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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23713
"Thank You, Hezbollah"
By Dr. Joseph Hitti
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 7, 2006


357 posted on 08/07/2006 1:26:31 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/05/russian-president-putin-slams-united-states/


"Russian President Putin Slams United States"
August 05, 2006
Vox Populi, Jim Kouri
by Jim Kouri, CPP

The Russians have allegedly sold weapons to countries such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and other terrorist-supporting nations. After the US-led invasion of Iraq, Russian-made weapons were found.

As a result, the US government placed sanctions against American business dealings with two Russian companies selling arms and weapons systems to Iran. Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted the United States on Friday for imposing such sanctions on two Russian corporations.

Putin called the sanctions an “illegitimate attempt to make foreign companies work by internal American rules,” after the US banned all American companies from dealing with two Russian firms that sold hardware to Iran.

One of the companies, Rosoboronexport, is headed by Sergei Chemezov, a former member of the KGB who worked with Putin in East Germany during the Cold War.

President Putin explains, “These sanctions, which the US unilaterally imposes on other countries and their organizations, are an obvious political and legal anachronism.”

The US Department of State says the companies were helping the Iranians to develop weapons of mass destruction, as well as cruise or ballistic missile systems to compliment its upcoming nuclear power."


358 posted on 08/07/2006 1:56:22 AM PDT by Cindy
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Jakarta bans militants from joining jihad

Snip: Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world has announced on Monday it would detain and prevent militants from going to the Middle East to engage in "suicide missions" to answer the call of "jihad" or holy war.

Indonesian police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam told Xinhua News Agency, "We will conduct surveillance on them as well as conduct raids if needed. We have also alerted our immigration office to be on the lookout."

Morocco breaks up cell planning holy war

Snip: Morocco's security services broke up a terrorist network planning to declare a holy war in the northeast of the North African country, state news agency MAP reported on Monday.

The authorities arrested 44 members of the previously unknown Jammaat Ansar El Mehdi (El Mehdi Support Group) and seized explosives, propaganda material and laboratory equipment, the agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying.

The group's leader "aimed to proclaim the jihad", or holy war, it said. It did not say where the arrests, the biggest such round-up this year, took place but added that the group planned to operate in the kingdom's northeast.

Jihad and the Professors

Snip: Here we find ourselves returned to the sentiments expressed by the Harvard commencement speaker, who sought to convince his audience that jihad is something all Americans should admire.

12th Imam - Key element of Islamic prophecy

Snip: Ray Tallman, director of the school of intercultural studies at Golden Gate Seminary, noted that the major eschatological question for Shiite Muslims is when the Mahdi’s return will take place -– and many hold the belief that the time is near. The increasing clash with Israel and that with Christianity are two indications to Shiites that the Mahdi’s return could be near, said Tallman, who spent seven years as the international director for Arab World Ministries.

Local Muslim cleric ousted

Snip: Shamsud-din Ali, 67, was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison on racketeering and other charges, part of a string of convictions stemming from the FBI's sweeping probe of city corruption. He remains free pending an appeal.

In a court-supervised election on Saturday, registered Muslims voted 160-143 for a new seven-member board headed by Ali's one-time top aide Rafiq Kalam Id-din. Id-din's slate wants to reaffiliate the mosque with American Islamic leader Warith Deen Mohammed, who had appointed Ali to head the congregation in 1976.

392 posted on 08/07/2006 3:30:01 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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