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Saudis deploy 100,000 for hajj security

Jiddah :: Saudi Arabia | about 9 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by kalex

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia deployed some 100,000 security personnel to keep order as Muslim pilgrims flooded into the holy city of Mecca in preparation for the annual hajj, beginning on Saturday. Nearly 3 million pilgrims from around the...

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Sadr City residents get potable water

Baghdad :: Iraq | about 17 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Middle East Security News

Around 2 million people in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City received potable water in districts with historically poor sources of drinking supplies, officials said...Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday its $27 million Sadr City R-3 Water Treatment plant was...

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Iraq officials: Car bombings in Fallujah kill 10

Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by kalex

BAGHDAD – Two suicide car bombers took aim at police stations in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 100, Iraqi officials said. The apparently coordinated blasts struck within...

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Israel 'prepared to attack' Iran nuclear plants

Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Times Online

Israel is drawing up plans to attack Iraq's nuclear facillities and is prepared to launch a strike without backing from the US, it has been reported. Officials in the Israeli Defence Ministry have told The Jerusalem Post that while they...

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Human rights groups praise Lebanon ruling

Beirut :: Lebanon | about 20 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: United Press International

International human rights organizations say a court ruling in Lebanon that freed human rights activist Muhammad Mugraby was a major civil rights victory. A group of 11 Lebanese and international organizations said Thursday that by ordering all criminal slander charges...

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Cruise passengers describe "cheeky" pirate attack

Muscat :: Oman | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: The Examiner

AP Photo) Pirates ride alongside the luxury American cruise ship M/S Nautica, in this photo take from the Nautica, during a hijack attempt on the vessel, off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008....

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Change or More of the Same? Obama Introduces National Security Team

Tehrān :: Iran | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Democracy Now

Robert Dreyfuss , investigative reporter and contributing editor at The Nation magazine. He is author of "Devil"s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam." Steven Clemons , Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation where he directs the...

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Middle East policy shift needed with Obama

Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Middle East Security News

President-elect Barack Obama will need to reshape foreign policy in the Middle East in the wake of the U.S.-Iraqi security pact, the Brookings Institution says. U.S. foreign policy was focused almost exclusively over the past six years on the Iraq...

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Israeli air strike killed two Palestinian :Israel.

Jerusalem :: Israel | 2 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by aarana

The Israeli military confirmed an air strike had taken place on the town of Rafah and said two other people were wounded. It said militants had fired six mortar bombs across the border. An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinian...

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Militants kill seized Iran police

Tehrān :: Iran | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: BBC

The men were among 16 officers seized in south-eastern Iran in June by a group called Jundullah. Three of the group were killed in June and the others were reportedly taken across the border to Pakistan. Iranian police patrol the...

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