Le Temps reports that on Tuesday the Israeli station Canal 10 showed the fragments of the masked video recording, where the top advisor of the Palestinian president Raphik Huseini forces a she-aspirant to the Palestinian Administration to have sex with him. Besides, Huseini speaks of corruption matters in the Palestinian governance and name names, including Yaser Arafat and Taufik Tiraui, claiming them to be the “ringleaders”. ...

Americans must understand that any armed group that comes to Afghanistan is doomed to defeat because the whole population of Afghanistan will fight with them - said in an interview with El País veteran of Afghanistan, now Russia's State deputy Franz Klintsevich. It has been 30 years, since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Russians are watching the actions of the coalition at this war. They reme ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, the son of a diplomat posted to Canada in 1938, serves as Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. Brzezinski is said to be a protege of both Nelson A. Rockefeller and Paul H. Nitze (see Nitze School), his CSIS profile states.
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Those in attendance included: Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy. Also Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James E. Cartwright, USMC, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff , General David Petraeus, U.S. Central Command, General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Commander in Afghanistan (via videoconference), ...

Reuters - Five people died in Tehran on Sunday when pro-reform protesters clashed with security forces, police said, in the worst outbreak of violence since June’s contested presidential election sparked political turmoil. Opposition websites said eight people were killed in Tehran and other cities across Iran when tens of thousands took to the streets during a religious festival. Police in the capital said they were investigating the “suspicious” deaths, the IRNA news agency reported.
Among the dead was opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi’s nephew. State TV said “unknown assailants” killed Ali Habibi Mousavi. A Mousavi aide described the death as a “martyrdom”.
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