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MIDDLE EAST DAILY BULLETIN
10 OCTOBER 2013
NO: 1658
1.
IRAQ ..................................................................................................................................... 3
MP , for SL coalition accuses Jordan, Turkey and Qatar of seeking to destabilize security in
Iraq. 3
Foreign Secretary chaired a meeting of the Supreme Iraqi - Armenian Joint Committee. ..........3
Othman predicts getting a consensus on the election law after Eid al-Adha ..............................3
MP rules out adopting the electoral law without mutual concessions........................................4
Sistani and Sadr condemn infringement against religious symbols .............................................5
Shahristani: Terrorist operations won't stop the build and reconstruction process in Iraq ........6
Members of al-Qaeda killed and arrested in Kirkuk.....................................................................6
Police captain killed, a policeman injured in Fallujah ..................................................................7
Two gunmen, tried to attack army, killed in Salah al-Din province .............................................7
Gunmen attack Mowselya TV in Mosul, kill three soldiers ..........................................................8
Zebari, Italian official discuss political updates in regional arena ................................................8
Zebari, US Ambassador discuss mutual relations.........................................................................9
Jobouri: Press Freedom Law to be activated soon .......................................................................9
Determining date of Parliamentary Elections to ensure political sides, says Yasiri .................. 10
Fadhila bloc rejects creating sectarian sedition, says Tuma ..................................................... 10
Foreign Relations Committee: Transferring Khaliji 22 from Basra to Jeddah targets political
process .............................................................................................................................................. 11
Governor of the Central Bank by interim participates in the meetings of the International
Monetary Fund in Washington.......................................................................................................... 12
Shahristani invites French companies to invest in Iraq ............................................................. 12
2. SYRIA ...................................................................................................................................13
3.
Obama Regime Al Qaeda Thugs Shell Homs Oil Refinery ......................................................... 13
Citrus Fruits Production in Syria On the Increase...................................................................... 14
Two more French journalists held in Syria ................................................................................ 15
Syrian Army Regains Control of Strategic Town near Border with Israel .................................. 17
IRAN ....................................................................................................................................17
4.
Leader Warns of Enemies' Attempts to Slow down Iran's Rapid Scientific Progress ................ 17
Larijani: No Iranian Cares about US Threats.............................................................................. 19
Iran Dismisses Closure of Fordo N. Site ..................................................................................... 20
Zarif rejects media reports on his New York visit ...................................................................... 22
Iran ready to facilitate trade ties with Germans: Official .......................................................... 23
‘Iran can prove to world its nuclear program is peaceful’ ........................................................ 24
Iran has technology to build intercontinental missiles: IRGC general ...................................... 25
ISRAEL - PALESTINE ..............................................................................................................25
Hamas calls for meeting with Fatah to counter Israel’s ‘schemes’ on Jerusalem ..................... 25
'Price tag' attack against mosque in Palestinian village ............................................................ 27
Settlers torch 3 cars in Ramallah village .................................................................................... 28
PA, Syria agree to protect refugee camps ................................................................................. 29
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5.
JORDAN and LEBANON.........................................................................................................30
6.
Charbel: Terror suspects entered Lebanon as Syrian refugees ................................................. 30
Suleiman says Lebanon made world aware of burden of refugees .......................................... 31
Jordan demands Israel to implement UNESCO resolutions ...................................................... 31
Recovering Spain seeks to maintain support to Jordan — envoy ............................................. 32
ARABIAN PENINSULA AND THE GULF OF BASRA ....................................................................35
7.
Qatar denies international labour federation access to construction site ............................... 35
Saudi Arabia in indirect warning to Brotherhood: No Rabaa hands in Mecca! ........................ 37
Southerners and Zaidis sabotage session of Yemen national dialogue .................................... 39
Oman urges teachers to end strike for sake of children ........................................................... 40
AFRICA and EGYPT ...............................................................................................................42
8.
Armed Gunmen Kidnap Libyan PM From Tripoli Hotel ............................................................. 42
US aid cuts to Egypt symbolic, say experts................................................................................ 43
Britain calls for immediate release of Libyan PM ...................................................................... 45
Egypt sets November trial date for Morsi ................................................................................. 46
Sudan's Bashir: Protests sought regime fall .............................................................................. 47
AFGHANISTAN - PAKISTAN ...................................................................................................49
Taliban Say Pakistan Still Holding Baradar ................................................................................ 50
Suicide bombing plot foiled in capital Kabul ............................................................................. 50
Pakistani militants plotting attack on Afghan army base killed ................................................ 51
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Baghdad / NINA /--Sub-minister of Foreign
1. IRAQ
Affairs Ministry Nizar al-Khera-llah headed
the preparatory meeting for the Iraqi -
MP , for SL coalition accuses Jordan,
Turkey and Qatar of seeking to
destabilize security in Iraq.
Armenian Higher joint Committee , which
held at the headquarters of the ministry in
Baghdad today.
Baghdad/ NINA /--MP, Hassan Sineid,
leading member of the State of Law
coalition headed by PM, Nuri al-Maliki
accused Jordan, Turkey and Qatar of
A statement by the Foreign Ministry said :
" al-Khera-llah praised during the meeting
the historical relations between the two
countries , stressing the serious desire of
seeking to destabilize security in Iraq.
the Iraqi government to develop these
Sineid the chairman of the parliamentary
committee on security and defense said to
relations and communication as well as
cooperation in all fields.
NINA : " The intelligence services of
neighboring
countries
involved
in
supporting terrorist plots to thwart the
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democratic experiment in Iraq.
He added that Iraqi intelligence has
Othman predicts getting a consensus
on the election law after Eid al-Adha
dozens of documents that prove the
intervention of these countries in political
and security affairs of Iraq, he said .
BAGHDAD / NINA / The independent MP,
of the Kurdistan Alliance, Mahmoud
Othman said it is likely be a consensus on
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amending the election law after the
holiday of Eid al-Adha, and before the
period set by the Presidency of the
Foreign Secretary chaired a meeting
of the Supreme Iraqi - Armenian Joint
Committee.
Council of Representatives."
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He added, in a statement to the National
of the current month as the deadline to
Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that the
agree on amending on the election law or
discussions and meetings between the
return to 2005's law.
political blocs on the election law stopped
completely, noting that "the political blocs
will resume its activities and meetings
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after the holiday of Eid al-Adha, likely get
a national consensus on the election law
MP rules out adopting the electoral
law without mutual concessions
during these meetings."
About the Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki's
call to the House of Representatives to
adopt the open-list system and multiple
constituencies in the election law, Othman
said, "That is Maliki and his bloc's
opinion." noting that" each bloc has its
opinion and observations on the election
law, which differs from the other blocs ,
expressing hope that the law be approved
as soon as possible . "
House of Representatives to adopt the
system
and
multiple
constituencies in the election law to
resolve
the
Assyrian Council, Luis Caro ruled out
adoption of the electoral law after the
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for the
open-list
BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the Chaldean
controversy
among
the
political blocs on the vote on the
amendment of the law."
The House of Representatives selected 30
resumption of Parliament reconvened
after the holiday without offering mutual
concessions among political blocs.
He told the National Iraqi News Agency /
NINA / " the insistence of some political
blocs on their own demands when
discussing any law reflected negatively on
the overall situation of the country."
April.2014 as the date to hold the next
parliamentary elections, while selected 30
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Caro said that" the continuing delays to
the new election law and insisting on
Al- Sistani said, in an answer to a question
demands will lead the political process to
presented to him (this act is condemned
a crossroads," calling for political blocs to
and denounced and it is very contrary to
waive some of their demands for the sake
what was ordered by Ahl al-Bayt (God
of the public interest."
Bless Them) to their followers.
The House of Representatives selected 30
It is worth mentioning that Muqtada al-
April.2014 as the date to hold the next
Sadr condemned the abuse for the
parliamentary elections, while selected 30
symbols of the Sunnis, when some young
of the current month as the deadline to
people uttered on their way to visit the
agree on amending on the election law or
shrine of Imam Jawad in Kadhimiyah.
return to 2005's law.
He said in a press statement, those who
did this act are naive and shallow minded
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and wage earners who received money
from their masters, stressing that they do
not belong to the Shiite.
Sistani and Sadr condemn
infringement against religious
symbols
Al-Sadr apologized to Sunnis for this act,
which aims to strife and sectarianism.
It is mentioned that a group of young
people, were heading to visit the shrine of
Imam Jawad in Kadhimiyah , uttered
abuses
against
companions
of
a
number
the
Holy
of
the
Prophet
Muhammad (God bless Him) in the
Najaf / NINA / Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
Adhamiya district .
condemned infringement on religious
symbols of the Companions of the
Messenger Mohammed (God Bless Him).
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Fair
is
the
Forum
of
Trade
and
Investment).
Shahristani: Terrorist operations
won't stop the build and
reconstruction process in Iraq
The reporter of the National Iraqi News
Agency / NINA / said that Deputy Prime
Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani
BAGHDAD / NINA / Deputy Prime Minister
for
Energy,
Hussain
al-Shahristani
confirmed that: "The terrorist operations
will not hamper Iraq's will to reconstruct
and build."
attended the event as a representative of
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in addition
to the Minister of Trade, Khayrullah
Babaker and a number of officials as well
as Arab and foreign ambassadors and
representatives
Shahristani said in a speech at the opening
ceremony of the Baghdad International
of
companies
participating in the Baghdad International
Fair."
Fair: "The extensive participation of
foreign
companies
in
Baghdad
International Fair directs a message to the
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terrorists that Iraq in the phase of build
and reconstruction ".
Members of al-Qaeda killed and
On
the
political
situation
and
the
upcoming elections, Shahristani said: "We
arrested in Kirkuk
insist on holding the elections on its time
and we will not allow disabling," urging
the House of Representatives to pass the
parliamentary elections' law.
Kirkuk
/
NINA
commander
Lt.
/
Tigris
Gen.
operations
Abdul
Amir
Mohammad Redha al-Zaidi, declared the
The opening ceremony of the fortieth
session of Baghdad International Fair has
begun before noon on Thursday 10, Oct
under the slogan (Baghdad International
killing of 8 of the most prominent leaders
of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and
arrest dozens in a security operation,
which special military units, supported by
helicopters
and
heavy
weapons
participated.
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He said that an extensive security
operation was carried out yesterday near
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Shirqat district along Tigris River and
Jazerrah , where prominent wanted men
were killed , including a Tunisian and
others from Asian nationalities , and
Police captain killed, a policeman
injured in Fallujah
dozens from al - Qaeda leaders were
arrested as well as finding several caches .
Ramadi / NINA / A police captain was
killed and a policeman was injured by
He added that the dead and the detainees
gunmen in Fallujah on Thursday 10, Oct.
were wanted and dangerous and they
stand behind the attacks on Iraqi- Turkish
A security source in Anbar told the
oil pipelines as well as extortion, banditry,
reporter of the National Iraqi News
kidnappings and attacks on army.
Agency / NINA / that "armed elements
attacked a police patrol in Fallujah, using
Meanwhile, a source in the leadership of
medium and light weapons, what caused
the Division twelfth of Iraqi army, which
the death of the captain on the spot and
its units deploy south and west of Kirkuk ,
injured another policeman was taken to
said that a joint security force arrested
hospital for treatment .
three elements of the state of Iraq and the
Levant in a raid took place west of the
The source pointed out that "a police
province.
force sealed off the scene in search for the
perpetrators of the attack."
He added that a joint force of police and
army carried out, at dawn today, raid and
search operation in the villages of Hawija
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and Riyadh districts, 55 km west of Kirkuk,
and arrested three members of the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant noting that
the
detainees
had
been
poisoned
Two gunmen, tried to attack army,
killed in Salah al-Din province
previously in Bucca prison .
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BAGHDAD / NINA / Joint Operations
Command announced the killing of two
militants tried to attack a checkpoint in
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Salah al-Din on Thursday 10, Oct.
The command said in a statement today
that "the security forces killed the two
Zebari, Italian official discuss political
updates in regional arena
gunmen when they were trying to attack
an Iraqi army checkpoint on the outskirts
of Salah al-Din province."
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Baghdad (AIN) –The Foreign Minister,
Hoshyar Zebari, hosted the Italian Foreign
Gunmen attack Mowselya TV in
Mosul, kill three soldiers
Minister Secretary, Leo Bestilli, and his
accompanying
Mosul / NINA / Three soldiers were killed
in an armed attack on the building of a
satellite channel in Mosul on Thursday 10,
Oct.
at
the
headquarter of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported in
a statement received by AIN ''The meeting
A security source told the reporter of the
National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that
"Unidentified
gunmen
attacked
the
building of al-Mowselya TV channel and
clashed
delegation
with
an
army
checkpoint
stationed to protect the building, killing
three soldiers.
The source did not elaborate.
touched on the means of promoting
bilateral relations between Iraq and Italy
such as the participation of Italy in
Baghdad International Fair which will
support
the
contribution
of
Italian
companies in the reconstruction and
development projects,'' noting that ''The
meeting was attended by the Italian
Ambassador to Iraq Maruti Massimo.''
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discussed
the
political
and
security
''Zebari tackled several cases of common
updates in Iraq in addition to the
interest and the influences of Syrian crisis
preparations
on neighboring countries as well as the
elections."
for
holding
the
next
efforts exerted to solve it through
speeding
up
holding
2nd
Geneva
conference,'' the statement concluded.
"The two sides have also discussed the
bilateral
relations
and
the
regional
updates," the statement concluded.
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Zebari, US Ambassador discuss
mutual relations
Jobouri: Press Freedom Law to be
activated soon
Baghdad (AIN) -The Foreign Minister,
Hoshyar Zebari, discussed with the US
Ambassador to Iraq, Robert Beecroft, the
Baghdad (AIN) –Member of the State of
mutual relations and the regional updates.
Law
Coalition,
Haytham
al-Jobouri,
announced that the press freedom is
A statement by the Foreign Ministry
granted by the Iraqi constitution.
received by AIN cited "Zebari received
Beecroft on Wednesday where they
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He stated to AIN "The parliament will seek
the seats in case the political blocs will not
issuing
reach a compromise over the new
a
resolution
to
oblige
the
government to activate the Press Freedom
elections law.
Law," noting that "The parliament will
have a hotline with the journalists who are
He stated to AIN "Determining April, 30th,
subject to arrest by security forces."
2014 as a deadline for the Independent
High Electoral Commission to conduct the
"The new Iraq depends on the journalists
parliamentary elections sent a message
as the partners in fighting corruption," he
for the sides that were concerned over
concluded.
postponing the elections."
"The additions for the new elections law
hindered its endorsement," he remarked.
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"The blocs may resort to the former law
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and amend its articles related to the
distribution of the seats in case they will
not reach an agreement over the draft of
Determining date of Parliamentary
Elections to ensure political sides,
says Yasiri
the new law," he concluded.
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Baghdad (AIN) –MP, Hadi al-Yasiri, of the
State of Law Coalition expected adopting
Fadhila bloc rejects creating sectarian
sedition, says Tuma
the elections law of 2010 after amending
the articles related to the distribution of
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Baghdad (AIN) –The Fadhila bloc rejected
creating the sectarian sedition in Iraq.
Foreign Relations Committee:
Transferring Khaliji 22 from Basra to
Jeddah targets political process
The head of the Fadhila bloc, Ammar
Tuma, stated in a press statement
received by All Iraq News Agency (AIN)
"The ignorance and stupidity of some
persons and being a part of the sectarian
project that aim to destroying the social
texture, needs a national stance to reject
such actions and punish those behind
them."
Baghdad (AIN) –The Parliamentary Foreign
Relations
"These actions directly or indirectly make
the citizens subject to terrorism where the
terrorist groups get the sympathy of some
people to do their criminal actions and the
Committee
stated
that
transferring the Khaliji 22 Championship
from Basra to Jeddah is another way to
destroy the political process in Iraq by the
countries supporting terrorism.
persons agitate sectarianism do not follow
the method of the Prophet and his
family," he added.
The member of the Committee, Zala
Naftachi, stated to All Iraq News Agency
(AIN) "Iraqi is diplomatically opened to all
He called "The government to hold the
responsibility and deal with such negative
actions that agitate sectarianism and civil
conflict."
countries especially the regional ones, but
unfortunately the regional countries are
supporting terrorism and attempt at
hindering the progress in Iraq where Iraq
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has a powerful position represented by
arrived to the U.S. capital of Washington
heading the Arab League."
to attend the annual meetings of the
International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and
"Transferring the Championship of Khaliji
the World Bank as governor of Iraq to the
22 from Basra to Jeddah is another mean
Fund."
to attack the Federal Government of Iraq
where it is a political decision to destroy
the
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political
process
in
Iraq,"
she
concluded.
Shahristani invites French companies
to invest in Iraq
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Governor of the Central Bank by
interim participates in the meetings
of the International Monetary Fund in
Washington.
Baghdad (AIN) –The Deputy Premier for
Energy Affairs, Hussein al-Shahristani,
hosted the French Minister of Foreign
Baghdad/ NINA /--Head of the Iraqi
Trade and her accompanying delegation at
Central Bank Governor by interim Abdul
his office in Baghdad.
Basit Turki headed Iraqi delegation to
attend the annual meetings of the
Shahristani office reported in a statement
International
received by AIN ''The two sides discussed
Monetary
Fund
in
Washington.
the means to promote mutual relations
between Iraq and France by developing
The central bank said in a press statement
bilateral political, economic and cultural
that " Turki heads the delegation which
relations for the favor of two countries.''
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''Shahristani invited the French companies
to invest in Iraq in the fields of energy,
building airports, railways , bridges,
hospitals and housing complexes due to
the wide experience of France in these
fields,'' the statement added.
Obama Regime’s Wahhabi Sex Cannibal
''The French Minister expressed the desire
Jihadists aka FSA or Free Syrian Army
of her country to invest in Iraq by the
attack Syria’s largest of two oil refineries
participation of French companies in
at the beginning of the coldest season
reconstruction movement,'' the statement
expected in a century to force suffering on
concluded
the Syrian people.
In a video clip uploaded and shared on
social media by the same terrorists
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bragging about their ‘achievement’ in
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style, plumes of flame and smoke are seen
rising from the refinery’s oil tanks and a
voice of a terrorist thanking and praising
his God for the attack and the direct hit.
2. SYRIA
The video uploaded by the terrorists after
we added English subtitles to it and
uploaded again on our channel for the
Obama Regime Al Qaeda Thugs Shell
Homs Oil Refinery
westerns to see where their money is
going
It’s not the first time the terrorists
targeted the oil refinery, they did so
during the siege of Baba Amro and at that
time
western
politicians
and
their
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mouthpieces, the western mainstream
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media immediately accused the Syrian
alqaeda-shell-homs-oil-refinery/
Arab Army for the shelling that led to wide
cuts of electricity power throughout the
country and shortages in fuel, petrol and
other derivatives, even causing bakeries to
Citrus Fruits Production in Syria On
the Increase
stop producing bread.
The 2011 incident of attacking the
refinery, a crew from the US based CNN
news company were aiding the terrorists
in the attack and the explosions. Syrian
state
TV
managed
to
obtain
the
transmission feed and shows the real
More than 50,000 Syrian families depend
media terrorists from the CNN placing the
on farming citrus in the country as an
camera at site and aiming at the refinery
earning source, added to them more
16 hours before the explosion, then
hundreds
moving directly to the site and coming
collectors, transporters, marketers and
back. Details can be found in the following
others.
of
thousands
of
helpers,
blog post and the video clip embedded in
it,
1.135 million tons is the expected produce
of citrus in Syria this season with an
The Zionist foreign settlements cantons
increase of 130,000 tons than the previous
known as Israel in the west targeted the
year. Most of Syria’s produce of Citrus is in
same refinery in the 1973 war, 40 years
Latakia 887,000 tons, Tartous 205,000
ago, the terrorists attack it now to
tons and 12,000 tons in other areas like
commemorate their sponsor’s aggression.
Homs, Idleb, Hama, Der Ezzor and
Obama’s regime meanwhile shuts down
Damascus.
the US federal government but continues
to finance and aid Al Qaeda death squads
Syria has managed to reach its self-
in Syria and elsewhere worldwide.
efficiency
in
many
fields
especially
essentials and food just before NATO
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decided to ‘democratize’ the country
Worth noting that Syria’s government
using suicide bombers and cannibal anti-
buys all of the produce that farmers are
Islamic Wahhabi Sex Jihadists.
not able to market through local markets
and it subsidizes seeds, pesticides, manure
One of the main targets for NATO-backed
fertilizers, transportation of products and
terrorists
Syria’s
fuel to an amount up to 4/5th of prices in
infrastructure was its agriculture sector
neighboring countries, allowing Syrians to
and food supplies in order to fail the
live at 1/5th of the cost of living their
country and make it dependent on GMOs
neighbors live by.
in
destroying
(Genetically modified food) produced by
western corporations.
Also worth noting that Iran accepted to
exchange
Syria’s
citrus
and
cotton
Syria’s parliament issued a law approved
produce with wheat after Turkish prime
and signed by the Syrian president Dr.
minister
Bashar Assad last year under the number
organized criminal thugs the wheat silos in
Law 24/ 2012 which bans the import,
Aleppo, Ragga, Der Ezzor and everywhere
produce and distribution of GMOs to
they managed to reach.
Erdogan
stole
through
his
‘preserve the health of human beings,
animals, vegetables and the environment.’
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Western leaders, especially the US regime
head
Obama,
accuses
the
Syrian
government and the Syrian president of
Two more French journalists held in
Syria
‘killing own people’ with no proof except
video clips on social media produced by
their own ‘activists’ who are always
present at the time of each massacre to
film it, while they themselves kill their
own people, literally, in slow motion and
by such unhealthy food.
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PARIS - France said Wednesday that
Francois, a seasoned war reporter for
reporter Nicolas Henin and photographer
Europe 1 radio, and Elias, a photographer,
Pierre Torres are being held in Syria,
were detained on June 6 by unknown men
bringing to at least four the number of
at a checkpoint while travelling to Syria's
French journalists abducted in the conflict-
second city of Aleppo. Prime Minister
wracked country.
Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday that
France had recent indications that the two
The foreign ministry said in a statement
men were still alive.
that Henin, 37, and Torres, 29, had been
captured on June 22 but did not provide
Henin and Torres disappeared while
any further details.
working in the town of Raqqa in northern
Syria.
Their abduction was not initially made
public at the request of their families, who
Henin was employed by a television
said in a statement they had hoped a
production company, Solas Films, and
media blackout might help secure a quick
regularly did work for French television
release of the two men.
station Arte, weekly magazine Le Point,
Belgium
"But after more than 100 days of waiting,
and
Switzerland's
national
broadcasters and Radio Canada.
the families and friends of the two
journalists wanted to address a message
Torres had covered the 2011 Libyan
to Nicolas and Pierre to tell them they are
conflict and was on his second trip to
doing everything they can to secure their
Syria. Among his clients were AFP.
rapid release," a statement from the
families said.
The families of Henin and Torres said they
had been informed by the French
They said they would now be working with
authorities in August that the two men
the families of the two other detained
were still alive.
French journalists, Didier Francois and
Edouard Elias.
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Syrian Army Regains Control of
Strategic Town near Border with
Israel
Tens of thousands of people have been
killed since some sporadic protest rallies
turned into armed clashes.
The
government
blames
outlaws,
saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for
the deaths, stressing that the unrest is
being orchestrated from abroad.
Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army regained
capitals have been staging various plots to
control of a strategic town near the
topple President Bashar al-Assad, who is
border with Israel after fierce clashes with
well known in the world for his anti-Israeli
armed rebels.
stances.
The army troops pushed back the
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terrorists from the Teranje town in
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Qenitre region near the border with Israel
and regained full control of the town after
a heavy fight.
3. IRAN
The Syrian army had also captured Jebata
al-Khasheb border town before taking
back Teranje.
Leader Warns of Enemies' Attempts
to Slow down Iran's Rapid Scientific
Progress
Syria has been experiencing unrest since
March 2011 with organized attacks by
well-armed gangs against Syrian police
forces and border guards across the
country.
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of the Islamic Revolution's historical
TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the
mission needs the accelerating scientific
Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali
movement of the country to continue
Khamenei said Iran has made remarkable
without slowing down and without any
and rapid technological and scientific
stop, pause or hesitation and laziness."
progress during the last three decades
despite sanctions and pressures, and
In
relevant
remarks
last
October,
enemies are seeking to slow down or stop
Ayatollah Khamenei hailed the country's
this progress.
experts and scientists for their strenuous
efforts which have resulted in Iran's rapid
"The young elites and all the Iranian
scientific advancement, and urged the
officials and nation should know that the
country's researchers not to hesitate one
main focus of the front which has today
moment about continuing their firm
stood against the Islamic Republic is
movement on the path of progress.
preventing the empowerment of Iran in
the field of science and technology,"
Ayatollah Khamenei expressed pleasure in
Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a
the
large number of young Iranian elites and
interaction
researchers in Tehran on Wednesday.
scientific
atmosphere
of
dominating
move
and
dialogue
the
and
country's
progress,
but
meantime urged the Iranian scientists to
"In analyzing all political, economic,
accelerate their efforts.
regional and international events and
issues, this realistic and major view should
"Of course there is one concern that a
rule that there is a powerful front in the
status of satiation and satisfaction will be
world which doesn’t want the Islamic Iran
created due to the country's rapid
to turn into a powerful country and nation
scientific move and this is while we are
in different fields, specially in science and
still at the start of the path and this
technology," he added.
(present) scientific speed should not be
decelerated or stopped," he underlined.
Ayatollah
Khamenei
underlined
the
necessity for continued rapid scientific
Ayatollah Khamenei said that Iran is
progress in Iran, and said, "Materialization
lagging behind the world's top countries in
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area of science and technology because it
rhetoric, adding that such threats and
had been ruled by dependent, ignorant
warmongering positions merely tarnish
and autocratic rulers for centuries.
the Americans' prestige.
Thus, this wide distance with the world's
"Of course, such threats are of no
top scientific powers and the existence of
importance to anyone in Iran," Larijani
rather powerful rivals in the region double
told reporters in a press conference in
the
Geneva where he is attending the Inter-
necessity
for
Iran's
accelerated
scientific move towards a top position in
Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly.
area of science which deserves the Iranian
nation's prestige, he added.
Asked by reporters to comment on the US
double-track policy of willingness to hold
Iran has taken wide strides in science and
talks with Iran, on one hand, and
technology, particularly in medical and
threatening Iran with military attack, on
medicinal fields, in recent years.
the other hand, he said, "This model of
position-taking is bad for the Americans,
themselves, and for their prestige."
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Meantime, Larijani voiced optimism about
the next round of talks between Iran and
Larijani: No Iranian Cares about US
Threats
the world powers in Geneva, and said, "I
have a positive look, and certain countries
which sought sanctions and threats in the
past have now realized that issues can be
settled politically."
Stressing Tehran's willingness to hold talks
to settle the nuclear standoff with the
West,
he
said,
"The
new
Iranian
Parliament
government is ready for negotiations and
Speaker Ali Larijani said no one in his
has new methods for such negotiations as
TEHRAN
(FNA)-
Iranian
country cares for the US and its allies' war
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Iran wants a settlement of its nuclear
under four rounds of UN Security Council
issue through political talks."
sanctions and the western embargos for
turning down West's calls to give up its
Iran and the world powers held a meeting
right of uranium enrichment.
on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly
session
in
New
York
in
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as
September and are due to meet again in
politically tainted and illogical, stressing
Geneva on October 15-16.
that sanctions and pressures merely
consolidate Iranians' national resolve to
On April 6, Iran and the six world powers
continue the path.
wrapped up two days of intensive
negotiations in Almaty.
Tehran has repeatedly said that it
considers its nuclear case closed as it has
Washington and its western allies accuse
come clean of the International Atomic
Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons
Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and
under the cover of a civilian nuclear
suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
program, while they have never presented
any
corroborative
evidence
to
substantiate their allegations. Iran denies
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the charges and insists that its nuclear
program is for peaceful purposes only.
Iran Dismisses Closure of Fordo N. Site
Tehran stresses that the country has
always pursued a civilian path to provide
power to the growing number of Iranian
population, whose fossil fuel would
eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the NonProliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every
member state, including Iran, to the right
TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Iranian
of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now
parliament's National Security and Foreign
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Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi
"The 20% enrichment is undergone at the
strongly rejected western media reports
site (Fordo)," he added.
claiming that Tehran plans to raise a
proposal during its upcoming talks with
Fordo enrichment facility hosts Iran's
the six world powers on the closure of its
uranium enrichment to the purity level of
Fordo uranium enrichment facility in
20% which is needed for fueling a research
return for the annulment of sanctions.
reactor
in
Tehran
which
produces
radioisotopes for medical purposes.
"It is an irrelative word. Fordo will never
be closed and will continue its work,"
The western media claimed recently that
Boroujerdi
a meeting with
Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani is
Secretary of State at the Swiss Foreign
willing to shut down its nuclear facility if
Ministry Yves Rossier in Tehran on
the West agrees to lift Islamic republic's
Wednesday.
sanctions.
"We in the parliament will not allow such
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of
a thing to happen," he added.
Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi strongly
said
in
rejected western media reports claiming
In relevant remarks on Monday, a senior
that Tehran has raised a proposal to the
Iranian legislator said Fordo underground
West to close its Fordo underground
facility near the Central city of Qom,
uranium enrichment facility near the
where Iran enriches 20-percent-grade
Central city of Qom for lifting sanctions
uranium, is in full operation.
against the country.
"The centrifuges at Fordo have been
"The closure of Fordo site is a sheer lie,"
installed completely and the facility is in
Salehi told reporters at the end of a
full operation and without any problem
cabinet meeting in Tehran earlier this
ordeficiency," member of the parliament's
month.
National Security and Foreign Policy
Commission Mohammad Esmayeel Kosari
told FNA.
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Zarif rejects media reports on his New
York visit
during the New York trip were not
appropriate.”
Iranian lawmaker Hossein Naqavi Hosseini
was the first to make the comments about
the private meeting on Sunday. But he
later said not all that was published by the
newspapers was said in the Sunday
meeting.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
Zarif has accused some media at home of
Amongst the media reports, one headline
distorting his remarks at a closed-door
from the daily Kayhan from the principlist
session where he briefed lawmakers on
camp stood out. It cited reformist Zarif as
his visit to New York, Press TV reports.
saying the Obama-Rouhani phone call and
his
This all started after several Iranian
meeting
with
John
Kerry
was
inappropriate.
lawmakers at the private meeting on
Sunday quoted Zarif as saying that the
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
telephone conversation between Iranian
Marzieh Afkham in a statement rejected
President
US
the media reports reflecting Iranian
President Barack Obama was a mistake.
parliamentarians’ remarks about their
They also claimed that the minister said
recent meeting with Zarif.
Hassan
Rouhani
and
his talk with US Foreign Secretary John
Kerry was prolonged.
The foreign minister’s comments "have
not been published accurately and the
The media reports said this was in
titles used by some newspapers are not
reference to a recent speech by Leader of
true and are rejected," she stressed.
the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed
Ali Khamenei, who had expressed support
On a Facebook page attributed to the
for the diplomatic approach adopted by
foreign minister, Zarif said after seeing the
the Rouhani administration, but noted
headline by a newspaper he canceled
that “some of the things that happened
most of his meetings and checked into a
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hospital suffering from back pain and
interaction between Iranian and German
muscle spasms in his leg. He said people
economic sectors as well as chambers of
that took his words out of context should
commerce.
know
he
would
only
make
public
statements from now on.
Takht Ravanchi also asked for the
exploitation of industrial and economic
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potential present in both countries.
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Goetze, for his part, described the Iranian
market
as
important
for
German
companies and a valuable asset for both
Iran ready to facilitate trade ties with
Germans: Official
Tehran and Berlin.
Germany is reportedly the European
Union's biggest exporter of goods to Iran,
well ahead of Italy and France.
Despite US-led sanctions, business ties
between Germany and Iran remain strong.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for
German firms continue to engage in brisk
European and American affairs Majid
trade with Iran and are finding ways of
Takht Ravanchi says Tehran is ready to
exporting goods to the country.
facilitate trade and industrial exchanges
with German companies interested in
Goetze also held a separate meeting with
creating jobs in the country.
the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s
West Europe Department Abulqasem Delfi
In a meeting with Head of Africa,
on Wednesday.
Asia/Pacific and Latin America and the
Middle East Division in the German
The German official described the meeting
Foreign Ministry Clemens von Goetze in
between German Foreign Minister Guido
Tehran on Wednesday, the senior Iranian
Westerwelle and Iranian President Hassan
official stressed the need for closer
Rouhani on the sidelines of the 68th
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annual session of the UN General
Assembly in New York as positive and
effective, expressing hope that TehranBerlin relations will further expand during
the
tenure
of
the
new
Iranian
administration.
He also touched upon the various aspects
TEHRAN,
Oct.
10
(MNA)
–
Iranian
of the bilateral ties between Germany and
Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Tuesday
Iran, voicing Berlin’s readiness to further
told CNN that Tehran was serious about
boost interaction with Tehran and utilize
resolving its nuclear issue, and was
Iran’s experiences concerning regional
seeking to come to an agreement shortly
issues.
given that the West would agree to let
Iran enrich nuclear fuel for civilian
Delfi, for his part, pointed to the historical
purposes.
Iran-Germany relations, and called for
broader political, parliamentary, economic
“From Iran's side, I can say that we are
and cultural ties between the two
ready,” Larijani, speaking from Geneva,
countries.
told CNN's Chrisitan Amanpour, the
Jerusalem Post reported.
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Larijani told Amanpour that Iran can
trade-ties/
"clearly show and prove" to world powers
that it was not developing a nuclear
bomb.
‘Iran can prove to world its nuclear
program is peaceful’
He stated that Iran had no intention of
weaponizing its nuclear program. "So it
can be resolved in a very short period of
time,” he said.
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“If the Americans and other countries say
technology
to
build
intercontinental
that Iran should not develop a nuclear
missiles but it feels no need to build such
bomb or should not move towards that,
weapons.
then we can clearly show and prove that,"
he said.
“Today we have the technology to
manufacture such missiles… but since
However, Larijani told Amanpour that a
enemies are near to us there is no need
resolution would "take a long time" if the
for such high costs,” Brigadier General
West seeks to "bargain with us or if they
Amir Ali Hajizadeh said in Mashhad on
have ulterior motives". He added that the
Wednesday.
issue would also not be resolved speedily
if world powers planned to try to
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Iran has technology to build
intercontinental missiles: IRGC
general
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) – The commander
of the Aerospace Force of of the Islamic
Revolution Guards Corps said Iran has the
4. ISRAEL - PALESTINE
Hamas calls for meeting with Fatah to
counter Israel’s ‘schemes’ on
Jerusalem
Mashaal says that building an Arab,
Islamic and Palestinian military capability
is the only way to restore Jerusalem and
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the holy sites, calls for an all-out popular
and historic symbol,” he added. “There
uprising against Israel.
should be no differing over this.”
Hamas on Wednesday called on for an
The Hamas leader said that building an
“urgent
with the
Arab, Islamic and Palestinian military
Palestinian Authority and Fatah to agree
capability is the only way to restore
on a unified Palestinian strategy to
Jerusalem and the holy sites.
national meeting”
confront Israeli “schemes” in Jerusalem.
The first step toward building such a
The call was issued by Hamas leader
military force should be to launch
Khaled Mashaal during a conference in
resistance attacks against Israel in order to
Ankara, Turkey, on the issue of Jerusalem.
drain its power, Mashaal said.
Mashaal said in his speech that no
“The occupation should not live in stability
Palestinian or Arab or Muslim leader is
and without worries,” he continued.
authorized or has a mandate to sign an
“There should be daily draining.”
agreement that “harms” Jerusalem and
the holy sites.
He
also condemned the
Authority
for
conducting
Palestinian
security
“Protecting Jerusalem and the Aksa
coordination with Israel and cracking
Mosque against Judaization, demolition
down on Hamas supporters in the West
and division should be a shared national
Bank.
goal,” he said.
Mashaal called for an all-out popular
Mashaal called for a decisive Palestinian,
uprising against Israel under the motto of
Arab and Islamic stance toward Jerusalem
“defending Jerusalem against demolition
that rejects any concessions in the city.
and division.”
“We need to affirm to ourselves, the
He stressed that no Palestinian or Arab or
future generations and the world that
Muslim or Christian negotiator
Jerusalem is the essence of the cause and
authorized to negotiate about Jerusalem
conflict and a political, religious, national
or sign an agreement that includes
was
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political or religious concessions in the
morning as well as the Palestinian murder
city.
of IDF soldier Tomer Hazan last month.
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"Ge'olat Zion loves Tomer Hazan" was
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written on the mosque's exterior wall.
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It is the second such attack in 24 hours.
Security forces on Wednesday arrested
'Price tag' attack against mosque in
Palestinian village
four Israelis for attacking the Palestinian
village of Jalud, vandalizing an elementary
school and lightly injuring a soldier.
The IDF has assumed that violence against
Jalud was also a “price tag” attack for the
demolition of the Ge’olat Zion outpost,
located outside the Shiloh settlement.
IDF assumes vandalism in Burka, violence
The IDF said it viewed the attack on the
against Jalud are retribution for the
Palestinian villages and IDF soldiers
demolition of the Ge’olat Zion outpost.
seriously.
Extreme right wing activists vandalized
Such
three cars and the exterior wall of a
atmosphere and distract security forces
mosque in the Palestinian West Bank
from their primary mission of protecting
village of Burka outside of Ramallah early
against terror, the IDF said.
actions
create
an
unstable
Thursday morning.
The day’s events began when a security
The IDF is working on the assumption that
force of 200, that included the IDF and the
the vandals executed a "price tag" attack
Border Police, destroyed two illegal homes
of retribution for its evacuation of the
and two illegal tents, that make up the
Ge'olate Zion outpost on Wednesday
Ge’olat Zion outpost.
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also
provided
photographs
of
the
According to settlers, the outpost – which
damaged vehicles. The IDF said it counted
is home to two families with children and
seven vandalized cars and that activists
some singles – was created last year on
also broke windows in the school.
state land.
Saddeh said he blames the IDF for the
The settlers added that the homes were
attack on the village.
permanent structures built of stone.
Rabbis for Human Rights sent a letter to
According to the Border Police, a call went
the IDF asking that it to do a better job at
out to activists to help defend the
safeguarding Palestinian property, Saddeh
outpost. The activists that arrived threw
said.
stones at security forces, who then
arrested two of them.
In total, security forces arrested six
extreme right wing Israeli activists during
Shortly after the demolition, right-wing
the day of which two were minors.
Israeli extremists attacked Jalud.
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worker Zakariya Saddeh, some 30 masked
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Israelis came to Jalud and split into three
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groups. One group lit fire to an olive
grove, destroying 400 trees, he said. He
provided the Post with a video that
showed the fire raging along the hillside
Settlers torch 3 cars in Ramallah
village
outside the village.
A second group threw stones at an
elementary school and the third group
vandalized five cars belonging to teachers
parked in the school yard, Saddeh said. He
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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- A group of settlers
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torched three Palestinians cars in the
Ramallah village of Burqa on Thursday,
PA, Syria agree to protect refugee
camps
locals said.
Witnesses told Ma'an that settlers raided
the village overnight and set fire to the
vehicles. Locals could not contain the fires
and all three vehicles were destroyed.
Two cars belonged to Netham Ali Maatan
and the third vehicle to Muhammad
Maatan.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian and
Syrian leaders will cooperate to protect
Before fleeing the scene, settlers spraypainted "The redemption of Zion (Geulat
Zion) loves Tomer Hazan" on the wall of
Palestinian refugees remaining in Syria,
Fatah leader Abbas Zaki told Ma’an on
Wednesday.
the village mosque, in reference to an
Israeli soldier
killed in Qalqiliya
in
September.
Zaki, a member of Fatah’s central
committee, met with Syrian President
Bashar Assad last week.
Israeli forces and police arrived on the
scene and have opened an investigation.
The
two
leaders
discussed
possible
solutions to Syria’s two-and-a-half-yearSettler
violence
against
Palestinian
communities in the occupied West Bank is
routine. Israeli forces, who have an
old crisis along with issues such as refugee
camps and Palestinian prisoners in Syria,
Zaki said in a telephone interview.
obligation as an occupying force to protect
Palestinians, rarely anticipate or prevent
attacks from taking place.
“We agreed to create safe passages to
refugee camps,” Zaki said.
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He added that Palestine’s policy of non-
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intervention in internal Syrian affairs had
protected
Palestinian
refugee
camps
within Syria from attacks by government
5. JORDAN and LEBANON
forces.
Although Syrian rebels have entered
camps in the past, Zaki said, the Syrian
Charbel: Terror suspects entered
Lebanon as Syrian refugees
army has not.
Caretaker
Interior
Minister
Marwan
“The circumstances of refugees in Syria
Charbel said that some terror suspects
are very difficult,” Zaki said, pointing to
entered Lebanon under the guise of Syrian
Yarmouk camp, the largest Palestinian
refugees.
refugee camp of the 14 in Syria, as an
example.
“Security concerns are growing… Security
agencies
are
monitoring
groups
of
“Of its population of 250,000, only 18,000
suspects who had entered Lebanon as
remain.”
Syrian refugees but have enrolled in
undertaking
dangerous
security
said
and
He said that he and Assad agreed “to
terrorist
activities,”
Charbel
in
preserve these refugee camps as a witness
remarks
published
by
to Israel’s historic crime.”
newspaper on Thursday.
Over 700,000 refugees emerged from
The minister also said that the security
Palestine in the aftermath of the Arab-
plan for the northern city of Tripoli will be
Israeli war and the creation of the State of
implemented over two stages and that it
Israel in 1948.
will run “under my direct supervision.”
According to UNRWA, there are over 5
Charbel masterminded a security plan for
million registered Palestinian refugees.
the Shiite Beirut stronghold of Dahiyeh
Al-Mustaqbal
after two explosions ripped through
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neighborhoods of the Beirut area last
on the occasion of the General Assembly
month leaving dozens dead and several
meeting
injured.
mechanism that would allow refugees to
also
aimed
to
discuss
a
return to Syria and settle in established
Tripoli, which over the past months had
camps.
witnessed sectarian clashes linked to the
war in Syria, was also targeted by twin car
“The
international
community’s
bomb explosions that detonated near two
recognition of the damage incurred by
mosques killing at least 42 people.
Lebanon, is not, in my view, something
that harms Lebanon,” he added.
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Last month, an international support
lebanon-as-syrian-refugees
group meeting took place on the margins
of the UN General Assembly to discuss
ways to provide Lebanon with support in
Suleiman says Lebanon made world
aware of burden of refugees
its effort to tackle the overburdening issue
of the large influx of refugees from wartorn Syria.
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said
that the international community was
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made aware of the burden that the Syrian
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refugees issue inflicted on Lebanon.
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“We did not go to New York to beg [for
money], but to ask, first and foremost, the
international community to share the
Jordan demands Israel to implement
UNESCO resolutions
financial burden with us,” Suleiman said in
remarks
published
by
An-Nahar
newspaper on Thursday.
AMMAN — Jordan on Wednesday called
on the Israeli government to implement
international resolutions pertaining to
The president also said that his visit to the
Jerusalem
and
the
latest
decisions
United Nations’ headquarters in New York
adopted by the UNESCO executive board.
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agreements, he said, noting that Israel
The UN agency on Friday issued a
must stop its continued violations of the
resolution denouncing violations by the
holy city.
Israeli occupation authorities in the holy
city of Jerusalem, according to the Jordan
Momani said Israeli occupation authorities
News Agency, Petra.
insist on allowing Jewish extremists into Al
Aqsa Mosque which ignites religious
In its decisions, the UNESCO condemned
conflict and constitutes a grave offence to
Israel over several issues in relation to the
Muslims and their feelings.
preservation of archaeological sites in the
Old City, the construction of a visitors’
Expressing Jordan’s condemnation of the
centre, plans to build an elevator by the
Israeli government turning a deaf ear to
Western
the Kingdom’s explicit and constant calls
Wall,
archaeological
accusations
excavations
of
damaging
to
prevent
Jewish
extremists
from
Muslim sites in Al Haram Al Sharif, known
entering Al Aqsa Mosque, Momani urged
to Jews as Temple Mount, and the
world
deterioration of educational and cultural
organisations to adopt a firm position to
institutions in the West Bank and the Gaza
confront Israeli plans and practices against
Strip.
the holy sites.
Minister of State for Media Affairs and
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Communications
israel-to-implement-unesco-resolutions
Mohammad
Momani
powers
and
international
renewed Jordan’s warning that repeated
acts of aggression against Islamic and
Christian sites
unilateral
in Jerusalem, Israel’s
measures
and
settlement
Recovering Spain seeks to maintain
support to Jordan — envoy
policies pose a threat to the peace
process, Petra said.
‘European country aware of pressures of
Syrian crisis on Kingdom’
Israel’s practices against the holy sites are
rejected and condemned and are in
AMMAN — Spain and Jordan have always
violation of international conventions and
had extraordinary, brotherly ties and
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excellent political relations, according to
aware of the honour of representing Spain
Spanish Ambassador to Jordan Santiago
in the Kingdom.
Cabanas Ansorena.
“I know that, hopefully, during my time
“We highly value our constant exchange
here, it will also be the time for a full
of views and cooperation in all issues of
recovery of the Spanish economy and it
common interest, and we greatly value
will allow us to do things as we used to do
Jordan’s role as a factor of stability and
before,” he noted.
moderation in the region,” said Cabanas
Ansorena, who arrived in Jordan in June.
Economic cooperation
In a recent interview with The Jordan
In 2012, Spanish exports to the Kingdom
Times on the occasion of Spain’s national
amounted to 208 million euros, a similar
day, celebrated on October 12, the envoy
figure to the year before when it reached
said he has three messages to convey on
216 million euros, which was a 74 per cent
this occasion.
increase compared with 2010, according
to the ambassador.
“We have a patrimony of history of
excellent ties and relations that we have
Figures he presented showed his country’s
to preserve,” he noted, adding that the
exports to Jordan until the middle of this
second message is that Spain is now
year reached a value of 121 million euros,
showing signs of economic recovery.
while its imports from the Kingdom stood
at 33 million euros, and included chemical
“It is true that Spain has gone through a
products,
difficult period, but we are coming out of
fertilisers.
potassium,
nitrates
and
this crisis… and we have laid the ground
for a very complete and full recovery,”
Currently, the main Spanish investment in
Cabanas Ansorena said.
Jordan is ALDEASA.
The third message that the envoy sought
“The company is investing up to $64
to convey is that although he has only
million in a concession from the Jordanian
arrived in Jordan recently, he has become
authorities to manage all duty-free shops
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at the Jordanian airports of Amman,
funds have been distributed to Zaatari
Marka and Aqaba until the year 2033,” the
camp through the UNHCR and Islamic
ambassador said.
Relief”.
Despite the current financial difficulties in
He added that his country has also
Spain, providing support for Jordan is still
developed some projects, in cooperation
on his country’s agenda, the diplomat
with local NGOs, to help host communities
stressed.
in the north.
“We have financed the establishment of a
“We will continue to do everything we
department
can,” the ambassador said.
within
JEDCO
[Jordan
Enterprise Development Corporation] with
the purpose of supporting small and
Education and tourism
medium companies in need of credit to
develop
their
activities,”
Cabanas
Ansorena noted.
Spanish is the official language in 23
countries; it is spoken by around 500
million native speakers in the world and
Spain also supports Jordan to cope with
by an estimated 500 million more.
the rising influx of Syrian refugees,
according to the envoy.
It is also the second language in
international communication after English.
“Spain is fully aware of the pressure
placed on Jordan by the Syrian refugee
More than 1,000 students study Spanish
crisis.
extremely
every year in Instituto Cervantes in Jordan,
generous, and I want to recognise the
according to Cabanas Ansorena, who
commendable efforts by the people and
noted that “there is interest among the
the government.”
younger generation”.
More than 5 million euros have been
Spanish is also taught in the University of
allocated this year by “our Agency of
Jordan,
International Cooperation to help with
universities, in addition to various schools
this humanitarian crisis. Some of these
in the country.
Jordan
has
been
Al
al
Bayt
and
Yarmouk
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While thousands of Jordanians are among
6. ARABIAN PENINSULA AND THE
GULF OF BASRA
the millions of tourists that visit Spain
every year, the number of Spanish visitors
to Jordan has dropped slightly.
Qatar denies international labour
federation access to construction site
In 2012, the ambassador said, more than
67 million tourists visited Spain, and in
2013 “we have so far gone over 60
million”.
In Jordan, comparing the first eight
months of 2013 to the same period last
year, there was a slight decrease of 5.7
per cent in the number of Spanish visitors
(17,615 in 2013 compared with 18,670 in
Team from Building and Wood Worker's
International federation protest outside
offices chanting: ‘FIFA, red card.’
same period 2012), according to data from
the statistics department at the Tourism
Ministry.
DOHA - A delegation from an international
labour federation inspecting the situation
of migrant workers in the 2022 football
The figures showed that a total of 27,101
Spanish citizens came to Jordan in 2012.
World Cup host country, was denied
access Wednesday to a construction site
in Qatar.
“We hope these numbers will start
increasing again soon, because Jordan has
much to offer as a tourist destination.”
"I can't allow you to visit this site without
prior coordination," an official at the site
told the delegation when they stopped for
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a "surprise visit."
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The site is a joint venture being built by
French group Vinci and Qatar's Diyar
Company.
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dollar construction programme to prepare
In response, the 18-member team from
the
Building
and
Wood
to host the 2022 football World Cup.
Worker's
International federation, gave up a visit to
The
International
the major Lusail site, 70 kilometres (43.5
Confederation (ITUC) had slammed as
miles) north of Doha, where the main
"weak
stadium for the World Cup is being built.
response to media claims that Nepalese
and
Trade
Union
disappointing"
Qatar's
workers were treated as slaves.
These scheduled visits only serve as "a
show case" in Qatar's benefit, a member
The head of Qatar's National Human
of the delegation Ampet Yuson, said.
Rights Committee, Ali Al-Marri, admitted
last week some problems but denied
Members of the delegation then headed
claims that the Nepalese workers were
to the headquarters of the World Cup
treated like "slaves".
organising committee, where they were
not allowed to meet with a representative
The
labour
minister's
undersecretary
of the committee due to the lack of an
Hussein al-Mullah, told the delegation
earlier appointment.
that companies in Qatar have met "99
percent of the (local) labour code."
They
protested
outside
the
offices
chanting: "FIFA, red card." Following
"We intervene where a worker files a
mediation, Hassen Dhawadi agreed to
complaint," he said.
receive them later in the evening.
But an Indian worker, who arrived in Qatar
British daily, The Guardian, last month,
four months ago, said that "if I complain
said 44 Nepalese workers have died on
to Qatari authorities, my employer sends
construction sites in Qatar.
me back to my country."
The Gulf state has come under mounting
The Work Ministry's Ali Ahmad Al-Khalifi
pressure to end exploitation of migrant
had pledged to double the number of
workers, as it embarks on a multi-billion-
work
inspectors
to
150,
a
pledge
considered by the ITUC as "weak".
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ITUC lodged a complaint in March with the
labour
ministry
against
six
Qatari
companies after being contacted by
workers.
The union body says Qatar's labour
ministry received 6,000 worker complaints
in 2012 while the Indian embassy there
received 1,500 complaints in the first five
Kingdom mobilises 95,000 members of
security forces and Interior Minister warns
pilgrims against exploiting hajj for political
purposes.
months of this year.
Among the complaints are that false
promises are made to workers, that
employer obligations on wages and
working conditions are not met, that
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's interior minister
warned Muslim pilgrims on Wednesday
against exploiting next week's annual hajj
for political purposes.
contracts are not respected, passports are
withheld,
workers
are
indebted
to
recruiters or moneylenders, and that
workers are forced to live in crowded
squalid camps.
"The Saudi government urges all pilgrims
to perform this ritual away from any
action that could put their safety at risk,"
the official SPA news agency quoted
Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin
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Nayef as saying.
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"The safety of pilgrims requires us to take
seriously any expected developments," he
Saudi Arabia in indirect warning to
Brotherhood: No Rabaa hands in
Mecca!
added, noting that his country was the
scene of a "wave of terrorism that did not
exclude the holy sites" in the early 2000s.
That was a reference to Al-Qaeda attacks
that rocked the kingdom between 2003
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and
2006,
prompting
a
relentless
crackdown by authorities, which he
The pilgrimage starts on Sunday and ends
on October 18.
oversaw.
Monday marks the most important day,
The
minister
did
not
say
what
when all pilgrims assemble at Mount
developments might be expected, but
Arafat, just outside Mecca, for the peak of
there have been reports that members of
the hajj.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood have been
urging pilgrims to express their support
The
kingdom
for the group after Islamist president
members of the security forces, in
Mohamed Morsi was ousted in July.
addition to troops supporting the defence
ministry,
The kingdom strongly backed Morsi's
has
the
mobilised
National
95,000
Guard
and
intelligence, according to the minister.
ouster, immediately pledging millions in
aid to the new government.
He also said the king has approved the
creation of a 40,000-strong special force
And in an August video message, a top
to secure the pilgrimage.
Saudi member of Al-Qaeda, Ibrahim alRubaish, criticised King Abdullah's support
Iranian
pilgrims
annually
stage
a
for the Egyptian army's actions.
"repudiation of polytheists" rally -- a ritual
promoted by the late Islamic republic's
Saudi authorities usually warn pilgrims
revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah
from carrying out any actions of political
Khomeini to denounce the West and
nature.
Israel.
This year Riyadh expects about two million
In 1987, police attempts to stifle the
pilgrims,
ultra-conservative
demonstration that year sparked clashes
kingdom announced a crackdown on
in which 402 people died, including 275
illegal pilgrims and imposed restrictions to
Iranians.
after
the
cut foreigners by 20 percent and Saudis by
50 percent.
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Iranian pilgrims have since held their
autonomists
rallies in tents without provoking clashes
protested
with security forces.
marginalised.
Though marred in the past by deadly
A
floods, stampedes and fires, the hajj has
Movement, demanding a north-south
become nearly incident-free in recent
federation,
years because of multi-billion dollar
Ansarullah rebels held a sit-in at the Sanaa
projects to improve security.
hall where the meeting was to be held, a
team
and
that
northern
they
representing
and
rebels
were
the
another
being
Southern
for
Zaidi
reporter said.
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This forced organisers to postpone the
session until Thursday.
Southerners and Zaidis sabotage
session of Yemen national dialogue
The two groups had boycotted Tuesday's
session during which President Abdrabuh
Mansur Hadi promised that outstanding
issues would be resolved within days.
In a joint statement, the groups said they
boycotted the session due to a "lack of
consensus" on the northern and southern
questions.
Team representing Southern Movement,
and another for Zaidi Ansarullah rebels
hold sit-in at Sanaa hall where session was
They charged that "the most important
national issues have been handed over to
traditional forces who are dividing its
to be held.
outcomes among themselves."
SANAA - A session of Yemen's national
dialogue was called off on Wednesday
after
representatives
of
southern
"It is injustice that has united us," said
Mohammed Ali Ahmed, head of the
southern delegation and chairman of the
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People's Congress of the South -- a
Southern Movement faction.
"What concerns us is having a single
southern
entity
with
the
pre-unity
The dialogue that opened in March is
borders," said Ahmed, defending the
aimed at drawing up a new constitution
"right of the people to determine their
for Yemen and preparing for elections in
fate."
February.
Hadi on Tuesday said: "We are a few days
Fighting
between
and
away from reaching a just solution to the
government forces in the mainly Sunni
southern issue... within a united and
state
federal Yemen."
after
a
Zaidi
2004
Shiites
rebellion
killed
thousands of people before a ceasefire
was reached in February 2010.
Secession of the south would prove "a
catastrophe that future generations will
The dialogue was scheduled to end
September
18
but
delayed
never forgive us for."
after
participants, despite having accepted the
Separatist groups have called for a rally on
concept of a federal structure, failed to
Saturday in Aden, capital of the formerly
agree on the numbers of regions making
independent south, in support of a
up the future state.
complete secession.
The southern question has been a major
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stumbling-block in the talks, with hardline
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factions of the Southern Movement
boycotting the discussions and demanding
secession.
Oman urges teachers to end strike for
sake of children
After the former North and South Yemen
united in 1990, the south broke away in
Education Ministry to look into demands
1994, triggering a brief civil war that
of striking teachers
ended with the region being overrun by
northern troops.
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Muscat: Oman’s Ministry of Education has
are proper ways and channels to raise
adopted an emotional approach to end a
demands but it is wrong to stop working,”
teachers’ strike that entered the ninth day
he told media.
on Wednesday.
The teachers are demanding less than 20
“We have urged teachers to look at the
classes per week, but senior ministry
national interest, future of our children
officials
and end their strike with immediate
internationally acceptable standard was
effect,” Dr Hamoud Bin Khalfan Bin
28 school periods per week.
pointed
out
that
the
Mohammad Al Harthy, Undersecretary for
Education and Curricula at the Ministry of
The ministry have also claimed that the
Education, said in reply to a question by
number of students have decreased from
Gulf News during a marathon three-and-a-
568,000 to 518,000 in their argument for
half hour interaction with the media.
less workload on teachers. Al Harthy
explained to Gulf News that the number
Al Harthy, Saud Bin Salim Al Beloushi,
of private schools has increased in Oman
Undersecretary
and
and overall capacity at these schools has
Development of Human Resources at the
also increased. “Parents admit their
ministry, and Mohammad Bin Hamdan Al
children in private schools so the number
Tobi, Adviser at the ministry, addressed
has
the media, mainly outlining the ministry’s
schools.”
for
Planning
decreased
in
government-run
plans of expansion in future.
However, he was quick to admit that in
The Omani teachers struck work nine days
the coming years the number could go
ago, with various demands, including
much higher with the population growth.
fewer working hours, the right to form a
He also said the ministry was also looking
union and a proper salary structure
at salary structure of the teachers which
according to seniority.
at the moment was uniform, irrespective
of the seniority.
Al Tobi told media that the ministry was
looking at the demands but added that
Al Beloushi revealed that the ministry had
the teachers must show patience. “There
plans for 23,000 projects between 2011
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and
2015.
These
plans
include
upgradation of existing schools as well as
new buildings for new schools. “We have
completed two projects of new buildings
so far,” added the Undersecretary for
Planning and Development of Human
Resources.
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been
Meanwhile, Shaikh Ahmad Bin Hamad Al
Khalili, Oman’s Grand Mufti, on Sunday
said
on
Oman
Television
that
the
kidnapped by armed gunmen from a hotel
in Tripoli, according to two Arab television
channels.
government should deal more fairly with
the teachers because they are “education
messengers”. He also said that the
teachers’ strike should not harm the
society.
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an-urges-teachers-to-end-strike-for-sakeof-children-1.1241497
Sky News Arabia has received word from
government sources on Thursday that the
rebels grabbed Zeidan from the Corinthia
Hotel in the Libyan capital and took him to
an unknown location, Reuters says. Similar
reports were also relayed by television
channel al Arabiya.
The
hotel’s
security
guards
later
confirmed the reports, with one guard
7. AFRICA and EGYPT
Armed Gunmen Kidnap Libyan PM
From Tripoli Hotel
describing the situation as an“arrest.”
Government officials could not be reached
for comment at this time.
The incident takes place two years after
the deposal of Libya’s autocratic ruler
Muammar Gaddafi, which resulted in
widespread chaos involving many players
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and factions all vying for power in
different parts of the country, with the
Washington has said that it intends to
government still trying to bring the
announce the future of its “assistance
situation under control.
relationship” with Egypt in the coming
days, however military and economic
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experts have agreed that any US aid cuts
13/10/10/breaking-news-armed-gunmen-
will be “symbolic” and would have little
kidnap-libyan-pm-from-tripoli-hotel/
effect on the country.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly in
New York last month, US President Barack
Obama criticized the actions of Egypt’s
military-backed
interim
government,
saying it had “made decisions inconsistent
US aid cuts to Egypt symbolic, say
experts
with inclusive democracy.”
US support would “depend upon Egypt’s
progress in pursuing a more democratic
path,” he added.
Paul Gamble, Director of the Africa &
Middle East team of Fitch’s Sovereign
Ratings Group, told Asharq Al-Awsat: “The
London,
Asharq
Al-Awsat—Reports
aid cuts won’t have an impact at a macro-
continue to emerge that the White House
economic
level,
because
these
are
intends to suspend part of the USD 1.3
effectively credits that are awarded to the
billion aid it offers to Egypt annually
Egyptian military for the purchase of US
following a policy review taken after the
military equipment, so this money does
ouster of Islamist president Mohamed
not directly enter the economy.”
Mursi and a crackdown against the former
ruling
Muslim
Brotherhood
by
military-backed interim government.
the
He said, “This does not mean any less
money is going to the Egyptian economy,
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so it really does not have an impact,”
much, this is more important symbolically,
adding, “It’s more a political gesture.”
on a diplomatic scale.”
Fitch had downgraded Egypt’s long-term
US aid is seen as a critical pillar of the
foreign and local currency ratings from ‘B’
1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, and US
to ‘B-’ just days after Mursi’s ouster. Prior
President Barack Obama’s decision to
to Mursi’s ouster, the White House had
review aid—particularly military aid—to
requested USD 1.55 billion in assistance
Egypt could have a major impact on
for Egypt for 2014: USD 1.3 billion in
Egyptian foreign policy towards Tel Aviv.
military aid, USD 250 million in economic
aid.
The
Obama
administration
has
However Glain, who is the author of
subsequently said it would suspend
Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The
approximately USD 585 million of the
Economic Collapse of the Arab World,
military aid to post-Mursi Egypt pending a
dismissed such claims. He told Asharq Al-
wider policy review.
Awsat: “If the Muslim Brotherhood was
smart enough to respect its peace treaty
“Since we downgraded Egypt [in July]
with Israel, I have to think the army is
we’ve seen a large inflow of funds from
too,” adding, “From my experience, the
Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait, amounting
officer class in Egypt is well aware of the
to approximately USD 7 billion. That’s
importance of securing calm along its
played an important role in building up
border with Israel.”
foreign exchange rates and the supporting
the exchange rate and the economy,” he
US officials confirmed that aid cuts will
added.
hold up the delivery of several types of
military hardware to the Egyptian military,
Stephen Glain, a writer and journalist who
including tanks, helicopters, and fighter
has written widely about the Arab
jets. However this will not affect aid for
economy, concurred, telling Asharq Al-
counterterrorism operations or for border
Awsat: “The Egyptian army has its fingers
security
in
Peninsula and Gaza Strip.
a
lot
of
economy
sectors,
issues
involving
the
Sinai
manufacturing, services-Egyptian Airways.
I don’t think they’re going to suffer that
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Lockheed Martin, one of the largest US
defense contractors, halted the delivery of
Britain calls for immediate release of
Libyan PM
four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt earlier this
year, having previously delivered eight out
British Foreign Secretary William Hague
of a 2009 order of 20 planes.
called Thursday for the immediate release
of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on
Regarding speculation that the US military
Thursday after he was seized by gunmen
cuts would include vital maintenance of
from a hotel in Tripoli.
Egyptian military equipment bought from
the US, Glain said: “That would be
"I condemn the abduction of the Libyan
significant, and it would be particularly
prime minister in Tripoli this morning and
punitive, because maintenance and spare
call for his immediate release," Hague said
parts is a big part of this and extremely
in a statement.
important for military readiness. Egypt has
a critical mass of weaponry to maintain
Britain's ambassador to Libya is in contact
their deterrent capability; however it’s
with the transitional government that
important that they have the necessary
took charge in Libya following the toppling
spare parts.”
of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011,
Hague added.
He added that Egypt could conceivably
keep its armed forces in a state of repair
"It is vital that the process of political
even without US assistance, telling Asharq
transition in Libya is maintained," Hague
Al-Awsat: “I would not underestimate
said.
their engineering competence, I’m sure
they can maintain a minimum amount of
"The government and people of Libya
readiness without help from the US, I’d be
have our full support at this concerning
more concerned about spare parts.”
time."
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Britain and France led the creation of a
5318863
NATO no-fly zone in Libya in 2011 at the
beginning of the uprising against Kadhafi.
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nal/britain-calls-for-immediate-release-of-
Lawyer Mostafa Atteyah said a meeting of
libyan-pm
Morsi's defence team, planned later on
Wednesday, was to decide on the course
of action and name the head of the team.
Egypt sets November trial date for
Morsi
He said so far the legal team has not seen
the case's documents.
"This is like all the other cases. It is a
fabricated one," Atteyah said, adding that
most cases against Brotherhood members
are based on weak prosecution. He said
Islamist scholar and former presidential
Deposed president to stand trial on
candidate Salim al-Awa is expected to lead
November 4 with 14 others over killings of
the defence team.
protesters outside his palace last year.
The case Morsi was charged in dates back
The trial of Egypt's deposed President
to one of the deadliest bouts of violence
Mohamed Morsi on charges of inciting the
outside
murder of protesters will start on
December 4, protesting a decree Morsi
November 4, the official MENA news
issued to protect his decisions from
agency reported.
judicial oversight and a highly disputed
the
presidential
palace
on
draft constitution that was hurriedly
Morsi will stand trial with 14 other
adopted by the parliament.
defendants over the killings of protesters
in
The next day, Morsi's supporters attacked
December 2012, almost six months before
protesters who had camped outside the
his overthrow in a military coup.
palace, sparking street battles that left at
outside
his
presidential
palace
least 10 dead and bring accusations that
The Cairo Appeals Court also named judge
Morsi relied on organised mobs to
Ahmed Sabry Youssef to preside over the
suppress the sit-in.
trial, MENA said.
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Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, however,
Leading Brotherhood members Essam el-
claimed that most of those killed were his
Erian and Mohamed el-Beltagy will be
supporters.
tried alongside Morsi. Erian is currently in
hiding.
'Concrete evidence'
The military has detained Morsi in a secret
Mostafa Al-Azm, a member of the
location since his overthrow on July 3. His
coalition of observers to protect the
supporters and opponents of military rule
revolution, which is against the military
have demonstrated across the country
coup, said the case was "political."
since.
"There's no real evidence that Morsi
Hundreds of people have died in clashes
ordered
with
or was
involved
in
killing
protesters at the presidential palace,
security
forces
and
many
Brotherhood figures have been arrested.
that's why it took them so long to set a
trial date," Al-Azm told Al Jazeera.
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ast/2013/10/egypt-sets-november-trial-
On the other hand, Tarek El-Khouly, a
date-for-morsi-20131091095636300.html
spokesperson for the April 6 Democratic
Front movement, welcomed the decision
to set a court date.
Sudan's Bashir: Protests sought
regime fall
"There is definitely concrete evidence that
officials at the presidency, and Morsi
himself, were involved in giving orders to
beat and kill his opposition," Khouly told
Al Jazeera. "We all sensed Morsi's criminal
behavior in his speeches, when he
condemned protesters who called for his
fall and described them as vandals and
Sudanese
thugs."
protests that left 60 people dead were
president
says
fuel-price
part of an effort to topple his regime.
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On September 23 the government cut
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on
petrol subsidies, driving up pump prices by
Wednesday said deadly protests over fuel-
more than 60 percent and sending
price increases last month were part of an
thousands into the streets to protest in
effort to topple his regime.
the worst urban unrest of Bashir's 24
years in power.
"After we announced the latest economic
measures they said this is a chance to
Rights groups say around 200 people were
overthrow Ingaz," he said in a reference to
killed by security forces.
his government which took power in a
1989 Islamist-backed coup.
Authorities have now upgraded their toll,
reporting 60-70 deaths, and said they had
"They
brought
agents,
thieves
and
hijackers, and they said Khartoum will be
to intervene when crowds turned violent,
attacking petrol stations and police.
overthrown," he said in eastern Sudan,
without specifying exactly who "they" are.
A wide range of observers say the
protests, accompanied by calls for the
They
brought
agents,
thieves
and
downfall
of
the
regime,
were
a
hijackers, and they said Khartoum will be
spontaneous reaction by citizens, many of
overthrown.
them poverty-stricken, who have endured
two years of rising prices since South
"But Khartoum could not be overthrown
Sudan separated with most of Sudan's oil
because it was guarded by God," he said in
production.
a speech broadcast live on national radio.
Observers have said the protests point to
Bashir
has
"conspiracies"
previously
linked
spoken
to
of
an urgent need for reform by a regime
the
grappling with wars, dissension within its
demonstrations and his Interior Minister
own
ranks,
economic
Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed claimed foreign
international isolation.
crisis
and
links to "criminal" acts which allegedly
occurred during the protests.
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Bashir said the government plans a major
economic conference next month as part
However, Afghan officials have reported
of efforts to stabilise the economy.
three police casualties. They also said at
least four civilians were injured in the
"We will bring experts to provide a
attack.
solution to the problems and to plan
programmes," he said.
This comes a day after the Afghan Interior
Ministry said security forces had killed
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more than 20 Taliban militants in Kunduz,
13/10/bashir-says-protests-sought-topple-
Badakhshan,
regime-2013109135943219117.html
Urzgan,
Jawzjan,
Wardak,
Kandahar,
and
the
and
Helmand
Provinces.
Washington and Kabul are negotiating a
security deal which would allow US forces
8. AFGHANISTAN - PAKISTAN
to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014, the
Several US troops killed in Helmand:
withdrawal deadline.
Taliban
The two sides are at odds over US
demands
for the
right
to
conduct
Taliban militants say they have killed
unilateral military operations and how the
several US soldiers in an attack against
US would pledge to protect Afghanistan.
their base in Afghanistan’s southern
Helmand Province, Press TV reports.
In late April, the Taliban announced the
start of their annual offensive against US-
Reports by Afghan officials say a car bomb
led and Afghan forces, vowing they would
explosion went off at the main gate of a
use "every possible tactic" to inflict
US-led military base, on Wednesday.
casualties on Afghan and US-led forces.
They specifically mentioned insider and
Taliban
militants
have
claimed
bomb attacks.
responsibility for the attack, saying they
have killed a number of US-led troops.
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The announcement has prompted the
Reports say Baradar has since been moved
Afghan authorities to beef up security in
between safe houses in the Pakistani city
major cities across the country, including
of Peshawar, near the Afghan border.
the capital city of Kabul.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan
said on October 9 that Baradar "still
in 2001 as part of the so-called war on
spends his days and nights in prison," and
terror. The offensive removed the Taliban
his health is deteriorating "day by day."
from power, but the country is still
gripped by insecurity.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his
week
http://www.aopnews.com/today.html
Baradar's
freedom
was
still
restricted and he called on Pakistan to
cooperate.
Taliban Say Pakistan Still Holding
Baradar
"We are trying to find a contact number or
his address to talk to him," Karzai
said.with additional reporting by Reuters
The Afghan Taliban says Pakistan has not
fulfilled a promise to free their former
second-in-command, Mullah Baradar.
Baradar is seen by many in Afghanistan as
the key to restarting peace talks with the
Afghan Taliban.
Suicide bombing plot foiled in capital
Kabul
Pakistan announced Baradar's release in
mid-September, but has offered no
information on his whereabouts since
Afghan intelligence – National Directorate
then.
of
Security
(NDS)
on
Wednesday
announced to foil a suicide attack plot in
capital Kabul.
Sayfa 50
The suicide bomber has said that he was
National Directorate of Security (NDS)
following a statement said that a suicide
bomber who was looking to carry out
attack on Eid days in capital Kabul was
arrested by Afghan NDS forces.
bomber
was
recognized
militants on how to carry out terrorist
attacks, and was encouraged to carry out
suicide attack on Eid day.
The statement further added that the
suicide
trained by Pakistani, Arab and Uzbek
as
Pakistani militants plotting attack on
Afghan army base killed
Hazratullah who was also known as Jawad
and Abu Bakar. He is the resident of
eastern Khost province and was a student
in a religious school in Waziristan tribal
region of Pakistan.
NDS in it’s statement also added that
Hazratullah was trained by Haqqani
terrorist Network and was sent to capital
According
to
local
authorities
in
Kabul in order to carry out suicide attack
easternPakistani militants killed in Kunar
on Eid days.
province Kunar province of Afghanistan, at
least four Pakistani Taliban militants were
killed following an explosion in this
According to NDS officials, the detained
province.
bomber has confessed that he had
received 35 days of terrorist activities
training in Tal area of Waziristan tribal
The officials further added that the
region.
Pakistani Taliban militants were looking to
attack an Afghan National Army military
base, and were killed after their own
explosives went off.
Sayfa 51
Fazlullah was the commander of the
Taliban in Pakistan’s northwest Swat
A spokesman for 201 Silab Military Corps
for
eastern
Haroon
Afghanistan,
Yousufzai
said
Valley but was driven into Afghanistan
Mohammad
the
when the Pakistani army launched a big
Taliban
offensive there in 2009.
militants were killed late Wednesday
evening in Asmar district.
http://www.khaama.com/pakistanimilitants-plotting-attack-on-afghan-army-
Mr. Yousufzai further added that civilians
base-killed-1963?
and Afghan army soldiers did not suffer
any casualties following the incident.
*This media summary is prepared by ORSAM
Taliban militants group yet to comment
regarding the incident. Kunar is among the
volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan
where Taliban militants from Afghanistan
and neighboring Pakistan are openly
operating.
Taliban militants have close cooperation
on the two sides of the border, and
Taliban
are
also
providing
sanctuary for a prominent Pakistani
Taliban commander, Mullah Fazlullah in
this province.
Yağmur
East
Research
Gökler.
It
Assistant
covers
Firuze
news
and
commentaries as reported by the national
media sources publishing in the Middle
Eastern countries. The views expressed are not
those of ORSAM and their inclusion does not
imply factual accuracy.
According to reports, Afghan and Pakistani
Afghan
Middle
*Bu
bülten
ORSAM
Ortadoğu
Uzman
Yardımcısı Firuze Yağmur Gökler tarafından
hazırlanmaktadır. Bülten Ortadoğu ülkelerinin
yerel haber kaynaklarından derlenmektedir.
Belirtilen görüşler bölge ülkelerinin haber
kaynaklarına ve ismi geçen yazarlara ait olup
ORSAM’ın görüşünü yansıtmamaktadır.
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