MOSCOW – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice failed Saturday to persuade Russia to offer new support for a hard line on Iran’s disputed nuclear program, despite making a hastily arranged trip to the Russian capital. Despite lengthy meetings with Russian officials, including a long session alone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, it was clear […]
Les mer»Vil hevne jordskjelvet: Pakistansk etterretning mener terrorlederen omkom i jordskjelvet. (…) Ifølge terrorekspert Magnus Ranstorp ved Universitetet i St. Andrews kan det få alvorlige konsekvenser for USA og deler av Vesten dersom opplysningene om bin Ladens angivelige død skulle bli bekreftet. – Det er en betydelig risiko for at det vil utløse et skred av […]
Les mer»Oppsummering av dagens medieinntrykk: Det slår meg hvor påfallende det er at bare en bestemt type mennesker blir intervjuet på radio. Det er de som i utgangspunktet er enige i den tolerante agendaen. De andre blir tiet ihjel. Hvor lenge kan det pågå? Annen tanke: Menneskerettigheter er et spørsmål om politikk. Vi er ikke opptatt […]
Les mer»Nederland: (Dutch Integration Minister) Mrs Verdonk gave warning that the «time of cosy tea-drinking» with Muslim groups had passed and that natives and immigrants should have the courage to be critical of each other. She recently cancelled a meeting with Muslim leaders who refused to shake her hand because she was a woman. timesonline
Les mer»ZAGREB, Oct 13 – Croatia on Thursday released a journalist arrested for failing to appear in The Hague and enter a plea to charges of contempt of court. Croatian police arrested Josip Jovic, former editor-in-chief of the daily Slobodna Dalmacija, indicted by the Hague tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY) for revealing the identity of a protected […]
Les mer»WASHINGTON, Oct 13 – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Thursday fueled a rumor that explosives, not Hurricane Katrina, broke New Orleans’ dikes and flooded poor African American neighborhoods. «A member of the Army Corps of Engineers saw burn marks on the concrete,» Farrakhan told reporters, describing an e-mail he had received. «They found […]
Les mer»LONDON: Oct 13 – The British Parliament on Thursday adopted a government proposal banning 15 more «terrorist» organizations that London accused of having ties with Al-Qaeda. The latest banned groups include Ansar Al Islam, which has been blamed for a number of attacks in Iraq, and the Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain (GICM – Moroccan Islamic […]
Les mer»Koranoid: – Det interessante er at islam har vært vernet mot kritikk. Spesielt venstresida har gjort muslimer til en hellig ku det ikke er lov å tulle med. Det er en slags misforstått kulturrelativisme. Kristendommen har ikke hatt det samme vernet. Harselas over religion og helligdom er nytt for de islamske fundamentalistene. Om man ønsker […]
Les mer»BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 11 – Iraqi political leaders agreed to an important last-minute revision in the draft constitution this evening in exchange for a promise by some prominent Sunni Arab leaders to support the document in this Saturday’s nationwide referendum. The revision would create a panel in Iraq’s next parliament with the power to propose […]
Les mer»BRUSSELS, Oct 12 – Europe must not be blinded by potential economic rewards in Russia and ignore the absence of democracy there, a leading Russian opposition politician said on Wednesday. Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal Yabloko party, said the European Union’s talks with Russia to build closer ties glossed over Moscow’s failure to respect […]
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