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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  6 hours ago

• Sadr group responds with clinched fist

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 541
  Eli Lake: The U.S. is reaching out to followers of a key Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia once battled U.S. troops and who remains a powerful leader, particularly among Iraqs urban poor. A top Sadrist political leader in Baghdad, Qusay al-Suhail, told The Washington Times that he and his colleagues ...
  1 day ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  2 days ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  1 week ago

• Al-Sadr’s election campaign, questioning Maliki is the next political crisis

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 503
  Update – Maliki fired Baghdad security chief Abboud Qanbar (he is a very close friend of Maliki, Maliki just saved Qanbar from questioning in the parliament) – - After long silence, Muqtada Al-Sadr is back, campaigning for the election with a statement asking his “special forces” (Liwaa Al-Youm ...
  1 week ago

• League Of Righteous Breaks Off Talks With Baghdad

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  On December 1, 2009 it was announced that the Iranian-backed, breakaway Sadrist group, the League of the Righteous, had ended its talks with Baghdad and would not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The cited reason was that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to release the League’s leader Qais ...
  1 week ago

• Thinking of removing PPP government is ‘daydreaming’: Zardari

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Islamabad, Dec. 8 (ANI): Rejecting the notion of any threat to the current democratice regime in the country, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that thinking about dislodging the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is ‘daydreaming’.Addressing party leaders at Aiwan-e-Sadr here, Zardari said the PPP ...
  2 weeks ago

• REVIEW: ‘The Last 600 Meters’ Uses Stunning Images to Bring Battle of Fallujah to Life

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 741
  It’s hard to say this, but say it I must: one of the reasons that so many current conservative films don’t get distribution or gain success is that they stink.  You heard that right.  Many of them simply suck. Yes, political bias is the main reason conservative films don’t get distribution; there are a ton of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iraqi school blast kills 4 children

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Cairo, Dec 7 (DPA) Four children were killed in a bomb blast at a primary school in Iraq Monday, Al-Arabiya TV reported.At least 18 pupils were injured in the blast in Baghdad’s predominantly Shiite Muslim suburb of Sadr City, the Dubai-based channel said. yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "Iraqi school blast kills 4 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maliki Returns To Sectarian Politics

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  On October 1, 2009 Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki officially announced his State of Law list that would compete in the 2010 parliamentary elections. Almost every Western report on his coalition mentioned how broad it was, that it was non-sectarian , and how the Prime Minister was running a nationalist campaign ...
  2 weeks ago

• VP Hashemi Shoots Himself In The Foot With Veto Of Iraqi Election Law

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  On November 8, 2009 Iraq’s parliament finally passed an election bill after weeks of delay. Ten days later Vice President Tarqi al-Hashemi vetoed it . Hashemi objected to the fact that Iraq’s refugees, the majority of which are Sunnis, would have their votes go towards only eight compensatory seats that would ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 weeks ago

• Inquiry Finds Major British Failures in Iraq War Preparation

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 546
  New documents have come to light as a result of the investigation in the United Kingdom into the war in Iraq. Not surprisingly, the papers show some level of deceit by the British government regarding the preparations to attack Iraq and make the planning and execution of the war look frighteningly bad. They ...
  3 weeks ago

• Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing of Baghdad

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  Dr. Michael Izady of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs recently gave an interview to the Swiss-based International Relations and Security Network . He presented a series of maps that he put together on Baghdad during Iraq’s civil war. They show the effects of the fighting as the capital went ...
  3 weeks ago

• Muqtada Al Sadr mmmm

  
  In2theFray — Authority: 425
  The weather is turning outside and I am grossly unmotivated to do much so here I sit in front of the computer. In doing so I got “Random Post” button crazy and found a post from April 9th 2008.In it I wondered who would be whacking Muqtada Al Sadr,the asshole Iraqi Shiite cleric. Well with my [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Zardari asks PM to review corruption-waiver list

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Islamabad, Nov 23 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari Monday asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to review the names of all those who had benefited from an ordinance granting immunity to prominent Pakistanis charged with corruption.Gilani was also asked to remove the names of those who had been wrongly included in ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In 2003

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  The Pre-War Situation As recent events have shown, Kirkuk remains one of the outstanding issues in Iraqi politics. Not only does it have a national dynamic between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad, but a local one between Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, and Christians who live there and are all arguing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nir Rosen’s New Take On Iraq – “An Ugly Peace”

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  In the November/December 2009 issue of the Boston Review, Nir Rosen has a piece called “An Ugly Peace.” In it, Rosen writes about the new status quo in Iraq that was created by the end of the sectarian war and the U.S. Surge, something that he was reluctant to talk about in previous articles. He writes that ...
  4 weeks ago

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