The government of Yemen, a regional enemy of Israel, announced Tuesday it had arrested members of a Muslim extremist terrorist cell who were allegedly involved in an attack against the United States embassy in that country last month.
According to Yemen authorities, the cell was supported by Israel....
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Watch my new girl crush Rachel Maddow talking about the latest Gallup poll - which shows that Obama is leading McCain among registered voters - as well as covering Obama, Biden and McCain’s latest comments about the economy (and some of MCain’s older ones):
Looks like the post-Palin bum...
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Posted by
Amira Al Hussaini
· 11:49 pm
· Saudi Arabia · Turkey · Yemen
Sixteen people were killed when the US Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen, was attacked with a car bomb and rockets today. One blogger was minutes away from the explosions.
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A terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen left 16 people dead today. Responsibility for the vile attack was instantly claimed by the Islamic Jihad, an extremist Moslem terrorist organization.
The attack consisted out of two car bombs exploding at (more or less) the same time at the gate of the...
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“A US judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, involving Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, can go ahead. Judge James Robertson dismissed a claim from lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, that it should be stopped while he challenged the proces...
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Obama has repeatedly topped online and offline polls, many of which we've profiled before. Some interesting new data comes from English, baby!, the most visited website for English language students with 750,000 members. It has run a series of polls related to the US Presidential elections. The firs...
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"I’m offering Sen. Obama the chance to debate me one-on-one, no moderators. Just the two of us going for 90 minutes asking and answering questions. We’ll set whatever rules seem fair." That's how Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presented her invitation for a 'one-on-one' debate to Sen. Bar...
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Since the times of Jesse Owens who was never invited to the White House nor bestowed any honors by the then residents of that House; since: Emmet Till, Rosa Parks, James Meredith, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Americans have achieved much in their quest for equal rights for their different race...
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Posted by
Amira Al Hussaini
· 9:05 pm
· Israel · Palestine · Saudi Arabia · Yemen
Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace grabbed the headlines as soon as newsmen caught wind of the scandal. Bloggers followed closely on their heel, including those from the Middle East and North Africa, whose attention was turned to the humiliation his wife must have suffered from and indignation of having her to stand by him as he announced his resignation.
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The American news media, as always, relishes such dirt. Not even yesterday's big slump of the Dollar, or the precarious state of the American economy or the current (undemocratic) tight Democratic Party's race for the White House - not any of these is getting, now, as much coverage and such focused ...
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