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- July 13 , 2007:
Global oil prices have reached above $77 a barrel. There are concerns that
such a high price might go up much more if any trouble or war arise in the
Middle East this summer.
- Feb.26, 2007: The US is making plans to
attack Iran , Syria and Lebanon in order to secure the Shia revolution and
domination in the Middle East.
- Dec.30, 2006: Saddam Hussein was executed today.
People in Iraq danced in the streets while others fired guns
in the air to celebrate the former dictator's death. It was reported that
Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former
chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, also were hanged.
- Sept. 15, 2006: The statement in Germany by the Pope, who
said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things. Such an
insults is not acceptable nor is true statement. The Pope must apologies and
respect Islam and all other religions. His statements have angered Muslims
in all parts of the world. His statement is like declaring war on Islam. It
shows his hatred for Islam and Muslims. The Vatican must make an immediate
apology , otherwise it will loose respect made by such a man ( the Pope) who
is encouraging and triggering hatred between religions instead of carrying
the voice of peace and harmony.
Pope Benedict XVI apology will not be enough , he must resign.
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 Sept.4,
2006: Steve Irwin(44), the hugely popular
Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the
"Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving
expedition. He was a lunatic in his act , specially when he surprised people
at the Australia Zoo reptile park by carrying his month-old son into a
crocodile pit. He tucked the infant under one arm while tossing the 13-foot
reptile a piece of meat with the other.
Aug.28, 2006:
Al Kharafi Group , a Kuwaiti company, has taken out a full page
advertisement in an American newspaper criticizing US support for Israel in
the war with Hezbollah. Showing photographs
of wounded and crying children - Lebanese casualties "from the Israeli
bombing August 2006" .
August 14, 2006:
Israel has asked the US government to speed up delivery of short-range
anti-personnel rockets armed with cluster munitions. The
M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and
carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a
broad area. Some
State Department officials want to delay the approval because the rockets
could cause huge civilian casualties if used against targets in populated
areas of southern Lebanon, the New York Times reported.
Of course Israel will not hesitate to use it against
civilians in Lebanon and in the occupied land. It is to be noted that most
of Israeli weapons are made in USA.
August 5, 2006:
An oil slick affecting more
than 80km of the Lebanese coastline has reached Syria and could threaten
Cyprus, Turkey and Greece if left unchecked.
The spill was caused by the
bombing of the Jiyyeh power station, 30km south of Beirut, on July 13 and
15, by Israel. This is a war crime against humanity , this atrocities remind
us of the Iraqi destruction in Kuwait and the huge oil spells.
- August 3rd, 2006: Israel dropped
leaflets in the Lebanese capital saying: "After the continued launching of
Hezbollah terrorist rockets... the Israeli Defense Forces intend to widen
their offensive in Beirut." This is a clear criminal act , attacking a city
full of civilians , what will be next, actually Israel is bombing all
Lebanon...This another war started by Israel , and no one knows when it will
stop...
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JULY 24, 2006: THE WHOLE WORLD IS JUST WATCHING , AS ISRAEL HAS SAID IT
CLEARLY THAT THEY WILL DESTROY AND PUNISH LEBANON FOR THE PRESENCE OF
Hezbollah.
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 July
23, 2006: Over 700,000 Lebanese have left their homes in southern Lebanon ,
and seeking refugee in the north and mountain areas. Most people are housed
in schools and empty buildings and some are sleeping in tents, however the
real problem is increasing day by day as more civilian influx and also by
the fact that aids ( food , water & medicine) can not be sent to these
people since most of the road are damaged. Also the country is running out
of gasoline due to the Israeli sea blockade.
- July 19,
2006: Israel is bombing Lebanon since July 12 and has destroyed most
infrastructure . People are suffering as over 400 are killed and 500,000 are
displaced and refugees. The World is just sitting and watching thinking that
Israel is the victim in this conflict. The US has given a green light to
Israel to destruct Lebanon. This action will not weaken Hezbollah , but it
will give birth to more terrorism in the Middle East. Even if Hezbollah is
destroyed , new terrorist will come. Israel must stop bombing civilians
targets in Lebanon and should bomb military targets in Syria and Iran,
perhaps causing a regime change in such countries that support Hezbollah,
then Hezbollah will disappear without having any such support.
- Feb.22, 2006: The US
President has said that the deal allowing a United Arab company to take over
six major US seaports must go forward, and he would veto any congressional
effort to stop it. Many US official as objecting to this deal stating that it
may endanger the national
security of the United States. What a crazy lunatic to
think all Arabs and even a reputed Arab company will be a threat to US
security. Federal government officials said that they had carefully
studied the deal and that it posed no security risk. If the deal will go the
US -Arab relation will have a drastic set back and it could affect US business
in the GCC countries and the rest of the Arab world.
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Feb.11,
2006:
France’s Chief Rabbi Joseph Sitruk and the central Jewish Consistoire joined
their Muslim and Christian counterparts on Thursday denouncing press drawings
portraying Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Feb.8, 2006: Worldwide,
bottled water consumption surged to 154 billion liters (41 billion gallons) in
2004, up 57 percent from 98 billion liters in 1999. Italians drank the most
bottled water per person, at nearly 184 liters/ year in 2004--more than two
glasses per day. Mexico and the United Arab Emirates consumed 169 and 164
liters per person per year. Belgium and France follow at almost 145 liters
annually. Spain ranked sixth, with 137 liters per year.
- Feb.3, 2006:
Up to 300
Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage in the lobby of a building housing the
Danish embassy in Jakarta on Friday. Outrage over
insulting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) spread across the Muslim
world , with protestors in
Pakistan ,
Indonesia , Iran, Palestine and many other countries staged a demonstration.
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Jan.30 , 2006:
The European Union has warned
Saudi Arabia that the bloc will take action at the World Trade Organization if
the Riyadh government supports a boycott of Danish goods.
First they insult the Muslims and now they want to stage
an economic war. EU and western countries should push the Danish government
for an apology and not to threaten with a total EU boycott against such
country as Saudia Arabia. Just , what can the EU do , if people refuse to buy
Danish goods and forever. What about if people refuse to buy EU goods.
You can not force people to buy Danish or EU goods. There are many other
sources of similar goods from South America to China…The message should be
clear apologies to all the Muslims and never make a bad or insulting cartoon
about any prophet , even about Jesus or Moses…Danish and EU governments must
show some respect and not arrogance. The problem with the Danish government is
also the way it treats Muslims and other minorities in its own country. Danish
government , is very arrogant and does not want to apologies. Danish
government will confront a complete economic embargo imposed by people not by
governments , this boycott will never stop...There is not hatred against
Danish people yet , but who knows what could happen in future. We just hope
the issue will not escalate any further and the Danish government make a
formal apology.
Jan.29,2006: Jyllands-Posten , a Danish newspaper has published
mockering cartoon of the prophet Mohammad. These cartoons has enraged Muslims
all over the world, these pictures are very insulting and show real hatred
against Muslims and Islam. The interesting thing is that most pictures have
Arabic comments , which clearly indicate that some one knowing Arabic incited
and helped to develop these cartoons. So all indication point out to an
Israeli fanatic and terrorist who is aiming to insult the Muslim faith and
blame it on a Christian government and newspapers. Here is the results:
-The
publication led to outrage among the Muslim immigrants living in Denmark.
5,000 of them took to the streets to protest.
-12
Ambassadors of Arabic and Islamic countries in Denmark has protested to The
Foreign Ministry.
-Carsten
Juste, the paper’s editor, refused to apologies, and he does not regret the
publication of the insulting cartoon, indicating he has a deep hatred against
Islam.
-Saudia Arabia recall its Ambassadors from Denmark.
- All Danish products in Saudi Arabia are boycotted and removed
from supermarkets shelves.
-In Kuwait street demonstration and protest are made. Boycott
of Danish good is in effect too.
-Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten
is being protected by security guards and several cartoonists have gone into
hiding. The cowards are hiding from Muslims anger.
-The 56 member countries of the Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC) are
meeting
in Mecca to discuss joint action against Denmark because the Danish government
has refused to call Jyllands-Posten to account. The Islamic countries are
reporting to the Un their condemnation of human rights abuse against Muslims
in Denmark.
-The
Council of Europe
(CoE), an organization of 46 European countries, has criticized the Danish
government for invoking the “freedom of the press” in its refusal to take
action against “insulting” cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
-Instead of supporting their government, 22 prominent Danish
former career
diplomats criticized
Prime Minister Rasmussen this week. In an open letter to the national daily
Politiken the former diplomats
write: “It would have suited democracy in Denmark if the prime minister had
met the request for a meeting that was put forth by eleven foreign ambassadors
from Muslim countries.” According to the former diplomats Denmark is
witnessing “a sharpening of tone, which can only be regarded as persecution of
the minority that consists of Muslim citizens.”
-In Bahrain,
Danish dairy
products were set ablaze on Friday evening amid calls by MPs to stage a rally
and burn more Danish goods next Friday to protest lack of action from the
Danish government against a newspaper that published cartoons scorning Prophet
Mohammad.
-The Prime Minister of Denmark is very arrogant and refuses to
apologies or even meets the Islamic Ambassadors in his country. This shows
disrespect that should be rejected by complete diplomatic an economical
boycott of Danish products and not to recognize this country politically and
ban all flights to Denmark. The Prime Minister needs a lesson on International
politics and respect of other nations.
-EU, UN and the Islamic nation both criticize Denmark over this
issue.
-Danish
Muslim organizations have announced that they will take the newspaper
to the European Court of Human Rights
over the controversial publication.
-A recent poll conducted in Copenhagen found a majority of
Danes against their government and media apologizing to Muslims for the
cartoons.
-Denmark is expected to lose 160 billions of Dollars , just for
6 months , due to the boycott of their dairy and other products, from Saudia
Arabia..
-Also Danish manufacturers will loose over 150 million $ ,
yearly , from Kuwait market, just for food products.
-Danish companies has placed advertisements in Middle Eastern
newspapers to counter intensified calls for boycott of Danish and Norwegian
products in Muslim countries.
-It is
evident the Denmark have no respect for Islam or Muslims therefore ,not only
Muslims , but all people should have no respect for such a country that does
not respect faith and religion of other people in this globe.
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Jan.9, 2006: About 2.5 million Muslims , from 180 countries, are
gathered today at Arafat, in Saudia Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
This year there are many threats facing Saudi Authority , including Birds Flu
and other contagious diseases in addition to terrorism.
Read more at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/09/hajj.two/index.html
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Jan.6, 2006: An estimated 11 million people in
Africa "are on
the brink of starvation" because of severe drought and war, with some deaths
already being reported in Kenya, according to the United Nations.
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Dec.17, 2005: Suspected Taliban guerrillas
dragged a teacher from a classroom of teenagers in southern Afghanistan and
executed him at the school gate after he ignored their orders to stop teaching
girls, police said on Friday. This is really crazy!!! What
a fanatic group are Taliban!!!
Dec.3, 2005: About 40 million people worldwide are now infected with HIV, the
virus that causes Aids. Some 3 million of them are expected to die of Aids this
year. An estimated 5.1 million people are living with HIV in India the most in
any single country except South Africa. Nigeria, Africa's most-populous nation,
is third.
Nov.7th,
2005:
A deadly new
global pandemic of human influenza is inevitable and suffering will be
"incalculable" unless the world is ready, according to the chief of the U.N.
health . The World Bank put the possible economic cost at a minimum of $800
billion.
May 29,
2005: Thousands of Muslims marched in Islamic countries from Asia to the Middle
East, burning symbols of America to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran
by military personnel at a U.S. prison in Guantanamo, Bay, Cuba. The rallies in
Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere followed an
admission Thursday by U.S. investigators that Islam's holy book was mishandled
at Guantanamo. But American officials claimed it was often inadvertent and
denied that any Qurans were flushed down a toilet, as Newsweek magazine had
reported in a now-retracted article.
April 26, 2005: General Motors
Corp. is recalling more than 2 million vehicles, including nearly 1.5 million
sport utility vans and pickup trucks that have problems with their seat belts.
However GM dealers in The Middle East did not recall the cars for the
manufacturer default, as usual. this is mainly because there is no strong
consumer protection agency that can force such companies to repair their design
fault.
April 17, 2005: The three children of Monaco's Prince Rainier
III by the
U.S. actress Grace Kelly have bade farewell to their father at a funeral service
attended by royalty and political leaders from around the world.
Rainier, died
on April 6 at the age of 81 of lung, heart and kidney problems.
April 13, 2005: Anti-Japanese protests have erupted in China for the second day
running, spreading from Beijing to the southern province of Guangdong.
Protesters are angry at a new Japanese history textbook which they believe plays
down Japan's wartime atrocities. The protests were sparked by new Japanese
schoolbooks, which many Chinese say whitewash Japan's occupation of much of
China during the 1930s and early 1940s. Anti-Japanese sentiment has also been
fuelled by Japan's campaign for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
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April 9, 2005: Israel's president said he shook hands with the leaders of
Syria and Iran at a Vatican funeral. Israel's Moshe Katsav had historic
chance encounters with President Bashar Assad of Syria, a country formally
at war with the Jewish state, and President Mohammad Khatami of Iran. The
agony is that the Iranian President is denying the handshake, but just look
at the photo image?!!!
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April 7,
2005: Prince Rainier III, died yesterday, nearly a month after he was
hospitalized with a lung infection. He was 81. Prince Albert, 47, Rainier's
heir, was at his father's side when he died. Rainier's doctors had called
Albert around half an hour beforehand to tell him the end was near, the
palace said. Rainier died from the heart, kidney and lung problems that
caused his hospitalization, the palace said. Albert, the only son of Rainier
and Princess Grace, becomes Monaco's de facto ruler until a formal
investiture ceremony expected after a mourning period. He took over the
royal powers — but not the throne — from his father last week after a royal
commission decided Rainier was too sick to rule. Monaco changed its
succession law in 2002 to allow power to pass from a reigning prince who has
no descendants to his siblings. Albert has two sisters, Princess Caroline
and Princess Stephanie, both of whom have children.
April 3, 2005:
Pope John Paul II died at an age
of 84. He was a man of peace and religion. God Bless his soul.
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March 27, 2005 : US
officials held an “unpublicized” meeting with exiled Syrian dissidents in
Washington to discuss ways of “weakening the Syrian regime,”. The days of
the Baath regime in Syria is numbered and will be over soon.
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 March
29, 2005:
A massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake hit
Indonesia’s Sumatra Island yesterday and killed many people, but there were
no immediate reports of a tsunami.
The islands of Nias and
Simeulue bore the brunt of the quake, which struck at around 2315 local time
(1615 GMT) and lasted up to three minutes.
March 25,
2005: A U.N. report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri concluded that Lebanon’s investigation into the killing wasn’t
satisfactory and a new international investigation is needed. The report ,
recently released, says there was a “distinct lack
of commitment” by Lebanese authorities to investigate the crime, and the
investigation was not carried out “in accordance with acceptable
international standards.” “However, it is clear that the assassination took
place in a political and security context marked by an acute polarization
around the Syrian influence in Lebanon,”. It also says Syrian
military intelligence shares responsibility to the extent that it and
Lebanese security services failed to provide “security, protection, law and
order” in Lebanon. The report also said it was doubtful that a proper
investigation could be carried out with the current Lebanese security
apparatus in office.
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March 19, 2005: The leaders of France, Germany, Spain and Russia demanded a
“complete pullout" of all Syrian forces and intelligent agents from Lebanon
in line with UN resolution 1559, a joint statement said on Friday.
The
joined declaration was issued by French President Jacques Chirac, Russian
President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Spanish
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Well the Syrian government get
the message and leave Lebanon forever.
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March 18, 2005:
World
oil prices soared to fresh record high levels, with New York's main crude
contract above 57 dollars per barrel for the first time.
March
17, 2005 : Prosecutors in the Netherlands have charged a Dutch
businessman with selling chemicals to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Van Anraat, 62, is accused of selling chemicals
from the US and Japan to Iraq to make nerve gases and mustard gas. The gases
were used in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, where more than
5,000 died. There areevidence obtained from the former head of Iraq's
chemical weapons program, Ali Hassan al-Majid, otherwise known as (Chemical
Ali) .
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March 17, 2005: Times Newspaper has indicated that there is real evidence
that Syria was behind the assassination of Rafik Hariri. In mid-January,
under pressure from Damascus, the Lebanese Government withdrew his 70-strong
security detail, and immediately after his death the scene of the bombing
was swept by Syrian and Lebanese intelligence to remove any evidence of
Syrian complicity.
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Feb.18,2005: U.S.
President George W. Bush delivered a stark warning to Syria telling it to
withdraw its troops from Lebanon as pressure intensifies on Damascus and the
Lebanese government in the wake of Monday's assassination of former Premier
Rafik Hariri.His warning came hard on the heels of comments from U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who said that while the U.S. favors
diplomacy to resolve its differences with Syria, the use of military force
has not been ruled out.
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Feb.16,2005: Tens of
thousands of Lebanese, some chanting anti-Syrian slogans, marched yesterday
in the funeral procession of former Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri, killed
in a bombing opposition leaders blame on Damascus. Men wept uncontrollably
as the procession wound through Beirut streets plastered with posters of the
Sunni Muslim billionaire slain in a suspected suicide car bombing on Monday.
"Syria out, Syria out," the mourners shouted as people threw rice from
balconies onto the ambulance carrying Hariri's body. The bombing revived
memories of the 1975-90 civil war and spotlighted Lebanon's troubled ties
with its powerful neighbour Syria. It has also led to renewed international
pressure led by the United States and France for Syria to quit Lebanon.
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Aug.26, 2004: New statistics are claiming that oil production in 18
producer countries has passed its peak and is declining faster than
previously thought: At about 1.14 million barrels a day.As oil prices
bounce around the $45 mark one of the main factors underpinning the price
rise is the increasingly popular notion of oil ''depletion''. British
trade journal Petroleum Review has reviewed the 2003 Statistical Review of
World Energy, put together by British Petroleum, to look for signs of
depletion. "The first country to
start to decline was the
USA
. It could be possible that because they have such a high skill base, so
many wells and such cheap capital that they were able to slow their rate of
depletion. Other countries cannot," he said.Those 18 countries in
decline amount to about 25% of the world's producers. They are losing about
1.14 million bpd. This means that the other 75%
have to increase output. Not only to add the extra barrels lost by the
declining countries, but also to meet leaping global demand, about 2.4
million bpd in 2004. That demand is set to continue its increase, forecast
by the International Energy Agency to grow by another 1.8 million bpd
in 2005.
The
question is what will happen to civilization when such vital energy is
not available or even if it become scarce , then countries will fight over
it.
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June
3, 2004: U.S.
and Saudi officials moved Wednesday to block the assets of a Saudi charity
they believe channeled funds to al-Qaida and other militant groups. Saudi
Arabia also announced that it would dissolve the Riyadh office of the
charity, Al-Haramain, and fold its assets, as well as those of other Saudi
charitable groups, into a new Saudi entity that would channel all such
contributions overseas.
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May
30, 2004: Turkey
is planning to temporarily recall its ambassador to Tel Aviv for
consultations as part of diplomatic measures to mark its disapproval of
Israel
's heavy-handed policies against the Palestinians, Foreign Minister Abdullah
Gul said yesterday. The minister
signaled
that
Turkey
, which has been
Israel
's chief regional ally for almost a decade, could also appoint a senior
diplomat to head its consulate in
Jerusalem
as a symbolic gesture to the Palestinians.
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May
8, 2004: German police have
arrested an 18-year-old youth suspected of creating the "Sasser"
worm, believed to be one of the Internet's most costly outbreaks of
sabotage.
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May 7, 2004:The fast-spreading “Sasser” computer worm has infected
hundreds of thousands of PCs globally and the number could soon rise
sharply, a top computer security official said on Monday. “If you take a
normal Windows PC and connect to the Internet, you will be infected in 10
minutes (without protection),” Mikko Hypponen, Anti-Virus Research
Director at Finnish data security firm F-Secure. F-Secure says the worm,
which surfaced at the weekend, automatically spreads via the Internet to
computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system, especially Windows
2000 and XP. (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)The spread of the
virus had been muted so far, Hypponen said, as it emerged on a weekend, and
holidays closed offices in places like the
United Kingdom
and
Japan
on Monday. But the spread was expected to worsen as the working week hits
its stride. “We have already seen three versions of Sasser during the
weekend, and we could see more today,” Hypponen said, adding he believes
the worm originated in Russia. Finnish bank Sampo temporarily closed all of
its branch offices, some 130 in all, on Monday as a precaution against
Sasser. In Australia, Westpac Bank said it was hit by the worm, and branches
had to use pen and paper to allow them to keep trading, The Australian
newspaper reported. The current worm does not need to be activated by
double-clicking on an attachment, and can strike even if no one is using the
PC at the time. When a machine is infected, error messages may appear and
the computer may reboot repeatedly. “Compared to what happened with
Blaster ... last August ... this virus has all the same features,”
Hypponen said, noting that both worms exploited relatively new holes in
Windows and frequently caused computers to reboot. Microsoft said Blaster
cost it “millions of dollars of damages,” and has issued a $250,000
bounty for information on the whereabouts of its author. F-Secure said
corporate networks should be protected against Sasser and its variants by
firewalls — Internet road blocks that separate internal from public
networks. F-Secure said the worm emerged 18 days after Microsoft posted a
corrective-code software patch on its Web site. This continues a common
pattern with viruses whereby firms announce flaws in their software and
hackers race to exploit them. For home computer users, people should make
sure they have downloaded the patch from Microsoft to fix the breach. If
their computer is infected, must first be downloaded before the virus is
removed or else the PC could catch the worm again.
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April 29,
2004: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the son of a Nazi, visits
Israel
this weekend on his first foreign trip since taking office, and will attend
the groundbreaking for a museum dedicated to tolerance.
Schwarzenegger agreed more than a year ago to attend the groundbreaking for
the $200 million museum, a project of the Los Angeles-based
Simon
Wiesenthal
Center
. Designed by architect Frank Gehry, it will be called the Center for Human
Dignity-Museum of Tolerance in
Jerusalem
.
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March 18,
2004:
China
's parliament amended the constitution on Sunday to
protect private property, a landmark move that waters down the core
Communist ideology of the world's most populous nation.
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Feb.26,
2004: A 60-year-old woman in
China
took the law into her own iron fists when she used her skills as a kung fu
enthusiast to catch a robber, state media reported on Wednesday. The woman
was strolling down the street with a friend in the southwest
Chongqing
municipality when the young criminal grabbed the friend’s earring and ran
away, the China Daily said. However, the 60-year-old chased after him,
catching him after 600 meters (yards) and keeping him in a tight clasp until
police arrived.
We need such women , we suggest to train elderly people in the art of self
defence.
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April 9, 2003: Russian Intelligence are quoted that
US government has made an agreement with Saddam regime to secure his exit
from Iraq .. The Russian want to underscore the
Military & Political success of US campaign on Iraq.
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April 8,2003: The Bush administration has ruled out
any role for international courts in trying Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
and other Iraqis for war crimes, U.S. officials say, and plan instead to
rely on reconstituted Iraqi courts and U.S. military tribunals. Officials at
the State and Justice departments now say that two separate tracks will
likely be used for war crimes trials, one for violations during the current
war and another for past abuses.
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April
6,2003:US forces , by mistake attacked on Sunday a convoy carrying
Russian diplomats and journalists, including Russia's ambassador to Iraq, as
it headed for the Syrian border. Russian officials said five people were
injured in the attack, about 19 miles (30 kilometers) outside Baghdad. The
injuries were minor. Russian the all time supporter
to Saddam regime is now leaving Baghdad. Does that give a message to Saddam
and his regime , of course not , since they are fanatic & criminals.
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 April
6,2003: David Bloom, an NBC News
correspondent embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside
Baghdad, died Sunday, NBC announced. Bloom, a 39-year-old husband and father
of three. He was the second American journalist to die in Iraq since the war
began.
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April 5, 2003:Turkey
was expelling three Iraqi diplomats for engaging in activities unrelated to
their missions, foreign ministry sources said on Saturday.
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April 5, 2003: Demonstration are happening in many
Arab countries against the war in Iraq. Some demonstrators are chanting
against Kuwait and its citizens, calling Saddam to attack Kuwait and Qatar.
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March 29,2003: Wall street has banned Al-Jazeera Arab news channel. They
felt that Al-Jazeera’s broadcasts were not capable of “responsible
coverage” of the continued and irresponsible loss of Iraqi civilian lives
that we are increasingly witnessing in this part of the world.
And
in Washington, Colin Powell heaped more criticism on Al-Jazeera by saying
that it “has an editorial line and a way of presenting news that...tend to
portray our efforts in a negative light.”
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March
29, 2003: The Bush administration has seized $1.62 billion in Iraqi assets
already frozen in the United States and will use the money to help rebuild
the country once Saddam Hussein is ousted.
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March 28,2003: The U.N. Security Council Friday
unanimously adopted a resolution to restart Iraq's oil-for-food program
after seven days of haggling. At the same time, the United Nations appealed
to the international community to donate up to $2.2 billion "to provide
immediate humanitarian assistance to the people of Iraq."
March
27,2003:The US will send 120,000 more troops into Iraq soon.
Does Saddam think the War is a joke, or that he could
win?!
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March
24,2003: The United States accuse that private Russian
experts were in Iraq helping the regime jam satellite signals that could
guide bombs and military aircraft used by the US-led coalition in its war to
oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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March
23,2003: Egyptian naval sources said eight vessels,
six American and two Canadian, loaded with equipment and munitions crossed
the
Suez Canal today to the Arabian Gulf to join 12 US ships that crossed the
canal yesterday. This is the biggest fleet since eight US vessels crossed
the
canal on the eight this month, including three nuclear submarines.
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March
22,2003:Thousands
of angry protesters from around the world marched Saturday against the
U.S.-led war in Iraq, in some cases condemning their own governments for
supporting the United States.
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March21,
2003: Turkey has refused to grant the US access to use the Turkish airspace
to launch attacks into Iraq. Turkey is not in favor of a new Democratic Iraq
, as it fears the Kurdish status and the possibility of the Kurds having their
own country.
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March 21, 2003: The United Nations' chief refugee
coordinator appealed yesterday to Iraq's neighbors to open their borders to
war refugees as international aid organizations hurried to increase their
preparations for a potential humanitarian crisis.
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March 21, 2003: The US government have requested
all the countries around the world to close down all Iraqi Embassies.
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March 20, 2003: The war against Saddam Husain has started at the early
hours today , Thursday. Operation Iraqi Freedom has started with an
intensive air campaign.
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 March 19,2003:
US Military have started to move north of Kuwait toward Iraq.
It seems that the war will start soon.
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March 18,2003:U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on
Monday ordered U.N. inspectors and support staff, humanitarian workers and
U.N. observers along the Iraq-Kuwait border to evacuate Iraq after U.S.
threats to launch war.
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March 17,2003: Airports
and hospitals around the world are on alert for a severe form of pneumonia
that has killed nine people, infected close to 200 and appears to be
spreading rapidly across the world.
With
cases of infection rising the United Nations health body, the World Health
Organization (WHO) has taken the rare step of issuing an emergency global
travel advisory, putting airlines on alert for cases of suspected pneumonia
among passengers.
- March 17,2003: President Saddam
Hussein placed Iraq on a war footing on Saturday night, issuing a decree
that divided the country into four military districts under his command and
ordered them to "destroy" any US-led invasion. Faced with
prospects of war to unseat him within days, Saddam named close aides to
command the districts, including his younger son Qusay who was charged with
commanding the key areas of Baghdad and Tikrit.
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 March
14,2003:The
United States and Iraq are making more moves of troops and weapons in
preparation for a possible military conflict.
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March
11 — The 650 suspected Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters held at the U.S.
naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have no right to hearings in U.S.
courts, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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March 10,2003: An Egyptian radical will get $27
million as a reward for giving the United States information that led
authorities to the arrest of the alleged September 11, 2001, mastermind
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
He
not only claimed the $25 million award that was being offered by the U.S.
government for information that led to Mohammed's arrest, but also demanded
$2 million more to help cover the costs of his family moving to Great
Britain. He is being paid the money. Wow?!?
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March8,2003:March
8 — President Bush and his top officials prepared for a final
diplomatic scramble Saturday, trying to garner support for a U.S.-backed
proposal that gives Saddam Hussein until March 17 to disarm or face war.
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March 7,2003: U.S. officials are
aggressively tracking more than a dozen Iraqi agents. The sources said
agents had been discovered conducting surveillance of U.S. facilities around
the world, leading the State Department to issue warnings to U.S. embassies
in Egypt, Thailand and elsewhere. U.S.
officials have also asked 60 countries to expel 100 to 150 known Iraqi
intelligence agents, sources said, partly to stop attacks and partly as
psychological warfare. The sources said most of the countries had agreed.
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March 7,2003:
U.S. government officials say the military is establishing a highly secret
base inside Saudi Arabia within miles of the Iraqi border. The base would
serve as a launch point for special operations into Iraqi areas such as oil
fields, weapon facilities and other sensitive sites. Search-and-rescue
missions also would be mounted from the base if U.S. air crews were downed
in Iraq. Saudi Arabia played a major role in the 1991 Gulf War and is now
home to a large U.S. air facility, the highly secure Prince Sultan Air Base.
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March 6,2003:Hundreds
of Turkish military vehicles are heading to the country's border with Iraq.
The deployment has been described as part of security precautions to deal
with the effects of any U.S.-led war on Baghdad.
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March 4,2003: The number of U.S.
troops positioned for a possible war against Iraq is nearing 300,000 , as
three amphibious Navy ships carrying 4,500 sailors and Marines joined the
buildup and 60,000 Army personnel prepared for action. The orders mean that
before the first shot has even been fired, the total U.S. deployment already
exceed the 250,000 personnel who fought in the Gulf War 12 years ago.
 March
3 — The U.S. ground commander who would
lead an invasion of Iraq, Army Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan, said today he
was prepared to attack “with or without Turkey,” asserting that a
full-fledged northern front is not critical to defeating President Saddam
Hussein’s forces.
March.2,2003: After more than a
year of intense work, the US has finalized the plan for an assault. The plan
is based on an unusual approach that envisions simultaneous air and ground
operations combining the U.S. advantages in firepower, speed and precision.
March
2, 2003: Leaders from 22 Arab countries yesterday strongly opposed the
planned US-led military attack on Iraq as a threat to Arab national security.
Qaddafi , of Libya, March 2003 — Leaders from 22 Arab
countries yesterday strongly opposed the planned US-led military attack on
Iraq as a threat to Arab national securitycriticized Saudi Arabia, in an
impromptu speech, for the presence of US forces in the Kingdom.
He said when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, American forces started flowing
into the Kingdom. “I told King Fahd that American forces are moving into Saudi
Arabia. He then replied ‘America is a big country and we cannot prevent it and
it can come.’ I told him: ‘How can this happen to Saudi Arabia, which is an
independent country?’ After that in a telephone conversation, the king told me
that Iraq had intention to invade the Kingdom. I asked him how he knew. He said:
‘We have seen the Iraqi forces deployed on the front. That means the Iraqi
threat was a source of concern and threat for the Kingdom and all the Gulf
states. America has pledged to protect this region because it is an important
source of energy.’”
Here Prince Abdullah intercepted Qaddafi’s speech and said: “Saudi Arabia
is a front line country for the Muslim nation. It is not a colonial agent.
Colonialists are for you and others. Who brought you to power? Don’t say
anything and don’t interfere in matters in which you don’t have any role.
You are a liar. Your grave awaits you.”
Feb.
26,2003: The United States and Saudi Arabia have reached new agreements
that will allow expanded U.S. air operations from Saudi territory, including
full use of Prince Sultan Air Base as an air operations center, in the event
of war against Iraq, according to senior U.S. officials and diplomatic
sources.
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 Jan23,2003:German
and French officials fired back angrily Thursday at Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld's dismissal of their governments as the "old Europe,"
and said the comments underscored America's arrogance as it prepares for
possible war with Iraq.
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Jan.21,2003: A gunman opened fire
on an SUV carrying two American civilians near a U.S. military camp Tuesday,
killing one and wounding the other in what the U.S. Embassy called a
terrorist attack. Their four-wheel drive Toyota was ambushed and riddled
with bullets at a stoplight near Camp Doha, a military installation serving
as a base for 17,000 troops. A Kuwaiti security official , agreed with the
U.S. assessment of the shooting as a terrorist act.
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Jan.20,2003: The United States
announced today that it is sending a specially tailored force of about
37,000 soldiers, spearheaded by the Texas-based 4th Infantry Division —
the largest ground force identified so far among the nearly 100,000 U.S.
troops included in deployment in the Gulf for a possible war with Iraq.
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Jan13,2003: Since Friday, Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld has ordered about 62,000 more U.S. troops to head for the Persian
Gulf region in coming days. Just hours after officials disclosed on Friday
that Rumsfeld had ordered nearly 35,000 troops, including two large Marine
units, to ship out for a possible war with Iraq, the defense secretary
signed an order to deploy 27,000 more troops, mainly Army and Air Force
combat units.
Defense officials said the United States could be ready for war by mid- to
late-February with a force exceeding 150,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines and
airmen...The War for Liberation of Iraq is coming...
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Jan10,2003: U.S. intelligence
officials have told reporters they have solid evidence that Saddam is
planning to destroy Iraq’s own oil fields — along with destroying Iraqi
infrastructure — as a way to blame the United States for a humanitarian
crisis.
Those officials also believe Saddam would use biological and chemical
weapons if he were about to fall and that his primary targets would be U.S.
troops, Kuwaitis and Israelis. Can the world
just sit buy and wait for that to happen, or is it time to take away Saddam
and his regime , once and forever.
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Jan.8,2003: America's
Western allies are gearing up their troops for possible deployment to the
Gulf in the event of a war with Iraq. The UK said it was calling up 1,500
reservists, with more to follow if necessary, and bolstering naval forces
already earmarked for the Gulf. President Jacques Chirac said soldiers
needed to be prepared in case new areas of engagement opened up - his
clearest reference yet to the prospect of French involvement in any military
action in Iraq.
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Jan.6,2003: The U.S. military is
assembling a ground force for a possible invasion of Iraq that could exceed
100,000 troops and include three to four heavy Army divisions, an airborne
division, a Marine division and an assortment of Special Operations forces,
according to defense officials and analysts.
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Dec.20.2002: The United States vetoed an Arab-backed
resolution that would have condemned Israel for the recent killings of three
U.N. workers, saying it was "inappropriate" to single out the
Israelis. Twelve other council members — including close U.S. ally Britain
— voted in favor of the resolution. Just why the US
can not condemn any Israeli atrocities, even against UN workers? The answer
is Israel controls the US political decisions and policies, that is why is
Israel can commit any atrocities and killings without any objection from
world leaders.
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Dec.2,2002:Millions of people
around the globe marked World AIDS Day Sunday with marches, prayers and hope
even as troubling statistics show the epidemic is outpacing efforts to
control it. THERE ARE over 42 million HIV positive people worldwide, with
sub-Saharan Africa home to 75 percent of them, according to UNAIDS, the AIDS
agency for the United Nations. However this figure is very conservative and
the real number is much higher.
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Nov.23,2002: US Treasury Department had complained
against Yahoo! and Microsoft for providing Uday , son of Saddam Husain ,
with an email address.
The Department had allegedly asked Yahoo! to drop the address because
"he is a murderer, a mugger, torturing people and sending threatening
emails through his Yahoo address".
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Nov.14,2002: A unique effort to
assist Arabs worldwide to find their ideal life-partner, foster family
values and promote the institution of marriage was launched recently by the
Arab world's leading online community, Maktoob.com.
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Nov.8,2002: Nov. 8,2002: In a unanimous vote, the
U.N. Security Council put Iraq on notice Friday that it must either disarm
or face possible military action. The new resolution was welcomed by
President Bush, who warned that Saddam Hussein now faces the “final
test.”
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Oct. 30,2002: The Bush administration is
building cases against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and more than a dozen
members of his inner circle who could be charged with crimes against humanity if
the Iraqi government is toppled.
 
Oct.16,2002: President Bush on Wednesday
signed an Iraq war resolution overwhelmingly approved by Congress and told wary
world leaders to “face up to our global responsibility” to confront Saddam
Hussein. The president’s message came as the U.N. Security Council started its
first day of open debate on Iraq.
Oct.14,2002: Indonesia’s defense
minister blamed al-Qaeda and its extremist allies on Monday for the massive bomb
attack that killed more than 180 people at a nightclub on the resort island of
Bali. Meantime, fearing that terrorists could strike again, thousands of
tourists were fleeing Bali on Monday amid suspicions that al-Qaeda was behind
the bombing. Indonesia will be loosing a lot from tourism due to this latest
Terrorist attacks. This is not Islamic terrorists , these incidents are attacks
against Islam and all the civilized people in the world...Terrorism
must stop everywhere..
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Oct.11,2002:The U.S. military could be prepared for war with Iraq as soon
as December, according to U.S. officials and analysts. Experts in and out of
government said five U.S. aircraft carriers with 350 warplanes could be off
Iraq before year's end if ordered and tens of thousands of troops could be
sent much more quickly than the six-months build-up to the 1991 Gulf War
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Oct.11,2002: The White House is developing a
detailed plan, modeled on the postwar occupation of Japan, to install an
American-led military government in Iraq if the United States topples Saddam
Hussein, senior administration officials said today. The plan also calls for
war-crime trials of Iraqi leaders and a transition to an elected civilian
government that could take months or years. In the initial phase, Iraq would
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Nov.27,
2003: US President George Bush has secretly traveled to Baghdad for a
surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to boost the morale of American forces
in Iraq amid mounting casualties.