News Archive - 9 September 2011

>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. security handed over a U.N.-accredited journalist working for an Iranian broadcaster to New York City police after a stage-prop gun was found in his baggage, U.N. officials said on Friday. "An accredited journalist was found with a toy gun, I believe...

> * Netanyahu govt calls for calm, eyes possible escalation * Turkish charity says no plan "yet" for new Gaza convoy * NATO unlikely to intervene; U.S. wants rapprochement By Dan Williams JERUSALEM, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israel will keep blockading Gaza in the face of Turkey's unprecedented naval...

>AMMAN (Reuters) - - Syrian forces shot dead six pro-democracy protesters on Friday, activists said, after demonstrations called for foreign help and Turkey indicated that its patience was running thin with the bloody crackdown. Protesters took to the streets in their thousands after Friday prayers as they have weekly for...

>JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Turkey's threat to send warships to protect aid convoys to Gaza is unlikely to trigger conflict with Israel, but the dramatic deterioration in relations between the one-time allies could jeopardize Israeli energy ambitions. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the stakes with Israel on Thursday, saying...

Authoritarian regimes dream through propaganda and so, to see what they're fantasizing about, we regularly check in on what state-controlled media outlets have been churning out.Related: Iran Calls Britons Liars, Belarus Has Op-Ed ConfusionChina calls America's post-9/11 war on terror a failure

> Google itself was not compromised, but the attackers may have been able to break into the link between Gmail and a person's computer, essentially. As such the attack was the latest illustration of the difficulty and complexity of securing the Web. "We learned last week that the compromise of...

A UN spokesman has reportedly said the world body will probe the recent remarks by French President Nicolas Sarkozy against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

What happened 10 years ago this Sunday in New York City, in D.C. and on a field here in Pennsylvania was a defining moment in American life. It also was, in many, many ways, very personal.

A new opinion poll shows surprisingly high levels of doubt in the UK over the official story of the 9/11 attacks. The poll, conducted by ICM on behalf of Reinvestigate 911, found that more people agree than disagree that the official account of what happened on 9/11 might turn out...

KARACHI, Sept 9: Anti-US sentiment may be strong in Pakistan but the country’s religious leadership, regardless of sect, view or approach, have been eager to get their hands on American aid, says a confidential cable of the American consulate in Lahore, released by WikiLeaks.

The iLand project is being built by TSI Group from Tehran while the circuit is designed by Apex Circuit Design UK-based company.

Norway's Crown Prince Haakon will visit China next week, to attend the Young Global Leaders Annual Summit in Dalian, from September 12th to 16th. The summit is under the auspices of the World Economic Forum, of which the crown prince has been an active member for several years.

OGDEN -- All Utahns go through intense security at the airport because of the terrorist attacks 10 years ago Sunday, but how many know:  Why one museum's volunteers had to have background checks before they could show visitors the displays?  Why there are so many Saudi students in Utah and...

Tehran, September 8 (KCNA) -- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said Tuesday that Iran will never tolerate any attack on the country, the English language satellite Press TV reported.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has condemned the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks for putting lives in danger. But how many is unclear.

Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, clergy members noticed a spike in church attendance, and in some cases curiosity. As pastor of the Persian Church of the Good Shepherd in Seattle, Mansour Khajehpour preached to a largely Iranian congregation.

The U.S. has made steady progress in implementing recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission, creating a stronger security apparatus that has helped to thwart terrorist attacks, experts say.

JERUSALEM -- Israel was wrestling on Friday with growing tensions with Turkey after the Turkish prime minister threatened to use his navy to accompany aid flotillas to Gaza and to challenge Israel's plans for gas exploration and export in the Eastern Mediterranean.

JERUSALEM -- Israel was wrestling Friday with growing tensions with Turkey after the Turkish prime minister threatened to use his navy to accompany aid flotillas to Gaza, and to challenge Israel's plans for gas exploration and export in the Eastern Mediterranean.

After its phenomenal success in Puerto Rico and USA, and other parts of the world, controversial family drama“¿Dónde Está Elisa?” now hits the pearl of the orient, as ABS-CBN finally brings its much-awaited Philippine TV adaptation of this Chilenovela, Nasaan Ka Elisa? on September 12, after “My Binondo Girl.

As the 10th anniversary of the attacks in New York and Washington approaches, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, the organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who united to turn their grief into action for ...

Iran's Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has dispatched its largest batch of humanitarian aid shipment to famine-hit Somalia as part of efforts to help with relief of the people of the Horn of Africa nation.

WASHINGTON — The question has never stopped being asked since the morning of Sept. 11, 2001: What next?

Imagine a scenario in which a computer virus combined with malignant malware is deployed to reach every system in the nation: stripping hard drives of valuable data, denying even basic log-in access and bringing commerce and productivity to a halt.

We all remember where we were on Sept. 11, 2001, when al-Qaeda launched its horrific attacks on the United States. In the decade since, no number of commissions, books, films and reports has been able to end the misconceptions about what 9/11 meant, America's response to it and the nature...

An Iraqi farmer looks at the fruit of a small date palm on the outskirts of Baghdad. Photo courtesy: AFP An Iraqi farmer spreads earth around the base of a newly planted date palm on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Colonel (Dr) Anil Athale (retd) on how the global war on terror has changed the geo-politics of the world and India's role in it.

Years of drought had dried up the ancient water supply networks existing around the Mediterranean Rim. However, with rainfall returning over the past 5 years, the hydraulic heritage has come to life again. The names of the tunnels that carry the revived streams -khettaras in Morocco, foggaras in Algeria or...

THURSDAY saw the conclusion of a two-day meeting of the Iran-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission, and reports emerging from it mark a new level of economic cooperation between the two countries.

KUCHING: Sarawak dijangka mempunyai sebuah lagi institut penyelidikan yang berpangkalan di Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Sarawak pada masa akan datang.

Paul Bradbury, then the facilities engineering manager at the Portland Jetport, was in a staff meeting the morning the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. When the second plane hit, everyone in aviation knew it was some form of terrorism, Bradbury said. In the ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran and Ecuador have signed two memorandums of understanding, Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi has announced.

Iran are serious about their hopes to host a F1 race, unveiling plans for a racetrack complex with a golf course and water park.

NEWCOMERS Kaohsiung and Pingtung Gymnastics Association from Taiwan put up a strong challenge to trouble the favourites Kerman Club of Iran at the third artistic gymnastics international friendship meet at the Sri Kuala Lumpur Gymnasium in Subang Jaya recently.

Teraktorsazi has defeated Esteqlal 3-2 in the sixth week of the Iranian Premier League (IPL) to claim the top spot of the table.

The president will attend a series of ceremonies, where he plans to honor those killed in the terrorist attacks 10 years ago but also highlight his national security accomplishments. White House officials were planning to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with a carefully calibrated message about the global threat...

EVERYONE RECALLS how they learned of the jets crashing into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th, 2001.

TERROR THREAT:NEW YORK will be in a state of heightened alert over the 9/11 anniversary weekend following what has been described as “credible but unconfirmed” information that a terrorist attack is being planned in the city or in Washington.

Now playing at a theater near you:★★★★ Superior ★★★ Recommended ★★ OK ★ Time-waster NR Not rated NA Not available 30 Minutes or Less ★★Jesse Eisenberg plays a pizza delivery man who is forced to rob a bank while strapped to a bomb to raise money so a couple of...

HOLD THE BACK PAGE:TEN YEARS after the 9/11 atrocity former British prime minister Tony Blair has said, apparently with a straight face, he backs regime change in Iran. Blair, an international peace envoy for the Middle East and the man who brought Britain into an unwinnable war, added that the...

Letters: Modern politics seems to be circus, not service

JOHOR BARU: Banks refused to give them loans; suppliers were only willing to supply goods on a cash delivery basis while owners of shoplots were reluctant to lease their premises.

The Prime Minister recalled his own personal torment on the day al-Qaeda struck, when he spent hours trying to contact Samantha, who had flown to Manhattan on a business trip the previous day.

Ten years on, the frightful images of the World Trade Center’s smoldering towers are beginning to seem more like historical events than open wounds. The patina of passing time does not obscure the horror of that day, but it does signal the onset of perspective.

It was the day after 9/11.

Iran traditionally likes to put its money on more than one player in any confrontation in which it is involved outside its borders.

A nightingale's call competing with the clamour of traffic or the singsong shout of the vegetable seller, these are the sounds Canadian writer Anosh Irani recollects from Bombay, India, the city of his youth.

A London rabbi fears WikiLeaks has placed lives in jeopardy by revealing details of his secret back-channel discussions with an Iranian "regime insider" over missing Israeli soldiers.

Don’t give up hope

Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai came under fire Friday from the opposition March 14 parties but won praise from March 8 politicians for indirectly defending Hezbollah’s arms and linking the party’s arsenal to the termination of Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory.

Post 9/11 in the arts: Finding musical catharsis By celia R. baker Special to The Tribune Published Sep 9, 2011 04:34PM MDT Words fail in the face of tragedy as enormous as the 9/11 attack of 2001. They can only recount the sterile facts: disintegrating towers, falling bodies, the instantaneous...

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, proved to be a catalyst for increased political involvement by the Muslim community in the United States, according to the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in San Diego.

Some 20,000 protesters marched near the Bahraini capital of Manama Friday, shouting anti-government slogans and vowing to stick to their calls for democratic reforms in the Gulf island ruled by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa.

While ErdoÄan calls Israel a "spoiled child" it seems that he is actually the spoiled child, throwing tantrums when his strategies don't work out as planned, he doesn't get his will or is actually blamed for his actions.

TEN years after the September 11 attacks we can say we’re winning the war on Islamist terrorism. So far. It’s…

His Green Book philosophy was Muammar Gaddafi's métier. We needn't imagine him rootling around in the theological issues facing his adversaries himself at this historical juncture.

Only a few hours after South Sudan was declared independent last July, Iraqi Kurdish leaders were quick to join world governments in congratulating its leaders, expressing the hope that the birth of the new state would put their own decades-long fight for independence into perspective.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Venezuela President Hugo Chavez appears to be strengthening his hand prior to a 2012 re-election campaign by nationalizing the country's gold mining industry and moving to bring $11 billion in gold reserves back to Venezuela from U.S. and European banks.

From an Israeli point of view, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can measure up to a dedication that extends so far beyond the interests of her own country.

Sen. Jon Kyl: The greatest tribute we can pay the victims of 9/11 is to confront head-on the terrorists and rogue regimes seeking to do us harm.

EDITOR'S NOTE: For videos, stories and other resources exploring the legacy of 9/11 and how to reach Muslims, visit [URL=http://www.lovingmuslims.com]lovingmuslims.com[/URL].

I was greatly saddened as I watched events in Libya unfold during the revolution until it reached the capital Tripoli. The drama of killing and destruction was gut wrenching, and the claims and lies -- despite all the signs -- make one question how we lived with these deceptions for...

On 2 September Turkey expelled its Israeli ambassador as a first response to Israel's refusal to apologise for the killing last year of nine Turkish activists by Israeli commandos on a ship trying to breach its naval blockade on Gaza.

The US and Europe have levied sanctions against Syria this past August.

NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, Sept. 9,2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In advance of a critical move at the United Nations later this month which will have serious repercussions for Israel and the entire Middle East region, the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP) – a...

"Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea, and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law... the flotilla acted recklessly in attempting to...

Maryam Keshavarz' sensitive take on cultural tensions in Iran is almost -- but not quite -- derailed by a fascination with the more lurid details of the story. [ more › ]

The attack on DigiNotar was detected on the 19th of July the company said in its press release, and it also reported that it had revoked the fraudulent certificates that were issued. Its press release did not say how many certificates had been issued, however, only that one involved Google.

Attorneys representing families of 9/11 victims today are filing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. their second lawsuit against Iran asserting evidence that Iran played a key role in planning and facilitating the 9/11 attacks. Â The new case, Bingham, et al. v.

Never one to follow the crowd, Apple on Friday finally got around to blocking digital certificates from DigiNotar.

There are huge opportunities for investments in social media companies, which have become a Fifth Estate in nascent democracies, writes Thomas Kostigen.

Book Passage in Corte Madera offers free author readings and other free events open to the public.

His role on the banks of the Jordan as godfather to Rupert Murdoch's daughter Grace is just one of the things that make him a great global comedy figure, says Matthew Norman.

It was early in the morning the day after Christmas. It was cold. Mehdi Forootan sat in the back seat of an undercover police car in front of his house in Tehran, Iran. He was barely awake. An officer pointed a camcorder at him.

The assault, apparently launched from Iran, focused on the digital security systems used to authenticate websites for banking, email and e-commerce around the world. A major cyber-attack in Europe that apparently was launched from Iran has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the Internet security systems used to authenticate websites for banking,...

One of the last times I remember actually waiting for film to be developed was in mid-September 2001. I was a college student living in downtown Manhattan, and had taken dozens of photographs from the roof of my dorm, where I watched the World Trade Center collapse, and then from...

The Plantations Industries Ministry has drawn up regulations to curb the adulteration of tea with chemical substances. The ministry will take stern action against those manufacturing adulterated tea, Plantation Industries Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.

As they do every Labor Day, residents of Fallon, Churchill County and other communities in Northern Nevada enjoyed the downtown Kiwanis pancake breakfast, Lions parade, Cantaloupe Festival events and rodeos at the fairgrounds, boating and swimming at Lake Lahontan, and the dunes at Sand Mountain.

The thin ranks of the endangered Persian ongaer have been joined by a newborn foal, the first to be bred at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 16 years.

WASHINGTON — Since the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the question's never stopped being asked: What next? Billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of people around the clock are aimed squarely at finding the answer. The next big terrorist attack could be cooked up in a lab, giving...

Israel was wrestling on Friday with growing tensions with Turkey after the Turkish prime minister threatened to use his navy to accompany aid flotillas to Gaza.

Christopher Hitchens’s latest essays bear “the full consciousness that they might be my very last.”

Washington, D.C. - Reacting to General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt sitting in the First Lady's box during President Obama's jobs speech to Congress, today policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research are calling attention to the relationship between the president's inability to select competent advisors and...

iPhone and iPad users still wide open Apple has finally purged the imprimatur of disgraced web authentication authority DigiNotar from its Mac operating system.…

Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, who is currently on a tour of Latin American countries, has arrived in Ecuador.

Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei says acts of sabotage along Iran's western borders are guided and backed by the United States and the West.

From mathematics to psychology, the attacks changed what we know about the world

VIENNA (AP) -- A U.S. scientist who visited a secret North Korean nuclear site last year says Pyongyang may seek to launch a third atomic test to enable it to develop a small fissile warhead that can be carried by a missile.

The World Economic Forum recently released it?s 2011-12 global competitiveness report (available here as a PDF) and Russia, as usual, did not fare particularly well ? dropping 3 places down to 66th. According to the WEF, Russia now ranks immediately behind countries such as Iran, Uruguay, Latvia, and Vietnam. I...

Talk of strategically defeating al Qaida is all the rage in the White House these days. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta used the “D-word” in July. President Obama declared in his new counter-terrorism strategy, “We can say with growing confidence ... that we have put al Qaida on the path to defeat.

VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea has "good technical reasons" to carry out at least one more atomic test if it wants to develop a nuclear-armed missile, a prominent U.S. scientist who has often visited the reclusive Asian state said on Friday.

BEIRUT — Thousands of Syrian protesters appealed Friday for international help in the face of a bloody government crackdown, marking a fundamental shift in an uprising that has defied bullets, tanks and snipers but has failed to crack the regime of President Bashar Assad.

Deputy United States Secretary of State for the Middle East David Hale had not invited the President of the PA Abu Mazenu there are no new ideas at their meeting in Ramallah on September 7. This was reported by the radio Kol Yisrael “, referring to the Palestinian source.

A man accused of providing financial support to terrorist activities was arrested as he boarded a plane to travel to Turkey.

Interpol Issues 'Red Notices' for Arrest of Moammar Gadhafi

Carol Christian Today staff Nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates including Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama are urging the U.S. government reject a controversial pipeline. In a letter to the U.S.[...]

Javad Nekounam could play for Osasuna against Sporting Gijon after the Spanish club confirmed his injury was not as serious as it was first seemed.