Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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 Arizona - Noor Almaleki "Honor Killing": Honor Thy Father: A Muslim man in Phoenix "honor killed" his Americanized daughter
-- Riverfront Times: "The writer obtained unreleased police records for this story. The narrative also is based on interviews, court documents and Internet comments."
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2010-03-31/news/honor-thy-father-muslim-honor-killing-in-phoenix-arizona/
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/arizona-noor-almaleki-honor-killing/


Pakistan: 25 Hindu girls abducted every month; forcibly converted to Islam
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/pakistan-25-hindu-girls-abducted-every-month/


Pakistan: 12-Year Old Hindu Girl Abducted, Missing Since December - Nandini; Members of Court Suggested Minor Should Marry Rapist and Convert to Islam
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/pakistan-nandini/


Pakistan: Police turn blind eye to rampant kidnapping and rape of Hindu girls in Pak's Sindh province
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/pakistan-oppression-hindu-girls/


UAE: Brave Saudi housewife set to win Arabic X Factor after blistering attack on hardline Muslim clerics on live TV
-- Hissa Hilal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1262488/Hissa-Hilal-set-win-Arabic-X-Factor-TV-attack-hardline-Muslim-clerics.html


Norway: Preacher defends husband's right to beat wife
-- "Several hundred young Muslims were in attendance when the Chinese Muslim preacher Husain Yee defended the right of Muslim men to beat their wives at a Muslim conference this past weekend."
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/03/norway-preacher-defends-husbands-right.html



Iraq: Four sentenced to death over Du'a Khalil Aswad honor killing
-- KurdNet reports: "On the 7th of April 2007 Du'a Khalil Aswad was brutally stoned to death in front of 2000 men, the killers included her uncle and some of her closest relatives in the Town of Bashiqa. The crime was a so-called ‘honour’ killing; the event outraged the world,www.ekurd.netas the perpetrators filmed the carnage on their mobile phones, which footage found its way onto the internet, where the world could see the murderous delight of the crowd and the cooperation of security forces."
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2010/3/state3701.htm


India: Now honour killing stunned Punjab, couple shot dead in full public view -- Hindu
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/24633/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=ping.fm


New York: Fear of Retribution Thwarts Justice for Fumi Bradley
http://bit.ly/9IAx89

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(Pakistan/U.S.) Trial of 5 American Muslims begin in Pakistan
-- Ramy Zamzam, Waqar Hussain Khan, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Iman Hasan Yemer, and Omar Farooq
-- Times of India: district police chief Usman Anwar "said they were not happy over the US government's policies in the Muslim world, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine"
-- "'They used to post their feelings in this regard on Youtube and also developed a contact with an Arab Muslim named Qari Saifullah, believed to an Al Qaeda operative in Pakistan,' Anwar said."
-- "Anwar said Saifullah had gone to the US and met the youths in Virginia and assured them that he would help them fulfil their desire to join the jehad against US forces."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Trial-of-5-American-Muslims-begin-in-Pakistan/articleshow/5747454.cms
-- January 4, 2010: Ramy Zamzam (DC Howard University student): "We are not terrorists. We are jihadists, and jihad is not terrorism"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6975973.ece


Pakistan military: David Headley not connected to ISI, army
-- Times of India: a "media report had contended that Headley had named three serving and one retired officers of the Pakistan Army and ISI who were allegedly involved in the Mumbai attacks"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/David-Headley-not-connected-to-ISI-army-Pak/articleshow/5747653.cms


Pakistani general: Al Qaida-Taliban haven to be cleared by June - Maj. Gen. Tariq Khan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100331/wl_mcclatchy/3465984


Pakistan: Explosion in N.Pakistan wounds 10
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2072627&Language=en


Afghanistan: Bicycle Afghanistan: Bomb attack 'kills at least 17 in Helmand
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.192861112
-- Bomb attack kills 13 in crowded Afghan market
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-helmand-blast-qs-06


Afghanistan Has World Lead in Hashish Production, UN Reports
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a705lQFhqMtE


India: 4 militants, 3 Indian soldiers killed in gunbattle in Jammu-Kashmir
-- Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT)
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2072566&Language=en


India - Mumbai Attacks Trial: Trial of Pakistani Gunman Captured In Mumbai Terror Attacks Concludes --
-- Mohammed Ajmal Kasab
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Trial-Concludes-of-Pakistani-Gunman-Captured-In-Mumbai-Terror-Attacks-89596807.html


Bangladesh: Militant outfits in Bangladesh
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=132404


UK: Event at London Mosque Calls for Third Intifada
-- Standpoint: "Two Arabic media portals, Al Jazeera and the Palestinian News Network (PNN), have reported that on Sunday 21 March, the London Central Mosque (aka Regent's Park Mosque) held an event where leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood called for continued support for the Palestinian resistance efforts to ‘free' the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem."
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/2900


(U.S.) Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal
-- "Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html

(U.S.) Several of the Hutaree Militia Members Entered Not Guilty Pleas
http://abcnews.go.com/US/militia-members-plead-guilty-detroit-court/story?id=10251918
-- Prosecutor: Agent infiltrated Christian militia
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGc00FR9o4OUr36gm80mOpG00ccwD9EPS7B80
-- Prosecutor: 46 guns in militia suspect's Indiana home
http://www.freep.com/article/20100331/NEWS06/100331065/Prosecutor-46-guns-in-suspects-Indiana-home
-- Hutaree militia member charged weeks after getting hitched
http://www.freep.com/article/20100331/NEWS06/3310340/Inside-the-Hutaree-militia
-- For Hutaree, Web rumor stoked anger at Obama
http://www.freep.com/article/20100331/NEWS06/100331050/For-Hutaree-Web-rumor-stoked-anger-at-Obama
-- Militias on the rise
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/30/avlon.hatriots.militia/index.html
-- Hutaree: Why is the Midwest a hotbed of militia activity?
http://bit.ly/8Zzxkk


Iran: Six powers united on Iran sanctions talks: Clinton
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62U5Q020100331?rpc=401
-- China Agrees to Seek Iran Sanctions, Officials Say
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/03/31/officials-say-china-discuss-iran-sanctions/


Lebanon: Hezbollah leader says group members were summoned for questioning in Hariri's case
http://news.therecord.com/article/691832


Israel: Two missiles target S. Israel
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2072726&Language=en


Hamas reveals Friday attack video
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=172151
-- Hamas video shows border clash that claimed lives of two IDF soldiers
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1160337.html


Syria: Omar bin Laden speaks out
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/7528897/Omar-bin-Laden-speaks-out.html


Nigeria: Federal Govt Charges January Jos Violence Suspects with Terrorism
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/nigeria-january-jos-violence/


Nigeria: A Nigeria 'Taliban' leader tells of a desire to fight the U.S.
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/nigeria-a-nigeria-taliban-leader-tells-of-a-desire-to-fight-the-u-s/
-- LA Times: "The rebel group in Nigeria's Muslim north engaged in deadly clashes with security forces last year. It has gone underground and wants to shift its focus away from domestic targets, one of its leaders"
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nigeria-taliban1-2010apr01,0,4426738.story


Somalia: MP backs protests against al-Shabab
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.194237549


Russia: Chechen Militant Claims Responsibility for Moscow Bombings
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Chechen-Militant-Claims-Responsibility-for-Moscow-Bombings-89617292.html
-- Chechen rebel Doku Umarov claims responsibility for Moscow blasts
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7083501.ece


Russia: Update - Suicide Bombers Strike Again In Russia, Killing At Least 12
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/03/russia_bombings_dagestan.html


Russia Seeks to Eliminate North Caucasus Terrorists
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Russia-Seeks-to-Eliminate-North-Caucasus-Terrorists--89627452.html


Canada: Case against alleged al-Qaida agent should be stayed: Lawyer
http://www.canada.com/news/Case+against+alleged+Qaida+agent+should+stayed+Lawyer/2749600/story.html
-- January 19, 2010: Mohamed Harkat was 'active jihadist,' court told
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2457327


(Thailand) Defense volunteer killed in Pattani
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/173338/volunteer-killed-in-pattani
-- Arson at Pattani health station
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/173233/arson-attack-at-pattani-sanitarium


(Thailand) Village chief shot dead at Yala wedding
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/173158/village-chief-shot-dead-at-yala-wedding



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Arizona - Noor Almaleki "Honor Killing": Honor Thy Father: A Muslim man in Phoenix "honor killed" his Americanized daughter
-- Riverfront Times: "The writer obtained unreleased police records for this story. The narrative also is based on interviews, court documents and Internet comments."
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2010-03-31/news/honor-thy-father-muslim-honor-killing-in-phoenix-arizona/
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/arizona-noor-almaleki-honor-killing/


Pakistan: 25 Hindu girls abducted every month; forcibly converted to Islam
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/pakistan-25-hindu-girls-abducted-every-month/


Pakistan: 12-Year Old Hindu Girl Abducted, Missing Since December - Nandini; Members of Court Suggested Minor Should Marry Rapist and Convert to Islam
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/pakistan-nandini/


Pakistan: Police turn blind eye to rampant kidnapping and rape of Hindu girls in Pak's Sindh province
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/pakistan-oppression-hindu-girls/


UAE: Brave Saudi housewife set to win Arabic X Factor after blistering attack on hardline Muslim clerics on live TV
-- Hissa Hilal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1262488/Hissa-Hilal-set-win-Arabic-X-Factor-TV-attack-hardline-Muslim-clerics.html


Norway: Preacher defends husband's right to beat wife
-- "Several hundred young Muslims were in attendance when the Chinese Muslim preacher Husain Yee defended the right of Muslim men to beat their wives at a Muslim conference this past weekend."
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/03/norway-preacher-defends-husbands-right.html


New York: Fear of Retribution Thwarts Justice for Fumi Bradley
http://bit.ly/9IAx89



Other News:


(U.S./Nigeria) Members of the International Religious Freedom Caucus Have Called on the Nigerian Government to 'Ensure Justice and Religious Freedom'
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10030180.htm


(U.S./Sudan) Washington DC: "In Darfur" play at Theater J in Washington D.C.
http://www.enoughproject.org/events/darfur-play-theater-j-washington-dc


(U.S./Sudan) Washington DC: Mohamed Yahya Speaks on Darfur, Sudan at Lincoln Memorial
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/dc-mohamed-yahya/
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/29245/Washington_DC:_Mohamed_Yahya_Speaks_on_Darfur,_Sudan_at_Lincoln_Memorial.html
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/29245/Washington_DC:_Mohamed_Yahya_Speaks_on_Darfur,_Sudan_at_Lincoln_Memorial.html


(U.S.) Washington DC: R.E.A.L. March 28 Lincoln Memorial Event on Human Rights Draws Public Support
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/march-28-event-support/


(Iran) Reverend Wilson was conditionally freed from jail after posting bail
http://www.fcnn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1022:reverend-wilson-was-conditionally-freed-from-jail-after-posting-bail&catid=127:iranian-christian


(Morocco) Colorado Christian couple deported from Morocco
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=135568&provider=top&catid=188


Belgium moves to become first European country to ban the burka
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1262545/Belgium-set-European-country-ban-burka.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7083103.ece


Turkey: "Muslim scholars issue fatwa... on jihad"
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1262522/Muslim-scholars-issue-fatwa--jihad.html


UK: George Galloway ignores East End politicians' anti-IFE boycott of anti-Muslim hate debate
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED30%20Mar%202010%2015%3A45%3A45%3A347


UK: Bradford leaders speak out in favor of report on deradicalization
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/5972278._Muslims_support_anti_extremism_bid_/?ref=mr


UK: Labour's libel law reforms to include new 'public interest' defense for journalists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7073368.ece


Pakistan: Easter in Pakistan where an "unshakable" faith is stronger than fear
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Easter-in-Pakistan-where-an-unshakable-faith-is-stronger-than-fear-18034.html



Against Totalitarianism News:


Communist China: Christian Petitioner Shen Peilan Kidnapped Again
http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=105&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1417&month=03&year=2010&_nc=3b29e0320e8218c533c373ff25f1b298


Communist China: Google Pulling Out of China: Timeline
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/28159/Google_Pulling_Out_of_China:_Timeline.html


Communist China: Report: Yahoo e-mail accounts hacked in China
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/03/on_the_heels_of_chinas.html?hpid=sec-tech


Communist North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Il to make surprise trip to China
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/kim-jong-il-to-make-surprise-trip-to-china/story-e6frfku0-1225848189023


Communist North Korea expected to resume nuclear talks
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/01/2861974.htm?section=justin



Against Racial Supremacism News:


(U.S.) Counting 'Confederates': Once More, Kirk Lyons Tilts at Census Windmills
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/31/counting-confederates-once-more-kirk-lyons-tilts-at-census-windmills/



















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Israel's Rebirth 'A Boring Story' To U.S. Jews

An Interview with American Zionist Hero Dr. David Gutmann


by Phyllis Chesler

The Jewish Press

March 29, 2010


http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/720/israel-rebirth-a-boring-story-to-us-jews












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In 1947-1948 I lived in Boro Park where, against parental and rabbinic advice, I joined a Zionist group. By 1950 I was packing machine-gun parts for Israel in a home not far from the Young Israel. But what I did as a child does not compare to what my friend and colleague David Gutmann did for love of Zion at that very time on the dangerous open seas.


Dr. Gutmann was a 21-year-old Jewish-American volunteer sailor for Aliyah Bet, the name given to "illegal" Jewish immigration into British-controlled Palestine (1934-1948). Hundreds of boats tried to run the British blockade. One was stranded on the Danube and its passengers later sent back to Vienna and executed, another boat was bombed by the Soviets.


Once Hitler was defeated, British disdain for Jews quickly became visible. Some Jews made it, many (more than 1,600) drowned, and most were captured and imprisoned on Cyprus. The British actually sent some boats right back to Europe, to Germany, as was the case with the SS Exodus. This public relations fiasco backfired; my friend Ruth Gruber's on-board photo of the SS Exodus made the cover of Life magazine.


The Jewish Press recently met with Dr. Gutmann. Although he is no longer young, he is a large and sturdy man, a solid presence. He is also very witty. His generation of heroes is mainly gone but he is still here.


The Jewish Press: How did you become a sailor?


Dr. Gutmann: I served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II.


The ship manifests list you as serving on two ships, the Paducah-Geulah and the Ben Hecht. Were they the same kind of boat? Who served with you?


I served first on the Hecht, after that on the Geulah. I was an engine room oiler on the Hecht, a second engineer on the Geulah. The Hecht was purchased and run by the Irgun. She was a German-built twin-diesel luxury yacht originally named Abril (April). She sailed for the U.S. Navy on anti-sub patrol during World War II.


After the Brits left Palestine, the Hecht/Abril became part of the Israeli navy and was used to launch frogmen against Egyptian naval craft off Gaza. Last I heard, she was running tourists between Naples and Capri.


The Hecht/Abril's crew was a mix of Jews and non-Jews, kids and veteran seamen, crazies and idealists . We ended up in Acco (Acre).


The Geulah was purchased and run by the Haganah. A twin-screw steamship built around 1905, she served during World War II as, I believe, a gunnery-training vessel on the Great Lakes. She was scrapped in Naples in '49. The Geulah's crew was more decorous than the Hecht's complement. A mix of veteran sailors (Jews and non-Jews), and Zionistic college kids.


We also had a few exiled Spanish loyalist sailors and our second mate was Don Miguel Boeza, who had been high admiral of the loyalist navy. Our captain was Rudy Patzert, an old commie married to a Jew. He wrote a book about the voyage - Running the Palestine Blockade. Our Haganah commander was Moka Limon, a legendary hero of Aliyah Bet who later became admiral of Israel's navy. He was the guy who pulled off the legendary "boats of Bordeaux" operation. We all ended up in the Cyprus prison camps.


Would you consider writing a memoir?


Depends on the kind of memoir. I wouldn't want to deal with the whole operation - too much I don't know. Perhaps something more personal and anecdotal. I've got a few good stories.


Are Jews still eager to hear your stories?


Despite the fact that I'm willing to speak without honoraria, even during 2008 - Israel's 60th anniversary year - the response from heads of congregations was at best tepid. And since then, perhaps one in three rabbis show interest. Some who showed initial interest never followed up. Nowadays, they might suggest 10-minute gigs at men's club breakfast meetings.


Why the disinterest?


Rahm Emanuel reportedly said, "I've had it with Israel." I think a lot of Jews now feel that way. They're tired of worrying about Israel, unendingly, from crisis to crisis . The Palestinians are the heroes of our victim-adoring age; accordingly, many liberal Jews have come to believe the Palestinian "Nakba" revision, the lies that turned a miracle into another Jewish blood libel.


But whatever their politics, modern Jews have little sense of history. I speak about the '48 war, and the lies about it that are now believed by too many Jews. For most U.S. Jews, the '48 war is an old and perhaps boring story. They saw "Exodus"; they don't want to see it again. They don't realize that history is the present, and that [post-Zionist] revisionist history is central to the attack on contemporary Israel. It is one of the manifold attempts to bring it down, first morally and then physically.


Did you stay in touch with others from Aliyah Bet?


Yes. I was one of the founders of the now defunct American Veterans of Israel organization. I held office and attended their reunions in Israel and the States. But that was then. Most of us are dead now, and I haven't had a drink with an old shipmate in years.


Bob Levitan, our captain, participated indirectly in the breakout from Acco. With his Leica, he took ID-type photos of all the Irgun and Lehi prisoners, and these were later used in the phony ID cards issued to them prior to their escape.


What similarities, if any, do you see between American Jewish attitudes in the 1930s and 1940s and today?


In the 1930s and '40s, American Jews sanctified FDR. Now they are equally loyal to Obama. Despite their growing awareness of the Holocaust, during World War II American Jews for the most part stayed silent - very few mass protests and very little covert action. "FDR will save the Jews."


My fear is that too many contemporary Jews are preparing to repeat this pattern. They will not embarrass the great and good Obama with their selfish concerns for what they view as a victimizing country - Israel - that no longer deserves their loyalty. Too many will follow Obama's lead and stay silent while Israel is weakened or even destroyed.


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  1. **New** terrorist suicide blasts kill 12 in southern Russia
  2. Border Murder Highlights Failure To Secure Our Borders (KEN BLACKWELL AND KEN KLUKOWSKI)
  3. White House demands deadline for Iran
  4. White House Ignores Senate Republicans, Uses Recess Appointment to Place Embattled Union Lawyer Craig Becker on NLRB
  5. Chilling images of dead 'black widow' Moscow bombers...
  6. Canada tells Clinton troops are leaving
  7. Putin: Bombing masterminds will be caught
  8. Administration Rules Out Death Penalty for Illegal Aliens (MS 13 gang members) Charged With Murder in Washington Suburb
  9. Health Reform Law to Spawn More Tax Men?
  10. Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Murder of Arizona Rancher
  11. South Korea military put on alert after ship blast
  12. Pirate attacks return to record levels
  13. Pakistan alleges Afghans are releasing Taliban fighters
  14. O'Reilly Pays Legal Bill for Fallen Marine's Father
  15. Muslim leaders ‘failing to tackle extremists'
  16. 'Soviet-Style' Takeover of Student Loans (NR0)
  17. The Threat We Face (FRONT PAGE)
  18. Tea partiers embrace liberty not big government (MICHAEL BARONE)
  19. Defending Against Enemies Domestic (IBD)
  20. After the health care juggernaut, don't assume that amnesty or any other liberal policy initiative is off the table. (SPECTATOR)
  21. A deepening crisis between U.S., Israel (JOHN R. BOLTON)

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WT:
"Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons
after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems
with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report. 'Iran continues to develop a range of
capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision
is made to do so,' the annual report to Congress states."





NYT: "President Obama predicted on Tuesday that he would
be able to persuade the United Nations to 'move forcefully' against Iran with
new sanctions within weeks, not months, as he turned up the pressure on Tehran
to back off its nuclear program." http://nyti.ms/bl0FdB





Reuters: "An Iranian nuclear scientist who has been
missing since June has defected to the United States and is helping the CIA,
ABC news reported on Tuesday." http://nyti.ms/8Zj0oL



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AP:
"Top diplomats from the world's leading economies say
Iran's recent actions deepen the serious doubts about whether its nuclear program
is intended to be peaceful. Closing a
conference of foreign ministers from the Group of Eight main industrialized
nations on Tuesday, Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon urged Iran in the
strongest possible terms that it must fully cooperate with the International
Atomic Energy Agency and comply with UN regulations." http://bit.ly/9EaOSl





Radio Farda: "Iran's official media has said the
country's chief nuclear negotiator will visit China on April 1 to 'discuss the
nuclear issue' with high-ranking Chinese officials. Said Jalili's visit will come after the
foreign ministers of the Group of Eight major industrial economies called for
greater pressure on Iran to halt its uranium-enrichment program." http://bit.ly/a9u4nJ





ABC News: "When pressed, however, the president said, 'we
think we can get sanctions within weeks.'
Why does the president seem so confident? 'We've been working the
Chinese pretty hard,' a senior administration official told ABC News this
morning." http://bit.ly/arHCn7





Domestic Politics







Radio Farda:
"Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is
one of the most powerful men in Iran. As
such, he is usually highly visible in his official functions, which include
periodically leading Friday prayers at Tehran's mosque -- an event broadcast
nationally on state TV. But amid the
street protests since Iran's disputed presidential election in June, Rafsanjani
has all but vanished from the television screen." http://bit.ly/a3MLVC





Radio Farda: "Iran's Green Movement and the postelection
crisis have revitalized the Iranian opposition abroad. But the new influx of
members and ideas -- supporters range from liberal-minded democrats to
monarchists to communists -- has also revealed deep divisions about the
movement's ideology and tactics. Diversity has been critical to the
opposition's rapid growth; but with no strong leadership and no clear program,
it could also prove to be its Achilles' heel." http://bit.ly/b9CSL2





Foreign Affairs







WSJ:
"Ayad Allawi, leader of the bloc that won the most
seats in Iraq's parliamentary election, lashed out at Iran on Tuesday, accusing
Tehran of interfering in the battle to form a new government in Baghdad." http://bit.ly/cClEfy





Culture





Reuters:
"As Iran's regime continues to stir world concerns,
films about Iranian history take on added interest. Director Shirin Neshat was
born in Iran, but her controversial photographs and experimental videos have
made it impossible for her to return; she now lives in New York. Neshat's first
feature, 'Women Without Men,' looks back at the crucial moment in 1953 when
democratically elected President Mohammed Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup
engineered by England and the U.S." http://bit.ly/bsYZdw





Opinion







Mark Wallace in the Atlanta Journal Constitution: "But
government action alone has proven incapable of checking Iran's leaders. That's
why the private sector has a vital role to play. By severing economic ties with
Iran, Western companies can reinforce the international community's efforts to
stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. And by insisting that companies fully
disclose their interests in the Islamic Republic, investors can hold firms
accountable for their dealings." http://bit.ly/b3nBSL





Bilal Saab in Foreign Policy: "The truth about Iran is
that we haven't got a clue how the Islamic Republic would respond to an attack."
http://bit.ly/bbU1Zn





Danielle Pletka in WSJ: "Has the U.S. abandoned plans to
target the Iranian regime's access to banking and credit and to isolate Iranian
air and shipping transport? While recent reports to that effect have been
strenuously denied by the administration, it has become clear that Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's promise of 'crippling sanctions' and President Barack
Obama's 'aggressive' penalties are little more than talk. The administration
simply cannot persuade a critical mass of nations to join with it." http://bit.ly/c6eiTm





News Analysis





CS Monitor Q&A: "As a debate over Iran nuclear
sanctions take front stage at the G8 meeting in Quebec today, The Monitor looks
at how effective past sanctions have been and what new measures are being
considered." http://bit.ly/9VAHh9








































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