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On July 21, 2008, Pakistan's independent television network Geo News aired an exclusive interview with Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan. The interview, conducted in Arabic, was broadcast on Geo ...
July 24, 2008, 3:26 pm
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Iran’s Defenders of Human Rights Center released a statement on July 19 protesting a bill seeking to toughen punishment for crimes deemed to "disrupt public security" and to "intensify the scheme of punishment for disrupting the mental ...
July 24, 2008, 10:26 pm
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Egyptian police closed the Iranian Arabic-language Al-'Alam television station and confiscated its equipment, claiming that the station had no permit to broadcast in Egypt.
The closure came at a time of tension between Cairo and Tehran due to ...
July 24, 2008, 4:18 pm
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has refused to approve the regional councils election law ratified yesterday by the parliament, except for the city of Kirkuk, where elections were postponed.
Talabani claimed that the law was passed ...
July 24, 2008, 4:15 pm
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Cartoonist: 'Alla Al-Laqta
Source: Falastin, Palestinian Authority, July 24, ...
July 24, 2008, 4:12 pm
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Participants in a workshop called Preserving Public Order and Building an Independent Country, held yesterday by the March 14 Forces' general secretariat, called to remove Hizbullah's weapons from the internal Lebanese equation.
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July 24, 2008, 4:10 pm
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During the founding meeting of the Diaspora Maronite Institute, Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutrous Saffir warned about emigration from Lebanon, saying that it was threatening the Christian-Muslim balance in the country.
He said that the goal of ...
July 24, 2008, 4:06 pm
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Cartoonist: Baqi Bukhalfa
Source: Al-Arab, Qatar, July 23, ...
July 24, 2008, 3:08 pm
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An article in the IRGC weekly Sobh-e Sadeq stated that Hizbullah's success in the prisoner swap with Israel has increased the likelihood that Palestinian organizations will kidnap Israeli soldiers to obtain the release of 11,000 Palestinian ...
July 24, 2008, 3:07 pm
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A senior Iraqi security official has said that Iran is paying monthly wages of some $2400 to each member of an organization in Iraq's Diyala province called the "Special Groups," most of whose members were recruited from supporters of the Mahdi ...
July 24, 2008, 3:05 pm