A member of a group of Arab students in Hamburg who helped organise the 9/11 attacks on the US in 2001 has been jailed for 15 years by a German court.
Mounir El Motassadeq is one of only two men convicted of involvement in the plot which resulted in the death of nearly 3,000 people.
It was [...]
Entries from January 2007
Germany: 9/11 plotter jailed for 15 years
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Tags: immigration
Explosions hit southern Iran
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Three explosions have occurred in the south of Iran, an Iranian news agency reported.
The explosions were recorded on Thursday in Khorramshahr in the Iranian border province of Khuzestan.
“The three explosions were so strong that they shook windows of houses,” the semi-official Fars news agency said.
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Tags: anti-war
Iran’s Jews Dismiss Outside Calls to Emigrate
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A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native homeland.
In recent months, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Israeli officials and some American Jewish communal leaders have urged Iranian Jews to leave. But so far, despite generally being allowed to travel to Israel and [...]
Tags: media-lies
American drone downed in Iran?
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Deputy Governor General of Kerman province Abulghassem Nasrollahi told FNA that the crash which was followed by an explosion and a thick spiral of smoke has caused no casualties or damage to properties.
He further denied earlier reports that the explosion has been the result of a plane or chopper crash, reminding that all the passing [...]
Tags: anti-war
White Women uneasy at night in Oslo
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[No mention of the fact that it is immigrants committing most of the rapes-ed]
According to newspaper Dagbladet, police are searching for a man in a duffel coat and on Friday will release a sketch of what the suspect may look like.
“Of course people feel unsafe when things like this happen. Catching the assailant will have [...]
Tags: diversity
Kids kicked off a bus for speaking English
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Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can’t get on because they speak English.
That’s right, English.
It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing.
Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but [...]
Tags: Double-Standards · civil-rights
NASA To Buy 4 Russian Spacecrafts
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[I think this is an admission that Russian rocket scientists are better than American scientists. Take Note: Iran has many Russian scientists working on their missles programmes-ed]
NASA has agreed to the price and the delivery dates of the four spacecrafts from the Russian Federal Space Agency, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
NASA is to [...]
Tags: General
Belarus Says Found Compromise in Russian Oil Transit Dispute
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President Alexander Lukashenko’s office said the compromise was reached in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A Kremlin official declined immediate comment.
“As a result of the discussion, a compromise was found which will make it possible to unblock this dead-end situation, including concerning the transit of Russian oil to European countries,” Lukashenko’s office [...]
Tags: General
Russian Satellite to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Russia is to launch a special satellite this year in search for extraterrestrial civilisations in remote galaxies, the ITAR-TASS news agency reports.
The Spektr R (Spectrum-Roentgen) x-ray satellite to be launched later this will carry a 20-metre antenna for the study of galaxies and extraterrestrial civilisations.
“It would be arrogant of us to presume that human beings [...]
Tags: General
Swede faces Morocco court over terror charges
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A Swedish-Moroccan businessman is appearing in court in Rabat on Wednesday accused of associating with terrorists.
The 54-year-old man was arrested on 26th December at his family home in the coastal town of Tetouan. The man’s family was informed on Tuesday afternoon that he would appear in court on Wednesday morning for a committal hearing, Dagens [...]
Tags: Islam/Muslims