Thank you.
A sad ending to what should have been a wonderful outing.
Yep.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530283/posts
Iran: Zoroastrian Lawmaker Faces Slander Charges
ADN Kronos International ^ | 28 November 2005
Posted on 11/28/2005 10:52:20 PM PST by F14 Pilot
Iranian parlamentarian Kurosh Niknam, a member of Iran's Zoroastrian religious minority has been summoned to appear before the country's Revolutionary Tribunal after being accused of spreading false news and showing lack of respect for the authorities. The charges stem from comments Niknam made to protest against derogatory remarks against non-Muslims uttered by a close aide to Iran's Supreme Leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Non-Muslims "cannot be called human beings but are animals who roam the earth and engage in corruption." said Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati last week at a ceremony in north-eastern Iran to commemorate the 'martyrs' of the Revolutionary Guards and the war against Iraq (1980-88).
Nikam described the remarks as "an unprecedented slur against religious minorities."
"Non-Muslims not only are not beasts, but if Iran has a glorious past and civilisation to be proud of it owes this to those who lived in the country before the advent of Islam," he said, adding sarcastically that he wished to ask forgiveness to the "beasts" because "they do not commit sins, while those who sully the earth are those humans who don't show respect for the other creatures of God."
The Zoroastrian community in Iran is estimated to number some 22,000 - half the size of that in existence before the 1979 Islamic revolution. The faith was founded in about 600 BC by the Persian prophet Zarathustra, who believed he had seen visions of a God he called Ahura Mazda. Zoroastrian rule was driven out of modern-day Iran by the Muslim Arab invasion 1,400 years ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530280/posts
Lebanon: Witness In Hariri Case Killed in Car Crash
ADN Kronos International ^ | 28 November 2005
Posted on 11/28/2005 10:44:09 PM PST by Lorianne
Beirut, 28 Nov. (AKI) - A key witness in the UN commissioned probe into the death of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri has died in a car crash. Nawwar Habib Dunna, was killed on Saturday night after the vehicle he was travelling in plunged down a ditch on a road some 30 kilometres east of the capital Beirut. Dunna owned a telephone supplies store where several of the cell phones believed to have been used by those who plotted Hariri's February assassination were bought.
Investigators from the commission of inquiry headed by German judge Detlev Mehlis questioned Dunna a few weeks ago in connection with the case.
Police said they found in a pocket of the jacket Dunna was wearing when he died a letter dated 21 August, summoning him to appear before the commission.
Another man travelling in the car, Walid Hasan Samaan, described as a friend and colleague of Dunna's who was injured in the crash has been taken to hospital in the nearby town of Bhannes where his condition has been described as serious.
http://www.siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications123805&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Al-Bara’a Mujahideen Group Announces Joining al-Qaeda in Iraq and Pledging Loyalty to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
By SITE Institute
November 28, 2005
Al-Qaeda in Iraq issued a message today, November 28, 2005, annoucing that the al-Bara’a Mujahideen Group, through its Emir, Abu Farouq al-Iraqi, has joined with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s group, al-Qaeda in Iraq. According to the message, al-Bara’a Mujahideen Group pledges loyalty to Zarqawi, to “obey him in everything” and to “fight Allah’s enemies everywhere”.
http://www.dailyfreepress.com/media/paper87/news/2005/11/28/News/U.Considers.Research.Restrictions-1114189.shtml
There is a plan being made to limit the acess of foreign born college students to our labs for study and research.