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2/26/2012

Pakistan demolished the residence of bin Laden

مقر بن لادن
Pakistani authorities began to demolish the headquarters where he stayed for Osama binLaden's former city of Abbottabad for years before his death.
The bin Laden had been killed in a raid carried out by U.S. special forces without the knowledge of Pakistani authorities.
And brought the security forces and bulldozers began demolishing a private exterior wallsafter sunset on Saturday, according to Reporters transfer, demolition work will continuethrough the night.
The U.S. special forces that carried out the operation in the month of May / May last has moved from neighboring Afghanistan and attacked the headquarters of bin Laden, usinghelicopters, "Ghost," which is not revealed by radar.
The troops stormed the headquarters and killed five people inside, including bin Laden,and left after 40 minutes Musthab with his body and some computers and other devices that contain data about the activities of bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.
The little that remains of the Pakistani authorities Headquarters accident caused her pain and embarrassment, and led to strained relations with the U.S. ally.


Source: BBC Arabic

2/25/2012

Obama apologizes for Afghan President in the burning of copies of the Koran at a U.S. base in Afghanistan

أوباما يعتذر للرئيس الأفغاني عن إحراق مصاحف في قاعدة أمريكية بأفغانستان
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White House announced that President Barack Obama sent a message to his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai apologizing for burning copies of the Koran at the base of the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
Said Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House on Thursday, February 23 "The president is also in the speech delivered by Ambassador (Ryan) Crocker afternoon in Kabul regret and apologize for the incident in which the abuse of religious materials inadvertently at Bagram Air Base" , according to the agency "Reuters".
Obama said in this letter: "We will take appropriate action to avoid recurrence (these events), including the arrest of those responsible for it."
The burning of copies of the Koran at Bagram Air Base near Kabul led to the outbreak of violent protests against the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
He gave Afghan President Hamid Karzai earlier on Thursday responsibility for the burning of copies of the Koran on the Bagram U.S. officer. In a presidential statement said Karzai told the deputies of the Parliament at the presidential palace that the officer acted "ignorance and lack of understanding of" the sanctity of the Holy Quran.
On the other hand "Reuters" quotes from Afghan President Hamid Karzai as saying that "NATO has promised a fair and public hearing in the case of burning the Koran."
Political analyst: After 10 years of occupation on Washington to learn the most basic rules of dealing with respect for Islamic culture
Ahmed Fathi, a political analyst from New York that he expected a wave of protests in Afghanistan and the region because of accident burned the Koran but that does not arrive at the current stage to the level of civil disobedience. He added that he can not the U.S. administration after 10 years of occupation, to say that is responsible for this incident was not aware of what he does.

Source: Russia Today

Afghanistan, the development of situations .. after burning the Holy Quran

افغانستان..تطور الاوضاع بعد حرق القرآن الكريم
AFP
Newspaper "Kommersant" following the developments of serious and massive protests taking place in Afghanistan, highlighting the leadership of the Taliban invitation of the Afghan people to rise up and targeting NATO bases. This call has represented the height of popular protests, sparked by the feet of U.S. soldiers to burn the Koran and other Islamic books at Bagram Air Base.
Opinion of the newspaper that this dangerous escalation, and the growing hatred towards America among Afghan citizens, threatening the collapse of the ongoing efforts of national reconciliation between the Kabul government headed by Hamid Karzai, the Taliban, US-brokered. It is fear that the Taliban refused to Alaatmaran graphs, extended by the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta for the Afghan people. In an attempt to justify that event, the Pentagon and many contradictory hypotheses, explains how the arrival of the remains of burnt out from the Koran and other religious books, collecting garbage to places near the U.S. base. At first, the Pentagon said that the prison administration decided to withdraw the rule in some books from the library and get rid of them, because some prisoners who have completed their sentences they used to exchange messages with each other. After that the duration of the General Staff recognized the NATO forces that religious books and the Koran were burned by mistake. Following the incident on Tuesday rallied large crowds of Afghans at the Bagram base walls chanting "Death to America" ​​and "Death to the Afghan government." The next day protests swept a number of cities and provinces of Afghanistan. But the capital Kabul has seen the largest and most violent protests. Where the angry crowd tried to storm the headquarters of the U.S. Embassy, ​​and the parliament building. But the guards fired live bullets at the protesters, which led to several deaths and dozens wounded. Has supported the Taliban, these protests, and took advantage of an increased sense of hatred for the United States, to weaken the position of the Afghan government and President Karzai.
Commenting on these developments is expected, the researcher at the Center for Global Security Vladimir Satnikov that this atmosphere is in the interest of the radical wing of the Taliban movement, which rejects all forms of dialogue with the government of President Karzai, brokered by the United States of America.


Source: Russia Today

Video on the Internet shows Gaddafi naked before his assassination raises anger

Spread on Web sites, including YouTube video showing the former Libyan leaderMuammar Gaddafi, moments before his assassination, a totally naked after his arrest, and try the rebels entered in a car on.

He described the video as containing inappropriate scenes, viewers also described as a brutal video shows the "barbaric" the rebels in the torture of Muammar Gaddafi before his assassination. As others have denounced the way he was treated by Gaddafi.

While some wondered about the reason for the emergence of such videos in the momentafter the street Libyan relatively settled. When the others went to accuse the other daughterAisha Gaddafi trying to destabilize the security of the country such as the proliferation ofthese videos and to tarnish the image of the Libyan rebels. It is noteworthy that AishaGaddafi has previously requested from the International Criminal Court to investigate the murder of her father.


Source: Russia Today

Anger of Serbs and Bosnians admired Angelina Jolie film "in the Land of Blood and Honey"

انجلينا جولي
Raises the film "in the land of blood and honey," the first film you directed the U.S. actressAngelina Jolie, contradictory feelings in the former Yugoslavia, a country which is set in it.
In the Serbian capital Belgrade, did not attend the premiere of the film - which tells thestory of a Serbian soldier during the war in Bosnia to find his lover in the Muslim camp for families - only a handful of viewers, but he received applause from the crowd that attended the presentation in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.
The film sparked anger Serbs because, according to their claim, that showed the bad guys look in the war that took place between 1992 and 1995.
Has described Serbian newspapers on Thursday published the first show of the film inBelgrade "Palmezelh."
She said a newspaper-oriented Serbian National Five viewers only attended one of the presentations, a number of "more than deserves the film," she went on.

Source: BBC Arabic

Government of India: homosexuality is a moral

The Government informed the Indian Supreme Court that homosexuality is immoral and it is against the "laws of nature and cause the spread of HIV."He urged the Minister of the Interior Indian Supreme Court to reconsider the decision by the Delhi High Court in 2009 who believed that homosexuality is not a crime punishable by law.In conclusion, this court decision has issued a law in the colonial era by 148 years and considered that sexual relations between homosexuals "unnatural offense".The Supreme Court has asked the groups critical of the rule of determining the meaning of "sex is natural."Still a lot in India consider sexual relations between homosexuals "illegal", but human rights groups say has long been that the law criminalizing this relationship, "contrary to human rights."Describes the paragraph 377 of the Indian Act during the period of British colonial homosexuality as the process of intercourse against the order of nature, and regards it as illegal.The Delhi High Court has issued in July 2009 described the law a provision which was drafted during the colonial rule as a racist and recommended that the court is not gay marriage adult crime.And until the issuance of this provision was gay sexual acts punishable by imprisonment for ten years.Almaedion welcomed the freedom of homosexuality by a court of Delhi. They said that would help prevent them from abuse and detention of dissidents by the authorities.As opposed currents of political, social and religious power. And demanded the return of the law of the colonial period.
Source: BBC Arabic

Commander of the popular al-Qadhafi's Guard remains defiant despite the capture

الضو اثناء مقابلة بي بي سي معه
If you talk to Gen. Mansour Daou, the leader of the popular al-Qadhafi's Guard, and one of the most important aides, will be generated to have the impression that the green revolution led by Gaddafi is still in vigor.Daw told us, "Gaddafi is dead. This is real. But his ideas will remain a philosopher and thinker."Daou and one of the few senior officials of the Gaddafi regime, who remained alive after the destruction of Gaddafi's convoy last October. He said Daou, who was wearing new clothes, from his prison in a prison belonging to the army intelligence in Masrath, it's being treated well.But he told us that he does not have legal representation and did not report anything about the charges against him was not allowed to see his family members.The authorities accuse of involvement in the revolutionary Daou massacre 1996 in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, which killed about 1200 people.As claimed by the revolutionary authorities also said he knows money and weapons caches hid forces loyal to Gaddafi in the recent events in the country.Taking into consideration that he could face the death penalty and he narrowly escaped death from the immediate experienced by Gaddafi and his son Mutasim, calm light seemed surprising.It seems that Daw hopes to be a revolution, something transient, where he told us, "the old system as long as 42 years. You can not assess the system for two months or even years and you can not predict his future."IsolationAnd contemporary Daou weeks of bitter fighting in Sirte in September and October two years. He told the BBC that at the end of this period became the see "The situation has reached such case Maasa. There is no doctors, no hospitals, no medicine and communications. Back to primitive life."The revolutionary forces besieged the city's cease-fire for short periods to allow civilians to flee from Sirte, but it is believed that the ceasefire has been in coordination with tribal leaders and not with the forces of Gaddafi.And describes Daou decision Gaddafi walked away from the rebel forces while the NATO forces bombed the city desperate step rule to fail due to lack of experience many of the participants.Delay fleeIt was scheduled to leave the convoy, which includes senior officials of the Qaddafi regime in the early morning I walked about four in the morning, but postponed her departure several times.Daou said, "delay, which lasted 4 hours caused a lot of problems for us."The convoy was attacked by NATO forces and then to another attack of the rebels and the forces of NATODaw asked if the reason for the point of going to escape if he is successful, we answered, we will go to the village where he was born Gaddafi at a distance of 30 km, and there is a "we will fight until death."He described the Daou, who was in the same car with Gaddafi's what happened."We were attacked by NATO forces twice, one as we move, but the attack was not on our car"He said Daw "engine stop our car and we had to move to another car. Presented Gaddafi to minor injuries from glass fragments."Gathered all the cars then near a power plant was being targeted and then attack us. Although we went out of the car, hold fire and people are exposed to fire and burns."Included the last desperate attempt to escape the split into two groups and flee walk led by Mutasim Gaddafi.The interview turns to achieveWhile stopped the interview until we consult if we want to draw more questions to Ldo, suppose Ibrahim House of Hope, director of prison Masrath standing, to investigate with Daw.Home of Hope, said after taking the helm of dialogue "did not tell us there is information on it. No credibility in your statements."Experience was confusing and bewildering to turn our interview into something completely different. The pressure on the house of Daw hope to answer a set of questions was the revolutionary forces that want to get an answer on it.The Daou questions about the firm and urged the authorities to send documents and interrogation of the Attorney General if they believe that there is reason for trial.The dialogue between the two parties is characterized by challenging, but it was surprisingly calm and composure with which the prisoner of his direct charge.
Source: BBC Arabic

Study: Internet use in the Middle East increased by 2300%

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T said. That. S Middle East and North Africa one of the largest market research companies in the world that many of the regional market is witnessing a dramatic increase in the use of the Internet, where the number of users rose from 7.8 million to 871 million during the past ten years.
Said Steve Hamilton, Clark, CEO of the company in a statement received by Reuters a copy of it via e-mail on Wednesday: "The use of the Internet in the Middle East and North Africa during the past ten years by 2300 percent and I think this is one of the many indicators of the need for brands to change their way of implementation business. "
Clark said that the study of (digital life) conducted by T. That. S recently on the behavior of consumers mail in 60 countries "shows that 90 percent of consumers in the region are looking for information about all categories of products using the Internet before making any purchasing process in addition to it refers to the growth of electronic commerce in the region. "
He stressed the need for brands to provide full services to consumers ranging from helping to provide information before the purchase to product selection, procurement and delivery down to the after-sales service.
He said, "there is still a need to incorporate traditional marketing strategies to stimulate the use of the Internet first as there is a need to follow an integrated approach and work on the application of methods of advertising campaigns through the Internet within and outside the scope of the Internet."
T was founded. That. S Middle East and North Africa in 1980 and serving in the Middle East through 150 consultants in business.

Source: Reuters

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