[Maghrebia] The suicide bomber responsible for the Saturday attack near the French embassy in Nouakchott trained at a desert terrorist camp "between Mauritania, Mali and Algeria", Journal Tahalil quoted Mauritanian Interior Minister Mohamed Ould R'Zeizim as saying on Monday (August 10th).
"The person in question was listed on the roster of the General Directorate of Security," the minister told Radio France International. "This is a young man who was recruited by the Salafists. I cannot say whether he was recruited by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," he added.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen staged a warm welcome on Tuesday for an ailing Muslim cleric expelled from the United States after originally being sentenced to 75 years in jail for supporting terrorism.
Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad returned home after a U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered his deportation, along with his assistant and bodyguard Mohammed Zayed.
Three Yemeni government ministers, including the foreign, justice and human rights ministers, as well as tribal chiefs and political leaders were on hand at Sanaa airport to greet the men, an AFP correspondent said.
The ailing 61-year-old, who according to his American lawyer is dying from various ailments including cirrhosis, made no public comments after his arrival and was immediately taken to hospital for medical tests, relatives said.
"This is a big day," one of them said on condition of anonymity.
The former imam of Sanaa's main mosque, Moayad was arrested with Zayed in Frankfurt, Germany in 2003, and subsequently the pair were extradited to the United States where they were tried on charges of supporting terrorism.
At the time of their arrest, then U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said that Moayad admitted giving al-Qaeda terror network chief Osama bin Laden $20 million dollars before the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on the United States.
But the defense team insisted that the claim was tainted by the main informant's lack of credibility, with one of the U.S. lawyers, William Goodman, saying the U.S. government tried to "entrap" Moayad.
In 2005 the pair were found guilty of supporting terrorism, and Moayad was sentenced to 75 years in jail, while his assistant received an equally lengthy prison term.
In October a U.S. court of appeal overturned Moayad and Zayed's convictions, stating that the judge in the 2005 case allowed evidence during the trial that tainted the jury against the defendants.
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A day after a North Korean ship was detained at Port Blair after it had anchored in suspicious circumstances off an Indian island, Navy Chief Sureesh Mehta said the vessel was carrying genuine merchandise but had no business to be present at the location.
The Bay of Bengal witnessed high drama on Friday when the Coast Guard intercepted the North Korean vessel MV Musan which had dropped anchor off Hut Bay in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The vessel did not respond to calls on the hailing frequency by a Dornier aircraft that had been scrambled by the Coast Guard and tried to turn away when an Indian warship approached it.
The vessel was then escorted to Port Blair and preliminary investigations say it is carrying a cargo of sugar to Iraq.
The fact is that the ship had no business to be there. There were apprehensions (that it was carrying nuclear components). At the moment, it is carrying genuine merchandise, Navy Chief said at the sidelines of the function to inaugurate the Armed Forces Tribunal. He said reports that the vessel had been forced to anchor near the Indian island due to mechanical faults were being looked into.
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They may not have been exporting it from North Korea. North Korea operates a shipping fleet. If you have freight to ship, you can get a NorK ship to move it for you. Just because the ship is registered in North Korea and the vessel is crewed by North Koreans doesn't mean the cargos all originate or terminate in North Korea.
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US naturalization law allows for stripping citizenship from anyone who receive it by fraudulent misrepresentation. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants take an oath of fidelity to US law; yet the quran establishes the primacy of sharia. Yah I know about "under God," but that is a declaratory statement, that hardly overrides the prohibition against establishing an official religion like they have in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim gutters.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistan's police has formally registered a criminal case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for detaining scores of judges under a 2007 state of emergency.
Last month, Pakistan's Supreme Court summoned Musharraf for imposing emergency rule and suspending the country's constitution in 2007. He failed to appear in court. Under Pakistan's constitution, the imposition of marshal law and suspension of the constitution constitutes treason and is punishable by death. Musharraf's move in 2007 came before a ruling by the Supreme Court on whether he was eligible to run for re-election while remaining the army chief. Musharraf is currently in Britain.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Turkey's foreign minister discusses economic ties and sharing intelligence on the outlawed PKK party with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad.
After his talks with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on August 11, Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters that the two countries were considering economic and security agreements that would improve the often-strained ties between the two neighbors.
He said that they are also considering an agreement to share intelligence on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The officials said they would meet again in September.
The United States, the European Union and Turkey have all labeled the PKK as a terrorist group. Washington is also supplying Turkey with vital intelligence needed to hit PKK bases in northern Iraq.
About the cooperation between Turkey, Iraq and the US in the fight against the PKK, Zebari said one of the topics in the negotiations was a trilateral mechanism involving the three states, which discussed countering the PKK.
"Terror is a very serious problem. We discussed it in detail with Mr. Davutoglu ... The Iraqi administration and the regional administration in the North will implement all the decisions made to counter terrorism and be loyal to the decisions. We are working for this cooperation to enhance even more," Zebari was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency.
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Controversial Fatah strongmen Mohammed Dahlan and Jibril Rajub are among the members of a committee elected to govern the party's affairs. The two men, who once led the Fatah security forces and are at odds with each other, have been elected to be members of Fatah's 23-member Central Committee, AFP reported. Rajub and Dahlan both commanded the Fatah forces that were suppressing pro-resistance Palestinian groups, including Hamas.
Dahalan has also been accused of collaborating with the Israeli security service in an alleged plot to assassinate late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Based on an article published by 'Vanity Fair' in 2008, Dahlan also cooperated with the US in a plot to overthrow the Hamas-led government in Gaza.
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On Al-Jazeera TV: Lebanese Islamists Favor 'Offensive Jihad' to Conquer the World, Impose Islam
Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by members of the Islamist group Hizb Al-Tahrir in Lebanon. The address aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 21, 2009.
"The Jihad of a Nation Over 1.5 Billion Strong Has Been Reduced to the Killing of an American in Iraq, a Briton in Afghanistan, a Juice in Paleostine, or a Russian in Chechnya"
Salah Al-Din 'Adhadhda, member of the press bureau of Hizb Al-Tahrir in Lebanon: "We have come here to talk about the pinnacle of Islam Jihad for the sake of Allah. Since Jihad like other precepts of the shari'a has been subjected to distortion and perversion, due to the ideological and cultural invasion from which our nation continues to suffer, and since the nation has lost the true meaning of Jihad, and in the mind of many of us, Jihad has become tantamount to Resistance, conducted by a group of young Muslim men with some capabilities the Jihad of a nation over 1.5 billion strong has been reduced to the killing of an American in Iraq, a Briton in Afghanistan, a Juice in Paleostine, or a Russian in Chechnya.
"Thus, the nation takes to the streets of its cities to celebrate the killing of a dozen here or a hundred there."
"The Nation... Should Not Really Celebrate [Liberation]... Because These Occupations Resulted From the Nation's Negligence and Silence"
"The nation has lost sight of the fact that it should not really celebrate, even if Paleostine, Iraq, and Afghanistan are liberated, because these occupations resulted from the nation's negligence and silence, in the face of these corrupt regimes.
"Although the crimes of these collaborating rulers are obvious as is their assistance in the occupation of our countries by the infidel countries our nation has forgotten that true celebration should only occur with the conquest of the capitals of the world by the message of Islam, in order to save and liberate humanity, by pulling the people out of the darkness and tyranny of capitalism into the light and justice of Islam."[...]
"The West Has Distorted Jihad"
Muhammad Ibrahim, member of the advisory council of Hizb Al-Tahrir in Lebanon: "Jihad in Islam is twofold. The first type is the offensive Jihad, in which the Muslims engage the infidels in fighting in order to bring the message of Islam to them, and to pull them from darkness and into the light. This type of Jihad has suffered the most violent ideological and cultural campaign by the West, because of what the infidels viewed as the shattering of their earthly interests interests that exploit human beings, sucking their blood. Jihad is the path to save mankind from the deprivation and hardship of their lives.
"The West has directed its arrows intensively against the Jihad, because it realized how dangerous Jihad is to Western civilization and culture. The West has distorted Jihad, presenting it as a blatant attack against people, by shedding their blood, subjugating them, oppressing them, plundering their resources, and so on. It has distorted the true meaning of Jihad.
"It is sad that some Muslims have clung to the West and been influenced by its culture. Such people went as far as to repeat the claims of many Orientalists that Jihad is a defensive war only, and that there is no truth in what is being spread about offensive Jihad or offensive war. Thus, they aligned themselves with Western culture. Worse are those who bleat like the enemies of Islam, and consider Jihad to be aggression and terrorism." [...]
"Jihad is an Offensive Jihad, Which Was Instated in Order to Spread Islam Throughout the World"
"Some people tried to interpret Jihad to mean nothing more than self-defense. Thus, the Muslims abandoned the pinnacle of their Glory, and relinquished their responsibility toward the world, as a result of their ideological weakness and their lack of understanding of the laws of the Shari'a of the Prophet Muhammad. In principle, Jihad is an offensive Jihad, which was instated in order to spread Islam throughout the world."
A Thai court Tuesday rejected a U.S. request to extradite an alleged Russian arms smuggler dubbed the "Merchant of Death," dealing a setback to American efforts to try him on charges of plotting to supply weapons to Colombian rebels.
Viktor Bout, 42, was arrested in March 2008 at a luxury hotel in Bangkok as part of an elaborate sting in which U.S. agents posed as arms buyers for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which Washington classifies as a terrorist organization. He is being held in a Bangkok prison, but could be set free if no appeal is filed.
"We will not extradite him to the United States," said Judge Chittakorn Pattanasiri, of the Bangkok Criminal Court.
Chittakorn said the court rejected the extradition request because Bout had not been accused of committing any crimes against Thailand, which has not listed FARC as a terrorist group.
Latin America's last major rebel army, the FARC has been trying to overthrow successive Colombian governments for a half-century. It has been put on the defensive in recent years by Colombia's U.S.-backed military and has lost support amid reports it is funded by drug traffickers and as it continues to hold dozens of hostages in the jungle.
Bout, dressed in an orange prison uniform, jumped up from his seat and hugged his crying wife as the ruling was read out. He then flashed a victory sign to TV cameras as he was led out of the courtroom.
The judge said Thai prosecutors have 72 hours to indicate whether they will appeal the ruling, and, if not, Bout will be set free.
If an appeal is filed, Bout will be held pending further proceedings.
U.S. Embassy deputy chief of mission James F. Entwistle said Thai prosecutors have said they will appeal the case and that Washington supports that.
"We're disappointed and mystified by this lower court ruling," Entwistle said. "We think the facts, relevant Thai law, and the terms of the bilateral extradition treaty clearly supports the extradition of Viktor Bout to the United States to stand trial on serious terrorism charges."
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"We think the facts, relevant Thai law, and the terms of the bilateral extradition treaty clearly supports the extradition of Viktor Bout to the United States to stand trial on serious terrorism charges."
..but not copies of the court personnel and their families' bank accounts and transactions. No, it wouldn't happen there. Of course not. Nope. Nada.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sends a congratulatory message to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his second term in office.
"The letter went out yesterday," said UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe. Okabe stated that Ban's letter was a "customary letter on occasion of inauguration," but added that the text would not be made public, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The UN routinely releases the content of such congratulatory messages, according to Reuters.
Following the presidential election held on June 12 official results gave Ahmadinejad a second term in office. Defeated candidates and their supporter rejected the veracity of the official results, and the simmering discontent, sporadic street protests and televised mass trials of protesters and opposition figures still dominate Iran's political life.
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Iran's Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi says about 4,000 people were arrested during post-election protests in country.
"4,000 people were detained in relation with the recent incidents, but thanks to the round-the-clock efforts of judges, 3,700 of them were released soon," the Mehr news agency quoted Jamshidi as saying.
He stressed that Iran's Judiciary was closely following the post-election developments in the country to ensure the observation of detainees' rights.
After Iran's June 12 presidential elections, supporters of defeated opposition candidates dismissed official results that returned incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office as 'fraudulent' and took to the streets in protest to press for a re-run.
A number of the detained protesters and other dissidents have appeared in televised mass trials in the past 2 weeks.
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Tea party attendee's take note. Zero is watching this to add to his anti-free speech policies.
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Amid reports of prisoner abuse following the events that ensued Iran's disputed presidential election, head of the Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani demands officials to respect the rights of the detainees.
The issue of the alleged torture and abuse of protesters, who had been detained after the vote, took a new turn after defeated presidential candidate and leading Reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi raised questions about sexual abuse at a detention center.
In a letter to Rafsanjani, Karroubi urged a probe into "jail rape" reports, according to which the male and female Kahrizak detainees are said to have fallen victim to sexual abuse.
"The people who informed me about these events hold sensitive positions in the country ... these officials told me of the things that happened in the detention centers that even if one count is true, it would be a tragedy for the Islamic Republic... and it would whitewash the sins of many dictatorships including that of the deposed shah," Karroubi said in the letter.
The letter prompted Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani to call for an investigation into the allegations.
Ayatollah Rafsanjani, in a meeting with judiciary lawyers on Tuesday, touched upon the issue by insisting that respecting detainee rights is a vital necessity for passing a fair and just verdict.
"Judgment and proxy as well as (protecting) the rights of the accused can provide guarantees for the presence of justice in the final verdict," Rafsanjani was quoted as saying by the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA).
His remarks come as Iran is trying hundreds of opposition figures, protesters and journalists on charges of plotting to topple the government in the wake of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election on June 12.
The vote result was met by an outpouring of anger by supporters of defeated presidential candidates Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi in massive protests.
The crackdown on the demonstrations, which were held despite bans by the Interior Ministry, led to the arrests of thousands of protesters, many of whom have been released.
According to Iranian officials, at least 30 people were killed in the post-vote unrest. The opposition, however, puts the number at 70.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's top nuclear official says it is not yet determined when the Bushehr nuclear power plant will become operational, saying that the country has focused on the plant's safety.
"The date for the inauguration of the Bushehr nuclear plant is not determined and we do not declare a definite date for that," the Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday.
"The plant will be launched in proper time, after reviewing various aspects of its safety," Salehi told reporters while visiting the plant on August 11.
He said that that nearly a quarter of the 50,000 metric tons of equipments used in the nuclear plant were produced in Germany and date back to '35 years ago', Mehr news agency reported.
"Bushehr nuclear power plant is a combination of the technologies of the West and the East and its operation and maintenance would need special supervision," Salehi said.
The head of the AEOI stressed that Russian experts have taken necessary measures to ensure the safety of the nuclear plant.
Iran and Russia signed an agreement on nuclear cooperation in 1992, and Russia's Atomstroyexport signed a contract in January 1995 to finish building Iran's first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr by 1999.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant was started back in the mid-1970s by Siemens of Germany, but work on it was suspended as a result of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Western suppliers then were prevented from completing the plant by politically-motivated restrictions against trade with Iran.
Iran then turned to Russia for help, but the joint project has been dogged by repeated delays.
Iranian and Russian officials had earlier declared that the power plant would be operational in 2009, but Salehi's latest statement seems to cast doubt on that forecast.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel will hold Lebanon responsible for any future Hezbollah attack should the Iranian- and Syrian-backed group be brought into Beirut's incoming government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
"If Hezbollah joins the Lebanese government as an official entity, let it be clear that the Lebanese government, as far as we are concerned, is responsible for any attack -- any attack -- from its area on the state of Israel," Netanyahu told reporters.
"It cannot hide and say: 'It's Hezbollah, we don't control them.'"
Though U.S.-backed Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri bested Hezbollah in a June ballot, he is holding talks on a new coalition expected to include the Shiite group and its allies. Hezbollah has a minister in the outgoing cabinet.
Israel fought Hezbollah in its southern Lebanese bastions in a 2006 war but has accused the armed group of rearming under the noses of U.N. peacekeepers and plotting attacks on Israelis to avenge the assassination of a top militia leader last year.
Israeli warnings
Some analysts believe that Israel, which has hinted it could attack arch-foe Iran's nuclear facilities, also wants to blunt Hezbollah's ability to serve as a retaliatory arm of Tehran.
Triggered by Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, the 2006 summer war exacted a heavy toll on Lebanese infrastructure. Some 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 158 Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed.
Israel credits the offensive with keeping the border largely quiet since, but Hezbollah said it is ready to fight again and is determined to hit back for the Feb. 12, 2008 killing of its military mastermind, Imad Moughniyeh, in a Damascus car-bombing.
Israel denied involvement in that slaying, and warned that Hezbollah and Lebanon would bear the consequences for any reprisals against Israelis abroad.
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[ADN Kronos] Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has compared the mass trials of government opponents and public confessions to the tactics of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and other authoritarian rulers.
Hossein Ali Montazeri, an historic figure in Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, was once the designated successor to the revolution's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini but fell out with Khomeini in 1989 over government policies, which he believed challenged human rights.
The Islamic scholar is now making headlines again, amid claims that protesters have been tortured, even killed in prison. Others have claimed that confessions were extracted under torture.
Montazeri currently lives in the holy city of Qom, and remains politically influential in Iran, especially upon reformist politics at a time of unusual upheaval in the country.
They say that history never repeats itself, but the similarities between what happened in Moscow's courts in the third decade of the 20th century and what is happening today in the courts of Tehran suggest a grotesque similarity.
Police and judiciary officials on Sunday tried to calm the outrage in Iran over the deaths of detained protesters in prison, by acknowledging abuses and calling for those responsible to be punished.
Iran's prosecutor-general Ghorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi called for those responsible for mistreating detainees to be punished and said that the protesters were never meant to be taken to Kahrizak prison which has been at the centre of abuse claims.
"Unfortunately, negligence and carelessness by some officials caused the Kahrizak incident, which is not defendable," he told the state news agency.
"During early days, it is possible there were mistakes and mistreatment due to overcrowding in the prison."
But a senior commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard, which led the crackdown after thousands took to the streets to protest the June 12 election, was unrepentant and said that the three top opposition figures instead should be put on trial.
Lubyanka was the home of the first Soviet secret service Ceka created in 1918. This is where enemies of the state were taken and became synonymous with torture and severe interrogation methods which identified spies, enemies of the state, economic sabotage and other so called crimes.
Now in Iran there are three trials underway and it appears that confessions have been extracted from the accused inside Kahrizak prison, methods that are once again reminiscent of the "Stalinist" regime.
Police chief General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam acknowledged protesters were beaten by their jailers at the same facility and that the prison has since been closed down.
However he maintained that the deaths in the prison were not caused by abuse.
"This detention centre was built to house dangerous criminals. Housing people related to recent riots caused an outbreak of disease," the official news agency quoted Moghaddam as saying. Protesters "died of viral illness and not as a result of beating."
But outrage about what happened at Kahrizak has extended far beyond the political opposition, and influential figures in the clerical hierarchy have condemned the abuse of detainees and the three deaths known to have taken place there.
On Monday a defeated opposition candidate in Iran's presidential election called for an investigation into allegations some protesters were raped in prison.
In a letter to former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mehdi Karroubi said senior officials had informed him of the "shameful behaviour" occurring in prisons.
Karroubi wrote that both male and female detainees had been raped, with some suffering serious injuries.
About 200 people arrested during the mass protests provoked by June's disputed election, which saw president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad returned by a huge margin, are still in detention.
Four deputy ministers were dismissed by Ahmadinejad on Monday for allegedly sympathising with election protesters.
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Damn how did they get the ded hero Checkist in the picture? I suspect Trotskyite photoshoppery!
Hezbollah has warned Israel that waging war against the Lebanese resistance movement could bring Tel Aviv larger losses than those of 33-day war in 2006.
Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday said the recent Israeli saber-rattling is intended to restore the spirits of the Israeli population after their failure in 2006 Lebanon war. "From the beginning of the year the Israeli media has been trying to portray the failed invasion (in summer 2006) as a success to restore Israeli army and nation's lost spirit," he explained.
He made the remarks after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak hinted at Tel Aviv's intention to launch another offensive against Lebanon, claiming the war would be more devastating than the one in 2006. Sheikh Naim Qassem however cautioned that the remarks could be aimed at paving the ground for a possible Israeli offensive against Lebanon "in future".
The Hezbollah official interpreted a possible future Israeli attack on Lebanon as an inseparable feature of Israel's 'usurper nature' but said he believed it would not occur at this point. Tel Aviv also attempts to coerce its foreign opponents and send a message to the international and regional sides, voicing its intolerance of Hezbollah's increasing power, he added.
Sheikh Qassem stressed the resistance movement's determination to respond to any Israeli incursion is neither an option of the political moment nor a momentary reaction, but a fortification of independence. "Whenever Israel increases its pressure on us, we will become stronger, and whenever they increase their threats against us, our determination will increase," he said.
The Lebanese cleric emphasized Hezbollah's attachment to the UN Resolution of 1701 and its cooperation with the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Israel has accused the Lebanese side of violating the resolution.
Tel Aviv's accusations against hezbollah come while the United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon have repeatedly warned about Israel's daily violation of Resolution 1701. "We have daily air violation of Lebanese territory (by Israeli planes), we have repeatedly asked the Israeli government to refrain from breaching the UN resolution," Andrea Teneti, UNIFIL Deputy Spokesman said.
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May have something to do woth the 40,000 rockets amassed at the border.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistan's police has formally registered a criminal case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for detaining scores of judges under a 2007 state of emergency. 
Controversial Fatah strongmen Mohammed Dahlan and Jibril Rajub are among the members of a committee elected to govern the party's affairs. The two men, who once led the Fatah security forces and are at odds with each other, have been elected to be members of Fatah's 23-member Central Committee, AFP reported. Rajub and Dahlan both commanded the Fatah forces that were suppressing pro-resistance Palestinian groups, including Hamas. 
On Al-Jazeera TV: Lebanese Islamists Favor 'Offensive Jihad' to Conquer the World, Impose Islam
