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23Apr

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Syria

Reports: 75 Killed After Syrian Security Forces Open Fire

NOVANEWS Photo: Reuters Protesters hold a Syrian flag during a demonstration in Zabadani, near Damascus, April 22, 2011 Rights groups and activists say at least 75 people were killed in Syria on Friday, after security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters who rallied across the country. The toll would make Friday the deadliest single day of protests in the country since the anti-government uprising began in March. Witnesses and activists say security forces used live ammunition and tear gas on protesters, who poured onto the streets after Friday prayers and called for President Bashar al-Assad's immediate departure. The deaths were reported in areas including the southern Daraa region, the central city of Homs and communities near the capital, D...

23Apr

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Syria

Easter cancelled in Syria

NOVANEWS Good Friday and other Easter processions and festivals have been cancelled across Syria as street unrest boils over into violence. Ed note–WHAAAAT?????? Christians in Syria????But Syria is one of them MOOZLEM countries, full of THEM MOOSLEMS that hate Christians, want to cut off their heads and circumcise their women!!! This is not possible! All kidding aside here folks, as has been pointed out numerous times on this site, there are millions of Christians throughout the Middle East living peacably beside their muslim neighbors and who got along just fine until the Jews decided to turn the entire area into a hellhole with their typical, historically-documented troublemaking. The country’s Christian population has been forced to abandon i...

22Apr

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Iran, ZIO-NAZI

Iran official threatens retaliation for Stuxnet

NOVANEWS The head of Iran’s civilian defense force threatened legal retaliation against software maker Siemens for what he said was complicity in the Stuxnet worm attack on Iran’s nuclear-fuel development facilities. Gholamreza Jalali, head of Iran’s civilian defense, accused Siemens of providing technical assistance and sample code for the Siemens-build SCADA systems that control the centrifuges and other critical systems at the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Windows-based PCs controlling the systems were among more than 60,000 in Iran struck and damaged in 2010 by what security experts said was a carefully designed and directed virus attack. Iranian government officials blame the United States and Israel for the attack. The German Siemens is now, apparently, an accomplice, though...

22Apr

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Syria

Damascus on the cusp of Revolution

NOVANEWS President Assad’s latest declarations are on par with the desperate measures taken by his Egyptian counterpart. Eventually, something will give. Syrian President Bashar Assad promised this week to rescind his country’s emergency regime, after nearly 48 years. Later he announced that the police commissioner of the city of Banias would be dismissed because of the killing of demonstrators there, and that new laws relating to communication and political parties, as well as legislation permitting more than five people to assemble (thus legalizing demonstrations ), would be enacted. Boys hold a banner during a demonstration in the the Syrian port city of Banias April 17, 2011. Photo by: Reuters However, much of what has been taking place in the Syrian regime re...

22Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

U.S. officer: ‘You have to show up at their door … and start killing people

NOVANEWS By Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition Afghans rebuild a home destroyed by a U.S. airstrike, Tarok Kolache, 2011. “You can’t just convince them through projects and goodwill,” another Marine officer said. “You have to show up at their door with two companies of Marines and start killing people. That’s how you start convincing them.” This was the comment made by a Marine officer to the Washington Post for its April 16 story about “signs of progress” for President Obama’s surge strategy in southern Afghanistan. The officer was discussing how the U.S. strategy succeeded in the signing of a security pact between elders of the Alikozai area in southern Afghanistan and the U.S.-backed Karzai government. Many hundreds of young men from the Alikozai area were ki...

22Apr

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Syria

US seeks to exploit anti-Assad movement in Syria

NOVANEWS wsws.org Tens of thousands are protesting in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. There was further bloody repression by the right-wing dictatorship on Sunday and Tuesday, as police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in Homs, a city of 700,000 near the Turkish border. Assad has responded to the protests over the past month with a mixture of dubious concessions and brutal violence. The shootings in Homs and nearby towns were followed by the announcement that Assad was ending the state of emergency in effect since the Baath Party took power in Syria in 1963. What that means in practice remains to be seen, since the regime has many other instruments of repression, legal and extra-legal. The 45-year-old Assad inherited power in 2000 from his father Hafez, who ...

22Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

Hanan Habibzai: Afghanistan – The Struggle for Power in Mazar-e-Sharif

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland Palestine Solidarity Campaign The Bamiyan in Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan UN staff terrorized over the control of Mazar-e-Sharif By Hanan Habibzai UN mission in Afghanistan post ponded its office in Mazar -e -Sharif after a violent mob of protesters killed At least seven UN staff earlier this month in a quiet city of the war shattered country. A delegation investigating the case, indicated last week that some of neighboring countries including Iran were behind the attack on UNAMA office. Here, Hanan Habibzai analyzes the political situation in the Mazar-e- Sharif. Balkh is a strategic province of Afghanistan, located across the border with Uzbekistan, a door for the highway which connects central Asian states to the South Asi...

22Apr

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Syria

Prelude to War–Clinton presses Syria for reform

NOVANEWS source–Ynet US secretary of state says Damascus must stop ‘arbitrary arrests, torture of prisoners’ in its attempt to quell anti-government protests after thousands of students take to streets, vow to hold largest rally to date on Friday. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rapped the Syrian regime for its crackdown on anti-government protests Wednesday, saying Damascus “must stop the arbitrary arrests, detentions and torture of prisoners, and it must cease the violence”. Clinton’s condemnation came after thousands of students demonstrated against the authoritarian regime, brushing off President Bashar Assad’s sweeping declarations of reform as the country’s growing protest movement vowed to stage the biggest rallies to date on Friday. The month-long uprising in...

21Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

Pakistan: U.S. says won’t abandon drone program

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The United States will not abandon its drone program in Pakistan but how it goes forward is a matter for U.S. and Pakistani intelligence and military officials to determine, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. “The program is something that we have said we go ahead on. The question is how. And that process is going to be something that’s going to be one of the main tasks that our intel and our military guys have,” the official said, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity. The comments came as Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Pakistan in the highest level trip by a U.S. official since ties were badly strained over the case of CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who shot...

21Apr

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Bahrain

Bahrain Zionist Ruling Elite Attack Doctors

NOVANEWS In Bahrain the Racist pro-Zionist regime killing innocent people near their own houses, schools, shops, work all closed, people cannot go out at all. The pro-Zionist regime of pro-Zionist Hammad attacking Bahraini Shiaa's areas and terrorise them confronting the unarmed people with their American-British guns and bullets. Zionist Saudi army in Bahrain is acting inhuman, they blocked the Hospital the only in Bahrain and attacked the doctors, nurses, amblances stopping them from treating the injured people. Today a nurse killed, shot by tow bullets in her neck while she was on her way to the hospital. Please we need your help to spread that out in your country. yours... info@shoahph.com Libya might be in the news, but for utterly contemptible behaviour loo...