Archive for the ‘Ishmael’ Category

Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of other students.

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Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a ‘big lie’

Monday, March 8th, 2010

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a “big lie” used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.

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Iran begins production of cruise missiles

Monday, March 8th, 2010


This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry, alledgedly shows a Nasr1 (Victory) missile in a factory in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi announced on state TV Sunday a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles capable of evading radar. The missile named Nasr 1 (Victory) will be capable of destroying targets up to 3,000 tons in size according to Vahidi. Iran frequently makes announcements about new advances in military technology that cannot be independently verified. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry, Vahid Reza Alaei, HO) (Vahid Reza Alaei – AP)

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran announced Sunday that it has started a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles, which would add a new element to the country’s already imposing arsenal.

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Indonesian students protest Barack Obama’s visit

Friday, March 5th, 2010

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta’s parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.

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Five European states back burka ban

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Cultural divide: women of different faiths in a street in Blackburn, Lancashire

More than half of voters in four other major European states back a push by France’s Nicolas Sarkozy to ban women from wearing the burka, according to an opinion poll for the Financial Times.

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Farrakhan: Obama is targeted by U.S. Jewish lobby, Zionists

Monday, March 1st, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama is targeted because of standing up to the Jews who control American politics as well as its economy, the Chicago Sun Times quoted the leader of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan as saying on Monday.

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Israel shows China evidence of Iran bomb program

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Delegation to Beijing offers Chinese ‘the full intelligence picture available to Israel’.

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Iran to build nuke facilities ‘inside mountains’

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Move appears to be aimed at shielding sites from potential military attack

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Egyptian presidential hopeful steps up

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

BEIRUT, Lebanon, — Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed ElBaradei got a hero’s welcome when he returned to his native Egypt as a possible contender for the presidency, a politically explosive challenge to the country’s power elite.

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Calls in Egypt for ElBaradei to Seek Presidency

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

“We are supporting him and he is a symbol of change,” said Muhammad Abdel Qudous, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned but tolerated Islamic movement.

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