Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 17 September 2012

“Middle East Violence No Excuse For Vile Provocation – Analysis” plus 16 more : Eurasia Review

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 09:42 PM PDT
By Ernest Corea Eleven years after the murderous events that made “nine-eleven” an universally recognized description of a date of tragedy, another 9/11 has seen actions that caused destruction, public commotion and tragic loss of lives. This year’s disturbances which began in Egypt and Libya took the form of violent demonstrations directed at American diplomatic [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 07:10 PM PDT
Two things about the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) are increasingly clear: (1) seniors have been singled out and forced to bear a disproportionate share of the cost of a new entitlement for young people and (2) the states are administratively just not ready to implement the new program in time for its January 1, 2014, [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 07:00 PM PDT
The anti-Muslim film produced by Christian extremists may have sparked the violence that spread across the Middle East and South Asia this week. But the core issues in the following days of protests were unemployment, politicizing religion and the deep resentment against the United States for its wars that cost thousands of innocent lives in [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:53 PM PDT
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Ideas on how acts of inciting religious hatred and abuse of religious creeds could be reined in are plenty. These ideas are circulated with the objective of getting rid of any clash between followers of different religions. It has also been observed that proposals for a ban on statements and acts [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:50 PM PDT
Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Salman yesterday received a written message from Turkish President Abdullah Gul. It was handed to the prince by Arshad Harmozlo, senior adviser to the president, during a meeting at the Ministry of Defense. The meeting was attended by Prince Muhammad bin Salman, special adviser, Gen. Hussein Al-Qubail, [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:44 PM PDT
By Bedrana Kaletovic Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state investigation and protection agency (SIPA) initiated an operation Wednesday (September 12th) that they said is the biggest undertaking against organised crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the region. Hundreds of police participated in arresting 25 people suspected of being involved in at least six unsolved murders and [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:41 PM PDT
By Monia Ghanmi Tunisia’s interior ministry on Saturday (September 15th) vowed to apprehend those involved in the Friday attack on the US embassy in Tunis. “Anyone closely or marginally involved in the events outside the American embassy in Tunis will be punished,” national security spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said in an interview with Mosaique FM. [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:37 PM PDT
By David Trilling Tajikistan’s President Imomali Rahmon has promised he will soon visit Gorno-Badakhshan, the mountainous eastern region where government security forces carried out a secretive military operation this summer. If the trip goes off as planned, Rahmon will confront one the most stubborn political challenges of his tenure, trying to win over regional residents [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:34 PM PDT
The government of Burma should immediately release all remaining political prisoners and lift travel and other restrictions on those freed, Human Rights Watch said today. Independent international monitors should be permitted unhindered access to Burma’s prisons to provide a public accounting of all remaining political prisoners. Burmese President Thein Sein has issued three amnesties to [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:32 PM PDT
Iran’s religious 15 Khordad Foundation has raised its reward for the killing of British writer Salman Rushdie by $500,000 to $3.3 million, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. Rushdie, an Indian-born British writer, was condemned to death in 1989 by Iran’s late religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, over his novel “The Satanic Verses.” The [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:29 PM PDT
In a dramatic FBI sting, US agents arrested an 18-year-old American who attempted to detonate a fake car bomb outside a popular Chicago bar on Friday night. The teen was arrested immediately after he pushed the button on the dummy explosives. Suspect Adel Daoud planned the attack for months, telling undercover agents he was interested [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 04:04 PM PDT
By Jen Alic People often ask me why the West doesn’t attempt a Libya-style intervention in Syria. After all, things are going so well in Libya. Oil production is up. But oil production is merely a mirage, as is security in Libya, which was doomed from the day one PG (post-Gaddafi) because of the way [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 03:40 PM PDT
The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps has confirmed the presence of Qods Force members in Syria, adding, however, that “this does not mean that Iran has a military presence in that country.” At a press conference in Tehran, Mohammad Ali Jafari said: “Everybody knows that the IRGC has a unit called Islamic Movements, which [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 03:36 PM PDT
(RFE/RL) — Israel’s prime minister says a policy of containment for Iran will not work because Tehran is guided by a “leadership of fanaticism.” Netanyahu made the comments in an interview with the U.S. television network NBC, which will be aired on September 16. Netanyahu also said he disagrees with those who argue that going [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 03:29 PM PDT
The US Navy is leading its largest-ever war games in the Persian Gulf, with warships from 25 countries being deployed in the region. Tehran, in return, is preparing for its biggest air defense war game in the history of Islamic Republic next month. The countries that deployed the largest number of warships for the 12-day [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 03:22 PM PDT
Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam video produced in the United States have clashed with police as they tried to march toward the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi. Police fired tear gas and water cannon at the demonstrators Sunday as they approached the heavily guarded consulate. Karachi police chief Iqbal Mehmood said [...]

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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 03:20 PM PDT
Officials in northwestern Pakistan say a roadside bomb blast has hit a van, killing 14 people, including two children. Authorities say at least 10 passengers were wounded in the explosion Sunday in the Lower Dir tribal area near the Afghan border. Police officials say the bomb was detonated by remote control. Officials say they do [...]

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