Reports

Bulgaria Police Looking for Another Suspect

By | 2012-07-21T18:20:21-04:00 July 21st, 2012|Reports|

Bulgarian police are conducting a manhunt for another suspect who is believed to have assisted the terrorist who carried out the attack in Burgas which killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian citizen on Wednesday.   According to a report in NRG-Ma’ariv, local security forces suspect that the suspect may be in possession of another bomb.

Assad Disappears from Damascus

By | 2012-07-20T02:15:15-04:00 July 20th, 2012|Reports|

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to have disappeared from Damascus after his top security staff was killed in a suicide bombing. There has been no statement from the president, nor any sign of him since the attack Wednesday on the central government headquarters.   Clashes erupted Thursday near government headquarters in Damascus as opposition forces

Clinton ‘not offended,’ regrets only wasted tomatoes in Egypt protest

By | 2012-07-17T12:19:31-04:00 July 17th, 2012|Reports|

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday she was “not offended” by protesters in Egypt who pelted her motorcade with tomatoes, calling the demonstrations a sign of greater freedom and anxiety, and mainly regretting what she saw as wasted food.   Asked about the assault on Sunday in Alexandria, where protesters threw tomatoes,

Arab Man ‘Falls’ from Window After Selling Land to Israel?

By | 2012-07-16T15:04:11-04:00 July 16th, 2012|Reports|

A retired Arab security officer died on Sunday of injuries sustained after “falling” from a third-floor window while in custody.   The 63-year-old man, identified by one source as Ahmed Mansour, was pronounced dead at a Ramallah hospital, where he was transported after suffering serious injuries, with one source saying it was unclear if he

Obama Advisor Visited Israel ‘to Stop Iran Attack’

By | 2012-07-15T21:42:56-04:00 July 15th, 2012|Reports|

President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor Tom Donilon visited Israel secretly over the weekend in what one Israeli newspaper says was an attempt to convince Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.   He met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and National Security Advisor Gen. Yaakov Amidror.   "National Security Advisor

Remarks With Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr

By | 2012-07-15T14:49:44-04:00 July 15th, 2012|Reports|

FOREIGN MINISTER AMR: (Via interpreter.) I’m delighted to have Mrs. Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State here for the first time to Egypt since the revolution. It’s a very important visit, and especially in light of the U.S.-Egyptian historic relation, which serve the interest of both countries and which go back to 40 years ago.

Arafat’s Medical File Released in Death Probe

By | 2012-07-13T12:36:04-04:00 July 13th, 2012|Reports|

Medical files released for the first time on Thursday portray former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat as a robust 75-year-old whose sudden health crisis, a month before his 2004 death, was initially blamed on viral gastroenteritis.   Last week, a broadcast by Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera said it had conducted a nine-month investigation into

Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party in historic meeting

By | 2012-07-12T11:40:30-04:00 July 12th, 2012|Reports|

Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party Ennahda holds its first congress at home in 24 years on Thursday, seeking to clarify its strategy against a backdrop of political and religious tensions in the country.   Some 25,000-30,000 people are to attend the three-day congress, which is also the party’s first since it came to power following the

Abbas Approves Arafat Exhumation

By | 2012-07-10T11:36:02-04:00 July 10th, 2012|Reports|

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has approved the exhumation of late PLO arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat's body.   Abbas' approval comes days after scientists in Switzerland said they found high levels of the radioactive element Polonium-210 on some of Arafat's personal belongings.    However, the scientists were careful to point out that their conclusions, in of