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Special Dispatch No. 4974
Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV Honors French Holocaust Denier Roger Garaudy In Ceremony For Outstanding Students
Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV honored French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy by naming a ceremony for outstanding students after him. The ceremony, which recognizes the achievements of exceptional Lebanese students, is named every year after a prominent personality. The 8th ceremony, held this year on August 29, was named after Garaudy, who died in June, for his "intellectual convictions" and his "exceptional courage in facing political taboos, especially regarding Israel and Zionism."
The ceremony was broadcast live on Al-Manar TV.
Announcer: "We have a tradition of naming each year's ceremony for outstanding students after an outstanding individual. The name of the personality for this year's ceremony will be announced by the student who scored the highest grade on the high-school final exams in general sciences. He is from the Beit Al-Hikma high school in Chehim – Wael Raif Hajj Ali."
Applause
Wael Raif Hajj Ali: "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, on behalf of my colleagues, let me welcome you all to the Al-Manar ceremony.
"We welcome you to the 8th Al-Manar Festival of Excellence. This year's festival is dedicated to the French international intellectual, Dr. Roger Garaudy."
Applause
Cut to footage of Garaudy
 
Special Dispatch No. 4973
Yemeni Cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani: I Have Discovered Cures For AIDS, Heart Failure – And Obtained 'Accreditation For A Patent' From UN Agency For Them
On September 21, 2012, Aljazeera.net reported that Yemeni preacher Sheikh 'Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani, who in 2004 was classified by the U.S. government as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist because of his loyalty to Osama bin Laden and his support of Al-Qaeda, had claimed to have obtained "accreditation for a patent" for medication for treating AIDS from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a UN agency. It added that although the drug was ready for immediate production, Al-Zindani was "currently busy protecting his invention in 185 countries."
The report noted that Al-Zindani presented himself as the first to claim to have invented a cure for AIDS, and that he attributed his success "firstly to the grace of Allah, in addition to his expertise in researching i'jaz [scientific signs], and his investigation of prophetic medicine." He said that he began researching AIDS medication 25 years ago, with the participation of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Koran and the Sunnah in Saudi Arabia, where he worked, and that he continued his research at the Center for Prophetic Medicine of Al-Iman ("Belief") University in Sana'a, which he headed.
According to the report, Al-Zindani said he had "sent samples of the medicine to pharmaceutical factories in Germany, and that the special laboratory's results of the last 23 [patients] who were checked reached him 12 days ago from a hospital in Jordan. [Moreover, he said that] he has a device which reveals whether there is even a single virus in the blood. The results that arrived from Jordan indicated that in six cases, the [viral count] was zero. In the others, there was a lessening of the viral percentage, and they need to continue treatment... [He added] that the Yemeni Health Ministry was taking blood samples from 10 patients from the two groups he had treated, and was sending them to Egypt, where they would be taken to laboratories [apparently in reference to NAMRU-3], which the World Health Organization considers the standard [in medical research] in the Middle East region."
Al-Zindani previously discussed his AIDS cure, and his demand for money – not the removal of his U.S. terrorist designation – in return for it, on Al-Jazeera TV in January 2007 (click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV; for transcript, see below).
Following are excerpts from the September 21, 2012 interview with Al-Zindani, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV (via Youtube) (click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV).
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