Saudi royals funded 9/11: Lawyers

Seeded on Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:23 PM EDT (presstv.ir)

Lawyers representing the families of the 9/11 victims, expose evidence allegedly proving the Saudi royal family's financial support for al-Qaeda.

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Documents Back Saudi Link to 9/11 Extremists

Seeded on Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:23 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept.

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Power and opposition in Iran start mass money export from country

Seeded on Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:27 AM EDT (abc.az)

Reconciliation between supporters and opponents of Makhmud Ahmadinejad is already impossible. Both sides are preparing for decisive fight following which anybody of them will have to flee from Iran.

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Iran's Twitter revolution

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:13 AM EDT (The Washington Times)

Tehran's authoritarian leaders clearly were caught off-guard. They had managed to take down the telephone system opposition supporters used for texting but for some reason were slow to eliminate other social media.

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Breaking: Middle East | Iran 'to hold election recount'

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:38 AM EDT (BBC News)

ran's powerful Guardian Council says it is ready to recount disputed votes from Friday's presidential poll.

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How Iran 'Jams' Election News

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:33 AM EDT (trueslant.com)

In the age of the iPhone, the $200 netbook and youtube, how can a government "jam" communications from a country like Iran, full of young, furious, tech-savvy people, in cities spread over a massive land area? Iran has nearly 70 million citizens, most of them with cell phones.

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The Fatwa which proves vote fraud

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:06 AM EDT (mediusoriens.com)

"If someone is elected the president and hurts the Islamic values that have been spread [by Mr. Ahmadinejad] to Lebanon, Palestine, Venezuela, and other places, it is against Islam to vote for that person.

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#iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:39 AM EDT (reinikainen.co.uk)

Do NOT publicise proxy IP's over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran.

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NPR: From Iran: 'A Significant Red Line' Has Been Crossed

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:27 AM EDT (npr.org)

"For example in the past few nights, the sounds of people just shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Great) on their rooftops. They are in their private homes and it is difficult for the government to control.

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Hundreds of Thousands March in Tehran to Protest Iranian Election

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:19 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians defied a ban by the Interior Ministry and marched through the capital on Monday in support of opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, posing a rising challenge to the country's ruling clergy over the disputed election.

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Live-Blogging The Uprising: Iran. UPDATED WITH LIVE VIDEO.

Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:22 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Seeded by Dennis P. McCann (Clipped by Rainmaker)

This began as a seed of Nico Pitney's great coverage of the events in Iran on Huffington Post. It evolved into something else entirely. Nico has been posting summaries of the most important events, but what we have here is the most complete coverage anywhere.

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Ahmadinejad impeded by economy, lashes out at rival just before vote

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:03 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Mousavi has hammered Ahmadinejad for letting Iran's economy stumble despite the nation's vast oil and gas reserves.

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Is Democracy Coming to Tehran? Reformist Challenger Creates a Buzz

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:55 AM EDT (The New York Times)

They're calling it the "green tsunami," a transformative wave unfurling down the broad avenues of the Iranian capital.

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Ahmadinejad says election rivals use Hitler tactics, threatens jail for those who insult him

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:53 AM EDT (thestar.com.my)

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused his election rivals on Wednesday of adopting smear tactics used by Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler and said they could face jail for insulting him.

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Irfan Yusuf : Repressive Islamic rule loses its lustre in Iran

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:47 AM EDT (New Zealand Herald)

It's little wonder the self-styled Islamic Republic of Iran has defined itself by opposition to the United States. As Obama states, the US played a key role in the royalist coup that overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953.

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Saudis gleeful over March 14 victory in Lebanon's polls

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:45 AM EDT (dailystar.com.lb)

Saudi Arabia, which has led Arab attempts to hold back Iranian influence in the Middle East, has reacted triumphantly to the victory of its pro-US allies in Lebanon's elections this week.

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The Power of Women in Iran's Election

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:43 AM EDT (BBC News)

"President Ahmadinejad isn't bothering us about our headscarves during the elections. But if he returns to power, it would be terrible," she moans, her voice rising with emphasis on the last word.

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Bye-bye Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, roar Iran crowds

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:42 AM EDT (Australian News Network)

"Death to the government," chanted the several thousand Iranians packed into a football stadium in Tehran.

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The Lessons of Lebanon's Elections

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:41 AM EDT (middle-east-online.com)

Swift-boating is universal. Just as George W.

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Recession Stimulates Bullying and Negative, Abusive Self-Talk at Work

Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:40 AM EDT (Ezine Article Submission)

How do people react in the face of their recession-stimulated fears? Managers and leaders squeeze more from themselves and staff in order to reduce costs and stay afloat. (...) Expect a huge increase in stealth bullying by coworkers and managerial peers.

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The myth of a 'Muslim world'

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 6:56 AM EDT (atimes.com)

But who is to say that there are not more commonalities between the poor of Egypt and Mexico, than the elites of Egypt and Pakistan? However, such assertion would be irrelevant for one main reason: Arabs and Muslims have been demonized collectively, targeted collectively and at t …

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Al-Qaeda tells Muslims: shun Obama

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 6:50 AM EDT (AL JAZEERA)

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has urged Muslims not to listen to Barack Obama as the US president heads to the Middle East to make a speech to the Muslim world.

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US general warns over Afghan war

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 6:48 AM EDT (BBC News)

The general nominated as the next US commander in Afghanistan says the war against insurgents may be lost unless civilian casualties are reduced.

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Guantanamo prisoner 'kills himself'

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 6:47 AM EDT (AL JAZEERA)

A Yemeni detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has died in an "apparent suicide," US military officials say.

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American policy on Israel will require some fine tuning

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 6:41 AM EDT (dailystar.com.lb)

The Arab regimes' primary interest and their true compensation for formally welcoming Israel to the regional family of nations is "normal relations" with the West, and particularly the United States.

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