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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Lockerbie: The Man Who Was Not There

Welcome to Islamic Iran : From: ReturnOfLion

Lockerbie: The Man Who Was Not There
OhmyNews International - South Korea - Without naming them explicitly, the court declared that Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ayatollah Rafsanjani had authorized the assassination. ----- Read it Here : http://tinyurl.com/yt8lhj

Mesbahi said that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini personally ordered the revenge attack and that Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati had carried out the planning with Libya and guerrilla leader Abu Nidal.Velayati acquired his M.D. from University of Tehran and pediatrics degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971 and 1974, respectively. He was the foreign minister of Iran for about 16 years (Dec. 15, 1981, to Aug. 20, 1997), making him the longest-serving foreign minister in Iranian history. Velayati is the only high-ranking Iranian official who kept his post after the death of Khomeini.

Gordon Brown accused by US Adviser Over 'Hasty Troop Withdrawal' in Basra
British forces became embroiled in the fight to wrest control of Basra from Iranian-backed militias yesterday, as a senior US military adviser accused Gordon Brown of failing "as an ally" in his desire for a hasty withdrawal of troops.

Iran's Meddling in Iraq
As four more rockets thumped into buildings in the Baghdad Green Zone on Tuesday, it became devastatingly clear that promises made by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his trip to Iraq in early March were worthless. According to reports, two of the rockets landed in Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's compound but mercifully there were no deaths or serious injuries.
U.S. Ready to Strike Iran in Early April - Russian Intelligence Source
MOSCOW -- Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces have nearly completed preparations for a possible military operation against Iran, and will be ready to strike in early April, a security official said.

US warplanes widen airstrikes in Iraq
U.S. jets widened the bombing of Basra on Saturday, dropping two precision-guided bombs on a suspected militia stronghold north of the city, British officials said. Maj. Tom Holloway, a British military spokesman, said U.S. jets dropped the two bombs on a militia position in Qarmat Ali shortly before 12:30

Shiite cleric al-Sadr offers Iraq truce
Shiite Sunday, March 30, 2008
washtimes Sunday, March 30, 2008
BAGHDAD (AP) Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge. The offer is contained in a nine-point statement issued by his headquarters in Najaf....
Al-Sadr offers to end fighting
msnbc Sunday, March 30, 2008
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Sunday to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge....

Sunday, February 17, 2008

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

THIS DOES NOT CHANGE THE MAIN POINT: MULLAH'S ARE TERRORIST - THEY MUST GO!

The NIE Report: Solving a Geopolitical Problem with Iran : December 03, 2007 Geopolitical Intelligence Report George Friedman

The United States released a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Dec. 3. It said, "We judge with high confidence that in the fall of 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program." It went on to say, "Tehran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005." It further said, "Our assessment that Iran halted the program in 2003 primarily in response to international pressure indicates Tehran's decisions are guided by a cost-benefit approach rather than a rush to a weapon irrespective of the political, economic and military costs."

Click here for a copy of National Intelligence Estimate,
" Iran: Nuclear Intentions and capabilities"

PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE : http://tinyurl.com/2o84fx

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

One Rocket Explods near Parchin and the second unexploded one is laying on the ground outside the town

Report: Series of explosions rip through Iranian military site ; By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent - tags: military, Iran

A series of explosions blasted through a crucial Iranian military industrial site last Tuesday, according to a statement released by "The National Opposition Council of Iran." According to the statement, the explosions were in Parchin, about 30 km south of Tehran, and sparked a large fire which caused some injuries to personnel at the site. Many firefighting and rescue squads were called to put out the fire. In the statement, the opposition group who are linked with the Mojahedin-e-Khalq movement, maintains that the Iranian government are trying to prevent the publication of the blasts, and therefore only said that a fire raged at the site, but was quickly extinguished. Over the last four years, the group has divulged classified information regarding Iran's nuclear program, including locations of nuclear sites that the Iranian government failed to report to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Following continuous reports of nuclear development at Parchin, IAEA and U.S. officials demanded to inspect the site. However, only after several months did Iran agree to allow nuclear inspectors from the United Nations into the major military complex.

احتمال انفجار موشک در منطقه پارچین
گزارش دریافتی از تهران پارس: روز سه شنبه ساعت 5 عصر صدای مهیبی در پارچین شنیده شد. به گقته ساکنین این محل، یک موشک از پادگان پارچین شلیک شده و در نزدیک روستايی به نام "حمومک" برخورد کرده است. یک موشک هم عمل نکرده و نزدیک به پارچین فرود آمده و برای همین شهرک مسکونی پارچین را تخلیه کردند. سه شنبه شب اتوبان خراسان را یگان ویژه پلیس بسته بود و هلیکوپترهای پلیس هم در شرق تهران مخصوصا در حکیمیه در هوا در ارتفاع پائین دور می زد.

احداث سکو برای موشک انداز و استقرار موشک در مناطق مرزی

سایت حکومتی جهان: "فرماندهان نظامي انگليس با هلي‌كوپتر از مرز عراق و ايران در منطقه شلمچه بازديد كردند. در اين پروازها كه با 6 فروندهاي هلي‌كوپتر صورت گرفت، دو فروند هلي‌كوپتر فرماندهي رويال نيوز بريتانيا و چهار هلي‌كوپتر جنگي در ارتفاع پائين از وضعيت دروازه مرزي شلمچه بازديد به عمل آوردند. حضور اين تعداد هلي‌كوپتر و حضور فرماندهان نظامي انگليسي سوال برانگيز است. هواپيماهاي آمريكايي نیز بر فراز خرمشهر و محدوده مناطق شلمچه، آبادان و شمال غرب خليج فارس، عمليات‌هاي شناسايي و جاسوسي انجام مي‌دهند. آمريكا به بهانه كنترل ورود سلاح به عراق دست به پروازهاي جاسوسي بر فراز خاك جنوب ايران و نواحي هم مرز خوزستان با استان بصره مي‌زند و در اين اقدام از هواپيماهاي بسيار پيشرفته بهره مي برد. یک مقام عراقی گقت آن‌ها به احداث سكوهاي بتوني براي موشك اندازها و سنگرسازيهاي ايران در مناطق مرزي ايران با عراق در محدوده خرمشهر و آبادان با بصره حساس شده اند و مي گويند ايران در اين منطقه موشك مستقر كرده است. اين مقام عراقي خاطرنشان كرد: آمريكايي‌ها در اين عملیات از پايگاه‌هاي هوايي عراق و كويت سود مي‌برند."

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

PM tells London Jewish residents: Russia won't supply nuclear fuel to Iran haphazardly

Russia won't supply nuclear fuel to Iran
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent : Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Speaking to Jewish group in London on Tuesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert revealed that at his meeting last week in Moscow with the Russian president, he learned that "Russia has decided not to supply nuclear fuel to Iran." Olmert's talk followed a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after their meeting on Tuesday. Brown told reporters at that press conference that Iran's behavior is "unacceptable," and said that his country supports stepping up the sanctions against Tehran, both in the United Nations Security Council and also through the European Union. Brown also called for progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and offered British assistance for development of the Palestinian economy.
Brown began the press conference by declaring his friendship for Israel. "I have been a long-term friend of Israel," Brown said. "I have enjoyed my visits to Israel. Over many, many years my father [who was a minister in the Church of Scotland] spent many months in Israel," he added. Olmert said that "Brown's message on the sanctions is the right type of message. Economic sanctions can be effective, they already are effective, and another step is necessary so that Iran can cease its nuclear program. The Israeli leader refused to address the possibility that the sanctions may fail or whether that could lead to a military operation by the United States or Israel against Iran. In his address before representatives of the Jewish community in London, Olmert also said that "if we come to terms today with the Iranian nuclear program, in the future we will need to pay an unacceptable price, one that we cannot tolerate. This is a long process that will not be resolved in the near future, but I am optimistic." Olmert said that Israel is part of an overall international effort against Iran, which is being led by the great powers, and not, he stressed, by Israel. "I can reveal one detail of my meeting with Russian President Putin last week," Olmert said. "Russia has decided not to supply nuclear fuel to Iran, in spite of all the declarations and the rumors. Russia understands the implications of its decision, and understands that the international community expects it not to supply that nuclear fuel." The prime minister said that the Iranians maintain that they are close to reaching the "technological point of no return" in developing independent nuclear capability, in an effort to convince the international community that there is no point in pressuring them further. "They are not as far [from that point] as we would have liked, but also not as close as they are trying to portray. Therefore, there is an essential need now to pressure Iran, to force them to pay the kind of price that will make them change their stance." Olmert discussed extensively the negotiations with the Palestinians in preparation for November's planned Annapolis peace summit. "This is not a conference," he said. "When we say conference, we think about a few days of talks and negotiations between the participants. This is not the aim of the meeting at Annapolis, that from the start was meant to create the atmosphere that would encourage direct bilateral talks. We hope that we will be able to achieve a joint declaration prior to the meeting." The prime minister reiterated that "from the start we did not talk about a framework for a final settlement or a solution for all the issues that are still open, by later November and early December. It is hard to think that during such a short period it will be possible to solve the problems that have preoccupied us for 40 years, formulate [solutions] and rally support for them. This is not realistic and it is best not to create unrealistic expectations, so that we will not have to later deal with failure. "When the day comes for a final settlement, we will have to make painful sacrifices," Olmert said. "The Israeli public opinion will accept them, so long as the agreement will guarantee what is essential for the State of Israel - security for every one, safeguarding the Jewish and democratic character of the state, and also help for the creation of a Palestinian state that will be a homeland for the Palestinians." Olmert also said that he too is debating the question of whether the current Palestinian government is capable of implementing agreements it may sign with Israel. As a result of these concerns, he said, "we have decided that the implementation will be carried out according to the stages of the road map, and these begin with fighting against terrorism." The prime minister also defended his decision to hold negotiations with the government of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, even with the doubts about its ability to carry out its decision. "Any further delay may bring the moderates [in the PA] down, and in three years we would have Hamas in their place," Olmert warned.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

BBC documentary: Will Israel bomb Iran? Part 1 of 6

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Friday, July 06, 2007

Annihilation of Tehran and Other Iranian Cities

CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Nuclear Juggernaut : July 05, 2007 Chicago Tribune Editorial

With each passing day, with each triumphant pronouncement from Tehran (even if exaggerated for maximum effect), the chances dim that diplomacy will -- or can -- stop Tehran's juggernaut rush to develop nukes. This week, President Bush and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin talked about an escalation of pressure on Tehran. At the same time, reports swirled that the U.S. and its allies have offered the mullahs a "timeout." The proposal: The UN would stop pursuing a third round of sanctions if Iran stopped expanding its uranium enrichment program. Leaving aside whether this is a good or bad idea, here's a telling point: The offer was delivered weeks ago, the Associated Press reported. And Tehran apparently hasn't responded yet. It has been more than a month since Iran ignored the last UN Security Council deadline to freeze its nuclear program. Just in case anyone's keeping track. After two rounds of tepid sanctions and years of fruitless negotiations, one thing is clear: This is not a country looking to use its nuclear program as a bargaining chip for something else. It is a country looking to become a nuclear power. There are some officials who probably believe that a nuclear Iran is inevitable, and Tehran can be deterred from using such weapons. Remember what former French President Jacques Chirac said earlier this year? In an interview, he said (and later recanted) that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose a big danger. His reasoning: If Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon against a country like Israel, it would lead to the immediate destruction of Tehran. He didn't say anything about what would happen if Iran's arsenal grew beyond two or three weapons, which it surely would. A nuclear Iran is not inevitable. But it's time to stop pretending that someday the timid Security Council will work up the nerve to slap painful sanctions on Iran. Russia and China almost certainly won't go for it. That leaves these alternatives: - Tightening the squeeze. The mullahs look to be spooked by American-led efforts to curb banks and companies from doing business with Iran, as well as a U.S. campaign to rekindle the democratic reform movement in Iran. Iran's economy is shaky and gasoline rationing in the oil-rich country has triggered rare violent protests in recent days, with gas stations torched and state-run banks and business centers under attack. Iran depends on foreign suppliers for much of its gasoline; the rationing suggests that Iran is bracing for more international pressure and possibly a cutoff of some supplies. Authorities are also reported to be cracking down on political dissent. Encouraging as these signs of instability are, it's unlikely such efforts alone can create enough pressure to force Iran to back down. - Regime change. John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, has suggested this is the next best option if the Security Council doesn't impose strong sanctions on Iran. Iran's leaders may be feared and hated by some of their countrymen, but the regime doesn't appear anywhere near to collapse. Outside efforts to topple the regime are just as likely to backfire and rally Iranians behind their leaders. - Military action, by either the U.S., Israel or possibly NATO. Most likely, this would mean an air attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in hopes of setting back its program. Israel's former defense minister, Shaul Mofaz, reportedly told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that if sanctions were not strong enough to force a freeze, Israel and its allies would "have to reassess where we are," by year's end. Israeli leaders see Tehran as a threat to the Jewish state, particularly after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated calls to wipe Israel off the map. But a military strike could fail to destroy key targets, since some of Iran's nuclear facilities are underground or scattered across the country. And the backlash across the Middle East would be fierce. - Let Tehran go nuclear and then depend on traditional deterrence. That will be complicated and not at all assured. Iran need not launch a nuclear attack from its own soil. It could hand nukes to any of the terror groups it already avidly supports, including Hamas and Hezbollah. One serious question: If a terrorist set off a nuclear bomb, could the U.S. trace the attack to who detonated it and who provided the nuclear material? The worrisome answer: Maybe not. That's why the U.S. is quietly building up a "library" of nuclear samples from around the world, which would make it easier to determine the source of nuclear material in a blast. That is vital if the only viable option turns out to be deterrence. Everyone in the world -- from terrorists to Tehran's president -- should know with absolute certainty that the U.S. can and will trace any explosion back to its source. They must know, without a doubt, that an Iranian-inspired nuclear blast in an American city, even if delivered by affiliated terrorists, would bring swift and sure annihilation of Tehran and other Iranian cities.

Monday, July 02, 2007

In Hunt for Bomb Plotters, Britain Sees a Qaeda Link

LONDON, Monday, July 2 — With their investigation moving at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday for the plotters of attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow that the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda. Officers raided homes in three cities and arrested another suspect, bringing the total to five, including at least one identified as a medical doctor. The police said they had recovered a rich trove of evidence from the vehicles and from video surveillance after two car bombs failed to explode in London on Friday and two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee into the entrance of Glasgow Airport on Saturday. The events prompted the British authorities to raise their terrorism threat assessment to its highest level — “critical,” meaning another attack is imminent.One of the detainees was a medical doctor of Iranian-Kurdish descent, according to two people with knowledge of the police inquiry. One of those people, and a BBC report, identified him as Mohammed Asha, 26, and a newspaper, The Sun, said he worked at North Staffordshire hospital near the Midlands town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the police searched a house on Sunday. The man was arrested along with a 27-year-old woman when the police pulled over a car in a dramatic operation on the M6 highway in northwest England late on Saturday.
A second detainee may have been a hospital worker in Glasgow, a person with knowledge of the inquiry said. On Sunday, the police carried out a controlled explosion on a car in the parking lot of a hospital near Glasgow where one of the bombers was in critical condition with severe burns after attacking Glasgow Airport. The police said the car was linked to the bombers but did not explain how. None of the five suspects are British citizens, a senior Western official said. The disclosures altered the thinking among security experts about the nature of the seemingly amateurish attack plans, raising questions about how exactly the bombers were tied to Al Qaeda. They noted that gas canisters found with the Jeep apparently did not detonate — and were unlikely to have done so without a more powerful catalyst than ignited gasoline.Despite the British government’s assertions of a link to Al Qaeda, it presented no evidence of connections to Al Qaeda operatives or those who derive inspiration from the group. British intelligence agencies had warned the government last April that terrorist attacks might be initiated by Iranian Kurds to coincide with the end of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s term of office, according to a person who saw the warning. Mr. Blair handed power to Gordon Brown last Wednesday.The government has not confirmed that report, and it is unclear precisely why Iranian Kurds would be aggrieved. But a radical Kurdish group, Ansar al-Islam, was largely driven out of northern Iraq four years ago when American and British forces overthrew Saddam Hussein, and it has since found a haven in Iran, security officials have said.The people with knowledge of the inquiry requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. But Scottish officials said publicly that the two attackers who rammed the Jeep packed with gas canisters and gasoline into the entrance to Glasgow Airport were not from Scotland.Mr. Brown said in a nationally televised interview, “We will not yield, we will not be intimidated and we will not allow anyone to undermine our British way of life.” Britons already were edgy because of the looming anniversary of the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings, the country’s worst terrorist attack, and Mr. Brown said the country was dealing with a “long-term threat.”“It is not going to go away in the next few weeks or months, ” he said. He added that Britain was “dealing, in general terms, with people who are associated with Al Qaeda.”This is the first crisis for Mr. Brown as prime minister. It remains unclear whether the location of the Glasgow car bombing was inspired by Mr. Brown’s Scottish heritage. Anxiety about events in Britain rippled across the Atlantic. “It just goes to show the war on these extremists goes on,” President Bush said as he waited for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to arrive at his family vacation compound in Kennebunkport, Me. “You never know where they might strike.”The authorities at Heathrow, one of Europe’s busiest airports, briefly closed Terminal 3 while a suspicious package was investigated, which turned out to be harmless. Security experts and officials said that unlike most other terrorist attacks, when evidence is destroyed by explosions, the police have retrieved forensic evidence from vehicles and closed-circuit television and detained several suspects within hours of discovering suspicious acts.The police said Sunday that officers had searched homes at three locations — at Houston, near Glasgow, in southern Liverpool and in the Midlands location of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. One 26-year-old man was arrested in Liverpool, the police said. The authorities have not identified any of the suspects.Witnesses described the Glasgow bombers as being of South Asian descent. “The people we have in custody came to Scotland a short while ago to seek work,” a senior police officer, John Neilson, said at a meeting of Scottish Muslims in the Central Mosque in Glasgow. “These are not your young people.”Scotland’s justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, said the two attackers who slammed the Jeep Cherokee into the check-in area entrance of Glasgow Airport on Saturday were not “born and bred here.”“Any suggestion to be made that they are home-grown terrorists is not true,” he said. Senior counterterrorism officers said that even with a rapid investigation, it could take weeks to sift through a mass of evidence. “We are learning a great deal about the people who were involved in the attacks,” Peter Clarke, Britain’s highest-ranking counterterrorism police officer, said at a news conference in Glasgow. He said the link between failed car bombings in London and the attack on Glasgow airport “are becoming ever clearer,” and he called the investigation “extremely fast-moving.”Like the cars discovered Friday in London, the Jeep used in Glasgow was carrying propane gas containers. The car had not been stolen, the police said. The similarities involving the three car bombs have convinced investigators that they are linked, security officials in several countries said. In the past, some Muslim leaders have said Britain’s military actions in Islamic countries, notably Iraq and Afghanistan, has made it vulnerable to attack from disaffected members of its own Muslim minority of around 1.6 million. But Mr. Brown seemed focused more on blaming Al Qaeda.
“Irrespective of Afghanistan, irrespective of what is happening in different parts of the world, we have an international organization trying to inflict the maximum damage on civilian life in pursuit of a terrorist cause that is totally unacceptable to most people,” he said. Mr. Brown’s newly appointed counterterrorism adviser, Sir John Stevens, a former Scotland Yard police chief, said the car bombs signaled “a major escalation in the war being waged on us by Islamic terrorists.” “It is not simply the horror of yet more attempts at mass murder that is so chilling — but the change in the psychotic thought processes behind it,” he said in a column in The News of the World. “Now it is clear a loose but deadly network of interlinked operational cells has developed.”“Al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Baghdad and Bali onto the streets of the U.K.,” he said.In Liverpool, witnesses said the police moved in with dogs while a helicopter hovered to raid a modest row house at 80 Ramiles Road. “I saw policemen outside the house with guns,” a neighbor, Declan Murphy, 22, told The Press Association news agency. “They seemed to cover each other going to and from the house pointing their guns at the front door and the upper window.”Rachal Tansey, 27, said the raid happened after midnight “when I heard dogs barking.”
“I looked out of the bathroom window and saw men with big guns, and they barged into No. 80,” The Press Association quoted her as saying. “There was a bit of a commotion.” In Scotland, the police searched a house in Houston, about 15 minutes’ drive from Glasgow airport.Officers cordoned off a two-story house in Neuk Crescent. Plainclothes officers went door to door, talking to residents, while half a dozen officers stood guard in a torrential rain. Several local residents who ducked under the police tape to reach their homes said they did not know or have any contact with the two Asian men who were living in the house and who they believed were renting it. Estimates given to different journalists of how long the men had lived there varied from two weeks to six months. John Reid, who lives nearby, said he knew most of his neighbors but never had contact with the two men. “For all you’d know, it could have been an empty house because you never saw anyone at all,” he said. Mr. Reid said he was shocked to hear that terrorism had come to Scotland. “Before, we never had anything like this, it seems quite far away,” he said. “But now, it’s outside your front door.” A Western official with access to British and American intelligence reports said it was “not surprising” that a woman had been arrested. In the past, police have arrested women accused of helping terrorists by failing to report suspects to the police.But if the 27-year-old woman arrested on the M6 is directly involved in a terrorist attack on a Western country, it would be highly unusual and perhaps unprecedented, the official said, requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.
“We’ve always worked on the assumption, given that many women share the same ideology as the men, that it was only a matter of time before women became involved,” the official said.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Car bomb atack at Glasgow's Airport.

Britain Moves To Highest Terror Alert New
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30 Afghans Killed Or Wounded in Airstrikes
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Ibiza police detonate suspicious parcel : June 30, 2007 - 11:04PM

Police detonated a suspicious parcel at Spain's Ibiza airport after the airport was evacuated following a bomb warning, newspaper El Pais reported on Saturday. Earlier El Pais said a small bomb had exploded, without providing further details. The island is currently enjoying the start of the high tourist season, traditionally a magnet for thousands of British and German holidaymakers. The airport was evacuated after Basque newspaper Gara, the habitual mouthpiece of Basque separatist guerillas ETA, received a telephoned warning, Gara said on its website. The caller did not say whom they represented. Police officials confirmed earlier that Ibiza airport had been evacuated after a bomb alert, but declined to comment further. Basque rebels ETA said on June 5 they were calling off a 15-month-old ceasefire, which it had already effectively broken by bombing Madrid airport in December. Spain's Socialist government had attempted peace talks with ETA last year but called them off after the Madrid bomb, which killed two people. The armed separatists have killed more than 800 people in four decades of armed struggle for independence of ancient Basque territories in northern Spain and southern France. Polls show most inhabitants of the Basque Country, which already enjoys considerable autonomy, do not want to full separation from Spain.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Security searches after car bomb defused : By Sally Peck and agencies

Should we change our lives in the face of terrorism?
Video: London reacts to news Police statement
Con Coughlin: Car bomb is al-Qa'eda's greeting to Brown
Audio: Scotland Yard on how the bomb was defused
Brown: Remain vigilant Video: On the scene
Bravery Crying wolf? Witnessed by idiots?
Inside the bomb How it was defused
Brown reacts London's terror history
Plot failed because of luck and courage
UPDATE — Bomb components found in second car: “The second car was towed from Trafalgar Square to Park Lane overnight, because it was illegally parked, the sources said. At the Park Lane garage, workers called authorities when they became suspicious after news of the first incident, because the car smelled of gas. Police and security sources say the car was found to contain components very similar to the first car — definitely fuel, and possibly much more.” (CNN)

Security alerts have brought London to a standstill today as much of the capital was shut down while police investigated two suspicious vehicles hours after officers defused a bomb that "could have caused carnage" in London's West End.

The eastern side of Hyde Park was evacuated after Park Lane, which borders the park, was closed between Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner at 2.30 this afternoon while a police robot investigated the car. A 200m cordon was put in place, cutting off one of London's major transport arteries and causing further traffic chaos after reports of the suspicious vehicle. Two hours later, police cordoned off a 400m-stretch of Fleet Street between Fetter Lane and Ludgate Circus, in the heart of London's financial district, as they investigated a suspect vehicle. Two hours later, a spokesman for City of London police said the area had been made safe, but would not confirm whether police had found anything. The dramatic developments came after police defused an explosive device, consisting of gas cylinders and nails, which was found outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub at 2am in The Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus, in the heart of London's tourist district. Jacqui Smith, the new Home Secretary, called an emergency meeting of top officials this morning, calling the attempted attack "international terrorism." She said: "We are currently facing the most severe and sustained threat to our security from international terrorism. The car with the bomb was parked near Piccadilly Circus ."This latest incident reinforces the need for the public to remain vigilant and alert to the threat we face at all times. Similarities between the car bomb and Iraqi bomb plots have been highlighted by a British security official, according to the Associated Press. The head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, Peter Clarke, said police were alerted to a silver Mercedes car by an ambulance crew who noticed smoke inside it. The crew had been called to the scene just before 1.30am for an injury at a nearby nightclub. Officers inspecting the car found 60 litres of petrol on the back seat, gas cylinders and containers holding nails inside, which could have caused "significant injury or loss of life". The bomb was defused. A witness said the large silver saloon car was being driven "erratically" before crashing into bins and that the driver then ran off. Mr Clarke said that some aspects of today's bomb attempt "resonated with previous plots" and mentioned nightclubs as a potential target. But he also said detectives are keeping "an entirely open mind" as to who is responsible and called on the public to remain vigilant. Police have removed the car from the scene and are studying CCTV footage for clues. The immediate area has been cordoned off causing huge disruption and police said it will remain closed for some time. Oxford Street and Marble Arch are also closed, according to reports. However, Piccadilly Circus Underground station has reopened. Where the device was found in the West End
The Associated Press reported an anonymous official saying MI5 would examine possible connections between the incident and at least two similar foiled plots. One of these is the thwarted attempt to use limousines packed with gas canisters to attack targets in London and New York. Dhiren Barot and members of his gang were jailed for a combined total of 136 years for the plot earlier this month. A Whitehall source reportedly said: "It is entirely possible. There are various things - it is outside a nightclub, it is a vehicle-borne device, it is close to the anniversary of the July 7 attacks." Britain's security service MI5 currently determines the threat level for terrorism in the UK as severe - the second highest in the scale. It has been set as such since August 14 last year and means an attack is "highly likely" with "a continuing high level of threat to the UK". Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the incident reminds us that Britain faces "a serious and continuous threat" and the public "need to be alert" at all times. A police source said: "The indications that we have got so far are that it was certainly a big device." But a Westminster source said the device was believed to be relatively small and made of some type of home-made explosive. The source said police carried out a search of other key areas in the capital in the early hours of this morning after the Haymarket incident was discovered.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

THE SECOND BOMB COULD HAVE MADE MORE DAMAGE AND MAYHEM

2nd Bomb in 2 Days Explodes in IranSaturday, February 17, 2007, No one was injured in a bombing that took place near the site of an explosion that killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran this week, the country's state-run news agency said on Saturday.
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The official Islamic Republic News Agency said police and insurgents briefly clashed after the explosion at a school in Zahedan late Friday. No one was in the school at the time of the blast."The explosion left no casualties or injuries and didn't cause damages," Hasan Ali Nouri, governor of Zahedan, was quoted as saying by IRNA.Nouri had previously told the semiofficial Fars news agency that the blast was a "sound bomb explosion" _ a device that creates a loud boom but that usually does not cause casualties.Friday's blast came just hours after the funeral for the 11 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards who were killed in Wednesday's bombing.A Sunni Muslim militant group called Jundallah, or God's Brigade, had claimed responsibility for the attack. The blasts are a sharp flare-up of violence but the remote southeastern corner of Iran, near Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long been plagued by lawlessness. The area is a key crossing point for opium from Afghanistan and often sees clashes between police and drug gangs.The anti Government activities are a new form of resistence which started last year. Jundallah, has waged a low-level insurgency in the area and is led by Abdulmalak Rigi, a member of Iran's ethnic Baluchi minority, a community that is Sunni Muslim and also can be found in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rigi has said his group is fighting for the rights of all the Iranian under the rile of the Shea Khamani and especially the impoverished Sunnis under Iran's Shiite government.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

How the west can avert war with Iran

By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Gary Schmitt
Do the Europeans really want to prevent a war between the US or Israel and Iran? If they had to choose between curtailing trade with the Islamic republic, or seeing either America or Israel preventatively strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, which would London, Paris and Berlin prefer? These are not unfair questions: at no time since the European Union started the “EU3” negotiations with Iran’s clerical regime in 2004 have the Europeans probably had more leverage over Tehran’s actions. At no time since 2002, when it became clear that the mullahs were conducting a clandestine nuclear research programme, has there been a more critical moment for determining which path – diplomatic or military – the US and Israel will choose to try to stop Iran’s pursuit of the bomb.
Washington and Jerusalem clearly have no desire to attack Iran. But if the Europeans close down the option of boosting the soft-power of sanctions, the odds on military strikes will increase significantly. Most in Europe’s political elite may well agree with President Jacques Chirac of France when he recently revealed he had no problem with Iran having “one or two” nuclear weapons. Embracing the theory of deterrence, Mr Chirac apparently envisioned the Israelis or the Americans threatening annihilation of Iran as a means of escaping from the international contretemps provoked by the mullahs’ nuclear aspirations. The European hope is that the Americans and the Israelis will realise that an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites is unthinkable.
But what if the Americans or the Israelis do not see it that way? George W. Bush and many other Americans are not convinced that the theory of deterrence is either a moral or effective idea when used against a terrorist-supporting state. Is the US going to slaughter hundreds of thousands – even millions – of Iranians for an unclaimed nuclear terrorist strike? If Tehran launched a conventional terrorist attack on a US facility – such as the one it is strongly suspected of having masterminded on the Khobar Towers complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996 – would not Washington be even less likely to respond, knowing the other side has the bomb?
We know that Iran’s leaders allowed members of al-Qaeda to pass through their territory after al-Qaeda had successfully displayed its penchant for slaughtering Americans. Even after the anti-Semitic tirades of Mr Ahmadi-Nejad, which echo the “bye-bye-Israel” nuclear bravado of former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Europeans remain surreally casual about how a nuclear Iran could effectively intimidate Israel – politically, spiritually and economically. Both Americans and Israelis reflect seriously on the awful prospect of ideologically volatile Sunni Arab dictatorships obtaining their own nuclear weapons to counter Shia Iran’s bomb-enhanced ambitions.
Within Iran, is the clerical regime likely to reform, or become more paranoid, as internal dissent mounts? The permanently dysfunctional nature of the Islamic republic – the tension between theocracy and democracy and the corrupt, impoverishing statist economic structure guarantee the continuing insecurity of the regime and hence, in part, its willingness to use violence internally and externally. Since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Iranian society has been shearing away from its clerical overlords, who see themselves as the vanguard of the Iranian nation and the Muslim world. This process will continue and, with it, the anti-American and anti-Israeli animosity of the regime.
In 2003 when the British, French and Germans feared that Mr Bush might attack another “axis of evil” member, European nuclear negotiations with Tehran began in earnest. One of the most serious diplomatic undertakings in the EU’s history, the EU3 process signalled to the Iranians, as well as to all EU members and the US, that Europe would use both carrots and sticks to persuade the mullahs to cease their uranium enrichment activities. In the intervening four years, the EU3 has dangled various inducements before Tehran to no avail. Proceeding with tougher sanctions is a real opportunity for transatlantic relations; conversely, failure to do so will only signal how great remains the divide in relations.
Timing in a poker game is critical: if you do not know when to raise, you always lose. There are signs of serious political and economic turbulence inside the Islamic republic’s autocratic, socialist system. Iran’s rulers have now seen the Americans deploy a new battle group to the Persian Gulf, implement more aggressive rules to counter Iranian meddling in Iraq, interrupt the cash-flow of Iranian banks overseas (with some European participation), and watched the Americans and Europeans move forward with a sanctions regime at the United Nations. It is no coincidence that the internal Iranian discussion about Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s competence and the “nuclear energy” programme has heated up. The effect inside Iran of EU-imposed sanctions could be considerable, given the fragility of the Iranian economy and concerns among Iranians about the possible cascading effect of sanctions. Poker may well have been invented in Iran, but it came to the Americans via the Europeans. Do the Europeans still know how to play?
The writers are scholars at the American Enterprise Institute

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

PRESS RELEASE BY JONDOLAH REGARDING THE BUS EXPLOSION IN ZAHEDAN

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اطلاعیه جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله )
به نام خداجنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله ) بیانیه تفرقه انگیز حسنعلی نوری فرماندار رژیم در زاهدان مبنی بر ادعای اینکه مسلم کیخا شهید عقیده ، اصالت و مردانگی سیستانی و شیعه است را به شدت محکوم می کند.
اینگونه بیانات اقدامی در راستای تفرقه اندازی بین مردم شیعه و سنی ، فارس و بلوچ می باشد و این نوع حرکات در راستای ضرب المثل مشهور تفرقه بینداز و حکومت کن می باشد .
همچنین جنبش مقاومت مردمی باری دیگر تاکید می کند که هیچ یک از دلاوران مبارز دستگیر نشده و ادعاهای پوچ و بی اساس رژیم آخوندی را تکذیب می کند.
از آنجا که رژیم می خواهد بر ضعف خود سر پوش نهاده و وانمود کند که بسیار مقتدر است فورا اعلام کرد که ما عوامل اصلی این عملیات را دستگیر کرده ایم و نیز مسئولیت ضعف خود را بر دوش دیگر کشورها نظیر پاکستان انداخت .
کسانی که دستگیر شده اند از اقوام و خویشاوندان مبارزان هستند که هیچ گونه همکاری با جنبش نداشته اند و رژیم از این ترفند برای فشار بر مبارزین استفاده می نماید و در مورد آنچه که رژیم ادعا می کند که سلاح ها و مهماتی کشف نموده ، جنبش این نکته را تایید می کند ولی در خانه ای که این مهمات قرار داشته اند فردی حضور نداشته و کسی دستگیر نشده است .
ادعای رژیم مبنی بر کشف اسنادی در ارتباط رابطه جنبش با سرویس های اطلاعاتی امریکا و انگلیس کذب محض بوده و مضحکه می باشد و دال بر بی عقلی ، جهالت و نادانی مسئولان جاهل و نادان رژیم می باشد .
اولا : اگر ارتباطی با سرویس های اطلاعاتی می باشد این وظیفه شبکه اطلاعاتی و کادر سیاسی است نه شاخه نظامی .
ثانیا : بر اساس آموزشهای چریکی اسنادی نه اینچنین مهم بلکه اسناد معمولی را نباید در منطقه عملیاتی نگاه داشت .
ثالثا : جنبش هیچ نیازی برای برقراری ارتباط با سرویس های اطلاتی ندارد و باید برای عقل و خرد این سرمداران رژیم عزای عمومی اعلام کرد ( بر این عقل و خرد بباید گریست ).
و در آخر جنبش مقاومت مردمی شدیدا به تمامی سردمداران رژیم و مزدورانش در منطقه هشدار می دهد که جواب تمام این توطئه ها و تبلیغات دروغین ، دستگیری و شکنجه جوانان بیگناه و به پای تلویزیون کشیدن آنها و وادار نمودنشان به اعتراف به جرمهای ناکرده را در اسرع وقت آنچنان زیبا و خوب خواهد گرفت تا باشد عبرتی برای بی خردان زیرا که خردمندان تا به حال می بایست عبرت می گرفتند .
و ان شاء الله به حول و قوه الهی حیات خلوت دشمنان مردم ایران را در پایتخت کشور که آزادانه و با امنیت تردد می کنند تبدیل به جهنمی خواهیم کرد تا همه مستکبران عالم بدانند که قهر و خشم یک ملت با سرکوب خاموش نخواهد شد.
طی این اطلاعیه فرماندهی نظامی جنبش مقاومت مردمی به شرافت خود قسم یاد می کند که اگر جوانان بیگناه تا چند روز دیگر آزاد نشوند درسی به یاد ماندنی به رژیم خواهیم داد و تمام استراتژیها و دکترینهای ضد حکومتی را اختیار خواهیم نمود.جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران
انفجار زاهدان: اطلاعیه جدید جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله)
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جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله ) عملیات موفقیت آمیز چهارشنبه ۲۵ بهمن ماه ۱۳۸۵ دلاوران مبارز شاخه نظامی شهید احمد دهمرده را به عموم مردم ستمدیده بلوچستان و ایران تبریک عرض مینماید و همچنین این مژده را به مردم عزیز میدهد که رشته عملیاتهای اقتدار ۲ با موفقیت کامل به پایان رسید و به زودی رشته عملیاتهای اقتدار ۳ در ابعادی وسیعتر در سایر نقاط و مراکز حساس نظامی ایران به اجرا در خواهد آمد. موفقیت و پیروزی مبارزان در عملیاتهای متعدد مرهون خون مبارزان شهید و مردم بیگناهی که در زندانها و دادگاههای دژخیمانی همجون نکونام ها و بدون داشتن وکیل و اثبات جرمی به اعدام محکوم گشتند می باشد.
جنبش مقاومت به اطلاع مردم می رساند که اخبار مربوط به دستگیری مبارزین دروغ محض بوده و رژیم از روی ضعف و زبونی خویش در برابر مبارزین اینچنین شایعاتی را انتشار میدهد. طی این اطلاعیه فرمانده امیر عبدالمالک بلوچ رهبری جنبش مقاومت مردمی از اپوزیسیون خواستند که ندای حق خواهی مردم مظلوم ما را بیش از پیش به گوش هموطنان و جهانیان برسانند تا همگان بدانند که بر ما چه میگذرد. در ادامه ایشان افزودند که جنبش مقاومت مردمی به روشهای مسالت آمیز و مقاومت منفی و پرهیز از خشونت اعتقاد دارد تا زمانی که طرف مقابل نیز به این روشها احترام بگذارد اما هنگامیکه به اعتراضات مسالمت آمیز مردمی با خشونت پاسخ داده میشود دیگر این روشها ناکارآمد شده و توسل به این روشها پایان می پذیرد و در این مرحله است که چاره ای جر دست به سلاح بردن وجود ندارد. ما عدم خشونت را به عنوان یک استراتژی قبول داریم نه به عنوان یک اصل کلی و اساسی و اخلاقی . بنابراین استفاده از یک روش بی اثر هیچ پاداش اخلاقی ندارد و ما باری دیگر قبل از آغاز رشته عملیاتهای اقتدار ۳ رژیم را به فراهم نمودن زمینه برای راههای مقاومت منفی و اعتراضات دموکراتیک دعوت می نماییم و اگر رژیم از امروز این زمینه را فراهم نماید ما در انظار مردم ایران و حهان اعلام میکنیم که سلاح را بر زمین میگذاریم و در صورتیکه رژیم این زمینه را مهیا نکند ما نیز چاره ای به جز سلاح نداریم زیرا در کشوری که فضای خفگان بر آن حاکم باشد هیچ راهی برای زنده ماندن جز مقاومت مسلحانه نخواهد بود. جنبش ما هیچ گونه وابستگی با قاچاق مواد مخدر ، طالبان و القاعده نداشته و ندارد و اگر رژیم خود را صادق میداند چرا به نمایندگانی که از طرفش نزد ما می آیند اجازه نمی دهد تا حقایق را در رسانه های اظهار نمایند. خواسته های ما منطقی است و حقوقی است که همه انسانها در سراسر دنیا از آن برخوردارند و اولین خواسته ما این است که رژیم به منشور حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد احترام گذاشته و مطابق با آن ما حقوق اقلیتهای ملی و مذهبی را به رسمیت بشناسد . جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله )

Bomb in Zahedan Iran

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TEHRAN -- A booby-trapped car blew up a bus owned by the Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday, killing 18 people in a border city in southeast Iran where security forces and drug smugglers often clash, Iran's IRNA news agency said. The semi-official Fars News Agency said Jundollah (God's soldiers), a group Iran has linked to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility. The group has been blamed for past kidnappings and killings in the area. Fars and other agencies put the toll lower than the 18 cited by IRNA. An official in Zahedan, the city where the bomb struck, said the number of deaths was not yet clear. One aid worker was quoted as saying the carnage made it difficult to count bodies. The bomb was hidden in a car and exploded as the bus, belonging to a unit that transports employees of the Guards, passed by, IRNA reported. It was not clear if those killed were members of the Guards. "In this act 18 Zahedan citizens have been martyred. Rebels and those who create insecurity martyred these people in a terrorist act by laying a trap close to a bus," Qassim Rezai, a military commander, was quoted as saying by IRNA. Iran's student news agency ISNA said 11 were killed and 31 were injured in the incident that happened around 6.30 a.m. (3 a.m. British time).

SHADOWY GROUP Pictures from the scene showed crowds of people surrounding a mangled wreck of metal with only the back of the bus in a clearly recognisable shape. A spokesman in the Zahedan governor's office said he was still waiting for figures on the number killed. "Four people have been arrested for involvement with the bombing," he told Reuters without giving further details. Four people were in the car which appeared to be broken down on the road, Fars said. When the bus approached, the four fled on motorbikes parked nearby and the car exploded. "A group called Jundollah, under the leadership of Abdolmalek Rigi, the eastern rebels in the country, ... took responsibility for this terrorist act," Fars reported. Iran has said Jundollah, a shadowy Sunni Muslim group, was behind the murder of 12 people in a roadside attack in May, and other incidents. Officials previously said Rigi was a cell leader of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in Iran. Zahedan is close to the Pakistani and Afghan borders in Sistan-Baluchistan province, which resembles a war zone, dotted with forts, trenches and machinegun posts. Sunni regions in Iran, Sistan-Baluchistan, say they suffer discrimination in the predominantly Shi'ite Islamic Republic. More than 3,300 Iranian security personnel have died in the region fighting drug traffickers since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

انفجار بمب در مسیر اتوبوس سپاه پاسداران در زاهدان
به گزارش خبرگزاری فرانسه از تهران، در اثر انفجار بمبی که در مسیر یک اتوبوس نظامی در شهر زاهدان کار گذاشته شده بود، دست کم 18 نفر به هلاکت رسیدند.اتوبوس متعلق به سپاه پاسداران بوده و به گفته یک فرمانده محلی، شماری زیادی نیز در این عملیات مجروح شدند.بمب داخل یک اتوموبیل پیکان جاسازی شده بود و در مسیر اتوبوس نیروهای سپاه پاسداران قرار گرفته بود

.به گفته شاهدان، پیش از انفجار مهاجمان نخست با تیراندازی اتوبوس را متوقف کرده بودند.یک فرمانده محلی از دستگیری یکی از مهاجمان خبر داده است.خبرگزاری فرانسه نوشت استان سیستان و بلوچستان اکنون ماهها است که صحنه درگیریهای مسلحانه میان نیروهای حکومتی و افراد مسلح وابسته به گروه عبدالمالک ریگی است.در آخرین گزارشی که از سوی تلویزیون جمهوری اسلامی پخش شد، تعداد کشته شدگان انفجار امروز زاهدان 11 نفر اعلام شده است.اطلاعیه سازمان جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله ) بنام خدا .جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله ) به استحضار عموم مردم بلوچستان و ایران میرساند که حدود ساعت 6:30 صبح امروز چهارشنبه 25 بهمن ماه 1385 دلاوران شاخه نظامی شهید احمد دهمرده با طراحی عملیاتی از رشته عملیاتهای اقتدار 2 توانستند در مسیرعبور یک دستگاه اتوبوس حامل مقامات بلند پایه سپاه پاسداران بمبی را منفجر نموده که در این عملیات بسیاری از این جنایتکاران رژیم به هلاکت رسیدند.

این عملیات در ادامه عملیاتی بود که چندی پیش بر اثر عمل ننمودن چاشنی نافرجام مانده بود .عملیات صبح امروز در پاسخ به اعدامهای اخیر در منطقه بلوچستان صورت گرفت و اخبار منتشر شده از رسانه های دروغ پراکنی رژیم مبنی بر دستگیری یکی از مبارزین در محل کذب محض می باشد.در ساعات آتی جزییات بیشتری از این عملیات برای هموطنان عزیز انتشار خواهد یافت .جنبش مقاومت مردمی ایران (جندالله

Revolutionary Guards Killed in Bomb Blast

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February 14, 2007 Daily Telegraph Matthew Moore and Agencies
At least 11 people have been killed in an unprecedented bomb attack on a bus carrying Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. The blast happened in the southeast of the country, near the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, where government troops often clash with drug smuggling gangs. A bomb hidden in a car was detonated as the bus taking soldiers from their housing compound in the city of Zahedan to a military base drew near. According to some reports armed motorcyclists shot at the bus to force it to stop, then fled after the explosion. It is not yet clear how many of the dead were from the Revolutionary Guards, a highly-trained and loyal force run separately from the Iranian army. Iranian television showed a large crowd gathering around the twisted wreckage of the bus at the scene of the explosion. Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province which borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been hit by a string of attacks and kidnappings blamed on a Sunni group called Jundallah (Allah's Brigade). The Revolutionary Guards are loyal to the Shia theocracy established in Iran after the 1979 revolution. A spokesman in the Zahedan governor's offices said that two people had been arrested in relation to the attack.

We `ve got Atom bomb, We` ve discovered DNA on the Kitchen Table!!

According to Khameini and his side-kick Ahmadi-nejad the IRI has reached the pinnacle of Science and Technology and with the help of the bright Young Islamic Students , Iranians can now build Atom Bombs and that their 16 year old girls can discover DNA on their home kitchens. LOL .

Please take a look at how their so called students write their banners. IT IS LAUGHABLE. Reminds me of the Comical Ali in Baghdad and how he was announcing to the world on camera that " What Americans, Its all a big Lie. They are not within 500 miles of Baghdad " when at that very moment you could see the American tanks and their flags waving in the distance "AS HE WAS SPEAKING "!....

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در مملکتی که رهبرش آ سيد علی آقای روضه خوان ؛رييس جمهورش يک بيمار روانی ؛ وزيران و وکيلان و صاحب مقاماتش ؛ مشتی قبر کن و کفن دزد و يقنعلی بقال و مش قاسم باشند ؛ هيچ تعجبی ندارد که دانشجويانش هم کسانی باشند که در اين تصوير می بينيد .
شما که شبانه روز سر گرم دشنام دادن به امريکا هستيد و می خواهيد پوزه شيطان بزرگ را بخاک بماليد ؛ دستکم برويد دو کلام انگليسی ياد بگيريد که اينجوری باعث آبرو ريزی نشويد ! آخر قربان تان بروم ؛

يعنی چه ؟؟ don' t with USA

است ؟؟ Down with the USA نکند منظورتان

يعنی توی دانشگاه يا هنرستانی که شما درس می خوانيد يک آدمی که سرش به تنش بيارزد پيدا نمی شد که بشما بگويد تابلويی را که نوشته و به دست گرفته ايد غلط است ؟؟ براستی که :
بلبلان خاموش و خر عر ميکند

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Lebanon rocked by bus bombs

Up to 12 people were killed today when explosions tore through two buses travelling north of Beirut. Lebanon's news agency reported that the blasts occurred in the village of Ein Alaq, just south of the town of Bikfaya. Arab media quoted Lebanese civil defence sources as saying at least 20 people were injured. Television footage showed at least one bus totally destroyed and ambulances carrying away people. Blood was pooled in several places near the bus wreckage. Troops in military uniforms and army buses were also at the scene.
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The interior minister, Hassan al-Sabaa, said early information suggested that the bombs had exploded inside the minibuses. A government source told Reuters that the possibility of suicide bombings had not been ruled out. The driver of the first bus was among the dead. On seeing the explosion, the driver of the second bus was said to have got out of his vehicle and was wounded by the subsequent blast. The explosions come at a time of increased sectarian tensions in Lebanon, and one day before the second anniversary of the assassination of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri. A mass rally had been planned for Wednesday in downtown Beirut to mark the killing of the Sunni politician. Al-Jazeera reported that the area where the explosions took place, 12 miles north-east of Beirut, was a Christian stronghold. The channel's reporter, Zeina Khodr, said the Christian community felt they were targets of sectarian attack. Bikfaya is the ancestral home of the Gemayel family, a prominent political Christian family in Lebanon. Pierre Gemayel, a cabinet member, was assassinated last November.
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Appeals for urgent blood donations were broadcast as ambulances rushed casualties to hospitals in the region and in Beirut. The Voice Of Lebanon radio stations said the targeted buses were driving people to work.

NEW CYCLE OF VIOLENCE. WHEN WILL IT END?

Silent prayers. Then the inferno
One year of civil war marked by coordinated attacks killing 80 in Baghdad market The aftermath of a car bomb attack on Shorja market, Baghdad.

It was intended as a period of national reflection. A 15-minute pause at midday to mark the first anniversary of what many consider to be the spark that lit the fuse of Iraq's civil war. The bombing of the golden-domed Askariya shrine in Samarra last February by suspected Sunni militants killed no one - but since that day 33,929 Iraqi civilians have lost their lives in the ensuing violence.As Baghdad's clocks registered 12.20 yesterday, Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, appeared on state television to appeal for calm, for national unity and for an end to the violence that has devastated the country. But even as he spoke, the broadcast showed him blink and aides around him flinch with the force of a formidable explosion which thundered across the Tigris towards the prime minister's compound in the Green Zone. Secondary explosions resounded. Smoke billowed into the air. In the normally bustling Shorja market district dozens of people lay dead, burned beyond recognition, while dozens more were injured. Motorists were charred in their cars, shops were ripped apart and a seven-story building full of wholesale textile merchants was set ablaze. It burned all day. ( These powerful car bombs have all the Hallmark of Hezbollah trained operatives ) By last night the toll from the combined force of three car bombs stood at more than 80 dead, and almost 200 wounded.

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Police said one car bomb had been parked near the entrance to a garage under the textile building. The blast set fire to hundreds of other parked vehicles. A second car bomb then hit the nearby Haraj market. The immediate surroundings were obliterated. Dozens of shops and stalls were razed and a wall of thick black smoke quickly blocked out the clear blue sky. Witnesses reported having difficulty distinguishing the bodies from the clothing mannequins that lay among the bloody debris. Rescuers used rolls of material to create makeshift stretchers and carry the dead and injured to ambulances, pick up trucks, or whatever vehicle could be commandeered. The emergency department at the nearby Kindi hospital was overwhelmed. Police said those not killed by the initial blasts lost their lives in the ensuing inferno.
One witness, Wathiq Ibrahim, said: "I saw three bodies shredded apart. Paramedics were picking up body pieces and flesh from the pools of blood on the ground and placing them in small plastic bags."The smoke turned the place dark," he told Reuters. For Youssef Ahmed, a veteran of the 1991 Gulf war, the dense smoke rising above the Shorja district brought back memories of the torching of Kuwait's oil fields by the fleeing Iraqi army. "I never thought I'd see sunlight eclipsed like that again," he said, standing about 50 metres away from the burning building. Ali Muhammad, a shop owner whose business was set on fire, killing of two of his workers, said: "I have lost everything - my colleagues, my livelihood, and any hope that my country can survive."

The latest atrocity came a week after Mr Maliki had ordered thousands of police and troops on to the street as part of a joint Iraqi and US security plan. Yesterday both Iraqi and US soldiers had also taken to the streets, adding checkpoints across the city in a show of force aimed at stopping sectarian violence in Baghdad. The American military is sending 21,000 additional troops to Iraq to assist in the crackdown. Mr Maliki had hoped to use the anniversary of the attack on the 9th century Shia shrine in Samarra to appeal to Iraqis to unite to end the violence.
"We have a great confidence that Iraqis have realised that no one has a future in this country if we don't terminate the terrorists," he said after the 15-minutes silence. He was joined by Shia leaders and other politicians urging calm.
The pre-eminent Shia leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said in a statement: "We call on the believers as they mark this sad occasion and express their feelings ... to exercise maximum levels of restraint and not to do or say anything which would harm our Sunni brothers who are innocent for what happened and who do not accept it."
On Monday, the Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, called the bombing of the shrine "a crime against humanity and Islam together". "This horrible crime drives us to toward more solidarity and brotherhood," Mr Talabani said in a speech in Baghdad. "We will stay with you until we accomplish a secured, democratic, federal and stable Iraq away from the darkness of terrorism, dictatorship." By nightfall yesterday the fires were still burning in Shorja. Firefighters said that many bodies could still remain in the rubble of the destroyed buildings. "Watching this, I think it is like being in hell. Where is Mr Maliki? Will he visit this place?" said a bystander who gave his name only as Muhammad.

THE NEXT DAY : Suicide bomber targets Baghdad again

A suicide truck bomber struck a car park near a college in a mainly Shia area of western Baghdad today, killing at least nine people and wounding 19, police and hospital officials said.The attack occurred about 9.50am (6.50am BST) at the College of Economic Sciences as students were arriving for class at the campus in the Iskan district.The area is largely Shia, but the students come from a variety of religious backgrounds, including Shia and Sunni Muslims and some Christians.Police said they had also discovered a booby-trapped ambulance about 500 metres away and were trying to defuse it.The blast comes less than a day after coordinated attacks on a Baghdad market killed more than 80 people.

Monday, February 12, 2007

U.S. Says Arms Link Iranians to Iraqi Shiites

BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 — After weeks of internal debate, senior United States military officials on Sunday literally put on the table their first public evidence of the contentious assertion that Iran supplies Shiite extremist groups in Iraq with some of the most lethal weapons in the war. They said those weapons had been used to kill more than 170 Americans in the past three years.

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Never before displayed in public, the weapons included squat canisters designed to explode and spit out molten balls of copper that cut through armor. The canisters, called explosively formed penetrators or E.F.P.s, are perhaps the most feared weapon faced by American and Iraqi troops here. In a news briefing held under strict security, the officials spread out on two small tables an E.F.P. and an array of mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades with visible serial numbers that the officials said link the weapons directly to Iranian arms factories. The officials also asserted, without providing direct evidence, that Iranian leaders had authorized smuggling those weapons into Iraq for use against the Americans. The officials said such an assertion was an inference based on general intelligence assessments. That inference, and the anonymity of the officials who made it, seemed likely to generate skepticism among those suspicious that the Bush administration is trying to find a scapegoat for its problems in Iraq, and perhaps even trying to lay the groundwork for war with Iran. Officials at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad said they had no comment on the American accusations, the latest in a back-and-forth between the countries as tension has escalated over Tehran’s rising influence in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East and suspicions about its nuclear energy program. And while the Americans displayed what they said was the physical evidence of their claims about Iran’s role in Iraq, they also left many questions unanswered, including proof that the Iranian government was directing the delivery of weapons. The officials were repeatedly pressed on why they insisted on anonymity in such an important matter affecting the security of American and Iraqi troops. A senior United States military official gave a partial answer, saying that without anonymity, a senior Defense Department analyst who participated in the briefing could not have contributed.
The officials also were defensive about the timing of disclosing such incriminating evidence, since they had known about it as early as 2004. They said E.F.P. attacks had nearly doubled in 2006 compared with the previous year and a half. “The reason we’re talking about this right now is the vast increase in the number of E.F.P.s being found,” one official said. American-led forces in Iraq, the official said, “are not trying to hype this up to be more than it is.”Whatever doubts were created about the timing and circumstances of the weapons disclosures, the direct physical evidence presented on Sunday was extraordinary.The officials said the E.F.P. weapons arrived in Iraq in the form of what they described as a “kit” containing high-grade metals and highly machined parts — like a shaped, concave lid that folds into a molten ball while hurtling toward its target.

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For the first time, American officials provided a specific casualty total from these weapons, saying they had killed more than 170 Americans and wounded 620 since June 2004, when one of the devices first killed a service member.But then the officials went much further, asserting without specific evidence that the Iranian security apparatus, called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Quds Force controlled delivery of the materials to Iraq. And in a further inference, the officials asserted that the Quds Force, sometimes called the I.R.G.C. - Quds, could be involved only with Iranian government complicity. “We have been able to determine that this material, especially on the E.F.P. level, is coming from the I.R.G.C. - Quds Force,” said the senior defense analyst. That, the analyst said, meant direction for the operation was “coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government.” At least one shipment of E.F.P.s was captured as it was smuggled from Iran into southern Iraq in 2005, the officials said. Caches and arrays of E.F.P.s, as well as mortars and other weapons traceable to Iran, have been repeatedly found inside Iraq in areas dominated by militias known to have ties to Iran, the officials said. One cache of antitank rocket-propelled grenades and other items was seized as recently as Jan. 23, the officials said. The precise machining of E.F.P. components, the officials said, also links the weapons to Iran. “We have no evidence that this has ever been done in Iraq,” the senior military official said. The officials also gave fresh details on recent American raids in Baghdad and the northern city of Erbil in which Quds Force members were picked up and accused of working with extremist groups to plan attacks on American and Iraqi forces. Some of the five Iranians still being detained after they were picked up in Erbil on Jan. 11 had been flushing documents down a toilet when they were found, the defense analyst said, and they had recently been engaged in “changing their appearance” — apparently shaving their heads, though for what reason the analyst did not know. An earlier raid in Baghdad was carried out, the officials said, after American forces received word that the No. 2 Quds Force official, whom they identified as Mohsin Chizari, was unexpectedly in Iraq. When Mr. Chizari was picked up in a raid in December, he was carrying false identification, the officials said. He was later released to the Iraqi government with another Iranian official who was picked up at the same time. The Iraqis asked both Iranians to leave the country. The senior defense analyst said there was no direct link between the detained Iranians and the physical evidence presented on Sunday. But the analyst said, “the overall tenor” of the evidence was that Mr. Chizari was implicated in bringing E.F.P.s into Iraq. The briefing also presented new information on what the Americans call the smuggling routes. There are three main routes, officials said: the Mandelli border crossing, east of Baghdad; the Mehran crossing, in the marshes to the south; and in the southern city of Basra.
Paid Iraqis, rather than Iranians themselves, carry the materials across the border, the officials said. The senior military official blamed recent press reports for, he said, overstating the importance of the weapons presentation, which had been delayed. Part of the delay reflected a view among officials in Washington that the original presentation was insufficiently strong. Officials here did not address that element of the internal debate. The senior American military official did make it clear that declassifying the material took place only after weeks of analysis on what information could be useful to hostile forces — information that has mostly been kept out of the public eye since the E.F.P.s began turning up in Iraq. “We publicly have not acknowledged E.F.P.s for the past two years,” the senior military official said. Laid out on the tables themselves were the tailfins of dozens of apparently used mortar shells, as well as intact mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenades, cases for some of the weaponry, the E.F.P., and two identification cards the officials said were taken in the Erbil raid. The shells had serial numbers in English in order to comply with international standards for arms, the officials said. One grenade, for instance, was marked with the serial number P.G.7-AT-1 followed by LOT:5-31-2006. The officials said that the serial numbers clearly identified the grenade as being of Iranian manufacture and the date showed that it had been made in 2006. Commanders in Baghdad are acutely aware of the deadly E.F.P.s. Col. Steve Townsend, commander of the Third Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Baghdad, said his unit has encountered about a dozen E.F.P.s in the past two months. Iran’s role in Iraq has been discussed in recent months in public and private testimony by senior intelligence officials.

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In testimony last month, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said “there’s a clear line of evidence that points out the Iranians want to punish the United States, hurt the United States in Iraq, tie down the United States in Iraq, so that our other options in the region, against other activities the Iranians might have, would be limited.” Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said last month that he believed that Iranian operatives inside Iraq were supporting Shiite militias and working against American troops. But he also asserted that the White House had a poor understanding of Iranian calculations and added that he was concerned that the Bush administration was building a case for a more confrontational policy toward Tehran.