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Friday 12th March 2010
It would appear that recruiting British citizens for embedding illegal settlements in Palestine is an approved activity in the UK. This open undepinning for ethncinc cleansing in Palestine based on dodgy Biblical claims mirrors the West's policy of criminal complicity in the sordid affair. Arguably, British citizens who settle in Israel may be accessories to a crime if they move to these illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, contravening the 1977 additional protocol and the International Criminal Court Act 2001, which the UK has ratifid. Instead of ammending laws to appease alleged Israeli war criminals, Britain should own up to its obligations and make its own foreign policy and citizens follow civilised norms.
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Friday 12th March 2010
After the elections, Iraq faces a long period of horse-trading as factions struggle to form a coalition government. Estimates suggest a marginal lead for the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition, with Ayad Allawi second – though Allawi has failed to meet similar expectations in the past – and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) a close third. The leading Kurdish bloc, the Kurdistan Alliance of the PUK and KDP could come either third or fourth. This outcome – which would be the result of the sectarian vote being split – would mean at least a month of horse-trading and uncertainty as parties and blocks jockey for positions of power and concessions on outstanding disputes.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
As the land of the "free" turned into a continent blighted by gulags and torture chambers, Washington's Blairite cheer leaders are said to have been left in the dark about the decent of the West into barbarity. Britain's ex M15 boss tries to salvage a semblance of credibility after David Milliband's verbal contortions trying to defend the indefensible. However, Milliband's recent tussle with the Judges, on revealing his department's documented collusion with torture, shows that Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller may still be a voice from the recent past rather than a depiction of current British take on the barbarity rife and thriving again under Obama in Washington.
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Friday 12th March 2010
Secretary Gates could not sustain his fabrications on Iran. He is trying to keep a "fig leaf" over his blatant lies. During the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, the United States provided money and weapons to jihadi fighters, support critical to defeating the Soviet military. But in the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal, the country plunged into a civil war that resulted in the Taliban ultimately taking over much of the country, whose leaders in many cases had been the beneficiaries of American support a decade earlier. Ignoring this hostory US Defence Secretary was mud racking in accusing Iran of supporting the Taliban. Asked about the American allegations, President Ahmadinejad responded: "What are you doing in this region? You are 12,000 kilometers away from here, your country is the other side of the world, what are you doing here? This is a serious question."
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Friday 12th March 2010
Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament voted narrowly to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in World War I. The Turkish government condemned the resolution, saying it was "based upon major errors and without foundation". The Swedish government opposed the opposition resolution but it passed by one vote after some MPs voted against party lines. It comes days after a US congressional panel passed a similar resolution. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled a visit to Stockholm scheduled next week and issued a statement criticising the vote.
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Friday 12th March 2010
Balming the financial crisis on accounting gimmicks rather than systemic flaws has become fashionable. The underlying "fraud" undepinning "free market" capitalism is once again laid bare in the detailed report on the collapse of leading US investmetn bank, Lehman Brothers. Unlike petty thieves, these gigantic establishment frausters are expected to return to lucrative jobs after a "decent" pause. Most others are still pocketing massive bonuses for their contribution to society!
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
With President Hosni Mubarak holding the dubious title of Likudnic neocons most acceptable face of Islam, clerics appointed by him also loose credibility. Meanwhile, a disillusioned Egyptian society is turning inwards at a rapid pace.
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Friday 12th March 2010
The chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, has been summoned to appear next week before an inquiry into devastating riots in 2002.
Mr Modi faces questions over the murder of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri. "Yes, we have summoned Mr Modi," the head of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) RK Raghavan told the BBC. "On 21 March, we will ask him a few questions. Then we will send a report to the Supreme Court," he said. The court set up the inquiry into the riots in March 2008.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
The lure of the oil moolah triumphs over greed-infested western morality yet again. Washington suddenly discovers that "Jihad" is a benign term! The US state department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad against Switzerland. Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive comments, said they did not reflect US policy and were not intended to offend. "I regret that my comments have become an obstacle to further progress in our bilateral relationship," Mr Crowley said. Last week, Libya's National Oil Corporation warned US oil firms of possible "repercussions" over Mr Crowley's reaction. The Libyan ambassador to the US sought to clarify Col Gaddafi's remarks saying the Libyan leader meant an economic boycott not "an armed attack". "I should have focused solely on our concern about the term jihad, which has since been clarified by the Libyan government," Mr Crowley added.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
The West may "adore" him to bits to gain access to Libya's oil moolah. Libya's despot remains a despised figure everywhere else. This month's Arab League summit hosted by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli has hit a snag. Lebanon is threatening a boycott over the mysterious disappearance of a renowned Lebanese political and religious figure 32 years ago. The inscrutable Gaddafi may have skeletons in his cupboard on this controversy
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
Soldiers were out in force last night in the troubled Nigerian city of Jos where aid workers were still counting the dead after a sectarian massacre in which hundreds of villagers were hacked to death or burned in their homes. Jos has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim dominated north and predominantly Christian south. Sunday's killings left Nigeria's already embattled acting-President Goodluck Jonathan scrambling to avoid a full scale conflict in a state that has been rocked by religious violence in recent years.
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