Posted on 06/19/2007 4:43:36 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Thursday, 23, August, 2007 (09, Sha`ban, 1428)
Veggie Market Becomes Jail in Municipal Row
Arab News —
BAHA, 23 August 2007 — Municipal officials in this southern Saudi city decided that if the vendors at the vegetable market refused to pay their rent then they would be locked inside their stalls. The vendors didn’t pay, so the municipality followed up with its threat, a first for Saudi regulations enforcement.
Abdullah Eid who was one of the vendors locked up inside his store expressed his anger and was really surprised of the municipality’s action: Officials locked him up inside his store while he was having his breakfast.
“The municipality employee asked us to provide him with the municipality lease, put a sign on the store and pay SR7,000,” he said. “We have visited the municipality many times and their employees were not cooperative at all. We work night and day and we have no other jobs than selling vegetables, yet they ask for money nonstop.”
Mansour Al-Bahout, manager of the municipality investments, says the vendors were given six months to get their finances and licenses in order. Some of the vendors have gone so long without renewing their leases that, legally speaking, they must give up their spaces to others, he added.
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Thursday, 23, August, 2007 (09, Sha`ban, 1428)
Wives Fight Over Who Gives Kidney
Arab News —
AHSA, 23 August 2007 — The two wives of a Saudi man in need of a kidney transplant got into a fight over who would have the privilege of being the organ donor after it was determined that either wife could safely do so, according to yesterday’s Al-Madinah newspaper. In the end the two women drew lots and the loser got the honor of donating blood for the operation.
Thursday, 23, August, 2007 (09, Sha`ban, 1428)
Mediators Lose Contact With Lebanon Militants
Agence France Presse —
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, 23 August 2007 — A Palestinian religious figure acting as mediator to enable families of Islamist militants to leave a besieged camp in northern Lebanon said yesterday that phone contact with the Fatah Al-Islam extremists had been lost.
Another religious figure, Sheikh Ayad Abu Ardat, told a press conference at the camp, that the Ulema, or Palestinian religious figures, had not made contact with Fatah Al-Islam since midday Tuesday. They were waiting for the group’s spokesman to call them again to discuss details about the evacuation of some 70 women and children.
“We are now waiting for Abu Salim Taha to contact us so that we can organize the evacuation in coordination with the army,” Ardat said. Mohammed Hajj, spokesman for the Ulema, told AFP: “We are awaiting a response about the number of people to be evacuated and the time, in order to secure a corridor.”
An AFP correspondent saw Lebanese Army helicopters, meanwhile, launch repeated raids on positions of the Al-Qaeda-inspired group beginning at dawn yesterday. Intermittent artillery and tank fire also continued to target the small area still controlled by the militants.
The religious figures met with members of the army command yesterday to agree on a number of issues in the event an evacuation of civilians did take place. A source familiar with the outcome of the meeting told AFP that the army had agreed to have women officers search the evacuees and to allow them to be housed in two other Palestinian refugee camps. The army also agreed to allow the Red Cross and humanitarian organizations to coordinate the evacuation.
Negotiations to evacuate the civilians began Tuesday after Taha contacted the religious figures seeking a way out from the battered camp for the women and children. The army said it had agreed and was ready for a truce that would allow the families safe passage. “We gave our agreement on Tuesday but have heard nothing since,” an army spokesman said.
He also said the army had detained a Fatah Al-Islam fighter three kilometers north of Nahr Al-Bared yesterday. The man, a Palestinian, was captured by an army patrol on the coast after he had fled the camp by sea, the spokesman said.
According to a source close to the negotiations, the religious figures have drawn up a list of 50 women and 20 children, including the wife of Fatah Al-Islam chief Shaker Al-Abbasi and the widow of his No. 2, Abu Hureira, who was killed at the beginning of August.
Previous mediation attempts over the past three months by the Palestinian clerics aimed at securing the militants’ surrender or the safe conduct of their families have failed. On July 11, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) tried in vain to evacuate 45 women and 20 children, all related to Islamist fighters inside Nahr Al-Bared.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Annals of the Neo-Soviet Crackdown on Bloggers
Republishing from BBC Monitoring, Red Orbit offers the following translation of a Russian TV broadcast about the neo-Soviet blog crackdown:
Text of “24” news report by Russian Ren TV on 22 August
[Presenter] No gossiping on Zhivoy Zhurnal [Live Journal]. Russian justice has extended its reach to the world wide web. Several people have come under close police scrutiny for their statements on the Internet. In Perm, the Internet user Dmitriy Shirinkin [as received] could end up in the dock for a prose essay full of hatred of everything from the authorities to the TV show Dom- 2 [Russian version of Big Brother].
Meanwhile, a blogger from Syktyvkar, Savva Terentyev, has been careless in his description of the men in epaulets. Nina Davlidzyanova [as received] has more.
[Correspondent] The musician Savva Terentyev had planned to spend his summer on tour, but he has been forced to spend his holiday in his home city Syktyvkar, under orders not to leave the city. It could all have been different if on one fateful evening, a policeman had not decided to take a look at information freely circulating on the net, as it says in the case.
[Savva Terentyev] He sometimes read the blog of Boris Suranov [in whose blog Terentyev posted his comments] at state expense, although there’s no ban on that. Found it, read it, took offence.
[Correspondent] Savva described the police officers with scathing expressions, accusing them of corruption.
[Anton Nosik, captioned as manager of an Internet blog] The people who launched the criminal case are trying in this way to portray police-turned-crooks as a social group that enjoys protection from Russian legislation. It seems to me that it ought be us who are protected by the law, not crooks.
[Correspondent] Most Internet users justify Terentyev, and say the constitution gives everyone the right to their own opinion, which can be expressed in both blogs and letters to the editor. The prosecutor’s office in the Republic of Komi believes differently. There, they say the musician could face up to four years in prison under the [Russian Criminal Code] article on inciting hatred or enmity as well as abasing human dignity.
[Eduard Guskov, captioned as head of the investigations directorate of the Republic of Komi prosecutor’s office] First, we are sure that Terentyev’s actions constitute a crime. We believe that whichever lawyer comes, it won’t prevent a lawful verdict in this case.
[Correspondent] The first court hearing of the Terentyev case is set for September. There are some who believe that is a good sign. At last, legal rights are reaching the Internet.
[Sergey Lukyanenko, captioned as writer] Freedom should not be confused with permissiveness. Blogs, in essence, are mass media on the Internet. Correspondingly, they are subject to the same laws as printed publications.
[Correspondent] In August this year alone, two sentences were passed for inciting hatred on the Internet - in Novosibirsk and Krasnodar. One culprit got away with a R130,000 fine [slightly over 5,000 dollars at the current exchange rate]. The other was given a 1.5-year suspended sentence. But it is still too early to speak of a trend, say analysts - at least while such cases are still a rarity in Moscow.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Annals of the Neo-Soviet Crackdown on NGOs
The Independent reports:
At least 600 Russian NGOs, defending everything from consumers’ to Communists’ rights, have been deregistered for failing to comply with cumbersome new rules, a Russian media monitoring group said. The NGOs are, in effect, crippled, unable to open bank accounts or new offices. The Voronezh-based Interregional Group of Human Rights Defenders added that in some cases, the deregistering appeared to be politically motivated.
Critics of the NGO registration law, which came into effect in April 2006 and requires NGOs to file lengthy annual reports, have lambasted it as an excuse to clamp down on Russia’s nascent civil society. Opponents of the government can be deregistered over technicalities, they say. The government, however, argues that many NGOs are fronts for criminals or terrorists and need to be vetted. “There’s an opinion among the country’s leadership that the revolutions that happened in Ukraine and Georgia were begun by NGOs,” said the report’s author, Olga Gnezdilova, referring to pro-democracy uprisings in the former Soviet nations.
In October, 77 NGOs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, were temporarily forced to suspend activities after missing a registration deadline. Ella Pamfilova, a top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, later admitted that the new law was suffocating NGOs. This year, only 216,000 of around 500,000 Russian NGOs were able to meet the registration deadline, the Kommersant business daily reported on Monday. The remainder can be taken to court and stripped of their registration. The new report, which collates media reports from eight regions, says that NGOs are being declared inactive by courts though some claim they filed all the necessary documents.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Arap Speaks
The Independent Reports:
Larisa Arap has just emerged from a 46-day imprisonment in two Russian psychiatric hospitals. Pills were forced down her throat and she received injection after injection. She doesn’t know what medications they were, or whether they will cause permanent damage.
“I don’t feel very well, but I have a fighting spirit,” Mrs Arap said yesterday, adding that sometimes she was so drugged she could barely walk or speak
She was forcibly interned, not for health reasons, but over her association with the opposition group led by former chess star Garry Kasparov, the United Civil Front. Her arrest stemmed from the publication of an article entitled “Madhouse,” exposing the ghoulish practices of a Russian psychiatric hospital in the Murmansk edition of his organisation’s newspaper, Dissenters’ March.
She was interned in the very hospital she had written about. “We’re ready to take this to court, although the medics have made it clear that we’ll lose,” she said.
Russian activists say her ordeal confirms what they’ve argued for years: punitive psychiatry did not end with the Soviet Union. Now, critics suggest, if someone has a grudge - a husband, a business partner, even a psychiatrist - it isn’t difficult to get them confined to a padded room.
In recent years, Mrs Arap had been looking after the child of her daughter, Taisiya, in her home town of Murmansk, north of the Arctic Circle. Problems first arose in 2003, when she uncovered corruption in her local housing association, as she reported in “Madhouse.” She was then attacked in her building, mystery callers threatened to murder her, and finally she was warned by the FSB, the KGB’s successor, to keep quiet. She didn’t.
Taken to a mental ward, Mrs Arap noted that many of its occupants seemed perfectly sane. “I was surprised that among them were lots of normal people,” she wrote in “Madhouse”. “But how they [staff] communicated with them: They shouted, they beat them up, they put them on drips, after which people became like zombies, they raped them, carried them off in the night and returned them in the morning, tormented.”
One woman was threatened with the removal of organs, Mrs Arap said. Children were told that if they didn’t give massages to medics they’d receive electro-shock therapy.
Mrs Arap was freed, but on 5 July, she was restrained at a clinic after stopping for documentation needed to obtain a drivers’ license. Her doctor asked if she had written “Madhouse,” and when she confirmed, police escorted her to a Murmansk mental hospital. Taisiya said that when she was first arrested, Mrs Arap was beaten, and went on a 5-day hunger strike in protest, consuming nothing but water and smoking cigarettes. It was only on 18 July that a court sanctioned her hospitalisation; until then, she had been detained illegally. Mrs Arap was moved to a hospital near Apatity, 180 miles from Murmansk, “without her agreement or the agreement of her relatives,” Taisiya said.
It was “a closed hospital from which people rarely return. ... No positive feelings arise in this hospital. It’s a psychological hospital for the difficult, the dangerous, the abandoned.” Mrs Arap was eventually released when a commission, initiated by Russia’s human rights ombudsman, Vladimir Lukin, said there was no reason for her to be hospitalised. She is due in court today to protest her treatment, and the United Civil Front plans to prosecute everyone involved, although a representative admitted the group has little chance of winning. “We were never told anything concrete about why she was locked up,” Taisiya said. “The most frightening thing of all is that the law gives a lot of power to psychiatrists and doctors to do what they want.”
Posted by Kate Zhao :: 2007-08-22, 09:26 AM :: Society
www.reuters.com7.jpg From Reuters:
A Beijing factory sold up to 100,000 pairs of disposable chopsticks a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of food and product safety scares.
Counterfeit, shoddy and dangerous products are widespread in China, whose exports have been rocked in recent months by a spate of safety scandals, ranging from pet food to medicine, tires, toothpaste and toys. Officials raided the factory and seized about half a million pairs of disposable bamboo chopsticks and a packaging machine, the Beijing News said in a story headlined “Dirty Chopsticks.” [Full Text]
[Image: An investor holding a pair of chopsticks has his lunch in front of an electronic board at the stock exchange in Shanghai, by Aly Song from Reuters.]
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Missing Man Found Enslaved After 15 Years
Another case of slavery in China
The Epoch Times
Aug 20, 2007
A woman stacks bricks in a factory in Henan, China. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman stacks bricks in a factory in Henan, China. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
After the media unveiled child slavery in illegal brick factories in Shanxi Province, China, another slave labor case was reported in Wuhan City—the enslavement of a man who had been reported missing by his family.
Fifteen years ago, Huang Benwu went missing from work in Wuhan City, Henan Province. Huang’s family went through an ordeal trying to find him but in vain. Recently, Huang was rescued from a brick factory in Wuhan. He was mentally ill and couldn’t recognize anyone in his family.
According to Dahe Daily in an Aug. 16, 2007, report, Huang went to work in the Tianhe Airport in Wuhan in 1992 with a person from his hometown. Three months later, Huang disappeared from work. His family was unable to find him.
“My father disappeared when he was 38. My mother was 35 at the time. My sister and I were teenagers,” said Huang’s youngest daughter, Baixiu. After Huang went missing, his wife raised the two sisters alone with little income. Later his wife remarried.
On Aug. 2, 2007, Bian Ku, who is from the same town as Huang, contacted Huang’s family to report that he might have found Huang. A friend of Bian’s went to the Nanhu Brick Factory in Niekou Town, Huangpo District, Wuhan City, on Aug. 1. He saw a worker there speaking with the same accent as his friend Bian. He asked the worker where he was from and learned that his name was Huang Benwu and he was also from Huangchuan County. But the man was mentally vague, so Bian called Huang’s family and had them go to Wuhan to confirm.
Huang’s brothers immediately went to Wuhan to see Huang at the brick factory. Huang’s younger brother said, “As soon as I got to the factory, I saw my brother loading coal onto a cart. He looked so dirty and skinny, but I recognized him immediately. I asked what his name was. He told me it was Huang Benwu. He said he didn’t recognize me.”
Huang’s younger brother later brought his oldest brother to the factory and confirmed that the worker was Huang Benwu. They went to see the owner of the factory in order to take Huang home. “It’s during working hours now, you can’t take him away. I spend 400 yuan [approximately US$ 52] each month to keep him,” the owner said.
On Aug. 4, Yang Guoxi, from the Labor Protection and Supervision Brigade, and officers from the Niekou Police Station went to the Nanhu Brick Factory and rescued Huang.
On Aug. 15, Baixiu went to the Wuhan City Shelter. When the shelter staff brought out her father, a hunch-backed man with grey hair, she almost couldn’t recognize him. When Baixiu introduced herself, Huang made some random sounds and said, “Good, good,” but without looking her in the eye.
Huang didn’t remember anything about the past. “He couldn’t recognize anyone, not even me,” said Huang’s brother, “The owner of the brick factory must explain this to us!”
Huang displayed mental instability and loss of memory. He couldn’t accurately relate what had happened to him for the past 15 years.
Huang’s younger brother said he met a young man from Sichuan Province when he went to the Nanhu Brick Factory. The young man said he had worked with Huang for five years in another brick factory. The young man and Huang were recently transferred to the Nanhu Factory.
According to local residents, the brick factory mostly hires workers from out of town. The residents heard stories about the owner of the factory torturing the workers who want to leave. The factory closely monitors the workers and doesn’t have much contact with anyone in town. People in town hardly know what happens inside the factory.
Huang’s family is glad that he will soon be back home. However, Huang’s wife finds herself in an embarrassing situation—she didn’t divorce Huang before she remarried. Once Huang returns, she won’t know what to do with two husbands.
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August 22, 2007
Dagestan: Jihad Got the Blues
The Republic of Dagestan, Russia’s southernmost region and one plagued by the violence of Islamic jihad since 1999, has seen a slight improvement in its fortunes since since my last visit in 2005. As Moscow commits more firepower and resources the Islamic terrorists have been forced to retreat into their moutain strongholds. Assassinations and bombings of police officers continue, but on a lesser scale.
State-controlled Islam, however, is proliferating, with many more mosques appearing over the past two years with state support and control. While this version of Islam is under the watch of the Russian secret police, the FSB, anyone who takes the Koran seriously automatically comes in contact with its intolerance and call to violence against non-believers. In that sense, the government is only sowing the seeds for a future conflict.
Dagestan, home to about 30 different nationalities (none of which are `Dagestani’ per se), is a critical border between Europe and Asia. Azerbaijan lies to the south, while Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran are across the Caspian Sea.
The main nationalities of Dagestan’s 2.6 million inhabitants are Avars, Dargins, Lezgins, Laks, and Tabarsarans.
The good news, however, is that many locals in the cities have little devotion or interest in Islam, as I witnessed during a visit earlier this month to the republic.
On my flight from Moscow to Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital city, I sat next to a man who was Tabarsaran. I pumped him full of questions about life in the republic, and I was most taken by the way he spoke of Muslims.
``Those Muslims; they’re crazy; making so much trouble!’’
Now this is coming from a man who is `Muslim’; at least, that is what Russia’s Council of Muftis considers him to be since he is from a `traditional’ Muslim territory. This man was the owner of a construction company. He clearly had a modern view on life, and the insane and violent teachings of the 7th century Arabian warlord, Mohammed, are of no interest or use.
After a 2 hour flight from Moscow, my plane touched down in Makhachkala, and which coincided with the call to prayer bellowing from a mosque located 100 meters from the airport’s reception area. There were several hundred people at the reception area waiting to meet loved-ones. Even though the call to prayer went out no one paid any attention to it. None felt the need to pray to the bloodthirsty Islamic deity, Allah. Only one man turned around clearly perplexed at the bizarre and diabolical sound emanating from the mosque.
While Russian military action in the Second Chechen War dealt a severe blow to Dagestan Islamic military units and their Chechen allies, police officers with whom I spoke say some Dagestan mountain villages maintain Islamic law, and are extremely hostile to state authorities. As long as they remain pent up deep in the mountains, however, Dagestan authorities do not engage them. The problem is that sometimes they come down to the cities to bomb and murder.
The rest of my time in Dagestan was spent with Muslims of all ages, but most were from the educated classes. While many spoke of a belief in ``God’’, almost none had any apparent interest in Islam, except for its occasional cultural significance. All the men enjoyed drinking.
True, certainly not everyone is like this. Driving around Makhachkala and Derbent I got the impression that there is a strong underclass, brooding and bitter, that might find the violent teachings of the Warlord Mohammed to be appealing.
Part of this is due to the corrupt elite. The region has enormous economic potential, with large reserves of oil and gas, as well as opportunity to develop tourism and agriculture. Most of the region’s wealth, however, is in the hands of a small number of clans, and they have little desire to share or develop their region.
Dagestan’s second largest city, Derbent, which is also the oldest city in Russia, dates back 5,000 years. I’m still looking into this question, but I found literature saying that Christianity flourished in Derbent and most of Dagestan and Azerbaijan when these areas were part of the Caucasian Albanian state in the 4th and 5th centuries. Gregory the Illuminator, the man who brought Christianity to nearby Armenia, is said to be the one who brought Christianity to Caucasian Albania.
The Persians, however, were constantly meddling in Albania’s affairs. Infused with the brutal ideology of Mohammed, the Arabs came to Dagestan at the end of the 7th century, and soon displaced the Persians as the regional hegemon. While Islam began its brutal policy of conversion in the cities, Christianity proved resilient in the small towns and villages. But by the 15th century, Islam had almost wiped out all vestiges of Christianity. All that remained of Christianity were small isolated Armenian merchant communities, such as the one in Derbent.
Today, all that remains of Derbent’s Christian heritage is a ruined church in the citadel, and a 19th century Armenian church in the downtown. It’s a museum, however. The locals show their contempt for the site by throwing their rubbish along the walls around it. (see photo)
Today, Dagestan’s population is 94% `Muslim’ and 6% Christian, these being the descendants of Russians who came to the republic over the course of 200-year rule by Moscow.
Derbent is also well-known as once being a centre for the so-called Mountain Jews. Some locals told me that until 1980 as much as 20,000 Jews lived there. With that in mind I figured a synagogue must be around somewhere. My search proved futile, however. No one knew of one, and I imagine that whatever Jewish house of prayer had previously existed had been torn down or reconverted for Muslim worship.
While I had been warned that the streets of Derbent were full of women wearing black from head to toe, I saw none of that during two days there. Perhaps the intense heat, 36 Celsius, kept them inside.
As my week-long trip drew to a close, I felt a bit uneasy. Clearly I had only touched the surface of this complex region. While I had the chance to chat, drink, and socialise with some very nice and educated men, I also felt the suspicious and unwelcoming stares of gruff, scruffy, and threatening men on the streets as we walked by.
As I left Dagestan I thought of my trip last year to Ingushetia. There, while dining with Ingush officials, one of them took me aside and said, ``You see all these people. They smile, they’re nice to you; they pledge support to Moscow. But deep down inside they want independence, and they want to establish an Islamic Caliphate. Make no mistake. The Caliphate is coming to the North Caucasus. Maybe not this year, but in our lifetime.’’
This is precisely why Moscow’s policy of ‘’state Islam’’ won’t work. Any form of Islam will eventually lead to violence and hatred. That is the very essence of the ideology created by a violent and brutal man. The only way to guarantee society’s peace and stability is to close down all the mosques and reveal Islam for the evil it is.
A Nuremberg-like trial would be most effective toward such a goal.
The fortress in Derbent
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The Armenian Church in downtown Derbent, with garbage in front (it’s now officially a museum only)
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The Armenian Church in downtown Derbent, as seen from the fortress
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Derbent as seen from fortress (Caspian Sea in background)
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Pictures © the author.
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Suspicious Devices Found - 2 days in a row - CO
More devices found in Berthoud Park
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Homes evacuated, park closed after devices found
BERTHOUD – Police say more suspicious devices were found on
Wednesday in the same park that was closed down because of other
devices found Tuesday night.
Berthoud Police say workers in Berthoud Park found similar devices
at the park on Wednesday and took them back to the Parks and
Recreation Building.
The bomb squad responded and evacuated the building. No nearby homes
were evacuated, in contrast to what happened Tuesday night.
Police closed off the park and evacuated several nearby homes
Tuesday night because of the devices. At least two were found in the
park and detonated by the bomb squad. One was found in a trash
Dumpster.
The devices found on Wednesday were found to be inert, but police
say the investigation is still ongoing.
They have not said how many total were found.
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Homes evacuated, park closed after devices found
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BERTHOUD – Police evacuated several homes and closed a park Tuesday
night while they investigated a report of suspicious devices.
The two devices were found near Berthoud Park around 5:40 p.m. The
park is at 200 7th Street.
Berthoud Police says one of the devices was found in a trash
Dumpster and the other was also found in the park.
The bomb squad was called and police closed off the area and
evacuated some nearby homes as a precaution.
Not many people were home when police first arrived on scene, so
only a few residents were evacuated. Once people started coming home
from work, they were kept out of their homes, according to police.
The bomb squad detonated both of the devices as a precaution. One
was detonated around 9:45 p.m. and the other was detonated earlier
in the evening.
Police did not say what the devices were, but treated them as
dangerous. They are still investigating if the devices were bombs.
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CAIR Officials Harass Private Citizen at Home - Didn’t like bumper sticker
Author: Patrick Poole
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: August 20, 2007
FSM Contributing Editor Patrick Poole characterizes CAIR’s
harassment of a private citizen in his home, which CAIR describes as
an “invitation to dialogue”, as nothing more than a masquerade for
their alarming scare tactics. Jackboot thuggery or inter-faith
engagement? You decide.
CAIR Thugs on Islamophobia Patrol:
Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood?
By Patrick Poole
FamilySecurityMatters.org
“Three officials of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
in Ohio admit to going unannounced to a man’s home to confront him
over a bumper sticker on his car – a testament, they claim, of their
tolerance and moderation. The incident occurred last year, but the
CAIR trio involved – Ahmad Al-Akhras, CAIR national vice chairman,
Asma Mobin-Uddin, CAIR-Ohio president, and Abukar Arman, CAIR-OH
board member – have recently recounted this incident to the local
establishment media as an example of how they “invite dialogue”.
Others, however, believe the incident is additional proof that CAIR
regularly resorts to threats, intimidation and demonization to
silence its critics. Earlier this month, attorneys for CAIR sent a
letter threatening legal action against the Young Americans
Foundation if they allowed NY Times bestselling author and
JihadWatch director, Robert Spencer, to speak at their conference
on “The Truth of the Council on American-Islamic Relations”. This
thuggery is reminiscent of CAIR’s 2004 lawsuit against independent
journalist Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR, a suit which was dropped
by CAIR in order to avoid responding to required interrogatories
about its historic ties to HAMAS and role in terror financing.
The CAIR-OH incident is without known precedent, harassing a private
citizen at his home because CAIR officials did not like one of his
bumper stickers. One of the trio, Abukar Arman, has described how
they set upon their unwitting victim:
Several months ago, a non-Muslim fellow in the inter-faith community
brought to the attention of CAIR-Ohio a picture of his neighbor’s
truck with a bumper sticker that read “Jesus loves you, and Allah
wants you dead”.
Some of us thought that the appropriate thing to do was to get media
involved and use this truck owner as a poster-child of the prevalent
assertive ignorance that is widening the post 9/11 political divide
between Muslims and non-Muslims. Others, on the other hand, saw this
as an opportunity for human contact, discourse, and to build bridges
of understanding.
The latter opinion prevailed.
Therefore, I had the privilege of being one of three Muslims (2 male
and a female with Islamic veil) who paid a neighborly visit to the
truck owner.
What ensued was an interesting discourse that I found to be very
educational (its final outcome notwithstanding).
The truck owner was a former Marine officer who served in Somalia
and Iraq. Initially, as he opened the door, he was visibly
apprehensive (and rightfully so).
We greeted him and introduced ourselves. We reassured him that we
were only interested to get to know him, address any questions or
perhaps grievance that he may have, and to give him a chance to meet
and dialogue with ordinary Muslims.
Long story short: in a conversation that took place right outside
his door and lasted for over an hour, the former Marine talked about
how he was very suspicious of Muslims and how, both in Somalia and
in Iraq, he and other Americans who “came to help these two
countries had their hands bitten…” He talked about how he did not
believe there were any moderate Muslims and how organizations such
as CAIR were deliberately silent about condemning terrorism. He also
talked about being alarmed by the growing Muslim population in
Central Ohio and how they may be hiding a terrorist who has in his
possession a “briefcase nuke”. He said, “I don’t want to see a giant
mushroom in Columbus” [I will come back to this point].
Lastly, he talked about his career in the private sector…how he
worked as a “corporate anti-terrorism expert” and a “consultant to a
numerous multinational corporations”...
Arman admits that the original intention was to make this two-war
veteran a “poster-child” of Islamophobia and publicly to vilify the
man by enlisting the help of the local media – all because they
didn’t agree with the sentiments the man expressed via a bumper
sticker. He also admits that the man was visibly leery of his late-
night visitors showing up on his doorstep, what they probably would
argue is proof of his Islamophobia.
What makes this situation and Abukar Arman’s comments even more
appalling is that the former Marine had served in the UN-backed
peacekeeping mission in Somalia, Arman’s native country, to protect
the people there from the warlords that had taken over the country
and who were starving the people by the tens of thousands.
Additionally, the former Marine had been reported to CAIR by one of
his neighbors who was a friend to the CAIR officials in the “inter-
faith community”.
But imagine if the roles in this case were reversed: imagine if
Robert Spencer, Andrew Whitehead and myself showed up on the
doorstep of any of these CAIR officials - unwelcome and unannounced -
to confront them about their repeated statements of support for
extremism, bigotry and terrorism: Ahmad Al-Akhras for his public
defense of convicted terrorists, including his “long-time friend”,
convicted and deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Fawaz
Damra; Asma Mobin-Uddin for promoting several hate sites with
rabidly anti-Jewish content on her own personal website; or Abukar
Arman, for his vocal public support of HAMAS, Hezbollah and the al-
Qaeda-backed Islamic Courts Union. Would they see such action
as “inviting dialogue”, or would they instead denounce such
an “invitation to dialogue” in a flurry of CAIR press releases as
a “hate crime” that would merit restraining orders and warrant
federal criminal charges?
With their opponents on the working end of this tactic of cultural
terrorism, however, they enthusiastically recount this act of
intimidation, attempting to paint their “neighborly visit” as a
peaceful effort to “engage” non-Muslims. The establishment media has
been quick to pick up this twisted narrative. Earlier this month, in
a front page Columbus Dispatch article on Mr. Arman, Mobin-Uddin
cites this incident of confronting a man at his home as evidence of
Mr. Arman’s “kindness”:
“Mr. Arman is a man of the greatest integrity, kindness and
responsibility,” Mobin-Uddin said.
She recalled a visit with Arman a few years ago to the home of an ex-
Marine who displayed an anti-Muslim bumper sticker.
“We stood and talked with the man on his doorstep for an hour and a
half. Mr. Arman never raised his voice. He told the man, ‘You know,
sir, I have four children. I’ve lived in this country for decades.
If I knew someone who was going to put a bomb somewhere, I would be
the first one to jump on them.’ “
This isn’t the first time, however, that the Columbus Dispatch has
pulled out this story as an example of the tolerance and moderation
of the CAIR trio and their cohorts.
In an Orwellian-titled article this past April, “Changing Hearts,
Minds”, Ahmad Al-Akhras gave his analysis of his and his comrades’
late-night “invitation to dialogue” to an attentive Dispatch
reporter:
Changing minds isn’t always as pleasant as sharing some snacks and
laughs.
Last year, Ahmad Al-Akhras and two other community leaders knocked
on the door of a man whose car bore a bumper sticker that
read: “Jesus loves you. Allah wants you dead.”
Al-Akhras is president of the Islamic Foundation of Central Ohio and
is the vice chairman of the national Council on American-Islamic
Relations.
They spoke to the ex-Marine for more than an hour at his doorstep,
telling him they had 11 children between them and cared strongly
about America’s safety, Al-Akhras said.
“More than 95 percent of the time, we agree on things,” Al-Akhras
said of Muslims and non-Muslims.
He isn’t sure that visit did any good.
It should be evident that going to a man’s home, particularly
someone entirely unknown to you, to confront them about the content
of their bumper stickers is not an invitation to dialogue, but
jackboot thuggery reminiscent of the Nazi SA Storm troopers. One of
them admits that rather than painting a symbol on the man’s house or
business to show their disapproval for his religious statements
(much as the SA would mark Jewish homes or businesses with a Star of
David and the word “Juden”), they considered calling in the media to
condemn this two-war Marine veteran and expose him to public scorn
all because they didn’t like his bumper sticker.
CAIR has repeatedly demonstrated that their methodology and
discourse must rely on increasingly shrill rhetoric to get public
attention and publicly attacking anyone who questions their
troubling ideology. Nor has CAIR ever hesitated to inflame a
situation to further its own agenda to the detriment of the rest of
the community, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. As their own supposed
constituency continues to abandon CAIR, such now that their
membership is less than two thousand nationwide, CAIR will need to
resort to more confrontational and escalating tactics to keep the
establishment media’s attention in order to disseminate their
message of hate, alienation and conflict.
CAIR’s Islamophobia patrols: coming soon to a neighborhood near you.”
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Air incident sparks warning for pilots
JAKARTA: Transportation Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal issued a warning
Tuesday to stop pilots behaving dangerously in the air, following an
runway
incident at the Juanda Airport in Surabaya, East Java, on Aug. 9.
Authorities said an Adam Air airplane cut in front of a Batavia Air
plane
already on the runway and about to take off.
The airplanes reportedly came close to colliding.
“We’re waiting for the results of an investigation by the National
Transportation Safety Commission,” Jusman said.
“If the (Adam Air) pilot committed (the act on purpose), we may prolong
the
period of his suspension — longer than the one already imposed by the
airline,” Jusman told detik.com in Yogyakarta.
“There shouldn’t be mischievousness in the air anymore.
“There is a code of ethics and (every pilot) must obey the instructions
issued by the Air Traffic Controller.”
Jusman said it was important to restore the image of the country’s air
transportation. He said reducing the number of air accidents was the
main
target.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20070822.H07&irec=6
Some LAX questions FAA should answer
BY RUTH GALANTER
FOR two terrible days last week, LAX passengers endured confinement in
immobilized airplanes, long delays in terminals, overwhelmed bathrooms
and a
whole series of similar insults. Most of these passengers will be happy
if
they never again have to pass through Los Angeles International
Airport.
This supersized snafu had nothing to do with runway capacity or safety,
nor
with issues over which local officials have any control. It now appears
that
one federal computer caused the entire mess.
Luckily, Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Marion Blakey is
scheduled to visit Los Angeles this week. But is Blakey coming to talk
about
how to make our airport run more efficiently? Not a chance. She has
been
invited by a coalition of local business organizations sponsoring yet
another expansion of Everyone’s Favorite Airport.
When Administrator Blakey arrives, she may land on a runway that
airport
officials keep claiming - without a shred of evidence - is unsafe.
Ignoring
the fact that the FAA itself only last year agreed that there is not a
safety issue on the north side of LAX, advocates of expansion have been
arguing for months that we need to tear down local businesses, impact
homes,
and spend well
over $1 billion to move runways into Westchester and Playa del Rey
because
of “safety.”
Blakey’s upcoming visit offers LAX travelers, businesses and neighbors
the
opportunity to put this safety issue to rest and get on with making the
airport terminals more efficient and comfortable for those who use
them.
Here are the questions FAA needs to answer:
If the northern runways are unsafe, why is the FAA allowing them to
operate?
On the day Blakey arrives, an estimated 700 flights will take off and
land
from those runways. By allowing those flights, did the FAA put
passenger
lives at risk?
If the FAA is concerned for safety on the north airfield specifically,
when
will it call for a comprehensive federal study of that problem?
When airlines raised questions about safety on the south airfield, the
FAA
worked with Los Angeles World Airports and NASA on a two-year
comprehensive
study, including simulated runway incursions. Why hasn’t the FAA done
the
same for the north airfield?
For at least the next decade, the few airlines that will operate the
huge
new Airbus 380 have predicted fewer than 15 flights of these aircraft
each
day, a tiny fraction of the hundreds of total flights currently
operating
each day at LAX. The vast majority of airlines will never operate the
giant
plane; the vast majority of passengers will never fly in one. One
runway at
LAX can already take the A380.
If the FAA wants to spend $1 billion for more runways for this handful
of
flights, who is going to foot the bill?
For over a year, businesses and residents threatened by this new
“safety”
plan to move the north runway farther into their communities have asked
the
FAA for hard data showing that there is a north airfield safety
problem. The
only available data show that almost all runway incursions are on the
south
runways, and that incidents on the north runways were caused by human
error,
not airfield configuration.
When will the FAA show us proof of a safety risk or go fix the real
problems?
Administrator Blakey’s visit is the perfect time to answer these
questions,
if only she will do so.
Ruth Galanter is former member of the Los Angeles City Council.
http://www.dailynews.com/theiropinion/ci_6683050
FAA investigates Memphis controller errors
Planes flew too close together 6 times in one week; crew cites small
staff
The government is investigating a series of errors made by air traffic
controllers in Memphis that caused planes on six occasions in one week
to
come too close together, including jets flown by Southwest and American
airlines.
Air traffic controllers blame the mistakes — including confused
communication due to radio static and plain miscommunication — to
being
chronically short-staffed.
In the most serious of the close calls, a MD-80 flown by American
Airlines
Aug. 14 came within 2.5 miles of a commuter jet flying 600 feet above
it
over Memphis.
The incident was the second error that day. The first was logged in the
morning when an experienced controller training a new controller
allowed a
King Air and ExecJet to come within 3.6 miles of each other as they
prepared
to land at Nashville International Airport.
They were “not what we would call the highest-severity category errors.
On
an A, B, C scale, they were C-level errors,” said Laura Brown, Federal
Aviation Administration spokeswoman.
The errors, including one Aug. 13 and Aug. 16 and two Aug. 17, were
made by
controllers at the Memphis Air Route Traffic Control center, 3229
Democrat
Road. Two of them were trainees whose work was being monitored by
senior
controllers.
“We have never had this many mistakes at one time in Memphis,” said Ron
Carpenter, head of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
representing 249 controllers at the center.
“What caused a lot of this, in my opinion, is that we are working so
short
right now,” he said.
“We believe we are 101 controllers short of the journeyman controllers
we
were allotted.”
The ramification, he said, means that a shift traditionally staffed by
13 to
14 journeyman controllers now has eight to nine.
Brown discounts the allegations, saying that the union is referring to
numbers from a previous contract.
“The 354 number goes back to the 1998-2003 contract, which was extended
to
2005,” she said.
The Memphis facility currently has 63 trainees and is scheduled to get
15
more in October. While they are not fully certified controllers, they
are
qualified to work the positions they have been trained on, Brown said.
“They become part of staffing even though they are not fully certified.
It
does not mean they are not functional in some respect.”
Under the new FAA staffing plan for the next decade, rolled out last
year,
the range of controllers allotted the Memphis center is 244-298, Brown
said.
She also said that controllers monitor several vectors during slow
periods
when traffic is down.
The new FAA staffing ratios, established after negotiating with
controllers,
reflect the actual workload in each center, she said, helping the FAA
more
accurately staff facilities around the nation.
The FAA, facing massive retirements among workers hired after the air
traffic control strike in 1981, says it hired 1,100 controllers last
year
and is on target to hire 1,400 this year.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/aug/22/b22faa/
Some of the deadliest helicopter crashes in Iraq since March 2003
(AP)
_ Aug. 22, 2007: A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern
Iraq,
killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard. The military said initial
indications
showed the aircraft experienced a mechanical problem and there were no
indications of hostile fire.
_ Jan. 20, 2007: A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Diyala province
northeast of Baghdad, killing 12 American soldiers aboard.
_ Jan. 7, 2006: A Black Hawk helicopter carrying eight U.S. troops and
four
American civilians crashed near the northern city of Tal Afar, killing
all
aboard.
_ April 21, 2005: A Bulgarian-owned MI-8 helicopter was shot down by
missile
fire 12 miles north of Baghdad, killing 11 people — six American
bodyguards for U.S. diplomats, three Bulgarian crew members and two
security
guards from Fiji.
_ Jan. 26, 2005: A CH-53 Sea Stallion transport helicopter crashed in a
sandstorm in western Iraq, killing 30 Marines and a U.S. sailor.
Today in Africa & Middle East
Helicopter crash in Iraq kills 14 U.S. soldiers, says military
U.S. takes a step away from Maliki
Egyptian-American dissident fears arrest if he returns home
_ Nov. 15, 2003: Two Black Hawks crashed in Mosul, killing 17
soldiers. The
military said the helicopters collided during a likely rocket-propelled
grenade attack.
_ Nov. 2, 2003: A Chinook transport helicopter was shot down near
Fallujah,
killing 15. The military believed a SA-7 shoulder-fired missile struck
an
engine.
_ March 30, 2003: A Sea Knight crashed in Kuwait, about nine miles from
the
Iraq border, killing eight British troops and four U.S. Marines. No
hostile
fire was reported in the area.
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Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
Several Seriously Hurt In Street Shooting Near Railway - UK
Breaking News
Several Seriously Hurt In Street Shooting
Updated: 14:43, Thursday August 23, 2007
A number of people have been seriously injured in a street shooting
in Letchworth Garden City, Herts.
According to an eyewitness, one man was shot in the face three times.
Weapons recovered in LetchworthThe driver, who did not want to be
named, said: “As far as I know a man has been shot in the face three
times.
“I’ve been told by other drivers that one of the blokes said he was
going to shoot the other and the other one said ‘go on then’. “And
he did, three times.”
Advertisement
Armed officers raced to the scene of the attack near the railway
station at about 11.40am.
A police spokeswoman confirmed that several wounded people have been
taken to hospital.
Weapons have been recovered from the scene and police have made a
number of arrests.
Pixmore Avenue in the city was sealed off after the incident.
More follows...
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1281136,00.html
Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
HAZMAT In Upper Marlboro Sends 4 To Hospital
9 NEWS NOW
Created:8/22/2007 9:19:13 AM
Last Updated:8/22/2007 9:15:50 PM
http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=62004
Upper Marlboro, Md -— (WUSA) Prince George’s Fire and Rescue along
with HAZMAT teams are cleaning up a vehicle collision which ended in
a HAZMAT situation.
Shortly before 8am, a van and car collided along 301 between
Marlboro Pike and Rt. 4. The van was carrying pool chemicals which
spilled from thier containers and mixed with the warm atmosphere
causing a white vapor cloud.
Four people had to be transported to area hospitals with non-life
threatening injuries as a result of this incident.
Expect heavy delays in the Upper Marlboro area.
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-keyword&c=&p=%22Iran%22&ei=utf-8
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Iran threatens German banks over pull-out
Iran threatens German banks over pull-out Open this result in new window
AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 0 minute ago
Tehran has threatened to bar major German banks that are pulling out of Iran due to US pressure and steep administration costs from returning to the country.
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Iran announces new 2,000-pound “smart” bomb Open this result in new window
International Herald Tribune - Aug 23 4:17 AM
Iran has developed a new 900-kilogram (2,000-pound) “smart” bomb, state-run television reported Thursday, the latest in a recent series of announcements heralding new weapons systems.
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Iran says it’s developed ‘smart’ bomb Open this result in new window
AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 23 3:44 AM
Iran has developed a new 2,000-pound “smart” bomb, state-run television reported Thursday, the latest in a recent series of announcements heralding new weapons systems.
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Iranian dissident warns of US actions against Iran
Iranian dissident warns of US actions against Iran Open this result in new window
AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 23 1:19 AM
The United States risks elevating tensions and is not likely to achieve much by declaring Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a “terrorist” group, a prominent Iranian dissident who co-founded the Guards said.
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How to challenge Iran’s militancy without using arms Open this result in new window
The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Aug 23 1:00 AM
There have been persistent rumors in Washington that President Bush does not want to leave office without “doing something” about Iran. Even more alarming, there have been rumors that Mr. Bush has solicited a green light from Russian President Vladimir Putin for Israel to “do something” about Iran.
* 6.
Iran Revolutionary Guard dodges sanctions: dissident
Iran Revolutionary Guard dodges sanctions: dissident Open this result in new window
AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 22 10:00 PM
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard uses front companies to sidestep international sanctions and import banned materials into the country, exiled Iranian dissident Alireza Jafarzadeh said Wednesday.
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Iran’s Nuclear Threat Aided by Fake Firms, Rome Bank, U.S. Says Open this result in new window
Bloomberg.com - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — On Dec. 23, 2006, the United Nations Security Council slapped economic sanctions on Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group for its role in weapons proliferation as Iran’s maker of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles.
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Iran Says It’s Developed ‘Smart’ Bomb Open this result in new window
ABC News - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Iran Develops 2,000-Pound ‘Smart’ Bomb, State-Run Television Reports
* 9.
Israel Haunted by Nuclear Threat from Iran Open this result in new window
NPR - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has, on several occasions, publicly called for Israel to be “eliminated.” Some Israelis say that with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and growing regional clout, the threat of a war between the two nations looms.
* 10.
Iran’s Crackdown Cools U.S. Outreach Efforts Open this result in new window
NPR - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago
The arrest of Iranian-American Haleh Esfandiari and several others is having a major effect in the United States. Iranian-Americans are more fearful now to travel to Iran, or to take part in meetings with democracy and human rights activists. That has put a chill into U.S. efforts to promote democracy in Iran.
* 11.
Iran’s Crackdown Cools U.S. Outreach Efforts Open this result in new window
NPR - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
The arrest of Iranian-American Haleh Esfandiari and several others is having a major effect in the United States. Iranian-Americans are more fearful now to travel to Iran, or to take part in meetings with democracy and human rights activists. That has put a chill into U.S. efforts to promote democracy in Iran.
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U.S.: Iran cooperation insufficient Open this result in new window
AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 22 4:12 PM
Iran’s willingness to answer questions about its nuclear program will not save it from new U.N. sanctions, a U.S. envoy said Wednesday, describing Tehran’s new openness as an attempt to deflect “attention from its ... bomb-making capabilities.”
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards beat sanctions: exile Open this result in new window
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 22 2:49 PM
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are using front groups to beat U.N. sanctions and acquire weapons and material for Tehran’s nuclear program, an exiled opponent of the Iranian government said on Wednesday.
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Iran reportedly develops 2,000-pound ‘smart’ bomb Open this result in new window
Houston Chronicle - Aug 23 4:24 AM
BC-Iran-Smart Bomb,0250 Iran develops 2,000-pound ‘smart’ bomb, state-run television reports TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has developed a new 2,000-pound “smart” bomb, state-run television reported Thursday, the latest in a recent series of announcements heralding new weapons systems.
* 15.
Freed Iranian-American cannot leave Iran
Freed Iranian-American cannot leave Iran Open this result in new window
AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 22 12:45 PM
An Iranian-American scholar released after months of imprisonment in Iran has no passport and cannot leave the country where she still faces charges of endangering national security, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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IRAN MAY BUY RUSSIAN TUPOLEV PLANES Open this result in new window
EurasiaNet.org - 1 hour, 1 minute ago
Russian plane manufacturers Tupolev have reached an agreement to sell passenger planes to Iran, and are discussing a joint project to construct planes, Radio Farda reported on August 22, citing Reuters.
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US envoy raps Iran over dealings with nuclear watchdog Open this result in new window
Boston Globe - Aug 23 1:59 AM
VIENNA — Iran’s willingness to answer questions about its nuclear program will not save it from new United Nations sanctions, a US envoy said yesterday, describing Tehran’s new openness as an attempt to deflect “attention from its . . . bomb-making capabilities.”
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U.S. sees limits, manipulation in Iran deal with IAEA
U.S. sees limits, manipulation in Iran deal with IAEA Open this result in new window
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 22 8:42 AM
A nuclear cooperation pact Iran struck with the International Atomic Energy Agency has “real limitations” and Tehran should stop trying to manipulate the IAEA to dodge harsher U.N. sanctions, a senior U.S. envoy said.
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Lawyer: Scholar still faces Iran charges Open this result in new window
USA Today - Aug 22 9:28 AM
An Iranian-American scholar recently released from a notorious prison in Iran still faces charges she endangered the country’s national security and has no passport with which to travel abroad, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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Persian Gold soars on Iran acquisitions Open this result in new window
ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance - 2 hours, 36 minutes ago
Persian Gold gained more than a quarter of its value Thursday following the acquisition of two new gold projects in Iran.
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Passenger, 22, hurt in school bus accident Open this result in new window
Bradenton Herald - Aug 23 12:16 AM
A 22-year-old passenger on a Manatee County school bus was taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital on Wednesday afternoon after the bus was involved in a traffic accident, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release.
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Forensic tests on bus in fatal accident Open this result in new window
Newham Recorder - Aug 22 12:56 AM
POLICE forensic experts are examining a bus that was involved in a road accident in Stratford in which a 31-year-old man died. The body of Andrew Waweru was found close to a bus stop in Romford Road near the junction with Dyson Road at about 5am on Friday.
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No injuries in school bus accident Wednesday morning Open this result in new window
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - Aug 22 10:08 PM
MATTOON —No one was hurt when a car rear-ended a school bus Wednesday morning in eastern Mattoon, said school district administrators.
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4 injured in school bus accident Open this result in new window
The News Herald - Aug 22 11:06 PM
Andrew Wardlow / The News Herald A Florida Highway Patrol trooper surveys the scene of an accident at the intersection of County 2301 and County 388 in the northern part of Bay County on Wednesday.
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One Person Killed In Accident With Votran Bus Open this result in new window
Central Florida News 13 - Aug 23 4:54 AM
One person is killed and three people on a Votran bus is injured when a pickup truck rearended the public transportation bus as it was letting off passengers.
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School Bus Accident In Dearborn Co. Open this result in new window
Fox 19 Cincinnati - Aug 21 8:48 AM
(DEARBORN COUNTY, IND) — At least nine students are complaining of neck pain following a bus accident in Dearborn County.
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Kids Hospitalized After Bus Crash Open this result in new window
WLKY Louisville - 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
Police are investigating an accident involving a school bus.
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Lightning kills 3 at Wisconsin bus stop Open this result in new window
Moldova.org - Aug 23 5:07 AM
Three people at a Madison, Wis., bus stop were killed and two others injured by a live power line brought down near them by a lightning strike.The accident happened during a heavy rain storm around 4:15 p.m., when lightning struck a power pole, which released the line into several inches of water along the curb, police and power officials said.The names of the dead weren’t immediately released, ...
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School Bus Accident Open this result in new window
KOTV 6 Tulsa - Aug 22 8:26 AM
There are no serious injuries after a car ran into a Tulsa Public School bus Wednesday morning. Tulsa Police say the driver of the car failed to stop at a stop sign at Oswego and Virgin and hit the school bus.
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Bullitt bus to Eastside Middle in accident Open this result in new window
Louisville Courier-Journal - 1 hour, 1 minute ago
Two children were transported to Norton Suburban Hospital with minor injuries. The other children were taken to Jewish Hospital Medical Center South in Hillview for evaluation.
I stopped at page 6, it was still pulling accident reports dated today....
Truck accidents:
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