Legitimising terrorCampaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) - 9 May 2008Summary: Rajavi SaddamThe People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI a.k.a MEK, MKO) is set to be taken off the UK terrorism blacklist. It’s a mistake – this is a violent, criminal group. The UK not only has legitimised the activities of a well-funded and merciless group whose members have slaughtered tens of thousands innocent Iraqi and Iranian civilians over the past three decades and whose leaders are just as criminal as Saddam Hussein, but it has also earned the contempt of tens of millions of Iranians and Iraqis for supp source: Guardianread more
Uncertainty in BeirutElectronic Intifada - 9 May 2008rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rBeirut is exploding all around me. After Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah made his speech this evening, during which he accused the governing coalition of declaring war on the resistance, opposition and March 14 supporters started fighting each other and making their armed presence felt all over West Beirut, including my neighborhood of Hamra. EI editor Maureen Clare Murphy writes from Beirut.
Battle for BeirutElectronic Intifada - 9 May 2008rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rBEIRUT, 9 May (IRIN) – Everyone kept insisting it was not a civil war, but jumping for cover as a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into the apartment block beside us, and masked gunmen fired deafening salvos across the road dividing Sunni and Shia neighborhoods of Beirut, it certainly felt like it. “It is impossible for Shia to shoot on Sunnis,” insisted a military commander of Shia opposition group Amal, allied with Shia resistance group Hizballah.
IRAQ: The elusive Iranian weaponsCampaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) - 9 May 2008Summary: Weapons in KarbalaA plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. source: LA Timesread more
Author, Blogger Arianna Huffington on How John McCain Has Changed Since Telling Her He Didn’t Vote for Bush in 2000Democracy Now - 9 May 2008Blogger, author and nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington revealed this week that Senator John McCain had told her eight years ago that he did not vote for President Bush in the 2000 election. McCain has angrily denied the claim. Huffington joins us to talk about her disillusionment with McCain, whom she says has abandoned his principles in his quest for the Republican nomination. Huffington is author of the new book, “Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe ? and What you Need to Know to End the Madness.”
