Bosnian TV alleges Muslim official linked to 9/11 attacks

BBC Monitoring European. London: May 9, 2008.
Excerpt from report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation public TV, on 5 May
[Host Bakir Hadziomerovic] On last night’s [Bosnian] Federation Television
prime-time news, it was reported that the OHR [Office of the High
Representative] anti-corruption team was completing an extensive
investigation against several individuals involved in economic crime, aiding
war criminals and terrorist activities worldwide [...]

Που οφείλεται και πως μπορεί να αντιστραφεί η κερδοσκοπία…

Του Χρύσανθου Λαζαρίδη, Γ.Γ. του ΔΣ/Δ21
 
Σε προηγούμενο δημοσίευμα δείξαμε ότι η αλματώδης άνοδος του πετρελαίου τα τελευταία πέντε χρόνια (από τα 25 στα 130 δολάρια το βαρέλι), οφείλεται κατά μικρό ποσοστό (15% περίπου) στην αυξημένη ζήτηση από την πλευρά της Κίνας. Κατά διπλάσιο ποσοστό (30%) οφείλεται στη «διολίσθηση» του ίδιου του δολαρίου. Και κατά το [...]

Albania asks Kosovo to agree on pipeline

Albania is readying plans for an interconnection line with Kosovo.
Production of energy from Albania’s hydropower stations would be well balanced with the production from Kosovo’s power stations, said Albania’s Economy and Trade Minister Genc Ruli, the Shekulli newspaper reported.
“Minister Ruli and Shiroka, his counterpart, stressed the cooperation in the  field of energy. The two ministers [...]

CANA CALLS FOR ASSERTIVE ADVOCACY AT PONTUS AND ASIA MINOR GENOCIDE CONFERENCE

Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel. 1-917-699-9935
 
“We must challenge the status quo with coalition building, media attention, and bold public action to make the world aware of our suffering” –CANA Press Officer, Nikolaos Taneris
NEW YORK—The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) stressed the need to focus on gaining media attention, and on printing Pontian Genocide [...]

Lebanese Fleeing War Arrive in Cyprus

A total of ten boats and sailing vessels have arrived at the Larnaca port since Monday evening, carrying around 140 people escaping the fighting between Hezbollah fighters and pro-government forces.
Speaking to the press, Larnaca Marina Director Michalis Fili said that every vessel carries around ten passengers, noting that most of these are Lebanese nationals who [...]

A Secular Market Nightmare

By Alyssa A. Lappen
 
Source: FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, May 09, 2008
The global sub-prime mortgage mess would have been “unthinkable in the Islamic capital markets sector,” Malaysian Islamic finance scholar Mohammed Mahmud Awan told Arab News on April 24; Islamic law, or “shari’a principles” would prohibit selling “a debt against a debt,” Awan said at a Bahrain [...]

LEBANON: Opposition continues military takeover, enforces siege

Lebanon’s worst sectarian violence since its 15-year civil war ended in 1990 has spread from Beirut to the Druze heartlands of Mount Lebanon and on to the second city of Tripoli in the north as Hezbollah and its opposition allies continued their military takeover of the country.
Druze leader Waleed Jumblatt, who for many years has [...]

The path to friendship goes via the oil and gas fields

Colonel Gadafy is just the latest beneficiary of a cynical strategy 
 
 
Michael Meacher
Saturday March 27, 2004
The Guardian
 
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1179206,00.html
 
 
So “brave” Muammar Gadafy has agreed on the importance of combating terrorism. A handshake with Tony Blair has sealed his re-entry into the international community, with contracts worth several hundred million pounds for Shell and BAE to follow. His compliance [...]