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Shabaab Leader Sanctioned as Zawahiri Responds to Group's Oath of Loyalty
Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow (left) and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (faced covered) in a propaganda video acquired by The Long War Journal. The United States applied financial and travel sanctions on three top leaders of Al Shabaab, the Islamist insurgency that is consolidating territory in south and central Somalia, as the process of the group's official integration with al Qaeda appears to be underway. The sanctions target Shabaab founder and emir Ahmed Abdi Aw Mohamed, recruiter Issa Osm
21 Nov 2008, 9:04 am | click here for more
Judge Orders Release of 5 Terror Suspects at Gitmo
Judge orders release of 5 terror suspects at Gitmo SFGate A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges. In the first case of its nice, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the government's evidence linking the five Algerians to al-Qaida was not credible as it came from a single, unident
21 Nov 2008, 5:06 am | click here for more
Yes We Can!
Barack Obama’s pledge to work to reduce emissions sharply by 2020 is a “huge signal” of encouragement to countries negotiating a new climate pact, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Wednesday. The U.S. president-elect said the United States would engage vigorously in climate change talks when he is president, and he pledged to work to reduce emissions sharply by 2020, despite the financial crisis: “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate c
21 Nov 2008, 4:00 am | click here for more
Africa and Europe ?seeking to harmonise climate-change demands?
Africa seeks a common position with the European Union going into climate-change negotiations next year, Algeria’s environment minister said Thursday following pan-African agreement says AFP. Environment ministers from almost every of Africa’s 53 nations agreed a united front Wednesday to take into December 2009 talks in Copenhagen on replacing the Kyoto Protocol, covering efforts to reduce [...]
21 Nov 2008, 3:14 am | click here for more
Cables, dispatches and memoranda
A brief world news roundup for 21 November 2008. United States & the Americas CNN - A federal judge ordered the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday, saying the government failed to show that they were “foe combatants.” Judge Richard Leon issued the order in the case of six detainees who were challenging their detention. Jurist - US Army prosecutors said Wednesday they would be filing new charges against Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi Arabian citizen being held at the US milit
21 Nov 2008, 1:52 am | click here for more
Coton Sport Garoua Losses African Champions League Trophy
Egypt's Al Ahli won the African Champions League for a record sixth time after drawing 2-2 away at Coton Sport of Cameroon in Garoua on Sunday, November 16, 2008. The Cairo club won the final 4-2 on aggregate after a 2-0 triumph in the first leg a fortnight ago in Cairo. Soccer-African Champions League winners Nov 16 (Reuters) - List of African Champions League winners: 1965 - Oryx Douala (Cameroon) 1966 - Stade Abidjan (Ivory Coast) 1967 - TP Englebert (Congo-Kinshasa) 1968 - TP Engle
21 Nov 2008, 1:38 am | click here for more
Victors Do The Work, And Forget The Silver Bullets
By Andrew Cox Victors know success comes from doing the work. And that belief is even more important in tough times. At a time when resources have to be carefully committed, and when the need to focus on getting the really important things done is crucial, the temptation to look for silver bullets is greater than ever. Victors know success comes from doing the work. And that belief is even more important in tough times. At a time when resources have to be carefully committed, and when the ne
21 Nov 2008, 1:04 am | click here for more
Another war that went very wrong indeed ...
For the last couple of weeks, off and on, I've been reading A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. It's monumental, over 600 pages of exhaustive detail about a viciously brutal war between European France and its long time colony, Muslim Algeria. The New York Review of Books reissued this 1977 classic in 2006 because it seemed timely in the context of a U.S. invasion of a Muslim, Arabic-speaking, country that had set off a tenacious resistance and a murderous spate of bombin
21 Nov 2008, 12:33 am | click here for more
Scowcroft and Brzezinski See Another Unique Opportunity For Peace In The Middle East
Shmuel Rosner writes about the column in today's Washington Post written by Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski. There is not much new in their approach that settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the key to peace in the Middle East. What Rosner points out in particular is their conclusion that:in many ways the current situation is such that the opportunity for success has never been greater, or the costs of failure more severe.Naturally, since we are talking about the Israeli-Palest
21 Nov 2008, 11:14 am | click here for more
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Underlines Need for Africa to be Tied Into the International Response to Climate Change
19 November 2008: In a speech to the African Conference of Ministers in Charge of Environment on Climate Change for Post-2012, which convened in Algiers, Algeria, from 19-20 November 2008, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said an agreed outcome at Copenhagen must be more Africa-friendly and spur enabling support for the continent. He stated that Africa’s Road Map from Johannesburg through Africa to Copenhagen is a key contribution to the negotiating process below the Bali Road Map nego
21 Nov 2008, 10:28 am | click here for more
Crude Oil Falls to Lowest Since May 2005
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil fell to the lowest since May 2005, trading almost $100 a barrel below its July record as demand drops amid a global recession. Oil is poised to drop 15 percent this week, the worst performance since Oct. 10 as the world economic crisis reduces demand growth to its weakest in 23 years. Equity markets plunged and copper has declined 63 percent from its May record to trade at its lowest since July 2005. “It’s every driven by fear while the logic suggests a serious s
20 Nov 2008, 9:51 pm | click here for more
Gay Marriage Still Faces Many Hardships
Gay Marriage Still Faces Many Hardships Original Article (Chinese) Addostour, Egypt Obama First Black President; Fifth in White home During Mubarak Era Original Article (Arabic) Sankei Shinbun, Japan Predicting the New U.S. Administration Original Article (Japanese) Oriental Morning Post, China Obama is Not The Messiah Original Article (Mandarin) "He is nothing more than an American politician created by a more than
20 Nov 2008, 9:10 pm | click here for more
Journalist Attacked in Dagestan, Russia
Makhachkala, Russia – Unknown attackers burst into the offices of the Novoe Delo newspaper in the southern Republic of Dagestan Thursday, attacking deputy editor-in-chief Gadzhimurad Sagitov. As the Kavkazsky Uzel (Caucasian Knot) online newspaper reports, Sagitov was putting the finishing touches on the popular regional weekly’s print edition, when two assailants ran into his office and started hitting him with their fists. When he recovered, the deputy editor of development and logistics in
20 Nov 2008, 7:37 pm | click here for more
THE WORLD today!
——————————————————————————— 1. Barack Obama wins Presidential Election and becomes the 44th President of the United States. 130 Million Americans, more than in any other election since 1960, voted for a change and pick Obama, obtaining a historic victory to become the first black President of the United States, congratulating and celebrating world leaders, expressing wish, expectations and confidence in a fresh approach to the world’s challenges. Obama won the popular vote with 52% to 46% of M
20 Nov 2008, 7:01 pm | click here for more
What happened to Senegal?
On 5 September 2008, Senegal met Algeria at the Mustapha Tchaker Stadium in a World Cup qualifier. In the 81st minute, Cheikh Gueye scored an possess goal which leveled the game for Algeria. 7 minutes later, Rafik Saiki stuck a dagger into Senegal by scoring the winner. Algeria won the match. The possess goal proved fateful as Senegal drew Gambia a month later and were eliminated from the World Cup running. If they had drawn Algeria they would have been at the top of the table with 10 points and woul
20 Nov 2008, 6:33 pm | click here for more
A Moroccan finds it impossible to stop illegal migration
The problem of illegal immigration is a very important and sensitive that can not be eradicated by the countries of North Africa who remain powerless in the face of this social phenomenon, "said President of the Moroccan Association studies and research on migration, Dr Mohamed Al-Khachani.In a statement to PANA Wednesday in Tripoli on the sidelines of the training workshop on the study and quantification of international migration and its applications on the reality of migration in Libya, Dr. A
20 Nov 2008, 5:53 pm | click here for more
Judge Orders 5 Gitmo Detainees Released
I have asked a more eloquent writer to post on this, so you may look more on this later. I just want to do a basic rundown and roundup of reactions on it. Washington Post: For the first time, a federal judge today ordered the release of foe combatants from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the government had provided insufficient evidence to continue their detentions. The decision came in the case of six Algerians who were detained in Bosnia after the Sept. 11,
20 Nov 2008, 4:35 pm | click here for more
Who are you calling a house Negro?
Al-Qaida's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, broadcasts his outfit's colossal insecurities by trying to insult Barack Obama. First, the insult: Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect _ along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Ri
20 Nov 2008, 4:02 pm | click here for more
Gitmo Decision: A Judicial Slap in the Face for the Bush Administration
By Judith Miller Writer/FOX News Contributor The Bush administration’s detention policy at Guantanamo Bay prison has received another judicial slap in the face. Judge Richard Leon, a no-nonsense Federal District Court judge whom Bush appointed to the bench, said that only one of six Algerian detainees who have been held as foe combatants for seven years has been legally detained. Judge Leon, who had ruled in 2005 that the men had no right at every to judicial review of their detention, order
20 Nov 2008, 10:05 pm | click here for more
The Coming Middle East Missile War
PATRIOT PAC-3 (Photo from Militaryphotos.net) From The Weekly Standard: Russia's plan for the new Iskander theater ballistic missile doesn't cease with their proposed Kaliningrad deployment. Aviation Week reports that once domestic requirements are met, Russia may export the weapon to Syria, India, and the UAE -- to start. Algeria, Belarus, Kuwait, and Vietnam have also expressed interest in the SCUD replacement, though Russia claims to be working on an "Echo" variant of the rocket for export t
20 Nov 2008, 10:00 pm | click here for more