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Tuesday, 10 April, 2001 Rabbi Yosef is known for his outspoken comments The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs. "It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable," he was quoted as saying in a sermon delivered on Monday to mark the Jewish festival of Passover. Rabbi Yosef is one of the most powerful religious figures in Israel, He is known for his outspoken comments and has in the past referred to the Arabs as "vipers". Through his influence over Shas, Israel's third largest political party, he is also a significant political figure. As founder and spiritual leader of the political party Shas, Rabbi Yosef is held in almost saintly regard by hundreds of thousands of Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin. The Palestinian Authority has condemned the sermon as racist and is calling on international organisations to treat the rabbi as a war criminal. 'Arab terrorists' Rabbi Yosef said in his sermon that enemies have tried to hurt the Jewish people from the time of the exodus from Egypt to this day. "The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world," he said. Shas spokesman, Yitzhaq Suderi defended the rabbi, saying his remarks referred only to "Arab murderers and terrorists" and not the Arab people as a whole. 'Stirring up hatred' Palestinian cabinet minister Hassan Asfur urged international civil institutions and human rights organisations to consider Rabbi Yosef a war criminal in future. The utterances were "a clear call for murder and a political an intellectual terrorism that will lead to military terrorism", he said in remarks reported on Palestinian radio. He added that no punishment would come from Israel "because its political culture and action are in line with [the rabbi's] racist statements". Israeli Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit also condemned the sermon, saying: "A person of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's stature must refrain from acrid remarks such as these." And he added: "I suggest that we not learn from the ways of the Palestinians and speak in verbal blows like these." Salah Tarif, the only Arab cabinet minister in the Israeli government, also criticized Rabbi Yosef, saying "his remarks add nothing but hatred".

I don't know why she insist to wear veil in school, the veil not from Islam. Those people helping to make Islam looks bad.

No, the religion in your life (don't understand it with the ordinary meaning). From the country flag I see you live in France, did you know how risen the French Revolution? the Jews (I don't talking about political or race issue here, just historical issue) by secret orgnization called Illumanti and don't forget the Reign of Terror (there aren't any patriot revolution do this). All that happened for a religious reason. I think you now see how the religion affect in your life, even if you don't know that. If you need a proves to believe in God (there are many proves for that) just look into yourself, see how this miracle machine working (who made it?) look to this big Universe (who created it?) The farmers plant different plants (fruits and vegetables ......etc) but all of them giving these different plants the same water (can you tell me who gave all these tastes for these plants?). Just one can make this ( GOD ) I hope that you understand what I said

PROTOCOL No. 7 World-Wide Wars 1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces - are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers. 2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the "official language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race. UNIVERSAL WAR 3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war. 4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat. 5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" - THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.

I don't know why many people don't like to talk about religions or the God because it's well hurts some people (and I don't know how) or it useless to talk about it. In spite of what happening these days and the past days and also the coming days happening by the name of God. I will make it more cleare. How many orgnizations created by religious base (Zionism, Freemasonry, Illiumanti, B'nai Birth, Knight of the Templars and Muslem Brotherhood) The religions in everyone life, if you like it or not. Which mean that you should search and know what controling your life. It's the most important thing in your life. About the qustion, I say YES God is exist and to get sure just look around and ask yourself who made this big universe (because nothing can exist by itself) About how I know the God is he or she, don't comapre The Creator with the Son of Adam, God is unique and don't like anything

If they late 10 years more than this. This postcard will be in museum

Because Britain who made them. I like to call them terrorists not jihadists. I don't know who made this word "jihadists" because this word written in English the same Arabic spelling and writing "مجاهد" and it's not bad word at all and don't mean terrorists. It's well known that USA and Britain protecting the terrorists and support them, the article said that this four men belong to Al-Qaeda, you just need to found who formed and supporting them.

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U.S. holds out North Korea deal as model for Iran By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday held out as a model for Iran a deal under which N. Korea will take steps toward giving up nuclear arms, and analysts said it might bolster Iranians who favor talks with the West. White House spokesman Tony Snow called the deal a "template," but some analysts cautioned that the United States would have less leverage with Iran than with impoverished, communist North Korea. Under an agreement struck in Beijing, Pyongyang will freeze the reactor at the heart of its nuclear program and allow inspections of the site. The pact could bring the impoverished communist state some $300 million in aid. Unlike Libya's 2003 decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs before getting any tangible U.S. benefits, the North Korea deal is an incremental approach in which Pyongyang is rewarded as it moves toward what the United States hopes will ultimately be a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. Proliferation experts said the deal, hammered out in talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, demonstrated the Bush administration's willingness to abandon some of its hard-line positions and make compromises. "We see a pattern developing. We negotiated a deal with Libya. Now we are negotiating a deal with North Korea. They give up their weapons programs in exchange for a new relationship with the United States. That model seems a lot preferable to the Iraq model," said Joseph Cirincione of the Center for American Progress think tank. "North Korea was a more difficult deal than Libya and Iran will be more difficult still, but the approach is clear," he added. "A successful deal with North Korea will be a powerful argument in Tehran for those who favor negotiating." The United States has offered to talk to Iran about its nuclear programs and any other issues between the two countries -- which do not have diplomatic relations -- if Tehran suspended its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities. Iran, which says its nuclear program is for peaceful power generation, has refused to take up the offer. INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE Some analysts argued that to give benefits to North Korea, which carried out a nuclear test on October 9, before it fully abandoned its nuclear programs was to reward it for unacceptable behavior. Heritage Foundation analyst Bruce Klingner said the Beijing agreement would send "a dangerously accommodating signal not only to North Korea, but also to Iran and any other aspiring nuclear weapons state." Snow said Pyongyang had come back to the table "because the international community asserted pressure, they felt the pressure and they understood that we were serious." "We hope the Iranians are similarly going to return to the table because we have offered some real opportunities for them," he added. Analysts said the United States is in a far weaker position in dealing with Iran, which unlike North Korea is a rich state, with deep oil reserves and commercial ties with western European nations who may be loathe to apply more pressure. The war in neighboring Iraq, which has killed more than 3,000 U.S. soldiers and tied down more than 130,000 U.S. troops, has also limited U.S. military options toward Iran. "Our hand is not particularly strong, but it might be strong enough to convince the Iranians to accept a temporary suspension on its enrichment programs in order to engage in multinational negotiations and find out what kind of a deal would be on the table," said said Gary Samore, director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.

Korean nuclear deal delays disarmament By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer BEIJING - A hard-won disarmament pact that the U.S. and four other nations struck with N. Korea on Tuesday requires the communist nation to halt its nuclear programs in exchange for oil while leaving the ultimate abandonment of those weapons projects to a potentially trouble-filled future. In a sign of potential problems to come, North Korea's state news agency said the country was receiving 1 million tons of oil for a "temporary suspension" of its nuclear facilities — and failed to mention the full disarmament for which the agreement calls. It wasn't clear if the report represented an attempt by the government to backtrack on the deal, or was simply a statement of bluster for a deeply impoverished domestic audience that Pyongyang has rallied around the nuclear program as a cause for national pride. And by tackling so many issues in a process likely to take years, the deal could unravel, pulled apart by differing agendas of its six signers, which also include China, S. Korea, Russia and Japan. "We have a lot of work to do," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told reporters. "It's certainly not the end of the process, it's really just the end of the beginning of the process." Nevertheless, the agreement marks a turnabout for North Korea, which rattled the world only four months ago when it tested a nuclear device. If Pyongyang follows through with its promises, they would be the first moves the communist state has made to scale back its atomic development since it kicked out international inspectors and restarted its sole operating nuclear reactor in 2003. "These talks represent the best opportunity to use diplomacy to address North Korea's nuclear programs,'' President Bush said in a statement. "They reflect the common commitment of the participants to a Korean Peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons." Robert J. Einhorn, a former State Department official who visited North Korea with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said Americans should applaud the agreement, but he predicted it would come under heavy questioning from both the right and the left. He said, "I think a number of people are going to ask the question, `Couldn't this deal have been concluded three or four years ago before North Korea conducted its nuclear test and acquired enough additional plutonium to build anywhere from six to 10 nuclear weapons?'" The accord, completed at a Chinese government guesthouse by negotiators from six countries after tortuous talks, lays out an ambitious agenda. It sets a firm 60-day timetable for North Korea to seal its main nuclear reactor and begin accounting for other nuclear programs. Within that time, more talks are planned on ending the hostilities between North Korea and the United States and Japan that have made northeast Asia a tense corner of the world. In return, North Korea will receive 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, a modest down payment on a promised 1 million tons in oil or aid of a similar value if it ultimately disarms. One million tons of oil would be equivalent to more than two-thirds of North Korea's entire oil consumption in 2004, according to the CIA Factbook. Hill said the aid package was worth about $250 million at current prices. In the negotiations, envoys debated who would pay for North Korea's disarmament. China, the U.S., South Korea and Russia agreed to foot the bill though Moscow may contribute in the form of debt relief. Japan has refused to provide aid until Pyongyang fully accounts for the abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea. "We understand it marks the first concrete step by North Korea toward its nuclear dismantlement," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said after the accord was struck in Beijing. "But our position that Japan cannot provide support without a resolution of the abduction issue is unchanged." Disarmament, however, is likely to remain the thorniest problem. "What if North Korea doesn't show them to inspectors, if they say we've stopped this and shut down that, what if they say you have to trust us?" said Liu Gongliang, a physicist at China's Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics who has followed North Korea's nuclear program for the Chinese government. Under the deal, the North is required to seal its main nuclear reactor and related facilities at Yongbyon, north of the capital, within 60 days and allow inspections by the IAEA. Senior IAEA figures have met regularly with North Korean diplomats in past months preparing for such a mission, and a diplomat familiar with the status of preparations told The Associated Press that IAEA inspectors could be on site "within days" once given the go-ahead. But no timetable was set for a final declaration by North Korea of all its nuclear programs and their ultimate dismantling. North Korea has sidestepped previous agreements. It allegedly operated its uranium-based weapons program even as it froze a plutonium-based one, sparking the latest nuclear crisis in late 2002. The country is believed to have countless mountainside tunnels in which to hide projects. The uranium program was not explicitly addressed in the agreement. But, Hill said, "I certainly have made very clear repeatedly that we need to ensure that we know precisely the status of that." The nuclear issue has frequently been ensnarled by lingering frictions between the North and its neighbors, as well as a dispute over U.S. sanctions against the regime for alleged money laundering and counterfeiting activities. Hill said the sanctions issue would be resolved within 30 days, but didn't provide specifics. The United States will also begin the process of removing North Korea from its designation as a terror-sponsoring state and also on ending U.S. trade sanctions, but no deadlines have been was set, according to the agreement. Washington's blacklisting of a Macau bank in September 2005 had led the North to a more-than-yearlong boycott of the six-nation talks during which it tested its first nuclear bomb.

Obama to announce 2008 plans in Illinois By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. — where Abraham Lincoln held office before running for president — is the setting for the latest milestone in Sen. Barack Obama's remarkable rise to prominence. The first-term U.S. senator planned to formally announce his candidacy for president Saturday in the city where he began his political career just 10 years ago. Obama is a newcomer to the national scene, having served just two years in the Senate, but he already is considered Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief rival among many vying for the Democratic nomination. He brings a wealth of political skills but a thin elective resume — the very reason he chose to stage his official campaign launch from the steps of the Old State Capitol. Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president if elected, was tying his bid to the legacy of Lincoln — who served eight years in the Illinois Legislature — while using Springfield to tout his own eight-year record as a state senator. In a video message on his Web site Friday, Obama said he was launching "a journey to take our country back and change the fundamental nature of our politics." "I know a lot of you are cynical about the possibilities of that change," Obama said. "Sometimes it seems as if the game is fixed and it only works for the few and the powerful, but I fundamentally believe there is another brand of politics. "Let's go get to work," he said. Obama planned to travel throughout Iowa on Saturday and Sunday before returning to Chicago for a rally Sunday night. He planned to visit New Hampshire on Monday on the heels of Clinton, whose first visit to the state as a presidential candidate over the weekend provided some early competition for attention from Obama's announcement. Obama, 45, gained national recognition with the publication of two best-selling books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," and by delivering the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. His optimistic message and his compelling biography immediately sparked talk of his White House potential. Initially he said he would not run for president, but he revealed last fall that he was considering it after receiving so much encouragement. He formed a presidential exploratory committee last month. Since then, Obama has hired some of the Democratic Party's top talent to work on a campaign headquartered in his hometown of Chicago, and he has offered some proposals. He introduced a bill to prevent President Bush from increasing troop levels in Iraq and to remove U.S. combat forces from the country by March 31, 2008 — legislation that has virtually no chance of becoming law while Bush is president. Obama was not yet elected to the U.S. Senate when Congress voted to give Bush the authority to go to war, but he gave a speech in 2002 opposing the war. He said Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat to the United States and predicted the invasion would lead to an occupation with undetermined costs and consequences. His vision of what was to come in Iraq and his opposition to the invasion have helped build his support among the anti-war crowd.

Happy birthday.:) I'm always late

Jerusalem 'tense' after clashes A tense calm is reported in the Old City of Jerusalem after clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians erupted at a contested holy site. Israel denies the excavations threaten the al-Aqsa mosque Dozens of people were hurt when police moved in to quell violent protests against excavation work in the area. Skirmishes in other parts of the city have also been reported. The violence flared over the digging work, which protesters say threatens the foundations of the al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site. The compound containing the mosque is also revered by Jews as the site of their biblical temples. The BBC's Tim Franks, in the Old City, says the area may now have been cleared and sealed but elsewhere in East Jerusalem the police have said that Palestinian youths have been throwing rocks and petrol bombs. He says the police themselves have been hitting back with stun grenades. Stand-off Palestinian Muslim clerics had called for a day of protest against the excavation works following days of rising tension. Braced for possible violence, Israeli authorities had restricted entry to the mosque and deployed thousands of police in the Old City. The clashes broke out after thousands of Palestinians attended Friday prayers at the mosque. Jewish worshippers were evacuated from the Western or Wailing Wall area below the complex as hundreds of riot police poured into the compound, firing an assortment of munitions. Israeli police say 20 protesters and 15 police officers were injured in the clashes. Farid Haj-haya was in the mosque when the police moved into the area. He told the BBC that Israeli police had started shooting and using grenades after Friday prayers had finished. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld denied police entered the mosque itself, where about 150 protesters sought refuge. After a tense stand-off, the protesters left the mosque after negotiations between officers and Muslim representatives. Flashpoint The excavations, which began on Tuesday, are a prelude to the construction of a new walkway leading to the compound. Israeli authorities say the work is needed after a centuries-old walkway partially collapsed in 2004. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the works posed no threat to the mosque, about 60m (200ft) away. "The tragedy is you have... people out there with very hateful, extremist agendas, who come and start with all this very extreme and hateful language about the Jews wanting to destroy wanting to destroy the mosques and the Jews wanting to build a synagogue there instead of a mosque and it's all just... rubbish," he told the BBC. The compound, in the Old City in East Jerusalem - an area captured by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war - has regularly been a flashpoint for violence. In 1996, Israel's opening of an exit to a tunnel near the site triggered riots in which 80 people died in clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops. And in 2000, the Palestinian uprising began at the mosque following a controversial tour of the site by Israel's then opposition leader, Ariel Sharon.

Palestinians protest over Jerusalem mosque works by Jacques Pinto JERUSALEM (AFP) - Scores of Arabs have protested against Israeli excavation works near Jerusalem's ultra-sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound as police went on alert for a planned day of mass Palestinian rage. Around 200 Palestinians and Arab Israelis demonstrated peacefully outside Dung Gate leading to one of the mosque entrances not far from where Israel pressed on with excavations for a third day ahead of construction work. Jerusalem mufti Mohammed Hussein, who has vigorously condemned the works and demanded international intervention to stop what Muslim leaders allege endangers the mosque, was banned from accessing the area, police said. "With our soul, with our blood, we sacrifice ourselves for Al-Aqsa," the crowd shouted Thursday. "The soldiers of Satan want to turn Al-Aqsa into a synagogue," they added, held back from entering Dung Gate by police. Israel's Islamic Movement accused the authorities of preventing dozens of buses of Arab Israelis from entering Jerusalem. Further protests were planned in the Arab Israeli town of Nazareth. The demonstration came on the eve of a planned day of "anger" on the Muslim day of rest called by senior local Muslim leader Sheikh Tayssir al-Tamimi against work that observers have said risks igniting a third intifada. Some 2,000 Israeli police were deployed around occupied and annexed east Jerusalem, where the mosque compound is located, with the national force on a wider state of alert ahead of Friday's planned protests. "The state of alert has been boosted up on a general level in central public places, bus stops etc as well as at the same time on the roads to prevent demonstrations from blocking," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. Israel is restricting access to the mosque compound to all but Muslim women and Muslim men aged over 45 with Israeli identity cards to minimize the threat of violence at the most volatile holy site in the Middle East. The compound, which houses both the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is where the second Palestinian uprising erupted in 2000 after a controversial visit by then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon. In 1996, more than 80 people were killed in three days of Palestinian riots after then Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a new entrance to a controversial archaeological tunnel near the holy sites. The compound is also revered by Jews as the site of their ancient temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Israel insists the public works, expected to take months, poses no risk to the holy sites and will strengthen an access ramp to Dung Gate for the "benefit and safety of visitors" after an earthquake and snowstorm damage in 2004. But the Muslim trust that oversees the compound charges that the Israelis are leveling a mound which contains two underground rooms connected to the mosque complex whose destruction risks undermining its foundations. Muslim governments from pro-Western Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, to US foe Iran have spoken out against the Israeli "aggression" and demanded that the international community intervene. The Israel Antiquities Authority is now considering a live video broadcast from the Al-Aqsa on the Internet, in a bid to quell Muslim fears that the works are harming the holy site, an official said. "We are looking at the possibility of installing cameras at the start of next week that would broadcast real-time footage on the Internet of the excavations being carried out at the site," said spokesman Osnat Gouez. Defence Minister Amir Peretz separately wrote to Olmert asking for a halt to the works, citing fears that the security situation will deteriorate. The Haaretz newspaper said Peretz's letter was attached to an opinion piece written by Reserve General Amos Gilad, a senior defence ministry official, saying that the work would foment fury in the Arab world. Arab politicians and the Israeli press have both warned that the authorities are courting a new conflict with the Palestinians. "The volcano in Jerusalem is threatening to erupt once again, and perhaps to ignite a third intifada," Israel's top daily Yediot Aharonot wrote Wednesday.

Shooting erupts on Israel-Lebanon border By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer MAROUN EL-RASS, Lebanon - Prime Minister Fuad Saniora accused Israel on Thursday of violating the Lebanese border, and U.N. officers surveyed the area of the most serious clashes since last summer's war between Hezbollah and Israel. The overnight exchange of fire showed how tense the Israeli-Lebanese frontier remains nearly six months after a U.N.-brokered cease-fire ended 34 days of fighting. Lebanese officials said their troops opened fire on an Israeli army bulldozer that had crossed the border near the village of Maroun el-Rass, scene of heavy fighting in the summer. The bulldozer crossed the so-called Blue Line — the U.N.-demarcated boundary — and drove about 20 yards into Lebanon, Lebanese military officials said. No casualties resulted from the shootout, which lasted only a few minutes and ended with an Israeli withdrawal. U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon described the shootout as a "serious incident." Liam McDowell, a spokesman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, said the exchange was "initiated by the Lebanese army" and that the Israeli bulldozer had crossed the "technical fence" to clear mines. Crossing the technical fence would not violate the border, but crossing the Blue Line would. McDowell said UNIFIL was assessing whether Israeli troops had crossed the Blue Line. Israel said its troops went through the fence to search for explosives allegedly planted by Hezbollah on Monday, but that Israeli forces remained south of the international border and within Israeli territory — which stretches beyond the fence. Hezbollah has denied planting explosives, saying they were laid before the war. At the site Thursday, near this southern village, UNIFIL officers inspected some freshly turned soil — the presumed work of the bulldozer — and used a satellite positioning system to determine the exact location of the spot in relation to the Blue Line. The atmosphere was relaxed. U.N. vehicles patrolled a dirt road along the frontier, and a group of Lebanese soldiers huddled around a bonfire to keep warm. Some Lebanese troops with binoculars stared at Israeli soldiers on the other side of the border fence. Across the fence, the bulldozer that apparently began the clash was parked in Israeli territory. Saniora discussed the border clash with U.N. envoy Geir Pedersen, telling him his government condemned the "new Israeli aggression on Lebanon's sovereignty and the violation of the Blue Line." Speaking to Pedersen in front of reporters, Saniora said the incursion compounded the daily violations of Lebanese sovereignty by Israeli aircraft, which also violate the U.N. cease-fire resolution of August. On Thursday morning, Israeli planes flew twice over southern Lebanon. The Israeli military confirmed the overflights, saying: "The incident yesterday hasn't led us to change our aerial activity." Israel says it has to monitor southern Lebanon to check that Hezbollah is not being re-armed in violation of the cease-fire. Lebanese officials, speaking on condition of anonymity as a military statement was expected, said the army fired machine-gun volleys toward the bulldozer Wednesday night. Israeli forces retaliated by firing five anti-tank grenades at two Lebanese military vehicles. In Israel, the military issued a statement saying: "We do not intend to provoke a deterioration or escalation of the situation, but we must respond when fire endangers Israeli forces." Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin accused Hezbollah of "trying yet again to challenge Israeli sovereignty." The shootout was the first exchange of fire between Lebanese and Israeli forces since Aug. 19 — five days after the cease-fire — when Israeli soldiers raided the eastern town of Boudai, deep inside Lebanon, in an alleged bid to interdict a shipment of Hezbollah weapons. An Israeli officer was killed. The exchange of fire was not expected to undermine the cease-fire that has held since Aug. 14. To maintain the peace in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL has boosted its troops to about 12,000 and Lebanon has deployed about 15,000 troops in the south.

Iran to hit U.S. interests if attacked By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran -Iran's supreme leader said Thursday that if the United States were to attack Iran, the country would respond by striking U.S. interests all over the world — the latest sharp exchange in an escalating standoff between the two countries. The comments by Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came on the same day that another top official, Tehran's ambassador to the UN, Javad Zarif, warned in a column in The New York Times that efforts to isolate Iran would backfire on the United States, increasing sectarian tensions in the volatile Middle East, including Iraq. The United States is reaping "the expected bitter fruits of its ill-conceived adventurism," he said. "But rather than face these unpleasant facts, the United States administration is trying to sell an escalated version of the same failed policy. It does this by trying to make Iran its scapegoat and fabricating evidence of Iranian activities in Iraq," he said. The United States and Iran have been in an increasingly tense standoff over Tehran's nuclear program. The tensions have worsened recently because of U.S. allegations of Iranian influence in Iraq. The United States has denied it has any plans to strike Iran militarily but has sent an additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf in what U.S. officials call an effort to show strength in the face of rising Iranian regional influence. Speaking to a gathering of air force commanders, Khamenei said: "The enemy knows well that any invasion would be followed by a comprehensive reaction to the invaders and their interests all over the world." In another sign of the tensions, Iran's intelligence minister also said the government had detected a network of U.S and Israeli spies, and had detained a second group of people who planned to go abroad for espionage training, state television reported. It gave few details. The allegation comes just a few days after an Iranian diplomat was detained in Baghdad in an incident that Iran blamed on U.S. forces. The Americans have denied involvement in the diplomat's detention. Iranian leaders often speak of a crushing response to any U.S. attack. While the remarks are seen as an attempt to drum up national support, Iran's position on Iraq and its nuclear program has provoked harsher international and especially U.S. pressure in recent months. President Bush has ordered American troops to act against Iranians suspected of being involved in the Iraqi insurgency in addition to deploying the second carrier. The UN Security Coucil has imposed sanctions because of Iran's refusal to cease uranium enrichment, and is due to consider strengthening later this month. "Some people say that the U.S. president is not prone to calculating the consequences of his actions," Khamenei said in remarks broadcast on state television, "but it is possible to bring this kind of person to wisdom." "U.S. policymakers and analysts know that the Iranian nation would not let an invasion go without a response," Khamenei added. Last week, a publication called Sobh-e Sadegh, the official publication of Iran's elite and hard-line Revolutionary Guards, also warned against American attacks, pointing out that because the U.S. has large numbers of troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, central Asia and Europe, it would be easy to kidnap Americans in retaliation. In his talk Thursday, Khamenei also addressed rumors about his health — a subject that is rarely discussed openly in Iran. Last month, there was speculation his health had deteriorated seriously. "Enemies of the Islamic system fabricated various rumors about death and health to demoralize the Iranian nation, but they did not know that they are not dealing with only one person in Iran. They are facing a nation," Khamenei said.

Arrest in Jerusalem site protest Israeli officials say the work will safeguard archaeological remains Israeli police have arrested the head of the country's Islamic movement, as he tried to protest against excavations near al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem. Sheikh Raed Salah was detained along with six other activists after they tried to enter the Old City. Police limited access to the area amid calls by Muslim leaders for mass protests to stop the work going ahead. Palestinians say it could damage the foundations of the Aqsa compound, also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount. The Israeli authorities say renovations are needed to safeguard the ancient site and have guaranteed that they will be no structural damage to the ancient site. The work is proceeding near a temporary walkway that replaces a centuries-old stairway which collapsed during storms in 2004. The al-Aqsa/Temple Mount compound is the third holiest shrine in Islam, as well as Judaism's holiest site. In 1996, work by the Israeli authorities underneath the heavily-disputed compound triggered riots in which 80 people died in clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops. And in 2000, the Palestinian uprising began at the mosque following a controversial tour of the site by Israel's then opposition leader Ariel Sharon. About 2,000 Israeli police are on duty in the Old City, double the usual number, to quell any violent protest, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Three Palestinian youths were questioned on suspicion of throwing stones at an Israeli bus on Wednesday morning, but there was no other reports of trouble, Mr Rosenfeld said. Revered site The Islamic authorities in charge of the compound say two underground rooms lie under the mound which is being levelled. The work is intended to secure the area and protect archaeological artefacts that have not yet been uncovered, Israeli officials say. Al-Aqsa is believed to be where the Prophet Muhammad made an ascent to heaven into the presence of God. Jews believe the Temple Mount is where Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God and where Solomon built the First Jewish Temple. Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 war. Since then, the compound has remained under Muslim jurisdiction in conjunction with neighbouring Jordan. On Sunday, Jordan's King Abdullah warned against "any attack on Islamic sites" and condemned Israeli attempts "seeking to change the nature of these sites and erase their Muslim character".

Israel’s Excavation at Al-Aqsa Stirs ‘Volcano of Anger’ Jalil Mustafa & Agencies JERUSALEM/AMMAN, 7 February 2007 — Israeli excavation work near an entrance to a compound in Jerusalem that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday drew Palestinian protests. Israeli police stationed reinforcements in the alleyways of Jerusalem’s walled Old City to head off feared Palestinian violence at a site at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Fatah faction led by President Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement any damage to the mosque would release Palestinian militant groups from a cease-fire with Israel in the Gaza Strip they declared last November. The governing Hamas movement, which took power last March, said “any assault” on the mosque “will lead to a termination of the limited cease-fire” with Israel and would spark “a volcano of anger.” Jordan’s King Abdallah said the work could derail the revival of Arab-Israeli peace talks. Abdallah was quoted by state news agency Petra as saying: “What Israel is doing in its practices and attacks against our sacred Muslim sites in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa is a blatant violation that is not acceptable under any pretext.” “The monarch strongly condemns the practices and aggressions Israel is currently committing against the Islamic shrines in Jerusalem and considers them a flagrant violation (of the peace treaty) that cannot be accepted under any pretexts,” the statement from the royal court said. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said before leaving for unity talks with Fatah in Makkah that Israel was out to cause “direct harm” to Al-Aqsa. “I appeal to all our Palestinian people to be united and to rise up together to protect Al-Aqsa and the holy sites on the blessed land of Palestine,” Haniyeh said. Israel said the excavation work, some 50 meters from the existing ramp, would do no damage to Al-Aqsa or the Dome of the Rock mosque, which is also located on the hilltop compound. An Islamic cultural organization yesterday attacked Israel’s decision. The Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), an offshoot of the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC) based in Rabat, called in a statement on member states to bring pressure “to put an end to these criminal acts.” It accuses Israel of “wanting to hand over part of the Jerusalem Mosque to Jewish extremists.”

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Don't hold talks with Serbia until Mladic is arrested: Del Ponte urges EU BRUSSELS (AFP) - Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the UN war crimes court, has urged the EU not to resume talks on closer ties with Serbia until former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic is arrested "The message it would give to Belgrade if they were able to resume the negotiations is that the EU has decided to restart talks while we, Belgrade, have done nothing towards full cooperation" with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY), she said. "That is my worry," Del Ponte told reporters in Brussels after a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, "that it could happen and jeopardize what we absolutely need now, because it is a crucial time for us in the cooperation with Belgrade". Last May, the European Union froze negotiations on a Stability and Association Agreement with Serbia, the first step towards EU membership talks, due to a lack of "full cooperation" with the UN court in The Hague. However the 27-nation bloc wants cooperation with Serbia over the difficult discussions on the future status of the breakaway Serb province of Kosovo, currently under UN control. Several EU member states want to move the goal posts so that full compliance with the court is not necessary for the association talks to resume but would still be required before they are formally concluded. Italy, backed by Austria, Greece, Hungary and Slovenia, want to resume discussions as an encouragement to Serbia. Others, including Britain, France and the Netherlands, have insisted that the court's demands should be fulfilled first. "I hope the EU will continue to support our need because it is now eight years that I have been travelling in Europe asking for the arrest and transfer of Mladic, Karadzic and four other fugitives, but particularly Mladic who is in reach of Belgrade," Del Ponte said. Mladic is widely believed to be hiding in Serbia, while former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic is thought to spend his time between Bosnia and neighbouring Montenegro. In 1995, the UN war crimes tribunal indicted Karadzic and Mladic for genocide during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, notably over the Srebrenica massacre. Many nationalist Serbs however still consider the pair as heroes. A new government in Serbia is in the process of being formed following a general election last week. It is crucial to demonstrate to the next government that Mladic must be handed over to The Hague, said Del Ponte. "It was important to fully inform Mr Solana about the situation because the action plan of Belgrade last year (to arrest Mladic) was just a smokescreen, they have done nothing and since November, December they have done even the contrary, because we didn't receive any info, any report, nothing," Del Ponte told reporters. Solana's spokeswoman Cristina Gallach said: "Full cooperation is fundamental for the development of relations between the EU and Serbia". Del Ponte has embarked on a series of meetings with European officials to put forward her view, with other meetings in Madrid and Rome. She also turned her attention to the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska, which along with the Muslim-Croat Federation makes up Bosnia, saying that one of the six war crimes suspects still at large was living there. She has previously voiced suspicions that Karadzic was hiding there. European foreign ministers are set to consider the resumption of talks with Serbia when they next meet on February 12.

NATO troops plan to retake Afghan town By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban militants who overran a southern Afghan town have reportedly reinforced their positions, but NATO and Afghan troops will recapture the area if the fighters don't leave, top NATO and Afghan officials said Saturday. Hundreds of residents were reported to be fleeing the town of Musa Qala fearing that NATO would move in with force, two villagers said. Gen. David Richards, the outgoing British commander of the NATO-led force, said his troops will not use "force in the way I think some people are concerned about" in trying to recapture Musa Qala, which British troops left after a contentious peace agreement in October. Hundreds of Taliban militants overran the town Thursday evening, destroying the government center, temporarily holding elders hostage and hoisting their white flag, officials and residents said. Some Taliban militants remained in the town, and there were reports they were reinforcing their positions, said Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. "It is only a matter of time before (the) government re-establishes control, and that is going to happen," Collins said. Richards said NATO would be careful during the offensive to protect "the lives and property" of the residents. From June until September Musa Qala witnessed intense battles between Taliban fighters and British troops based in the fortified center. The fighting caused widespread damage to the surrounding town of around 10,000 inhabitants, most of whom fled. Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak said the situation in Musa Qala was not clear. He said local elders — who were in charge of security as part of the October peace deal — may have already pushed the Taliban out. "If there is a need for an operation, there will be one," Wardak said. A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the Taliban took over Musa Qala in response to a number of NATO attacks on the militants in the area, which he said violated the agreement. The militants' assault, days after a Taliban commander was killed outside the town, raises doubts about the future of the peace deal, which has been criticized by some Western officials as a NATO retreat in hostile Taliban territory. But NATO said the Taliban were never part of the agreement and "by their actions, the Taliban have ended over four months of peace in Musa Qala which, until now, had seen a return to normality with reconstruction and development getting under way." "It is very clear that the Taliban are acting against the wishes of the people of Musa Qala," NATO said in a statement. British forces are based in Helmand province but left Musa Qala in October after a peace agreement was signed between elders and the Helmand governor, with the support of British forces. According to the deal, security was turned over to local leaders, while NATO forces were prevented from entering the town. Mohammad Wali, a resident of Musa Qala, said a number of Taliban fighters were around the damaged town center Saturday, where the white Taliban flag was hoisted. Hundreds of residents had fled, fearing that fighting between NATO and militants would resume, he said. Lal Mohammad, another resident, said the Taliban were in control of the town and were being led by Haji Mullah Gafoor, the hardline militia's corps commander in western Afghanistan during the Taliban regime.

Chavez defends decree power as democratic By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Writer CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his plans to rewrite dozens of laws by decree, saying his country has a vibrant democracy and that the world's real "tyranny" is led by President Bush. Signing a newly approved congressional measure that grants him broad lawmaking powers, Chavez said it will allow for changes to lead the country toward socialism but denied it poses any threat to democracy or individual freedoms. "We are increasing power, but it's the power of the nation, national power. It's not anyone's personal power," Chavez said at a news conference Thursday. Chavez lashed out at Bush for saying Wednesday that he was concerned about an "undermining of democratic institutions" in Venezuela. The Venezuelan president said Bush is "more dangerous than a monkey with a razor blade." "I pray to God for the people of the United States. I hope they're capable of liberating themselves from the tyranny they have," Chavez said. "Who would be the greater fascist — Hitler or Bush? They might end up in a draw." Relations between Caracas and Washington have been perpetually tense in recent months even though the United States remains the leading buyer of Venezuelan oil. Chavez's opponents at home have been strongly critical of the "enabling law" approved Wednesday by the entirely pro-Chavez National Assembly, calling it a lurch toward authoritarianism. The measure gives Chavez, who is beginning a new six-year term, the power to pass dozens of laws by decree during the next 18 months in areas from the economy to the judicial system. Opposition leader Manuel Rosales, who lost to Chavez in December's presidential vote, urged his followers to organize against the upcoming reforms. "We either get to work or we will witness the coronation of Hugo the First, the first king Venezuelan society will have," Rosales said. Chavez noted that under the constitution, his opponents have the right to petition for a referendum to annul any law his enacts by decree, and can force such a vote by gathering the signatures of just 5 percent of registered voters. "The people gave me the power I have, and it's within the framework of a constitution," he added, noting Venezuelans may also seek a recall referendum to unseat him — like the vote he won in 2004. "I wish the people of the United States had the power to call a recall referendum," Chavez said. "The U.S. president would be gone immediately." Among his next moves, Chavez plans to nationalize the country's leading telephone company, the electricity sector and lucrative oil and natural gas projects. He said the nationalizations, however, will be limited to "strategic areas" of the economy. He also assured Venezuelans education reforms will not lead to indoctrination in schools and that freedoms will be respected. "There are no reasons of any kind for the Venezuelan people to be afraid," he said.

Chavez says Castro visibly improved By NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, Associated Press Writer CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that Cuba's Fidel Castro has visibly improved, describing how the ailing Cuban leader has gained weight and is walking around and studying. A notable improvement," Chavez said Thursday, describing Castro's condition when the two met recently in Havana. "He has gained several kilograms, and I think he is walking about more than me, analyzing, studying," Chavez said at a news conference in Caracas. Footage of the meeting aired by Cuban state television on Tuesday evening were the first video images of the 80-year-old Cuban leader released in three months. Cuba's communist government has kept Castro's condition and exact ailment secret, which has led to speculation by some that he was gravely ill. Images of the meeting, which officials from both governments say took place Monday, appeared to be aimed at quelling those rumors. Chavez held up a copy of the Cuban Communist Party daily Granma with pictures from the meeting and pointed at a photo. "They said Fidel was dying," he said with a laugh. "He was having a ball." Cuban authorities have insisted that Castro is recovering, and have denied reports by U.S. intelligence officials that he had terminal cancer, although they stopped insisting weeks ago that Castro would return to power. During the half-year since Castro announced he had undergone intestinal surgery, the nation has been governed by his brother Raul and a team of top leaders that includes Vice President and Cabinet Secretary Carlos Lage.

PROTOCOL No. 6 Take-Over Technique 1. We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the States on the day after the political smash ... 2. You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate of the significance of this combination! ... 3. In every possible way we must develop the significance of our Super-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit to us. 4. The aristocracy of the GOYIM as a political force, is dead - We need not take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful to us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which they live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land- holding and keep it in a state of humble and un-conditional submission. 5. The aristocrats of the GOYIM, being hereditarily incapable of contenting themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out. WE SHALL ENSLAVE GENTILES 6. At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry, but, first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a counterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiply capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the land from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry should drain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculation transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the GOYIM into the ranks of the proletariat. Then the GOYIM will bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist. 7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the GOYIM we shall bring to the assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the GOYIM, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS, FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN PRICES OF THE FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH ALL THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE "GOYIM." 8. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE "GOYIM" BEFORE THE PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA.

You are free to do anything with your land and we too, so we want our land back. We will not says that we want all our land since 1948, we just want the land since 1967 with all of Jerusalem.