Indeed many Muslims believe that bank interest is un-Islamic, which is why the Lebanese Shia put their money in businesses run by Salah Ezzedine, who had created the image of a religious and trustworthy investor who was close to and protected by Hezbollah. The party now denies all involvement with financial misconduct. "Neither Hezbollah, nor its leadership, nor its members have any link to this matter," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah told the BBC .
FREEradicals - Salah Ezzedine, Hezbollah's Madoff
As Menace to Hostages Grew, British Moved In - NYTimes.com
Today's big news is certainly the freeing of New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell, a British national, who was abducted four days ago in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. His interpreter Sultan Munadi (picture) an Afghan journalist who paired with Farrell to investigate the aftermath of a NATO air strike that killed at least 70 people, didn’t have the same luck and was killed during the raid. Foreign journalists are often taken hostages with their local translator or driver. But where the journalist's life has a real bargaining value and is therefore more protected, it is a known fact that the interpreter's is often much more at stake.
FREEradicals - The most dangerous job in the world?
Iran Tests Shahab-3 Missile Ahead of Nuclear Talks (Update1) - B
Présentés à Téhéran comme une démonstration de force de l'armée iranienne, ces essais, intervenus quelques jours après la révélation de la construction d'un second centre d'enrichissement d'uranium, ont été qualifiés de succès par les Gardiens de la révolution, qui ont affirmé que les manoeuvres avaient atteint "tous leurs objectifs". Peu avant les tirs --dont des images ont été retransmises par la chaîne publique en langue anglaise Press-TV--, le commandant des forces aériennes des Gardiens, Hossein Salami, a prévenu que Téhéran répondrait à toute menace, notamment contre son programme nucléaire, de manière "directe, ferme et destructrice". TEHERAN — L'Iran a achevé lundi ses exercices balistiques par des tirs de missiles capables d'atteindre Israël, suscitant l'inquiétude des capitales occidentales à trois jours de la reprise à Genève des négociations avec Téhéran sur ses programmes nucléaires.
AFP: L'Iran teste ses missiles en pleine polémique sur ses progr
Amid threats of sanctions from Western countries over its nuclear program Iran decided to look the other way where their Shahab-3 and Sejil missiles were being tested this morning. Despite Tehran's defense that the missile tests had been planned for a while and have nothing to do with the current nuclear dispute they have been deemed "deeply destabilizing" by the French Foreign Ministry, Bernard Kouchner . It "sends the wrong signal to the international community" said the U.K. Foreign Office said in an e-mailed statement. A former U.K. ambassador to Iran, Richard Dalton , had a more cynical view and stating that Iranian officials have "been poked and they think this is a good moment to show off their capabilities." For all of you ballistics people, you can read more about Shahab-3 here .
FREEradicals - Iran's shooting range
En Afrique : un Shahab tiré de l'extrême-sud de l'Iran pourrait atteindre Djibouti... En Asie centrale : toutes les Républiques ex-soviétiques d'Asie centrale, l'Afghanistan et l'extrême-ouest de la Chine. Au Moyen-Orient : seraient sous le feu, l'ensemble du Proche-Orient arabe, en particulier Le Caire, en Egypte, Israel, la Turquie, toute la péninsule arabique. En Asie du sud: le Pakistan et le nord-ouest de l'Inde, dont les villes de New-Dehli et de Bombay. En Europe : un Shahab-3 tiré du nord-ouest de l'Iran "bat" la partie orientale des Balkans, c'est-à-dire des pays membres de l'Union européenne et/ou de l'Otan - alliés de la France.
Secret Défense: Iran: la menace du Shahab-3
"The majority must commit not to question our role as a resistance party, the legitimacy of our weapons arsenal and the fact that Israel is an enemy state," Hezbollah member of parliament, Mohamed Raad, told the French news agency AFP. News of Lebanese election results, in which the pro-Western bloc defeated the camp led by the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, prompted cautious optimism among Israeli officials.
Defeated Hezbollah accepts Lebanon election results - Haaretz -
Magnus Ranstorp: It must have been a great surprise to them. From what I hear, they’re disappointed. They were suprised that they didnt’ do better, but they expected that they would have to adjust.
FREEradicals - What Will Hezbollah Do? An Interview with Magnus
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Suicide attack on Somalia base
Among the dead is the deputy commander of the African Union force in Somalia, along with four bombers, an AU spokesman told the BBC. It's thought that suicide bombers in two explosives-laden cars with UN logos drove on to the main base of African Union peacekeepers on Thursday and triggered massive blasts.
BBC World Service - News - Somalia's latest government 'best hop
FREEradicals - Somalia at Crossroads
It may seem odd that the US would support a President who imposes the Sharia (Islamic law) on its people. But the US probably wouldn't back an Islamic President unless its legitimacy and credibility made him the strongest ally the Obama administration can have in the region. "Washington has [...] labelled him a moderate, despite his imposition of sharia law, and sent his forces 40 tonnes of weapons, while the international community has committed more than $200m to train Somali security services" reports Daniel Howden in The Independent. Listen to this interview with Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times which explains why Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed is the best thing that has happened to Somalia for decades. Somalia's President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been growing ties with the international community and the US has shown more interest and implication towards Somalia.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. However, you can freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page » Click here to go to our home page for all the current news ...
allAfrica.com: Somalia: Harakat Al-Shabab Mujahideen Executes Tw
FREEradicals - Somalia Part.2: What the expert had to say
Roland Marchal: Websites affiliated to al Shabaab have already sworn allegiance once or twice to Al-Qaeda and have received a positive response from Zahawiri . In the current context, their latest video seems to be more like a distress call: Al-Shabaab is losing in Mogadishu and fears a more offensive behaviour of the AMISOM . This does not mean the latter will win or that the Transitional Federal Governmen t would emerge as a credible alternative but the power struggle would be less visibly favourable to Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam. ICSR: Why do you think Al-Shabaab wanted to publicise its allegiance to Al-Qaeda despite its previous denials of any ties with the organisation? Al-Shabaab could also be weakened by the fight over the port of Kismayu (a very lucrative source of income for Al-Shabaab) against Ras Kamboni (likely to be supported by the CIA).
Barack Obama Prix Nobel de la paix - LeMonde.fr
Il rejoint ainsi d'autres chefs d'Etat ou de gouvernement qui ont reçu cette distinction alors qu'ils étaient en exercice : le Russe Mikhaïl Gorbatchev en 1990, l' Israélien Itzhak Rabin et le Palestinien Yasser Arafat en 1994. Parmi les deux cent cinq candidats au Nobel de la paix, figuraient notamment trente-trois organisations, des hommes politiques et des militants des droits des femmes. UN PRIX INATTENDU En septembre, Barack Obama avait présidé une réunion du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, qui avait entériné à l'unanimité une résolution, rédigée par les Etats-Unis, appelant les pays nucléarisés à démanteler leurs arsenaux.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
FREEradicals - Latest news update: Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace
Nobel 2009 : Barack Obama icône (prématurée) de la paix | Rue89
