During the last 48 hours, confrontations have been taken place in the city of Akka between Jews, Arabs and police forces. The tensions began from Wednesday 8th October, the evening of Yom Kippur, when Jewish citizens attacked the car of an Arab family who were driving through a mixed community neighbourhood. The car was surrounded and the family were then attacked at their home. Police forces failed to prevent the on going attack against the family home until 4a.m when the family was surrounded at the home and stones were thrown amongst chants of "Death to Arabs".
Iran's president media consultant Mehdi Kalhor said here Saturday that Iran has two conditions for talks with the United States, the official IRNA news agency reported."If the United States does not move out of the middle east and the U.S. government does not give up its support for the Zionist regime, we do not think the talks between Iran and the United States would be advisable," Kalhor said. "Today, it is the United States that needs to have relations with Iran," Kalhor told IRNA, adding that "We believe that our religion accepts repentance."...
In March of this year, a courageous group of veterans brought the war home, at a historic event held in Silver Spring, Md., inspired by Vietnam veterans a generation before. "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan" convened more than 200 soldiers who have served in the so-called "War on Terror;" like their fellow soldiers before them, who shared stories that laid bare the nightmare of Vietnam, these veterans bore witness to the crimes that have been committed in Americans' names during the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Extremist Jewish rioters continued their attacks against Arab homes and property in Akka, especially in the Eastern neighborhood. Eyewitnesses reported that the attack was more violent than yesterday and that the mobs were surrounding an Arab home. Dozens of Arab residents in Akka warned that hundreds of Jewish residents from Akka and different parts of the country could carry out crimes that would lead to the loss of life and slammed the police for practically begging the attackers to leave...
Few minutes ago, Aljazeera quoted a statement by the so called "Al-Qaeda" denies any involvement in the bloody campaign against the Christians in Mosul saying. Al-Qaeda has evidence that the Kurdish militia's involvement in displacing and killing campaign of the Christians in order to control certain parts of the province. You can see Iraqi newspaper Azzaman's confirmation in its headline today "Militias gunmen of powerful government parties roam the streets of Mosul chanting threat slogans".
Hamas lawmaker MP Mushir Al-Masri said on Saturday that the entire Palestinian people were sympathizing with their brethren in Akka city against the extremist Israeli groups, stressing that the "hour of victory was looming". "The moment of triumph was looming, and the day when Hamas's soldiers and the Qassam Brigades liberate Akka was getting closer", said Masri as he addressed thousands of Palestinian citizens participating in a pro-Akka rally organized by Hamas in Jabalya city, in the northern Gaza Strip...
Just days after a US missile strike killed nine along North Waziristan's border with Afghanistan, residents of the area reported another US drone fired two missiles yesterday, killing at least five more. Residents say that tribesmen fired on the invading drones before the attack. The strike took place in a shanty neighborhood near the town of Miramshah called Machis Colony, and foreigners were among those killed according to one intelligence official...
Militants blew up three empty Christian homes on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where more than 800 Christian families have fled in the past two days, a Christian member of parliament said. "I have been informed that three houses have been blown up. In two of them, the families were already displaced. The third, they evacuated the family and then blew up the house," parliamentarian Unadim Kanna told Iraqiya state television...
...The Taliban is Not the Same Thing as al-Qaeda. To review some history: the Taliban did not create al-Qaeda or invite it into Afghanistan. The U.S.-led effort to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the 1980s boosted young Osama bin Laden into prominence, as an anticommunist CIA ally. The U.S. establishment of bases in Saudi Arabia in 1990 turned him against the U.S. and Saudi regime (...) The dirty little secret suppressed by the mainstream press is that the Taliban, like it or not, has considerable popular support.
Antifascist Calling reported October 6 that nine months prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Donald Rumsfeld signed off on revisions for the Pentagon's secretive Continuity of Operations Program (COOP). Based on a document (AR 500-3) published by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, it described "all hazards COOP planning" as the mechanism by which "the Army remains capable of continuing mission-essential operations during any situation, including military attack, terrorist activities, and natural or man-made disasters."...
