Free Republic

SNIPPET: "An Argentine prosecutor has accused Iran of trying to infiltrate countries in Latin America to sponsor and carry out "terrorist activities". Alberto Nisman said Iran was attempting to set up intelligence-gathering stations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and other countries in the region. Mr Nisman is investigating a bomb attack that killed 85 people in a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in 1994." SNIPPET: ""I legally accuse Iran of infiltrating several South American countries to install intelligence stations - in other words espionage bases - destined to commit, encourage and sponsor terror attacks like the one that took place against...

Sen. Levin hit with pie, woman arrested By Michael O'Brien - 08/16/10 01:58 PM ET A Michigan State student was arrested Monday after allegedly throwing a pie in the face of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). According to multiple reports, police arrested 23-year-old student Ahlam Mohsen on assault and battery charges after she reportedly threw a pie in the senator's face during a question-and-answer session at a deli in Big Rapids, Mich. Mohsen told a local ABC affiliate her action was to protest Levin and other Democrats' support for Israel. "People tend to blame the war on Republicans, but we wanted...

A secret intelligence dossier currently being reviewed by US, Israeli, German, and Austrian governments reveals secret Iranian tests and hierarchies of power dedicated to the successful development of a nuclear bomb, and predicts that Iran will have a primitive nuclear bomb by year's end. According to the classified document featured in an exposé by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, Iran is well on its way toward obtaining its first nuclear bomb. The country's nuclear research program, it turns out, has a military wing answering to the Defense Ministry which the West was not aware of until now. Der Spiegel explained the...

BAGHDAD, May 30 (Reuters) - U.S. troops arrested the leader of one of Iraq's main Sunni Arab political parties at his house in Baghdad on Monday, party officials said. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the arrest of Mohsen Abdul-Hamid, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party. The party officials said it was not clear why he was arrested. The party boycotted Iraq's Jan. 30 elections but was among several Sunni Arab groups that signalled this month that they were ready to take a greater role in the country's politics. Iraq's parliament, dominated by Shi'ites and Kurds, has...

WASHINGTON (Online): US court has sentenced a Pakistani national in a closed hearing for his role in a weapons sting that offered shoulder-launched Stinger missiles and other high-powered armaments.US District Judge Donald Graham closed the hearing, but it could not be learned why and no one would say what sentence Mohammed Rajaa Malik received Friday. “I can’t tell you the results, sorry,” defense attorney James Eisenberg said after the hearing, during which the courtroom doors were locked. Malik, 52, and Diaa Mohsen, 58, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to attempted arms exports in violation of the Arms Export ...