But we still don't know that they are working toward warlike nuclear weapons.
[Jpost] Truck carrying highly corrosion-resistant valves, banned for sale to Iran by EU, seized by Spanish police; company used false companies in UAE for deliveries, channeling cash through banks in other countries.
Spanish police placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! two men and seized the contents of a truck bound for Iran loaded with materials destined for use in the Islamic state's nuclear program, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Friday.
The truck, intercepted on a motorway in northern Spain early on Wednesday, was carrying highly corrosion-resistant valves, the ministry said in a statement.
Police were examining computer databases and documents at the company, Fluval Spain, a ministry front man said. The two arrested men were employees at the firm, he said.
"The company, registered in the Basque Country, used false companies in the United Arab Emirates for the deliveries, channeling cash through banks in other countries," the ministry statement said.
The company had commercial links with Iranian firms that featured on lists drawn up by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... as having connections with Tehran's nuclear program, the ministry said.
No-one at the company could be reached for comment.
The European Union has banned the sale of such material to Iran, which denies Western accusations it is seeking to develop a capability to make nuclear weapons. Tehran says its atomic program is for civilian energy purposes.
World powers are searching for a diplomatic solution to a decade-old standoff over the nuclear program to avert the threat of a Middle East war.
News of the seizure of materials bound for Iran's nuclear program came as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a group of visiting US senators on Friday that stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons would be his top priority in his next term if he is reelected.
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But we still don't know that they are working toward warlike nuclear weapons.
There's NON warlike Nuke?
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Bosnia's war crimes court has jailed a former Serb police officer for twenty years on Friday for his role in the 1995 mass killing of Muslims in Srebrenica.
Bozidar Kuvelja, 41, was found guilty of crimes against humanity but acquited of genocide.
Presiding judge Jasmina Kosovic said, "Kuvelja is convicted of taking part in the persecution and forced removal of Bosniaks from Srebrenica on religious and ethnic grounds and the killing of several dozen detainees at a warehouse in nearby Kravica between July 11 and July 14."
Kosovic said the judicial panel could not conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Kuvelja knew of the genocidal intent of the principal perpetrators of the massacres.
Kuvelja was an officer in the special police brigade of the Jahorina Training Center, part of the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry. He was charged with helping round up Bosnian Muslim civilians, dividing men from women and transporting detainees to dozens of execution sites, including a warehouse in Kravica.
There, Kosovic said, "members of Kuvelja's brigade fired from automatic weapons and threw hand grenades into the packed warehouse."
Around 100 who at first survived the assault were lured out for medical treatment, only to be fired upon again by Kuvelja's brigade while forced to sing nationalist Serbian songs, said the judge.
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Police have confirmed a man was hurt when a bomb exploded in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, on Friday morning. But the police ruled out the possibility of terrorist attack.
Because the obvious couldn't possibly be true.
Goran Burusic, the leader of Zagreb's police bureau, said at a press conference, a 54-year-old man was slightly wounded in the blast. Burusic said, "In this case, we believe that it is not about terrorism."
"Just because."
A similar explosion occured on early Wednesaday morning on the railway nearby the Podsused railway station. No one was hurt but tracks and a cargo train engine were damaged and windows of nearby buildings were broken.
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[An Nahar] Long plagued by a reputation for gang crime and lawlessness, La Belle France's port city of Marseille is hoping its year as the European Capital of Culture will finally give its image a makeover.
The gritty Mediterranean city will kick off the festivities on Saturday with a downtown parade, fireworks and the opening of a slew of exhibitions.
Organisers are hoping 300,000 people will take part and that the event will kick off a year leading to a cultural renaissance in La Belle France's second-largest metropolitan area.
"Marseille needs a bit of romance, to bring it out of everything that's been said about it in recent times," said Fanny Broyelle, one of the organizers of the opening ceremonies.
Ahead of the launch, Marseille has undergone a major facelift, with its famed Old Port remodeled, many museums renovated and new facilities opened under a 660 million euro ($865 million) public-private investment program.
On Saturday French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso will be in town to mark the completion of works on a major new facility -- the seaside Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations -- that will open in June near the port.
The influx of investment comes at a crucial time. A key port in the "French Connection" drug smuggling route since the 1960s, Marseille has for decades suffered from its image as a hotbed of crime.
Recent years have seen Marseille especially hard hit by a wave of deadly shootings, often with automatic rifles and mainly in the city's impoverished outer districts.
The city saw 245 homicides from 2007 to the end of November, including at least 75 linked to organised crime, according to interior ministry figures.
The violence has reached such levels that a local official last year called for the military to be sent in and the government formed an inter-ministerial task force to tackle the crime wave.
The region is poor, with unemployment at 12.1 percent. With poverty and social exclusion at the root of much of the crime, many in Marseille are hoping the capital of culture year will act as an economic springboard.
Marseille's Chamber of Commerce says it expects a billion euros in extra cash to flow into the city this year, while tourist officials are forecasting 2-3 million extra visitors and a 20 percent jump in tourism jobs.
"I'm thrilled we're doing all this. The city has pulled out all the stops. It's impossible that people will not want to come," said Georges Antoun, owner of the 100-room New Hotel of Marseille on the Old Port.
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My one memory of Marseille is the overpowereing stench of dog poo; Fifi can crap anywhere she wants to and no attempt was made to bag it, or curb it.
reminded me of Home Depot without the 2 x 4s.
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Bosnia's war crimes court has jailed a former Serb police officer for twenty years on Friday for his role in the 1995 mass killing of Muslims in Srebrenica.
Police have confirmed a man was hurt when a bomb exploded in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, on Friday morning. But the police ruled out the possibility of terrorist attack.
[An Nahar] Long plagued by a reputation for gang crime and lawlessness, 
