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"China risk to world economy, says Schwab"
FT ^ | 12/10/06 | Eoin Callan and Krishna Guha
Posted on 12/10/2006 8:59:32 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
"China risk to world economy, says Schwab"
By Eoin Callan and Krishna Guha in Washington
Published: December 10 2006 22:13 | Last updated: December 10 2006 22:13
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "US-Chinese relations are in jeopardy because Beijing is slowing the pace of reform and putting the global economy at risk, Washington’s chief trade negotiator said on the eve of a high-level delegation to China.
The Bush administration has identified “troubling indications that China’s momentum towards reform has begun to slow” in the last year, according to Susan Schwab, the US trade representative.
The negotiator said the US was ready to initiate new trade disputes and retaliate against China if reforms were not stepped up following this week’s strategic economic dialogue led by Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary.
The warnings reflect pressure on the administration from the US Congress to be more aggressive with China over the value of its currency and the growing trade imbalance between the two countries."
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"Jews Wake Up!"
Column by Caroline B. Glick
Sunday, December 10, 2006
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Home Front Command holds Qassam drill in Kiryat Gat
Published: 12.11.06, 09:06
The Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command held a drill in Kiryat Gat on Monday to check the preparedness of the police, the army and paramedics in the scenario of Qassam attacks.
(Tova Dadon)
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881866845&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Dec. 11, 2006 6:43 | Updated Dec. 11, 2006 7:05
Palestinians throw explosives at IDF in Jenin
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Palestinians threw several explosive devices at IDF troops operating in a refugee camp in Jenin overnight Sunday.
No casualties were reported in the incident.
Also overnight, the IDF arrested four Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas operatives in the West Bank.
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"80 Days After Thailand's Coup, the Violence Continues Unabated"
By Zachary Abuza
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the 80 days since Thailand’s coup, insurgent violence in the Muslim south has continued to rage. Not only has there been no reduction in the violence, but the rate of killing has actually increased."
(December 10, 2006)
http://billroggio.com/archives/2006/12/muj_tv.php
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"al-Zawraa: Muj TV
The Iraqi insurgency has a satellite TV station, called al-Zawraa. Insurgent propaganda, 24/7, believed to be broadcast from Syria."
FALLUJAH, iRAQ:
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The broadcast source of the al-Zawraa network is said to be unknown, but the Egyptian owned Nielsat satellite network currently broadcasts the mujahideen propaganda on channel 106. Nielsat's coverage area includes the whole of the Middle East and Northern Africa."
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http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=masri
Wanted
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Up to $5 Million Reward
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, aka Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, is the last remaining original member of the Mujahidin Shura Council in Iraq, and remains a central figure in al-Qa'ida in Iraq. Al-Masri is an Egyptian national who served as Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi's senior operational coordinator and arranged the first meetings between Ansar-al-Islam commander Umar Baziyani and al-Zarqawi.
Al-Masri has conspired with al-Zarqawi and al-Qa'ida in Iraq to launch terrorist attacks against U.S. personnel and property in Iraq, to include constructing and supplying vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) used in suicide attacks and providing safe houses for insurgents. It is likely al-Masri was involved in the construction of the VBIEDs that were used in the al-Zarqawi network attacks on the U.N. Headquarters, Jordanian Embassy, Ashura and Arba'een commemoration bombings, and the Assassin Gate attack on the Coalition Provisional Authority.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2370
U.S.-Led Coalition Condemns Murder of Afghan Family
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2006 – U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan today denounced the Taliban extremists who murdered five members of an Afghan family Dec. 8.
“The U.S.-led coalition condemns in the strongest terms possible the murder Friday of a family in Kunar province,” Combined Forces Command Afghanistan spokesman Col. Tom Collins said today at the organization’s headquarters in Kabul.
“The murderers who committed this despicable act deliberately chose to kill teachers because they fear the opening of the human mind,” Collins said.
Taliban extremists stormed into a house in the Narang district and killed five members of the family, including four women, two of whom were teachers.
“Teachers represent the future of a free and open Afghanistan,” Collins said. “The Taliban extremists represent only the sad, backward-looking past, so they murdered five innocent people.”
Provincial Governor Shalizia Didar confirmed the incident and blamed “enemies of the country,” a term often used to describe Taliban extremists. Didar said he called a meeting of local elders and Afghan national security forces to pursue the murderers.
Afghan police officials are investigating the crime.
(Information provided by a Combined Forces Command Afghanistan press release.)
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2371
U.S., Iraqi Forces Capture 50 Insurgents, Seize Numerous Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2006 – U.S. and Iraqi forces captured 50 insurgents and found numerous enemy weapons caches during operations conducted over the past three days, U.S. military officials reported.
Operations today included:
-- Coalition forces detained eight suspects today during operations in Baghdad that sought to put a murder and kidnapping cell out of business, officials said. The cell is believed responsible for murdering Iraqis in the Adhamiyah district, and its leader is allegedly linked to al Qaeda.
-- Iraqi national police and coalition forces teamed today to seize two weapons caches and detain six men suspected of carrying out sectarian murders and emplacing roadside bombs during operations in Baghdad’s al-Hadar neighborhood.
-- Special Iraqi army forces, with coalition advisors, today detained four suspects during operations in Baghdad conducted to capture a local insurgent leader implicated in attacks against Iraqi security forces.
-- Iraqi soldiers and police are teaming up today with U.S. troops from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, to conduct a joint sweep of the Adhamiyah section of Baghdad. The operation, dubbed, “Operation Cougar,” is designed to provide greater security for residents in the area.
In yesterday’s operations:
-- Special Iraqi security forces with coalition advisors captured a suspected leader of an insurgent group operating in and around Baghdad’s Sadr City district during an operation yesterday. The captured insurgent allegedly led an illegal group that kidnapped, tortured and killed innocent Iraqi civilians, officials said. The captured insurgent is believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least five innocent Iraqi citizens earlier this year.
-- American soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, detained 10 suspects and found a weapons cache in Baghdad yesterday. The soldiers found one grenade launcher with a round, seven AK-47 rifles with 22 loaded magazines, 3,300 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, two loaded sniper rifle magazines, six primers and one roll of wire, a pair of binoculars, and four radios.
-- Iraqi soldiers, with coalition advisors, rounded up five suspected terrorists and seized a weapons cache and some al Qaeda propaganda during an operation near Mahmudiyah yesterday. The Iraqi 6th Division troops and U.S. 10th Mountain Division soldiers raided a small building complex while targeting a suspected bomb-making cell believed responsible for several attacks against U.S. and Iraqi security forces. The cache yielded two AK-47 rifles, a mortar-cleaning kit, a shotgun, and a mortar explosive. Also found were al Qaeda propaganda and some documents indicating future attacks.
-- Iraqi 8th Division soldiers, with coalition advisors, captured an insurgent cell leader in al Kut yesterday. The detainee allegedly ordered attacks against U.S. forces operating in the area, as well as directed the emplacement of roadside bombs.
-- Iraqi and coalition forces discovered an improvised explosive device while on patrol northeast of Baghdad yesterday. Iraqi soldiers followed some suspicious wiring that led into the courtyard of a local mosque, where a bomb was found and disabled.
-- U.S. soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division found an enemy weapons cache containing some anti-aircraft weapons during an operation conducted south of Baghdad yesterday. The cache included a Soviet-made SA-7 “Strella” surface-to-air missile launcher and components of a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun. The captured weapons were old, deteriorated and seemed to be unusable without significant maintenance, officials said.
-- Iraqi soldiers with the 1st Division, with coalition advisors, conducted a raid near Karmah in Anbar province and captured eight suspected insurgents yesterday. One of the detainees is suspected of having threatened local citizens and of attacking Iraqi police.
-- Iraqi 7th Division soldiers, with coalition advisors, seized two insurgent cell leaders during a raid conducted in Ta’meem near Ramadi yesterday. The seized insurgents are affiliated with al Qaeda, and are suspected of planting IEDs that have been used against coalition and Iraqi security forces operating in the area. Three other suspects also were rounded up in the raid.
In operations Dec. 8:
-- Special Iraqi army forces, with coalition advisors, nabbed a suspected insurgent leader during a raid in Baghdad Dec. 8. The detainee is implicated in several kidnappings and murders of innocent Iraqi citizens, as well as arms trafficking and IED and car bomb attacks against Iraqi security forces.
-- 1st Battalion, 6th Brigade, Iraqi national police and coalition forces seized several enemy weapons caches during an early morning raid in Baghdad’s al Doura neighborhood Dec. 8. Local residents tipped off police about the location of the weaponry. Iraqi police found illegal weapons in area homes and in a mosque. Seized contraband included: four assault rifles, one machine gun, 42 mortar rounds, plastic explosives and assorted bomb-making materials.
-- U.S. Marines with Regimental Combat Team 5 killed a group of insurgents who were caught emplacing a roadside bomb in Saqlawiyah, west of Baghdad, Dec. 8. Three insurgents were killed and two vehicles were destroyed. The Marines had watched the insurgents place an IED underneath a tractor-trailer and a large truck.
-- Iraqi soldiers with the 1st Division, with coalition advisors, nabbed two suspected insurgents during a raid in Khalidiyah Dec. 8. The detainees are believed to be responsible for recent IED attacks against Iraqi security forces.
-- Iraqi and U.S. soldiers teamed up to find an IED factory in Baqubah and put it out of business during a Dec. 8 operation. Iraqi soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Iraqi Army, and American troops with the 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, found the factory inside a local residence. The factory contained more than five rocket-propelled grenades, small-arms munitions, 1,000 pounds of fertilizer, blasting caps and timers, fuel containers, several hundred feet of detonation cord, two compressed air tank IEDs, and other bomb-making materials.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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Mullahs host Jew-haters in Iran
Persian Journal ^ | Dec 10, 2006
Posted on 12/11/2006 2:01:18 AM PST by Biscuit85
Mullahs on Monday will open an international conference to examine the veracity of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, which Iran's arab-parast President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has labeled a "myth."
"For 60 years talking about the Holocaust was a crime in the West but now there is a serious debate about the Holocaust in the media and also in political and popular meetings," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on state-run TV on Saturday.
Iran's arab regime leader insists that the mass slaughter of six million Jews by Germany's Nazi regime is nothing more than a story contrived by Jews and Western governments to justify the establishment of the State of Israel.
He said many Western politicians are now open to the idea that the "original foundation of the Zionist regime was a mistake."
Sixty-seven Jew-haters from 30 countries have been invited to participate in the Holocaust conference.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25916
"The War Ayatollah"
By Patrick Poole
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 11, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A showdown over the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran is underway as the December 15th election of the Assembly of Experts, the top political body, rapidly approaches. The election of the Assembly of Experts has been a particularly contentious issue in Iran, as the traditionalist hardliners have already invalidated many candidates representing both the moderating party led by former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and the burgeoning extremist party led by President Ahmadinejad’s spiritual mentor, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi.
But this election has now taken on even greater importance with a news report from Michael Ledeen that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seriously ill and may be near death. Khamenei’s incapacity or death will require the Assembly of Experts to select a new Supreme Leader for the Islamic Republic, and Mesbah-Yazdi and President Ahmadinejad have been working relentlessly in recent weeks to secure alliances with a number of independent candidates in the Assembly of Experts election to possibly see Mesbah-Yazdi elevated to Supreme Leader.
The selection of Mesbah-Yazdi as Supreme Leader would undoubtedly herald a significant shift in Iran’s internal and external politics. If anything, Mesbah-Yazdi’s elevation as Supreme Leader would mark an extremist turn in the Islamic Republic’s approach to the West, as it would reinforce his protégé’s, President Ahmadinejad, aggressive stance on the development of nuclear weapons."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6167835.stm
Last Updated: Monday, 11 December 2006, 09:48 GMT
"Three children shot dead in Gaza"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Gunmen in Gaza City have shot dead the three sons of an intelligence chief linked to the Palestinian party Fatah.
One adult was also killed in the attack which took place in a street crowded with children on their way to school.
The boys' father was named as Baha Balousheh, who led a crackdown on the now-ruling Hamas movement 10 years ago.
The BBC's Alan Johnston in Gaza says the motive is unclear but Mr Balousheh's position means he would have made many enemies.
Tensions between Fatah and the Hamas government have frequently led to gun battles in the streets of Gaza that have killed dozens of people.
The attack came a day after gunmen shot at Interior Minister Saeed Seyam's convoy in Gaza. Mr Seyam, who is a senior Hamas leader, was unharmed in that incident."
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"Arab States Study Shared Nuclear Program"
Associated Press ^ | December 11, 2006 | ABDULLAH SHIHRI and DIANA ELIAS
Posted on 12/11/2006 2:39:53 AM PST by kingattax
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Dec 10, 2006 (AP)— The oil-rich Arab states on the Persian Gulf said Sunday that they will consider starting a joint nuclear program for peaceful purposes."
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Indonesia: Parents Forgive Killers
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
POSO, INDONESIA (ANS) -- The parents of the three Christian schoolgirls killed in Poso, Indonesia, last year have met with the militants accused of their murder – and forgiven them.
This was revealed in a story from UK-based Release International (RI), in which it said, “In an extraordinary scene, the families embraced the three Islamist extremists on trial for their daughters’ murders and shook hands as a sign of peace.”
The three defendants – named as Hasanuddin, Irwanto and Haris – repented of their crime and expressed their deep sorrow, according to AsiaNews. Indonesia’s vice-president Jusuf Kalla hailed the meeting, which was organized by Indonesian police, as “an opportunity to bring peace to Poso.”
The RI story went on to say, “Hasanuddin, Irwanto and Haris have all pleaded guilty to complicity in the murders and could face the death sentence. The three girls were beheaded as they walked to their Christian school in Poso in October 2005. A fourth girl, Noviana Malewa, escaped but suffered serious machete wounds.
“The trial of Hasanuddin, held separately from that of his two accomplices, has heard that he plotted the machete attacks from the library of an Islamic school run by his father-in-law. It emerged that the assassins had watched the girls over quite some time – and were expecting six to appear. Inexplicably, on the morning of the attack, only four turned up.
“AsiaNews also reports that the men attacked the girls partly ‘to avenge the death of many Muslims’ during the sectarian violence in Central Sulawesi from 1999 and 2001. Compass Direct says that Muslim and Christian leaders in Poso are due to meet this month to discuss ways to rebuild peace in the region.”
An RI spokesperson said, “Thank God for the powerful witness of the three Christian families who have been able to extend Jesus’ love and forgiveness to the men who killed their daughters. Pray that peacemaking efforts in Poso will gather momentum and bear fruit. Pray that God will be with Muslim and Christian leaders meeting to promote peace this month.”
The Release International website can be found at www.releaseinternational.org
Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com. danjuma1@aol.com.
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