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Nov. 3, 2009, guided by the intelligence from Israeli Intelligence Agency--the Mossad, Israeli navy intercepted the Antigua-flagged 8,622 tonne ship Francop in the Mediterranean Sea, 100 miles from Israel and found on board 300 tons of Iranian ammunition...
Tags: CIA, Sayanim, Mossad, Iseali Intelligence Agency, Iranian Arms Smuggling, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Katsas, Syria, Ship Francop, Metsada
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on Wednesday afternoon denied that a cargo ship seized by Israel the previous night was carrying weapons from Iran, and implicitly called the Israeli naval forces "pirates." "Unfortunately there are official pirates...
Tags: Israeli Navy, Iran, Roni Sofer, prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, soup kitchen, Syria, goldstone reporters, Tehran, Benjamin Netanyahu
He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year...Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City, dismissed Arar’s case against the government officials (including FBI Director Robert...
Tags: U.S, Syria, New York City, attorney general
An Ottawa city councillor is questioning why a provincial bill aimed at limiting corporate contributions to municipal election candidates doesn't just ban those donations. Some residents of a west-end Ottawa community housing development say unchecked...
Tags: Maher Arar, Syria, U.S, An Ottawa, Mr. Arar, New York, United States, Mr Arar, extraordinary rendition, Canada
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu al-Gheit said in an interview with Kuwaiti newspaper As-Seyassah published on Monday that evading international investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is very difficult, “because...
Tags: Syria, Rafic Hariri
The Publications Court in Beirut charged Free Patriotic Movement official Adonis Akra, a political science professor at Balamand University, of impugning the reputation of the Lebanese Army and the judiciary in his book entitled “When my Name Became 16.”...
Tags: Mount Lebanon, Greater Beirut, Syria
In an interview with As-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper published on Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz’s visit to Syria earlier during the month “is the only reason for optimism in the region.” Kouchner...
Tags: Syria, Bernard Kouchner, unity cabinet, foreign minister
Being a Taliban is not about a way of life, it is a state of mind and many of us Pakistanis are prone to suffer from this condition at least once in his/her life time. The way I see it, we are all Taliban but the degree of extremism varies from...
Tags: Taliban, way of life, state of mind, violence, peace, America, religion, revolution, men & women, irrational behavior, militancy, Islam, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, people power, war
28 Oct 09 16:12 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/opinion/20091028-22881.html Chancellor Angela Merkel�s new centre-right coalition of conservative Christian Democrats and pro-business Free Democrats wants to avoid being stigmatised as a callous, neoliberal...
Tags: European Union, Angela Merkel, Germany, France, Syria, Ms Merkel, European Community, Israel, general elections, Nicolas Sarkozy
The 78-year-old former judge was detained last week in a move which sparked international criticism. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says he is likely to face charges of spreading false information. In interviews and a recent open letter to the...
Tags: Syria