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More Iran Nuke Secrets

More details on Iran’s nuclear detonator program…

Exiled group says Iranian
nuclear site needs check

ALeqM5hCy6lj5-o_4A-C-iZNgkEdTuGj0wPARIS (AP) — An exiled Iranian opposition group called on the U.N. nuclear agency Tuesday to waste no time in examining a hidden site near Tehran that it claims is used to help build nuclear detonators.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, the political arm of the Mujahedeen Khalq, said the site is built under a hillside east of Tehran and comprises a series of interconnecting tunnels. “All activities related to the manufacture of detonators are done in this web of tunnels,” Mehdi Abrichamtchi told a news conference.

The group first revealed its claims about the site at a September news conference. It provided what it said were details about its construction and workings Tuesday. The site is allegedly under what the NCRI says is the Research Center for the Technology of Explosion and Impact, or METFAZ, which is run by the Iranian Defense Ministry…

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Reference earlier imahd.ca report here.

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Middle East: Religion vs. Extremism

Score two victories for religious common sense over irrational hatred.

Lebanon:
Patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite Church lashes out at Hizbullah

“Weapons and democracy cannot coexist,” said Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite Church, in an interview to Lebanon’s al-Massira magazine to be published on Saturday.

During the interview, conducted on Thursday, Sfeir lashed out at Hizbullah, maintaining that the Shi’ite organization threatened Lebanon’s security and stability.

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Jerusalem/Israel:
‘Waqf quietly pleased at Salah’s arrest’

Heads of the Waqf Department have quietly expressed their satisfaction with the Israeli authorities’ recent measures against Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and top Fatah operative Hatem Abdel Qader, a senior official with the Ministry for Internal Security said on Thursday.

Salah and Abdel Qader have each been arrested by the Jerusalem Police for their role in instigating the latest wave of violent protests at the Temple Mount.

The two have also been banned by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court from entering the Old City of Jerusalem for different periods of time.

The official praised the heads of the Waqf Department for their role in “calming the situation” and preventing a further deterioration.

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But we’ve still got a long way to go…

Gaza:
Thousands Rally for Islamic Jihad

Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists held a rally in Gaza on Friday to commemorate the group’s slain founder.

Holding plastic models of rockets and wearing masks and mock suicide bomber’s vests, the members chanted “death to Israel” and “Muhammad’s army will be back to wipe off the Hebrew state.”

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Life sentence for Rwandan war criminal

160_desire_munyaneza_070326MONTREAL — (CP) A Canadian judge has imposed the toughest sentence possible on a man convicted of committing atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, described as the worst possible crime a human being can commit.

In a historic case, Desire Munyaneza was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 25 years.

Quebec Superior Court Justice Andre Denis handed down the sentence in a case international legal observers followed closely because of the implications it could have on similar prosecutions both here and abroad.

He is the first person convicted under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, enacted in 2000…

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Iraq seeks UN inquiry into blasts

Tues. Oct. 27, 2009 — AlJazeera.net

Iraq’s foreign minister has called for a UN inquiry into Sunday’s twin suicide bombings in Baghdad which left at least 155 people dead and hundreds more injured.

Hoshiyar Zebari said the inquiry should focus on the support given by foreign countries to insurgents, adding that the attacks reinforced the need for international support to help his country defend itself.

The call came shortly before a reported claim of responsibility for Sunday’s blasts from an al-Qaeda linked group, the Islamic state of Iraq, Reuters news agency reported…

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US to support request at UN Security Council…

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Iran’s Chariot of Fire

The 3-minute video that may prove Iran’s nuclear intentions
By Yossi Melman (Haaretz.com)

VIENNA – The last place you would expect to hear the apocalyptic soundtrack of the movie “Chariots of Fire” would be Iran. This 1981 film recounts the story of a Jewish British athlete and his teammate, a devout Christian, who refuses to compete on Sunday, his day of rest. But this soundtrack accompanies a highly secret video, produced by Iranian nuclear scientists, but never screened before the general public – a three-minute film depicting a computerized simulation of the detonation of a warhead, most likely a nuclear one. Whether it was intentional or merely coincidental, the nameless Iranian editor decided to use the soundtrack of the British blockbuster to accompany the video.

This film was, however, screened on February 26, 2008, in the fourth-floor conference room of Building C at the Vienna headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) overlooking the Danube. The host of the screening was Finnish nuclear physicist Olli Heinonen, the IAEA’s deputy director general and head of its inspection department, officially called the Department of Safeguards. In attendance were representatives of the 35 member states that constitute the organization’s board of governors. It was one of the most important meetings ever held by the IAEA…

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