After a long fancy speech filled with Allah’s beautiful verses, Chief Judge Ahmed Refaat stated his final verdict as the Haqq (righteous). The verdict sentenced Hosni Mubarak; dictator for the past 30 years, and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to a life sentence over the deaths of demonstrators. The chief judge, making a mockery of [...]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces an uphill struggle in the second round of the presidential election, after coming second in Sunday’s first vote. He won 27.1% of the vote, while his Socialist rival Francois Hollande took 28.6%, the first time a sitting president has lost in the first round. The two men will face each [...]
A deal struck between Britain and Jordan will clear the way for the deportation of the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, but the home secretary, Theresa May, has told MPs it will still be months before he is put on a plane. Qatada, once described by a Spanish judge as Osama bin Laden’s righthand man in Europe and whom [...]
The sight of a river of empty red chairs running down the length of Marshal Tito Boulevard in Sarajevo, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege of the Bosnian capital, has been poignant. Twenty years on from the beginning of the war in April 1992, a conflict that would go on to [...]
Ahead of an upcoming presidential election in France, policymakers are riding a wave of Islam-dominated issues that have unwittingly taken center stage in the country’s public domain. Concerns over Islamic fundamentalism reached a peak in recent weeks when French police launched the latest of a series of raids on suspected Islamic militants, detaining 10 people [...]
In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route to the UK, and rendered to Libya. This is the story of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that reveals the involvement of the British government. Just when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Americans forced her [...]
Two weeks after the “scooter assassin” Mohamed Merah died in shootout with police in Toulouse, another serial killer who rides a motorcycle may be at large in the Paris suburbs. A 47-year-old woman was shot in the head on Thursday, bringing to four the number of people killed with the same revolver within a six-mile [...]
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that a new surge in attacks by Syrian government forces on protest cities violates the U.N. Security Council’s united demand for a peaceful end to the conflict. The U.N. secretary general indicated that he believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is using an April 10 deadline to pull troops and [...]
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I am sure they take pleasure in their sadistic acts in those lands....
