August, 2006

• 8 August

  IRGC Commander Reiterates Failure of US Great Middle-East Plan

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Seyed Yahya Rahim Safavi said there are well-established indications that the US Great Middle-East Plan has come to failure. Addressing a general convention

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• 8 August

  Haddad Adel Underlines Release of his Palestinian Counterpart

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called on the unions of Muslim and Arab Parliaments and all his colleagues worldwide to make every effort to set Palestinian Parliament Speaker free. In a message released on Sunday afternoon,

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• 8 August

  All Muslim countries will have Islamic gov’ts

  Pakistan‘s former army chief predicts all Muslim countries will have Islamic gov’ts   Pakistan’s former chief of army staff, (Ret’d) Gen Aslam Beg, has predicted that pure Islamic governments would emerge in almost all Islamic countries, including Pakistan, after some years.   He said that dictators of Islamic states are …

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• 8 August

  Losing Control of the U.S. Border

  Already this year, the number of non-Mexican apprehensions has far outpaced last year’s total in just eight months. And while they are still a relatively small percentage compared with the number of illegal Mexicans, critics say the federal government’s policy in dealing with them is far more dangerous.

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• 8 August

  Lebanon and Hezbollah Reject UN Resolution

  While Lebanon rejects a draft UN Security Council resolution, which aims at ending the Israeli attacks, it demands a resolution bound to the seven-point plan presented by Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.  

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• 8 August

  London Jews, Arabs warn of US power play in Middle East

  LONDON — Thousands of miles away from the Israel-Lebanon conflict, London’s Jews and Arabs are agreed on at least one thing: The Middle East is being radicalised by a US power play in the region.

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• 6 August

  UN Lebanon resolution nears

  King calls Siniora, reiterates support for Lebanese government plan to help end crisis The United States and France agreed Saturday on a Security Council resolution calling for fighting between Israel

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• 6 August

  US reinforcements take up positions in Baghdad amid new warning of civil war

  BAGHDAD (AP) — US soldiers sent to reinforce security in Baghdad were seen for the first time on the streets of the capital Saturday as Iraqi police used loudspeakers to reassure people that the Americans were there to protect them. But at least 21 people were killed or found dead …

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• 6 August

  4 Palestinians die in Gaza air strikes

  RAMALLAH — Four Palestinians were killed Saturday in two separate early morning Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. The first air strike killed a 16-year-old girl, Kifah Natour, and her brother, Amar, 15. Their mother, Huda, 50, and four other people, including their 13-year-old brother, …

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• 6 August

  Lebanon says fuel shortage may shut hospitals

  BEIRUT (AFP) — Hospitals treating thousands of wounded in Lebanon have fuel for only one more week and many will have to close if Israel keeps up a blockade on the country, the health minister warned on Saturday.

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