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• Muslim rage over film echoes back to Islam's internal struggles
• Civil war keeps many Syrian children from school
• Libya attack: US doubts that Al Qaeda planned ahead
• Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage
• Netanyahu Uses Football to Explain His Concerns with Iran
• Most Iranian dissidents moved from Iraq camp
• Afghan president raps U.S. over Bagram prison transfer
• Last major group MEK dissidents leaves camp in Iraq: U.S. State Department
• Libyan leader says extremists threaten stability
• Fugitive VP says Iraq letting Iran ferry arms to Syria
• WHY IT MATTERS: Iran
• Troubled Iraqi border town in eye of Syrian storm
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander says its troops in Syria
• Last big group of Iranian exiles moves to Baghdad
• Turkey: 8 police killed in landmine blast
• Turkey seeks to relocate some Syrian refugees
• Eight Turkish police killed in suspected PKK attack
• Last major group of Iranian exiles move to Baghdad
• Turkey: some Syrian refugees face relocation
• Regressive U.S. Foreign Relations Policies Denounced in New Book

Muslim rage over film echoes back to Islam's internal struggles Posted: 16 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash of civilizations. Just not the kind you think.

Civil war keeps many Syrian children from school Posted: 16 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT Nine-year-old Rawan Mustafa knew she would miss school this year.

Libya attack: US doubts that Al Qaeda planned ahead Posted: 16 Sep 2012 12:55 PM PDT US officials are moving away from the theory that Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group planned and carried out a coordinated attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last week.

Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage Posted: 16 Sep 2012 12:54 PM PDT At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash of civilizations. But just not the kind you think.

Netanyahu Uses Football to Explain His Concerns with Iran Posted: 16 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a smart man. He knew his interview on NBC's Meet the Press was going to air on Sunday morning, and Sunday is football day. So what's a world leader concerned with a nuclear Iran going to do to explain his concerns to Americans? Use a football analogy, of course. "They're in the red zone. They're in the last 20 yards, and you can't let them cross that goal line. ...

Most Iranian dissidents moved from Iraq camp Posted: 16 Sep 2012 10:19 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has moved most Iranian dissidents out of a camp they have lived in for decades to a former U.S. military base in Baghdad, officials said on Sunday, a step that could help pave the way to the group being dropped from a U.S. terrorism blacklist. Iraqi and U.S. officials said that about 680 members of the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) were transferred from Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya on Sunday, representing the last major relocation of members of the group and ending a standoff. ...

Afghan president raps U.S. over Bagram prison transfer Posted: 16 Sep 2012 09:27 AM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the United States on Sunday of breaching a pact to hand over the main U.S. military prison at Bagram Airbase and its inmates to Afghan control, after meeting Washington's top envoy to the region. In a row which could complicate already thorny negotiations over the future U.S. military presence in the country, Karzai told U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman any delay to the handover was "a serious violation" of a strategic agreement between the allies. ...

Last major group MEK dissidents leaves camp in Iraq: U.S. State Department Posted: 16 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last major group of Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) residents left Camp Ashraf in Iraq, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday, in a step that could speed the Iranian dissident group's removal from a U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. A convoy of about 680 residents left former Camp Ashraf and arrived at Camp Hurriya on Sunday, representing the last major relocation of the residents and "marks a significant milestone in efforts to achieve a sustainable humanitarian solution to this issue," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a release. ...

Libyan leader says extremists threaten stability Posted: 16 Sep 2012 08:07 AM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The head of Libya's ruling national congress warned the country was in danger because of its failure to create a cohesive national army, after a deadly attack on a U.S. consulate exposed a security vacuum. In an interview with Reuters, Mohammed Magarief, the president of the national assembly elected in July, said the fallout from the attack could harm Libya's transition to democracy and efforts to create a strong functioning government. "This ugly act will have grave consequences on Libya's stability and its revolution. ...

Fugitive VP says Iraq letting Iran ferry arms to Syria Posted: 16 Sep 2012 07:19 AM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iran is using Iraqi airspace to fly supplies to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and thousands of Iraqi militia fighters have crossed into Syria to support his troops, Iraq's fugitive vice president said on Sunday. Tareq al-Hashemi, who fled Iraq in December and was sentenced to death a week ago by an Iraqi court, said the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was failing to stop ammunitions and armaments reaching Assad's forces. ...

WHY IT MATTERS: Iran Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:25 AM PDT The issue:

Troubled Iraqi border town in eye of Syrian storm Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:01 AM PDT AL QAIM, Iraq (Reuters) - Syrian refugees squeeze against a closed gate at an Iraqi border post, reaching through its metal bars to clamor for water, and calling out to Iraqi cousins and brothers on the other side. Yelling into their cellphones, more Syrians perch on top of the concrete walls that divide Iraq from Syria, waiting for Iraqis to unload trucks filled with boxes of cooking oil and bottled water and hoist them over the al Qaim checkpoint. ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander says its troops in Syria Posted: 16 Sep 2012 05:36 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are providing non-military assistance in Syria and Iran may get involved militarily if its closest ally comes under attack, commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Sunday. Jafari's statement is the first official acknowledgement that Iran has a military presence on the ground in Syria where an 18-month-old uprising has left tens of thousands dead. Western countries and Syrian opposition groups have long suspected Iran has troops in Syria. Iran has denied this. ...

Last big group of Iranian exiles moves to Baghdad Posted: 16 Sep 2012 05:08 AM PDT The last big batch of a group of controversial Iranian exiles in Iraq reluctantly left their decades-old home in northeast Iraq on Sunday and moved to a refugee camp outside Baghdad, taking what officials say is a necessary step towards resettling them in other nations.

Turkey: 8 police killed in landmine blast Posted: 16 Sep 2012 04:47 AM PDT Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a landmine along a highway in eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing eight police officers and wounding nine, Turkish media reported.

Turkey seeks to relocate some Syrian refugees Posted: 16 Sep 2012 03:14 AM PDT Already host to 80,000 Syrians in refugee camps, Turkey is now seeking to relocate some of the tens of thousands of others living outside the shelters to relieve pressure on local communities and better handle security in its tense border area.

Eight Turkish police killed in suspected PKK attack Posted: 16 Sep 2012 02:31 AM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Eight Turkish police officers were killed and nine wounded when a roadside mine exploded in the Karliova district of Bingol in southern Turkey, security officials said on Sunday. The mine was detonated by suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants as a police bus was passing, officials said. Suspected Kurdish separatists killed four Turkish soldiers and wounded five in an attack on a military convoy near the border with Iran and Iraq on Saturday. ...

Last major group of Iranian exiles move to Baghdad Posted: 16 Sep 2012 02:04 AM PDT Officials say an estimated 680 Iranian exiles have left their longtime home in northeast Iraq, the last major contingent of their group to move to a refugee camp on Baghdad's outskirts.

Turkey: some Syrian refugees face relocation Posted: 16 Sep 2012 12:26 AM PDT Already host to 80,000 Syrians in refugee camps, Turkey is now seeking to relocate some of the tens of thousands of others living outside the shelters to relieve pressure on local communities and better handle security in its tense border area.

Regressive U.S. Foreign Relations Policies Denounced in New Book Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:04 PM PDT With yet another tenacious book, Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett presents a case of continued BREAKDOWN in act and ethos and pleads a better way, a better worldviewRochester, NY (PRWEB) September 16, 2012 From internationalist and nonpartisan progressive, author of "Same Ole or Something New" and "BREAKDOWN," comes another thought-provoking work NO LAND AN ISLAND NO PEOPLE APART challenging readers to face the "callously immoral, lawless, relentlessly regressive model in U.S. foreign relations"; and embrace an authentic progressivism. ...

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