[Shabelle] Somalia's central government is in talks with some of the world's biggest energy companies in an attempt to restart oil exploration in the war-torn country, an adviser to the government said Monday.
Somali officials have discussed having Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., BP, ConocoPhillips, Eni SpA and Chevron Corp. return to the East African nation after more than two decades of violence drove major oil producers off, Abdullah Haider, an adviser in Somalia's ministry of natural resources, told a conference here Monday.
"Most of the discussions are going well," he said.
A number of big oil companies signed concessions in Somalia before the country descended into civil war in 1991. The instability prompted the companies to suspend onshore and offshore exploration; they say their contracts remain valid since it has been impossible to conduct activity in the country.
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[Shabelle] A United States official says the target of raid by Navy SEALs in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan man named Abdulkadir Mohammed Abdulkadir. A Kenyan government intelligence document names him as the coordinator of other planned attacks.
The man, also known as Ikrima, was a known operator for the Somali krazed killer group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
The document says that foiled plots by Abdulkadir included plans to target Kenya's parliament building and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... office in Nairobi, as well as an Æthiopian restaurant patronized by Somali government officials.
It does not appear that Saturday's raid resulted in the killing or capture of Abdulkadir. The U.S. official who confirmed the target of the SEAL raid insisted on anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the matter.
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Unconfirmed reporting from last evening's news says the Somalia raid had only 48 hours of pre-mission planning. The JSOC 'prisoner snatch' up in Libya reportedly went off without a hitch. I agree with Pappy's analysis from yesterday that "JSOC probably did not appreciate the publicity".
No Rose Garden, diversionary, 'tuff-guy' victory lap for the Champ. Clandestine Operations be hard !
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
-- unknown.
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48 hours pre-mission is not bad if there are indications the target was a random discovery, or the window of opportunity was short.
The problem is that it's Somalia, where there was a good chance the terrs could be tipped off by some in the Somali govt and, more importantly, every Somali civilian is a lookout.
And yes - the new Counterr Guidelines are a problem. With any luck there won't be anyone killed because them. Between that and the loose lips, this administration isn't doing JSOC any favors.
[Shabelle] Police have released photographs of two men believed to have been involved in the Westgate attack.
The two have been identified as Abdukadir Haret Muhamed alias Muhammed Hussein. He is light skinned and about 5.8 feet tall. He speaks fluent Kiswahili and Sheng. He is believed to be a Kenyan from Marehan clan in Mandera.
The other is identified as Adan Dheq, alias Hussein Abdi Ali, alias Abdulahi Dugon Subow. He is of dark and wears spectacles. He also speaks broken Kiswahili. Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo has offered a reward of Sh500,000 for the arrest of the two suspects.
The suspects bought the car that was used in transporting weapons to the shopping mall, from a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... staff on September 6, and Sh340,000 for it. They took the seller to the Barclays Bank Queensway ranch on September 6 at around 7.50pm.
The images were captured when the two had gone to pay for the car, a Mitsubishi Lancer registration number KAS 575X, which is currently with the police.
On Sunday, police jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Abdulkadir's former wife at a bus station in Nairobi shortly after she parted with Abdulkadir. The woman, who was travelling to Mombasa and whose name police did not release, was found with the photo of the suspect.
Police have also arrested at least five suspects in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, who are being interrogated. In Mombasa, two suspects of Somali origin were arrested and their vehicle enjugged You have the right to remain silent... . Coast anti- terror boss Elijah Rop said his officers are holding the two men after were arrested by city council askaris in two different incidents.
The vehicle was first seen blocking the exit of the Mombasa fire brigade at around 8.30am. A few minutes later, officers from Kongowea market arrested a man who was using the exit to enter into the market.
His colleague presented himself to the city inspectorate, claiming that the vehicle that had been towed belonged to him. They were interrogated and found with several different documents. The first suspect had more than one license police said.
His colleague presented himself to the city inspectorate, claiming that the vehicle that had been towed belonged to him. They were interrogated and found with several different documents. The first suspect had more than one license police said.
Police suspect the blockage of the fire exit was to prevent any fire engine from leaving in case the other one succeeded to bomb the market.
The two were both from Nairobi, and had booked at the same hotel in Mombasa. In Tanzania, detectives are holding two suspects from Pakistain who had on Saturday evening tried to force their way into a Kenya Airways flight.
In Tanzania, detectives are holding two suspects from Pakistain who had on Saturday evening tried to force their way into a Kenya Airways flight
Officers from the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) yesterday left for Tanzania to interrogate the two suspected terrorist.
The two have been identified as Abutaha Hamza, holder of passport number 2995160, and Mohammed Alnems holder of passport number 3085812. The flight, KQ 487, was to leave Dar at 7.30pm when the two forced their way in.
Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Tanzanian airports Sulemani Hamisi on Sunday said the suspects were arrested at Julius Nyerere airport.
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Abdukadir Haret Muhamed alias Muhammed Hussein
al-Qaeda in Kenya
Abutaha Hamza
al-Qaeda
Adan Dheq, alias Hussein Abdi Ali, alias Abdulahi Dugon Subow
al-Qaeda in Kenya
Mohammed Alnems
al-Qaeda
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[Al Ahram] A foreign fighter and two top Somali Death Eaters were present in a house that was attacked over the weekend by US special forces, a Shabaab commander told AFP Monday.
Moalim Abdirahman Abu-Isa, a commander for the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the southern port town of Barawe, said one Shabaab krazed killer was killed but that several US Navy SEALS were believed to have been maimed.
"Three mujahedeen fighters, one of them a non-Somali brother, stayed in the house when it was attacked but they have shown incredible bravery and resisted the enemy," Abu-Isa said.
"They have shot several of the enemy and one of the mujahedeen fighters was blessed with martyrdom," he added, without giving further details of the krazed killers' identities.
A witness in the area reported seeing a light skinned fighter with a flowing beard later leave the house protected by gunnies, while the dead body of the Shabaab who had been killed was carried away.
According to a US official in Washington, the SEALs were hunting Abdulkadir Mohammed Abdulkadir, a Kenyan of Somali origin who also goes by the alias Ikrima.
The Kenyan is linked with two Al-Qaeda operatives, now dead, who played roles in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the official said.
The strike in Somalia follows last month's attack -- claimed by the Shabaab -- against an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed.
But Shabaab front manAbdulaziz Abu Musab tried to downplay the report, saying the man Washington was hunting does not exist.
"That is a false name, they are looking for someone that is not real," he told AFP.
"There were no imported muscle or commanders in Barawe when they attacked... only a unit of coastiess, and they bravely fought off the attack."
Musab had also earlier claimed British and Turkish forces had carried out the raid, before Washington said its forces were responsible.
Barawe lies some 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu, and is one of the few ports left in Shabaab hands, although they still control large parts of rural southern Somalia.
A United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... monitoring report on Somalia released in July named the port as a Shabaab training centre, specialising in preparing suicide kaboom squads.
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al-Qaeda in Africa
Abdulkadir Mohammed Abdulkadir
al-Qaeda in Africa
Moalim Abdirahman Abu-Isa
al-Qaeda in Africa
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[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisia's ruling party and opposition groups on Saturday (October 5th) signed a roadmap agreement aimed at ending the months-long political crisis.
The deal calls for the nomination of an independent prime minister by the end of next week, who would then have two weeks to form a cabinet.
It also envisages the adoption of a constitution and a timetable for elections within the next four weeks.
Ennahda said the arrangement was a "modified" version of the initial proposal made by the labour union-led mediators.
The roadmap gives the new government full authority to run the country and not be subject to a motion of censure unless signed by half of the members of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC).
A no-confidence vote will require the consent of at least two-thirds of its members, according to the same agreement.
The ANC will have to select members of the Independent High Commission for Elections and set it up within one week of the start of direct negotiations between the opposition and the ruling coalition.
The constituent assembly is also in charge of preparing the electoral law and adopting it within two weeks.
President Marzouki cautioned that dialogue failure would expose the country to major risks and cripple the economy. He also warned of the terrorist threat that could target the sessions of the dialogue, even though the risk remained under control at the moment.
"Some plot to sow violence and chaos, ostensibly on behalf of deviant beliefs, but in reality to achieve hidden agendas," he said.
Sami Tahri, front man for the UGTT, said there was no option for Tunisians and political opponents "but dialogue to spare the country from spiralling towards the unknown and foreign intervention".
Mustapha Ben Jaafar, president of the ANC, echoed Tahri's view, noting, "Dialogue is not an option that one can accept or refuse but a crucial necessity and a key requirement that everyone must participate in and be accountable for."
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[MAGHAREBIA] Mokhtar Belmokhtar's split from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) raises questions about the overall strength of the parent organization, analysts say.
In late August, al-Qaeda splinter group Katibat El Moulethemoune ("Brigade of the Veiled Ones") led by Belmokhtar (real name Khaled Abou El Abass) joined forces with the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) to create the "Mourabitounes".
To local experts, the move looks like the only option left for jihadists ostracised by al-Qaeda's Maghreb leadership. The former AQIM commander had already been cut off by the organization.
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[Al Ahram] Constitution Party spokesman Khaled Dawoud says he was visited by Islamist figures after being subject to a brutal knife attack on Friday. Bet that cheered him right up.
Dawoud, a former spokesman for the anti-Morsi National Salvation Front (NSF), was stabbed in his chest and sustained a severe wound to his hand on Friday in central Cairo after being attacked by protesters supporting deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , who hails from the Moslem Brüderbund.
Without identifying the specific visitors, Dawoud said that four representatives from the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya's Building and Development Party, and the Salafist Call visited him to express sorrow over the incident.
The quartet, who are members of the pro-Morsi National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, told him that the assailants do not represent Islam or Muslims.
"The visit won't make me withdraw the report I filed [to the police]," he said in a phone interview with told Reuters' Aswat Masriya. "If someone assaulted me with a penknife he must be brought to justice."
Dawoud also reiterated that the assaulters called him an "apostate," and added that one tried to cut off his hand with a paper cutter. He was pulled out of his car and beaten before being stabbed twice in the chest.
Right after the incident, the FJP condemned the attack in a media statement.
Morsi supporters held protests in Cairo on Friday, but failed to reach key locations such as Tahrir Square and the presidential palace amidst stiff opposition from security forces and local residents.
One protester was killed in clashes between Morsi supporters and local residents in central Cairo's Manial. Other confrontations erupted later between supporters and opponents of Morsi in Ibn Sandr Square in the western Cairo suburb of Zeitoun, leaving three more dead.
Dawoud, a staunch opponent of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, resigned from the NSF in mid-August to protest the Front's support for the forcible dispersal of two large protest camps established by Morsi supporters.
The dispersal, led by security forces, left hundreds of protesters dead.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's General Prosecution has requested that Interpol arrest Mahmoud Ezzat, the Moslem Brüderbund's Deputy Supreme Guide, who left Egypt weeks ago. A judicial source at the International Cooperation Office said Interpol would arrest Ezzat pursuant to an order from the prosecutor-general for charges of inciting violence.
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[Al Ahram] Most of those killed during Sunday's festivities in Cairo and other governorates where shot by live ammunition, said Hisham Abdel-Hamid, front man for the Forensic Medicine Department.
Abdel-Hamid told Ahram Online on Monday that Zeinhom morgue had received 41 bodies, 39 of which died as a result of live rounds, while the other two suffered birdshot wounds.
The official death-toll from Sunday's festivities between supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... and security forces has risen to 53, the health ministry announced earlier Monday.
The remaining 12 bodies are yet to be transported to the morgue, according to Abdel-Hamid.
The violence, which lasted until close to midnight, also left 271 injured.
Deadly festivities erupted in Cairo as Morsi supporters marched towards Tahrir Square, where thousands were celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1973 war against Israel and voicing support for the army.
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[Al Ahram] The Pak Taliban on Monday said schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai had "no courage" and vowed to attack her again if they got the chance.
Gunmen sent by the Taliban tried to kill Malala on her school bus on 9 October last year.
She amazingly survived being shot in the head and has become a global ambassador for the right of all children -- girls as well as boys -- to go to school.
Having spread a message of "education for all" across the globe, the 16-year-old is now among the favourites for the Nobel Peace Prize, which will be awarded on Friday.
But Shahidullah Shahid, front man for the main Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) umbrella group, slammed Malala and said they would try again to kill her.
"She is not a brave girl and has no courage. We will target her again and attack whenever we have a chance," Shahid told AFP.
In an interview with the BBC, Malala dismissed the threats against her life and repeated her desire to return to Pakistain from Britannia, where she was flown for treatment after the attack and where she now goes to school.
She first rose to prominence during the Taliban's 2007-09 rule in Pakistain's northwestern Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... valley with a blog for the BBC Urdu service chronicling the rigours of daily life under the Islamists.
"She even used a fake name of Gul Makai to write a diary. We attacked Malala because she was used to speak against Taliban and Islam and not because she was going to school," Shahid said.
While she has been feted by celebrities and world leaders across the West, in deeply conservative Swat Malala's achievements are eyed with suspicion by some.
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[Dawn] Teenage Pak schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who survived an liquidation attempt after being shot by a Taliban gunman in Swat, says dialogue is the best way to fight militancy in Pakistain.
"The best way to solve problem and to fight against war is through dialogue, and is through peaceful way," she said in an interview published by the BBC on Monday.
"But for me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism is a simple thing -- educate the next generation."
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#1
They must do what they want through dialogue,"
They must? Dialog? Perhaps I'm naive, but you'd think being shot in the head might provide a certain clarity of thinking.
#5
I can certainly understand a desire not to be shot a second time, but the people she wants to talk have funny ideas about 'dialog'. See the Pakistani Taliban vow to attack Malala again article for more details. tl;dr: She said mean things about us so we're gonna shoot her again.
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... on Monday condemned an attack on a nine-year-old Israeli girl the day before in the West Bank.
"We oppose on principle aggression against anyone, and the spilling of blood," he told a group of Israeli MPs visiting his headquarters in Ramallah.
The girl, Noam Glick, was variously described as having been shot or stabbed in a Sunday attack in her garden in the Psagot settlement near Ramallah.
Police said it was probably a "terrorist" attack.
Medics at the Jerusalem hospital where she was treated said her condition was improving.
Abbas spoke as Israeli forces closed in on an area in the West Bank town of Al-Bira, near Ramallah, in an arrest operation linked to the Psagot attack, an AFP correspondent said.
Abbas objected to the unilateral Israeli operation, insisting the Paleostinian Authority should take responsibility for finding the culprits.
"The Israeli army's incursions are unjustified. There's security coordination with us, so why carry out these raids that harm (our efforts)?" Abbas said.
"Seven years ago we (the Paleostinian Authority) began security cooperation (with Israel)," he said, describing coordination on security as functioning at "100 percent."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had condemned the "hateful attack" in Psagot and said he held the Paleostinian leadership responsible even though the attack took place in an area of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli control.
"As long as the incitement continues in the Paleostinian official media, the Paleostinian Authority cannot absolve itself of responsibility for events of this sort," he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.
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[Al Ahram] US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the start of work to destroy Syria's chemical weapons as a process that 'has begun in record time'
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[Al Ahram] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted on Monday that his country has the "absolute right" to enrich uranium on its soil, ISNA news agency reported.
"The mastery of civil nuclear technology, including the enrichment of uranium, on Iranian soil is the absolute right of Iran," Zarif said at a meeting in Tehran with the visiting Swiss deputy foreign minister, Yves Rossier.
"The events of recent years have shown that the approach of threats and sanctions have not ensured the interests and objectives of the other party, and the continuation of this approach is the repetition of past mistakes which cannot prevent Iran from mastering civilian nuclear technology," he added.
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#1
Methinks its safe to say that as long as the Syria Crisis is extant, IRAN WILL LIKELY N-O-T BE ATTACKED BY THE US BECAUSE THE BAMMER = USA WILL NEED SHIA IRAN + HEZBOLLAH + QUDS FORCE, ETC. TO HELP BABY ASSAD FIGHT THE INCREASINGLY AL-QAEDA = FOREIGN MILTERR-DOMINATED ANTI-ASSAD SYRIAN REBELS, INSIDE + OUTSIDE OF SYRIA PROPER.
IOW, IRAN + NUCPROGS = BABY ASSAD + REGIME = IS SAFE FROM PER SE US ATTACK THRU SUMMER 2014, IFF NOT THE REMAINDER OF THE BAMMER'S SECOND TERM [ends Jan 2017].
The Bammer + SecState Jaaawhn now have to just keep Israel from attacking Iran on its own.
* FYI TOPIX > [National Post] NETANYAHU WARNS THAT A NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN "WOULD BE IMMORTAL, LIKE NORTH KOREA", SAYS HE WOULD TALK WID ROUHANI, iff Iran's new President desires to call him.
Yuuuup - once a country acquires potent Nukes, the belief is it can no longer be attacked, or that it is safe from foreign attack.
* SAME > [Times of Israel US WAS SO SURE IT WAS STRIKING [attacking] SYRIA IT SENT WARNING CALLS TO ISRAELI LEADERS.
OOOOOOPPPPSIES - AAAAWWWKKKWARD.
* SAME > [Politico] US HAS NO DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN SUPPORT FOR MILITARY STRIKE.
* SAME >[Reuters] GOVT SHUTDOWN HURTING US ARMY: GENERAL.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... announced that the Lebanese oil is "at risk" because of the stalling in completing the necessary procedures.
"I was never against holding a cabinet session on the issue of oil and now after this delay I support holding a session," Jumblat said in a telephone call with al-Manar television.
"We were overran by everyone else and our oil is at risk."
Al-Manar revealed that caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati is communicating with caretaker Health Minister Ali Hassan Khali and caretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour to reach an accord on a cabinet session on petroleum.
"Miqati also received a phone call from the political aide of the Hizbullah chief Hussein Khalil to express the party's support of a session on oil," the same sourced added.
Caretaker Energy Minister Jebran Bassil urged President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... and Miqati to hold an extraordinary governmental session to issue two decrees that call for demarcating 10 maritime oil exploration blocs and setting up a revenue-sharing model.
Bassil explained that his step aims at "preserving the oil and protecting it against any local obstruction and any foreign exploitation."
"Especially against any Israeli exploitation."
Regarding the maritime oil blocs, Jumblat considered that the petroleum authority is the party concerned in resolving this matter.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... Khalil stressed during a visit to Miqati on the importance of contracting out the maritime oil blocks.
"This is a point of disagreement with Bassil," Khalil pointed out. "But discussion over this issue was not and will not be interrupted."
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"Our oil" found in international waters by private Israeli companies.
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We all got different religions and different crazies, but we all worship at the souk. There's gonna be some serious entertainment coming out of Levantine(?) waters in the near future.
[An Nahar] Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi rejected on Monday any official plans to legalize Facebook and Twitter, although President Hassan Rouhani pledged to reduce online censorship, ISNA news agency reported.
"The ban on networks such as Facebook and Twitter was not supposed to be lifted," said Vaezi.
Tehran blocks access to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and numerous other sites, including blogs and pornography hubs, as it tries to stop Iranians from surfing content authorities seen as undermining the Islamic regime, or as being immoral.
The authorities provide some private or sate-owned companies a "national VPN" which allow them to access to the global Internet.
Despite being banned, Facebook and Twitter accounts are affiliated to some Iranians officials.
When asked about these officials, Vaezi simply replied: "You should ask them".
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is believed to have a Facebook page.
There is also a Twitter account in the name of Rouhani, although one of his advisers have said it was not a personal account.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accounts on both Facebook and Twitter.
He regularly updates his Facebook page, where he posts in Farsi and sometimes interacts with some of his more than 400,000 fans, and he posts in English on Twitter.
In early October, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey asked Rouhani: "Are citizens of Iran able to read your tweets?"
Rouhani's account answered that the president would do his best to ensure that the people of Iran will "comfortably" be able to "access all info globally as is their right".
In an interview with CNN aired on September 25, Rouhani said he planned to reduce restrictions so that "within (certain) sort of moral frameworks that we have for ourselves... we are able to access these social network sites".
On September 17, the two networks became briefly accessible, but later Iranian officials explained this had been due to "technical glitch".
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Shabelle] Somalia's central government is in talks with some of the world's biggest energy companies in an attempt to restart oil exploration in the war-torn country, an adviser to the government said Monday.
[Al Ahram] Constitution Party spokesman Khaled Dawoud says he was visited by Islamist figures after being subject to a brutal knife attack on Friday.
[Al Ahram] Most of those killed during Sunday's 
[Al Ahram] The Pak Taliban on Monday said schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai had "no courage" and vowed to attack her again if they got the chance.
[Al Ahram] US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the start of work to destroy Syria's chemical weapons as a process that 'has begun in record time'
[Al Ahram] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted on Monday that his country has the "absolute right" to enrich uranium on its soil, ISNA news agency reported.
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
Najib Miqati
