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BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida in Iraq's new leader warned Shiites on Friday that "dark days soaked with blood" lie ahead and that a new campaign of attacks was under way. Later Friday, three suicide bombers blew themselves up at a sports field in a predominantly Shiite town in northern Iraq, killing at least 10 people and wounding another 120, police and hospital officials said. Only days before the warning, Iraq was wracked by the worst attack this year, a series of coordinated bombings and assassinations that killed 119 people — most of them Shiites and members of the security forces —...

In a shocking letter to his disgruntled fans, KSFO (560-AM) radio host Lee Rodgers told them he was fired from the station but probably would have quit anyway, because Citadel, owned by Farid Suleman, had pushed him toward making positive statements about Muslims.

Syrian general's killing severs Hezbollah links James Hider, Middle East Correspondent The mysterious killing last week of a top Syrian general and key aide to Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has sparked intense speculation about internal feuding within the regime’s intelligence apparatus. Syria is at a critical juncture as it pursues indirect peace talks with Israel and a closer relationship with the West, while attempting to maintain its long-standing regional alliances with Iran and the militant Shia Hezbollah of Lebanon. General Mohammed Suleiman, one of Mr Assad’s closest confidantes, was shot dead on Friday at his chalet in the prestigious...

Informed sources in London have said a top Syrian officer was found murdered on Friday night [1 August].

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that Gen. Muhammad Suleiman, whom a sniper shot dead in the Syrian port town of Tartus early Saturday, Aug. 2, was a shadowy figure who acted for Bashar Assad in the regime’s four most sensitive and confidential spheres: 1. He was the president’s liaison man with the North Korean government. On his frequent trips to Pyongyang, Gen. Suleiman organized the consignment of components for the plutonium reactor in northern Syria, which Israeli demolished last September, and the security of the North Korean scientists and technicians who accompanied them. 2. Muhammad Suleiman was also the president’s private...

(IsraelNN.com) Syrian President Bashar Assad's top aide and adviser, General Mohammed Suleiman, was assassinated on Friday, according to Arab news sources. Suleiman, who was also Syria's liaison officer to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon, was shot and killed by an unidentified sniper in the Syrian port city of Tartous. Syrian authorities tried unsuccessfully to prevent publication of the news. The country's Albawaba newspaper, which reported the incident, speculated that Israel might have been behind the killing. Both Albawaba and the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper raised the issue of last February's assassination of Hizbullah second-in-command Imad Mughniyeh, who died in a...

IN A LITTLE-NOTICED DECISION in a New York courtroom on September 25, 2003, a man described as Osama bin Laden's "best friend" got some good news. U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Batts ruled that Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim could not be sentenced to life in prison. Salim--who was present at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989 and who was for years one of bin Laden's most trusted confidants--had been captured in Germany in 1998 and extradited to the United States for prosecution related to his role in the grand conspiracy that resulted in the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's new president got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah's leader warned against any efforts to disarm his Iranian-backed guerrilla group. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah delivered his stern message after military bands and an honor guard saluted President Michel Suleiman on his first day on the job. Suleiman, the former army commander, was a consensus candidate agreed on by both Hezbollah and its pro-Western political foes, but he drew pointed comments from Nasrallah after saying in his inauguration speech Sunday that there should be a dialogue over Hezbollah's arsenal....

Lahoud says would name Suleiman as provisional successor if camps fail to agree on permanent one. BEIRUT - Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Thursday he would name army chief General Michel Suleiman as his provisional successor if the country's competing political camps fail to agree on a permanent one. He was speaking ahead of a planned parliamentary vote this autumn to elect a new president, with the country's pro- and anti-Syrian blocs in a deadlock that threatens to exacerbate ongoing political paralysis. A successful vote requires the 128-seat house to muster a quorum of 86 MPs but this will require...

Syrian guest to Knesset says secret negotiations needed Ibrahim Soliman, a Syrian representative in previous, informal talks between Israel and Syria, briefs Knesset committee with Israeli counterpart Amnon Meranda Published: 04.12.07, 14:47 / Israel News Israel and Syria should hold secret negotiations in order to reach a peace agreement, Ibrahim (Abe) Soliman told the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday. Soliman, an American citizen of Syrian descent, came to Israel Tuesday, to hold informal talks, via a non-governmental movement for peace between the two nations. He briefed the Knesset committee along with former Israel Foreign Ministry director-general Dr Alon...

Apr. 12, 2007 0:54 | Updated Apr. 12, 2007 14:26 Suleiman presents possible peace deal By MARK WEISS, SHEERA CLAIRE FRENKEL, AND JPOST STAFF Syrian American Abe Suleiman, a US-based Syrian citizen considered an associate of Syrian President Bashar Assad's father, presented the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee with possible scenarios for a peace deal with Syria, Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said Thursday. Gal-On said that according to Suleiman, Syria would cease its support for terror organizations and join the global fight against terror, as well as cutting ties to Hizbullah. Syria would, in turn, demand that Israel withdraw from...

Syrian parliamentarian: 'Abe Suleiman has zero credibility' Jonathan Beck, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 14, 2007 Abe (Ibrahim) Suleiman does not represent Syria in any capacity, a Syrian member of parliament was quoted by Israel Radio as saying Saturday. In an interview with BBC quoted by Israel Radio, parliamentarian George Jabour called Suleiman's behaviour "strange and surprising," adding that "no one in Syria asked Suleiman to speak in the country's name." Jabour also said that Suleiman had "zero credibility" in Syrians' eyes. Suleiman, a Syrian-born American businessman who holds a dual citizenship, came to Israel this week in what was hailed...

The man who allegedly attacked a Fox 6 reporter, Assed “Sam” Suleiman, was arrested Friday night after a tense stand-off with police. Sulieman allegedly fled from a patrol officer who was called for a court-order violation in the 7400 block of Draper Avenue in La Jolla. That patrolman called for backup when Suleiman ran into a nearby unoccupied office building. His wife Rosa Barraza and her step-daughter also were at the scene. Barraza was taken into custody for questioning while her 5-year-old step daughter remained with Sam Sulieman in the building. The standoff which began around 5:30 p.m. lasted into...

NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune TV reporter John Mattes still showed the signs of his on-camera beating. A widely viewed video of the attack has made him an accidental celebrity. San Diego TV reporter John Mattes was hard at work this week, calling sources and chasing stories, even while convalescing from the bloody on-camera beating that turned him into an accidental celebrity. His body still aches pretty much everywhere. He has scratches on his face, human bite marks on his hands and arms, several cracked ribs and whiplashlike symptoms in his back. His gouged left eye socket remains tender...

A San Diego T-V reporter required hospital treatment after being attacked by a man and wife he was investigating for a news show. Fox Six News San Diego says investigative journalist John Mattes suffered cracked ribs, bite wounds and cuts to his face during yesterday's incident which was captured on film and ended with two arrests. Mattes was working on a story about alleged real estate fraudster Sam Suleiman. Mattes and cameraman Dennis Waldrop were interviewing a man outside a house in San Diego's La Jolla neighborhood when, alerted to the crew's presence by an associate, Sulieman's wife Rosa Baraza...

An investigative reporter for a Fox station in San Diego California ended up in the hospital after being attacked on the job by the same people he was investigating. According to the Fox station, investigative journalist John Mattes is an attorney and reporter known for his tenacity in tracking down cases of deception and consumer fraud. It was one such story John was working on when he was viciously attacked by a man who had been making threats for weeks. Police say the attacker is Sam Suleiman and his wife Rosa. The dramatic footage shows the woman verbally attacking Mattes...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/8/06 - Sahlav, Suleiman, Kfar Giladi, Kiryat Shmona, al-Aramsha, Tarshiha, Haifa, Mrar, Aita al-Shaab, Hadath, Beirut, Lebanon, Debbin, Blat, Hallaniya, Bekaa Valley, Chiah Beirut, Tyre, Masnaa, Baghdad, Sadiquiyah, Kandaksai, Kabul Israeli Response to many years of Hamas and Hizb'allah terror using Iranian/Syrian technology in 'Kofi's War' in Civilization's War on Terror. BREAKING: Somewhere in Lebanon - 'Sahlav' military post in Lebanon BREAKING: Somewhere in Lebanon - Hizb'allah terrorist Hussein Ali Suleiman in the raid that ignited the current conflict BREAKING: Somewhere in Lebanon - Israeli commando raid targets Hizb'allah "safe house" BREAKING:...

AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. The safehouse was the apartment of Musab Yasin, brother of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who scorched his own leg while mixing the chemicals for the 1993 bomb.When Shakir was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks, his "pocket litter," in the parlance of the investigators, included contact...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A former Iraqi general believed to be Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's "military adviser" was arrested west of Baghdad. Abed Dawood Suleiman and his son, former army captain Raed Abed Dawood, were picked up in a morning raid on their house in Khalidiya, west of Baghdad, a defense ministry source said Wednesday. Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq, is believed to have masterminded much of the country's violence, including car and suicide bombings that killed almost 700 people in May alone. He has a 25-million-dollar price on his head. "Abed Dawood Suleiman is considered to be Abu...