Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Libyan weapons are spreading at “an alarming rate” to new territory in west Africa and the eastern Mediterranean including Syria and the Gaza Strip where they are fueling conflicts and increasing the arsenals of armed groups and terrorists, a UN panel said. In a report to the UN Security Council circulated Tuesday, ...
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Apr 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Defense and military officials testified that al Qaeda is gaining a foothold in several areas throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa in a hearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday afternoon. The terrorist organization is seeking to exploit the upheaval in the Middle East following uprisings over the ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AFP The Public Prosecution is probing new complaints against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, this time for "insulting Pakistan" and "spreading atheism," judicial sources told AFP on Tuesday. The wildly popular Youssef -- whose weekly political satire program Al-Bernameg has spared few public figures of merciless critique —¬¬ is currently on bail pending investigation into charges ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS DUBAI- The Iraqi wing of al-Qaida announced that a rebel group at the forefront of the rebellion in Syria was its branch in that country and that both groups would operate under one name, according to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group. The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, Abu Bakr Baghdadi, said his ...
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Pat Robertson Warns: America ‘Asking For Wrath Of Almighty God’ If Any Concessions Made To Palestine
Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE COMMENTATOR A shipment of teargas canisters from the United States arrived at the Egyptian Abadeya Port in Suez on Sunday, according to official documents obtained by the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper. Five containers carrying around 140,000 teargas canisters were apparently shipped to the Egyptian Interior Ministry by the Aramex International courier service. The Egypt Independent reports ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON The State Department has moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton willfully “disregarded congressional safeguards and transparency requirements” regarding U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), potentially allowing funds to flow to terrorist groups such as Hamas. The suit, which was originally filed by 24 Americans living ...
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Apr 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Pro-Israel activists have launched a campaign to prevent a Jewish university from presenting anti-Israel former President Jimmy Carter with the school’s “International Advocate for Peace Award.” Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is scheduled to present Carter with the award on Wednesday, leading former alumni and pro-Israel advocates to galvanize in ...
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Apr 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE It has been more than six months since the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that cost four Americans — including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens — their lives. Yet, the picture is not much clearer than it was in the weeks after the tragedy. It seems the government and ...
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Apr 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP Steinitz calls on world powers to set deadline of weeks to persuade Tehran to halt nuclear enrichment.Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz called on world powers on Sunday to set a deadline for military action of weeks to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program after talks ended without progress at the ...
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Apr 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP Israeli official tells 'Post' Secretary of state apparently did not read Turkey’s press reaction reports following PM Netanyahu's apology over the 2010 flotilla incident; says reports included gloating. Israeli officials expressed astonishment on Sunday that US Secretary of State John Kerry praised Turkey for responding “sensitively” and without triumphalism to Israel’s apology for the ...
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Apr 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS The hackers' group Anonymous said Saturday that its planned attack on Israel has begun and will intensify Sunday. One of its prime targets is a website for an NGO that assists children with cancer. The group announced that 19,000 Israeli Facebook accounts have already been hacked. In addition it said, personal details ...
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Apr 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said. In the south, three U.S. service members, two U.S. civilians and the doctor were ...
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Apr 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS Iran and six world powers weren’t able to seal a deal to curb the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program on the first of two days of talks, which ended with the two sides still far apart. The optimistic tone officials struck at the close of a previous round of negotiations in Almaty, Kazakhstan, ...
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Apr 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL Fighters from the military wing of Hamas are reportedly training and fighting alongside Syrian rebels, marking a total about-face by the Islamist group, which was once one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s staunchest allies. Citing anonymous diplomatic sources, The Times of London reported Friday that members of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from STRIPES KABUL — A U.S. fighter pilot was killed when his F-16 jet crashed late Wednesday near Bagram Air Field in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said. The plane was on its final approach to land after a routine air support mission around 11 p.m. when it lost contact with its wingman and the control ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from YNET NEWS Members of irregular militias loyal to Assad regime say 15-day urban warfare course teaches 'best methods to prepare against surprise attacks'; fighter says Alawites taking course 'kept saying they want to kill the Sunnis and rape their women in revenge' The Syrian government is sending members of its irregular militias for guerrilla combat ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON A fleet of Iranian warships returned home Thursday following a month long deployment in the Pacific Ocean. The naval operation shows a surprising amount of range for a navy that in recent months has crept further into international waters. An Iranian destroyer and helicopter carrier spent most of February in the Pacific Ocean, just ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP DUBAI - Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf Arab states are often wary of subversion from their powerful Shi'ite neighbor Iran, but Dubai's veteran police chief reserves most of his wrath for the "dictators" of the Muslim Brotherhood. Dhahi Khalfan's suspicions focus mostly on the Egyptian branch of the Sunni Islamist organization, propelled to power in the ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that the freeing of terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons was a "priority" for his leadership. "The Palestinian leadership gives priority to the prisoners issue and ending their suffering," Abbas said in a speech to a meeting of his Fatah party in Ramallah, according ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP:\ The U.S. Embassy in Cairo shut down its Twitter feed Wednesday following a public fight with the Egyptian Presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood over the arrest of an Egyptian television star. "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" reads the banner atop the site where the @USEmbassyCairo Twitter feed sat until this morning. A cached ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood lashed out Tuesday against State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland after Nuland criticized the Egyptian government for stifling freedom of expression. Nuland dressed down the Egyptian government for a series of actions against its domestic critics, including the detention and interrogation of Bassem Youssef, Egypt's answer to The Daily Show's Jon ...
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