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[World News at DXingInfo.Com] World News at DXingInfo.Com: RCI Cyberjournal: The Toronto Star reported Sunday that when agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents went to the US military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2003, they questioned three other detainees in addition to Omar Khadr, a Canadian-born terror suspect. The Star says the C-SIS agents interrogated two Algerians and a Mauritanian, all of whom had lived in Montreal.

[FaithWorld] FaithWorld » Blog Archive » “Sufi card” very hard to play against ...: zardari-sufi The late President General Zia-ul Haq was a Deobandi. With massive support from the United States, Saudi Arabia and other countries, he favoured Afghan .

[SWJ Blog] 29 June SWJ Roundup: The result is a stunning, firsthand history of the years from mid-2006, when the White House realizes the Iraq strategy is not working, through the decision to surge another 30,000 US troops in 2007, and into mid-2008, when the war becomes a fault line in the presidential election. As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

[New Articles on frontpagemag.com] FrontPage Magazine - Shi'ite Iran's Genocidal Jew Hatred: For example, Sultanhussein Tabandeh, the Iranian Shi’ite leader of the Ne’ematullahi Sultanalishahi Sufi Order, wrote an “Islamic perspective” on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to Professor Eliz Sanasarian’s important study of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic, Tabandeh’s tract became “”¦the core ideological work upon which the Iranian government”¦based its non-Muslim policy.” Tabandeh begins his discussion by lauding as a champion “”¦of the oppressed” Shah Ismail I (1502-1524), the repressive and bigoted founder of the Safavid dynasty, who “”¦bore hatred against the Jews and ordered their eyes to be gouged out if they happened to be found in his vicinity.” It is critical to understand that Tabandeh’s key views on non-Muslims, summarized below, were implemented “”¦almost verbatim in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” In essence, Tabandeh simply reaffirms the sacralized inequality of non-Muslims relative to Muslims, under the Shari’a:

[Belmont Club] Belmont Club » Sea change: The discussions have taken place in a series of secret meetings convened in the holy city of Qom and included Jawad al-Shahristani, the supreme representative of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who is the foremost Shiite leader in Iraq. An option being considered is the resignation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president following condemnation by the United States and other European nations for violence and human rights violations against unarmed protestors.

[SWJ Blog] 9 June SWJ Roundup: And as Israeli cabinet minister Yisrael Katz acknowledged yesterday, the victory of pro-Western forces "signals important tidings for the region and Israel". But as Lebanese citizens hold their breath and hope their fragile country can avoid renewed instability and sectarian violence, it is time to paraphrase Ronald Reagan's famous comment about the once-Soviet dominated Poland and "let Lebanon be Lebanon".

[CityNews: Top Stories] CityNews: Saddam Hussein Executed In Iraq: In court, Saddam has appeared wearing a white shirt and dark suit, his hair neatly trimmed and dyed black, a far cry from his dishevelled appearance when he was captured by U.S. troops in December 2003, hiding in a hole near Tikrit. If he is treated like other convicts, he could be hooded and dressed in green overalls with his hands bound behind his back.

[IraqSlogger.com] IraqSlogger: US Papers Wed: Shi'ite Civil War in Karbala: "This important shift by the Sunni tribes could come unglued if the Shiite-led Iraqi government doesn't start providing government services -- water, fuel and electricity -- to the Sunni areas the tribes have retaken." It could also come apart because the Sunnis "still hate us." "They just hate Al Qaeda even more right now and they hate the Persians even more than them," he quotes one U.S. general as saying. "But they could turn their guns back on us anytime." It's a sensible column on the sense of possibility that is tantalizingly close, but with a real sense of the dangers ahead.

[News, Opionion and Features from Asharq Alawsat English Edition] Q & A with Iraqi Deputy Premier Rafi Al-Issawi Asharq Alawsat ...: When we participated in the political process and when I came to parliament before joining the government, there were only Sunni groups in the field, such as Al-Tawafuq and others, the main Shi'ite coalition, namely, the coalition, and the Kurdish groups. During that period, if anyone suggested to any member of these groups to withdraw and believe that he has no chance in political action because only these projects were available then.

[TalkLeft] 1815 Dead in Baghdad Morgue in July - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime: There are dozens of NGOs, i.e., UNICEF, Harvest Help, Orphanage Africa, and so forth, which could, in absolutely unembellished terms, save several lives from trivially preventable diseases with the money you spend on simple comforts. For example, the home computer you likely use to comment here, or even the time you spend here that could be used in a charitable way.

[blogs.telegraph.co.uk blog listings.] Telegraph Blogs » News » Barack Obama's folly: believing he can ...: notion of Obama’s coupled with his recent statement that the US “is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world” merely serves to underscore his naivete and lack of experience and knowledge about history and the real state of affairs in the world…we have elected a diplomatic neophyte…a lightweight whose paucity of intellectual acumen about things that truly matter becomes more and more evident with each passing day….no doubt the various mullahs,imams,and ayatollahs are snickering in their beards about this rookie.

[rails of war] rails of war » Archive du blog » Friday Afternoon Roundup - Iran ...: The straw that on one’s uppers the camel’s close up came with the shah’s egalitarian ruling that Iranian officials were unfettered to accept their expletive of occupation on whatever pure scripture they preferred - - including the Christian Bible. The mullahs eye Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini rose to hang back the shah in mosques and seminaries and to be instantly of his killing from the throne.

[Pakistan Politics] Pakistan Politics» Blog Archive » Visitors Views & News - Week 4 ...: Democracy teaches tolerance,respect of people’s mandate,criticizing Govt’s negative sides in order to improve and appreciate positive sides to encourage.Unfortunately,Dictators run the govt for decades but when it comes to democracy,some class of ppl cant hardly wait for few months and start crying and making all sort of nefarious propaganda in order to malign leadership and destabilize Govt.

[Blog Them Out of the Stone Age] Blog Them Out of the Stone Age » The Urge to Surge: I haven’t had time to write it up (and with Winter Quarter coming like a freight train can’t imagine I’ll ever find the time), but for weeks now I’ve been mentally composing a long, discursive post on the Bush administration’s dogged assertion — and apparently sincere belief —

[SWJ Blog] 18 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blogs and Events Roundup (SWJ Blog): But even in their return - which transpired a day earlier as part of a swap with Hezbollah, who traded the men's bodies for the remains of some 200 Lebanese plus five Lebanese prisoners - there is still unease about the lopsided trade-off and questions about balancing the interests of affected families against those of the state. Under a sweltering July sky at the Nahariya military cemetery, which overlooks the same Mediterranean that hugs the Beirut coastline where Hezbollah continued victory celebrations Thursday, many family members and friends who eulogized "Udi" - Ehud Goldwasser - seemed to want to shift the sentiment that Israel had somehow lost to Hezbollah.

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