Lebanon's information minister on Saturday criticized the arrest of a businessman in New York on charges of providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah's Al-Manar television to New York-area customers. Javed Iqbal, a 24-year-old businessman originally from Pakistan, was arrested Wednesday in New York on conspiracy charges of enabling broadcasts of Al-Manar designated by the U.S. government as a global terrorist entity. "As a Lebanese citizen first, and as an official in the Lebanese government and information minister of Lebanon, I find this to be unacceptable," Ghazi Aridi told reporters in Beirut. U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said Iqbal used satellite dishes at his Staten Island home to distribute the broadcasts through a Brooklyn company called HDTV Limited. Al-Manar features news programming that promotes Hezbollah, which is on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations. Its headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut were repeatedly bombed...
http://abcnews.go.com
censor News |
Editor - 20:33:00 08-26-06
|
 Lord's Resistance Army to come out of hiding for talks |
Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels agreed on Saturday to leave their hideouts and assemble at two south Sudanese camps in a major breakthrough in efforts to end one of Africa's longest wars, mediators said.Under a deal with Uganda's government that commits both sides to cease all attacks and hostile propaganda, LRA fighters have three weeks to gather at the two locations while talks continue to end their two-decade insurgency."We hope that now the two principals will take action so that the guns can go silent," said the chief mediator, southern Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, referring to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and LRA commander Joseph Kony.The deal is due to take effect at 0600 GMT on August 29....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/08/26/Uganda.LRA.reut/index.html?section=cnn_world
full News |
Editor - 20:23:00 08-26-06
|
| Ernesto puts New Orleans, others on alert |
Tropical Storm Ernesto threatened to become the year's first hurricane in the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico, putting New Orleans and other possible targets on alert a year after Hurricane Katrina ripped the Southern U.S. city apart. Warm Atlantic waters in Ernesto's path could powerfully strengthen the storm as it approaches the Gulf, home to a quarter of U.S. crude oil and natural gas production, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Saturday."Ernesto could become a potentially dangerous hurricane as it moves across the northeastern Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico," forecaster Jack Beven said in a bulletin from the Miami-based hurricane center.Ernesto, the fifth tropical storm, would become the first hurricane of the six-month Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060827/ts_nm/weather_storm_dc
full News |
Editor - 20:22:00 08-26-06
|
| Destructive Chase Leaves N.D. Town Short of Squad Cars |
The city is short on squad cars after a man led police on a destructive chase and crashed his van into 10 cruisers, officials said. By the time officers stopped Jeffrey Bean in Minnesota, eight squad cars from Grand Forks and two from East Grand Forks, Minn., were damaged, Grand Forks Police Sgt. Roger Pohlman said. Damage to the Grand Forks squad cars totaled more than $26,000 and the department doesn't have enough vehicles now for all officers on duty, he said. "Right now, our day shift has enough vehicles. Our night shifts are doubling up," Pohlman said. Bean, 37, was charged Friday in Minnesota with assault, damage to property, fleeing police officers in a motor vehicle, refusal to submit to tests for driving while intoxicated and driving while restricted. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2360964
full News |
Editor - 20:21:00 08-26-06
|
| Soldiers' families question Rumsfeld on deployment |
The wives of soldiers whose duty in Iraq was extended to add troop strength to Baghdad peppered U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with tough questions, some that he could not answer, at a closed-door meeting in Alaska on Saturday. Rumsfeld, who received a mixed reception from a crowd that offered more applause for the questions asked than the answers provided, praised the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. He would not commit to a date for bringing those soldiers home, but told a 12-year-old girl in the audience, "I'd bet your daddy gets home before Christmas." He also told the estimated 700 to 800 family members at the meeting in an Army gymnasium that what the soldiers were doing was necessary to ensure terrorism does not strike the United States. "In five or 10 or 15 years, you'll all be able to look back and appreciate the importance of what's being done and the value of what's being done," he told the crowd...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2360946
full News |
Editor - 20:18:00 08-26-06
|
| Is Iran Really Controlling Militias in Iraq? Iraqi politicians say the U.S. claims of a clear link between Shi'ite militias and Tehran is pure scapegoating. |
Iraq's most powerful politician has dismissed claims by U.S. officials and generals that Iran is interfering in Baghdad's affairs. Abdul-Azziz al-Hakim has told TIME that despite repeated requests from him and other Iraqi politicians, American officials have failed to show any reliable evidence of Tehran's interference. "[The U.S.] has been making such claims for a long time," he said, "and for three years we've told them, 'Show us proof.' But they never have." Hakim heads the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, the largest of Iraq's political parties. SCIRI has close ties to Tehran, and many of its leaders — including Hakim — spent many years in exile in Iran during the Saddam Hussein era. Many Shi'ite politicians dismiss as scapegoating the statements by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and generals at the Pentagon that Iran is actively arming and training Sh'ite militias in Iraq. "They are ...
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1333861,00.html
full News |
Editor - 10:50:00 08-26-06
|
|
| post The Good, The Bad and The Ugly |
|
|
