Hard News
Nine dead as Taliban attack airport in North West Pakistan: - A Taliban suicide squad staged an audacious car bomb, rocket and gun attack on the airport in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday and Pakistani security officials said at least nine people, including five attackers, were killed. http://is.gd/UbMTFg
Afghan suicide bomber kills 2 Afghans, US occupation force soldier: A Taliban suicide car bomber killed one American soldier and two Afghan civilians Thursday near a U.S. military base shortly after the visiting U.S. defense secretary left the facility in southern Afghanistan, officials said. http://is.gd/riLKr8
Karzai call on NATO troops to leave Afghan villages: Karzai spoke Saturday on the opening day of a conference to develop Afghanistan's foreign policy strategy for the next three years. http://is.gd/eeBp30
Two bombings kill 6 in Iraq: Police officials said that the bloodiest attack took place when a car bomb went off in a commercial street in western Baghdad, killing four people and wounding eight others. http://is.gd/uFIknl
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria? U.S. Officials: Syria Has Prepared Several Dozen Chemical Bombs: The number is a larger estimate than has previously been reported. The Syrians loaded the weapons with the chemical agents in the past several weeks: Unnamed U.S. and allied officials: http://is.gd/COraSY
Syrian rebels: U.S., British backed training in Jordan: A rebel participant said men he believed were U.S. intelligence officers observed what was taking place at the training camp in Jordan. The training itself was handled by Jordanian military officers, other rebels said. http://is.gd/04OT5i
Syrian Rebel Lays Out Hostage Demands, as Case Sullies a Cause: When Syrian rebels stopped two buses of Lebanese travelers in the spring and took 11 passengers hostage, they set off a cascade of fallout: riots at the Beirut airport, retaliation kidnappings against Syrians in Lebanon and a deepening of the sectarian character of the war. http://is.gd/EQYAXJ
UN contingency plan to deploy up to 10,000 peacekeepers in Syria - reports: The UN is considering the deployment of 4,000 to 10,000 peacekeepers in Syria as an emergency measure, reports Russian press, citing UN sources. This comes as the US along with over 100 countries voice support for the nascent Syrian Coalition. http://rt.com/news/un-send-peacekeepers-syria-102/
NATO accuses Syrian forces of firing Scuds near Turkey border : NATO accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces of firing Scud missiles that landed near to the Turkish border, in explaining why it was sending anti-missile batteries and troops to the bloc's frontier. http://is.gd/ZRJMmT
Iran: Patriot missiles in Turkey risk 'world war': Iranian military chief of staff says planned deployment of missile defense system along Syrian border poses threat to humanity. http://is.gd/QGC8Yc
Iran not to allow western intervention to oust Al-Assad - FM: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Saturday his country, a traditional ally of Syria, would never allow Western intervention to oust Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad by force. http://is.gd/gTo6O7
Egyptians vote on hotly contested sharia-based constitution: The Muslim Brotherhood has said on its official English-language website,that the votes have been counted in 3804 out of the 6376 polling stations with 60.9 per cent of the voters saying "YES" and 39.1 per cent saying "NO," the Ikhwanweb site reported. http://rt.com/news/egyptian-referendum-vote-constitution-099/
Why almost 40 percent of Israelis are thinking of emigrating: According to a new survey, more than a third of Israelis would leave the country if they could, citing economic opportunities as the main reason. Who are the wannabe leavers, and what can be done to induce them to stay? http://is.gd/KA5Jai
What A Load of *rap: The Innocent Prophet - English Version : Video - Another hate filled Muslim bating movie alledegedly by Terry Jones (pastor), who gained national and international attention in 2010 for his plan to burn the holy Qur'an http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gwcuG2jb9k
Yemen Reveals 100.000 Fictitious Soldiers in Elite Military Units: There are more than 100.000 fictitious soldiers in Yemen's elite forces of the republican guard and the Special Forces commanded by the elder son of the former president Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, Alahale reported http://is.gd/h2HsKX
John Kerry set to become next US Secretary of State: Mr Kerry, 69, has made no secret of his desire to take charge of the State Department and a growing consensus in Washington suggested that he was likely to be appointed by President Barack Obama within weeks. http://is.gd/N9rYGr
Report finds CIA torture ineffective: The Senate intelligence committee approved a report concluding that "harsh interrogation" measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said. The 6,000-page document, which was not released to the public, was adopted by Democrats over the objections of most of the committee's Republicans. http://is.gd/x81eTa
Obama signs Russia rights law: President Barack Obama Friday signed legislation that sanctions alleged Russian human rights abuses, which outraged Moscow after being coupled with a bill granting it normal trade relations. The Russian foreign ministry said the move amounted to "open meddling" in its internal affairs and was "a blind and dangerous position." http://is.gd/qVijsy
Russia calls US lawmakers 'hypocritical': Russia moved closer on Friday to adopting a law barring entry to Americans who violate human rights, the same day U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law a rights-linked trade bill Moscow finds objectionable. http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/278271.html
Guantanamo inmate Shaker Aamer to sue UK for defamation: The detainee is into his 11th year of detention at Guantanamo, even though he has been cleared for release. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20715511
Grist to the mill: Study: Wind blew deadly gas to US troops in Gulf War: U.S. bombings of Iraqi munitions factories in January 1991 released a plume of sarin gas that traveled more than 300 miles to affect "American troops" in Saudi Arabia, although military officials claimed at the time that chemical alarms triggered by the gas were false, a study released today shows. http://is.gd/Addu9M
Grist to the mill: US soldiers suicide numbers likely to top 2011, Army says: As many as 12 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in November, pushing the Army above last year's record number of suicides with one month left to go in the year, officials said today. http://is.gd/mZfB9J
US massacre victims 'shot multiple times': Each of bodies examined were shot three to 11 times, and gunman used rifle as his primary weapon, medical examiner says. http://is.gd/WErKDy
Newtown shootings: if not now, when is the time to talk about gun control?: Op-Ed : With 28, including 20 children, shot dead in Connecticut, it's not 'politics' but basic decency to insist America have this debate http://is.gd/UtYymi
Gunmen Kill 6 in Northern Mexico: Six men were shot dead by armed assailants in two separate attacks in this northern Mexican metropolis, capital of the state of Nuevo Leon. http://is.gd/q8YhBE
HSBC Couldn't Track $60 Trillion in Suspicious Activity?: HSBC was able to track Eliot Spitzer's 3 deposits to a holding account for an escort service. But they couldn't track $60 trillion in suspicious activity transfers from drug cartels and al-Qaeda that benefited them? Could it be because Spitzer was investigating the banks? Cenk Uygur breaks down the financial hypocrisy. http://is.gd/b7yoEt
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