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French FM Kouchner: ‘We must prepare for war against Iran’
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 16, 2007
The nuclear Iranian crisis forces the world “to prepare for the worst” which “is war,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Sunday evening, while emphasizing that negotiations should still be the preferred course of action.
Kouchner, quoted by French daily Le Figaro, added that “Iran does whatever it pleases in Iraq ... one cannot find in the entire world a crisis greater than this one.”
JFK terror plot probe
Sunday, September 16th 2007
Two leading figures in the small Shiite Muslim community in Guyana are on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) radar and last month four US agents came to Georgetown to question them as investigations into the alleged terrorist plot to blow up fuel tanks at the JFK Airport, New York continue.
Acting Police Commis-sioner Henry Greene confirmed to Stabroek News that the men were invited to Police headquarters Eve Leary where four FBI agents interviewed them. Greene declined to comment further on the matter.
In June this year, the US revealed that former PNCR MP Abdul Kadir, Abdel Nur, Guyanese born US citizen Russell Defreitas and Trinidadian, Kareem Ibrahim had allegedly plotted to blow up fuel tanks at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. All four of the men are in custody. Kadir, Ibrahim and Nur are in Port of Spain Trinidad, where they were arrested and Defreitas is in the US. While Defreitas' matter is being heard in a Brooklyn Court, the other three men are awaiting extradition to the US to face their charges.
One of the two Shiite leaders whom the FBI questioned resides in Linden, while the other lives on the East Coast Demerara. The East Coast Demerara resident, who asked to remain anonymous, told this newspaper that local police invited him to Eve Leary last month, where the FBI agents questioned him for about two hours. The man disclosed that the officers asked him some basic questions with regard to his whereabouts, family and his standing as a Muslim. He was also asked why he became a Muslim, among other things. As far as the man was concerned he was not being viewed as a suspect.
He said he believed the US's interest in him was because of his past connections with a local Muslim college with which Kadir also had connections. Asked whether the FBI had finished with him, the man said he would think so, since there was nothing else that the officials seemed to have wanted to question him about. Stabroek News was unable to make contact with the Lindener.
It was not clear whether the two men were among the persons the US had referred to as Individuals A, B, C, E, F and G in the indictments against the four terror suspects, indicating that they wanted to question them. According to US court documents, at least six other Guyanese might have been directly involved in or had knowledge of the plot to blow up pipelines and fuel storage tanks at the airport. Court documents did not name these individuals, but authorities in Georgetown and the US knew who they were.
President Bharrat Jagdeo had told a media conference, weeks after the plot was exposed that other Guyanese were being looked at. This newspaper was told that local police had contacted at least two of the men.
The US government informant who blew the whistle about the alleged plan and Defreitas, said to be the mastermind of the plot, allegedly met those individuals collectively and separately at other times in Guyana around mid-August last year. Defreitas and the informant had stayed in Guyana for an extended period, according to the document.
Stabroek News was told recently that Individual E, who the document suggests was a businessman with an office in Georgetown, was being sought by local police. However, according to reports the man had vacated his office and was thought to have fled into the interior. Individual E, according court documents, had told the informant during a conversation that he helped "brothers" who had a basic knowledge of Islam to perform Jihad (holy war). "He said that he takes care of the individuals' basic needs while they are performing their jihad duties," the document stated.
Meanwhile, the same man who had once held a post at the now defunct International Islamic College of Advanced Studies had told this newspaper earlier this year that the police should re-open the case into the killing of Mohamed Hassan Ibrahim, the Muslim cleric who was kidnapped and later found dead three years ago.
The man said then that several persons who had worked closely with Ibrahim might have information relating to the identity of those who killed him and the police should pursue these people relentlessly. His statements were made following the announcement of the alleged terror plot. Ibrahimi had been a close friend of Kadir. Two gunmen had abducted Ibrahimi in April 2004 and his body was found several weeks later, face down in a shallow grave. He had been shot twice in the head. According to the man, Ibrahimi would likely have known the persons who snatched him from the school and later killed him.
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Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 389
September 17, 2007 No.389
“Escalation in the Positions of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – A Special Report”
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Iran blocks and then unblocks Google
Article from: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Tehran
September 17, 2007 08:21pm (excerpted)
IRAN has unblocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service after briefly filtering them owing to an “error”, the Fars news agency reported.
“Due to an error, the Google site was filtered on Sunday evening but the error was corrected and now Google and its different sites like Gmail can be used,” said an official from the state-run communications company.
Earlier today, Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran’s National Council of Information, had confirmed that the sites were being filtered, without providing further explanation. . . .
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/904447.html
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Iran says French minister stoking crisis with talk of war
By News Agencies
Iran on Monday accused French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of stoking a crisis after he said France must prepare for the possibility of war over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
The official IRNA news agency quoted Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini as saying Kouchner’s remarks were not in line with European Union policies.
“Using crisis-making words is against France’s high historical and cultural position and is against France’s civilization,” he said in a statement.
An earlier IRNA story quoted the spokesman as using the term “provocative words” in his statement, but in a later update the agency changed this to “crisis-making words”. . .