Report: 100 women sexually assaulted during anti-Morsi protests
AFTER LARA LOGAN, WHY IS IT THAT THESE WOMEN GO INTO HARMS WAY AND WHY DO THEIR EMPLOYERS SEND THEM THERE. TED BELMAN
AFP
Close to 100 women have fallen victim to “rampant” sexual attacks inCairo’s Tahrir Square during four days of protests against Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
“Mobs sexually assaulted and in some cases raped at least 91 women in Tahrir Square… amid a climate of impunity,” HRW, which is based in New York, said in a statement.
It cited figures from the Egyptian Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, which runs a hotline for victims of sexual assault, showing that there were 46 such attacks against women on Sunday, 17 on Monday and 23 on Tuesday.
Israel preparing to release murderers
Op-ed: Israel preparing to release 120 enemies for the right to talk to Mahmoud Abbas
Hagai Segal, YNET
Hagai Segal, YNET
We have yet to finish licking the wounds of the Shalit deal, and a new insane deal is being hatched. Some 120 terrorist blood-spillers are preparing to pack their bags. According to a list leaked to the Almagor Terror Victims Association, the terrorists slated for release in order to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians were responsible for the murderous acts that shook Israel in the pre-Oslo days. Most of us remember the names of the victims to this day: Rachel Weiss and her children; soldier David Delarosa; Ofra and Tal Moses of Alfei Menashe; Nissim Toledano; Professor Menachem Stern and many more.
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Obama Administration Middle East Policy
By Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports
A self-interview
A self-interview
Q: How can the United States become the ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, a one-time Nazi collaborator which has never changed its political line since; a movement to impose Sharia states and restore the caliphate; a movement that is genocidal against Jews, and is also anti-Christian, anti-Shia (all Shia, not just the Islamists), wants to kill gays and make women into second-class citizens?
Q: How can the United States—the very same politicians—oppose support for the pro-American Nicaraguan Contras against the pro-Communist Sandinistas but now support with arms the ant-American Syrian rebels—Brotherhood and worse?
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Report: Morsi to resign or be toppled within hours
By REUTERS LAST UPDATED: 07/03/2013 10:03
Al-Ahram reports military will form three-member presidential council to run the country; Morsi defies army, US pressure to bow to protests as clock ticks on army ultimatum for his resignation.
CAIRO – Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said it expected President Mohamed Morsi would either step down or be removed from office on Wednesday when a deadline set by the army for resolving the country’s political crisis expires.
Egypt’s flagship state daily said an army road map for the future would set up a three-member presidential council to be chaired by the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court.
“Al-Ahram learnt that with the end of the 48-hour period set by the armed forces … it is expected in the hours that follow it, one of two things: either Morsi announces his resignation himself, or the declaration of his removal through the road map for the future set out by the armed forces,” it said.
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2 Muslims arrested in Canadian terror plot ‘inspired by al Qaeda ideology’
By DAVID BARNETT, THE LONG WAR JOURNAL, July 2, 2013
Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced the arrest of two Canadian-born citizens, John Stuart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody, in a terror plot targeting a public gathering at the British Columbia Legislature in Victoria on Canada Day, July 1.
According to online court records, Nuttall and Korody appeared at the Surrey Provincial Court this morning. The two suspects face charges that include “conspiring to place an explosive in or against a place of public use, a government or public facility, with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, for the benefit of, at the direction or in association with a terrorist group,” according to an RCMP press release.
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Egypt’s MB Leaders Arrested, Army Moves In
Egyptian sources report that senior officials in the Muslim Brotherhood have been placed under house arrest and the military is securing strategic facilities across the country.
The Islamist group that backed President Mohamed Morsi in last year’s successful bid to win the nation’s first democratic election is also now being scrutinized for corruption in the ranks.
The group’s funding structure and records are being probed, according to a report posted Wednesday by the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper.
The report also claimed the Egyptian Army has begun to hermetically seal strategic installations across the country in accordance with a military “road map” plan that mandates implementation by the army if politicians could not resolve the leadership crisis by Wednesday.
The army reportedly had already taken control of all weapons and munitions arsenal sites.
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A bigot and leading figure in two hate organizations nominated to be University of California Student Regent
By Natan Nestel
Sadia Saifuddin, a UC-Berkeley student and a leader in the two most extreme anti-Semitic organizations on US campuses, has been nominatedfor the prestigious position of the student member (for the 2014-15 academic year) of the University of California Board of Regents. California’s Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Speaker of the Assembly are ex-officio Regent Board members. Sherry Lansing is the Chair of the Board. Senator Diane Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, is also a regent. The student regent participates in the board that sets policies for the renowned University of California system, which consists of ten campuses throughout the state. (Read more…)
Putin’s alleged speech, a hoax
I reported on this alleged speech in In Russia, national interest takes precedent over minorities.
Too bad. It would have been nice.
The Spring unleashed disorder, not democracy
The Arab Spring has failed. Angry crowds ransacked the offices of Egypt’s democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi, this week just as they once forced their way into the marble palaces of the region’s dictators. The mob set the place on fire and if there had been a statue of the president they would surely have toppled it.
What is happening in Egypt is not just part of a global revolt against austerity or a protest against the yawning gulf between rich and poor. It marks the death of an idea: that greater political choice and free speech could swiftly transform the Middle East. That turns out to have been a Western mirage in the desert. None of the European points of reference, from the uprisings of 1848 to the toppling of communism in 1989, really applied to the modern Arab world, not to the teeming urban poor of Cairo, nor the frustrated medical students of Bahrain nor the warlords of Libya.
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Is Israel betraying India
A recent revelation claiming that Israel had supplied high-tech weapons to Pakistan has caused a flutter. Although vehemently denied by the governments of Israel and Pakistan, the fact that the United Kingdom’s department for business, innovation and skills, which assesses export licences, had listed Pakistan as one of the destinations to which Israel exported arms with British components in 2010 and 2011 has generated bewilderment.
As Israel’s single largest customer buying up to 50 per cent of its total weapons exports, India has reasons to be anxious if the allegations are true. The items mentioned by the British as transfers from Israel to Pakistan include electronic warfare suites, radar and optical target acquisition systems and aero engines.
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In direct confrontation, Morsi refuses to quit, says army must withdraw ultimatum
DEBKAfile Special ReporT July 3, 2013, 12:10 AM (IDT)
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Tuesday night rejected Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ‘s demand that he quit to avert a bloodbath. He said he stood by his “constitutional dignity and demanded the army’s withdrawal of its ultimatum.
DEBKAfile: The general acted after Interior Minister Gen. Muhammad Ibrahim offered to place all police, internal security and intelligence forces at the disposal of the army because they no longer defer to the authority of the president or the Muslim Brotherhood government. This virtual “coup” enabled the army to jump the gun by 24 hours on its ultimatum to Morsi.
This military’s action was not quite a “coup,” but it snatched away the Muslim Brotherhood government’s buttress of organized security forces, leaving only loyal adherents as a last prop.
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