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Friday, September 18, 2015
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Mayor Rudy Giuliani: We must recognize Iranian Resistance movement
In order to prevent a nuclear-armed regime in Iran and avoid war in the process, the U.S. government should recognize and support the Iranian Resistance which seeks to overthrow the mullahs’ regime, Rudolph W. Giuliani, former mayor of New York, wrote on Friday marking the 14th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
"It would be a mistake, however, to conclude that 9/11 is now simply a part of the nation’s history, like Pearl Harbor. Because there is one big difference. The causes and hatreds that created 9/11 are still with us, and the terrorists have enlisted members who are even more diverse, cunning and determined. The Islamist terrorist war against us continues. This is not a matter of history but of current and future threats," Mr. Giuliani wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
"In the late 1970s, Iran’s theocratic rulers began killing hundreds of thousands of their own people and took American hostages that the regime held for 444 days."
"Now, once again, the terrorist attacks under the banner of jihad are increasing and diversifying. With so many such attacks and thwarted attacks over the past five or six years, we must recognize that 'they'—those who want to destroy civilization—are continuing the war against us."
"Yet those running our government seem to be in an even greater state of denial than the nation was in during the period before Sept. 11. Now, instead of bin Laden, Iran’s supreme ayatollah has declared that he wants to destroy Israel, to continue to kill Americans and to establish an Islamic empire including Iraq, Syria and Yemen—and the terrorist groups Iran supports. At the same time, the group known as Islamic State, or ISIS, has declared a caliphate seeking the destruction of Christianity and other infidels, and now occupies key areas of Iraq and Syria."
"As we reflect on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we must remind ourselves that all the wickedness underlying those attacks still exists and has expanded. We may very well be in more jeopardy now than before 9/11."
"The Obama administration appears likely to get its nuclear deal with Iran—even though it gives the ayatollahs access to hundreds of millions of dollars that will be used to sponsor terrorist acts against us and our allies, and puts the regime on the road to becoming a nuclear power. The deal makes war, either conventional or nuclear, more likely."
"But there are alternatives to war. The Iranian regime to this very day maintains a two-dimensional approach to us: negotiate with us while maintaining policies on the destruction of Israel, death to Americans and supporting Islamist terrorism. The American leadership should be at least as shrewd, using a two-pronged counter approach: While attempting to reach an agreement assuring a nonnuclear Iran, we should also recognize and support the Iranian resistance movement. It is absurd that we supported regime change in Egypt, a U.S. friend, and regime change in Libya, a neutered country that had abandoned its weapons of mass destruction, and yet have done nothing to support it in Iran," Mr. Giuliani added.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Bolivian Mob Lynches Alleged Attacker
LA PAZ – A man who allegedly tried to murder a taxi driver so he could rob him in the Bolivian city of El Alto was lynched by local residents who came to help the supposed victim, police said.
The incident occurred on Tuesday in the neighborhood of Alto Lima, the destination to which the taxi driver took his presumed passenger, who then tried to stab him to death, the chief of the Special Anti-Crime Force in El Alto, Col. Felix Rocha, told reporters.
“(The driver) asked for the help of residents of the area, who immediately came at his call, (and they) captured and beat the suspect,” Rocha said.
The alleged attacker was taken to a La Paz hospital, where he died on Wednesday morning.
Lynchings of alleged criminals are a frequent occurrence in Bolivia and, as legal experts have warned, they show that a de facto death penalty imposed by angry mobs prevails in the country.
The people involved in the lynch mobs say that they are applying so-called “community (indigenous) justice,” which is recognized in the 2009 Constitution, although the document does not condone or set forth either capital punishment or physical punishment for convicted criminals.
Bolivian authorities and international organizations, such as the United Nations, have expressed their concern over these acts, which the police have been unable to fully suppress, given that many of them occur in rural areas where there are hardly few law enforcement personnel who are willing to confront the furious mobs.
According to human rights defense organizations, there are between 10 and 20 fatal lynchings each year in Bolivia and a greater number of attempts.
Egypt Confirms Death of 8 Mexicans in Security Force Attack
CAIRO - The Egyptian Ministry of Interior confirmed on Tuesday that eight Mexicans were killed in the accidental attack by the security forces on Sunday in the oasis area of the western desert, when a total of 12 people were killed.
Egyptian interior spokesman Ayman Helmy told EFE that the 12 victims included eight Mexican tourists and four Egyptians, while the nine wounded included seven Mexicans.
The injured were admitted to Dar al-Fouad hospital, on the outskirts of Cairo where their condition is currently stable and they are out of danger, according to Egyptian interior spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid and a hospital official.
Egypt's General Tourist Guide Syndicate said on Monday that the death toll among the Mexican group was eight victims, which has now been confirmed by the Mexican government.
Sources close to the victims told EFE that two of the Mexican casualties died of their injuries while being transferred from the oasis area to Cairo.
The victims were on a tourist trip that was accidently attacked by Egyptian security forces during an anti-terror operation, when their convoy was mistaken for a terrorist group.
The Egyptian interior ministry claimed that the tourists were attacked by mistake after they entered a restricted area, while the travel company responsible for the organization of the trip revealed that it had actually obtained the necessary permission from the tourism police.
The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as Egypt's General Tourist Guide Syndicate stated that the convoy was attacked by a military helicopter according to statements by survivors.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu is expected to arrive in Cairo, along with seven members of the victims' families, to meet with Egyptian authorities for clarification regarding the circumstances of the incident and to provide support to the wounded.
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Russia -The US sanctions against Iran are no concern of Russia ( Russian Foreign Minister said )
SEVASTOPOL, August 19. /TASS/. The US sanctions against Iran are no concern of Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday, answering a question whether the possible sale of S-300 air defense systems to Iran by Russia fell within the scope of US sanctions laws.
"The US sanctions are no concern of ours. We only fulfill our international obligations, above all, with regard to sanctions, this is the decision of the UN Security Council. All other unilateral restrictions imposed bypassing the Security Council in violation of the general norms of the international law are of no interest to us. So, let our American colleagues study the issue, perhaps, it will useful for them to come to the conclusion that far from all corresponds to their vision of international law," Lavrov said.
On August 14, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that "the decision on possibly supplying S-300 to Iran has already been made by the Russian president, and technical issues of this matter are being discussed." "This is an exclusively bilateral issue. Participation of third countries is not envisaged and is not required," he stressed.
Russia’s Defense Ministry earlier said Moscow was ready to hand over to Tehran the modernized versions of S-300. Russia is currently working to upgrade the missile defense system in line with the Iranian side’s recommendations.
The ministry said these missile systems may be delivered to Iran under the Russian presidential decree "immediately."
Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the ban on the S-300 supplies to Iran in April 2015 when six world powers confirmed significant progress after talks with Iran on the nuclear program in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Under the 2007 contract, Moscow pledged to deliver to Tehran five battalions of S-300 medium-range air defense systems worth $800 million. Iran made an advance payment of $166.8 million. No supplies followed up to the middle of 2010.
In September 2010, Russia’s then-president Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on measures to implement the UN Security Council’s Resolution 1929 of June 2010 to prohibit the supplies of S-300 to Iran. The contract was annulled and the advance payment returned to Iran.
Bulletproof Vest Saves Colombian Presidential Candidate
BOGOTA – A mayoral candidate in the northern Colombian province of Sucre emerged uninjured from an assassination attempt thanks to the bulletproof vest he was wearing, his political party, the leftist Union Patriotica, said on Wednesday.
Hugo Sanchez, who is running for mayor of Palmitos, was shot twice in the chest but the bullets did not harm him due to the vest.
This is one of the measures that the National Protection Unit is providing to thousands of threatened candidates in Colombia ahead of the Oct. 25 provincial and municipal elections.
The UP said that Sanchez’s attackers “are the same people” who tried to wipe out the party in the late 1980s, when some 5,000 members of the Union Patriotica were exterminated by right-wing paramilitaries.
“The authorities know who finances them and who protects them. They know where they live,” UP chief Aida Avella said, adding that she saw no point in asking for an “exhaustive” investigation of the shooting, as such investigations “don’t exist in Colombia.”
“There are less than 700 armed men” in the vicinity of Sincelejo, capital of Sucre province, the UP said.
The Union Patriotica was founded in 1985 as the result of negotiations between the government of then-President Belisario Betancur and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrillas.
In its first elections, in 1986, the UP obtained more than 320,000 votes that allowed it to get into Congress and numerous municipal administrations, a situation that was the start of the persecution of the party and its members.
The UP disappeared in the early 1990s but returned to the Colombian political arena in mid-2013, when it regained its legal standing amid a peace process between the FARC and the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos
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