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FBI calls half of populace with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists

“A newly released national poll shows that 48 percent of Americans either have some doubts about the official account of 9/11, or do not believe it at all.The FBI circular entitled ‘Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Sleepers’ says that people who should be ‘considered suspicious’ of possible involvement in ‘terrorist activity’ include those who hold the ‘attitude’ described as ‘Conspiracy theories about Westerners.’ The circular continues: ‘e.g. (sic) the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands.’ Most recently, former Fox News anchorman Ben Swann has questioned the official 9/11 story.” Continue reading →

France’s interior minister says Syria militants pose national security threat

“France’s interior minister revealed Thursday that hundreds of homegrown Islamist militants were signing up to fight in Syria and warned they could pose a security threat when they come back. More than 300 French nationals or residents are either currently fighting in Syria’s civil war, planning to go and fight or have recently returned from there, the minister, Manuel Valls, told France Inter radio. Most of them were young men, often with a delinquent past, who had become radicalised, he said. ‘This is a phenomenon which worries me because they represent a potential danger when they return to our soil,’ Valls said. ‘We have to be extremely attentive.'” Continue reading →

Tunisian women ‘waging sex jihad in Syria’

“Tunisian women have travelled to Syria to wage ‘sex jihad’ by comforting Islamist fighters battling the regime there, Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou has told MPs. ‘They have sexual relations with 20, 30, 100’ militants, the minister told members of the National Constituent Assembly on Thursday. ‘After the sexual liaisons they have there in the name of ‘jihad al-nikah’ — (sexual holy war, in Arabic) — they come home pregnant,’ Ben Jeddou told the MPs. Jihad al-nikah, permitting extramarital sexual relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war.” Continue reading →

Damascus clubbers try to dance away constant threat of death

“When night falls in Damascus, gaggles of determined revellers still head out on the town seeking to drown out the thunder of outgoing artillery fire with the boom of music. The shells are raining down on suspected rebel positions in suburbs just a few kilometres away but, while most people lock themselves fearfully in their homes, some head out to try to forget the war on their doorstep. ‘I come here for a change of atmosphere,’ says Mohammad, a 25-year-old car salesman, who has clearly had a drink or three. ‘There is joy here,’ he says of the nightclub in the upscale Shaalan neighbourhood, where the barman juggles bottles of spirits. ‘I want to live, I don’t want to hear any more bad news.'” Continue reading →

In public shift, Israel calls for Assad’s fall

“Israel wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toppled, its ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, in a shift from its non-committal public stance on its neighbor’s civil war. Even Assad’s defeat by al Qaeda-aligned rebels would be preferable to Damascus’s current alliance with Israel’s arch-foe Iran, Ambassador Michael Oren said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post. His comments marked a move in Israel’s public position on Syria’s two-and-1/2-year-old war.” Continue reading →

Sen. Lindsey Graham to seek authorization for U.S. attack on Iran

“Graham now says he will work with a bipartisan group of senators to craft a resolution authorizing the president to use military force — not against the Syrian regime but against Iran. In an appearance on Fox News’ Huckabee program over the weekend, Graham argued that such a resolution is essential, because American inaction in Syria will encourage Iran to go forward with its nuclear weapon program, eventually leading toward a Mideast conflagration if the U.S. doesn’t intervene.” Continue reading →

Iran’s new president promises: We will never make nuclear weapons

“NBC aired a longer excerpt from Curry’s interview with Rouhani Wednesday night, in which he tells Curry Iran has never tried to build a nuclear weapon. Instead, he explained, ‘We solely are looking for peaceful nuclear technology.’ ‘Can you say that Iran will not build a nuclear weapon under any circumstances whatsoever?’ Curry asked. ‘The answer to this question is quite obvious,’ Rouhani responded. ‘We have time and against said that under no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, nor will we ever.'” Continue reading →

‘Technical glitch’ brings down Iranian censorship firewall temporarily

“A technical glitch allowed some Iranians temporary access to banned social networking websites Facebook and Twitter, an Iranian Internet official said on Tuesday. Surprised Internet users in Iran Monday night were able to log onto their accounts without using illegal software that enables them to circumvent a widespread state-run filtering mechanism. They voiced their delight online, with posts revelling in the rare web freedom — restricted in 2009 when social networking sites enabled protesters to organise anti-government demonstrations in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election.” Continue reading →