The famed UK-based Marks Spencer retail chain was at the center of a political and financial power play in Libya two years ago, a secret U.S. cable revealed, according to a report published Sunday in the prominent British Guardian newspaper. The classified document sent to Washington by the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli was part of […]
(CNN) — The Poison Pill. The Doomsday Files. Or simply, The Insurance. Whatever you call the file Julian Assange has threatened to release if he’s imprisoned or dies or WikiLeaks is destroyed, it’s impossible to stop. “It’s all tech talk to say, ‘I have in my hand a button and if I press it or […]
by Chana Ya’ar The 12 member nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have elected Iran, OPEC’s second-largest oil producer and one of its founding members, to become the organization’s 2011 president. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced Thursday the Islamic Republic would take up the rotating presidency in the 50-year-old organization […]
Pakistan has held the post of IAEA board chairman before, but that was more than a decade before its widely-condemned nuclear bomb tests in 1998. Tuesday, September 28, 2010 By Patrick Goodenough [1] International Atomic Energy Agency flag (CNSNews.com) – The United Nations nuclear watchdog has appointed Pakistan to chair its governing board. Pakistan […]
The son of Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi is to celebrate the first anniversary of the terrorist Lockerbie bomber’s release by giving a party for him. Saif Gadaffi, whose friends include Tony Blair and Lord Mandelson, will attend the revelry for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in his two-storey house in Tripoli. He will foot the […]
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son reportedly organized a humanitarian ship to sail from Greece to the Gaza Strip no later than Saturday. The Hope cargo ship will carry 2,000 tons of food and medicine and about 27 supporters who want to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, AFP, the French news agency, reported. Organizers said […]
THE cancer doc who gave the Lockerbie bomber just three months to live admitted last night his prediction had been EMBARRASSING. Professor Karol Sikora – whose prognosis helped get Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi released – has now confessed the killer could live another 20 years. The medical director of CancerPartners UK – who was […]
