TERRORISM: Bomber Boarded Without Passport
A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.
Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday.
MIDDLE EAST: Gaza Ceasefire In Jeopardy As Israelis Kill 6 Palestinians
Israeli troops yesterday shot dead six Palestinians in two separate incidents, as evidence emerged that an increasingly fragile ceasefire between armed groups loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement and Israel appeared to be in danger of breaking down.
MIDDLE EAST: Iran ‘Green Revolution’ Being Fuelled By West
Iran today faces the prospect of a bloody Sunday after opposition supporters clashed violently with security forces yesterday at the start of a key religious ceremony that had been identified beforehand as a dangerous flashpoint.
BRITAIN: Telecom Fury At Govt Monitoring Of ALL Calls, Email
Telecoms firms have accused the Government of acting like the East German Stasi over plans to force them to store the details of every phone call for at least a year.
Under the proposals, the details of every email sent and website visited will also be recorded to help the police and security services fight crime and terrorism.
MIDDLE EAST: ‘The US military is exhausted’
Al Jazeera – The call for over 30,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan is a travesty for the people of that country who have already suffered eight brutal years of occupation.
It is also a harsh blow to the US soldiers facing imminent deployment.
As Barack Obama, the US president, gears up for a further escalation that will bring the total number of troops in Afghanistan to over 100,000, he faces a military force that has been exhausted and overextended by fighting two wars.
MIDDLE EAST: Israel Recalls Its Envoys From All Over World
PRESS TV – Israel’s ambassadors and consuls generals from all over the world have been summoned to attend a conference to be held over global challenges facing Israel.
MIDDLE EAST: Saudi bombers attack Yemen border
Saudi warplanes reportedly mount a dozen air attacks on the Yemeni side of the common border, as Riyadh continues to reinforce Sana’a's anti-Shia campaign.
Yemen’s Shia fighters on Saturday said Saudi aircraft fired more than 700 missiles overnight on the northern villages along the border with Saudi Arabia.
