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3/03/2012

Blatter "would rather die," to repeat the fatal mistake of the award the 2010 World Cup

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Said Sepp Blatter, President of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) that he "prefers death" to see the fatal error such as failure to award the goal of calculating the Frank Lampard in the England game for his country against Germany in the 2010 World Cup.
He said Blatter is currently located in England to attend the meeting of the International Council for the football as telling reporters that it was time to "move forward" and the use of goalline technology, which he opposed in the past.
The Council will examine the four representatives from FIFA and the four British associations report on the latest tests to monitor the goal-line technology is expected to make a final decision after the European Cup in Kiev in the second of July.
Blatter said he wants to apply that technology to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, despite the opposition of President Michel Platini, UEFA Cup and Franz Beckenbauer, head of the working group "Football 2014" for the idea.
Blatter said on his arrival, "do not want to repeat what happened in the last World Cup."
"I think I can convince the International Council of football need to move forward in the use of technology. Can not wait to see what will happen later."
Among the things to be considered at the Council increase the number of substitutions during the games to four, and that during the extra time as well as prevent the possibility of canceling the football players from wearing the Muslim headscarf.


Source: Reuters

Attack on a U.S. security team in Yemen and the bomb hit 22

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Said the Pentagon (the Pentagon) and a security official said on Friday that gunmen opened fire on a U.S. security team at its training of Yemeni soldiers in the south of Yemen, and both denied the reports of the Islamist group said the U.S. intelligence agency officers killed in the attack.
In the north of the country, said a rebel group controlled large parts of that region that a bomb exploded in protest against the United States, wounding at least 22 people.
The conflict with the northern rebels and militants in the southern list of challenges facing the new President of Yemen, Abed Rabo Mansour Hadi, who Washington hopes will end the years of unrest in Yemen near the main oil shipping lines.
The Ansar al-Sharia, an Islamic group based in the Yemen-based al Qaeda-linked and it attacked and killed an American officer in the south on Thursday.
In a text message sent to reporters in Yemen said that Ansar al-Sharia "mujahideen" killed a CIA on Thursday during his stay in the province of Aden after a hunt for him and make sure it works with the Government of Sana'a.
A Yemeni security official in Aden asked not to be named, said the gunman opened fire on a U.S. security team is working in the training of Yemeni security forces on Thursday, but the shots hit their armored vehicle without one was hurt.
In Washington, Pentagon spokesman confirmed that the gunman fired several shots at armored vehicles with a U.S. security team in Yemen without a single injury.
And prompted fears that promote the political unrest in Yemen, al Qaeda's wing in the country and Washington and the Arab Gulf States to mediate in the left former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to power after a year of protests against his rule.
And thus became the fourth for an Arab leader toppled from power as a result popular uprisings after the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
He promised to Hadi, who won the election he was the only candidate for the succession in favor last week, led by Yemen to the new elections and a new constitution and the reform of the army in two years.
Worth Hadi several conflicts including clashes with separatist insurgency in the south and north, seen long ago.
Dominated by Islamist militants on the areas of land in southern Yemen during the conflict over the fate of the benefit as they control the city of Zanzibar in Abyan province in the south.
The leader of the Shiite rebels who control large parts of northern Yemen, a bomb exploded during a protest against U.S. intervention in Yemen on Friday, injuring 22 people in the north of the country.
The leader of the rebels who tried to crush them in the Yemeni military campaigns from 2004 to 2009 in a statement that the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa personally responsible for the bombing in Saada near the border with Saudi Arabia.
Abd al-Malik al that this attack was aimed at "rejected" foreign interference on the part of the ambassador, such as intervention in the structure of the army, "and his demonic" to change his faith.
The area has seen fighting in recent months between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims. Houthis accuse their opponents of arming Saudi Arabia.
Southerners rejected the separatists deal that put the shift in power Hadi, saying they do not want anything to do with the process of auspicious united.
Witnesses said thousands of protesters gathered near the headquarters of Bob in the capital to demand the re-organization of the army to exclude relatives of Saleh and his loyalists.

Source: Reuters

UN report: Gaddafi wants to fight the final battle in the desert

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Said a UN report said on Friday that Libyan leader, the late Muammar Gaddafi, who were trapped in the desert after he hit a rocket attack launched by the opposition forces and NATO convoy tried to escape them in last October, he wanted to appear to contest the final battle when the shortness of his enemies down to it.
His son and tried to persuade him to Mu'tasim and his aides of trying to escape while they were crawling over the sand and fell from power adapter wire devastating injury to his head and shrapnel bomb missed its target after it threw one of his men.
Details came last hours for the life of the man who ruled Libya for four decades in the report of the International Commission of Inquiry which was formed in March last year after the outbreak of the uprising against him.
The report said Gaddafi, who was sacked with a few of his men in a house surrounded by opposition forces of each side, "said he had wanted to stay and fight, but he persuaded to escape."
Officials issued the Human Rights Council, the UN - which will be held a session today - the report consists of 200 pages in Geneva in the unedited version but is due to discuss the report during the next three weeks.
The Committee reached chaired by Judge Philippe Kirsch of Canada that the parties to the war that took place across Libya in 2011 committed war crimes, including murder and torture.
The committee said Gaddafi forces committed "international crimes against humanity ... as part of a widespread or systematic against the civilian population," but the killings, torture and looting are still going on under the rule of the new authorities.
But the committee said that "current conditions" in Libya must be understood in the framework of the background "of damage to the fabric of society as a result of decades of corruption and serious violations of human rights and the continued repression of any opposition."
And depicted scenes of the arrest of the opposition throw Gaddafi, who was injured and his son on 20 October, outside the city of Sirte, his hometown of camera mobile phone and viewed all over the world at the end of last year.
He said the investigation team that he was unable to obtain a certificate directly about how his death. Some accounts said that Gaddafi was killed by a bullet to the head fired by one opposition fighters in an ambulance. The team said he had only "certificates are not consistent from secondary sources."
He said the team was for this reason "could not confirm whether the death of Muammar Gaddafi, were killed illegally and see the need for further investigation."
Gaddafi's body was buried in a secret location in the desert on the orders of the Transitional National Assembly that the current form of government and says that Gaddafi was buried in this way was necessary to prevent the transformation to his grave a shrine.
The team, consisting of three members, they wrote their story after intensive questioning of witnesses on both sides of the conflict.
The report said Mutasim Gaddafi decided on 19 October, to escape from the Sirte with the progress of the opposition forces towards the coastal city the next day went out in a convoy of 20 armored vehicles, accompanied by 200 armed and some women and children.
There were in the convoy was ambushed by opposition fighters and separated from each other. But the vehicle was moving vehicle he was traveling green Gaddafi was hit by a missile, NATO and exploded.
The blast open the airbags in a vehicle under fire Gaddafi and the opposition resorted Gaddafi and his son and his defense minister, Abu Bakr Yunis near the shelter of a house bombed by the opposition forces after that.
And escorted Mu'tasim about 20 soldiers and went to search for compounds Oaguena sound and his father to come as well. The report added that the group "I crawled on their bellies to the earthworks," and then through the exchange pipe and took a defensive position.
The men threw one bomb Gaddafi about the opposition forces coming down the road at the top but the bomb hit a concrete barrier above the pipe and fell in front of Gaddafi.
The guard and tried to pick up the bomb exploded and killed him, but killed him and Younis.
The report said "Gaddafi was injured by shrapnel from the bomb, which ripped his jacket bullet-proof. Sat on the ground, stunned and shocked the bleeding" of the face.Then he lifted his people from a white flag surrender.
By Robert Evans

Source: Reuters

Ban Ki-moon speaks of "horrific reports" about the situation in Syria

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received "reports of appalling" for the Syrian government forces out arbitrary executions, imprisonment and torture of people in the city of Homs after opposition fighters escape from them.
His comments came after he said that the British photographer wounded escaped from Homs last week he saw the Syrian forces committed a massacre in the Santa Amr city, which has become a symbol of the uprising began a year ago against President Bashar al-Assad.
Opposition activists told Reuters that Syrian forces bombed the area for weeks began to hunt and kill opposing fighters who stayed to cover the retreat of the rebels on Thursday.
He said opponents of the withdrawal of a major setback for armed revolution, which began peaceful protests largely inspired by the "Arab spring", but intensified after government repression as long.
He said that before the General Assembly of the United Nations consisting of 193 countries on Friday, "There was a big attack on Homs yesterday ... it is clear that the human cost is huge. We continue to receive reports of gruesome executions without trial, arbitrary arrests and torture."
In some of the strongest criticism of Damascus said that so far, "This brutal attack appalling larger offensive that the government itself systematically attack its own people."
The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, in response to comments that the Secretary-General's remarks involve "malicious tone is very limited to slander the government based on reports and opinions, or rumors."
Jaafari said that "false allegations made by the opposition or from people abroad or people who live in countries hostile to Syria openly."
He added that "The secretary general is familiar with the way things should be" and reiterated that the Syrian opposition consists of "an armed terrorist groups."
The International Committee of the Red Cross aid convoy arrived at the Baba Amr, but was not allowed to enter.
Jakob Kellenberger, said Chairman of the Committee in a statement in Geneva "It is unacceptable for lack of need for emergency assistance weeks ago any support yet.
"We're staying the night in Homs in the hope of entering Baba Amr at the earliest. Addition, many families fled from Pope Amr, We will help them as soon as we can."
He is active in Homs, told Reuters, "the Syrian army disrupt the convoy because they want to clean the Pope Amr after what they did there."
Could not be verified independently.
The activist said "all of the remaining men in the neighborhood between 14 and 50, were arrested. Afraid to be killed. Where the world .."
He informed the Pope left the last active Amr on Friday, Reuters via Skype-mail "massacres continue. Torture them and kill (the detainees), and one after the other. Executing them in groups."
The activists said that many of the fighters were from 2000 in Baba Amr killed and wounded in the attack, adding that it is not possible to determine the number of final total because of heavy shelling and siege. There were reports the flight of hundreds.
A British photographer Paul Conroy, who fled from Homs last week after injuring his leg during the bombardment that the city was being bombed daily random.
Conroy told the Sunday Times photographer told Sky News from a bed in a hospital in central London, "I worked in many war zones did not see at all, or I'm having such a bombardment.
"I was a former artillery soldier and then continue my patterns to some extent .. they were moving through the neighborhoods munitions used on the battlefield.
"It's not a war it's a massacre random massacre of men, women and children."
He said that thousands of people are still without electricity in Homs or water and without hardly any food.
The Syrian government said on Friday it would like to express sorrow and regret for the killing of U.S. journalist Marie Colvin who was killed last week in the besieged city of Homs.
The prosecutor's office said in Paris on Friday it had opened a preliminary investigation in the commission of the crime of murder and attempted murder in the bombing which also killed French photographer Remy Aohleyk and wounded journalist Edith Bouvier seriously injured.
The television footage showed protesters out into the streets after Friday prayers in the towns and cities across Syria including Homs, Hama, Deir Al-Zour and shield and Duma and several neighborhoods in Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London, said at least 13 people were killed Friday when security forces fired mortar bombs at the protest in the town of Homs Governorate Rastan.
It is very difficult to verify such reports independently because the Syrian authorities to prevent foreign media from entering.
In Geneva, the Human Rights Council said the UN's al-Assad of its obligations under international law.
Said Rupert Colville, spokesman for the Council "We are concerned of reports coming out from the neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs, after government troops took control of it yesterday."
Conditions have worsened sharply in the region that came under heavy shelling. The television footage showed heavy snow and the temperature dropped sharply, while the population is not available fuel or electricity required for heating. There is also a shortage of food and medical supplies.
The United Nations says that Syrian forces had killed more than 7,500 civilians since the uprising began in March.
The Syrian government said in December that "armed terrorists" were killed over two thousand military personnel and police during the unrest.

Source: Reuters

3/02/2012

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3/01/2012

Secrets million Arabs in the "Twitter" on the silver platter of intelligence

المقر الرئيسي لتويتر في سان فرانسيسكو
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco

Dfaún the Arab world has become infiltrated from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf, all Alngredat by more than a million Arabs in the site "Twitter" famous, began to put forward is the other since yesterday for sale for those who wish, in short: You spend your time Baltgrad, but "Twitter" sell what you write and win money of those who buy it, and most important intelligence agencies, which find that what you'll pay each month to learn the ideas and tendencies and the secrets of its citizens is less than the salary received by a week which is a professional spy.
And began selling under an agreement to take place "Twitter" with the company "Datasevi" the British-turned whereby the agent for the sale of archives collector per Ngredat participants in the "Twitter" in the world, numbering more than 300 million "for those who wish to purchase," according to what he said site Mashable famous followed up for news networks social networking, which was the first Almttrgin of the agreement on Monday night last.
The term "all Ngredat participants" in the agreement as written by the joint since January 2010 until his counterpart this year, for two years the warbler during which no tens of thousands of phrases and sent pictures and links to Mgrdan others, note that the number of Alngredat daily in the "Twitter" more than to two billion, including 2.0002 million Arabic thousand at least, and about 50 thousand Arabs to sing in foreign languages, all of which will be presented on a silver platter intelligence.
He was seen by "Arab. Net" of the characteristics of "Twitter" with the subscriber, the site erases all its note after a week of codification, but they remain Berhifa deposit continue it always, even if the customer calls for its destruction log Tdoinath, because the panel of subscriber data yet on the site separate from the memory keeping the same site, and thus made a deal in 2010 with the "Library of Congress" to provide them with every day, including casting and hurt its Ngredat since its inception in 2006, non-stop until further notice.Disclosure of the place where it was published AlngradhThe very companies from buying Alngredat and archives of old is to reach to see trends and consumer purchasing power of the members, and they to her community a microcosm of the great live, and the whole meeting $ 1000 per month are paid "Datasevi" share to Twitter who does not mind what is most dangerous.
Even more serious is that the agreement allows the sale of Alngredat those who wish to purchase it without any selection and discrimination, and this means that the tendencies, ideas, and trends in the entire Arab world, as well as others, can become the possession of intelligence every Arab country and also its counterpart in any other country, a breakthrough on the Arab region as a whole , and for less than the value of a monthly subscription in the social club.
"I Datasevi" in the statement is in detail yesterday about the terms of the agreement addressed the media on Wednesday, and seen by the "Arab. Net" it will establish for subscribers link walk through it to what it called Datasift Historics a store to archive Alngredat that may be obtained from the "Twitter" Quick search provider filter screening as required.
And allows the screening of any knowledge of what was written by the Saudis, for example, are 35% of the subscribers "Twitter" the Arabs, are the discovery of tourist orientation or political opinions as consumer attitudes and a few minutes, and according to the orientation can be found the advertisement of them fits.
The intelligence services Fbsholh can penetrate deep in the members of each Arab society as soon sing to sort out what in the "Twitter", which seems even now hitting the wall subscriber rights, it is not at all interested in their position to the extent that it did not issue any statement justifies the daring to sell Grdoh, especially that the sale includes the disclosure of which was the place where the joint when the Bngradh what at some time in a given day, and this alone, privacy is not sold or bought and disclosure may carry evil and harm.

Source: Arabic

Zam Zam water of life .. In a series of "Mecca .. the place and times"

Most historians agree that the Zamzam well was the cause of Imran Mecca after a long waterless, especially after the lifting of the rules of the house, and Zamzam originated in the most sacred spots, about 20 meters from the House of God.
Zamzam, which means collecting thing mentioned parties to spread it, where "Ms. Hagar Tzmzm water so as not to disperse," or is the saying of the water "Zmi Zmi" any sufficient or enough, but Zamzam several names; including excavation Muttalib, because it re-drilled after a while of landfilled, and was initially erupted under the Prophet Ismail as an infant.
And after Islam, earned her a number of prophetic traditions of particular importance, although they are not included in the rituals of Hajj and Umrah.
The Zamzam upon a time just a well surrounded by a fence of stones until the era of Abu Jafar al-Mansur, who Shad dome above and paved with marble.
In the era of the Mamluk sultans, especially Bey was fixed Birha Rkhamha and renewal, as well as in the reign of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid was baptized the second to the establishment of the largest building on the dome of Zamzam.
In the modern era, was re-building of Zamzam back away from its original position, because the old premises were hampering circumambulation.
The project, King Abdullah Zamzam watering one of the largest service projects the Two Holy Mosques, where the cost amounted to 700 million riyals, and aims to mobilize and ensure the purity of water, transport and storage.
In each expansion of the campus, the well of Zamzam include modernization, renovation and landscaping to remain over the times witness to history and the gift of divine prophets from the Prophet and his descendants after him.

Source: Arabic

Study: most rich people lie and deception

A new study finds that the rich may resort to more lies and deception and unethicalactivities than others.

According to researchers at the University of California, that persons belonging to thewealthy social classes may be more inclined to lie and deception, but this does not mean that all rich people are acting in a non-moral, or to those with lower social classes,all of them behave morally.

The researcher in charge of the study, Paul Beef: "We do not tell you if you're a richmean you necessarily behave in a non-moral, and that you are poor act necessarilymorally, there is much evidence of moral excess when people belong to the layers ofrich," according to the newspaper "the city" Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, citing the location of "Life Science" American.

The researchers focused on social class, and assumed that it belonged to the lower classes are more likely to act in a non-moral because they lack financial resources, butthe study found the contrary, it is by observing the way driving shows that the owners ofluxury cars exceeding the other cars and pedestrians and traffic signals more than car owners the old or regular.



Source: Arabic

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