Translated from El Nuevo Herald: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) evaluated the possibility of selling uranium to the government of President Hugo Chavez, for what it offered to “friends in distant lands,” according to emails found on computers in the killed rebel leader Raul Reyes, that mention the availability of up to 50 [...]
Big Peace: This weekend, thousands of protesters gathered in cities all over the US and in several other countries to march against alleged US plans to make war on Iran. In the US, the ultra militant, pro Cuba and North Korea Workers World Party is taking a leading role to coordinate the demonstrations. From Workers [...]
This occured on the day 400 people were massacred by Assad’s troops. (February 4th, 2012) No info on whether he received proper treatment or survived.
(INN) — The Iranian parliament’s official website has published an article calling on the government to attack Israel before the end of the year. According to Israeli TV Channel 2?s veteran Middle East expert, Ehud Yaari, the article cites three reasons for the call. First – a religious fatwa allowing such a strike. Second – [...]
Washington Post: CAIRO — Nineteen Americans will face criminal charges as part of a probe of the funding of pro-democracy groups, Egyptian officials announced Sunday, a provocative move that could deprive Egypt of crucial aid from the United States and upend one of Washington’s most important bilateral relationships. The development added pressure to an already [...]
Jerusalem Post: CAIRO – An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel on Sunday, witnesses and state television reported. The pipeline, which also supplies gas to Jordan, has come under attack at least 11 times since Egyptian resident Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011. The latest blast took place in the Massaeed [...]
The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. The real threat is the sophisticated forces of Islamism, which have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy. In The Grand Jihad, bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy provides a harrowing account [...]
Associated Press: WASHINGTON—It’s one of the enduring mysteries of the war on terrorism: What will become of the al-Qaida leaders and operatives who fled into Iran after 9/11 and have been detained there for years? Their fate has long been a blindspot for U.S. intelligence. Recently, however, some al-Qaida figures have quietly made their way [...]
Al Arabiya: Damascus on Saturday said gunmen were responsible for the killing of more than 400 civilians across Syria, the state media reported. At least 416 civilians were killed by the Syrian forces across the country while the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) vowed to fight back with intense operations against the regime of President [...]
Christian Science Monitor: Is Iran trying to develop a missile that could reach the “Great Satan”? The missile under construction at an Iranian research-and-development facility, which was damaged by a mysterious explosion in November, was a long-range missile prototype with a range of 6,000 miles – enough to hit the United States, a senior Israeli [...]
WND: Amid crippling sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, Iran is continuing to prepare itself for war against the West, and now is warning of a coming great event. “In light of the realization of the divine promise by almighty God, the Zionists and the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated,” Ayatollah Khamenei, the [...]
Rough transcript provided by Fox news: 6:10 — Ryan Cleary and James Davis due in court on 27th. Following disco with NY trying to build time in for operational matters. 6:50 — We’ve set back arrests of Kayla and Tee-flow until we know what’s happening. 7:15 — How much time is reasonable? I’ve said 8 [...]
Associated Press: The Supreme Court‘s midwinter break is often used by justices to fly off to sunny vacation spots or European capitals where they address an audience or two on someone else’s tab. But this year, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on a different sort of visit to two North African countries where popular uprisings [...]
ABC News: The scars of childbirth were still healing on Amelia Reyes Jimenez’s stomach in 2008 when police came to her Phoenix apartment and took her three-month-old daughter from her arms. Three and a half years later, Reyes Jimenez and her four children have become statistics in the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigration. Each year [...]
Washington Post: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. But his biggest worry is the growing possibility that Israel will attack Iran over the next few months. Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel [...]
(Reuters) — Fifteen Pakistani soldiers stood blindfolded, handcuffed to each other on a barren hilltop as one of their bearded Taliban captors held an AK-47 rifle and spoke with fury about revenge. He left no doubt what would come at any second. Pakistan’s Taliban abducted the paramilitary troops on December 23 from near the country’s [...]
Haaretz: All of Iran’s nuclear faculties are vulnerable to a military strike, Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday, calling the potential of a nuclear Iran a “nightmare to the free world.” At the closing day of the Herzliya Conference, Ya’alon referred to the many tools at the international community’s [...]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize’s original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed Wednesday. The investigation comes after persistent complaints by a Norwegian peace researcher that [...]
