[Beirut Daily Star: Leb] Electoral rhetoric heated up on Monday and over the weekend, with the country's political foes exchanging accusations and criticizing each others' agendas. On Sunday, Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri announced the March 14 Forces ticket for West Bekaa. Meanwhile, Premier Fouad Siniora over the weekend continued his tour of Sidon as Speaker Nabih Berri visited several villages in South Lebanon. As candidates battled it out, President Michel Sleiman prepared to head to Turkey on Tuesday for an official two-day visit.
Hariri announced on Monday the March 14 forces' list in the district of Western Bekaa- Rashaya. During a gathering held in the town of Rashaya, Hariri said the majority would not "surrender the Western Bekaa-Rashaya district to the candidates of foreign tutelage."
"The people of this district will vote on June 7 for state-building and for dignity. They will vote for the dignity of Lebanon, of Beirut and for what was done to Beirut. They will vote for Lebanon and Palestine to say that Palestine is our cause."
The list in the district included Ministers Robert Ghanem and Wael Abu Faour, MP Jamal Jarrah, MP Antoine Saad, Amin Wehbeh and Ziad Qadri.
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[Beirut Daily Star: Leb] LebanonŽs most influential Shiite Muslim cleric has renewed his call for a dialogue between Muslims and Jews to promote world peace. Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah stresses that Islam recognizes Judaism and rejects any offense against Jews or Christians in any Arab or Muslim country.
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah stresses that Islam recognizes Judaism and rejects any offense against Jews or Christians in any Arab or Muslim country.
[Beirut Daily Star: Leb] A senior Hizbullah member said Sunday there has never been an ŽŽalternative to resistanceŽŽ to ward off Israeli threats. ŽŽI have heard of an option - not an alternative - to protect Lebanon,ŽŽ MP Mohammed Raad said during the inauguration of a mosque in the southern town of Kfartibneet.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Dozens of arrested Iranian operators of pörnographic and anti-Islamic websites deserve to face the death penalty, a special prosecutor said in a newspaper report on Tuesday.
Tehran's deputy prosecutor Reza Jafari said 50 Iranians had been arrested by a special unit within the Revolutionary Guards and were under investigation for running such websites and promoting pröstitution, Vatan Emrouz reported.
He said the term "corrupt on earth" suited "a person who manages many immoral, anti-religious and anti-revolutionary sites, and corruption on earth is legally punishable by death" under Iranian law. "The accused in these cases face several charges, and so we will call for the maximum punishment prescribed by the law," he said, without specifying how many could face the death penalty or when they would go on trial.
Jafari, the prosecutor of a special tribunal against cyber crimes, said 90 websites had been shut down since March and that half of the 50 people arrested had paid a hefty bail to be released.
Alleged confessions
Since then the special Guards unit has on a regular basis kept the public updated with the details of the operation by publishing or broadcasting what it says are the confessions of the site managers.
The websites contained pörnographic material including "incèst, sèx with children and animals, hömosexuality and erötic stories" as well as "insults to religious sanctities," Jafari said.
The suspects were all rounded up in Iran, which is marking the 30th anniversary of becoming an Islamic state, although some of them were based outside in other countries.
In March, Iran's Revolutionary Guards militia said it had launched a crackdown on several groups who had set up anti-Islamic and pörnographic sites on the Internet. The groups involved were based in foreign countries, particularly in the United States, and had published "articles against the Islamic revolution and religious values, and also released pörnographic material," it said.
The websites were not named but the Revolutionary Guards accused the Internet search engine Google and rival firms of "offering financial support" to the unidentified groups.
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What's with all the umlauts and accents? Are we talking about Swedish "pörnography" and French "incèst, sèx"?
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