[News.yahoo.com] Troops in Iraq Told to Stay Put ABCNEWS.com video via Yahoo! News - Fri, Jul 28, 2006; Tours of duty extended CNN video via Yahoo! News - Fri, Jul 28, 2006 ...
[Electroniciraq.net] Hosts of college students from the west Anbar governorate of Iraq are spending their summer holidays doing volunteer work in hospitals, clinics and camps for displaced persons. "We can't just sit back and watch conditions deteriorate without offering some help, especially given the current lack of professionals," says Othman Bakr, a 24-year-old student of medicine from Ramadi.
[News.yahoo.com] Troops in Iraq Told to Stay Put ABCNEWS.com video via Yahoo! News - Fri, Jul 28, 2006; Tours of duty extended CNN video via Yahoo! News - Fri, Jul 28, 2006 ...
[Electroniciraq.net] Hosts of college students from the west Anbar governorate of Iraq are spending their summer holidays doing volunteer work in hospitals, clinics and camps for displaced persons. "We can't just sit back and watch conditions deteriorate without offering some help, especially given the current lack of professionals," says Othman Bakr, a 24-year-old student of medicine from Ramadi.
[Iraqdaily.com] BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Handwriting experts authenticated Saddam Hussein's signature on memos approving death sentences for 148 Shiites and the confiscation of farmland during a crackdown in the 1980s, the... (photo: Bob Strong/Pool/Getty Images)
[FreedomsZone] I stated that the last time the United States government overthrew an Iranian government, back in 1953, it destroyed a democracy and instituted a dictatorship. Instead of removing the chains of tyranny from the Iranian people, it helped to put them on, and helped keep them on for the 26 years that the Shah remained in power.
[http://www.taoofdefiance.com] The book looks back at the very beginning of the Muhammedan creed, when “Islam began in banditry” and spread over centuries of tyrannical and barbaric Imperialism, conquering through brutality, greed and deception. Seeing Islam as a culture rooted in war By Carlin Romano It sounds like yesterday’s newspaper: Growing lawlessness”¦ led to the formation of citizen organizations for defense and reprisals”¦ .
[Time.com] Critics of the Administration say Bush's hard public line against the so-called "Axis of Evil," combined with the threatened war with Iraq, have acted as a spur to both Iran and North Korea to accelerate their nuclear programs. "If those countries didn't have much incentive or motivation before, they certainly did after the Axis of Evil statement," says one western diplomat familiar with the Iranian and North Korean programs.
[Lexicorient.com] Two titles have been used for him, 'Ayatollah', which is the title of a religious leader, but not the highest in Shi'i Islam. This was Khomeini's title at the time of the Iranian revolution, but he soon took the title 'Imam', which is definitely the highest position in Shi'i Islam.
[lgf: the reality around us is problematic] The lorry set off from Kent on its way to Tehran but was stopped by officials at a checkpoint on Bulgaria’s northernborder with Romania after a scanner indicated radiation levels 200 times above normal.
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[THE TENSION] Israeli soldiers look as smoke rises over a hill in southern Lebanon following shelling by Israeli forces, in town of Avivim July 20, 2006.
[The Irish Trojan’s Blog] Money quote: “The ascendancy of Ahmadinejad’s perfidious Iran is a spectacular problem for the United States, and a spectacular challenge. ”¦ If we succeed in Iraq (a considerable if) and fail in Iran, we will have failed in the Middle East.
[Iranchamber.com] On the afternoon of 'Ashoura (June 3, 1963), Imam Khomeini delivered a speech at the Feyziyeh madreseh in which he drew parallels between the Umayyad caliph Yazid and the Shah and warned the Shah that if he did not change his ways the day would come when the people would offer up thanks for his departure from the country. The immediate effect of the Imam's speech was, however, his arrest two days later at 3 o'clock in the morning by a group of commandos who hastily transferred him to the Qasr prison in Tehran.
[Rotten.com] At the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Khomeini faced a public that had been demoralized by massive casualties and a peace agreement which amounted to an outright defeat. To cheer up the masses, the normally humorless cleric decided to have a little fun and issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on Muslims everywhere to kill an obscure, semi-talented author named Salman Rushdie for writing a tepid book called The Satanic Verses:
[THE TENSION] "The answer to your question is in particular from the American perspective, if I can be allowed that. Before 9/11 the terrorist group that had killed more Americans actually was Hezbollah and with the catastrophic attacks of 9/11 Al-Qaeda moved up in that deplorable category as having killed more Americans."
[Bring it On!] All the time it takes to simply place a new set of pricing placards upon the sign out front, indicating a change in the cost of fuel at the pumps. A very disturbing thing happened all across America on Sunday, indeed, all across the world it seems, a very disturbing act of piracy and international commercial fraud.
[THE TENSION] (heritage.org) -- Yesterday’s cross-border attack by Hezbollah (Party of God), the Lebanon-based terrorist group, which resulted in the deaths of three Israeli soldiers and the capture of two soldiers now held hostage in Lebanon, has opened up a volatile second front on Israel’s northern border. With this provocative attack, Hezbollah in one stroke has enhanced its prestige in the Arab world, diverted the world’s attention from a growing crisis over Iran’s nuclear program, and escalated pressure on Israel, which already was engaged in an intensifying confrontation with the Hamas-led Palestinian authority over a similar abduction of an Israeli soldier on June 25.
[THE TENSION] Yen Drops as Bank of Japan Says It Will Keep Rates `Very Low' American Voices: Notable Quotes From the Week in Business FOREX-Dollar gains as Mideast tension sparks safe-haven bid STOCKS Regional markets plummet Israel crisis sends oil above $78 Wall Street extended its losses for a third day on Friday TECHNOLOGY NASA Monitors Leaky Pipe on Shuttle LOCAL DC METRO Murder of Briton protecting woman sparks racial tension NATIONAL Rights groups sue Pennylvania town on immigrant law INTERNATIONAL Rice eyes North Korea, Myanmar in Asian tour Britain hits back...
Easy Persian - Free Online Farsi Language Lessons, MP3 Music, and ...
[Easypersian.com] In addition to Free Weekly Lessons and Quiz, this site provides you with some Persian music with English translation, introduces great contemporary poets of Iran such as Nima, Ahmad Shamlu, Sohrab Sepehri, Forough Farrokhzad, and F. Moshiri with brief notes on their works in English, and presents their poems with English translation.
[lgf: coherent questions is birocracy frase!] Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected Western demands that he respond to a new proposal regarding the cessation of Iran’s nuclear efforts by the middle of this month.
[THE TENSION] A Chinese leader visiting North Korea days after its missile tests said on Monday that Beijing stood by its Communist neighbor, adding to uncertainty about China's position in the standoff. FINANCIAL Currencies: Traders bet on Fed rise, spurring a dollar rally Gold Down on Crude-Oil Price Fall Oil eases under $74 before Iran nuclear talks NATIONAL Ten years later, Redneck Games still popular, tacky INTERNATIONAL U.N.
[Captain's Quarters] This issue has percolated between Washington and Moscow since the 1990s, when the Clinton administration refused to negotiate -- rightly -- while Moscow built Iran's nuclear capability. Back then, experts considered an Iranian nuke to be more than a decade away, and the US decided that a unilateral approach to Iranian nuclear ambitions suited our purposes.
Appel à l’action le 28 octobre, 2006, Mettons fin à l’occupation de l’Afghanistan par le Canada
[International News (I.N. Daily)] Appel à l’action le 28 octobre, 2006, Mettons fin à l’occupation de l’Afghanistan par le Canada Saturday, Jul 8 2006 Canada and Iraq-Iran-Afghan... Editor 11:16 pm Le Collectif Échec à la guerre, l’Alliance canadienne pour paix, le Congrès du travail du Canada et le Congrès islamique du Canada lancent conjointement cet appel à une journée de protestation pan-canadienne, le 28 octobre 2006, pour exiger le retrait des troupes canadiennes d’Afghanistan.
Farsi, the most widely spoken Persian Language, a Farsi Dictionary ...
[Farsinet.com] Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spokenmember of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, asubfamily of the Indo-European languages. It is the language ofIran (formerly Persia) and is also widely spoken in Afghanistanand, in an archaic form, in Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountainregion.
[Lib.utexas.edu] Mashhad - East (446K) and Mashhad - West (764K) (topographic maps in Russian) original scale 1:10,000 Portions of Soviet General Staff maps J-40-144 1 and 2 1971
