Belliraj: I Delivered Bin Laden’s LettersPhoto: AFP
Abdelkader Belliraj, the Moroccan suspected of being terror cell leader, has acknowledged holding talks with Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri before 9/11 on a new strategy for operating sleeper cells.
He also said ...
August 27, 2008, 9:50 am
Iranian Source: Khamenei Preferred Jannati Over RafsanjaniAn Iranian source has told the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei preferred Guardian Council chairman Ahmad Jannati over Hashemi Rafsanjani in the last Assembly of Experts election, in September 2007.
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August 28, 2008, 9:56 am
Rafsanjani Criticizes Ahmadinejad's Failure To Advance Privatization In IranHashemi Rafsanjani, the main political rival of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has accused him of failing to advance the privatization policy in Iran, and stated that Ahmadinejad has turned Iran's economy into a completely state-based ...
August 28, 2008, 9:55 am
Cartoon In Qatari Paper On Female Suicide BombersCartoonist: Eley Saleba
Source: Al-Watan, Qatar, August 26, 2008
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August 27, 2008, 2:51 pm
Syrian Former Prisoner Dies After Authorities Prevent Him From Going Abroad For Kidney TransplantThe Syrian Human Rights Committee reported yesterday, August 26, that Muslim Brotherhood activist Abd Al-Sattar Qattan had died after Syrian authorities had refused to let him travel abroad for a kidney transplant.
Qattan, 68, was freed in July ...
August 27, 2008, 2:44 pm
Report: French FM Thinks Syria's Open To Sarkozy's Requests – But At Its Own PaceA French source reports that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner during his visit to Syria and Lebanon got the impression that Syria was showing openness towards French President Nicolas Sarkozy's requests regarding Lebanon, but that it ...
August 27, 2008, 2:38 pm
Sudan Liberation Movement Denies Involvement In Hijack Of Darfur PlaneA Sun Air plane was hijacked yesterday after it took off from Nyala, Darfur for Khartoum, by two men identifying themselves as members of the Sudan Liberation Movement.
Movement leader Abd Al-Wahed Al-Nour vehemently denied any movement connection ...
August 27, 2008, 11:42 am
Demonstrations, Resignations Follow Massacre At Darfur Refugee CampsThousands of residents of the Kalma refugee camp in southern Darfur demonstrated during the funerals of some 40 people who were killed in an August 25 Sudan Army attack on the camp that has been called a "massacre" by Darfur rebels.
In addition, ...
August 27, 2008, 10:48 am
Cartoon In Egyptian Daily On Internecine Palestinian FightingOn figure: "Palestinian Cause." Below: "It's not nice what you're doing to yourselves and to me!"
Source: Al-Ahram, Egypt, August 27, ...
August 27, 2008, 10:47 am
Church Of Nativity Expellees Prefer West Bank Jail To GazaThe Church of the Nativity expellees, whom Israel transferred from the West Bank to Gaza during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, have submitted a request to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to have them returned to the West Bank, ...
August 27, 2008, 10:45 am