Posted on October 29th, 2007 by mideast
Title: Israel’s Gaza fuel cuts alarm UN
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7068239.stm
Summary:
Israel has recently instituted energy sanctions against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket attacks on its territory. The UN, through UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said the sanctions are unacceptable because they punish the entire population. The EU has also denounced the sanctions. [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2007 by mideast
Syria air strike target ‘removed’
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7063135.stm
Summary:
A spy satellite shows images taken of Syria showing an “industrial-style” building (possibly the site of a nuclear reactor) and another taken after the first showing no building. The images are inconclusive and do not undoubtedly show a fighter-jet attack. Initially, the Israeli government did not acknowledge an air [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/05/52704
Rebirth of the Afghan Buddhas:
Summary:
After the bombing of the 1,500-year-old Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2001, the world was in outrage at such destruction. The Buddhas had withstood centuries: Ghengis Khan, invasion, war, and the rest of Middle Eastern History. The Taliban carefully planned the destruction of the Buddhas, using workers from [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
Pakistan
“Where the Jihad Lives Now”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/57485
Newsweek
Summary:
On Thursday October 29th, 2007, one or more suicide bombers set off two explosions that killed at least 134 people and injured over 450 others. The explosions happened along a parade route, which is guarded by around 20,000 Pakistani security forces. That in itself is a little surprising considering the amount [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7061211.stm
Summary: Turkish leaders have already passed a bill allowing their army to enter Iraq, and are facing increasing pressure from their media to use this power. The PKK, a Kurdish militant group, which has been recognized by many countries as a terrorist organization, has killed a number of Turkish military personnel in cross border [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/24/news/economy/cbo_testimony/index.htm
On Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Congressional Budget Office Director, Peter Orszag, testified to the House of Representatives that the “War On Terror” in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost around $2.4 trillion dollars in the long run. This estimate would support 75,000 troops. The estimated amount would work out to be around $21,500 per American household. [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
Title: Civil War in Iraq
Artist: M. e. Cohen
Date of Publication: March 20, 2007
Link: http://cagle.com/news/IraqCivilWar/2.asp
What issue, event or idea does the cartoon address?
The issue the cartoon addresses is the issue of civil war in Iraq. There are a lot of ethnic tensions in Iraq between Sunnis, Shiites and Sunni Kurds. Since the war started the violence [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7057282.stm
“Bin Laden’s Call”
Advises Iraqi Militia to Unify
Summary:
Last Monday it is believed that Al-Queda’s Leader Osama Bin Laden released an audiotape urging insurgent groups in Iraq to “unify their ranks”. Right now the voice in the recording is undetermined and it is not a fact that this message is actually one produced by Osama Bin Laden. [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
Iranian Guard ‘ready to defend revolution’
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/26/iran.sanctions/index.html
Summary:
Iran has responded to the threat of sanctions being placed on their Revolutionary Guard. The Iranian foreign ministry says that the newly imposed sanctions are doomed to fail, and General Mohammad Ali Jafari of the Revolutionary Guard says, “The corps is ready to defend the ideals of the revolution [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by mideast
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/world/middleeast/26saudi.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Summary:
In Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah is planning to create a new, state of the art university free from many of the restrictions currently in Saudi Arabia. The school, called the King Abdullah University of Science and technology, KAUST, will be a turning point in Middle East history and a try by the [...]
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