Iranian school boys shoot with their toy guns at an Israeli flag as it burns during an anti-Israeli rally marking ‘Al-Quds Day’ (Jerusalem Day), to support the Palestinian cause, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005

Minister: Iran detains “terrorist team” linked to Israel

Xinhua News Agency | Apr 26, 2009 |

TEHRAN, April 26 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie said on Sunday that Iran has arrested members of a terrorist network in Tehran who were linked to Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported. The terrorists who were planning to carry out bombings in Tehran have been identified and arrested, Mohseni Ejeie was quoted as saying. read more

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Women and children in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. Johannes Kalter no date

The Political Economy of Taliban Terror in Swat Valley

The Intelligence Daily | Apr 10, 2009 | By Tom Burghardt

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Fury amongst Pakistan’s citizens erupted after a human rights’ group surfaced a video April 3 showing the flogging of a 17-year-old girl in Swat Valley. The vile display was carried out by thugs allied with Baitullah Mehsud’s Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).. . . read more

The beautiful river Swat passing through beautiful forests in Swat valley Pakistan. photo by Atif Gulzar, date unknown, see links for more photos…

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Israeli artillery fire lit up the sky above Gaza on Saturday night before the beginning of a ground offensive. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Israeli Ground Forces Push Into Gaza

New York Times, By ISABEL KERSHNER and LIZ ROBBINS Published: January 3, 2009 JERUSALEM — Israel moved its troops into Gaza starting a ground offensive eight days after launching an airstrike campaign in efforts to end rocket attacks from Hamas militants.

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GAZA (Gaza Humanitarian Crisis)

12/29: Gaza humanitarian crisis deepening Israels deliberate targeting of civilian buildings such as mosques and universities in Gaza is deepening the humanitarian crisis in the Hamas-controlled area, says eyewitness Eva Bartlett from the International Solidarity Movement. (Russia Today TV)

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Palestinian rescue workers helped a wounded prisoner on Sunday in Gaza City after an Israeli missile attack at the main security compound and prison, the Saraya. (Majed Hamdan/Associated Press)

Israeli Troops Mass Along Border; Arab Anger Rises

New York Times, By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY and ISABEL KERSHNER Published: December 28, 2008 GAZA — Israeli troops and tanks massed along the Gaza border and the government said it had called up reserves for a possible ground operation, as the death toll increased to nearly 300 after Israeli aircraft pounded Gaza for a second day on Sunday.

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An Israeli police officer from the bomb unit examines a car as the body of man hangs out of the passenger side door after an explosion in Tel Aviv, Monday Nov. 17, 2008. A huge car explosion in central Tel Aviv killed one of Israel’s top mafia kingpin’s on Monday, raising the likelihood of an all-out mob war in Israel’s underworld. Israeli media identified the dead man as Yaakov Alperon_known informally as ‘Don Alperon’ _ but police would not confirm the report. (AP Photo by Moti Milrod)

Mobsters seize control of Israeli public’s imagination

IHT, By Isabel Kershner Published: November 21, 2008

RAANANA, Israel: Had Don Corleone been Jewish, his shiva probably would have looked something like this. A couple of burly men were guarding the gate to the house of the recently departed Yaakov Alperon, a reputed Israeli crime boss who was killed by a bomb planted in his rented car as he drove along a busy thoroughfare in Tel Aviv this week.

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‘In the absence of a well-founded explanation from the Israeli military – which is in sole possession of the relevant facts – the mission must conclude that there is a possibility that the shelling of Beit Hanoun constituted a war crime,’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in his report to the 47-member council. (photo courtesy alJazeera)

Saving Palestine: A massacre of children

10/18/08 alJazeera, By Sameh A. Habeeb — In November 2006 a horrible war crime was committed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli army. The operation was not directed to some militants who were heading to fight Israel, but for an extended poor family! A neaby military operation was running by the same army in which they bulldozed farms, crushed cars and uprooted trees and streets.

Tutu leads UN probe into Beit Hanoun killings – 28 May 08
A United Nations inquiry is taking place in Gaza over an Israeli air-strike 18 months ago that killed 23 Palestinians – 20 of them from the same family. Accounts differ about what happened in Beit Hanoun and how many missiles were fired. Israel has already said it was a mistake. From Gaza, Owen Fay reports for Al Jazeera.

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A photographer walked among Humvees during a ceremony at the transfer of U.S. equipment to the Afghan Army this year on the outskirts of Kabul. (Musadeq Sadeq/The Associated Press)

U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals

By Eric Lipton Published: September 14, 2008 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is pushing through a broad array of foreign weapons deals as it seeks to re-arm Iraq and Afghanistan, contain North Korea and Iran, and solidify ties with onetime Russian allies.

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01 Sep 2008 17:08:24 GMT Source: Reuters By Robert Evans GENEVA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – At least 14 people were killed by cluster bombs during the Georgia-Russia war over South Ossetia in August according to experts in the conflict region, a leading human rights group said on Monday.

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(daylife.com) Israeli interior minister Meir Sheetrit

Aljazeera, 21/08/2008 11:37:00 PM GMT Israel’s Interior Minister warns Tel Aviv against attacking Tehran saying such an attack would be a ‘megalomaniacal reckless’ idea.

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Measles virus (Source: http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgId=719&pid=23148)

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Thu Aug 21, 6:34 PM ET ATLANTA – Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.

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