May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- Virgin Galactic says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year. The company said Wednesday its spaceship builder partner has been granted an experimental permit from the Federal Aviation Administration - a move that will allow it to proceed with powered flights. No timetable has been set ...
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
UPDATE-FREED: EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Security officials say two American tourists who had been kidnapped by Bedouins in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula have been released. They say the Bedouins snatched the two men early Thursday as they were traveling by car from Dahab to Nuweiba, resort towns on the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba. The officials say ...
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Jerusalem Post: A US security institute has published satellite images which it said increased concerns that Iran was trying to "destroy evidence" of suspected past research relevant for developing a nuclear weapons capability, a charge Tehran dismisses. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) posted them on its website hours ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL: “Iran is laughing all the way to the bomb,” Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon told a conference at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday. While Tehran’s officials negotiate with the West to buy time, its centrifuges keep spinning, he said, adding that in the last three months Iran enriched 750 ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from Aljazeera: London, United Kingdom – "After the pain, it was the screaming that I'll never forget. It wasn't just mine and my sister's screams, there were so many other girls there - all being cut. I've never heard screams like that again and I don't think I ever will." Aissa, from Mali, West ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from National Post: WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT A video that purportedly shows a suspect wanted in connection with the Ottawa–Montreal body parts case brutally killing and sexually assaulting a naked man appears on a Canadian-operated website. Police are now studying the gruesome video, which was believed to have been taken by the suspect, identified today by ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from Pravda: Several days ago, the world was shocked with the news from Europe. A family couple from Bosnia and Herzegovina had been keeping a young German woman as their slave for eight years. The victim of family violence is now 19 years of age. The Bosnian couple - Milenko Marinkovic, 52, and his ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from OPEN CHANNEL: Iran’s government has repeatedly used commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons and explosives to Syria and Lebanon, the German broadcaster ZDF reported Wednesday. ZDF, citing Western security sources and unspecified information it said it had obtained, reported that Iran Air and Yas Air, both based in Iran, have repeatedly ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from JP: The Palestinian Authority leadership is planning to honor the remains of Palestinian suicide bombers and terrorists with full military services in Ramallah. The IDF will deliver the bodies to representatives of the PA on Thursday, PA Minister for Prisoners Affairs, Issa Qaraqi, said. He said that the PA would hold a ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Report from Dan Rather: This reporter has been told that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive cancer that has "entered the end stage". The information and the quote come from a highly respected source close to Chavez and who is in a position to know his medical condition and history. ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Financial Times: Two of the best-known business dynasties in Europe and the US will come together after Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust and Rockefeller Financial Services agreed to form a strategic partnership. RIT Capital Partners is to buy a 37 per cent stake in the Rockefeller’s wealth advisory and asset management group for ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Democracy Now: The Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohamed Morsi, who’s widely expected to be in the runoff, has said that he would reexamine the Camp David Accords that you brokered in 1978, and saying that Israel has not fully respected the agreement. What are your thoughts? JIMMY CARTER: "Well, I’ve talked to him at length about ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Reuters) - Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, leaving the Australian with few legal options after an 18-month legal battle. Judges at Britain's highest court rejected by a majority of 5-2 Assange's argument that a European arrest warrant for his extradition was invalid. However, ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Fox News: The Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for his role in the CIA mission to hunt down Usama bin Laden was formally accused not of aiding U.S. intelligence, but assisting a militant Islamic group, according to a judgment provided to Fox News. The document, which began to circulate to ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Agencie France Presse: US President Barack Obama's description of a Nazi German Holocaust site as a "Polish death camp" shocked Poland, whose leaders insist the record be set straight 67 years after World War II. Obama on Tuesday labeled the Nazi facility used to process Jews for extermination as a "Polish death camp." The White House ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The United Nations has hit a "new low" in naming Robert Mugabe as tourism ambassador, says Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The United Nations has “hit a new low” with its appointment of Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe to be one of its ambassadors for tourism, House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said Tuesday. Mugabe has ...
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May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE BLAZE: Russian media outlets are reporting that Sergey Aslanyan, a famous journalist and radio presenter, was brutally attacked outside his apartment Monday after making comments insulting to Islam. “The Prophet Mohammed, as we know, was not a religious figure. He was a businessman, but after getting considerable financial support [he] built plans ...
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May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The White House on Tuesday said arming Syrian insurgents would lead to more "chaos and carnage" in rejecting calls from presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to step up its help for opponents of the Assad regime. White House press secretary Jay Carney said the administration continues to believe that further ...
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May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from GUARDIAN: With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin, the UN's choice of ambassadors has been known to cause raised eyebrows or the odd smirk. Seldom, however, has there been such anger, or questioning of the organisation's credibility, as that greeting the appointment of a new international ...
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