen, a shrimp dock manager in Plaquemines Parish, told ...
TURKEY: Ankara Adds Israel To List Of Strategic Security Threats
Post Date: 2010-11-01 14:53:20 by Brian S
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Turkey and Israel are at it again, but this time it's over reports that Turkey has added Israel to its so-called "Red Book," the top-secret security document that lists the country's threats and enemies. Israeli tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov struck back on Sunday by calling on Israelis to boycott Turkey as a tourist destination out of "national honor." According to Turkish media, the Red Book, which is amended every five years, now identifies Israel as a "strategic threat" to Turkey. The document, which is drawn up by Turkey's National Security Council, accuses Israel of being a destabilizing force and says Israeli actions could provoke a ...
White House Weighs Response To Mail Bomb Plot
Post Date: 2010-11-01 12:04:40 by Brian S
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(11-01) 05:07 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Teams of U.S. anti-terrorism and security experts are headed to Yemen to help search for suspects in the mail bomb plot and to train cargo screeners at the San'a airport. The White House's top counterterrorism official, deputy national security adviser John Brennan, told Yemen's president on Sunday that his country has the lead in responding to the terrorists, according to a top Yemeni official. The brief phone conversation between Brennan and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh came as Brennan led a team of national security and intelligence officials in a second day of meetings assessing the best options in striking back at the al-Qaida ...
Yemen Bomb Suspect Released, Lawyer Says
Post Date: 2010-10-31 19:16:18 by Brian S
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Yemen authorities on Sunday released a 23-year-old engineering student who had been arrested a day earlier for her alleged connection to Al Qaeda and the foiled plot to mail packages of concealed explosives into the U.S., according to her lawyer. The Yemen government did not issue a statement on why Hanan Samawi, who was detained Saturday after her cellphone number was traced to shipping orders, was freed. The student's release could be a political embarrassment for President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had announced her arrest in a high-profile news conference apparently designed to show that his government was moving aggressively against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Samawi's ...
Latinos souring on illegal immigration
Post Date: 2010-10-31 15:56:27 by WhiteSands
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Posted: 10/30/2010 03:41:02 PM PDT A new study shows Latinos have soured considerably on illegal immigration in the last three years. In 2007, 50percent of Latinos surveyed told the Pew Hispanic Center that the growing number of illegal immigrants was a positive force for the existing Latino population. In a Pew survey released Thursday, that number had plummeted to 29percent. Thirty-one percent said illegal immigration had a negative effect, and 20percent said it had no effect. While the wording of the question changed slightly in 2010 - striking the phrase "growing number" to reflect studies that show illegal immigration declining - several local advocates on different ...
Israeli Government At Risk Of Collapse
Post Date: 2010-10-31 14:59:18 by Brian S
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* News * World news * Israel Israel's coalition government threatened by walk out Labor party will walk out of Israel's coalition government unless negotiations with the Palestinians get under way * Tweet this * * Reddit * Buzz up * Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem * guardian.co.uk, Sunday 31 October 2010 17.04 GMT Avishay Braverman Avishay Braverman says Labour party will walk out of Israel’s coalition government unless Palestinian negotiations get under way. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP Israel's Labor party will walk out of the rightwing-dominated coalition government unless serious negotiations with the Palestinians get under way in the coming weeks, according to ...
Unprecedented Hurricane Tomas pounding the Lesser Antilles
Post Date: 2010-10-30 21:40:48 by go65
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Hurricane Tomas, an unprecedented Lesser Antilles hurricane for so late in the season, is bearing down on the islands of St. Lucia and St. Vincent with Category 1 winds of 75 mph. Recent radar imagery from the Martinique radar shows that Tomas is still in the organizing stage, with an eyewall that just closed off, and a weak area of echoes on the south side, due to modest wind shear of 10 knots caused by southerly upper-level winds. The Hurricane Hunters reported top surface winds in the northern eyewall near 75 mph. St.Lucia figures to get the worst blow from Tomas, as this island will experience the strong right-front quadrant of the storm--the north eyewall. Winds on the island were ...
Yemen: Woman Detained In Terror Bomb Plot; More Packages Examined For Explosives
Post Date: 2010-10-30 13:48:08 by Brian S
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Yemeni security forces on Saturday arrested a woman thought to be involved in sending explosive packages headed to the United States, a security official said. The arrest came after authorities surrounding a house where she was hiding in the capital San'a, Reuters reported. Authorities were looking for a male accomplice, NBC News reported. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said earlier that security forces had surrounded a house at an undisclosed location where a woman believed to be involved in the apparent plan to attack targets in the United States was taking refuge. Yemeni authorities were checking more packages in a search for the terrorists who tried to mail bombs to ...
Terror Plot Thwarted As US-Bound Explosives Seized
Post Date: 2010-10-29 19:26:45 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States from Yemen on Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets. The plot triggered worldwide fears that al-Qaida was launching a major new terror campaign. President Barack Obama called the coordinated attacks a "credible terrorist threat," and U.S. officials said they were increasingly confident that al-Qaida's Yemen branch, the group responsible for the failed Detroit airliner bombing last Christmas, was responsible. Parts of the plot might remain undetected, Obama's counterterror chief warned. ...
UAE source: explosive found in Yemen shipment
Post Date: 2010-10-29 15:52:33 by WhiteSands
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- An official UAE security source says a suspicious device discovered in an air cargo shipment in Dubai that was headed for the U.S. contained explosive materials. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the "explosive device" was found Friday in a courier company's regional hub and originated in a shipment from Yemen. Article Controls The source says there has been "close cooperation between several intelligence and security agencies around the world following the discovery of shipments ... containing an explosive device originating in Yemen." The person says an investigation is ...
Cargo plane at Newark airport given all clear
Post Date: 2010-10-29 15:18:33 by WhiteSands
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Oct 29 (Reuters) - A UPS (UPS.N) plane at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey that was searched for suspicious packages from Yemen has been cleared, a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official said on Friday. U.S. authorities were investigating cargo planes arriving in the United States that were carrying packages from Yemen after suspicious packages were found at an airport north of London and at a cargo facility in Dubai. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols, editing by Doina Chiacu)
U.S. fighter jets escorting passenger flight from UAE into New York's JFK airport: media
Post Date: 2010-10-29 15:16:40 by WhiteSands
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Pentagon in Charge of Aid to Israel?
Post Date: 2010-10-29 13:48:31 by Brian S
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Cantor explains that taking Israel out of the Sate Department’s annual budget will allow the US to continue protecting the security aid given to Israel, even if the rest of the foreign aid budget will be frozen due to a conflict between the Democratic president and a Republican House of Representatives. By Yitzhak Benhorin YNet”- – WASHINGTON – In the days leading up to the United States Congress mid-term elections, senior Republicans are contemplating transferring the annual foreign aid responsibilities, provided these days to Israel from the State Department’s foreign aid budget, to the hands of the Pentagon. According to advocates of this proposal, ...
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