1.SANAA/TAIZ (Reuters) - The Yemeni air force bombed an al Qaeda-held southern city on Monday while residents in another city said soldiers had opened fire on a demonstration and run protesters over with bulldozers, killing at least 15.
COMMENT: "Al Qaeda-held city?" in Yemen. Protestors run over with bulldozers? It was Reuters who called them pro-democracy forces.......
2.Iran's parliament voted on Wednesday in favor of taking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court over what lawmakers say is a violation of the country's constitution stemming from the president's move last month to declare himself caretaker oil minister. The vote in the conservative-dominated assembly is its latest action against Ahmadinejad since the president in April publicly challenged Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP)
COMMENT: Iran, the once great Persian Empire, now land of the mullahs....How the mighty hath fallen!
3.Jordan's finance minister says Saudi Arabia has donated $400 million to shore up his nation's wobbly economy. Jordan has a record deficit of $2 billion this year, which could endanger reform plans. The donation covers 20 percent of Jordan's rising energy bill as well as subsidies promised in the wake of street protests over high food and gasoline prices. (AP)
COMMENT: Saudi Arabia, shortly after the Obama speech gave Egypt $4B. This looks more like food for oil, and the economic shoring up of struggling Sunni regimes, who incidently are all American allies and definitely not democracies.
4.A top Al Qaeda commander and possible replacement for Usama bin Laden was killed in an American drone-fired missile strike close to the Afghan border, the militant group he heads and a Pakistani intelligence official said Saturday.
Comment: The CIA is on a tear. Info from the OBL assasination. Say a big thank you to Israel for the drone technology!COMMENT: "Al Qaeda-held city?" in Yemen. Protestors run over with bulldozers? It was Reuters who called them pro-democracy forces.......
2.Iran's parliament voted on Wednesday in favor of taking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court over what lawmakers say is a violation of the country's constitution stemming from the president's move last month to declare himself caretaker oil minister. The vote in the conservative-dominated assembly is its latest action against Ahmadinejad since the president in April publicly challenged Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP)
COMMENT: Iran, the once great Persian Empire, now land of the mullahs....How the mighty hath fallen!
3.Jordan's finance minister says Saudi Arabia has donated $400 million to shore up his nation's wobbly economy. Jordan has a record deficit of $2 billion this year, which could endanger reform plans. The donation covers 20 percent of Jordan's rising energy bill as well as subsidies promised in the wake of street protests over high food and gasoline prices. (AP)
COMMENT: Saudi Arabia, shortly after the Obama speech gave Egypt $4B. This looks more like food for oil, and the economic shoring up of struggling Sunni regimes, who incidently are all American allies and definitely not democracies.
4.A top Al Qaeda commander and possible replacement for Usama bin Laden was killed in an American drone-fired missile strike close to the Afghan border, the militant group he heads and a Pakistani intelligence official said Saturday.
5.State-run Syrian television says 120 policemen and security forces were killed in an ambush by "armed groups" in a tense northern town. Security forces have been conducting military operations in the town of Jisr al-Shughour for several days as part of a crackdown on anti-government protests. (AP)
COMMENT:This is no longer an uprising. It is a new civil war. Neither side are pro-democracy. Keep it up fellows. The world is watching you show your true colours.
6.Hillary Clinton held an event Monday launching the "Women's World Cup Initiative" to empower women through sports, but a coalition of rights activists is asking the U.S. secretary of state to get involved in a case dealing with an issue just as basic: driving while female. Chiding the U.S. government for its "public silence" on the issue, the rights group has called on Clinton to take a stand in the case of a mother arrested for driving in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that prohibits women from getting behind the wheel.
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