Gunmen ambushed Lebanese troops in the east of the country on Monday, spraying their military vehicle with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades, a senior military official said. Four soldiers were killed and an officer was wounded in the attack.
The ambush on a major road near the town of Rayak comes after a recent push by Lebanese troops to crack down on the drug trade in the Bekaa Valley and carried the hallmarks of a revenge attack by clansmen. Of course, Hizbullah owns the Leb drug trade.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's president expressed openness for talks with the United States, but again dismissed demands to halt nuclear work the West fears is aimed at making bombs, in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also called for "fundamental changes" in Washington's policies, echoing comments by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials.
"If the behavior of the United States changes, we can expect to see important progress," he said in the interview posted on Der Spiegel's website, referring to decades of mistrust between Tehran and Washington.
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ISRAELI MUIL FORUM > HAARETZ - [Source]NASRALLAH INTENDS TO TURN EGYPT INTO LEBANON; + EGYPT: WE STOPPED US$2.0MILYUHN FUNDS TRANSFER TO HAMAS; + WASHINGTONHELPS CURTAIL IRAN'S COVERT SUEZ THRUST. PCorrect Strategic Diversion by Iran to draw attention away from its NUCDEVPROGS???
Wehel-l-l.methinks we learned once more in which strategic direction the SOMALI PIRATES will be heading to iff and when the USN, FRANCE, etc. decide to make = "bust-a-mil-move" agz the Pyri-i-i-tes.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards announced Saturday that they unveiled a Dutch plot aimed at overthrowing the Iranian government by supporting the opposition through the media and the Internet. "One of the countries which has given financial support to the opposition over the past few years is Holland," a statement issued by a center run by the Guards stated, according to the Khorasan newspaper. Aye, those Dutchmen. They're a devious lot. Can't trust 'em. Keep adding on to those dykes, don't they? Eventually they'll be the size of Canada, won't they? And then we'll all be wearing those wooden shoes if we know what's good for us, won't we?
It said the parliament in the Netherlands had in 2005 adopted a 15 million euro ($19 million) budget proposed by a Dutch MP of Iranian origin which was used to fund Persian Internet sites hostile to the Islamic regime and to help rights groups. "The Dutch project aimed to encourage sexual and moral deviation in society," the Revolutionary Guards center said, and to support the idea that the "threats (against Iran) are increasing (and) . . . the idea that the current Iranian government is incapacitated." "Sexual and moral deviation" would be hookers, of course. The plan is for Iranian hookers to sit in windows and holler out "'Allo, sailor! Loekin' foer a goed time?" with a ten-guilder (negotiable) bride price and not so much as a 20-minute marriage contract. US and Britain involved
The plot was led "in coordination with Britain" and involved "secret planning by the United States," said the Guards, an elite ideological corps set up to defend the Islamic republic. You knew that was coming, didn't you? Even as we speak blog, the Brits are assembling an elite corps of tarts in Manchester to descend upon the unsuspecting Medes and the Persians, perfumed and peroxided, low of cleavage, short on skirt length, hollering "Coo! Aint'chew 'andsome!"
The Guards revealed it dismantled several networks last month accused of setting up anti-Islamic, counter-revolutionary and "obscene" websites, and arrested a number of suspects including people residing abroad. Tehran repeatedly accused Washington and London of backing violent and non-violent actions against the state and has launched in the past a number of crackdowns on bloggers and Internet users deemed to be hostile to the authorities and their Islamic values.
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"...arrested a number of suspects including people residing abroad."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's president expressed openness for talks with the United States, but again dismissed demands to halt nuclear work the West fears is aimed at making bombs, in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine. 
