http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/09/04/gadhafi-ukrainian-nurse.cnn.html
Monday, September 5, 2011
Qaddafi`s ex-nurse recalls 'daddy'
Moammer Qaddafi`s former Ukranian nurse, Oksana Balinskaya talks about life with 'daddy'
http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/09/04/gadhafi-ukrainian-nurse.cnn.html
http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/09/04/gadhafi-ukrainian-nurse.cnn.html
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Finally some justice from the U.N. against Israel
The UN called the Israeli raid on the Gaza flotilla 'excessive,' the inquiry panel set up says Israel should pay compensation for 2010 attack on aid vessels but says the Gaza blockade is legal.
UN calls Israeli raid on flotilla 'excessive'
Aljazeera
September 1, 2011
A United Nations-mandated inquiry into a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla to Gaza in 2010 says Israel's action was "excessive", according to extracts published Thursday by the New York Times.
The report, which has not yet been officially released amid a dispute between Israel and Turkey, says that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal, however.
Eight Turkish nationals and an American man of Turkish descent died in the May 31, 2010, raid.
"Israel's decision to board the vessels with such substantial force at a great distance from the blockade zone and with no final warning immediately prior to the boarding was excessive and unreasonable," the inquiry says.
Hamas, which controls Gaza, said the inquiry into the flotilla aid bound for Gaza was "unjust" and lacked balance.
'Acted recklessly'
The UN investigation into the events on the Turkish-flagged ship known as the Mavi Marmara, the largest of six vessels that were commandeered by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010, was headed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former prime minister of New Zealand, aided by Álvaro Uribe, the former Colombian president, along with a representative each from Israel and Turkey.
It said, however, that the six-vessel flotilla "acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade" set up by Israel around Gaza.
The inquiry called for Israel to make "an appropriate statement of regret" for the raid and pay compensation to the families of the dead as well as to injured victims.
Turkey and Israel should resume full diplomatic relations "repairing their relationship in the interests of stability in the Middle East," the report says.
Turkish demand
Turkey has demanded an apology from Israel for the raid, but Binyamin Netanyahu's government has refused several times to make such a gesture.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, told the Hurriyet daily: "If Israel does not apologise and does not declare a willingness to financially compensate the families of the dead and those injured, Turkey will
put in place certain sanctions."
Publication of the report has been delayed several times because of the diplomatic tensions between the two sides.
The report has not yet been handed over to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, who is to decide the official publication date.
A UN spokesman said the report was expected to be handed over in the coming days.
UN calls Israeli raid on flotilla 'excessive'
Aljazeera
September 1, 2011
A United Nations-mandated inquiry into a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla to Gaza in 2010 says Israel's action was "excessive", according to extracts published Thursday by the New York Times.
The report, which has not yet been officially released amid a dispute between Israel and Turkey, says that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal, however.
Eight Turkish nationals and an American man of Turkish descent died in the May 31, 2010, raid.
"Israel's decision to board the vessels with such substantial force at a great distance from the blockade zone and with no final warning immediately prior to the boarding was excessive and unreasonable," the inquiry says.
Hamas, which controls Gaza, said the inquiry into the flotilla aid bound for Gaza was "unjust" and lacked balance.
'Acted recklessly'
The UN investigation into the events on the Turkish-flagged ship known as the Mavi Marmara, the largest of six vessels that were commandeered by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010, was headed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former prime minister of New Zealand, aided by Álvaro Uribe, the former Colombian president, along with a representative each from Israel and Turkey.
It said, however, that the six-vessel flotilla "acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade" set up by Israel around Gaza.
The inquiry called for Israel to make "an appropriate statement of regret" for the raid and pay compensation to the families of the dead as well as to injured victims.
Turkey and Israel should resume full diplomatic relations "repairing their relationship in the interests of stability in the Middle East," the report says.
Turkish demand
Turkey has demanded an apology from Israel for the raid, but Binyamin Netanyahu's government has refused several times to make such a gesture.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, told the Hurriyet daily: "If Israel does not apologise and does not declare a willingness to financially compensate the families of the dead and those injured, Turkey will
put in place certain sanctions."
Publication of the report has been delayed several times because of the diplomatic tensions between the two sides.
The report has not yet been handed over to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, who is to decide the official publication date.
A UN spokesman said the report was expected to be handed over in the coming days.
Col. Gaddafi`s Speech: September 1, 2011
video courtesy of jumairahd
GADDAFI'S SPEECH 01.09.11. LIBYA: (translated)
They work for colonizers, no one likes colonizers, it is impossible to accept a colonization, everyone will fight against traitors and their bosses.
There are too many problems between the traitors and NATO!
Libyans willl not surender and will not accept to be governed like animals. To many were martyred for our land to be free, we will not allow their deaths to be in vain! Keep going, keep fighting, don’t be afraid of them, each tribe should make their own checkpoints and should control their own territories, all the tribes are armed, keep fighting.
Destiny of Libyans will not be in the hands of some insignificant traitors!
NATO is afraid of Libyans, thats why they destroyed everything, bombed the phone lines, TV station, they thought that they will silence our voice,but they failed, we will fight them in every city and village, we are not afraid!
Colonizers used all kind of technology to try to silence my message to you. They are even afraid of my voice.. They know that if the Libyans hear my voice it will be dangerous for them and their traitor-servants, so they cut all the communication. They are afraid of our voice, which means that this is a weak colonialisation. If it was strong, then why did they cut our communication to silence the truth, why did they make you listen only their radios and TV channel, they want you to listen to their lies about the situation on the ground and to make you surender, they want you to be afraid of them, cause they are running out of money to continue the fight.
I will say it again, they are afraid of us, they are weak! NATO said that it is dangerous for them to leave our radios working , they know it’s dangerous for them if tribes called each other. We will not give Libya to France just like that, we will fight and make them spend... spend until they are gone. Nobody can control the tribes, they are all armed, Sirte, Sabha, Ben Walid, Tarhona , all this tribes are armed, no one can control them. I say, let the bullet speak.
Libyans will fight, we will fight very strongly, we won't give up!
Those traitors are cowards, they will run away.
Fight will go on and the traitors will surender because they don’t have enough people to support them, Libyan tribes will never surrender!
Continue fighting even if you don't hear my voice!
Libyans will fight, we will fight very strongly, we won't give up!
Those traitors are cowards, they will run away.
Fight will go on and the traitors will surender because they don’t have enough people to support them, Libyan tribes will never surrender!
Continue fighting even if you don't hear my voice!
Must watch: Zenga Zenga زنقة زنقة (Gaddafi)
The real message by Gaddafi to his people whose original message was blocked by the Israeli Zionists. (video courtesy of 123vivadjazair providing subtitles and video images)
video courtesy of 123vivadjazair
Full speech Gaddafi made including the famous "zenga zenga"
video courtesy of SLOBoe
Details of Secret CIA Rendition Flights Exposed
CIA covert operation of rendition flights exposed by a little known court case in upstate NY -
N.Y. billing dispute reveals details of secret CIA rendition flights
by: Peter Finn & Julie Tate
August 31, 2011
On Aug. 12, 2003, a Gulfstream IV aircraft carrying six passengers took off from Dulles International Airport and flew to Bangkok with fueling stops in Cold Bay, Alaska, and Osaka, Japan.
Before it returned four days later, the plane also touched down in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates and Ireland. As these unusual flights happened, U.S. officials took custody of an Indonesian terrorist, Riduan Isamuddin, who had been captured in Thailand and would spend the next three years being shuttled among secret prisons operated by the CIA.
The Gulfstream IV’s itinerary, as well as the $339,228.05 price tag for the journey, are among the details of shadowy CIA flights that have emerged in a small Upstate New York courthouse in a billing dispute between contractors. The court documents offer a rare glimpse of the costs and operations of the controversial rendition program.
For all the secrecy that once surrounded the CIA program, a significant part of its operation was entrusted to very small aviation companies whose previous experience involved flying sports teams across the country.
Attorneys for a London-based legal charity, Reprieve, which has been investigating the CIA program, discovered the Columbia County case and brought the court records to the attention of The Washington Post, the Associated Press and a British newspaper, the Guardian.
“This new evidence tells a chilling story, from the CIA’s efforts to disguise its illegal activities to the price it paid to ferry prisoners to torture chambers across the world,” said Cori Crider, Reprieve’s legal director. “If we are to avoid repeating our mistakes, we must have a full accounting of how this system was allowed to flourish under our very noses.”
The CIA declined to discuss the case. “The CIA does not, as a rule, comment on litigation, especially that to which we are not a party,” said spokeswoman Marie E. Harf...
ANONYMOUS: Operation Truth of Libya
video courtesy of worldAnonymousInfo`s channel
From ANONYMOUS:
For a quick summary of the Libya situation, check the bottom of this description.
I understand not all have the time to watch several of these videos, but at the very least watch the first one.
This one is a MUST WATCH, it's very complete, and has already got 70,000 views in 5 days!
Libya Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJURNC0e6Ek
The Real Reason for NATO Attacking Libya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35_Ai6EsMU
The Truth About Libya: Exposing NATO Crimes & Mass Media Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDejIHc1XI
This one is also a MUST WATCH:
Libyan Woman on Gaddafi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5EpvO47CUE
Media Lies About Libya and Gaddafi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ku0rLVdWg
About Libyan victims:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBapbq8etf0
Libyan Rebels Free AL QAEDA Supporters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUeNBy3FjRM
Pro Gaddafi rally with 1.7 MILLION PEOPLE (that's 1/3 of the country's population):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXjipjX6lU
Another pro Gaddafi rally with also millions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBorEsNiu0
LIBYA WAR GOLD AND THE BANKSTERS (This one is long, but has a lot of info)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxrIeoFrzY&feature=related
EVEN WOMEN PICK UP GUNS TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n71BzKPbIA
WAR ON LIBYA - ANONYMOUS REVOLUTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEB1oevaaAY
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EXELENT ARTICLE:
The Truth About Libya
http://www.rense.com/general93/truth.htm
NATO handover of free Libyans to Bankers
http://powerpointparadise.com/blog/2011/08/nato-handover-of-free-libyans-to-b...
Libya: War Against Africa
http://saleil.blogspot.com/2011/06/libya-war-against-africa.html
We can't allow another Iraq.
In the 1950's, Libya was the poorest country in the world. Before the NATO invasion, Libya had become the country with the best quality of life in all Africa thanks to Gaddafi. The people of Libya support Gaddafi, they love his leader, but the media machine of NATO makes us believe this is a revolution similar to Egypt. "We are fighting the bad guy" That is all you hear in mainstream news, but is far from being the truth. A few months before this invasion, Gaddafi announced he was implementing a new currency, alongside most African countries. This would mean Africa would stop selling resources in Dollars and Euros, and would also mean a new powerful currency would get into the market, allowing progress for 3rd world countries in Africa. This of course, is not convenient for the powerful millionaires of the west. AND MOST IMPORTANT. Libya is the country in all Africa with the highest OIL reserves, and the cost of producing a barrel of oil is 100 times more cheap than in the rest of the world. Gaddafi did not permit oil companies to mess with Libyan oil. The Libyan oil was for the Libyan people. He also did not allowed world banks into his country. All loans were issued by the Libyan government at 0% interest. The rebels have already made a deal with oil companies to let them loot Libyan resources, and also made deals to allow a central bank run by Rothschild Family to be implemented in the country. Rothschild Family is a group of bankers that own all western banks, and are estimated to own over half the worlds wealth.
Don't believe me? All the information is on the videos and articles on this description. And that's just a fragment, do your research, don't let the government fool you with mainstream media. Whatever you hear on mainstream media about this war is complete lies.
Spread the word, the Libyan people need you. We may have our differences but remember, we are all citizens of the same world.
We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Libya, the Truth and the international community
Pravda.ru
August 31, 2011
Today, August 31, we are on the eve of the September 1 Al-Fateh Revolution which brought Muammar al-Qathafi to power in a bloodless coup which installed the world's first Jamahiriya, or government through People's Congresses. The tremendous support behind Colonel Gaddafi in the international community is a telling comment on where people stand.
Now that paragraph will taste of poison for the clique of corporate elitists who gravitate around the centres of power, using the media and NATO to manipulate public opinion and where possible, implant their regimes and that paragraph also explains the Libya story in a nutshell.
And we also see in this crisis exactly where our world stands. International law exists but is not implemented. NATO has broken all the rules in the book in Libya and has rendered itself and its representatives liable for prosecution - something which is at present in the pipeline. On one side of the divide, the Satanic and dark forces of NATO and on the other side, those who see themselves as the guardians of what is right and good and just. It is good versus evil, it is God versus Satan, it is about implementing international law.
For those who justify NATO's act of aggression by calling "Gaddafi" a "dictator", some home truths. Muammar al-Qathafi was to receive a humanitarian prize in March for his record, he was the one to speak out against the more conservative practices in Islam, who spoke out against the killing of homosexuals or the stoning of women. The Jamahiriya system is the antithesis of a dictatorship. What dictator educates his people and pays for them to study abroad?
Libya's literacy rate improved from ten per cent to ninety per cent under "Gaddafi" and under his guidance the country rose from the poorest in the world to the richest in Africa. Those who understand anything about geopolitical events know that this is an amazing achievement, in itself, within four decades.
Libya's literacy rate improved from ten per cent to ninety per cent under "Gaddafi" and under his guidance the country rose from the poorest in the world to the richest in Africa. Those who understand anything about geopolitical events know that this is an amazing achievement, in itself, within four decades.
Colonel Gaddafi also leaves his legacy, which is the Green Book, which explains his philosophy and his political system - one which should at least be fundamental reading in all schools and one whose Legacy will be eternalised by the Internationalisation of the Jamahiriya, something which is already taking place and which has tens of thousands of followers around the world. Tomorrow, there will be millions.
Colonel Gaddafi can also sit back and look at his enemies today and laugh. True, he has been fighting, and continues to fight, against the most powerful military organization in the world for six months and any progress his enemy made, was done by breaching the rules of engagement, each and every one of them. So that is hardly "winning". But he is the dream-maker behind the African Union, he stands for African Unity and against imperialism, he stands for a united Africa, Africa for Africans, African problems solved by Africans for Africans, and African resources for African people. More than this, his pan-African projects saw Africans freed from the yolk of imperialist tyranny, having their own funding for their own programmes without having to depend on western sources which provided goods, yet with enormous tails of interest payments attached.
What his enemies want we saw very clearly - an international "conference" was called last week in which lines were yet again drawn on maps and in which the colonial powers literally divided among them Libya's spoils, even before the conflict is over. As for the "rebels" themselves, what are they and what do they want?
Western sources took delight in the freeing of prisoners without bothering to research what they had done or why they were there. Serial rapists, murderers and common criminals now parade as "rebels", a movement which included a bunch of political opportunists carefully groomed by the French, British and Italians, a few liberals, Islamic fundamentalists (as we shall soon see more clearly), a lot of mercenaries from abroad and in essence, a load of day-trippers who raced into a conflict with machine gun blazing in the morning before driving home to have dinner at night.
Looters, rapists, murderers. Terrorists, yes - civilians, no. Militarily capacitated by a savage and murderous NATO bombing campaign, these people may or may not eventually dismantle the Jamahiriya in Libya but they will not destroy it as a system. The Legacy is well protected and Muammar al-Qathafi knows this.
That is why Muammar al-Qathafi can look back with satisfaction over what he has achieved and why Messrs. Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy will spend the rest of their pathetic, wasteful and vapid lives looking over their shoulders or wondering who it might be every time there is a ring at the doorbell, leaving no legacy at all except a failed attempt to govern their own countries, while they stood behind the most blatant and flagrant violation of the law in recent history. And, worse, they and their NATO machine have the blood of Libyan children on their hands. If they had an iota of decency they would hear these screams ringing in their ears all night every night and the more they tried to block them out, the louder they would become.
That is why so many people in the international community support Muammar al-Qathafi. Those of us who have actually been to Libya and who have knowledge of the country understand very well where the hearts and minds of these people are - with what is right and just and good.
As for the hearts and minds of NATO and those who support them, well, there are always those who will sell their souls to the Devil. However, there is something higher than us, and to whom we will inevitably present ourselves for judgement when the day comes. Muammar al-Qathafi knows where he is going, and I suspect Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy, deep down, know where they are going too.
That is why so many people in the international community support Muammar al-Qathafi. Those of us who have actually been to Libya and who have knowledge of the country understand very well where the hearts and minds of these people are - with what is right and just and good.
As for the hearts and minds of NATO and those who support them, well, there are always those who will sell their souls to the Devil. However, there is something higher than us, and to whom we will inevitably present ourselves for judgement when the day comes. Muammar al-Qathafi knows where he is going, and I suspect Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy, deep down, know where they are going too.
For those with any doubts after a bombardment of lies from the western media, research Green Book, Jamahiriya and Gaddafi projects in Africa.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
Pravda.Ru
Captured Libyan soldier: "Qaddafi gave us Dignity, I would die a thousand times for him"
Mathaba
August 30, 2011
wounded Libyan soldiers in Mitiga Hospital in Tripoli, August 28
“I myself would die a thousand times for Qaddafi, even now,” said Faraj Mohamed, a 20-year-old soldier from Sirte, lying in a hospital in Tripoli as a prisoner of the Libyan rebels. “I love him because he gave us dignity, and he is a symbol for the patriotism of the country.”
At moments when the rebel guards were out of earshot, Mr. Mohamed said he fought on, fearful of a future without Colonel Qaddafi. He warned what would happen if the rebels take over Libya: “Murder and killing and stealing and chaos.”
“What is happening now is because of the rebels, not Qaddafi,” Mr. Mohamed said.
Mr. Mohamed, his leg in a cast and a wound on his back, lay with five other captives in a prison unit of the Mitiga air base hospital, with an armed guard in the hall. The rebels call them prisoners of war, but Mr. Mohamed was the only one who admitted to fighting for Colonel Qaddafi.
Mr. Mohamed, his leg in a cast and a wound on his back, lay with five other captives in a prison unit of the Mitiga air base hospital, with an armed guard in the hall. The rebels call them prisoners of war, but Mr. Mohamed was the only one who admitted to fighting for Colonel Qaddafi.
Two fellow patients said they were migrant workers, from Niger and Somalia, who had been falsely accused of being "mercenaries".
Another patient, a Libyan, said he had simply been shot in the street. “I am innocent,” he said. Another was handcuffed to his bedrail.
Another patient, a Libyan, said he had simply been shot in the street. “I am innocent,” he said. Another was handcuffed to his bedrail.
Mr. Mohamed mentioned how many remember that when Colonel Qaddafi took power in 1969 Libya was a poor and almost entirely undeveloped nation of Bedouin herders whose oil wealth appeared to enrich mainly the foreign companies that exploited it. Qaddafi pursued development programs that helped turn Libya into a primarily urban country.
He said Colonel Qaddafi had brought Libyans self-respect by kicking out foreign colonialists; under Colonel Qaddafi, Libyans celebrated a national holiday every year on the day the United States evacuated the air base that included the hospital where Mr. Mohamed was held.
Then there was the special patronage — buildings, roads, schools, hospitals, jobs — lavished on Colonel Qaddafi’s two former hometowns, Sirte and Sabha. Sirte flourished as Colonel Qaddafi’s favorite place to hold conferences, Mr. Mohamed said of the Mediterranean port city that is his hometown as well.
Then there was the special patronage — buildings, roads, schools, hospitals, jobs — lavished on Colonel Qaddafi’s two former hometowns, Sirte and Sabha. Sirte flourished as Colonel Qaddafi’s favorite place to hold conferences, Mr. Mohamed said of the Mediterranean port city that is his hometown as well.
“Sirte really loves Qaddafi,” he said. “And they will fight for him.”
But he also professed a high-minded fear that without Colonel Qaddafi’s strong hand to preserve order, the rebels would drag Libya into chaos. In a Tripoli neighborhood supportive of Colonel Qaddafi, Mr. Mohamed recalled, he met residents who “said they were scared the rebels would rape the women and kill the men.”
But he also professed a high-minded fear that without Colonel Qaddafi’s strong hand to preserve order, the rebels would drag Libya into chaos. In a Tripoli neighborhood supportive of Colonel Qaddafi, Mr. Mohamed recalled, he met residents who “said they were scared the rebels would rape the women and kill the men.”
Residents fought for the Colonel even after it was said rebels were inside his compound. Also Mr. Mohamed fought on until the next day, when his militia was in a battle and the rebels shot him.
“I would sacrifice myself, I would sacrifice my family,” he said. “I would die for Qaddafi.”
“I would sacrifice myself, I would sacrifice my family,” he said. “I would die for Qaddafi.”
Original article: http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628408
Contrary to popular belief, Gaddafi IS winning and the ultimately the winner
Must watch: Open your eyes and listen to the shocking truth on Libya & Gaddafi against popular belief used to control and subvert the public opinion
video courtesy of Aidan`s Atheism Central channel & JorYanand Brother`s channel
View and learn the real truth about Libya
View what the globalist elite and world powers want to keep hidden from you by our controlled media
video courtesy of Aidan`s channel
video courtesy of Aidan`s channel
Read Gaddafi`s Green Book, click here:
Read the draft UN report on human rights before the NATO bombings: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/16session/A-HRC-16-15.pdf
Monday, August 22, 2011
The modern day psychological warfare in Libya by NATO
NATO has been dropping leaflets in the area of Tripoli, The majority of the leaflets were intended to encourage pro- Gaddafi soldiers to lay down their weapons and to join the Libyan rebels and the wider Libyan people.
Stratfor disputes OBL killing in Abbottabad
by: Azhar Masood,
August 19, 2011
The Nation
ISLAMABAD - Globally recognised intelligence and forecast STRATFOR has rejected the US Central Intelligence Agency claim that the man killed in Abbottabad’s compound by US Naval SEALs was al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. This was one of the reasons the CIA kept Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in dark.
The STRATFOR says: “The possibility that bin Laden was already dead and in terms of his impact on terrorist operations, he effectively was. That does not mean, however, that he was not an important ideological leader or that he was not someone the United States sought to capture or kill for his role in carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack in the US history.” In its latest intelligence gathering, the STRATFOR claims that aggressive US intelligence collection efforts have come to fruition, as killing of Osama bin Laden was perhaps the top symbolic goal for the CIA and all those involved in the US covert operations. Indeed, President Obama said during his speech on May 1 that upon entering the office, he had personally instructed...
NATO Loots Libyan Gold As Tripoli Falls
As we reported 6 weeks ago, final assault was planned before September deadline
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, August 22, 2011
Prison Planet.com
Monday, August 22, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai
source: sacredsites.com
The Monastery
Up to a thousand visitors come to visit St. Katherine's Monastery, the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the World built on the site where Moses (Prophet Musa) talked to God in the miracle of the Burning Bush, and to climb Mt. Sinai (the Biblical Mt. Horeb, known locally as Jebel Musa) where Moses has received the Ten Commandments.
Among the treasures of the monastery is a copy of a letter Prophet Muhammad wrote 1400 years ago (original now in Turkey) to the monks of St. Catherine`s monastery. In 628 CE, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) granted a Charter of Privileges to the monks of St. Catherine Monastery in Mt. Sinai. It consisted of several clauses covering all aspects of human rights including topics of the protection of Christians and the freedom of worship and movement.
Prophet Muhammad`s (peace be upon him) Charter of Privileges to Christians(Letter to the monks of St. Catherine`s Monastery)
A copy of the document by which Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) gave protection to the monastery, source: romanvirdi
Click here to read full text of the letter
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Half of European men share King Tut's DNA
Scientists think common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago
London: Up to 70 per cent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.
Published: Reuters 22:09 August 1, 2011
-image property of Steve Evans, Flickr
Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.
The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.
Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 per cent, according to iGENEA. "It was very interesting to discover that he belonged to a genetic group in Europe - there were many possible groups in Egypt that the DNA could have belonged to," said Roman Scholz, director of the iGENEA Centre.
Around 70 per cent of Spanish and 60 per cent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. "We think the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago," Scholz told Reuters.
It is estimated that the earliest migration of haplogroup R1b1a2 into Europe began with the spread of agriculture in 7,000 BC, according to iGENEA.
However, the geneticists were not sure how Tutankhamun's paternal lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin.
The centre is now using DNA testing to search for the closest living relatives of King Tut. "The offer has only been publicised for three days but we have already seen a lot of interest," Scholz told Reuters.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Getting Bin Laden: The New Yorker Magazine
Getting Bin Laden
by: Nicholas Schmidle
The New Yorker (Aug., 8th 2011 issue)
No American was yet inside the residential part of the compound. The operatives had barely been on target for a minute, and the mission was already veering off course. Photoillustration by John Ritter. Image property of The New Yorker.
Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU. A Pakistani-American translator, whom I will call Ahmed, and a dog named Cairo—a Belgian Malinois—were also aboard. It was a moonless evening, and the helicopters’ pilots, wearing night-vision goggles, flew without lights over mountains that straddle the border with Pakistan. Radio communications were kept to a minimum, and an eerie calm settled inside the aircraft.
Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU. A Pakistani-American translator, whom I will call Ahmed, and a dog named Cairo—a Belgian Malinois—were also aboard. It was a moonless evening, and the helicopters’ pilots, wearing night-vision goggles, flew without lights over mountains that straddle the border with Pakistan. Radio communications were kept to a minimum, and an eerie calm settled inside the aircraft.
Fifteen minutes later, the helicopters ducked into an alpine valley and slipped, undetected, into Pakistani airspace. For more than sixty years, Pakistan’s military has maintained a state of high alert against its eastern neighbor, India. Because of this obsession, Pakistan’s “principal air defenses are all pointing east,” Shuja Nawaz, an expert on the Pakistani Army and the author of “Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within,” told me. Senior defense and Administration officials concur with this assessment, but a Pakistani senior military official, whom I reached at his office, in Rawalpindi, disagreed. “No one leaves their borders unattended,” he said. Though he declined to elaborate on the location or orientation of Pakistan’s radars—“It’s not where the radars are or aren’t”—he said that the American infiltration was the result of “technological gaps we have vis-à-vis the U.S.” The Black Hawks, each of which had two pilots and a crewman from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, or the Night Stalkers, had been modified to mask heat, noise, and movement; the copters’ exteriors had sharp, flat angles and were covered with radar-dampening “skin.”
The SEALs’ destination was a house in the small city of Abbottabad, which is about a hundred and twenty miles across the Pakistan border. Situated north of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, Abbottabad is in the foothills of the Pir Panjal Range, and is popular in the summertime with families seeking relief from the blistering heat farther south. Founded in 1853 by a British major named James Abbott, the city became the home of a prestigious military academy after the creation of Pakistan, in 1947. According to information gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency, bin Laden was holed up on the third floor of a house in a one-acre compound just off Kakul Road in Bilal Town, a middle-class neighborhood less than a mile from the entrance to the academy. If all went according to plan, the SEALs would...
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