The Taliban in Afghanistan warned on Thursday they would attempt to derail next month's presidential election, calling on Afghans to boycott the poll and urging them to "join the trenches of jihad".
Afghan and foreign troops are battling a growing Taliban-led insurgency across Afghanistan, with attacks escalating after thousands of US and British troops launched major operations in southern Helmand province this month. The increased violence coincides with campaigning for the August 20 poll, the second direct vote for president since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
Invasion: A statement issued by the Taliban's leadership council and posted on a website it uses (www.alemarah1.net), said the election was a US "invention" and urged voters to join them instead of taking part in a poll it labelled a farce.
"All mujahideen should strongly focus on making this process fail ... strike the enemy's bases and stop people from taking part in the election," the statement, in Pashtu, said. "All Afghans, due to their Islamic and national sentiments, need to totally boycott this seductive US process and ... join the trenches of jihad," it said. The statement was the first of its kind issued by the Taliban urging the direct disruption of the election. Before the Helmand operations, attacks this year had already reached their worst level since the Taliban were ousted by US-backed Afghan forces in 2001.
The election has already come under attack, with three candidates or campaign officials ambushed within the past week. One included President Hamid Karzai's senior vice-presidential running mate Muhammad Qasim Fahim, who escaped unhurt. One of Karzai's campaign offices in western Herat was bombed on Tuesday but there were no casualties. Karzai is seen as a clear front-runner ahead of 36 challengers, with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-finance minister Ashraf Ghani seen among few serious contenders. Four candidates have pulled out so far.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's top prosecutor insisted Thursday that freedom of expression in Venezuela "must be limited" and proposed legislation that would slap additional restrictions on the country's news media.
The new law would punish the owners of radio stations, television channels and newspapers that have attempted to "cause panic" and "disturb social peace," Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. It also would punish media owners who "manipulate the news with the purpose of transmitting a false perception of the facts."
"Freedom of expression must be limited," Ortega said.
Ortega urged lawmakers to consider her suggestions as they debate a bill that would punish as-yet-undefined "media crimes." The National Assembly, which is controlled by allies of President Hugo Chavez, is expected to approve the measure in coming months.
Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for Human Rights Watch, warned the proposed legislation "would be a terrible regression for freedom of expression."
"They are trying to increase the penalties for expressions that could be considered offensive for authorities," Vivanco said in an interview broadcast by RCN Radio in Colombia.
Carlos Lauria of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists called the bill "reminiscent of the dark days of Latin American dictatorships with its archaic provisions for so-called media crimes."
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OTOH, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > STATE OF IRAN'S NUCPROG = IIRC, ARTIC indics that IRAN may already have enough enriched uranium for at least ONE URANIUM NUCBOMB = "DIRTY NUKE", and that it reasonable could have enough for a SECOND BOMB circa OCTOBER 2009 - EOY 2009.
IOW, IRAN IS A DE FACTO "NUCLEAR STATE" = "NUCWEAPS STATE" ALREADY??? which may explain the following, to wit
* ISRAELI MIL FORUM > US TELL ISRAEL: LEAVE THE MILITARY OPTION AGZ IRAN TO US.
[Kyodo: Korea] A U.S. official in charge of sanctions on North Korea hinted Thursday that U.N. member countries are considering expanding a list of individuals and entities subject to new U.N. sanctions. Philip Goldberg, coordinator under the administration of President Barack Obama for implementing U.N. sanctions on North Korea, floated the idea at a news conference in New York after he attended a meeting of the U.N. Security Council"s sanctions committee.
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Better stop "eying" them and and start issuing some. Do they honestly believe the NorKs are going to modify their behavior over vague reference to member countries are "considering" something?
North Korea seems to be in "hostage accumulation" mode at the moment to collect up bargaining chips.
A Sydney man who produced a do-it-yourself jihad book did not realise he was committing a crime but has since renounced terrorism and violence, his sentencing judge has been told.
In September last year, a NSW Supreme Court jury found Belal Khazaal guilty of making a document - between September 20 and 23, 2003 - connected with assistance in a terrorist act and knowing about that connection. The 110-page book, in Arabic, entitled Provisions of the Rules of Jihad - short judicial rulings and organisational instructions for fighters and mujahideen against infidels, contained advice about terrorist acts such as exploding bombs, shooting down planes and assassinating people such as former US president George W Bush. The jury could not reach a verdict on a second charge, that by posting the book online, Khazaal attempted to incite others to engage in a terrorist act.
During sentencing submissions on Friday the court was told Khazaal had no concept that what he had done was considered illegal. "His explanation was he didn't understand it was a crime but he understood he'd been convicted," psychiatrist Dr Olav Nielsen told Justice Megan Latham.
Lawyers for the 38-year-old from Lakemba in Sydney's southwest told the judge that as soon as Khazaal realised that what he had done was a crime, he removed the information from the website. "That he removed it from the site should mitigate the offence," George Thomas said. "If he was so obsessed and extremist in his position, do you think he'd care enough to take it off? Of course he wouldn't. He completely renounced terrorism and violence."
However, crown prosecutor Peter Neil SC argued Khazaal had shown no remorse whatsoever. "There is a complete failure on the part of the offender to acknowledge having done anything wrong at all," he said.
A psychologist gave evidence to the court that it was "highly likely" Khazaal had been suffering from depression brought about by a car accident many years before and separation from his parents as a child. "This was the behaviour of a person who was living an isolated life ... he was not educated in a formal sense ... he is a person who took to religion and it was conservative Islam ... necessarily extremist in its nature ... and he lost his way," Mr Thomas said. "He did exercise very poor judgment."
"If perhaps he was more skilled, more educated, if his life had developed differently - if he was more alive to the changes in the law that had taken place, perhaps there would have been a different outcome ... things may well have been very, very different."
Mr Thomas argued that despite the maximum penalty being 15 years, Khazaal's offence was at the lower end of the scale and he should be considered for periodic detention or even a suspended sentence. He pointed to the fact it had taken six years since his client's arrest - four spent abiding by very strict and "onerous" bail conditions, and two in maximum security - for the matter to be finalised. "That in itself, we say, is an extraordinary period of time for finalisation for what was, in the end result ... a fairly simple charge of making a document," he said.
But Justice Latham indicated it was unlikely Khazaal's sentence would be anything but full-time custody. "I don't think that either periodic or any other form of conditional liberty would be appropriate in these circumstances," she said. Justice Latham adjourned the matter for sentencing in the same court on September 25. The second and unresolved charge, which may necessitate a second trial, will be mentioned on the same date.
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Muslims on trial. First they deny they did anything wrong, then they say they are being persecuted, then they say they didn't mean to do anything wrong, and finally they claim to be mentally ill.
U.S. soldiers were given a true Irish welcome at a wedding in Co Clare this week.
The 300 troops were stranded in Shannon last weekend after their Iraq-bound plane was grounded. As luck would have it, they were booked into the same hotel as the wedding party for Amelia Walsh and Sean O'Neill. And so the 300 troops were invited to join the festivities at the Clare Inn in Newmarket-on-Fergus.
The groom's uncle, Joe O'Neill said: "It didnt take long before the combat fatigues were manoeuvring to the strains of The Walls of Limerick'." The happy couple posed for pictures with the troops earlier in the day and Eamon Walsh, the father of the bride, said the couple were "proud" to have the soldiers at their function.
Walsh said the couple invited the men in so they could experience an Irish wedding. "They behaved in an exemplary manner at all times and if our troops behaved in the same way when they are on peacekeeping duties, I would be very proud," he said.
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"It wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't in uniform but there were some people who were taken aback."
So these people falsified a story about soldiers barging in uninvited and then called the newspapers. I bet if you cornered them, they'd say something like, "but we were just so offended, what were we supposed to do?"
Johnson! Stop the presses!
{ADN Kronos] Bosnia has become a haven for Islamic terrorists who feel protected by local authorities and are planning terrorist acts in various countries, experts on terrorism said on Thursday. Dzevad Galijasevic, a Bosnian expert on terrorism, told Tanjug news agency that there was a "developed network of support for Islamic terrorists" in Bosnia.
"There are about 80 prominent names in the world of terrorism, protected by a new identity," Galijasevic said.
Bosnia came under the spotlight this week after a convicted criminal and terror suspect of Tunisian origin, Karray Kamel bin Ali, known as Abu Hamza, escaped from a Bosnian jail.
"Bosnia is a base for Islamic terrorists who live here in safety, operate training camps and prepare cadres for attacks in third countries," said Galijasevic.
Galijasevic, himself a Muslim, recently formed a team of experts to combat terrorism. The team includes a Croatian colleague, Domagoj Margetic, and Serbian expert Darko Trifunovic.
Thousands of militants like Bin Ali, came from Islamic countries to fight on the side of local Muslims in 1992-1995 civil war. But after the war, many married local women, acquired Bosnian citizenship and remained in the country under their own or assumed names, Galijasevic added.
He pointed out that Algerian militant Abu Mali, even worked in the Bosnian mission to the United Nations after the war under a Bosnian name, Safet Catovic.
Trifunovic, a Bosnian Serb, who also worked in the mission at the time, said he became suspicious of who Catovic really was because he spoke poor Bosnian. As a result, Trifunovic said he lost a job in the mission and moved to Belgrade.
But he said Abu Mali remained in the United States where he kept ties with terrorist groups and even operated terrorist training camps. Abu Mali allegedly commanded the "El Mujaheed" unit of Islamic fighters in Bosnia which allegedly committed some of the worst crimes against Serbs and Croats, but no one was ever prosecuted.
Individuals with Bosnian passports had been involved in almost all terrorist attacks this millennium, from the 2001 attack attack on World Trade Center in New York to the 2004 Madrid train bombings, Galijasevic pointed out
Abu Hamza failed to return to jail in central Bosnian city of Zenica on Monday, after a week's leave, and both Galijasevic and Trifunovic agreed it was a big test for Bosnian authorities. They said the escape was well planned and organised, expressing doubt that he will be found.
Hamza had been sentenced in Tunis to 12 years for terrorist activities and served a seven years sentence in Bosnia for murder and racketeering. He was currently serving a four year sentence for assault and domestic violence.
"Most likely, the next time we hear about him will be when a new terrorist group is arrested somewhere in the world," Trifunovic told Adnkronos International (AKI).
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Man, if I was as ugly as Walleyed Walid, I'd shoot myself with that gun cuz the only way he's getting laid is in the afterlife.
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I've been to Bosnia and Sarajevo a couple times in the past few years.
There's no doubt that the sticky fingers of jihadism run in both nowadays. The war gave them an entry point. The Wahhabists run the largest mosque in Sarajevo, paid for by Saudi money after the war. I was also surprised to stumble on an Iranian "cultural center" in the heart of the city.
It's much different in Albania, nominally a Muslim country, but almost "post Muslim" in its mentality. Divisions in that country are more influenced by clan affiliation than by religion.
BTW, if you want rock star treatment, go to Albania. It's the most pro-American country I've been to in Europe. I saw more American flags on my visit there last month than I see in America. If I could post my own photos here, you'd be amazed. Your really have to see it to believe it.
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Mizzou: e-mail me and we'll see about putting up a couple of pics. I don't think Fred will mind a bit. Perhaps send me three or four with short captions and we'll aim for the Sunday Burg?
stevewhitemd1 ------> at sign -------> mac 'dot' com
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Now where did he get a broomhandle Mauser, that gun's gotta be 60 years old, or older.
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ION TOPIX > VARIOUS > AL QAEDA PRIORITY: WESTERN TARGETS + WHY YEMEN COULD BECOME AN AL QAEDA HAVEN [SAADA Conflict]; + UN REPORT: AFGHANISTAN WAR SPREADS TO RESIDENTIAL AREAS [1,1013 locals killed during Jan-June 2009 period, wid Talibs deemed respons for approxi 59% of same]; + FEARS OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN EUROPE [starting 2010 -2015].
(CN) - The grandson of the former chief of Iranian armed forces won reinstatement of a wrongful death lawsuit over Hezbollah's assassination of his grandfather. The D.C. Circuit said the lower court incorrectly analyzed the case under U.S. law instead of French law. If it's going to be adjudicated under French law, why not have the trial in France?
Amir Oveissi alleged that the Islamic Republic of Iran, through the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS)and other agencies, had backed Hezbollah's assassination of his grandfather, Gholam Oveissi. The four-star general had been the military chief under the Shah, who was deposed in a revolutionary coup in 1979. Gholam fled the country and eventually settled in France, where he shared an apartment with his son, his daughter-in-law and their child, Amir, who had been born in California.
While in France, Gholam regularly spoke out against the revolutionary government and met with other expatriates. Although he hired a bodyguard for protection, he was shot and killed on a crowded Paris street in 1984. Members of the terrorist group Hezbollah, then operating under the name Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Gholam's grandson sued the Iranian government in 2003 for wrongful death and intentional infliction of emotion distress. Iran and MOIS provided the logistical support and training that allowed Hezbollah to carry out the assassination, an international terrorism expert testified during the bench trial.
The district court said the defendants weren't entitled to sovereign immunity, but nonetheless dismissed Amir's claims under California and U.S. law. The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. reversed, saying the district court had applied the wrong country's laws.
Although Amir is a U.S. citizen, his attorney conceded that Gholam's assassination probably wasn't aimed at the United States, the court noted.
"Moreover, the plaintiff's international terrorism expert testified that assassinations like this one 'were intended to silence the Iranian regime's critics and to deter French intervention in Lebanon,'" Judge Garland wrote for the three-judge panel.
"Hence, if any country was the object of attack, it was France. Accordingly, all of the relevant choice-of-law factors point to the application of French law to the plaintiff's claims."
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] India has been asking Pakistan to hand over 42 fugitives, including Dawood Ibrahim, but Islamabad has refused to cooperate, Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
Replying to questions, he said a list of 42 fugitives, both Indian and Pakistani nationals, including ones involved in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, had been given to Islamabad.
Krishna said whatever evidence and dossier was given, Pakistan's refrain was that it was not enough and could not be proven in a court of law. He said Pakistan had denied the presence of dreaded criminals like Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon, Chota Shakeel and Lakhbir Singh who were among the Indian nationals in the list.
"For Pakistani nationals, Pakistan has pointed to lack of extradition treaty and lack of evidence," he said. "We have made 11 futile attempts with Pakistan to conclude an extradition treaty," he said.
Pakistan has not responded positively to our proposals to conclude an extradition treaty, he said. "We have been impressing upon Pakistan that it is in the interest of both countries that we enter into a treaty of extradition," Krishna said. "The government is endeavouring to persuade Pakistan to develop a cooperative relationship with India."
Krishna said India would continue to improve relations with Pakistan despite Islamabad's reluctance. "In spite of Pakistan's reluctance to help us to improve our relations, India's endeavour will be to continue to impress upon Pakistan that we have to have good neighbourly relations," he said. "Our hope is that Pakistan will see sense in such kind of approach," he added.
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I think they're done on this side, boss.
Okay. Flip em over.
Intelligence agencies have started questioning Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad and his two sons at the Peshawar Central Prison.
The provincial government has barred visitors from meeting Sufi and his sons in the prison as a security measure. A prison official told Daily Times on condition of anonymity that the agencies had started the interrogation on Wednesday (July 29). He said agents were questioning Sufi and his sons in sessions of three to four hours.Police and intelligence agencies arrested Sufi Mohammad and his two sons, Ziaullah and Rizwanullah on July 26, from a rented house in Peshawar's Sethi Town. The TNSM chief was moved to the prison on July 27 after he and his sons were charged under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
'Sufi Muhammad is the main culprit. He is responsible for militancy and violence in Malakand division and he will be brought to justice," Mian Iftikhar, the NWFP information minister, had said shortly after Sufi was arrested. Sufi was released from a prison in Dera Ismail Khan on April 21 last year, where he had been detained after he returned from Afghanistan after assisting the Taliban fighting international troops there. He signed a peace deal with the NWFP government on February 6 this year, leading to the brief imposition of Taliban's version of sharia in Malakand division. It wuz Sufi who said: "I just make the agreements. I don't keep 'em!"
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It is still unclear if Pakistan's offensive in Swat has killed off the Taliban or simply scattered them, US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said on Wednesday.
"We don't know exactly to what extent the Pakistani army dispersed or destroyed the enemy," the Reuters news agency quoted him as saying. "The test of this operation is, of course, when the refugees return. Can they go home? Are they safe? And we're just going to have to wait and see," he told a State Department press conference.
He said that Karl Eikenberry, the US ambassador in Kabul, and his military counterpart, General Stanley McChrystal, have consulted "fairly regularly" with Pakistani officials. They want to keep in touch with Pakistan's government and army so "this time around, as the [NATO] offensive picks up steam, the Pakistanis are ready for it, so the Pakistanis know where the military operations are happening - and they can prepare for any spillover effects," he added. Likewise, the US officials wanted to be fully apprised of Pakistani army offensives, he said.
Holbrooke said Afghanistan needed to expand the size and capabilities of its own security forces. Meanwhile, after a meeting with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Phuket, Thailand, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Pakistan's efforts in the war against the Taliban.
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NEW DELHI Rights activists lashed out Friday at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet would ensure good health and prosperity for their families.
The ritual at the Baba Umer Durga, a Muslim shrine, is believed to have been followed for nearly 700 years, and each year hundreds of people, both Hindus and Muslims, take part in the ritual.
Local officials told television news stations there had been no reports of injuries.
The infants, mostly under two years old, were dangled Thursday from the roof of the shrine near Sholapur, about 280 miles south of Mumbai, before being dropped about 50 feet onto a bedsheet held aloft by parents and other believers.
Television channels showed the babies screaming as they were shaken in the air before being dropped.
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muslims want uneducated,young girls who they can brainwash into total slavery.Men goes to Mosque women/girls stay at home and cook/wash etc for the Man and become Breeding machines and have no freedom!Total mind control!
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Soccer Dad (http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com) writes into the Jawa Report saying that the little girls shown were probably hired to be there in order to celebrate the weddings. More like flower girls. He notes that the brides and grooms wouldn't be seen holding hands like that in a Muslim wedding.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A top IRGC commander rejects allegations that the force backed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the elections and accuses the Reformists of having links to the West.
In a recent interview with Press TV, IRGC Brigadier Yadollah Javani said that the force supported no specific candidate in the June 12 elections.
"The roots of these allegations lie in IRGC efforts to raise awareness among the Guards and Basij forces so that they would participate in the elections with a high level of understanding about [the country's] political groups and movements," said Brig. Javani.
Javani, who heads the political bureau of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, went on to say that the IRGC made such efforts to raise political awareness in the society as the enemy seeks to orchestrate a velvet revolution in Iran.
The commander also said that certain political groups in the country - capable of participating in the elections because of their past accomplishments -- were targets of US aid, as they did not have "strong faith" in the Islamic establishment and were leaning toward the West.
Javani cited the Reformist camp and Reformist figures such as Akbar Gangi Mehrangiz Kar, Hassan Youssefi-Ashkevari among the factions and figures "leaning toward the West" and opposing the values of the Islamic Revolution.
The Iranian brigadier drew parallels between aspects of the recent opposition movement in Iran with the past velvet revolutions in former Soviet states.
He said the use of the color green as a campaign symbol for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, along with US plans to fund "pro-democracy and human rights groups" inside Iran bore certain similarities to the previous revolutions in former Soviet states.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Former two-term Iranian president Seyyed Mohammad Khatami calls for a thorough parliamentary investigation into the election and the post-election violence.
In a Thursday meeting with the Reformist minority block of Iran's Parliament (Majlis), Khatami spoke about disputes linked to the recent presidential election and its aftermath and about ways of finding a just way out, the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported.
Pointing to an order to shut down the Kahrizak detention facility outside Tehran, Khatami said that "it is not enough to say that a sub-standard detention center has been shut down. What does 'sub-standard' mean?"
The Kahrizak detention center was shut down earlier this week following a report that it did not meet the required standards.
"Does it mean that a ventilation fan was faulty or its washrooms were not clean? Lives have been lost and our dear youth, women and men have been subjected to certain treatments," Khatami said.
"On the issue of detainees... Of course, they must be released, but that is not enough," he added.
Iranians went to the polls on June 12, following which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president by a landslide. In objection to the result, supporters of the defeated candidates took to the streets and violence ensued. At least 20 people were killed and many protestors were jailed.
Khatami condemned the post-election conduct "as contrary to religion, customs and laws regarding those in detention and their families."
"All of these harm the Revolution and the society and are against law and fairness," he said. "It is necessary to deal with those responsible for such behaviors and acts according to the law and to compensate for the violated rights and limits."
"Every brutal act perpetrated against anyone must be dealt with, but more importantly is the harm that has been done to the public trust, and this is what must be mended," Khatami was quoted by ILNA as saying.
He went on to lament the accusations against some of the detained Reformist activists, who were said to have "confessed" to various offences while in detention, according to media reports.
"If an offense has been committed, then first there must be precise and clear evidence, not claims that are bandied about and rumors of extracted confessions. Afterwards there must be an open and just court with the participation of a jury and defense attorney to consider the allegations," explained Khatami.
Commenting on the position of the Parliament, he said, "In our system, and under our constitution and also the pronouncements of the late Imam Khomeini, the Majlis (parliament) has the highest of places. It can investigate any issue, question ministers and even decide on the eligibility and the competence of the president. Nevertheless, we see that it is prevented from investigating certain issues such as the attack against [Tehran University's] student dormitories, or the conditions of detainees. This means subverting our system."
He emphasized that today the Parliament "can put the investigation of the election process on its agenda, and, if a truly independent committee takes over this task, then the results can greatly clarify the events."
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Iran's Judiciary has announced that the trial of the first group of 'rioters' who had provoked post-election unrest in the country will begin on Saturday.
Tehran's Public Prosecutor Office declared in a statement on Wednesday that the first court session to prosecute the suspects will be held on August 1, 2009, IRNA reported.
The statement also blasted the US and Britain over their stance towards Iran's presidential election and "their interference in Iran's internal affairs which was aimed at plunging the country in post-election chaos."
The office also hailed efforts made by Iran's security forces and the Basij volunteers who managed to "arrest the rioters and end the unrest".
The statement said that a number of suspects were identified by their photos taken during street unrests, and thanked the Iranian nation for help in identifying them. "People's help will lead to identification of more rioters in the near future," it promised.
Ten charges were listed, including attacking military centers with weapons and fire-bombs and attacking security forces; damaging public and private properties, distributing pamphlets against the system of the Islamic Republic; relations with anti-Iranian terrorist groups such as the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO); and preparing reports for the foreign media and the enemies.
Following Iran's 10th presidential election on June 12, supporters of opposition candidates took to the streets in protest against what they described as massive "ballot rigging" and the officially-announced results that gave the incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad another term in office.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The Taliban in Afghanistan warned on Thursday they would attempt to derail next month's presidential election, calling on Afghans to boycott the poll and urging them to "join the trenches of jihad".
A Sydney man who produced a do-it-yourself jihad book did not realise he was committing a crime but has since renounced terrorism and violence, his sentencing judge has been told.
It is still unclear if Pakistan's offensive in Swat has killed off the Taliban or simply scattered them, US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said on Wednesday.
