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Thursday, 12 April 2007 |
 Black community leaders have strongly criticized British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his blaming of a spate of murders on black culture. Tony Blair has claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. Mr Blair said there needed to be an "intense police focus" on the minority of young black Britons behind the gun and knife attacks. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance and failing to provide support for black-led efforts to tackle the problem.  Be first to comment this article
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Thursday, 12 April 2007 |
 Hezbollah's information relations office commented on the interview by the Guardian with deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Kassem saying: "The British Guardian daily dealt with the content of Wednesday's interview with his eminence, in a way that led to another meaning than the intended." The Guardian published an article covering issues discussed in the interview on Wednesday, 11th April 2007. Hezbollah's information relations office highlighted two cases relating to the armament of groups within Lebanon and future confrontations with Israel.Be first to comment this article |
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
 A remarkable picture of the way Tony Blair has lost the faith of British voters over his 10 years in power is revealed today by a comprehensive study of public attitudes towards the Prime Minister. As Blair prepares to leave office, the poll of more than 2,000 adults shows that people believe the country is a more dangerous, less happy, less pleasant place to live. There was a negative response to nearly all of more than 40 questions the public was asked about trust in politics, how they felt about their own lives and whether public services had got better.Be first to comment this article |
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
 Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shias have gathered in the holy city of Najaf for a mass demonstration calling for US-led troops to leave Iraq. Up to one million people were expected in Najaf after an appeal by Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, who branded US forces "your arch enemy" in a statement. He called Iraqis to Najaf to mark four years since US troops entered Baghdad and ended the rule of Saddam Hussein. The BBC's Jim Muir, in Baghdad, says the Americans regard the cleric and his militia as the biggest danger to Iraq today.Be first to comment this article |
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Sunday, 08 April 2007 |
 Sami al-Arian is 49 but he stayed on hunger strike for 60 days to protest the government outrage committed against him, a burlesque of justice which has, of course, largely failed to rouse the sleeping dogs of American journalism in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. The story so far: Sami al-Arian, a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian, was a respected computer professor at the University of South Florida who tried, however vainly, to communicate the real tragedy of Palestinian Arabs to the US government.Be first to comment this article |
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Saturday, 07 April 2007 |
 The Higher Shiite Council said Thursday that attempts to internationalize the Lebanese crisis under the pretext of calling for the approval of a special tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri would only worsen the deadlock. In a statement issued after its monthly meeting, the council called on all Lebanese officials to abide by the Constitution. "The council warns against the obvious violation of the Constitution ... since a certain Lebanese party is trying to monopolize [authority]," the statement said, referring to the March 14 Forces.Comments (1) |
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Saturday, 07 April 2007 |
 An Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, gets protection from the U.S. military despite Iraqi pressure to leave the country. The U.S. State Department considers the MEK a terrorist organization -- meaning no American can deal with it; U.S. banks must freeze its assets; and any American giving support to its members is committing a crime. The U.S. military, though, regularly escorts MEK supply runs between Baghdad and its base, Camp Ashraf.Be first to comment this article |
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Saturday, 07 April 2007 |
 It seems as though some Israeli military and political leaders are champing at the bit for a rematch with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon after the bloody nose the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) got there last summer. The plan was laid out in Washington last month by Effie Eitam, a hawkish former general and darling of the orthodox hard right who now leads a small religious splinter group in the Knesset. But Eitam is also head of the Knesset subcommittee overseeing the IDF's lessons-learned exercise following the disastrous IDF operation in southern Lebanon last year.Be first to comment this article |
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