BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman says the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari says the arrest of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was confirmed to him by the Iraqi commander of the province.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel is a “stinking corpse” that is destined to disappear, the French news agency AFP reported.
“Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.
Wed May 7, 2008
By Mark Trevelyan
LONDON (Reuters) - An Iranian resistance group claimed victory on Wednesday in a seven-year legal battle when three top judges upheld a ruling that the government was wrong to ban it as a terrorist organisation.
The judges at the Court of Appeal threw out a government challenge to a ruling last November that its refusal to remove the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from its list of proscribed terrorist organisations was perverse.
UK appeal court says Iranian resistance should not be listed as terrorist organization
Associated Press
May 7, 2008
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday affirmed a lower court ruling that an Iranian resistance group should not be listed as a terrorist organization.
Three justices rejected a government appeal against a lower court ruling in November in favor of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, which is a member of the National Council of Resistance.
Fred Siegel | May 05, 2008
POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds. This is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic. Exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, doubletalk, deception and lies presented as metaphorical truths are the order of the day.
So, of course, Barack Obama is no different. He exaggerates the credit he deserves for a limited piece of ethics-reform legislation. He embellishes when he presents himself as having had a consistent record on the Iraq war when in fact he’s done a fair amount of zigzagging.
Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST
Apr. 28, 2008
As Israel’s 60th Independence Day swiftly approaches, considerations of Zionism and its discontents come to mind.
The revolutionary notion that Zionism introduced into the Jewish mindset, informed by 19 centuries of powerless statelessness, was that Jews could, and indeed ought to stand up for themselves. From the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, until the advent of modern Zionism, such a notion seemed absurd. Throughout the centuries of exile, Jews understood that their survival depended on the kindness of strangers. Zionism came and said that was no longer the case. We Jews would take care of ourselves from now on.
By Peter Fraser
May 4, 2008
Even as the U.N. Security Council was implementing its third round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear weapons activities, the council’s five veto-wielding permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — and Germany met in London Friday to expand a 2006 offer of economic incentives to Iran in return for a freeze on uranium enrichment.
This is a clear indication that the international community’s carrot-and-stick policy is still in full flow.
By Joseph Myers
Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound.
Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new “speech code” for the lexicon in the war on terror, as reported by the Associated Press and now available in the public domain.
Covering US Military Options for Dealing with Iran Anthony H. Cordesman Washington, DC, April 30, 2008
US and Iranian relations are clearly deteriorating, driven by Iran’s support of Iraqi insurgents hostile to the US, by the risk of clashes in the Gulf, by contingency Iranian missile developments, and by the claim that Iran now has some 6,000 centrifuges far more advanced than the IAEA or the US NIE on Iran reported. The end result is both a revived concern that the US may use force against Iran, and a new set of stories about US preparations and war plans.
If is important to note, however, that it takes weeks to update US contingency capabilities in the Gulf, and months of contingency planning to determine what military options to use, how to move and support US forces, create effective targeting, and have a credible military option that can be used to deter and intimidate as well as to make an actual use of force. It is difficult for those who have not been directly involved to understand how complex US contingency plans can be and how often they require updating.
also known as RACHEL’s LAW, signed by Governor
Albany, NY (May 1, 2008) — New York State Governor David Paterson yesterday signed the “Libel Terrorism Protection Act” (S.6687/A.9652), which on March 31 passed the state’s Assembly and Senate unanimously.
Also known as Rachel’s Law, the bill sponsored by Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Queens) and Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) will protect American journalists and authors from foreign lawsuits that infringe on First Amendment rights. The bill also received unprecedented support from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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