Partial fire at a mosque in France

Incidents of burning and desecration of several mosques registered in France (French)

Local officials announced Monbljar in the region of eastern France that an unknown groupcalled "I Zahabbi Bill" (beautiful runaway) and burnt today in part one of the mosques in the region.

The group set fire to the rubbish bin is backed into the rear wall of the mosque, part of it without being burnt up to fire into the building, as reported by the officials of the mosqueand the police.

The charge of the mosque and that he had contacted a single Grave - after the discovery of fire - firefighters Vtmknua quickly extinguished.

He emphasized that the mosque officials with the municipality will decide whether the shopowner if the mosque is still valid for worship, at the same time criticizing the process thathe described as "cowardly and racist."

Grave said he found the paper that read "I Zahabbi Bill" near the shop, one of theprefabricated buildings used for worship in a place waiting for a new mosque.

Was found to sign the same message with racism early October / November of this yearnear a pickup truck owned by the mosque are also exposed to the deliberate burning.

Mentions that he started talking about the group "I Zahabbi Bill" for the first time early this year, when there were several acts of sabotage and attempts to burn in the workshops,without a clearly racist.
 

Source: French

U.S. effort to arm the countries surrounding Iran

United States seeks to provide the neighboring countries of Iran with missiles armed bunker buster (Getty)
The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. administration of President Barack Obama is a while ago and far away from the limelight of arming a key U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf smart bombs capable of penetrating concrete and access to facilities built under the ground.

The U.S. administration is seeking to form a regional coalition includes the six Persian Gulf countries, be equipped with an arsenal of sophisticated weapons, able to face the potential threat from Iran.

The Administration is considering the U.S. proposal for the sale of weapons that would enter a kind of development on the air forces of the United Arab Emirates, where the deal includes the potential missile smart able to penetrate the bunker under the ground similar to those suspected that Iran has set up for a nuclear bomb away from the eyes of the world.

The aim of the U.S. administration of arming its allies in the region, Iran's Arab neighbors to keep Tehran in check and not give them a sense of absolute superiority, especially since the United States facing difficulties in obtaining the support of UN against Iran, even after a report the International Energy Agency (IAEA), who said there was "evidence "on Tehran seeks a nuclear bomb.

It is expected that the deal to Congress for approval in the coming days, and 4900 include the development of a missile system capable of converting ordinary bombs into smart bombs as well as other armament systems.
The paper says the Obama administration's effort to contain Iran's influence in the region coincides with the imminent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of this year.
Attributed to U.S. military officials as saying that the United States will keep about forty thousand troops in the region after the withdrawal from Iraq.

The Iranian officials have acknowledged in certain occasions, that the blockade imposed on their country had a negative impact on the local economy, but American officials say that their part of the financial and economic suffering experienced by Iran were not enough to make the Iranian regime reconsider its nuclear policies.

The last six months saw frequent meetings devoted to the strategic dialogue and understanding between the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
And trying to U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) to develop the exchange of intelligence information and intelligence and military coordination among the GCC countries.

The deals included the recently submitted to Congress a deal worth $ 60 billion for the sale of advanced fighter aircraft F-15 is equipped with missiles, smart and sophisticated armament systems.
The Pentagon told Congress his intention to sell Stinger missiles and air-air medium-range to the Sultanate of Oman.





The paper says that this is not the first time that the United States is helping to build an arsenal of regional confrontation with Iran, have already done the same thing to counter the threat of Iranian missiles of medium and long term.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Arafat's death still mystery after seven years

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Admitted Kidwa Chairman of the Board of Directors of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat - the seventh anniversary of his death - by shortening the institution to know the real causes of his death on November 11, 2004.
Kidwa said during a ceremony last night to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the death of Arafat, "We renew our conviction of Israel's responsibility for the poisoning of President Yasser Arafat, but we recognize failing to get a definitive answer."
"I did not get a definitive answer yet, which is the right of our people and our duty to get it, we promise to continue to work to get this answer."
Opponents of ArafatEarlier in the beginning of this year, said a former officer in the Palestinian intelligence Fahmi Shabana said that opponents of Arafat, the Palestinians were responsible for his death, and that he was poisoned, type the name of "polonium."
Shabana said that after several months of the same Palestinian authorities killed the commander of military intelligence in the Gaza Strip, General Musa Arafat - close to the late President - in order to prevent revenge.
He called Shabana - who participated in the commission of inquiry into the death of Arafat - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume the work of this committee in order to ensure that the Palestinian public that Abbas does not hide anything.
CloseHe accused the secretary of the Central Committee of the Supreme Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) Farouk Kaddoumi Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of complicity with the Israeli authorities for the assassination of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
For his part, former Minister for Pensioners Party and former official in the Mossad, Rafi Eitan, it can not deny the possibility that Mahmoud Abbas and Mohammed Dahlan, standing behind the liquidation of Arafat.
Deadly poisonRevealed Bassam Abu Sharif, special adviser to Arafat for the search result on the type of poison used in the assassination.
The Abu Sharif that the type of poison is "thallium", a name strange and a trader, and difficult to detect or discover the effect or premise.
He added that "This is a dangerous poison means no color and no smell or taste it, is extracted from the herb freely rare, and can be placed under observation in the water, eating, or injected through a needle in the artery and veins, or skin of man."
Abu Sharif said that this information is part of the greater detail will be announced when completed, adding that "the information that I own is not perfect but that's part of it, and I'm ready to put them at the disposal of the Commission to achieve a responsible and serious."
Last daysAnd the deteriorated state of health of President Arafat's rapidly deteriorating at the end of October / October 2004, and subsequently transferred to Jordan and then to the Percy hospital in France on October 29 / October of the same year.
The official announcement of his death by the Palestinian Authority in November 11, 2004.And was buried in a building in the provincial city of Ramallah after the funeral of his body was in the city of Cairo.
Percy hospital did not announce the cause of his death under the French medical confidentiality, and leave it for his family alone to detect it or not.
Conflicting viewsAnd often conflicting statements on the death of Arafat, as it is believed some of the Palestinians and the Arabs that his death was the result of the assassination of poisoning or by entering a substance unknown to his body. And speaks of his personal physician, Dr. Ashraf Al Kurdi on the possibility of poisoning.
French doctors and search for toxins in the body of Arafat after his death in Paris, the French medical report, according to the comprehensive medical examinations were negative, including the toxins enter the body.
It was likely some of the doctors who examined the medical checks, including the Tunisian doctors and hospital doctors Percy specialized blood diseases, that Arafat was ill disintegration of platelets.
Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies

Celebrate the birth of the 190 Dostoevsky

Statue of Dostoyevsky Moscow

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Celebrates the cultural circles in Russia today the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of one hundred Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky Mikhaúalovic (1821-1881) One of the greatest novelists in the world that his work was translated into many languages ​​and became a source of inspiration for contemporary thought and literature.
It is most appropriate interest the cultural circles in Russia, where he opened a few days ago in the Russian city of Veliky Novgorod, which is where the writer spent a large part of his life, the international theatrical festival, the fifth century, held each year on the anniversary of the birth by accident today and since the year 1992.
Under the slogan "Dostoevsky and World Culture" and started a two-day forum of scientific activities of city of St. Petersburg with a gathering of writers and thinkers from around the world.
The forum aims to discuss key issues related to perception of the contemporary world Dostoevsky, and the impact of spiritual and intellectual heritage, artists, intellectuals and political and religious figures of the nineteenth century to the twenty-century atheist.
On the sidelines of the appropriate living "museum of Dostoevsky's" St. Petersburg made an art exhibition in which more than nine hundred of the panel was first inspired by literary works.
Feature of epistolaryDostoevsky knew Ptugeh humanitarian and philosophical tendency that seemed clear in his works as reflected in his novels combine technical craftsmanship and intellectual dimension which gives the feature its Rsalia.
In the view of critics Adbion that Dostoevsky authors of the few who were able to delineate the psychological concept of emotion in the expression novelist as directed templates aesthetic and romantic sinking of the book of the nineteenth century and make them expressive and realistic for hidden of purely humanitarian in the form of social involve pain with pleasure and good with evil Even the title of the novel Babaqra psychological.
It is timeless his words, "like me doctors, psychologists, but this is not true, I am realistic in every sense of the word and the meaning of what was done to reverse the deeper facts of human life."
The author Daniel Granin that the difficulty of reading his novels is that it forces us to discover in ourselves ill for fear of where to find those passions that afflict Bibtalh, and made us feel guilty and the elimination of all attempts at evasion and justify evil and moral corruption.

A changeFor his part, writer and translator Abu Bakr Yusuf (A translators of the work of Dostoevsky into Arabic) that the writer was carrying a message to change the world through the philosophy of approaching philosophy of Tolstoy to choose the path of peaceful resistance and non-violence to change society, but it was not a philosopher as he was an artist a visionary window into the depths of the facts.
He pointed out that Dostoevsky predicted a troubled future for Russia when examine the issue of "terrorism" at the time.
Yousuf said in an interview with the island revealed that the writer tried through his works to provide a peaceful alternative model based on the love of human rights and changing knowledge and truth.
He pointed out that Dostoyevsky was a scientist tense adjournment, fanned by various types of thought and conflicts, fluctuating between the fire example of religious which did not materialize, in fact, the fire actually Decree around that time, was "Ivan," a Champions novel "The Brothers Karamazov," he says to his brother, "I do not reject God, but I I reject his world. "
Despite the passage of 130 years of his death, the ideas and principles are still represents the ideas of a generation alive.
And acquired its modern literary character sometimes seems like a prophetic isolation from temporal and spatial dimensions.
Many believe that the novels that expose other forms of violence and persecution can not die as long as the list of all repressive regimes ugliness and ugliness.
Among the most famous work, "Crime and Punishment", and "Brothers Karamazov" and "demons," and "Idiot."

Source: Al Jazeera

Doubts the benefits of reducing salt

An analysis of the results of 160 medical scientific study that reducing salt in the diet mayadversely affect the health of the heart, and may not have a positive impact on the health of all people.

The researchers noted in the American Journal of Hypertension, and periodic "Cochranefor Eiberara" to the importance of re-evaluating policies that advises people to reduce saltin food in general, according to the results shown by their review of previous studiessystematically.

In turn, said the commander of the audit team Nielz Groudal University Hospital,Copenhagen, Denmark, said he saw no reason to believe that there is any benefit to limit the consumption of the people of sodium, according to the totality of the evidence which had been reached.

Where The results of the audit, which examined and analyzed 167 previous study, thatalthough the reduction of salt in the diet reduced blood pressure in some cases that have arate of a normal or high blood pressure, the reduction itself may cause increases in certainhormones and compounds that can adversely affect the health of the heart.

It is known that reducing salt in the diet reduces blood pressure but there was no researchso far that it leads to a general improvement in cardiovascular health between people on a larger scale.


Source: Reuters