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President Stokes Crisis Updated: 19:00, Saturday March 31, 2007 Iran's President has said that Britain is not following the"legal and logical way" in its attempts to solve the crisis over the 15 Royal Navy personnel taken captive by his country. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments to a rally in the province of Khuzestan were reported on Iranian state radio. He said: "After the arrest of these people, the British government, instead of apologising and expressing regret over the action taken, started to claim that we are in their debt and shouted in different international councils. "But this is not the legal and...

A state-run Syrian newspaper on Saturday criticized remarks made recently by US Senator Bill Nelson after visiting Syria, accusing him of spreading "a series of lies" about his meeting with the Syrian leader. Nelson told reporters in neighboring Lebanon Thursday following a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora that he and Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom he met Wednesday in Damascus, did not see eye to eye on Lebanon. (snip) Tishrin government newspaper said in a front-page editorial Saturday that Nelson's remarks "have exceeded all limits ... He has released a series of lies which he claimed happened during...

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the earth", the semi-official news agency Mehr reported. "These oppressive countries are angry with us ... a nation that on the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their power," Mr Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northern town of Ramsar. "They are angry with our nation. But we tell them 'so be it and die from this anger'. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will...

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Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli presented "Grief Tear" to USA The "Grief Tear" Memorial to the victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks made by Russian artist and sculptor Zurab Tsereteli opened to state anthems of Russia and the USA in Bayonne, New Jersey, on September, 11. The "Grief Tear" Memorial, situated on the bank of the Hudson River, is a split 30-meter bronze plate with a giant tear made of titanium. The names of almost 3 thousand people killed on September, 11, 2001, are engraved on the monument. The memorial is the gift of Russian people, so Zurab Tsereteli and his colleagues...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a phone talk with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked for the convening of an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to seek a way to end Israeli attacks against Lebanon. He added, "The Islamic governments, including the regional countries, must heed their responsibilities by acting more dynamically, since if they would fail to do so the dimensions of aggressions would not be limited to Lebanon." Referring to the silence observed by the concerned international organizations, as well as the support of some Western countries for Israeli crimes, including the massacring...

Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday warned the United Nations not to become part of 'Israeli crimes' in Lebanon, ISNA news agency reported. 'The UN and the Security Council and the United States should explain their silence towards the Zionist regime's crimes, otherwise they would be held responsible for being part of these crimes,' ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a speech in Osku in north-western Iran. 'The developments in the Middle East have become a venue for testing the Western claims of democracy and human rights, but the West has badly failed the test,' the president said....

Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Tuesday that the West ends its support for Israel before it was too late, warning that otherwise it would face the wrath of nations in the Middle East. His comments were aired on state television. “The supporters of the Zionist regime must remove this regime before it is too late”, Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the north-western Iranian city of Maragheh. “The wrath of the nations in the region has been built up. If it reaches its limit, the storm of their wrath will not be confined to within the borders of the...

The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel. In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group, which belongs to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, said the weapons were the result of an effort that has lasted for three years.

Tony Blair has said claims of abuse by soldiers "will be investigated" after images that appeared to show UK troops beating Iraqi youths were published. The News of the World has published pictures from a video the newspaper says was shot in southern Iraq in 2004. Mr Blair said the overwhelming majority of UK troops in Iraq behave properly and do a "great job for our country and for the wider world". The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into the video images. A military spokesman in Iraq condemned "all acts of abuse and brutality" by British troops, saying...

Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham reiterated Tuesday that the Bush administration never briefed him, as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about a covert domestic wiretap program -- and suggested the possibility that it grew out of ``a creep of presidential authority.'' Rather, Graham recalled being summoned to a classified briefing by Vice President Dick Cheney in late 2001 or early 2002. He was informed about a presidential directive that let the National Security Agency eavesdrop on overseas calls that moved through U.S. communications lines -- not people speaking on the phone inside the United States. President Bush said in...

An angry mob surrounded a motorist near Little River Thursday evening, shouting and pounding on her Chevrolet Blazer just moments after she hit a 6-year-old boy, Miami police said. When Miami paramedics arrived on the scene, the crowd turned its rage on them, pounding and kicking their rescue truck, and impeding their work to help save the boy, police said.

The Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) today called on the School Board of Hillsborough County to reinstate Christian and Jewish holidays recently removed from the 2006/2007 school calendar. School board members last week voted to eliminate the holidays following a request by the local Muslim community to schedule a day off on the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Fitr.

In his new book, "Intelligence Matters," Florida Sen. Bob Graham, former co-chair of the joint House-Senate panel investigating 9/11, charges that the Bush administration was engaged in a "cover-up" to protect a key ally, Saudi Arabia. Graham claims the president coddled the Saudis and pursued a war against Saddam Hussein that only diverted resources from the more important fight against Al Qaeda. ----- Read the interactive expose at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5915547/site/newsweek ----- Read Kerry's statement: Kerry released the following statement today on allegations made in Sen. Bob Graham's (D-Fla.) new book: "Sen. Graham is a respected member of the United States Senate...

HARROWING photographs of traumatised children fleeing their school at the brutal climax to a Russian hostage crisis dominated the world's front pages today, with many slamming Moscow for failing to prevent a bloodbath. More than 300 were killed - half of them children - and 700 injured, when Russian troops stormed a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, where 1000 hostages had been held by heavily-armed militants demanding independence for Chechnya. The bulk of world coverage focused on the horror of the killings, with strong words for Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticising his botched handling of the siege and hardline stance...

http://www.jump2net.com/stuff/button.gif Is this collusion with a 527 by the Kerry campaign? You decide.

TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) -- Americans should do more to protect themselves against terrorism by setting up neighborhood watch groups, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Sunday. "If we do that to protect ourselves against vandals or a burglary, why would we not do it to protect ourselves against a terrorist?" Kerry asked during interviews with reporters aboard his campaign train.

BOSTON - A mystery of interplanetary proportions has landed at the Democratic convention. The question that's keeping trained political observers awake in the bars at night is: Who the heck snatched Teresa Heinz Kerry's body? The woman I like to think of as "Mistress Shove It" - the Portuguese firecracker who spat the indelicate command to a journalist last weekend - has vanished into the Charles River. In her place has materialized a sonorous, facially expressionless, peace-sign-flashing, purposefully maternal zombie, who looks exactlylike the woman who wants to be first lady. You'd think Teresa's crazy old aunt had taken up...

BOSTON - Sweeping into a meeting of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus at the Democratic Convention yesterday, Teresa Heinz Kerry praised the activists for "pushing the envelope" to secure their rights. "If nothing else, you will have a mom in the White House," the wife of Democratic nominee John Kerry said. "You can call your Mama T anytime." The hundreds of delegates and supporters in the room leapt to their feet and chanted, "Mama T, Mama T, Mama T," as they waved their arms.

I caught a portion of a special report on MSNBC last night that showed an exponential increase of the Pentecost religion across the globe. I believe I heard from their report that it is the second fastest growing religion in the world after Islam. Most astounding to me is the fact that there are 800,000 members in South Korea. The main Seoul church runs 6 services a day to accomodate. Sweden and Norway are also embracing the religion in extremly high numbers. A German Pentecostal minister recently held a group gathering in Nigeria and 1.4 million attended. Brazil and other...