Thanks Cindy, I appreciate that. I'm semi-brain dead this evening :-)
Tehran, 4 Jan. - A special police corps has been officially tasked with checking the cell phones of Iranians and in the past few days plain-clothes officials have started stopping passers-by in Iran's main cities to inspect their mobiles. All text messages and audio or video files considered 'illegal' are erased by the officials from this new corps. In the past few years, cell phones have reportedly become the main means to convey news which would never make it into the government-controlled Iranian media.
News on scandals, jokes on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other political leaders, information on meetings, political assemblies and rallies mainly circulate via cell phones.
The crackdown on mobile phones follows measures in the past year to ban satellite television from Iranian homes, obscure over 100,000 internet websites and close the last daily considered relatively independent from the government, Shargh.
This latest attempt to control the free circulation of news has reportedly upset the president of the parliamentary commission on national security, Alaeddin Brujerdi, who has slammed the new police corps as "an illegal body" carrying out "completely illegal" inspections on mobile phones.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.373441661&par=
Tunisia: Arrested Militants Hailed From Algeria
Tunis, 4 Jan. - A group of Islamic militants who engaged in a gunbattle with Tunisian security officials Wednesday in the area of Soliman, 40 km south of Tunis, hailed from Algeria, according to a report Thursday published by London-based Arabic language daily al-Hayat. Security forces shot dead 12 people and arrested 15 near Tunis after the rare gunbattle, a government source said on Thursday.
Al-Hayat reported that those killed were part of a larger group of militants who had crossed the border from Algeria. Authorities claimed that Wednesday's clash during a hunt for a gang of criminals who clashed with police in Tunis on 23 December. In last month's incident, two gang members were killed and two policemen wounded, the authorities said at the time.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=
No, you're absolutely fine.
Just adding links as you go.
I was out snow plowing with my husband...so keep on keeping on.
I appreciate you.