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Teen says his web company unknowingly hosted al-Qaeda videos

Last Updated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:44:53 EST CBC News
Last Updated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:44:53 EST CBC News
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

A teenager in Winnipeg says he's trying to clear his name after his web business unwittingly hosted video footage of al-Qaeda leaders.

Comment: Comment: Hmmm. This is really depressing. More evidence of a society going horribly wrong. A nineteen year old kid already caught up in the money-making rat race.

A Snake with a Hundred Heads

By Dieter Bednarz, Erich Follath, Georg Mascolo and Bernhard Zand Translated from German by Christopher Sultan SPIEGEL ONLINE 06.12.2005
By Dieter Bednarz, Erich Follath, Georg Mascolo and Bernhard Zand Translated from German by Christopher Sultan SPIEGEL ONLINE 06.12.2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

The road to Baghdad's airport, long considered the city's most notorious deathtrap, is flanked by two the two neighborhoods Jihad and Amiriya. They have never been considered as exclusive as the area along the banks of the Tigris River, where the cronies of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein once lived. But the districts were nevertheless refuges for members of the Iraqi middle class, who lived there in small villas from the 1970s. A comfortable distance from the perilous center of power, there were plenty of green spaces, shops, ice cream parlors, schools, parks and mosques. Life was pleasant in Jihad and Amiriya.

But anyone returning to the two neighborhoods these days will have difficulty recognizing the western sections of the Iraqi capital.

By VLADIMIR MATVEYEV / JTA KIEV, Ukraine
By VLADIMIR MATVEYEV / JTA KIEV, Ukraine
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Iran's president, who wants to see a world without Israel, has a vociferous ally in Ukraine.

A Kiev-based university that already has gained international notoriety for its anti-Zionist propaganda and anti-Semitic publications now wants the United Nations to "close" Israel.

The call came in November from the Interregional Academy for Personnel Management, known by its Russian acronym MAUP, whose leadership said the United Nations should revoke its 1947 resolution on the creation of a Jewish state.

"Mankind lived without the State of Israel exactly 2,670 years, but after the second of its creation all the world feels a constant aggression of the old 'sons of the devil,' " according to a university statement, published last month in the school newspaper, supporting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent call to destroy Israel.

By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem 08/12/2005
By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem 08/12/2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Machines will perform euthanasia on terminally ill patients in Israel under legislation devised not to offend Jewish law, which forbids people taking human life.

Agence France-Presse
Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri claimed in a new videotape that the network's leader Osama bin Laden was still alive and leading the "jihad" holy war against the West, the Al-Jazeera channel said.

Comment: Just when Bush's popularity starts to hit new lows - and you think it might be safe to leave your home with the recent announcement that al-Qaeda hasn't been operating in the US since 2003 - they haul out good old Osama!

Sun Dec 4, 2005 By Paul Tait
Sun Dec 4, 2005 By Paul Tait
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Attacks on lawyers and flaws in the Iraqi justice system mean the trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity will never satisfy international standards, a UN rights official said on Sunday.

Comment: Comment: Not so much the "trila of the century" but the farce of the century, with "Saddam" hamming it up for all he is worth.

Saddam at trial

05.12.2005 MosNews
05.12.2005 MosNews
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Russia has struck a deal to sell short-range, surface-to-air missiles to Iran, the defense minister said Monday, confirming reports that have raised concern in the United States and Israel, AP reported.

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov didnt give details. But Russian media have said that Moscow agreed in November to sell $1 billion worth of weapons to Iran, including up to 30 Tor-M1 missile systems over the next two years.

AFP December 5, 2005
AFP December 5, 2005
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that he could consider a pre-emptive air strike against Iran's nuclear installations if he were to be re-elected.

Netanyahu, who is widely expected to regain the leadership of the right-wing Likud party later this month, said Israel needed to "act in the spirit" of the late premier Menachem Begin who ordered an air strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981.

"I view the development of the Iranian nuclear (programme) as a paramount threat and as a real danger to the future of the state of Israel," Netanyahu told the Yediot Aharonot newspaper.

"Israel needs to do everything to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear threat against it." [...]

Suicide bombers kill 36 in Baghdad

Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Attack targets police academy

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two suicide bombers attacked a police academy in east Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 36 police officers and academy students and wounding 72 others, police said.

The incident took place about 12:45 p.m., the U.S. military said in a statement. Police said the bombers were dressed as police.

The bombers, "each wearing a suicide vest, walked into a classroom at the academy and detonated in the midst of students," the statement said.

Many of the wounded were taken to Al-Kindi Hospital.

Earlier reports indicated the bombers were female, but the U.S. military said they were male.

Comment: Comment: Notice that the only source for the claim that ANYONE walked into the police station before the bombs went off is the US military.

Israel Cracks Down After Mall Bombing

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Writer 06/12/2005
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Writer 06/12/2005
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

JERUSALEM Dec 6, 2005 Israel clamped an open-ended closure on the West Bank and Gaza Tuesday, banning virtually all Palestinians from Israel, and arrested 15 Palestinian militants in a first response to a suicide bombing that killed five Israelis outside a shopping mall.Israeli officials also said the army would target Islamic Jihad operatives in the West Bank, both through arrest raids and targeted killings of operatives, and renew airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in response to any Palestinian rocket attacks.

"We decided to operate in a much broader, much deeper and more intensive manner against the Islamic Jihad infrastructure, and I hope that we will be able to prevent such attacks in the future," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Army Radio after a late-night meeting of security officials.

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