Al Qaeda's Yemen branch offers bounty for killing US ambassador, troops. U.S.
Ambassador in Sanaa Gerald Feierstein speaks during his meeting with Yemen's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Mohammed Saeed al-Saidi in Sanaa May 2, 2012.Reuters Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen is offering a bounty of gold worth $160,000 to anyone who kills Gerald M. Iranians protest film mocking Muhammad; no violence reported. TEHRAN -- Expressing anger at the film mocking Muhammad that has triggered protests across the Middle East, roughly 400 young men and women gathered Thursday near the Swiss embassy in Tehran, chanting, “Death to the United States and death to Israel and death to England!”
The protests had been called to take place at the Swiss embassy because it represents American diplomatic interests in Iran. Riot police and ordinary officers cordoned off the area north and south of the embassy, clogging city streets. Behind the security cordon, protesters equipped with a van and loudspeakers denounce the film. Women in long black chadors wore yellow headbands emblazoned with Shiite religious slogans.
“We university students believe Zionism is behind all these insults!” Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels. New TV channel run exclusively by fully veiled women. A new TV station is run by and features women wearing the niqabThe niqab is a black fabric that covers a woman's entire face except eyesSome say the programming lets women's voices be heard; others say it's a U-turn for rights.
‘Greatest Christian revival in the world’ in Iran. Text smaller Text bigger The author of a new book, Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist,” says there are things about Iran that few Americans, including American Christians, know.
“First, the present regime is on the verge of being toppled. The Iranian people are extremely unhappy with their leadership. Faster, Please! » Iran’s Chickens Coming Home to Roast. Or Not… Israel threatens a 'heavy price' for Iran after deadly Bulgaria bus bomb - Middle East - World. As Bulgarian officials said the suspected bomber in the attack on Wednesday that killed five Israeli holidaymakers was a lanky, long-haired man in a baseball cap and T-shirt, carrying a fake American driving licence, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said it had been carried out by "Hezbollah, the long arm of Iran.
" There was some doubt about Bulgarian media reports that named the suicide attacker as Mehdi Ghazali, a former detainee at the US-run detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay. Mr Ghazali, who is of Algerian-Finnish origin, is said to have studied at a British mosque, and to have travelled to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continuing to blame Iran, under whose direct orders Israel is convinced Hezbollah acts in its operations outside Lebanon, Mr Netanyhau went out of his way to link the attack at the Black Sea resort of Burgas with Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Fighting Grips Syrian Capital After Attack on Assad’s Inner Circle.
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A way around Iranian blockade of Strait of Hormuz? In Share 7. Watching Syria's War. Muslim author Zuhdi Jasser discusses the Muslim Brotherhood, Caliphate on radio. UN observers in Syria suspend operations after fresh outbreak of violence -/AFP/Getty Images A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network on June 16, 2012 shows anti-government demonstrators holding banners and waving the pre-Baath Syrian flag during a protest in Kfar Nubul, in Idlib province.
The UN observer force accused both sides in the Syrian conflict of willingly escalating the violence, as a Syrian based watchdog reported more than 150 killed in three days of fighting around rebel bastions. AFP PHOTO/HO --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / SHAAM NEWS NETWORK" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - AFP IS USING PICTURES FROM ALTERNATIVE SOURCES AS IT WAS NOT AUTHORISED TO COVER THIS EVENT, THEREFORE IT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DIGITAL ALTERATIONS TO THE PICTURE'S EDITORIAL CONTENT, DATE AND LOCATION WHICH CANNOT BE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED ----/AFP/GettyImages Maj.
Gen. Russia votes against UN resolution on Syria, backs Assad claim that rebels behind massacre. June 1, 2012: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes President of Russia Vladimir Putin, left, for a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany.AP GENEVA – The U.N.'
UN observers in Syria suspend operations after fresh outbreak of violence
Saudi Arabia names defense minister crown prince. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia kept power within the surviving, aging sons of the kingdom's founding patriarch Monday by naming Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz as the new heir to the throne in a country both battling and embracing the upheavals across the Middle East.
Drawing may provide insight into Iran's nuclear intentions. VIENNA – A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there.
Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber. The computer-generated drawing was provided to The Associated Press by an official of a country tracking Iran's nuclear program who said it proves the structure exists, despite Tehran's refusal to acknowledge it. That official said the image is based on information from a person who had seen the chamber at the Parchin military site, adding that going into detail would endanger the life of that informant.
The official comes from an IAEA member country that is severely critical of Iran's assertions that its nuclear activities are peaceful and asserts they are a springboard for making atomic arms. Iran Kills Christian. Islamic regime ‘may have broad appeal’ to Occupiers. Text smaller Text bigger A Muslim writer and political analyst who has been published in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Yemen, Libya and Iran says that the concept of an Islamic regime – a caliphate – could have “broad appeal” to Occupy protesters now demanding economic “equalization” in the United States.
The comments from Sharique Naeem, whose perspective is outlined in his recent article, “Whither the Nation State?” Came in an interview with author Joel Richardson, a recognized expert on the Middle East and biblical prophecy. Richardson’s newest book, officially not released to bookstores until September, is available now, autographed by the author, for immediate shipping. Iranian general: Our finger on war trigger. Text smaller Text bigger With Western pressure growing on Bashar Assad over the latest massacres of defenseless women and children in Syria, Iranian officials again are warning the world against any action against the Middle East dictator. The pro-Assad “resistance” has its finger on the trigger and the aggressors will not survive the conflict, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen.
Massoud Jazaeri, told Mashregh, a media outlet run by the Guards. Iranian officials often refer to Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon as the resistance front. Mashregh reported in March that Iran’s armed forces had formed a joint war room that included officers from Syria, Iran and Hezbollah for a coordinated military response to an attack on Syria.