CAIRO, Egypt - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that President Bush sent a "message of confrontation" during his recent Mideast trip. Bush spent much of his visit to the region, which he wrapped up on Wednesday, rallying support among Arab allies for a strong stance against Iran — calling the country the world's top sponsor of terrorism.
"President George Bush sent a message to the Iranian people and all the nations worldwide," said Ahmadinejad during an interview in Farsi with Al-Jazeera television. "This message reflects his own conceptions and it is a message of rift, a message of sowing the seeds of division. It is a message of confrontation demeaning the dignity of mankind." The Iranian president said Bush's statements were made for domestic political reasons. "They are in need of these statements for their presidential race," said Ahmadinejad. "However, these statements increase the sentiment of resentment of the Iranian people against the U.S. officials."
Ahmadinejad also lashed out at Israel, a key U.S. ally in the Mideast, saying the country was "rapidly doomed to collapse." "All these nations believe they (the Israelis) are a murderous group carrying arms and trying through threats to change their image," said Ahmadinejad. Israel on Thursday successfully tested a new long-range missile, said senior defense officials speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the project. Israeli radio reports indicated the missiles are capable of being armed with nuclear warheads.
Ahmadinejad dismissed the missile test, saying Israel "lacks the courage to launch any attack against the Iranian state." "They are aware that any attempt or strike will be confronted by a very strong response," added the Iranian president. Tensions between Iran and both Israel and the U.S. have remained high over Tehran's controversial nuclear activities. The U.S. and Israel claim Iran's program could be a pathway to nuclear weapons development, but Tehran insists its intentions are peaceful. "They would like to deceive our people alleging that the nuclear capability would amount to a nuclear weapon," said Ahmadinejad on Thursday.
U.S. attempts to keep up international pressure against Iran were complicated by a December intelligence report saying Iran suspended its weapons development program in 2003 and has not restarted it. Bush used his first major Mideast trip to stress to Arab allies that Iran's continued uranium enrichment — a process that can produce fuel for a nuclear reactor or fissile material for a bomb — still posed a threat to the region.
The U.N. Security Council has passed two sets of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend enrichment. Germany and the five permanent Security Council members plan to meet Tuesday in Berlin for talks that diplomats say will include attempts to finalize a third set of sanctions. Ahmadinejad said the U.N. Security Council had no legal justification for focusing on Iran's nuclear program, claiming their sanctions were based on false information. "If we pay close attention today, it is opportune time for the U.N. Security Council to rectify their false statements," he said. The Iranian president said his country's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency meant that the IAEA should be the only U.N. body with jurisdiction over the nuclear issue. In November, an IAEA report said Iran had been generally truthful about key aspects of its nuclear history, but warned that its knowledge of Tehran's present nuclear work was shrinking.
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT, AP
Friday, January 18, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Suiciders
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded Shi'ite Muslim prayer hall in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 25, a government official said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed eight people near a Shi'ite mosque in the volatile Iraqi city of Baquba on Thursday, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed eight people near a Shi'ite mosque in the volatile Iraqi city of Baquba on Thursday, police said.
Militants in the Hamas-controlled territory have fired some 70 rockets at southern Israel in the past two days
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Thursday to wage a "war" to stop Gaza militants firing rockets into Israel, despite warnings by Palestinian leaders that Israeli military strikes would harm peacemaking.
In the latest bloodshed in a surge of violence that began after U.S. President George W. Bush ended a visit last week to spur talks on Palestinian statehood, an Israeli air strike on a car in the Gaza Strip killed a militant and his wife. Militants in the Hamas-controlled territory have fired some 70 rockets at southern Israel in the past two days. "A war is going on in the south, every day, every night," Olmert said in a speech. "We cannot and will not tolerate this unceasing fire at Israeli citizens ... so we will continue to operate, with wisdom and daring, with the maximum precision that will enable us to hit those who want to attack us," Olmert said, minutes after the air strike. "The most daring and boldest of our soldiers and members of the security services are taking part ... This war will not stop," the prime minister said, predicting Israeli military pressure would "tip the scales" and force a halt to rocket fire.
Olmert, saying Israel wanted to avoid harming Palestinian civilians, gave no indication he might order a large-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip, an assault Israeli officials have cautioned could cause heavy casualties on both sides.
Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Writing by Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem; Editing by Stephen Weeks
In the latest bloodshed in a surge of violence that began after U.S. President George W. Bush ended a visit last week to spur talks on Palestinian statehood, an Israeli air strike on a car in the Gaza Strip killed a militant and his wife. Militants in the Hamas-controlled territory have fired some 70 rockets at southern Israel in the past two days. "A war is going on in the south, every day, every night," Olmert said in a speech. "We cannot and will not tolerate this unceasing fire at Israeli citizens ... so we will continue to operate, with wisdom and daring, with the maximum precision that will enable us to hit those who want to attack us," Olmert said, minutes after the air strike. "The most daring and boldest of our soldiers and members of the security services are taking part ... This war will not stop," the prime minister said, predicting Israeli military pressure would "tip the scales" and force a halt to rocket fire.
Olmert, saying Israel wanted to avoid harming Palestinian civilians, gave no indication he might order a large-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip, an assault Israeli officials have cautioned could cause heavy casualties on both sides.
Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Writing by Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem; Editing by Stephen Weeks
Snow in the desert
CAIRO, Egypt - It's been a chilly welcome for America's president: The Mideast, known for blazing sun and scorching winds, has been hit with an uncharacteristic wave of heavy rain, frigid gales — and even a smattering of snow.
If President Bush thought he would escape Washington's winter weather when he jetted to this region for eight days, he should have stayed home. It was nearly the same temperature in Washington, where it briefly snowed on Tuesday, as it was in Saudi Arabia — about 40 degrees. The weather affected Bush's trip from the get-go. During his first stop in Israel, morning fog grounded his helicopter, forcing him to take a motorcade to the West Bank from Jerusalem. His plane touched down in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday amid heavy rains. In the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh on Monday and Tuesday, the president was greeted by overcast skies and temperatures hovering around freezing.
The unusually bleak weather has hit other parts of the region even if Bush hasn't. Iran witnessed the worst snow storms in a decade this month, leaving more than 20 people dead. In Lebanon, the Meteorology Department called its winter cold "the most severe in decades," with temperatures dipping below zero in some coastal areas. It even snowed in Baghdad last week for the first time in memory.
Pierre Eckert, of the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Switzerland, blamed an unusual high pressure zone over the lower parts of Scandinavia. It is sucking up the cold air from that region and blowing it to the Mideast. Not everywhere on Bush's itinerary has been so dreary. He spent an evening enjoying a lavish picnic under the stars in the Emirates, and the sun is expected to greet him Wednesday when he sweeps into Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheik.
Riyadh- to get into the dancing, in a presidentially reserved sort of way.
While at the facility, Bush stopped in a gallery describing the Prophet Muhammad's life. He paused to look at a 136-year-old handwritten Quran that was opened to a page filled with gold and turquoise decorative script.
The president was escorted into the wood-paneled, marble-columned hall by the king's son and preceded by two men carrying silver incense holders that left a trail of pungent smoke. And the topic of conversation? Not Mideast peace, but the temperatures. "It's really cold outside," said the king said, speaking through a translator. "Yes it is cold," replied Bush, with the robe laid beneath him. Bush was spending the night at the farm, a weekend retreat for Abdullah, and having breakfast with the king before leaving Wednesday for Egypt.
Hundreds of acres of oasis in the desert, 260 Arabian and thoroughbred stallions are kept there in top form, with air-conditioned stables and even aqua therapy. The president, sipping tea, got a look at a handful of Abdullah's favorites from a glass-enclosed viewing room. A trainer paraded sleek horses around a showing ring. One of them was Alysheba, winner of the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and now, at 24, a retired stud. Bush posed with stable staff afterward.
By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press
If President Bush thought he would escape Washington's winter weather when he jetted to this region for eight days, he should have stayed home. It was nearly the same temperature in Washington, where it briefly snowed on Tuesday, as it was in Saudi Arabia — about 40 degrees. The weather affected Bush's trip from the get-go. During his first stop in Israel, morning fog grounded his helicopter, forcing him to take a motorcade to the West Bank from Jerusalem. His plane touched down in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday amid heavy rains. In the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh on Monday and Tuesday, the president was greeted by overcast skies and temperatures hovering around freezing.
The unusually bleak weather has hit other parts of the region even if Bush hasn't. Iran witnessed the worst snow storms in a decade this month, leaving more than 20 people dead. In Lebanon, the Meteorology Department called its winter cold "the most severe in decades," with temperatures dipping below zero in some coastal areas. It even snowed in Baghdad last week for the first time in memory.
Pierre Eckert, of the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Switzerland, blamed an unusual high pressure zone over the lower parts of Scandinavia. It is sucking up the cold air from that region and blowing it to the Mideast. Not everywhere on Bush's itinerary has been so dreary. He spent an evening enjoying a lavish picnic under the stars in the Emirates, and the sun is expected to greet him Wednesday when he sweeps into Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheik.
Riyadh- to get into the dancing, in a presidentially reserved sort of way.
While at the facility, Bush stopped in a gallery describing the Prophet Muhammad's life. He paused to look at a 136-year-old handwritten Quran that was opened to a page filled with gold and turquoise decorative script.
The president was escorted into the wood-paneled, marble-columned hall by the king's son and preceded by two men carrying silver incense holders that left a trail of pungent smoke. And the topic of conversation? Not Mideast peace, but the temperatures. "It's really cold outside," said the king said, speaking through a translator. "Yes it is cold," replied Bush, with the robe laid beneath him. Bush was spending the night at the farm, a weekend retreat for Abdullah, and having breakfast with the king before leaving Wednesday for Egypt.
Hundreds of acres of oasis in the desert, 260 Arabian and thoroughbred stallions are kept there in top form, with air-conditioned stables and even aqua therapy. The president, sipping tea, got a look at a handful of Abdullah's favorites from a glass-enclosed viewing room. A trainer paraded sleek horses around a showing ring. One of them was Alysheba, winner of the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and now, at 24, a retired stud. Bush posed with stable staff afterward.
By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
We have seen how bad a movement in a government works..
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pauses during a session at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem Wednesday Jan. 16, 2008. Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman announced Wednesday his hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu party's resignation from Olmert's coalition government, weakening him at a time when he needs a broad base of support for his efforts to reach a final peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of the year. The defection of hardliner Lieberman did not deliver a fatal blow to Olmert's government, because it would still command 67 of parliament's 120 seats.
Israel killed three members of a Gaza family in a botched air strike
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed three members of a Gaza family in a botched air strike on Wednesday and shot dead a West Bank militant leader, a day after Palestinians said some of the worst violence since late 2006 could harm peace moves. As Palestinians held a general strike over Israel's killing on Tuesday of 18 people, most of them armed men, an Israeli missile aimed at Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza hit the wrong car and killed three civilians, including a 13-year-old boy.
BAGHDAD - A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near Shiite worshippers in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing nine of them — the latest in a growing number of female suicide attacks. The blast in Khan Bani Saad, a Shiite village nine miles south of Baqouba, was the fourth suicide attack by a woman in Iraq in three months. All have taken place in Diyala
BAGHDAD - A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near Shiite worshippers in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing nine of them — the latest in a growing number of female suicide attacks. The blast in Khan Bani Saad, a Shiite village nine miles south of Baqouba, was the fourth suicide attack by a woman in Iraq in three months. All have taken place in Diyala
As we can see there is a lot destabilizations going on..
BEIRUT, Lebanon - A bomb hidden on a Beirut highway hit a U.S. Embassy vehicle Tuesday, killing at least three Lebanese bystanders in the first attack in years targeting American diplomatic interests in the country.
Lebanon - A Lebanese military prosecutor issued arrest warrants Tuesday accusing 10 jailed al-Qaida suspects of planning to carry out terrorist attacks, possessing illegal weapons and using forged identity cards, judicial officials said.
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of militants in northwest Pakistan attacked a paramilitary camp and up to 30 soldiers were missing, security officials said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD - Five school children were killed Tuesday after being struck by a car in the convoy of a top judicial official during a chaotic gunbattle with checkpoint guards, police and hospital officials said.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
And this is really a problem..Isn´t it..
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Monday that all options are open when it comes to keeping Iran from obtaining atomic weapons, his clearest sign yet that Israeli could use force against a nation considered among its most serious threats. Addressing a closed meeting of the parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Olmert was quoted as saying that Israel would not accept an Iran armed with nuclear weapons. Iran has always insisted that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, and a recent report by U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003. However, Israel continues to warn that Iran's goal is to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel considers Iran a serious threat because of suspicions over its nuclear program and its long-range missile capabilities. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map," and there is evidence that Iran bankrolls extremist anti-Israel groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian areas.
VIENNA, Austria - Iran has promised the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector it will answer all remaining questions about its past nuclear activities within four weeks, including secret activities the U.S. suspects were linked to a weapons program, officials said Sunday.
VIENNA, Austria - Iran has promised the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector it will answer all remaining questions about its past nuclear activities within four weeks, including secret activities the U.S. suspects were linked to a weapons program, officials said Sunday.
Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iran to abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of stoning people to death.
LONDON (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iran to abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of stoning people to death. Amnesty, which opposes the death penalty under any circumstances, said an Iranian man had been stoned to death in July last year for committing adultery, despite a moratorium being imposed on such executions in 2002.
The woman he was convicted of committing adultery with still faces the threat of being stoned, a practice that involves the woman being buried up to her breasts in sand and then pelted with stones until she dies. "Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian government to abolish immediately and totally execution by stoning and to impose a moratorium on the death penalty," the rights group said in a 30-page report on the practice. "Iranian law prescribes that the stones are deliberately chosen to be large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately ... It is a particularly grotesque and horrific practice." While stoning is used relatively seldom in Iran, it is the favored form of execution in cases involving adultery and has a disproportionate impact on women, according to Amnesty. Iran has one of the highest rates of execution in the world. In 2006, 177 people were put to death, mostly by hanging. Last year, that number was expected to be exceeded, with 124 people executed in the first seven months of the year.
As well as calling for the abolition of stoning and a moratorium on the death penalty, Amnesty also urged the Iranian government to decriminalize adultery, which is not illegal in the majority of countries.
Reporting by Luke Baker; Editing by Giles Elgood
The woman he was convicted of committing adultery with still faces the threat of being stoned, a practice that involves the woman being buried up to her breasts in sand and then pelted with stones until she dies. "Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian government to abolish immediately and totally execution by stoning and to impose a moratorium on the death penalty," the rights group said in a 30-page report on the practice. "Iranian law prescribes that the stones are deliberately chosen to be large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately ... It is a particularly grotesque and horrific practice." While stoning is used relatively seldom in Iran, it is the favored form of execution in cases involving adultery and has a disproportionate impact on women, according to Amnesty. Iran has one of the highest rates of execution in the world. In 2006, 177 people were put to death, mostly by hanging. Last year, that number was expected to be exceeded, with 124 people executed in the first seven months of the year.
As well as calling for the abolition of stoning and a moratorium on the death penalty, Amnesty also urged the Iranian government to decriminalize adultery, which is not illegal in the majority of countries.
Reporting by Luke Baker; Editing by Giles Elgood
Monday, January 14, 2008
"Away from the "glare of the cameras."
We started today talking about all the core issues, Jerusalem, refugees, borders, settlements. We talked about these issues in general. The talks were positive but the path ahead is difficult," Qurie said after the meeting in a Jerusalem hotel. Livni said before the session that upcoming talks would "take place quietly" away from the "glare of the cameras."
Yes.....
And here comes the anger..And we all are..At this "party-town´s", Justice-media-family-Mafiosos-train-wreck-company. And the "party towns" own little Mafiosos taking in drugs to support terrorists like al-Qaida and Taliban's!
And it doesn´t matter really..If some ones is doing a vault..
It´s just as it suppose to be!
And it doesn´t matter really..If some ones is doing a vault..
It´s just as it suppose to be!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
And we have a close eye on the American "Justice system"!
And their use of media to serve in their interests in their cases! That use media to giving statements, the same media that breaking laws and every ethical rule there is, that are at the spot where people chasing ambulances and banging on ambulance doors. Media that writes down people and undermine them totally, calling them popwrecks, train wrecks and every assaulting things they can up with, are harassing them and chasing them, giving statements on others mental health, claiming to have the authority to judge whether some one that are harassed by them will be locked up behind curtains.
At the same time the "justice system" invites them to court as it´s in their interests that a person that is harassed this way will have even more pressure on her. Well..We all see how it works in the American "Justice system" and in their big happy media family! And how they are working very hard to put this person into more pressure to be able to use that against her in every way and as we suspect hope it will be to much for her to appear?
We have seen enough to make the conclusion that the American "Justice system" and their cooperation with media and use of media to do the work for them are breaking human rights laws! And every other law!
Mr President Bush maybe is busy right now..
But we are not to busy!
At the same time the "justice system" invites them to court as it´s in their interests that a person that is harassed this way will have even more pressure on her. Well..We all see how it works in the American "Justice system" and in their big happy media family! And how they are working very hard to put this person into more pressure to be able to use that against her in every way and as we suspect hope it will be to much for her to appear?
We have seen enough to make the conclusion that the American "Justice system" and their cooperation with media and use of media to do the work for them are breaking human rights laws! And every other law!
Mr President Bush maybe is busy right now..
But we are not to busy!
We really hope she will appear, despite this "media people".
Because she shall be aware of that this people do not reach up to her ankles!
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