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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Israeli terrorism


The UK has expelled Mossad’s chief agent in London for “intolerable” use of British passports in the recent Dubai assassination of a Hamas leader and a “profound disregard” for the UK and its sovereignty. Of course, the Zionist-run state of Israel has ‘profound disregard’ for the sovereignty of many countries, e.g. Ireland, France, Germany and Australia (whose passports it has forged for terrorist purposes on a regular basis). It does not respect the sovereignty of Arab countries whose territory it continues to illegally occupy — Palestine, Lebanon, Syria. It does not respect countries it has attacked and militarily occupied in the past and countries against which it has perpetrated genocide (Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan) and the countries whose sovereignty it threatens to violate at any time of its own choosing — Iran, Australia and, indeed, almost every other country on earth. Documented details of 50 areas of concern in relation to gross Israeli violation of the sovereignty and laws of Australia have been sent to the Australian Federal Police, Australian MPs and the Australian media but the silence is deafening.

India successfully test-fires ballistic missiles


India successfully test-fired two types of short-range ballistic missiles on Saturday. According to Defence sources, the missile was fired from INS-Subhadra in the Bay of Bengal near Puri by Indian Navy personnel as part of training exercise. The 350-km range nuclear-capable 'Dhanush' missile is a naval version of 'Prithvi'. The sophisticated radar systems located along the coast monitored the entire trajectory of the vehicle.

Israel condemned at Arab summit


Regional leaders meeting in Libya have been united in their condemnation of Israel's settlement activity in occupied Palestinian land. The Arab League summit began on Saturday in the Libyan city of Sirte, with Amr Moussa, the Arab League chief, warning that continued Israeli settlement building would end efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. "We have to study the possibility that the peace process will be a complete failure," Moussa said in his opening speech to the two-day annual summit. "It's time to face Israel ... We have accepted an open-ended peace process but that resulted in a loss of time and we did not achieve anything and allowed Israel to practise its policy for 20 years." Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as a joint capital for a future state, has been a particular point of focus for delegates.

Agencies Suspect Iran Is Planning New Atomic Sites

Iran's nuclear program is one of the most polarizing issues in one of the world's most volatile regions. While American and European officials believe Tehran is planning to build nuclear weapons, Iran's leadership says that its goal in developing a nuclear program is to generate electricity without dipping into the oil supply it prefers to sell abroad, and to provide fuel for medical reactors. Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands. The United Nations inspectors assigned to monitor Iran’s nuclear program are now searching for evidence of two such sites, prompted by recent comments by a top Iranian official that drew little attention in the West, and are looking into a mystery about the whereabouts of recently manufactured uranium enrichment equipment. In an interview with the Iranian Student News Agency, the official, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had ordered work to begin soon on two new plants. The plants, he said, “will be built inside mountains,” presumably to protect them from attacks.

Iraq coalition talks 'open to all' - Iyad Allawi


The leader of the secular alliance that narrowly won Iraq's parliamentary election has offered to work with all parties to form a coalition government. Iyad Allawi said his Iraqiya bloc would start by talking with the rival State of Law alliance of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, which it beat by two seats. Mr Maliki has refused to accept the result and said he would challenge the count through the courts. Both the UN and US envoys to Iraq have said the 7 March poll was credible.There is concern that a challenge to the result could be lengthy and divisive, endangering progress towards greater stability. Sectarian violence erupted in Iraq as politicians took months to form a government after the last parliamentary election in 2005. Police on Saturday raised the death toll to at least 52 from twin bombings a day earlier near a restaurant in the town of Khalis, 80km (50 miles) north of Baghdad. More than 70 people were injured in the blasts.

US drone strikes kill four militants in North Waziristan


Suspected US drones fired missiles at a militant hide-out in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, killing at least four insurgents. According to sources, In the attack, the drones fired two missiles and flattened a nearby house near Mirali, one of the main town in North Waziristan, killing four militants. The houses targeted belonged to Omer Khan and Mulvi Zakir. Officials say some of the men slain in attack were believed to be foreigners.  Several planes overflew the area after the attacks.

Israelis divided over settlements?


In recent weeks, the relationship between Israel and the US has grown tense as the White House continues to demand a freeze on illegal settlement growth in the West Bank despite adamant refusal from Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, to do so. For Israelis the row was embarrassing, but hardly a surprise. To a people already sharply divided over settlements and their place in the peace process, the feud was seen to mirror Israeli society's inner conflicts. Noga Martin, a former Israeli journalist, says that she hopes to see Palestinians form an independent state. But for this to happen, she says, "illegal outposts have to go". "They [illegal outposts] strike me as a completely unnecessary provocation that only throws fuel on the fire," Martin says. "I have no personal hatred toward the settlers," she adds, "except for the ones who act violently." During the annual olive harvest, settlers sometimes attack Palestinian farmers and set fire to their groves. In Hebron, a Muslim-majority city in the West Bank with a small Jewish presence, tensions flare on a regular basis - with settlers throwing stones, garbage, wine, and bottles of urine at Palestinians. Many observers also point to the presence of the Israeli military in the settlements as a measure which emboldens settlers.

Landmarks go dark, millions unplug for Earth Hour


The white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark Saturday night, one of the first landmarks to turn out the lights in an hour-long gesture to be repeated by millions of people around the world who are calling for a binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Asian cities followed Australia and New Zealand as the fourth annual Earth Hour cranked up. Buildings in some 4,000 cities in more than 120 countries were expected to unplug to reduce energy consumption and draw attention to the dangers of climate change, according to organizers. The event will roll across the world, with participants turning off the lights when the clock strikes 8:30 p.m. local time. From a shopping mall in Manila to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Empire State Building in New York, landmarks and skylines will dim. "We have everyone from Casablanca to the safari camps of Namibia and Tanzania taking part," said Greg Bourne, CEO of World Wildlife Fund in Australia, the environmental group that came up with the idea that started in Sydney in 2007 and has since grown to every continent. The shutdown is completely voluntary and street lights, traffic lights and other safety measures are unaffected.