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FBI Investigates Two Men Arrested In Amsterdam, Does Not Suspect Terrorism
Post Date: 2010-08-31 11:38:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A U.S. government official said the FBI's investigation of two men detained in Amsterdam is finding that it is unlikely they were on a test run for a future terror attack, even as Dutch authorities continued to hold the pair on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist act. The U.S. official said the two men arrested in Amsterdam did not know each other and were not travelling together. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation, says both men missed flights to Washington from Chicago, and United Airlines then booked them on the same flight to Amsterdam. Another U.S. official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said ...
Pro-Israel Group Affiliated With Conservative Commentator William Kristol Hits Democrat Rush Holt In New Ad
Post Date: 2010-08-30 19:12:56 by Brian S
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A pro-Israel group affiliated with conservative commentator William Kristol released a TV ad today targeting Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., and questioning his commitment to the Jewish state.In the ad, the Emergency Committee for Israel (EIC) slammed Holt for signing a letter this year that called for lifting the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The group criticized the six-term Democrat for participating in a conference organized by J Street, a liberal Jewish group that has grown more active in politics this year as it tries to become a counterweight to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC.EIC called J Street's event "anti-Israel" in the ad; J Street says ...
American Colonel Sacked After Afghan Rant [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-30 00:29:20 by Murron
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FWIW! This story may have been pulled from the link provided, I checked and it wasn't there but Joe Snuffy got it at LP, it may show up later. American Colonel Sacked After Afghan Rant A senior American staff officer has been sacked after publishing a rant against the bureaucracy and endless PowerPoint briefings at Nato's Kabul headquarters. By Ben Farmer in Kabul Col Lawrence Sellin was sent home after generals read an opinion piece he had written revealing "little of substance" was done at the coalition's joint command in Afghanistan. He went on to paint a picture of a bloated organisation, swollen by the vanity of commanders, where endless slide show ...
Iran Pulls Out Europe Assets As A Precaution Against A Possible EU Decision To Freeze Them
Post Date: 2010-08-29 19:02:52 by Brian S
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Iran is withdrawing its assets from Europe as a precaution against a possible EU decision to freeze them, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran said. "Assets of Iranian banks have been withdrawn from European banks," Mahmoud Bahmani was quoted by Press TV as saying. He said the Central Bank had predicted such a scenario six months before and "took the necessary countermeasures." Last week Bahmani said Iran had doubled its foreign exchange reserves. Western powers suspect Iran of seeking to build nuclear weapons under the guise of its nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed at the peaceful generation of civilian energy. On June 9 the UN Security Council passed ...
Kremlin Denies Plans To Halt Missile Sales To Syria
Post Date: 2010-08-29 18:59:27 by Brian S
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Russia stands by its international obligations and has no plans to stop an arms deal with Syria, a Kremlin aide said on Saturday. Sergei Prikhodko said recent reports in some Israel media outlets misrepresented Russia's position on cooperation with Syria. The Haaretz daily reported on Friday that Israel was working to "thwart a Russian arms deal with Syria" and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to stop the sale of advanced P-800 Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles. "Lately, some Israeli media outlets have been actively disseminating information distorting Russia's position on the implementation of its ...
Russian Subs Stalk British Trident In Echo Of Cold War; Tactics Not Seen For 25 Years
Post Date: 2010-08-29 18:52:36 by Brian S
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Russian submarines are hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics not seen for 25 years, British Navy chiefs have warned. A specially upgraded Russian Akula class submarine has been caught trying to record the acoustic signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles, according to senior Navy officers. British submariners have also reported that they are experiencing the highest number of "contacts" with Russian submarines since 1987. If the Russians are able to obtain a recording of the unique noise of the boat's propellers it would have serious implications for Britain's nuclear deterrent. Using its sophisticated ...
Bulking Up – US Fuels Israeli War Machine.
Post Date: 2010-08-29 12:31:01 by Skip MacLure
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And a thirsty one it is indeed, as they all are. The United States has sold Israel two billion dollars worth of military fuel stocks. That’s about 444 million gallons of JP-8, unleaded and diesel fuel. Israel’s air force would use prodigious quantities of fuel in an all-out air assault against her enemies that could last for days. The tanks and mobile artillery won’t be slow consuming huge amounts of fuel either. This, right in the face of Barack Obama’s biggest push to neuter Israel, by promising a ‘nuclear shield’ to protect her from her enemies… if she promises not to attack Iran. Note to our Israeli friends: Barack Hussein’s promises are as ...
Israeli Education Ministry Approves New 'whites-only' Settlement School
Post Date: 2010-08-27 20:08:02 by Brian S
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Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students in classes. Originally, the school was fined for this policy of racial segregation, because the school was state funded. Now, the Israeli education ministry has agreed with the white parents' request to allow the school to continue with its racial discrimination under private funding. There is no law preventing racial discrimination by private organizations, even schools, in Israel. The Israeli court has interpreted these laws to also apply to illegal West bank settlements, like Immanuel, which are located in areas ...
Former President Jimmy Carter Secures Release Of Imprisioned Christian In North Korea
Post Date: 2010-08-26 22:26:29 by Brian S
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Earlier this year Robert Park made worldwide headlines when he was released from a North Korean prison. Operating on faith, Park crossed over from South Korea to North Korea in a effort to bring greater attention to the North’s oppressive human rights record. When Park was released he battled suicidal tendencies and has been hospitalized multiple times for his afflictions. A large part of his worry concerned his friend Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who entered North Korea shortly after Park’s release. In April, the North Korean government sentenced the Boston native to eight years in a hard labor camp and fined him $700,000. Now, Park is breathing a sigh of relief for answered prayers. ...
CIA Paper Cites Jewish Acts Of Terrorism
Post Date: 2010-08-26 17:30:52 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A recent CIA paper cited Jewish acts of terrorism in the West Bank in its analysis of whether the United States is an exporter of terrorism. The papers were released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks Wednesday. They were classified under the relatively low-grade "secret." The documents analyze U.S.-backed Jewish, Muslim and Irish terrorist attacks. They conclude that international perceptions that the United States is an exporter of terrorism may lead to foreign countries’ non-cooperation in anti-terrorism operations and less willingness to share relevant intelligence. Those perceptions could even lead to the arrest of CIA or other American agents ...
Afghan outrage: U.S. troops scrounge for blankets, bullets 'One of my soldiers went without ammo for 5 weeks' (Democrats Don't Know How to Fight Wars)
Post Date: 2010-08-26 16:26:31 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Afghan outrage: U.S. troops scrounge for blankets, bullets 'One of my soldiers went without ammo for 5 weeks' Posted: August 25, 2010 9:31 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily The parents of an American soldier in Afghanistan have accused the U.S. government of leaving defenders of its freedoms without basics such as blankets, food, feminine hygiene supplies and even bullets, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. "One of my soldiers went without ammo for five weeks once they got to Afghanistan because of shortages. I can't reveal the name, because they are frightened of reprisals. If they can do what they did to a four star general like [Gen. ...
Chile Enlists NASA, Navy in `Unheard of' Rescue of Trapped Copper Miners
Post Date: 2010-08-26 13:17:25 by Brian S
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Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Chile is tapping the U.S.’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration and domestic Navy on how to maintain the health of 33 miners facing a three-month wait before being rescued from a collapsed gold and copper mine. Psychiatrists and nutritionists from NASA discussed in a conference call ways to help the miners cope with the physical and mental challenges of being trapped underground for such a long period, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said on Chilean television yesterday. A delegation may visit the site, he said. The miners were discovered on Aug. 22 after being trapped 700 meters (2,300 feet) underground since Aug. 5, when the only access to the San ...
Partisan Democrat Juan Cole rips the “Jewish” neocon Right, but won’t touch the even more powerful Jewish-American Zionist Left
Post Date: 2010-08-26 10:56:38 by Chris Moore
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(By Chris Moore, http://http://LibertarianToday.com) -- On his widely read blog Informed Comment, influential writer and Middle East scholar (and partisan lefty) Juan Cole recently wrote a scathing attack on the neocons' latest push for war on Iran that decried their insipid and perpetual warmongering, and framed them as inherently driven by bloodlust. He went out of his way to note in the opening paragraph that at neoconservatism's core are "extremely wealthy Jewish former Democrats who broke with their party in the 1980s to become war hawks in Republican administrations, and most of whom are rooted in Rightwing Zionism as exemplified in the thought of prominent fascist ...
Children abused, killed as witches in Nigeria
Post Date: 2010-08-25 18:41:53 by Ferret Mike
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Watch more about the extent of Nigeria's child witch scandal on CNN International's Connect The World this week at 2000 GMT
Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria (CNN) -- Just after midnight, the pastor seized a woman's forehead with his large hand and she fell screaming and writhing on the ground. "Fire! Fire! Fire!" shouted the worshippers, raising their hands in the air.
Pastor Celestine Effiong's congregants are being delivered from what they firmly believe to be witchcraft. And in the darkness of the city and the villages beyond, similar shouts and screams echo from makeshift church to makeshift church.
"I have been delivered from witches and wizards today!" exclaimed one exhausted-looking ...
Iran Says It's Prepared To Sell Weapons To Lebanon If Beirut Asks For Military Assistance
Post Date: 2010-08-25 18:13:13 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran is prepared to sell weapons to Lebanon if Beirut asks for help in equipping its military, Iran's defence minister said Wednesday. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi's comments come a day after the leader of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, called on the Lebanese government to formally seek military assistance from Iran. "Lebanon is our friend," Vahidi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. "If there is a demand in this respect, we are ready to help that country and conduct weapons transactions with it." In a televised speech on Tuesday, Nasrallah vowed that his Iranian-backed group could help secure the aid for ...
Jerusalem Trains Could Have Gender-Segregated Cars
Post Date: 2010-08-25 18:04:05 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The head of the company developing Jerusalem's light rail system said there could be gender-segregated cars on the trains. The men- or women-only cars would be to accommodate Jerusalem's Haredi Orthodox community. "The train was built to serve everyone," CityPass CEO Yair Naveh said during a news conference Monday. "I think it is required to create alternatives for everyone, and that option exists because of the train's division into cars. It is not a problem to declare every third or fourth car a mehadrin [kosher] car." Naveh's declaration raised the hackles of officials in the transportation industry and in the Jerusalem ...
WikiLeaks To Release CIA Papers On Wednesday
Post Date: 2010-08-25 11:46:00 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that infuriated the Pentagon when it published thousands of classified military reports, said it will release a fresh set of documents Wednesday. The group posted on its Twitter page Tuesday: "WikiLeaks to release CIA paper tomorrow." It did not specify a time. The website set off a firestorm recently when it posted some 76,000 U.S. documents related to the war in Afghanistan. The group has said it has another 15,000 documents, which it plans to release soon. It was not immediately clear whether the Twitter post on Tuesday is related to the batch of documents that WikiLeaks has called the "Afghan War Diary." The U.S. ...
Iraqi Cities Hit as Car Bombings Target Police; at Least 37 Dead, 126 Hurt
Post Date: 2010-08-25 11:42:53 by Brian S
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Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Iraqi cities were hit in bombings today that targeted the police, killing at least 37 people and injuring 126, police and medical officials said. Car bombs were used in the attacks in Baghdad, Basra, Karbala, Baquba, Kirkuk and Wasit, the officials said in statements. Violence has picked up in Iraq in recent months amid Iraq’s political impasse and the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops. Terrorists have been emboldened by the power vacuum created by the failure to seat a new government since parliamentary elections in March, Iraqi leaders have said. The last U.S. combat unit left Iraq on Aug. 18, seven years after the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. ...
Senior American Official Says U.S. Views Israeli Construction In West Bank Settlements As Illegitimate
Post Date: 2010-08-24 17:11:52 by Brian S
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The Obama administration expects Israel to refrain from making any move that could potentially damage peace talks with the Palestinians once they begin, United States Middle East envoy George Mitchell has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mitchell conveyed the same message to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In recent days, Abbas has made clear that if Israel renews building in West Bank settlements, after a 10-month freeze on settlement construction on September 27, the Palestinian Authority will abandon the direct peace talks. A senior American official well versed in the latest contacts between the U.S. and Israeli administrations refused to say whether Mitchell's ...
Vacationing Netanyahu Can't Find Time To Meet IAEA Chief
Post Date: 2010-08-23 20:43:57 by Brian S
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Despite the great importance Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attaches to efforts to thwart both Iran's nuclear program and global calls for beginning international inspections of Israel's Dimona facility, he could not find time during his vacation to meet the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog during his two-day working visit to Israel. Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, had requested to meet with Netanyahu months ago. But their scheduled meeting was abruptly canceled a few days ago because it conflicted with the prime minister's vacation in the north. According to a diplomat familiar with the details of the visit, the ...
Norway Oil Divests From Israel
Post Date: 2010-08-23 17:53:01 by Brian S
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Norway's Ministry of Finance announced that the Norway Oil Fund divested from Africa-Israel Investments and Danya Cebus Ltd. on Monday. The reason given is the companies' construction in the West Bank. The Norwegian Finance Ministry said, "The ethics council stresses that construction of settlements in the occupied territories violates the decision of the Geneva convention regarding defense of civilians during war time. Several decisions of the UN Security Council and the International Court of Justice have reached the conclusion that construction of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories is prohibited." The Norway Oil Fund has assets worth $450 billion, and ...
Turkey To Remove Iran From Enemies Watchlist
Post Date: 2010-08-23 14:48:18 by Brian S
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ANKARA — Turkey is to remove Iran from a watchlist of nations it considers a specific threat to its national security, a news report said Monday, amid Western concerns of rapprochement between the two countries. The updated list is contained in Turkey's security review produced by the country's National Security Council which will be adopted in October and will no longer refer to Iran as a "specific threat", the Milliyet newspaper said. The review replaces a previous edition published five years ago, the newspaper added. Members of the council, made up of government and military leaders, were not immediately available for comment on the report on Iran, which ...
DNA tests reveal 'Hitler was descended from the Jews and Africans he hated'
Post Date: 2010-08-23 14:28:46 by WhiteSands
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DNA tests have revealed Adolf Hitler may have been related to both Jews and black people that he earmarked for extermination.
Brussels news magazine Knack has claimed that DNA obtained from the Nazi leader's relatives living in America led to the discovery.
Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders garnered the DNA from a serviette dropped by one of three known Hitler descendants who live on Long Island, New York.
That led earlier this year to the tracking down in Austria of a farmer known only as Norbert H. who was found to be a cousin of the German dictator.
Mulders used the services of historian Marc Vermeeren to find the cousin, in the Waldviertel region, and another 39 distant relatives ...
Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base
Post Date: 2010-08-23 14:20:31 by WhiteSands
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some young boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday. Will F. Cragin of the International Medical Corps said aid workers knew rebels had occupied Luvungi town and surrounding villages in eastern Congo the day after the attack began on July 30. U.N. agencies sent text messages to cell phones saying the area was occupied, he said. More than three weeks later, the U.N. mission has issued no statement about the atrocities and said Monday it still is investigating. Cragin told The Associated ...
Iran Begins Producing Missile-Carrying Speedboats After Announcing Drone
Post Date: 2010-08-23 12:41:55 by Brian S
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Iran announced it has begun producing two types of missile-equipped speedboat, a day after the country unveiled a long-range drone that can carry bombs. “Enemies should be careful not to play with fire,” Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on state television today at the opening ceremony for the vessels’ production lines. “If they attack Iran our response will not be limited to one region and will be unpredictable.” The Seraj-1 is a rapid-assault vessel that can operate in stormy weather, while the Zolfaqar can travel at 82 miles per hour and is equipped with the Nasr missile to strike enemy ships, Vahidi said, according to the official Islamic Republic News ...
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