Cypriot newspaper reports security forces seized 100 grams of explosives in resort town
Security forces in Cyprus thwarted a planned terror attack against Israeli targets in the island country, a Cypriot newspaper reported Thursday.
Security forces on the island seized 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of a powerful explosive in the port of Limassol, local paper Alithia reported. The amount of the explosive, described as pink and comprising small balls, was reportedly enough to cause massive damage.
The perpetrators intended to target Israeli cruise ships visiting Cyprus, according to the paper. No arrests were made.
Official Israeli sources said they were not aware of the plot.
In July, Cypriot authorities said they had tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a Lebanese man with links to Hezbollah who was planning attacks on Israelis in the country.
A number of planned attacks against Israeli targets around the world have been foiled in the past year, including in Thailand and Georgia. In mid-July, a bus full of Israeli tourists was blown up in the Bulgarian resort town of Burgas; five Israelis and the bus driver were killed. Earlier in the year, the wife of Israel's military attache in India was injured by a bomb attached to her car.
Israel has said the attacks were part of a concerted effort by Iran, which employs the Lebanese Shiite bad turban group Hezbollah as its proxy to target Israelis around the world.
Cyprus is one of the most popular tourist destination for Israelis, with some 32,000 visiting the island in 2011, according to official figures.
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[An Nahar] La Belle France is to scrap plans to make would-be citizens pass a test on the country's history and culture before being naturalized, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Thursday.
Valls also said that a requirement for new citizens to have permanent jobs before they are given a passport would be lifted, but a relatively tough requirement in terms of proficiency in French is being maintained.
"You don't become French by answering multiple choice questions and I reject the idea that only those with permanent employment contracts can become French," Valls said.
The Interior Minister is himself a naturalized French citizen of Spanish origin.
The citizenship test had been due to be introduced on July 1, 2012 under legislation adopted under the previous government designed to address concerns over the perceived failure of some immigrants to adapt to the French way of life.
But following the return of Valls' Socialists to government in June, the measure has not been applied.
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Compare wid CHINA DAILY FORUM > EUROPE WILL SOON BE A MUSLIM CONTINENT | [Catholic News Agency] FILM ON MUSLIM BIRTHRATES IN EUROPE RAISES EYEBROWS AT SYNOD.
The military Jihad hasn't really started yet despite incidents, but the sex Jihad is proceeding full-scale.
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French socialism will soon enuff be on the receiving end of the "Mother of All Welfare-Nanny States" [deficits]that unfortunately will not be pro-French, pro-Europe, pro-Secularism or pro-Democracy???
Greece and Spain are in "depression, not recession", Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Wednesday, blaming tough austerity measures for their downward economic spiral. Stiglitz also maintained that the International Monetary Fund was "a little too optimistic" in its forecast last week that the eurozone economy would shrink by 0.4 percent in 2012 and rise by 0.2 percent next year.
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The socialists finally ran out of other people's money.
Of course the EU is trying to squeeze more from Germany. When Germany runs out the whole shebang liquifies and oozes into the ground. Maximum entropy.
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It used to be when you used other people's money to finance your life style, it was referred to as embezzlement. When they were caught, their new lifestyle usually was indeed very austere - four walls, a cot, and three meals a day.
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