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Ayatollah sees Obama sincere in Muslim message
Reuters ^

Posted on 04/08/2009 9:29:51 PM PDT by Chet 99

BEIRUT (Reuters) - One of Shi'ite Islam's highest religious authorities praised Wednesday the "sincerity" of U.S. President Barack Obama's message to the Muslim world and predicted a positive outcome for his approach to Iran.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said Obama appeared to be a man of "human values" but would be judged on his actions. The ayatollah urged Obama to rethink policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Trying to repair America's damaged image abroad, Obama said on a visit to predominantly Muslim Turkey this week that the United States was not at war with Islam.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200904; argentina; bho44; fadlallah; hezbollah; iran; islamicjihad; jihad; lebanon; marinebarracks; mugniyeh; muslimworld; nemazee; obamatrips; soleiman; suleiman; theocracy; turkey

1 posted on 04/08/2009 9:29:51 PM PDT by Chet 99
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hahaha...Reuters calling Turkey, 'predominently Muslim'

Turkey is 99.8% Muslim

2 posted on 04/08/2009 9:47:12 PM PDT by americanophile
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3 posted on 04/08/2009 9:48:03 PM PDT by americanophile
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ayatollah asking Obumble to re-think Israeli-Palestinian conflict means: NIX on Israel


4 posted on 04/08/2009 10:01:39 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Off Hunting--- for the COLB)
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I guess the rest of the horse’s belly is filled with illegales.


5 posted on 04/08/2009 10:20:44 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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Ayatollah sees Obama sincere in Muslim message

That's the problem. So do we...

6 posted on 04/09/2009 2:32:12 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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http://books.google.com/books?id=vdKnY1vRKZkC&pg=PA130
Encyclopedia of terrorism - Page 128
Harvey W. Kushner - 2003 - 523 pages
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. ... In his impassioned speeches, Fadlallah has called for Lebanon to be organized as a theocratic Islamic state...


7 posted on 01/05/2020 8:55:19 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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http://books.google.com/books?id=zmgEF2hESVMC&pg=PA27
Fighting back: winning the war against terrorism
Neil C. Livingstone, Terrell E. Arnold - 1986 - 268 pages [p. 6]
... and Fadlallah himself reportedly not only helped plan the attacks but blessed the suicide bomber who drove the bomb-laden yellow Mercedes truck into the lobby of the marine barracks.


8 posted on 01/05/2020 8:57:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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With Soleimani dead, the world is safer, but it’s not enough.
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Jan.5,2020 | Hassan Mahmoudi
On January 3, 2020, near Baghdad’s airport, a U.S. air raid targeted Qasem Soleimani, commander of Quds Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (“IRGC’s”) terrorist arm. He was killed instantly. To understand how important this is, one needs to understand who Qasem Soleimani (1957-2020) was. ...

Terrorism Charges Have Been Brought Against 13 Members of the Pro-Iran Saudi Hizballah
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Nearly five years after a powerful truck bomb ripped through a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia – killing 19 Americans and wounding 372 – terrorism charges have been brought against 13 members of the pro-Iran Saudi Hizballah, or “Party of God.”

Death of a Prosecutor
1/21/2015, 8:39:05 AM · by SJackson · 6 replies
FrontPage Magazine ^ | January 21, 2015 | Kenneth R. Timmerman
Death of a ProsecutorPosted By Kenneth R. Timmerman On January 21, 2015 @ 12:35 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 2 Comments Alberto Nisman, the Argentinean prosecutor who indicted top Iranian regime officials for the July 1994 AMIA Jewish Center bombing in Buenos Aires, was found dead by gunshot in his apartment on Sunday night, in what initially was called a suicide.Nisman was scheduled to address members of parliament the next day to reveal new information about alleged efforts by Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her foreign minister, Hector Timerman, to cover up the responsibility of the Iranian regime...

30th anniversary of the Beirut bombing
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The Marine Corps’ top general and survivors are gathering to mark 30 years since the deadly Beirut barracks bombing that many consider the opening blast in America’s war against terrorists. force. A U.S. investigation blamed lax...


9 posted on 01/05/2020 9:03:37 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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...and the guy Clinton and Biden wanted to install as US Ambassador to Argentina was Iranian-American donor Hasan Nemazee.


10 posted on 01/05/2020 9:07:22 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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