Recent information delivered by security services to El Khabar pointed out that the majority of plots of post December 11 suicide attacks executed by recently dismantled network, targeted assassinating Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem and Culture Minister Khalida Toumi, as well as bombing Presidency Headquarter and Foreign Affairs Ministry Building in addition to police offices in Algiers.
Investigations started from initial remarks helped reaching the network that used to be commanded by Bouzegza Abderrahmane, the Emir of Farouk squad. Investigators remarks say terrorist groups have adopted a new method while focussing on recruiting intellectuals, like architects as well as mechanic and informatics engineers. The bombing plot was launched by the Emir of region II, namely Zohir Harek, alias Sofiane Fassila who was eliminated by security services before December 11 attacks, while being succeeded by Abdelmoumen Rachid. This latter has revived the terrorist project by appointing Bouzegza Abderahmane as the new Emir of Farouk squad, investigations said.
The same investigations disclosed that Bouzegza has penetrated to Algiers after the attacks while holding a meeting in Ain Naadja suburb, eastern Algiers, with the entrepreneurs who participated in buying the trucks being used in attacks. The meeting aimed to watch out for 12/11 December attacksmedia echoes and international reactions, while Bouzegza disclosed to his accomplices the new targets Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb intending to hit.
In this context, Bouzegza managed to get filming his future targets, including Presidency and Foreign Affairs Ministry headquarters, as well as National Gendarmerie office in Bab-Jdid, Algiers and the general direction of national security department in Hydra, Algiers. Terrorists further targeted to assassinate Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem and Culture Minister, Ms. Khalida Toumi; as well as many other plots against police officials. Investigators disclosed also that Bouzegza used to purchase equipments used in terrorist attacks through ransoms he got, from kidnapping operations as a financing method used by Bouzegza before being eliminated in last January 8.
In fact, 12/11suicide attacks were sponsored by ransoms that terrorists used to get from kidnapping rich people. Terrorists got 10 millions AD ransoms following kidnapping an entrepreneur, before getting later on 100 millions AD ransoms following releasing the brother of a millionaire in Lakhdaria, Boumerdès province.
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I didn't know algernon had need of a culture minister ever since Omar left.
North Korea opened its main nuclear reactor to foreign media for the first time on Friday in a bid to show that it is complying with a disarmament accord to disable the facility. Broadcaster APTN was permitted to visit the reactor facility in Yongbyon, the heart of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Its footage showed North Korean workers in white head-to-toe protective suits removing spent nuclear fuel from the facility's 5 megawatt reactor.
The visit came as six-nation negotiations on the nuclear dispute are stalled over differences on whether North Korea has fully declared its nuclear programs under an October accord reached with the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
At the site, a senior Yongbyon official reiterated the government's position that it is disabling the reactor as promised in the disarmament-for-aid deal, but that it has slowed down its compliance because the other countries were not meeting their commitments.
"It has been slowed down. Especially the discharge of fuel rods from the core has been slowed down," Yu Sun Chol, Yongbyon's chief engineer, told APTN. "We think the main reason for that is that the United States and other six-party countries, they have not fulfilled their commitments for the agreement of the six-party talks."
The October deal, along with a February 2007 agreement, call for North Korea to disable the reactor and other facilities and fully declare its nuclear programs in exchange for energy aid and other concessions. For its part, Washington has promised to consider removing North Korea from terrorism and economic sanctions blacklists.
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Yup, it's called "Refueling",
News reporters are easily fooled, note NO scientists allowed.
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(PTI): Disapproving of US' reliance on President Pervez Musharraf in the war against terror, presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who raised a storm by suggesting unilateral action against al-Qaeda in Pakistan, has vowed to go after the terror network there. "On the question of Pakistan, we just had an election there. But I have said very clearly that we have put all our eggs in the Musharraf basket. That was a mistake", he said at the Democratic presidential debate in Austin, Texas. "We should be going after al-Qaeda and making sure that Pakistan is serious about hunting down terrorists, as well as expanding democracy," Obama said.
Promising that as commander-in-chief of the US, he would do everything to keep America safe, Obama said: "My number one job as president will be to keep the American people safe. I will do whatever is required to accomplish that. I will not hesitate to act against those that would do America harm."
The Democratic Senator, who is locked in a tight race with Hillary Clinton for the party nomination for Presidential showdown in November this year, also attacked the former first lady for her decision to support sending of US troops to Iraq.
Terming US military's intervention in Iraq as the "single most important foreign policy decision of this generation. I believe I showed the judgment of a commander-in-chief. And I think that Senator Clinton was wrong in her judgments on that," Obama said speaking at the University of Texas campus in a debate sponsored by CNN.
The Illinois senator also suggested that sending US forces to Iraq was directly impacting the its military operations in Afghanistan.
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WAFF.com > PAKI Minister claims that INDIAN Secret Agency RAW is covertly sponsoring and inducing anti-Govt/Paki Islamist terror activities inside Pakistan + Kashmir???
PAKISTANDEFENSEFORUM > INDIAN Govt pamphlets-docs allegedly captured wid various Islamist paper caches.
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Glad to see he's not running away from this CF of his own making. McCain will really be able to nail him on this. It's going to be interesting to watch him justify taking military action against what is now a democratically elected state that will be even less interested in working with us against the terrs in the land o' pure itself than was Perv.
The father of a person accused of being involved in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said on Friday that his son was innocent and should be released.
The allegations against my son are unfounded and he should be freed immediately, said Akbar Jan Lala from South Waziristan, at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club. A police team investigating the assassination had told reporters in Rawalpindi that Sher Zaman was involved in the murder. Akbar said his son had never been a madrassa student or a member of a militant outfit. Sher Zaman had an FA degree from Laddah College in South Waziristan, he said, and worked as a political moharrar in the local administration.
Dera Ismail Khan police had earlier implicated him in a container theft case, he said, and were unhappy when the court declared him innocent and released him. They held him on January 18 again from his house in DI Khan, he said, and handed him over to Punjab Police on a 34-day remand. The police has not been able to prove anything against him so far, he said. Akbar said his son had been shifted to Adyala jail at Rawalpindi and his parents and close relatives were not being allowed to visit him.
Tribal Areas: He said his son was implicated in the Benazir murder case because he belonged to South Waziristan. The other suspects arrested in the case were not from the Tribal Areas, he said, which the authorities wanted to link the murder to despite Baitullah Mehsuds denial.
He demanded that the new government request the United Nations to investigate the murder.
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The allegations against my son are unfounded and he should be freed immediately, said Akbar Jan Lala from South Waziristan, at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club.
Because I said so!
Seriously folks, these local's lie and exaggerate for the hell of it. There are too many layers of lies that I just don't believe any of them.
A newly appointed member of the North Korean Consulate, Jehang Shin, went missing on Thursday from the jurisdiction of the Darakshan police station. A police official on Friday confirmed receiving a letter from the consulate and testimony from Shins colleagues to this effect.
We received a letter complaining of Shins disappearance from the consulate, confirmed ASP Dr Mohammad Farooq Ahmed. He added, however, that so far police were viewing it as a missing person case and not a kidnapping. According to Shins colleague and statements in the letter,
"Shin took his luggage, said nothing to anyone, and left. We dont know where he went and he hasnt contacted us yet."
Shin left his apartment with his luggage and got in a taxi at around 7.30am on Thursday, said Ahmed. One of Shins colleagues, Lee, told police that Shin came to Karachi for the first time after applying for a job at the consulate, adding that he neither had relatives nor knew anyone here. We just met him three days ago so we dont know him that well. I think Shin was uncomfortable here. Shin took his luggage, said nothing to anyone, and left. We dont know where he went and he hasnt contacted us yet. He doesnt even have a cell phone, so we contacted the police, said Lee.
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Wrong Korea. He was probably wanting to get into the South Korean consulate but screwed up and got the wrong Korea. He quit once he realized his screwup.
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Ok, people ... he was a PAKISTANI who applied for a job at the North Korean consulate. He was not from that town nor did he have family there. He worked there for three days and then left.
My guess is he was Taliban sent to infiltrate the SOUTH Korean consulate and the guy got the wrong Korea. The Taliban and AQ are going to need cash, South Korea has established a trend of PAYING RANSOM for kidnapped nationals. This idiot got the wrong Korea and his handlers probably fired him so he went home is my guess.
Lawyers for five Iraqis have accused British soldiers of mass executions and torture and called for a police investigation into an atrocious episode in British army history.
Phil Shiner and Martyn Day, who have brought several cases against the British military for its actions in Iraq, produced statements on Friday from five men who say they were detained by British forces after a battle in southern Iraq in May 2004. The men, who were blindfolded and bound, said their captors repeatedly beat and abused them, including forcing them to strip naked. While detained, they said they heard the systematic torture and execution of up to 20 other detainees.
On the basis of the evidence currently available, we are of the view that our clients allegations - that the British were responsible for the torture and deaths of up to 20 Iraqis - may well be true, Day told a news conference. Whether or not there is enough evidence to prosecute individual soldiers, it will only be by an open public inquiry that this question will be answered.
The military has already conducted its own investigation into the events surrounding the intense, two-hour battle between British troops and Iraqi insurgents, in which it says 28 Iraqi fighters were killed, and concluded there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Shiner and Day say, on the basis of the witness statements and other evidence, that 29 people were detained, of whom 20 were killed in detention and nine were later freed.
A second investigation, also by Britains military police, was opened last December after the families of some of the victims called for a judicial review. It is not known when that investigation will be concluded. As well as the witness statements, Shiner and Day produced photos, video footage and death certificates signed by Iraqi doctors that they said together painted a picture of violent, deadly abuse perpetrated by British troops. They said there was evidence that two detainees had their eyes gouged out, one had his penis cut off, several were strangled or mutilated, some were shot in the back of the head and others had body parts systematically broken.
What went on whilst UK forces had the custody of Iraqi civilians is a disgrace, a stain on our nation, and a terrible stain on the reputation of all the good soldiers who have operated in Iraq, Shiner said. However, the lawyers acknowledged there was a vast gulf between the British militarys account of what happened and the witnesses accounts. They also said they did not know which regiment of the British army was most likely responsible.
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The sadistic abuses cited sound much more like typical Iraqi conduct, than conduct by western forces. I know nothing about the actual case, but I can see Iraqi malcontents "projecting" their own sadistic practices onto the Brits.
If the reports were of Iraqi dirtbags being beaten senseless with fists, and then shot, I would tend to be more inclined to believe that some Brit troopers finally got to the end of their patience.
Next will come reports that the Brits beheaded their captives.
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Well, me thinks these latest feces wrapped offerings are what they call in psychology "projection" you accuse others of thinking or acting as you do.
If the Brits are actually doing this stuff, all I can say is "carry on mate" and "pass the popcorn"
I say the best answer to terror is to fight terror with terror. I think Mao said that. I know that the Brits put down an islamofanatic uprising in Afghanistan in the 1850's with the "fight terror with terror" methodology...put an end to it for a while. Something about wrapping the enemy dead in pig hides and spraying prisoners with pig fat....
Iraqi foreign ministry summoned on Friday Turkish Charge d'Affaires in Baghdad and informed him of the government objection against Turkish military incursion and artillery shelling in various provinces, including the destruction of a vital bridge in Kurdistan Iraq.
Iraq's foreign ministry undersecretary Labid Abbawi summoned Turkish Charge d'Affaires Ahmed Yazal and was briefed about Iraq's government objection, the ministry said in a statement.
According to the statement, Labid expressed fear from the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, noting that such move could worsen the situation in Iraq and affects instability in the region. Any Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq will be considered a violation of Iraq's national sovereignty, the statement added. The statement also said that Iraq's government is keen on maintaining a good relationship with Turkey and even boost such ties at various levels, including joint cooperation on mutual issues which in turn would support security and stability of both counties.
Earlier, Turkish NTV television said the Turkish military has sent 10,000 soldiers with air support after Kurdistan PKK rebels in northern Iraq.
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I'm of two minds about this.
On the one hand, kick their asses wherever you find them.
On the other hand stay out of Iraq.
I think this will blow over when body counts and captured "Big Turbans" names are announced. (And info shared with Iraqis.)
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The mayor of Sderot, an Israeli town repeatedly targeted by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, says in order to save Israeli lives he is ready to talk to Hamas - despite the international ban on contact with the militant Palestinian organisation.
"I would say to Hamas, let's have a ceasefire, let's stop the rockets for the next 10 years and we will see what happens," said Eli Moyal, the mayor, who is a member of the rightwing Likud party. "For me as a person the most important thing is life and I'm ready to do everything for that. I'm ready to talk to the devil."
Last week a child lost a leg in a rocket attack on Sderot. Moyal's first response was to call for the assassination of the Hamas leadership and for Gaza villages to be razed. But now he is ready for a different tactic. His call for talks comes as Israel's blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip is under international pressure.
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One addled mayor who sounds as clueless as Olmert, plus "UN officials". There's a quorum of idiocy. It is literally hard to believe one's eyes when one reads what some Israelis are thinking. Here is a guy LITERALLY at the business end of Palestinian malicious violence - and he can only imagine surrender of some sort as a solution. Yikes.
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Moyal has been at the receiving end of kassams for over 6 years now. Moyal has been an advocate for leveling the Gaza neighborhoods the kassams launch from, has been a true leader by the mere fact that people still live in Sderot, indeed he has tried everything (type sderot in the search) and has got nowhere, but was begged to stay after threatening to resign. Just like I have eaten a -lot- of different foods I have never tried the taste of pig shit, just as Moyal is trying now. More than anything it is a reflection of the national government not doing anything and indeed threatening the citizens of sderot with retaliation if they do something like building a giant trebouchet. Moyal is tired of the BS and I don't blame him one bit because nobody else is doing anything.
"Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation ... Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyes."
Khaled Mashal, Hamas leader
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gotta blame the central gov. on this one , but the mayor should try the trebuchet throry before negotiating with these pieces of shit. And who by the way gave the town mayor the authority too negotiate with Hamass anyway, this would ahve too be against some Israeli law somewhere
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Israel holds the Hamas leadership responsible for all rockets fired from Gaza, including those launched by other militant groups.
Well, yeah. That's what happens when you're the rulers of a patch of land. If anti-Arab Israelis started launching rockets from Sderot into Gaza, and the Israelis did nothing, it would be proper to hold the Israeli government responsible.
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Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) chief Nayef Hawatmeh on Friday urged Hamas to renounce its control of the Gaza Strip and Fatah to stop talks with Israel and open inter-Palestinian negotiations instead. "Hamas must renounce its control over Gaza and Abu Mazen (Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas) must stop talking to Israel so that comprehensive Palestinian negotiations can be opened," he said in a speech at the Yarmuk refugee camp near Damascus. "Hamas must cease its armed hegemony over the Gaza Strip which is separated from the West Bank and Jerusalem," he said, referring to last June's Islamist takeover after Hamas ousted forces loyal to Abbas following a week of deadly fighting. "The Palestinian Authority must turn its back on political coups d'etat and stop talking to Israel until the end of all Jewish settlements" on Palestinian land, Hawatmeh said.
He was addressing a meeting organised to mark the 39th anniversary of the DFLP, which he founded in 1969. The DFLP was among three Palestinian factions which offered last October to mediate a settlement between Fatah and Hamas. A new initiative to resolve the conflict "will see the light of day very soon," Hawatmeh said. "This dreadful conflict has destroyed the unified Palestinian national project. It has increased the despair of the Palestinian people and gived the enemy the chance to scoff at our rights."
The DFLP leader also called for the deployment of international troops on Palestinian land occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
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"The Joos! You're supposed to be killing the Joos!"
"Hamas's response to the naïve resolution by the European Parliament proves the damage it has caused by its de-facto recognition of the Hamas terrorist organization," MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) said Friday.
Schneller added that that such recognition was liable to lead to terror attacks across Europe. The Kadima MK was responding to Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri's praise for Thursday's resolution which called on Israel to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza and to halt IDF operations which endangering civilians, as well as targeted killings.
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Impossible.
They recognize Hamas over Israel. They did not send troops to Iraq. There are strict laws concerning the ownership and use of weapons, firearms and explosive materials. They have a committee approved resolution which condemns terroristic 'enthusiastic youthful practice of political expression not that there is anything wrong with that' activities.
How is the european parliament determined? Is it like appointed insider behind the curtain shadow power figure superdelegates?
"Hamas is ready for a mutual cease-fire with Israel," Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the group, said Friday. "The Hamas movement is ready to explore any initiative toward ending Israel's aggressive tactics against the Palestinian people," Zuhri said in a written statement.
Zuhri also praised Thursday's European Parliament resolution calling on Israel to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza and to halt IDF operations which endangering civilians, as well as targeted killings.
He went on to say that the Kassam rocket attacks were a legitimate response to Israeli aggression. "The problem is not with Hamas, the problem is with the occupation, its aggression and the siege imposed on our people in the Gaza Strip," said Zuhri, adding "the EU parliament's call is highly appreciated."
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When Hamas says they want a cease-fire, it means they're getting their a** kicked.
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1) Gaza isn't occupied.
2) Deliberately targeting innocent civilians and children (and then celebrating their deaths) is not 'legitimate' (except in the religion of Death: Islam where unwilling Human Sacrifices are still practiced)
3) Ham-ass has never met any of its obligations in the past. See Next Item.
4) Doing the exact same thing and expecting something different is the definition of Insanity.
(PTI) The LTTE alleged on Friday that eight civilians, including three pre-school children, were killed and 10 were injured, four of them critically, when Sri Lanka bombed a coastal civilian settlement in the Kiranchi area in Poonahari in the Kilinochchi district.
However, the Air Force said it bombed carefully identified LTTE targets. The Defence Ministry said here the jets had bombed two artillery positions of the LTTE terrorists located in the North of Mannar and Mulllaittivu areas. It said the first air sortie was conducted around 12 noon in the Mannar area while the second at 1p.m in the Mulllaittivu area. Fighter pilots have confirmed that the targets were accurately hit.
The Ministry said the terrorists had been firing heavy artillery towards Mannar and Welioya Forward Defence Lines (FDLs) using guns located at the targeted locations. Recently, the LTTE terrorists fired at St. Anthonys church, Thalladi, destroying the building and killing six soldiers engaged in cleaning and maintenance work, it said. The Ministry said the jets had also bombed an inland Sea Tiger base at Kiranchchi, west of Kilinochchi.
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it look very terrible what srilanken government doing on civilian settelments ?terror this is terror state
THE UN Security Council could spend "100 years passing resolutions" but they would have no impact on the Iran's nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today.
"They could spend 100 years passing resolutions but it wouldn't change anything," Mr Ahmadinejad said in an interview with state television ahead of a meeting of the major powers tomorrow to discuss a new draft package of sanctions.
"Our red line is not the resolutions but our rights," he said, alluding to Iran's insistence that it has a right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to master the nuclear fuel cycle regardless of Security Council ultimatums to suspend the work.
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nah seem( as much as I hate too admit it) that Ahmanutjob has it right on this one.And with Bush going out of office the US will not be the one too take up the UNs fight for at least 4 too 8 years
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Option B, but if the Carnival Huckster (Obama) wins after selling snakeoil, we might put US troops under the command of the UN. The guy is an avowed communist, not that anybody seems to be paying attention.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the U.S. and its allies Saturday to "apologize" to Iran for accusing it of seeking nuclear weaponsa day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog released its latest report on Iran's atomic program.
Ahmadinejad said the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency vindicated Iran and warned that Tehran would take unspecified "reciprocal measures" against any country that imposed additional sanctions against Iran.
The IAEA report said several past questions about Iran's nuclear program had been resolved, but highlighted Tehran's continued refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
Ahmadinejad said in a televised address to the nation that the best way for the U.S. and its allies to "compensate for their mistakes" is to "apologize and pay compensation."
"If they continue" pursuing sanctions, he said, "we have definitely drawn up reciprocal measures." Ahmadinejad did not elaborate.
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"we're sorry you're a short ugly ignorant piece of shit, unfit for a dog's last meal. We're sorry the people of Iran have been enslaved to a kleptocrat gang of Islamo-thugs who have their basij do the thumping they are too afraid to do themselves. We're sorry your great culture will come to a smoking end with too many innocents dead and injured due to your grasping for power and hate..oh yeah, if we miss smoking any of the embassy kidnappers, we're sorry for that too. Assholes"
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday it confronted Iran for the first time with Western intelligence reports showing work linked to making atomic bombs and that Tehran had failed to provide satisfactory answers.
The United States passed the intelligence, which came mainly from a laptop spirited out of Iran, to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2005 but out of fear for its spies only authorized the IAEA to present it last month, diplomats said.
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Here's where Wallid's deep penetration of Syria and Lebanon [of course] can play a key role in finding Nasrallah's latest hidey-hole and or movement schedule.. then BOOM!
Iran is defying a UN ban on uranium enrichment and rejects allegations that it had tried to make nuclear arms, accusing the US and its allies of fabricating information to back up such claims, the International Atomic Energy said Friday.
At the same time, Teheran has cooperated in other areas of an IAEA probe, leading the agency to put to rest for now suspicions that several past experiments and activities were linked to a weapons program, said an agency report.
Specifically, the 11-page report obtained by The Associated Press suggested the agency was satisfied with answers provided by Iran on the origin of traces of enriched uranium in a military facility; experiments with polonium, which can also be used in a weapons program; and purchases on the nuclear black market.
It said that in those areas information given by Teheran is either "consistent with its findings (or) ... not inconsistent with its findings," suggesting it was content for now with explanations that these activities were not weapons-related.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Recent information delivered by security services to El Khabar pointed out that the majority of plots of post December 11 suicide attacks executed by recently dismantled network, targeted assassinating Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem and Culture Minister Khalida Toumi, as well as bombing Presidency Headquarter and Foreign Affairs Ministry Building in addition to police offices in Algiers.
North Korea opened its main nuclear reactor to foreign media for the first time on Friday in a bid to show that it is complying with a disarmament accord to disable the facility. Broadcaster APTN was permitted to visit the reactor facility in Yongbyon, the heart of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Its footage showed North Korean workers in white head-to-toe protective suits removing spent nuclear fuel from the facility's 5 megawatt reactor. 
(PTI): Disapproving of US' reliance on President Pervez Musharraf in the war against terror, presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who raised a storm by suggesting unilateral action against al-Qaeda in Pakistan, has vowed to go after the terror network there. "On the question of Pakistan, we just had an election there. But I have said very clearly that we have put all our eggs in the Musharraf basket. That was a mistake", he said at the Democratic presidential debate in Austin, Texas. "We should be going after al-Qaeda and making sure that Pakistan is serious about hunting down terrorists, as well as expanding democracy," Obama said. 
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) chief Nayef Hawatmeh on Friday urged Hamas to renounce its control of the Gaza Strip and Fatah to stop talks with Israel and open inter-Palestinian negotiations instead. "Hamas must renounce its control over Gaza and Abu Mazen (Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas) must stop talking to Israel so that comprehensive Palestinian negotiations can be opened," he said in a speech at the Yarmuk refugee camp near Damascus. "Hamas must cease its armed hegemony over the Gaza Strip which is separated from the West Bank and Jerusalem," he said, referring to last June's Islamist takeover after Hamas ousted forces loyal to Abbas following a week of deadly fighting. "The Palestinian Authority must turn its back on political coups d'etat and stop talking to Israel until the end of all Jewish settlements" on Palestinian land, Hawatmeh said.
"Hamas's response to the naïve resolution by the European Parliament proves the damage it has caused by its de-facto recognition of the Hamas terrorist organization," MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) said Friday. 
"Hamas is ready for a mutual cease-fire with Israel," Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the group, said Friday. "The Hamas movement is ready to explore any initiative toward ending Israel's aggressive tactics against the Palestinian people," Zuhri said in a written statement. 
Iran is defying a UN ban on uranium enrichment and rejects allegations that it had tried to make nuclear arms, accusing the US and its allies of fabricating information to back up such claims, the International Atomic Energy said Friday.
