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."...
The market is heavily manipulated. The driving force behind the meltdown is speculative trade. The system of "private regulation" serves the interests of the speculators. While most individual investors loose when the market falls, the institutional speculator makes money when there is a financial collapse. In fact, triggering market collapse can be a very profitable undertaking. There are indications that the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) regulators have created an environment which supports speculative transactions...
In the midst of remarkably cynical election-time mud-slinging, the Obsession campaign is truly in a class of its own. Over the past weeks, 28 million copies of the anti-Muslim propaganda film Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West have been delivered to the doors of newspaper subscribers in swing states.
At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 15 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. A U.S. soldier was killed during a roadside bombing in Missan province. Also, the U.S. military reported a precipitous drop in journalists covering the Iraq war from inside Iraq. In Baghdad, Gunmen killed a lawyer who worked for suspected Sunni insurgents...
