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IRAQ: NAVY SEALS TO FACE TRIAL AFTER CAPTURING MOST-WANTED TERRORIST

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Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Fri Nov 27 06:37:24 -0800 2009 | disasters

Remember the Fallujah ambush of 2004 in Iraq in which four Blackwater security guards were killed with grenades and gunfire? In what was a chilling display of enemy brutality and a mark of the extent of the spread of insurgency...

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Dozens teargassed at Palestinian Eid demonstration

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Ramallah :: Palestine | updated Sun Nov 29 21:07:25 -0800 2009 | disasters

Dozens of Palestinian and international protestors were teargassed by Israeli forces at the weekly Friday demonstrations at the West Bank village of Bil'in, according to Friends of Freedom & Justice founder Iyad Burnat . At the demonstration coinciding with the...

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By attacking Iraq and further destabilizing the Middle East Bush freed ...

Posted by: jmsjoin

Sanaa :: Yemen | updated Sun Nov 29 00:08:57 -0800 2009 | disasters

Five killed at secessionist protest in south Yemen as Yemen Sees 'Mounting Evidence' Iran Is Arming Rebels As you know, I talk about it often as I watch Bush's new Middle East (dis)order progress. He ignored Afghanistan so he could...

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IT is not it may happen: Bush guaranteed a Sunni Shiite civil war ...

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Sanaa :: Yemen | updated Thu Nov 26 03:16:21 -0800 2009 | disasters

I seem to have to beat a dead horse an awful lot lately. I guess it is appropriate that once again it is over a problem Bush created. As I watch the situation in Yemen devolve and the 2nd link...

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Khutba e Hajj 1430 at Arafat, Hajjis from Japan and Obama extends Hajj ...

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Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | updated Sat Nov 28 19:41:28 -0800 2009 | allnews

Today three million muslims performed the Hajj at Arafat Makkha and heard the Khutba e Hajj (SERMON) of Islamic year 1430 (AH). Khutba in Arabic and its english translation are attached as videos. The Mufti-e-Azam Saudi Arab Sheikh Abdul Aziz...

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Dubai boom going bust as debt soars.

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Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | updated Sun Nov 29 15:27:37 -0800 2009 | business-news

Dubai is famous for its huge and hugely expensive development projects but the financial crisis put a stop to most of them and now the huge debts amassed are causing the jitters among investors near and far. The jitters were...

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Deal to release Israeli soldier held by Hamas Imminent?

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Jerusalem :: Israel | updated Tue Nov 24 17:52:30 -0800 2009 | political-news

So much for not negotiating with terrorists. If Israel wants to get their soldier Gilad Shalit back which they certainly do then they simply must negotiate unless they were to undertake some risky rescue mission. Hamas will obtain the release...

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Iran Censured Over Nuclear Program by UN Watchdog: Sorry but it is Too ...

Posted by: jmsjoin

Tehrān :: Iran | updated Sun Nov 29 22:16:02 -0800 2009 | disasters

I know some of you have been critical about my stance on Iran over the years but I am convinced Iran, the IRG, Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khamenei, they have no good intentions with their nuclear program. The years of lies are...

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Arab Sunni bloc threatens Iraq election boycott.

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Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Sat Nov 28 11:27:15 -0800 2009 | political-news

The vice president Hashemi vetoed the original bill precisely because of the lack of representation of Sunnis particularly those displaced. However, when the bill went back to parliament the Kurds took the opportunity to negotiate with the Shia majority to...

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Khomeini's Ghost - The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant ...

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Tehrān :: Iran | updated Thu Nov 26 14:25:14 -0800 2009 | disasters

You know I have said many times that having legitimacy is not Ayatollah Khamenei's concern! Ayatollah Khomeini betrayed the 1979 revolution right off the bat and Khamenei is following him. That is why the most popular Ayatollah in Iran Ayatollah...

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