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Gun and bomb attacks kill more than 32 across Iraq :
In Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, bombs in
three parked cars went off separately, killing 11 people and wounding
24, including several policemen.
Iraq bows to US pressure: Syria-bound Iran flights to be searched:
"We have assured US officials that the Iraqi government is
determined to land (Iranian) flights and carry out random searches,"
Zebari said, quoted by Arabic daily Al-Hayat.
16 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan:
Afghan police, army and personnel from the NATO-led coalition
forces launched joint operations in Sar-e-Pul, Kandahar, Uruzgan,
Wardak, Logar, Herat, Farah, Ghor and Helmand provinces, Xinhua
reported.
2 Afghans, 2 Americans killed in insider attack:
An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a
checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and at least
two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both
the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider attacks and the
2,000th U.S. troop death in the long-running war, officials said
Sunday.
US Gen 'mad as hell' over insider attacks:
THE top US commander in Afghanistan says he is "mad as hell" about
insider attacks following a firefight between NATO troops and their
Afghan allies that killed five people.
Occupation forces tank kills child, wounds woman in Lashkargah:
A child was killed and his mother wounded after being hit by an armoured vehicle of foreign troops in southern Helmand province
Over 5000 Pakistanis stage fresh demo over anti-Islam film:
On Sunday, more than 5,000 people rallied in the southern Pakistan port city of Karachi to condemn insult to Islamic values.
Four members of former Yemen president's party killed in ambush:
Armed men killed four members of the political party of Yemen's
ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in an ambush outside Sana'a on
Friday night, the party said.
Two killed in suicide bomb attack on Yemeni official
:
A suicide bomber killed himself and a bystander in south Yemen on
Saturday in an attempt to assassinate a government official who had
targeted al Qaeda militants, a security source said.
Yemeni president acknowledges approving U.S. drone strikes:
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi also provided new details about
the monitoring of counterterrorism missions from a joint operations
center in Yemen that he said is staffed by military and intelligence
personnel from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
5 killed in Aleppo fighting, say Syrian activists:
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead
included a man who has been shot by a sniper near the city's medieval
citadel earlier in the day. Several homes were also destroyed in the
violence, the Observatory said.
Four people killed in suicide car bomb attack in Syria's Kurdistan region :
"A suicide terrorist using a car laden with explosives attacked
the western district of Qamishli," said the state broadcaster, adding
that at least four people were killed.
4 Turkish gunmen killed in clashes with Syrian troops:
Four Turks were among other gunmen, who were killed Saturday by the
Syrian troops near Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, the
state-TV said, as clashes and violence continued elsewhere.
Egypt may join Arab intervention in Syria:
Egypt may take part in an Arab military intervention in Syria,
provided this does not open the door to Western intervention, a
political adviser to Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi told Turkey's
Anadolu news agency Saturday.
Bahrain police shoot 17-year-old protester dead in new wave of Shia unrest:
Police in Bahrain shot dead a teenage protester as fresh unrest
swept the island kingdom 19 months after Shia protesters first took to
the streets early in the Arab Spring.
Two killed as bomb blast, gunfire rock Islamic school:
A bomb blast and gunfire shook an area around an Islamic boarding
school in northern Nigeria on Sunday, leaving two of the alleged
attackers dead and at least three others wounded, officials said.
Explosive attack on Kenya church kills 1 child, wounds several; latest in series of attacks:
The acting police chief in Kenya's capital says an explosive
device set off in a Sunday school class killed one child and seriously
wounded three.
Iran calls on UN to prevent nuclear terrorism:
The Iranian foreign minister says a potential Israeli strike on
its facilities would be "nuclear terrorism" and called on the United
Nations to take action against those countries that have been carrying
out acts of sabotage at Iran's nuclear facilities.
Israeli strike on Iran without US would be a 'disaster,' World Jewish Congress president says:
Lauder raised the issue of the 2003 Iraq War, when most
governments worldwide were certain that Iraq possessed weapons of mass
destruction, but afterwards it became evident that Iraq did not have
such materiel. If they erred then, it is possible everyone is erring
now, Lauder posited.
Aipac: Israel's Agent Feeling Squeezed?:
The grip of fear and the lock on Congress that the Israel first
organization has long touted in its service to Israel may be weakening
against a backdrop of American Jews rejecting the increasing rants of
Prime Minister Netanyahu that are driving many Jews to distance
themselves from him, from AIPAC, from other Arabphobic US Zionist
organizations, and from Israel.
Israel has long crossed nuclear red line: Iran's Vahidi:
"If having nuclear bomb is crossing the red line, the Zionist
regime [of Israel], which has dozens of nuclear warheads and various
kinds of weapons of mass destruction, has crossed the red line years
ago and should be dealt with," Vahidi said on Saturday.
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) demands Israel to join NPT without further delay:
The 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement on Friday demanded Israel to
join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty without precondition and
further delay.
Iran condemns US for 'double standards' over MEK terror de-listing:
"There are numerous evidence of the group being involved in
terrorist activities. De-listing them shows America's double standard
policy on terrorism,"
MEK Delisting Slap in the face for Average Iranians:
Those who lived through the early years of the Iranian revolution
remember the MEK's violence, which was justified somehow by their
curious mix of Islam and Marxism
Ahmadinejad: No need for nukes, Israel should be voted away:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the Washington Post on
Sunday that the Israeli-Arab conflict should be resolved by allowing the
Palestinians to vote the "Zionist regime" out of existence.
Israel 'greatest threat to US national interests':
All sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies have described the Israeli
regime as "the greatest threat to U.S. national interests" which is not
worthy of America's financial and diplomatic support.
US Embassy issues terror warning for Americans in Egypt:
Citing credible threat to women engaged in missionary activities, diplomats urge citizens to exercise vigilance
Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources claim:
A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas
Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was
sensationally claimed today. He is said to have infiltrated a violent
mob mutilating the captured Libyan dictator last year and shot him in
the head.
US use of truth drug revealed:
New evidence has emerged that all Guantanamo Bay detainees,
including David Hicks, were drugged involuntarily with a substance that
has a long history as a truth serum.
Omar Khadr back in Canada; 'Very happy to be home':"
"He's finding it hard to believe that this has finally happened,"
John Norris, one of Khadr's lawyers, told The Canadian Press just after
speaking to his client by phone.
Americans already detained under NDAA?:
The plaintiffs that are suing US President Barack Obama over his
insistence on keeping the National Defense Authorization Act on the
books said Thursday that they fear Americans are already being held
indefinitely and without trial under the NDAA.
ACLU: Warrantless electronic surveillance surges under Obama:
The ACLU has released documents that show that in the last two
years the US Department of Justice has conducted more warrantless
electronic surveillance, involving spying on telephones, email and
Facebook accounts, than in the preceding decade.
Australian Government Now Spies on Its Citizens More than the US Government Does:
The Australian Government has now been labelled as the most intrusive government in the western world.
How US lawmakers and lobbyists keep a lock on the private prison business:
America's three largest private prison companies spent in the
region of $45m over the past 10 years in lobbying state and federal
governments. During the same period, these companies saw their profits
soar as they scored more government contracts.
Consumer Reports: 45% of adults skip out on prescriptions, medical care because of costs:
Almost half - 46 percent of U.S. adults take prescription drugs.
But, rising costs are stopping a vast number of people from filling
their prescriptions or going to the doctor.
Poor And White? Your Life Expectancy Just Shrank By 4 Years:
The U.S. does not fare well in international life expectancy
rankings. American women fell from 14th place in 1985 to 41st place in
2010 in overall rankings, but among developed countries, they dropped
to last place, according to the Human Mortality Database.
Poverty USA:
Americans are working longer and harder but becoming poorer and less economically secure.
Study linking GM maize to cancer must be taken seriously by regulators:
Trial suggesting a GM maize strain causes cancer has attracted a torrent of abuse, but it cannot be swept under the carpet.
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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