Sunday, July 25, 2010

Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet

Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet
Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers. As a spreadsheet, with co-ordinates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2010/jul/25/wikileaks-afghanistan-data#data

U.S. Soldiers From Wikileaks ‘Collateral Murder’ Video Apologize

U.S. Soldiers From Wikileaks ‘Collateral Murder’ Video Apologize

VETERANS OF "WIKILEAKS" INCIDENT ANNOUNCE
"LETTER OF RECONCILIATION" TO IRAQIS INJURED IN ATTACK

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d57_1271621537

Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: 'They show the true nature of this war'

Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: 'They show the true nature of this war'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jul/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-interview-warlogs

Thursday, June 17, 2010

What is a 'right' age of consent? - By Laura Smith-Spark

What is a 'right' age of consent?
By Laura Smith-Spark
BBC News Online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3699814.stm

Monday, March 29, 2010

Sex virus blamed for rise in head and neck cancers

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P01Q20100326

Sex virus blamed for rise in head and neck cancers

Friday, March 26, 2010

Tel Aviv must compensate Gaza War victims: UN

Tel Aviv must compensate Gaza War victims: UN
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article34912.ece

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Tata Nano car bursts into flames, raising safety fears

Nano car bursts into flames, raising safety fearsBy ERIKA KINETZ (AP)


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j4N7APWrwI1OLoSOjFAY9rNWBnxgD9ELMRL80

Military menu: Live lizards, scorpions and frogs - pics

Military menu: Live lizards, scorpions and frogs - pics
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=3620219&page=1

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Amnesty criticises Saudi Arabia's 'shocking' human rights violations

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/5882406/Amnesty-criticises-Saudi-Arabias-shocking-human-rights-violations.html

Amnesty criticises Saudi Arabia's 'shocking' human rights violations

Saudi Arabia is exploiting counter-terrorism efforts to violate human rights with thousands having been detained on security grounds since 2001, Amnesty International reported on Wednesday.

Published: 7:00AM BST 22 Jul 2009

In a 65-page report, the human rights organisation said an unknown number of detained people have been held in secret without access to lawyers or visitors for months or years while those brought to trial often face grossly unfair procedures.

"The scale of human rights violations is shocking. Thousands of people have had their lives turned upside down or destroyed by violations of their rights in the name of countering terrorism," Amnesty suggested in the detailed report.


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A spokesman for the interior ministry in Riyadh had no immediate comment on the report, which highlighted several cases of people whom Amnesty said had been detained under questionable circumstances.

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy without an elected parliament whose courts are run by clerics applying an austere version of mainstream Sunni Islam.

The report was published after Saudi Arabia handed out verdicts earlier this month in the first publicly reported trials since al-Qaeda-linked militants began a campaign in 2003 to destabilise the world's biggest oil exporter.

In total 289 Saudis and 41 foreigners received sentences of up to 30 years in prison, state media said last week, without disclosing the nationalities. One unnamed person was sentenced to death, a government official has told Reuters.

A group called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula began a campaign to destabilise the government in 2003 but violence was ended by security forces in co-operation with foreign experts. The last major attack was in 2006.

Local human right activists have long accused Saudi Arabia of using counter-terrorism efforts to detain opposition activists demanding democratic reforms or refusing to provide figures of detained and arrested people.

The United States, which is Saudi Arabia's main ally, and other Western countries rarely criticise the Gulf Arab state, which controls more than a fifth of global crude reserves and is a major holder of dollar assets as well as a key trading nation.

King Abdullah has tried some reforms since taking office in 2005 and removed two hardline clerics from top positions in a cabinet reshuffle in February aimed at curbing the influence of the religious establishment in education and judiciary.

But diplomats and analysts say his room for manoeuvre is limited given the resistance of conservatives in the ruling family.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Makkah Development 2020

The Makkah Development 2020

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8oUvJGrPE&feature=related

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Israel's new war on Islamic sites

Israel's new war on Islamic sites
By Daud Abdullah
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/02/2010225111933403649.html

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was sedated before being suffocated, Dubai police say

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7044326.ece
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was sedated before being suffocated, Dubai police say

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was sedated before being suffocated, Dubai police say
The Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was injected with a strong sedative before being suffocated in his hotel room by suspected Mossad agents, Dubai police have revealed.
The results of a toxicology report released today show that the Hamas commander was paralysed by an injection of succinylcholine, a fast-acting muscle relaxant. He was then suffocated with a pillow.
Succinylcholine is used in intensive care to assist the insertion of a tracheal tube in emergency treatment of conditions such as stroke, burns and drowning.
The drug does not induce loss of consciousness or anaesthesia, meaning that al-Mabhouh would have been conscious but unable to struggle as he was suffocated.
Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, deputy commander of Dubai police, said that the drug would have caused “immediate and temporary paralysis” of the victim.
"The assassins used this method so that it would seem that his death was natural. There were no signs of resistance shown by the victim," he said.
Al-Mabhouh was murdered in his room at the Al Bustan Rotana hotel on January 19. His body was not found by staff until the following day.
Dubai police also said that they would soon name a new suspect in the case, bringing the total number of named agents to 27. Police revealed last week that 12 of these were carrying British passports. Several UK citizens living in Israel had their identities stolen by the killers.
Three Palestinians are also being held in Dubai in connection with the killing.
UK agents are to meet six of the dual British-Israeli nationals whose passports were used, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said.
The genuine British passport-holders will be interviewed at the UK Embassy in Tel Aviv as potential witnesses to a crime. Officers will meet the other six in the near future.
A Soca spokesman said: “We are arranging to speak to the six genuine passport holders who are resident in Israel as potential witnesses to a crime. Those meetings will take place in the British Embassy.”
He said the Israeli authorities had been informed and had “no issue” with the meetings taking place.
Dubai police say they are almost certain that Israel’s spy agency Mossad was behind the assassination. Israel has declined to comment.
Administered in sufficient quantities, succinylcholine is fatal. The drug has occasionally been used for executions by lethal injection, but is no longer favoured. However, it has been used in a number of murders.
Dubai police said it was not clear how much of the drug had been administered to al-Mabhouh, but it was not the cause of death.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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