The Guardian: Letters show Assad email received advice from Iran

 

The Guardian newspaperThe British group of e-mails from the personal accountEach of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife showed that he was askedAdvice from Iran on how to deal with the uprising against his rule and that scarceOn his promises to reform.Revealed message of an estimated three thousand e-mail message saidThe Guardian newspaper obtained it from a member of the Syrian opposition thatDaughter of the Emir of Qatar - which was one of the most critical of the Arab States of the Lion -She advised him and advised his family to leave Syria in January.The newspaper said that the messages from the personal accounts of the Lion and his wifeThe names and it is confident it is correct. It also demonstrated the isolation of the Assad family forUprising that threatens to plunge Syria into a civil war.These messages were followed and obtained from June in the yearLast until early February, while Assad was suppressed his opponents inUprising United Nations has estimated that it killed eight thousand people.Showed some of the messages that the names of the British-born wife AssadWas arranged for the purchase of a unit of lighting design of the Armani stores HarrodsLuxury in London and it sent requests to buy jewelery from Paris and wasFollowing the delivery of furniture to Damascus.But the message sent to the names of her husband in late DecemberThe index of the extent of stress experienced by the two at a time when escalatedInternational pressure on Syrian authorities to stop the violence.According to this letter, "If we are strong together .. will overcome thisTogether .. I love you ... "The messages appeared to show that Assad has received advice from Iran orAffiliated groups more than once.Before the speech delivered by al-Assad in December prepared media adviserA long list of issues and said it was based on "consultations with a number notFair amount of people as well as media and political advisor to the ambassadorIranian. "Chancellor says he wrote as stated in the Guardian newspaper: "I think thatLanguage must be strong and violent because people need to seeA strong president to defend the country "and to show appreciation for the support shown by"Friendly countries".The memo, which advised newspaper published excerpts of which the Assad governmentThat the "leak more information on the military in our ability" to persuadePublic opinion that he could face any military challenges.In the framework of the reform and Tendrh in response to a letter sent to him in his wifeJuly got it unloaded, which is doing five o'clock pm saidJoked, "This is the best reform that can happen in any country .. tell me that the placeYou are. Will adopt this instead of the ridiculous laws of political parties and electionsAnd the media. "The newspaper said the message was said that the daughter of the Emir of Qatar sent to theNames indicate that Doha can be a place for the leader of the Syrian requestAsylum and his family.She wrote Mayassa Al Thani, daughter of Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Says the names of the second on 30 January, "I wish only that TguenaaPresident, to accept this as an opportunity to get out without being forced to copeCharges. "The letter added, according to a British newspaper "GivenOf history and the escalation of recent events .. We saw two conclusions .. Either to step downLeaders and receive political asylum or leaders are under attackBrutal. I truly believe that this is a good opportunity to leave and start another lifeNormal. "And followed the message "I am sure that there are many places can be usedTo it, including Doha. "Assad ruled out left power under pressure and they describe his opponents"Terrorists" and "armed gangs" say they are tools of a conspiracy aimed at foreignTo overthrow him.The newspaper said that some of the messages indicated that Assad toldDetailed presence on the "illegal" foreign journalists in Baba AmrCity of Homs and request "security grip" on the city in NovemberSecond.In letters sent to Assad in November and December, said to him,Consultants said the government "must be in control of all public areas"Every evening.The Guardian said it had made great efforts to validateMessages by comparing its contents with the known facts and means of verificationThem to contact the other ten members of the correspondence between the messages appeared leaked.The newspaper said "These measures show that the messages are real but notPossible to check each one. "Other messages also showed that Assad circumvent U.S. sanctionsGreat against him by resorting to a third party whose address in the United StatesTo buy from (ie,. ITunes), a subsidiary of Apple.

Source: Reuters 

Suicide of a Moroccan girl forced to marry the raped

 

Announced Moroccan non-governmental organization, told AFP that a Moroccan girl was sixteen-year-old committed suicide after he was forced to marry a man who raped her to escape from prison thanks to the interpretation of the penal law in Morocco.The chairwoman of the Democratic League for Women's Rights Moroccan Fawzia Asola that "honest Filali raped and committed suicide last week in Alaarash town near Tangier (north) to protest against her marriage to the man who raped her."She said President of the Association based in Casablanca-based that the girl committed suicide by drinking rat poison.And men are able to escape from the condemnation of the judiciary according to an article in the Penal Code.Asola said that this article states that "the rapist escape from prison if he marries his victim."She explained that "Article 475 of the Penal Code to refrain from rape as a crime and contains contradictions since it punishes a snap."She expressed regret that this article defends "family and norms, but it does not take into account a woman's right as an individual."Fawzia Asola announced on Thursday before sit-in will be held in the Court of First Instance sentenced Alaarash where marriage.The marriage contract in the family court in this town after a reconciliation between the two families, six months before and after a complaint by the parents of the victim of a minor subject to this cause to the custody of her father.Asola said that the NGO letter on this issue to the Prime Minister Abdul Ilah Benkirane Islamic.He believed the lawyer Khalil Idrissi of the Bar Association in Rabat said, "This article should be adjusted to grant more rights to women."Under this law, punishable by prison rape between five and ten years, and if it becomes a minor penalty for ten years to twenty years.Morocco and dealing with networks of social networking this issue extensively since Wednesday.
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Police in Bangkok and 100 women born at the traffic lights

Gen. Manit and Angsomboon, Deputy Commissioner of Police Office of the Thai capital, Bangkok, yesterday, that the police helped to Bangkok during the last 15 years at least 100 women to give birth during the overcrowding and traffic congestion that has become familiar in the streets of the city.German news agency quoted yesterday as saying by the Angsomboon: «One of our officers has its own generation of 30 women, this may be a record. We must make sure of Encyclopedia (Guinness) ». He added: «Today, for the first time we have included 10 women in a team of trainees .. Because we believe that policewomen will add a touch thinner on the operations of Obstetrics ». The police official was speaking yesterday on the sidelines of the arrival of a new batch of 100 Chertia of traffic to a Bangkok hospital as a prelude to undergo an intensive one-day in the «allocate» generation of pregnant women in the cars during traffic jams.It should be noted that the Bangkok police had embarked on the preparation of training courses on the generation of some of the traffic police officers on the operations of birth 15 years ago. According to the Agency, the police provide these courses for selected individuals, and conducted the first generation of a woman during traffic jams on 8 September 1997.What deserves to be mentioned, that the population of Bangkok more than 10 million people, suffering from severe traffic congestion caused by decades of economic recovery, which is manifestation in the entry of more than 100 thousand cars per year the city's streets. As a result of this fact, it was agreed to establish a generating unit within the Metropolitan Police after he faced cops working on the street a sudden increase in the number of pregnant women to be unable to reach hospitals in time for the situation.On the other hand, said Phichit and Asatchuti, the police officer who alone helped 30 women to give birth, the Agency: «The hardest part (of the task) is to try to get rid of the curious. The other is trying to take photos or videos of the birthing process which constitutes a violation of the rights of Ms. specificities ».
Source: Middle East 

American vote went to the elections told her she is dead!

I was shocked old American called "Maureen McCluskey" 84 years ago, when I went tocast her ballot in the presidential election, tell her she was deceased, and that Fall River.

For its part, according to McCluskey, "she was living in the house for several consecutive years, and was surprised when she went to vote that the name no longer exists in the list."

According to reports in the media, the official ballot, said he found her name in the list of people who have died recently, and McCluskey, she said: It's always what you readobituary every day, and did not find her name at all.

Chairperson of the Board and confirmed that Fall River clerical error has been repairedwithin 30 minutes.

Retired U.S. made ​​for himself a replica of the ark of the Egyptian pharaohs

 

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Retired U.S. spent 25 years and 10 thousand dollars for making accurate copy replica of the ark of the Egyptian pharaohs, would like to put it is the same after his death.
The newspaper "Daily Mail" Britain's unique Gnthert (89 years) who served as a postman before retirement began his work on making the coffin before the quarter of a century, where he studied the art of carpentry and briefed on the specifics of ancient Egyptian art in this area receiving information from the books that he bought specifically for this goal.
And weighs the coffin which was created by the U.S. itself, about 140 kilograms and a length of more than two meters, which is made of cedar trees and carries inscriptions traditional colors of red and black, green and gold, and its walls are engraved with pictures for easy Osiris, Anubis, the Egyptians of old.
Gnthert commented on this strange hobby, saying, "I was born in 1922, the year it was discovered Hovard Carter and Lord Carnarvon (Egyptian scientist and two Britons) the ark of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. This is the judgment of God".
He was fond of Gnthert on ancient Egypt since childhood, and has a lifetime collection of things related to the Pharaohs and coffins. He also visited the U.S. and retired Valley of the Kings in Egypt ten years ago.
Retired and joking, saying he was left had only one wish is to be sure of his death before the coffin is placed in this monarchy.

Source: Russia Today 

Gunman kills 3 soldiers in France and running away

 
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Three French soldiers Thursday, March 15 / March, they launched a man riding a motorcycle shot in the middle of the road in Montauban, south-west France, before fleeing, as reported by local authorities.
She explained that the Police Directorate of the three soldiers were in uniform near the shop and a bank office when a man opened fire on them independent of a small motorcycle (scooter) and putting a helmet on his head.
The Department of Defense announced that two soldiers, one in the sixth and twenty-second in the twenty-fourth were killed immediately, while a third died in the twenty-eighth of serious wounds.
He and the French Minister of Defense said in a statement about the "deeply impressed for the assassination of three military dead." He said in a statement that "the defense minister is confident justice under the authority of the Prosecutor of the Republic to shed light on the whole this criminal act as soon as possible."
The three soldiers belonged to the band 17 which is located Zqntha umbrellas near the scene in the city center. It should be noted that the soldiers belonging to this band are participating in the coalition forces in Afghanistan.
And taken strict security measures and the dissemination of a large number of policemen and gendarmes to find the culprit. Did not yet know the motives of this attack.
In the March 11 killing of a French military, was not then in service, in similar circumstances when he was a man riding a motorcycle shot in the upscale neighborhood in the city of Toulouse, southwestern France, too.
Source: Russia Today and agencies 

Counter suits over failed Lady Gaga show

 

Lady Gaga (AFP Photo / STR)

US promoters and a Russian Media Company have clashed in Miami court over who is to pay for a failed Lady Gaga gig in Moscow.

Russian UTV Media Company claims New Wave Entertainment is responsible for the loss of $1.8 million over the US pop star’s cancelled show.

Now the American company has filed a counter-claim saying that UTV broke the terms of the contract. The US promoters are refusing to return the insurance deposit made by UTV and pay compensation for the losses. The Americans imply that UTV had gone directly to Lady Gaga’s producers directly, which was strictly forbidden.

Russian UTV signed New Wave Entertainment to book the American pop star Lady Gaga to perform in Moscow in June 2011, where she was to headline the MUZ-TV awards ceremony.

New Wave Entertainment failed to organize the show on the requested date, which apparently cost UTV $1.8 million. UTV claims the American promoters failed to book Lady Gaga, despite receiving a $1.5 million advance payment and $300,000 agency fee.

Source: Russia Today 

Destroy all churches in the Arabian Peninsula – Saudi Grand Mufti

 

Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh. (AFP Photo / Hassan Ammar)

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed. The statement prompted anger and dismay from Christians throughout the Middle East.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah made the controversial statement in a response to a question from a Kuwaiti NGO delegation. A Kuwaiti parliamentarian had called for a ban on the construction of new churches in February, but so far the initiative has not been passed into law. The NGO, called the Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage, asked the Sheikh to clarify what Islamic law says on the matter. 

The Grand Mufti, who is the highest official of religious law in Saudi Arabia, as well as the head of the Supreme Council of Islamic Scholars, cited the Prophet Mohammed, who said the Arabian Peninsula is to exist under only one religion. 

The Sheikh went on to conclude that it was therefore necessary for Kuwait, being a part of the Arabian Peninsula, to destroy all churches on its territory.  

In February, Kuwaiti MP Osama al-Munawar announced on Twitter that he was planning to submit legislation that would remove all churches in the country. However, he later clarified that existing churches should remain, while the construction of new non-Islamic places of worship would be banned. 

Another MP, Mohamemd Hayef, backed al-Munawar, saying the number of churches in the country was already disproportionate to the number of Christians. 

As for Saudi Arabia, all religions other than Islam are banned and there are no churches, although a small minority of Christians is theoretically allowed to practice their religion in the privacy of their own home. 

The Grand Mufti’s words have caused a heated response from Christians living in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and other countries throughout the Middle East. A number of bloggers also wrote on the issue. 

“Considering the hysteria that besets the West whenever non-authoritative individuals offend Islam – for instance, a fringe, unknown pastor – imagine what would happen if a Christian counterpart to the Grand Mufti, say the Pope, were to declare that all mosques in Italy must be destroyed; imagine the nonstop Western media frenzy that would erupt, all the shrill screams of 'intolerance' and 'bigot,' demands for apologies if not resignation, nonstop handwringing by sensitive politicians, and worse,” Raymond Ibrahim of Jihad Watch, a blog critical of extremist Islamic laws, wrote.

 

The Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait City, Kuwait (Image from kuwaitdailyphoto.blogspot.com)

Despite the sensational news value of the story, the Western media has been remarkably silent. No major news services have covered the story yet. Ibrahim argues that the Grand Mufti gets a free pass even when he incites Muslims to destroy churches because Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United States. 

Restrictions on Islam in the West

The Grand Mufti’s words seem to mirror what a number of US politicians have been calling for – only their words were aimed at mosques and Muslims. In January, Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain said Americans have a constitutional right to ban mosques, arguing that Islam combines church and state, which contradicts the US Constitution. 

"They're using the church part of our First Amendment to infuse their morals in that community, and the people of that community do not like it,” Cain said on Fox News Sunday.

In November, Pat Buchanan, who vied for the Republican presidential nomination on a number of occasions, agreed with radio host Bryan Fischer in promoting limits to immigration from Islamic countries and the construction of new mosques. 

In 2009 a constitutional amendment banning the construction of minarets was adopted in Switzerland following a referendum on the subject. Almost 58 per cent of the population said yes to the initiative, although the traditionally leftist French-speaking part of the country rejected it. The construction of new minarets is now banned throughout Switzerland, though the four existing minarets in Zurich, Geneva, Winterthur and Wangei bei Olten are to remain. 

In 2010, French legislators banned face-covering headgear in public. The ban meant that women caught wearing the burqa in public could be fined up to 150 euros and/or be forced to participate in citizenship education. Proponents of the legislation argued that face covering was both an issue of security and social integrity, as facial recognition is important for communication. Opponents said the law encroached on personal freedoms.

Source: Russia Today 

Robert De Niro prevent from entering owned hotel!

 
Revealed U.S. actor Robert De Niro that the staff in the luxury hotel he owns in New Yorkprevented him from entering after they thought he is a man tramp, after returning from filming his movie 'Be Flynn'.

De Niro said in an interview with a U.S. Friendly staff (Greenwich) in New York refused to let him in. After that they thought was a real tramp.

It is noteworthy that De Niro is in fact the owner of the hotel, but denied tramp character in the movie 'Be Flynn' to prevent employees from recognizing him.

Source: Jerusalem Arab