Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.
According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas and VX gas. The factory was created specifically for the purposes of altering ballistic missiles to carry chemical payloads, the magazine report claimed.
Reports of the accident were circulated at the time, however, no details were released by the Syrian government, and there were no hints of an Iranian connection. According to Global Security.org, Syria is not a signatory of either the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), - an international agreement banning the production, stockpiling or use of chemical weapons, or the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Syria began developing chemical weapons in 1973, just before the Yom Kippur War. Global Security.org cites the country as having one of the most advanced chemical weapons programs in the Middle East.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Two civilians were killed and six others injured when a roadside bomb went off
Tahseen Ali, 27, is treated for his wounds after the bombing of a minibus in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. Two civilians were killed and six others injured when a roadside bomb went off around 9:30 a.m. (05:30 GMT) next to a mini bus traveling through Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Baladiyat, the police officer added.
Ghana...
As it is, many have lost everything to the floods. Farmer Majid Issaka from the Builsa district, one of the worst affected, saw his farm on the edge of a river disappear beneath the floodwaters. "I came and saw the crops were destroyed," he said. He and others feared disease fomented by the floods would cause many more victims from cholera and malaria. "The mosquitoes are coming and many people have been falling sick," he said.
George Isaac Amoo, national coordinator of Ghana's National Disaster Management Organisation, said that, while floodwaters were receding in most places, there was a serious threat of food shortages unless more rapid relief arrived for the victims. The rains and floods inflicted extensive damage on a northern region that was traditionally Ghana's major food basket, growing rice, maize, millet and sorghum. "This flood is unprecedented; thousands of acres of farmland have been destroyed, including livestock," Amoo said "Barns and silos ... stored food ... Infrastructure like bridges and roads have all been destroyed," he added. Ghana's government was distributing food rations and United Nations experts were up in the north assessing emergency needs. Cocoa, Ghana's main export, is not grown in the flood-hit north, but heavier than normal rain has produced black pod, a fungal infection, in some major producing areas.
George Isaac Amoo, national coordinator of Ghana's National Disaster Management Organisation, said that, while floodwaters were receding in most places, there was a serious threat of food shortages unless more rapid relief arrived for the victims. The rains and floods inflicted extensive damage on a northern region that was traditionally Ghana's major food basket, growing rice, maize, millet and sorghum. "This flood is unprecedented; thousands of acres of farmland have been destroyed, including livestock," Amoo said "Barns and silos ... stored food ... Infrastructure like bridges and roads have all been destroyed," he added. Ghana's government was distributing food rations and United Nations experts were up in the north assessing emergency needs. Cocoa, Ghana's main export, is not grown in the flood-hit north, but heavier than normal rain has produced black pod, a fungal infection, in some major producing areas.
Meteorite or test firing?
LIMA (Reuters) - Dozens of people living in a Peruvian town near Lake Titicaca reported vomiting and headaches after they went to look at a crater apparently left by a meteorite that crashed down over the weekend, health officials said on Tuesday. After hearing a loud noise, people went to see what had happened and found a crater 65 feet wide and 22 feet deep on an uninhabited plateau near Carancas in the Puno region. Experts from Peru's Geophysical Institute are on their way to the area 800 miles south of Lima to verify whether it was a meteorite.
"We've examined about 100 people who got near to the meteorite crater who have vomiting and headaches because of gasses coming out of there," Jorge Lopez, health director in Puno, told Reuters. "People are scared," he said. Lopez said people went to the site after hearing a crash that they thought might be an airplane. "We ourselves went near the crater and now we've got irritated throats and itching noses," Lopez said. The site is near the border with Bolivia and experts from San Andres university in La Paz said initial analyses of sand samples from the crater showed that it could be a meteorite, according to newspaper reports. Luisa Macedo, a geologist with the Mining Geology and Metallurgy Institute in Lima, told Reuters the reaction between the elements in a meteorite and the Earth's surface can generate gases that then dissipate. Meteorites fell in 2002 and 2004 in the Andean area of Arequipa in southern Peru, Hernando Tavera, head of the Peruvian Geophysical Institute, told Reuters.
By Teresa Cespedes Additional reporting by Carlos Alberto Quiroga in La Paz
"We've examined about 100 people who got near to the meteorite crater who have vomiting and headaches because of gasses coming out of there," Jorge Lopez, health director in Puno, told Reuters. "People are scared," he said. Lopez said people went to the site after hearing a crash that they thought might be an airplane. "We ourselves went near the crater and now we've got irritated throats and itching noses," Lopez said. The site is near the border with Bolivia and experts from San Andres university in La Paz said initial analyses of sand samples from the crater showed that it could be a meteorite, according to newspaper reports. Luisa Macedo, a geologist with the Mining Geology and Metallurgy Institute in Lima, told Reuters the reaction between the elements in a meteorite and the Earth's surface can generate gases that then dissipate. Meteorites fell in 2002 and 2004 in the Andean area of Arequipa in southern Peru, Hernando Tavera, head of the Peruvian Geophysical Institute, told Reuters.
By Teresa Cespedes Additional reporting by Carlos Alberto Quiroga in La Paz
A bomb exploded under an oil pipeline causing huge quantities of crude oil to spill into the Tigris River
BAGHDAD - A bomb exploded under an oil pipeline near the northern city of Beiji on Tuesday, causing huge quantities of crude oil to spill into the Tigris River, a police official said. The U.S. military blamed al-Qaida insurgents.
"This act of terrorism is barbaric and demented. This demonstrates al-Qaida does not care about the Iraqi people or the environment," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly told The Associated Press. Donnelly said workers from Iraq's Northern Oil Company were trying to prevent the spill from endangering the river, crops and livestock dependent on river water. Later the in the day, the spill reached the central city of Tikrit, more than 60 miles to the south, residents and local officials said. Water stations closed in both cities, Tikrit and Beiji. It was not clear if irrigation officials would allow the spill to reach Baghdad or would block it at Samarra dam, which diverts water into Tharthar lake north of the Iraqi capital. Insurgents have been attacking the oil industry for years to try deprive the government of money needed for the country's reconstruction.
"This act of terrorism is barbaric and demented. This demonstrates al-Qaida does not care about the Iraqi people or the environment," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly told The Associated Press. Donnelly said workers from Iraq's Northern Oil Company were trying to prevent the spill from endangering the river, crops and livestock dependent on river water. Later the in the day, the spill reached the central city of Tikrit, more than 60 miles to the south, residents and local officials said. Water stations closed in both cities, Tikrit and Beiji. It was not clear if irrigation officials would allow the spill to reach Baghdad or would block it at Samarra dam, which diverts water into Tharthar lake north of the Iraqi capital. Insurgents have been attacking the oil industry for years to try deprive the government of money needed for the country's reconstruction.
We said: Clean up the coasts in Africa!
It´s a major work to be done there with taking care of all the junk and decontamination ..It´s not other countries private junk yards! There are waters there that are very important!
Waters and air don´t stand still! It circulates all around this planet!
Don´t for one moment think that your junk and polluted waters don´t will affect you! Africa is not your private junk yard!
Waters and air don´t stand still! It circulates all around this planet!
Don´t for one moment think that your junk and polluted waters don´t will affect you! Africa is not your private junk yard!
Where did we hear that before..
"Conspiracy fabricated by those who oppose the North's improving ties with Washington."
It was the same with "some circles that opposes Iran´s relation with Turkey", with weapon transportation's on Turkeys border from Iran to Syria. It´s exactly the same excuses and statements used by Hamas as a defend for their own criminal actions!
It was the same with "some circles that opposes Iran´s relation with Turkey", with weapon transportation's on Turkeys border from Iran to Syria. It´s exactly the same excuses and statements used by Hamas as a defend for their own criminal actions!
So...Iran has banned Google now..
As one Gaza citizen wrote:
Help US!!!!!!!!!!!State: Gaza StripSomeone please help us Hamas is turning Gaza into Hell they have so many strict rules Gaza is becoming like the Islamic Republic of IranWe want Fatah and Abu mazen back im sorry im hungry. i want peace and food some one please help the people of Gaza.
3,000-year-old site buried underneath a 7th century Philistine rural village from the Second Iron Age
A building from the Late Bronze Age apparently constructed for Egyptian authorities before the Israelite settlement in the Land of Israel has been uncovered in an excavation on the edge of the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip, Ben-Gurion University announced Monday.
The month-long summer dig on the eastern section of the Besor Stream, about 12 kilometers east of Gaza, revealed the 3,000-year-old site buried underneath a 7th century Philistine rural village from the Second Iron Age, said Ben-Gurion University archeologist Dr. Gunnar Lehmann. The Israeli and German archeologists working on the dig had known of the existence of the Philistine village at the site due to earlier surface exploration in the area, but were stunned to find the much earlier structure which lay underneath it, he said. About 10-15 such buildings are known to exist off the Egyptian border, but most have been found in an urban context. "We did not expect to find an administrative building in such a rural site," Lehmann said.
The site has features of Egyptian architecture, as well as Egyptian pottery and amulets.
Archeologists are not sure why this site was built there, but assume it was some type of rural estate. Among the signs of the Philistine village which existed at the site include a taboon for pita bread, the remains of a wine press installation and storage jars for agriculture.
Source jerusalem Post
The month-long summer dig on the eastern section of the Besor Stream, about 12 kilometers east of Gaza, revealed the 3,000-year-old site buried underneath a 7th century Philistine rural village from the Second Iron Age, said Ben-Gurion University archeologist Dr. Gunnar Lehmann. The Israeli and German archeologists working on the dig had known of the existence of the Philistine village at the site due to earlier surface exploration in the area, but were stunned to find the much earlier structure which lay underneath it, he said. About 10-15 such buildings are known to exist off the Egyptian border, but most have been found in an urban context. "We did not expect to find an administrative building in such a rural site," Lehmann said.
The site has features of Egyptian architecture, as well as Egyptian pottery and amulets.
Archeologists are not sure why this site was built there, but assume it was some type of rural estate. Among the signs of the Philistine village which existed at the site include a taboon for pita bread, the remains of a wine press installation and storage jars for agriculture.
Source jerusalem Post
We said: Let them work!
65 illegal workers were arrested by special police forces on Monday, Police reported. The illegal workers were all West Bank residents. Criminal records were opened against three Israeli citizens for employing the workers and for supplying them with illegal residency inside Israel.
Let those work that already have work! You should be able to manage that when security conditions is better! Make them legal workers! It´s in both the Israelis and in the Palestinians interests! It´s far better to work than to just hanging around doing nothing or getting into destructive activities!
Let those work that already have work! You should be able to manage that when security conditions is better! Make them legal workers! It´s in both the Israelis and in the Palestinians interests! It´s far better to work than to just hanging around doing nothing or getting into destructive activities!
Give them trees and solar cell energy!
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Fears mounted on Monday that downpours which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
We are calling on the international community to come to their rescue before it is too late," said Musa Ecweru, minister for disaster preparedness in Uganda, where 300,000 people have already been affected and at least nine killed.
Africa need trees and solar cell energy. Give them solar cell energy to cook on! There is no more collecting wood! There is technology with solar cell energy that are excellent for cooking. In fact..Much better to preserve vitamins and minerals than in other ways! Yes..Give them solar cell energy! And clean up the coasts from all junk that comes from other countries and places!
http://www.irn.org/
http://www.irn.org/programs/bujagali/index.php?id=070426wbignores.html
We are calling on the international community to come to their rescue before it is too late," said Musa Ecweru, minister for disaster preparedness in Uganda, where 300,000 people have already been affected and at least nine killed.
Africa need trees and solar cell energy. Give them solar cell energy to cook on! There is no more collecting wood! There is technology with solar cell energy that are excellent for cooking. In fact..Much better to preserve vitamins and minerals than in other ways! Yes..Give them solar cell energy! And clean up the coasts from all junk that comes from other countries and places!
http://www.irn.org/
http://www.irn.org/programs/bujagali/index.php?id=070426wbignores.html
Ehud Olmert said Israel was prepared for peace negotiations with Syria
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel was prepared for peace negotiations with Syria under the right conditions but refused to answer questions Monday about a widely reported Israeli air attack in northern Syria. "I have a lot of respect for the Syrian leader and for Syrian policy. They have internal problems, but we have no reason to rule out dialogue with Syria," Olmert was quoted as saying by the Haaretz daily. Olmert has made the same offer of peace talks many times in the past, but this was the first time he has mentioned Syria since the reported airstrike. In 2000, Israel-Syria talks neared agreement but broke down over final border and peace arrangements. "As I've said in the past, we want to make peace with everyone," Olmert said in the Monday meeting, according to the paper. "If the conditions ripen, we are ready to make peace with Syria, with no preconditions and no ultimatums."
Monday, September 17, 2007
President Lech Kaczynski visited the Russian forest where thousands of Polish officers were executed in 1940.
KATYN, Russia (Reuters) - President Lech Kaczynski signaled on Monday he wanted a fresh start in Poland's strained relations with Moscow when he visited the Russian forest where thousands of Polish officers were executed in 1940.
Kaczynski, dressed in black, laid a wreath at the site of the World War Two massacre in Katyn, western Russia, and said Poland and Russia should not dwell on past grievances. "We have a democratic Poland and we have a new Russia -- there is no more Soviet Union, no more communist totalitarianism," said Kaczynski. The massacres at Katyn and two other sites, in which 15,000 Polish officers were shot and thrown into pits, are regarded by most Poles as symbols of the repression their country suffered during decades of Soviet control.
Since Kaczynski came to power two years ago, Warsaw has blocked European Union partnership talks with Russia over a trade dispute, accused Moscow of using energy as a political weapon and angered the Kremlin by offering to host elements of a U.S. missile defense shield that Russia opposes. On his first visit to Russia, Kaczynski said the Katyn executions were "an act of genocide" but he absolved modern-day Russia of any residual responsibility. "Today we must commemorate them (the victims), we must remember them -- and we shall remember them. Historical memory is extremely important, both of good and of evil. But this does not mean that we intend only to live this memory," he said.
"Of those who committed crimes at Katyn, hardly any are still alive. Those who govern Russia and Poland today were, as far as they were alive then, very young children and do not bear any responsibility for events that took place there. "We have thus to live in the future ... and to the past we must look calmly, with balance, but also with regard for the truth." The Polish president said Warsaw wanted good relations with all its neighbors.
Kaczynski, dressed in black, laid a wreath at the site of the World War Two massacre in Katyn, western Russia, and said Poland and Russia should not dwell on past grievances. "We have a democratic Poland and we have a new Russia -- there is no more Soviet Union, no more communist totalitarianism," said Kaczynski. The massacres at Katyn and two other sites, in which 15,000 Polish officers were shot and thrown into pits, are regarded by most Poles as symbols of the repression their country suffered during decades of Soviet control.
Since Kaczynski came to power two years ago, Warsaw has blocked European Union partnership talks with Russia over a trade dispute, accused Moscow of using energy as a political weapon and angered the Kremlin by offering to host elements of a U.S. missile defense shield that Russia opposes. On his first visit to Russia, Kaczynski said the Katyn executions were "an act of genocide" but he absolved modern-day Russia of any residual responsibility. "Today we must commemorate them (the victims), we must remember them -- and we shall remember them. Historical memory is extremely important, both of good and of evil. But this does not mean that we intend only to live this memory," he said.
"Of those who committed crimes at Katyn, hardly any are still alive. Those who govern Russia and Poland today were, as far as they were alive then, very young children and do not bear any responsibility for events that took place there. "We have thus to live in the future ... and to the past we must look calmly, with balance, but also with regard for the truth." The Polish president said Warsaw wanted good relations with all its neighbors.
Now..
Get representatives from the Israeli and the Palestinian communities from Hebron and gather them in meetings! There is water discussions there. Plant olive trees there! And there are olive trees that needs to be planted every here and there and in the North of the Gaza strip! Before there is more mud catastrophes! And Palestinians that already have work that needs to get working permissions! And make some framework or whatever you like to call it that can be discussed and approved in the cabinet! And get the political process going in Jerusalem! There is no wall going to be drawn right through Jerusalem!
And cooperate to save and preserve the Temple Mount/The Noble Sanctuary! it´s a ancient site! it´s one of earths most important cultural heritage site. Both for Israelis and Palestinians and to people all over the world! It´s protected under international laws! Or suppose to be! It´s criminal do destroy anything there! There is no ones but authorized archaeologists that is going to do anything there!
Etc...Etc..
And cooperate to save and preserve the Temple Mount/The Noble Sanctuary! it´s a ancient site! it´s one of earths most important cultural heritage site. Both for Israelis and Palestinians and to people all over the world! It´s protected under international laws! Or suppose to be! It´s criminal do destroy anything there! There is no ones but authorized archaeologists that is going to do anything there!
Etc...Etc..
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