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Presidenziali USA '08: nel campo repubblicano

   

Front runners: R. Giuliani e M. Romney


Relax, Republicans, It's a Fine Field
By Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 26 ottobre 2007

Major grumbling among conservatives about the Republican field. So many candidates, so many flaws. Rudy Giuliani, abortion apostate. Mitt Romney, flip-flopper. John McCain, Mr. Amnesty. Fred Thompson, lazy boy. Where is the paragon? Where is Ronald Reagan?

Well, what about Reagan? This president, renowned for his naps, granted amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants in the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. As governor of California, he signed the most liberal abortion legalization bill in America, then flip-flopped and became an abortion opponent. What did he do about it as president? Gave us Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, the two swing votes that upheld and enshrined Roe v. Wade for the last quarter-century.

The point is not to denigrate Reagan but to bring a little realism to the gauzy idol worship that fuels today's discontent. And to argue that in 2007 we have, by any reasonable historical standard, a fine Republican
field: One of the great big-city mayors of the last century; a former governor of extraordinary executive talent; a war hero, highly principled and deeply schooled in national security; and a former senator with impeccable conservative credentials.

So why all the angst? If you'd like to share just a bit of my serenity, have a look at last Sunday's Republican debate in Orlando. It was a feisty affair, the candidates lustily bashing each other's ideological deficiencies -- Mike Huckabee called it a "demolition derby" -- and yet strangely enough, the entire field did well.

McCain won the night by acclamation with a brilliant attack on Hillary that not so subtly highlighted his own unique qualification for the presidency. Citing his record on controlling spending, he ridiculed Hillary's proposed $1 million earmark for a Woodstock museum. He didn't make it to Woodstock, McCain explained. He was "tied up at the time."

How do you beat that? McCain's message is plain: Sure, I'm old, worn and broke. But we're at war. Who has more experience in, fewer illusions about, and greater understanding of war -- and an unyielding commitment to win the one we are fighting right now?

Giuliani was his usual energetic, tough-guy self. He fended off attacks on his social liberalism with a few good volleys of his own -- at Thompson, for example, for being a tort-loving accessory to the trial lawyers -- and by making the fair point that he delivers a conservatism of results. His message? I drove the varmints out of New York City -- with their pornography, their crime and their hookers (well, a fair number, at least). Turn me loose on the world.

Romney's debate performance was as steady and solid and stolid as ever, becoming particularly enthusiastic when talking about the things he's done -- build a business, rescue the Winter Olympics, govern the most liberal state in the Union. He got especially animated talking about his Massachusetts health care reform, achieved by working with an overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature. His message? I'm a doer, a problem solver, a uniter.

Yet when Romney simultaneously insists that he represents the purest of the pure -- "the Republican wing of the Republican Party" -- he presents the paradox of a technocrat running as an ideologue. Figuring that running as a sane Ross Perot doesn't quite enrapture the Republican primary electorate, he is trying also to be the authentic Reagan conservative, filling the ideological slot George Allen forfeited when he lost his Senate race last year. It's an odd fit that all of Romney's smoothness and intelligence has yet to convincingly achieve.

As for Thompson, he is a paradox, too. He's been around forever -- since Watergate -- and yet is mostly a blank slate. Can anybody remember anything of significance he achieved in his eight years in the Senate? Nonetheless, he helped himself in Orlando, showing that while he can be appealingly amiable and affable -- a Reaganesque quality that should not be underestimated when people decide who they want in their living rooms for the next four years -- he can be tough, as demonstrated by his opening salvo at Giuliani's social liberalism.

Yes, I know. I've left out Huckabee, whom some of my colleagues are aggressively trying to promote to the first tier. I refuse to go along. Huckabee is funny, well-spoken and gave a preacher's stemwinder that wowed the religious right gathering in Washington last Saturday. But whatever foreign policy he has is naive and unconvincing. In wartime, that is a disqualification for commander in chief.

So no more gnashing of teeth. Republicans have 4 1/2 good presidential candidates. All five would make fine Cabinet members: Romney at Treasury, Thompson at Justice, McCain at Defense, Giuliani at Homeland Security, Huckabee at Interior. All the team needs now is to pick a captain who can beat Hillary.

Il candidato coast-to-coast
Christian Rocca, Il Foglio, 17 Ottobre 2007


New York. Hillary Clinton è riuscita a ritagliarsi il ruolo di candidato “inevitabile” del Partito democratico, dimostrando di essere capace di guidare una formidabile macchina politica, e ora si appresta a stravincere le primarie del suo partito. Eppure, al momento, la più sensazionale performance politica di questo ciclo elettorale non è la sua, ma quella di Rudy Giuliani, l’ex sindaco di New York che guida il gruppo di candidati del Partito repubblicano, malgrado sui temi sociali (aborto, diritti gay, porto d’armi) le sue posizioni siano ai margini dell’ortodossia conservatrice. Il mondo politico e giornalistico da mesi aspetta il crollo della sua candidatura, convinto che mai e poi mai la base socialconservatrice e religiosa del partito accetterebbe di votare per Giuliani, ma più passano le settimane più l’ex sindaco appare sempre più al comando della gara. L’ultimo sondaggio Gallup, di ieri, lo dà al 32 per cento, in vantaggio di 14 punti su Fred Thompson. L’altro dato è che la campagna di Giuliani è quella con più soldi in banca tra i repubblicani (12 milioni di dollari, un terzo meno di quelli a disposizione di Hillary).

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Al Gore










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La sfida dell'islam e le sfide nell'islam: recensioni sulla "The New York Review of Books"


How to Understand Islam: Review
Malise Ruthven, The New York Review of Books, Volume 54, Number 17 · November 8, 2007


Arguing the Just War in Islam
by John Kelsay
Harvard University Press, 263 pp., $24.95

Islam: Past, Present and Future
by Hans Küng, translated from the German by John Bowden
Oxford: Oneworld, 767 pp., $39.95

Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice
by Michael Bonner
Princeton University Press, 197 pp., $22.95

Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Free Press, 353 pp., $26.00

Secularism Confronts Islam
by Olivier Roy, translated from the French by George Holoch
Columbia University Press, 128 pp., $24.50

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In the immediate aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush visited the Islamic Center in Washington, where he told his audience, "These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith.... The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace." In Britain his sentiments were echoed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, who told the Arabic newspaper al-Hayat: "There is nothing in Islam which excuses such an all-encompassing massacre of innocent people, nor is there anything in the teachings of Islam that allows the killing of civilians, of women and children, of those who are not engaged in war or fighting."

However reflective such views may be of the "moderate" Muslim majority, they are not uncontested. As John Kelsay shows in his new book Arguing the Just War in Islam, debates about the ethics of conflict have been going on since the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The scholars who interpreted the Prophet's teachings addressed issues such as the permissibility of using "hurling machines," or mangonels, where noncombatants including women and children, and Muslim captives or merchants, might be endangered. In the "realm of war" outside the borders of Islam a certain military realism prevailed: for example the eighth-century jurist al-Shaybani (who died in 805) stated that if such methods were not permitted the Muslims would be unable to fight at all.

There may be a vast distance in time and technology separating al-Shaybani's authorization of mangonels and the attacks on New York and Washington, but the boundaries of legal discussion remain remarkably consistent. In their 1998 Declaration Concerning Armed Struggle Against Jews and Crusaders following the deployment of US troops in the Arabian Peninsula, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and their cosigners belonging to the "World Islamic Front" cited rulings by thirteenth-century scholars including the celebrated jurist Ibn Taymiyya in order to justify their ruling that "to fight the Americans and their allies, civilians and military, is an individual obligation for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible." In a recent video bin Laden invites Americans to embrace Islam, a requirement the classical authorities insist on before a non-Muslim enemy may legitimately be attacked. The critiques of bin Laden's statements coming from religious authorities focus on the means by which the ultimate objective of a "restored" Islamic polity under Sharia law may be achieved, rather than the objective itself.
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For example, in a recent open letter to "Brother Osama," the prominent Saudi cleric Sheikh Salman al-Oadah makes a scathing attack on bin Laden for the excessive violence and damage to Islam inflicted by his campaign—including the "destruction of entire nations" and the "nightmare of civil war" in Afghanistan and Iraq, with their impact on the surrounding countries. But the sheikh's quarrel with bin Laden is essentially about means rather than ends. The burden of his attack is that al-Qaeda's methods—and the political fallout they engender—are counter-productive. Even if the radicals take power somewhere in the world, the sheikh writes, they will not have the experience or competence to govern in accordance with Islamic law.

None of these arguments are really new. The debate has been raging since before September 11. Will the militant actions taken in the service of justice yield more harm than good? Should a distinction be made between actions against "near enemies" occupying Muslim lands in Palestine or Chechnya and the "far enemy" in Washington? As Kelsay explains, "statements by al-Qa'ida are best understood as attempts to legitimate or justify a course of action in the terms associated with Islamic jurisprudence." He usefully terms this discourse "Shari'a reasoning."

The word sharia, usually translated as "law," refers to the "path" or "way" governing the modes of behavior by which Muslims are enjoined to seek salvation. The way may be known to God, but for human beings it is not predetermined. A famous hadith (tradition) of Muhammad states that differences of opinion between the learned is a blessing. Sharia reasoning is therefore "an open practice." In Islam's classical era, up until the tenth century, scholars exercised ijtihad—independent reasoning—in order to reach an understanding of the divine law. Ijtihad shares the same Arabic root as the more familiar jihad, meaning "effort" or "struggle," the word that is sometimes translated as "holy war." Ijtihad is in effect the intellectual struggle to discover what the law ought to be. As Kelsay remarks, the legal scholars trained in its sources and methodologies will seek to achieve a balance between the rulings of their predecessors and independent judgments reflecting the idea that "changing circumstances require fresh wisdom." The Sharia is not so much a body of law but a field of discourse or platform for legal reasoning. Recently, it has become an arena for intellectual combat.

It is therefore open to question whether the hijackers and the terrorists automatically put themselves beyond the bounds of Islam by killing innocents, as statements by Bush, Blair, and dozens of Muslim leaders and scholars suggest. With no churches or formally constituted religious authorities to police the boundaries of Islam, the only universally accepted orthodoxy is the Sharia itself. But the Sharia is more of an ideal than a formally constituted body of law. While interpreting the law was once the province of the trained clerical class of ulama, any consensus governing its correct interpretation has broken down under pressure of regional conflicts and the influence of religious autodidacts whose vision of Islam was formed outside the received scholarly tradition.

None of the three most influential theorists behind Sunni militancy, Abu'l Ala Maududi (1903–1979), Hasan al-Banna (1906–1949), and Sayyid Qutb, (1906–1966), received a traditional religious training. Yet both they and the authors of the landmark texts examined by Kelsay in his admirably lucid book (including the Charter of Hamas, which calls for the destruction of Israel, and bin Laden's 1998 Declaration) claim the mantle of the Sharia, as did the terrorists responsible for the atrocities in New York, Madrid, and London.

Like it or not, these terrorist campaigns were inspired by the example of the Prophet's struggle—his "just war"—against the Quraysh, the pagan tribesmen of Mecca. In the context of the original conflict between the early Muslims and the Meccans, the sources, including the Koran and the narratives of Muhammad's life, suggest that "fighting is an appropriate means by which Muslims should seek to secure the right to order life according to divine directives." In militant readings of the Sharia, the historical precedents are not so much interpreted as applied. For ultra-radicals such as bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri there is, as Kelsay observes, "little room for a sustained process of discerning divine guidance" along the lines enjoined by traditional scholars. An even more striking absence is evident in the criticisms of militant readings advanced by official Islamic authorities, including the widely respected Sheikh al-Azhar, head of the mosque-university in Cairo and once the single most important voice in Sunni Islam. While questioning the methods of the militants on grounds of practical ethics—will the "actions taken in the service of justice yield more harm than good?"—their criticisms usually fall short of challenging them on the grounds of political legitimacy. Conservative Muslim critics of militancy

do not in fact dissent from the militant judgment that current political arrangements [in most Muslim majority states] are illegitimate.... In its broad outlines, the militant vision articulated by al-Zawahiri is also the vision of his critics.

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Dopo Carter, la fiction (fallace) di Gore: a quando il nobel a Michael Moore (o a George Clooney)?


Oslo Syndrome. The Nobel Peace Prize ain't what it used to be.
Philip Terzian, The Weekly Standard, 29 ottobre 2007, Volume 013, n. 7

Visit the Virginia Military Institute, in Lexington, and cadets will show you the statue of General George C. Marshall '01 on the edge of the parade ground, and add proudly that Marshall was (and remains) the only soldier ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1953). They do this partly because Marshall is VMI's most illustrious graduate, but largely because the prize, when Marshall won it, carried with it a significance and prestige that no longer obtains.

This was painfully obvious last week, when Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.--as the Nobel committee punctiliously identifies him--was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, in conjunction with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As if to demonstrate how the foreign press seldom comprehends American politics, the Financial Times of London led the weekend edition with a breathless account of Gore's triumph, headlined "Gore Prize Transforms Debate on Climate."

Al Gore's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for his work on climate change is likely to place the issue at the forefront of political debate in the US as the country moves into its presidential election season.

The award, which the former vice-president shares with the United Nations' body of climate experts, follows speculation about a Gore presidential bid.

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American dream: il nuovo governatore della Louisiana, 36 anni, immigrato dall'India




Indian is elected Governor in US
The Times of India, 22 ottobre 2007

NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: A full century after the first Indian immigrants to the US were driven out of the country after what came to be known as the Bellingham riots, a conservative American state has elected an Indian-American as Governor.

Bobby Jindal, a boyish 36-year-old US-born son of Indian immigrants won more than 50% of the primary votes in a field of 12 candidates to break a host of records, including becoming the first Indian-American to hold Governor’s office.

Jindal will also become the youngest current Governor in the country when he is sworn into office in January, and the first member of an ethnic minority to become the chief executive of a historic state that, when purchased by Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon in 1803 for $15 million nearly doubled the size of the US and gave birth to 15 other states.

Jindal’s election marks a high-point in the history of Indian immigration to America, which began at the turn of the 19th century. The first regular immigrants from Punjab reached British Columbia and the Pacific northwest and moved down south to California, which would eventually elect the first Indian-American – Dalip Singh Saund — to Congress in 1956. Jindal became only the second person of Indian origin to be elected to Congress — from Louisiana — in 2004.

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onori per il dalai lama a washington, e la cina si inc...
Bush and Congress Honor Dalai Lama
Brian Knowlton, The New York Times, 18 ottobre 2007

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — Over furious objections from China and in the presence of President Bush, Congress on Wednesday bestowed its highest civilian honor on the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists whom Beijing considers a troublesome voice of separatism.

Dressed in flowing robes of dark burgundy and bright orange, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, beamed and bowed as the president and members of Congress greeted him with a standing ovation and then praised him as a hero of the Tibetan struggle. President Bush called him “a man of faith and sincerity and peace.”

But the Dalai Lama said he felt “a sense of regret” over the sharp tensions with China unleashed by his private meeting on Tuesday with Mr. Bush and by the Congressional Gold Medal conferred on him in the ornate Capitol Rotunda. In gentle language and conciliatory tones, he congratulated China on its dynamic economic growth and recognized its rising role on the world stage, but also gently urged it to embrace “transparency, the rule of law and freedom of information.”

The 72-year-old spiritual leader made clear that “I’m not seeking independence” from China, something that is anathema to Beijing. Nor, he said, would he use any future agreement with China “as a steppingstone for Tibet’s independence.” What he wanted, he said, was “meaningful autonomy for Tibet.” The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since the Chinese Army crushed an uprising in his homeland in 1959.

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se la possono permettere la guerra, gli stati uniti? Tra le righe del generale sanchez
What Gen. Sanchez Said
Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal, 18 ottobre 2007

Over the past weekend there were front-page accounts everywhere of Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez's description of the war in Iraq as a "nightmare." The New York Times led its story this way:

"In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the Bush administration's handling of the war 'incompetent' and said the result was 'a nightmare with no end in sight.' " Gen. Sanchez said this last Friday to a gathering of reporters and editors in Washington who cover military affairs. It was a dramatic denunciation from the man who led U.S. forces in Iraq from 2003 to 2004.

On Monday my colleague John Fund wrote an item for the Journal editorial page's daily email newsletter, Political Diary, noting that most of the news reports of the speech had failed to note that Gen. Sanchez had also severely criticized the press's performance in Iraq. "For some of you," Gen. Sanchez said to the reporters, "the truth is of little to no value if it does not fit your own preconceived notions, biases and agendas."

By now I was curious to see what Gen. Sanchez actually did say. The full text is an indictment all right, of everyone connected to this war--the president, the press, Congress, the bureaucracy and maybe the country itself.

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embargo
Terrorismo: GDF scopre a udine violazione embargo onu a iran
ANSA, 28 settembre 2007

(ANSA) - UDINE, 28 SET - Un caso di sospetta violazione dell'embargo Onu verso l'Iran è stato scoperto dalla Guardia di Finanzia di Udine, che ha perquisito la sede e le abitazioni dei soci e degli amministratori di un'azienda della provincia. Il provvedimento è stato disposto dal sostituto procuratore della repubblica di Udine Barbara Loffredo, che ha ipotizzato nei confronti dei titolari della società il reato di violazione della normativa antiriciclaggio.

Le Fiamme Gialle - secondo quanto riferiscono gli investigatori - hanno individuato operazioni finanziarie per alcune decine di migliaia di euro, transitate in conti privati di una dipendente della società ma in realtà riconducibili a operazioni dell'azienda stessa. Si sospetta che dietro esse, oltre che a illeciti fiscali, ci siano vendite occulte di prodotti alla Repubblica islamica dell'Iran, nei confronti della quale la comunità internazionale ha applicato di recente un embargo commerciale per materiali e prodotti che potrebbero essere usati per lo sviluppo dell'energia nucleare.

Si tratta del secondo caso di sospetta violazione all'embargo individuato in Italia. Nell'agosto scorso la Procura della Repubblica di Como aveva sequestrato un container alla Dogana di Ponte Chiasso in cui, dietro un carico dichiarato di carpenteria metallica è stata accertata la presenza di apparecchiature meccaniche in esaflorite di uranio, utilizzabili per progetti nucleari. Le indagini sull' episodio avvenuto in Friuli sono ancora aperte e gli investigatori della Guardia di Finanza sono ancora al lavoro, in particolare per quantificare esattamente l'entità delle transazioni. (ANSA).



Sospetta violazione dell'embargo in Iran
Il gazzettino, 29 settembre 2007

Una serie di bonifici bancari per circa 81mila euro, provenienti dagli Emirati Arabi e dall'Iran, transitati sul conto corrente dell'impiegata di un'azienda di Pavia di Udine, hanno attirato l'attenzione della Guardia di finanza. Quattro persone sono state sottoposte a indagini per una presunta violazione della normativa anti-riciclaggio: sono i legali rappresentanti della "Lup snc" di Pavia di Udine e una loro dipendente di Trivignano Udinese.

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da youtube: l'iran, l'europa, e l'appeasement - comedy a cura della "iranian resistence"; con m. ahmadinejad, m. khatami, a.h. rafsanjani e tanti altri

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columbia's controversy



John Coatsworth, Columbia University: inviteremmo persino Hitler. Se accettasse il confronto


Columbia Would Welcome Hitler, a Dean Insists
The New York Sun, 23 settembre 2007

The next round of controversy at Columbia will involve remarks of a dean who says that Hitler would have been welcome on Morningside Heights if he would take questions from students.

The dean, John Coatsworth, heads the same institution that will serve as Columbia's host for President Ahmadinejad. The decision of Columbia to honor the Iranian anti-Semite and terror master with a speaking platform has drawn outrage among political leaders in the city, including the speaker of the City Council, Christine Quinn.

"If Hitler were in the United States and wanted a platform from which to speak, he would have plenty of platforms to speak in the United States," Mr. Coatsworth said in an interview with Fox News that was linked last evening by the Drudge Report. "If he were willing to engage in debate and a discussion to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him."

A former professor of history at Harvard, Mr. Coatsworth is dean of the university's School of International and Public Affairs, whose graduates, according to a statement Mr. Coatsworth issued last week, "serve as diplomats, intelligence analysts, security experts, business leaders, human rights activists," and leaders of non-governmental organizations.

Columbia acknowledged last week that the visit to the university of Mr. Ahmadinejad was initiated not by the university but by the Iranian envoy to the United Nations through a faculty member, Richard Bulliet. Mr. Bulliet is described in Wikipedia as having been criticized for, among other things, "his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as overly favoring the Palestinian cause" and also for offering "qualified support" for the revolution that brought the mullahs to power in Iran in 1979.


Lee C. Bollinger (Columbia University): Statement About President Ahmadinejad's Scheduled Appearance
Columbia News, 19 settembre 2007

On Monday, September 24, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is scheduled to appear as a speaker on campus. The event is sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs (see SIPA announcement), which has been in contact with the Iranian Mission to the United Nations. The event will be part of the annual World Leaders Forum, the University-wide initiative intended to further Columbia’s longstanding tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate, especially on global issues.

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ahmadinejad alla columbia university
ahmadinejad e i gay: "in iran non abbiamo omosessuali come nel vostro paese. Non abbiamo questo fenomeno" 



ahmadinejad e l'olocausto: "sono un accademico come lei... e lei sa che ci sono diverse prospettive in ogni campo di ricerca"
ahmadinejad introdotto dal presidente della columbia, lee bollinger (parte 1)

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l'introduzione del presidente lee bollinger parte 1
l'introduzione parte 2


Iran's president: I don't deny Holocaust
New York Sun, 24 settembre 2007

Meeting with a frosty reception at Columbia University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted today he did not deny the Holocaust and said he wanted to visit the World Trade Center site to "show my sympathy" to 9/11 victims' families.

But even before the controversial leader began his speech, he received a harsh welcome from Columbia's President Lee Bollinger, who took him to task for Iran's record on human rights, its nuclear program, its alleged arming of Iraqi insurgents and its treatment of Iranian-American scholars.

Bollinger also challenged Ahmadinejad to explain why he did not believe documented evidence about the Holocaust and why he has vowed to "wipe Israel off the map."

"You exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator," Bollinger declared. "Frankly, and in all candor, Mr. President, I doubt that you will have the intellectual courage to answer these questions," Bollinger said, as protesters demonstrated outside the hall.

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ahmadinejad va a new york. E alla columbia university



New York Grudgingly Opens the Door
Manny Fernandez, The New York Times, 24 settembre 2007

Fidel Castro, visiting New York City in 1960, complained about the treatment he was getting at a Manhattan hotel and stormed out. Its managers later put up for auction the chicken feathers they said he left behind in Room 806.

Uganda’s brutal dictator, Idi Amin, had a statement read in 1975 at the United Nations General Assembly in which he called for the “extinction of Israel as a state.” He had started his day in a somewhat happier mood, smiling for the cameras at East 45th Street and First Avenue, where he and two of his children dedicated a plaque at the site of a future Uganda mission.

New York City — home to the United Nations and some of the most ethnically diverse communities on the planet — often finds itself in the curious position of being grudgingly hospitable to some of the world’s most controversial heads of state and loathsome tyrants.

The arrival yesterday of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president best known here for criticizing the United States and calling the Holocaust a myth, is the latest example of the diplomatic dance New York has long performed with international firebrands.

Last week the Police Department denied Iran’s request to allow Mr. Ahmadinejad to visit ground zero, but Columbia University is allowing him to participate in a World Leaders Forum today. The president spoke last night to a sympathetic and mostly Iranian audience at a Midtown hotel.

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ahmadinejad a "60 minutes" (23 settembre '07)



IL PRESIDENTE IRANIANO M. AHMADINEJAD
INTERVISTATO A "60 MINUTES"
23 settembre 2007

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guarda la parte 2


TRASCRIZIONE DELL'INTERVISTA

Transcript: Ahmadinejad Interview
Scott Pelley, CBS News-60 minutes

Sept. 23, 2007(CBS) On Sept. 20, 2007, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley interviewed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iran. In the interview, transcribed below, President Ahmadinejad spoke through his own translator.

SCOTT PELLEY: Do you have a greeting to the American people?

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD: In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful, I would like to greet the American people and the good nations around the world. Right now we are in the city of Tehran. It's in the afternoon of an autumn day. We're in the open air in a garden. And the air is pleasant. And fall, little by little, is settling in, mixing with the summer breeze, I guess. And I think that right now, you have different time zones obviously and different climates. We have early morning in the U.S. and other time zones perhaps approaching the noon. So once again, greetings to you. I very much hope that nations around the world start their days with peace, friendship, and happiness.

PELLEY: Mr. President, do you intend to press your request to visit the World Trade Center site in New York?

AHMADINEJAD: Well, it was included in my program, if we have the time and the conditions are conducive, I will try to do that.

PELLEY: But the New York Police Department and others do not appear to want you there. Do you intend to go there anyway?

AHMADINEJAD: Well, over there, local officials need to make the necessary coordinations. If they can't do that, I won't insist.

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non si candida, si candida, lo fanno candidare...


Khatami ponders 2009 Iran poll
Najmeh Bozorgmehrin, Financial Times, 20 settembre 2007

Iran’s reform-minded former president, Mohammad Khatami, is considering running for the 2009 elections in the apparent hope that he will be seen as a saviour who can extricate Iran from domestic and international troubles.

While cautioning that it is still early days, close allies of Mr Khatami say he remains one of the rare personalities in Iran who has enough appeal to wrest the presidency from fundamentalists. “He is willing to run and we think he’ll win in a landslide if elections were held now. But we still have to wait and test the waters in due time,” said one ally.

Another ally said Mr Khatami had become increasingly pessimistic about Iran’s prospects, with the escalation of the nuclear dispute with the west and the deterioration of relations with Europe under the radical President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad. Diplomats from the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are to meet in Washington on Friday to discuss further action against Iran over its refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment activities. “He thinks both domestic and international developments will go in such a wrong direction that the regime [leaders] will ask him to run to help the survival of the system,” said the ally.

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Siria




Osirak II?
Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal, 18 settembre 2007

In the late spring of 2002 the American press reported that Israel had armed its German-made submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. In Israel, this was old news. It was also headline news.

"Washington Post: Israeli subs have nuclear cruise missiles," was how the Jerusalem Post, of which I was then the editor, titled its story of June 16. It wasn't as if we didn't previously know that Israel had purchased and modified the German subs for purposes of strategic deterrence. Nor did we delight in circumlocutions. We simply needed the imprimatur of a foreign source to publish items that Israel's military censors (who operate as if the Internet doesn't exist) forbade us from reporting forthrightly.

So it's more than a little telling that the Israeli newspaper Haaretz chose, in the wake of an Israeli Air Force raid on Syria on Sept. 6 dubbed "Operation Orchard," to give front-page billing to an op-ed by John Bolton that appeared in this newspaper Aug. 31. While the article dealt mainly with the six-party talks with North Korea, Mr. Bolton also noted that "both Iran and Syria have long cooperated with North Korea on ballistic missile programs, and the prospect of cooperation on nuclear matters is not far-fetched." He went on to wonder whether Pyongyang was using its Middle Eastern allies as safe havens for its nuclear goods while it went through a U.N. inspections process.

How plausible is this scenario? The usual suspects in the nonproliferation crowd reject it as some kind of trumped-up neocon plot. Yet based on conversations with Israeli and U.S. sources, along with evidence both positive and negative (that is, what people aren't saying), it seems the likeliest suggested so far. That isn't to say, however, that plenty of gaps and question marks about the operation don't remain.

What's beyond question is that something big went down on Sept. 6. Israeli sources had been telling me for months that their air force was intensively war-gaming attack scenarios against Syria; I assumed this was in anticipation of a second round of fighting with Hezbollah. On the morning of the raid, Israeli combat brigades in the northern Golan Heights went on high alert, reinforced by elite Maglan commando units. Most telling has been Israel's blanket censorship of the story--unprecedented in the experience of even the most veteran Israeli reporters--which has also been extended to its ordinarily hypertalkative politicians. In a country of open secrets, this is, for once, a closed one.

The censorship helps dispose of at least one theory of the case. According to CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Israel's target was a cache of Iranian weapons destined for Hezbollah. But if that were the case, Israel would have every reason to advertise Damascus's ongoing violations of Lebanese sovereignty, particularly on the eve of Lebanon's crucial presidential election. Following the January 2002 Karine-A incident--in which Israeli frogmen intercepted an Iranian weapons shipment bound for Gaza--the government of Ariel Sharon wasted no time inviting reporters to inspect the captured merchandise. Had Orchard had a similar target, with similar results, it's doubtful the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert--which badly needs to erase the blot of last year's failed war--could have resisted turning it into a propaganda coup.

Something similar goes for another theory, this one from British journalist Peter Beaumont of the Observer, that the raid was in fact "a dry run for attack on Iran." Mr. Beaumont is much taken by a report that at least one of the Israeli bombers involved in the raid dropped its fuel tanks in a Turkish field near the Syrian border.

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un altro clone persiano di "khatami exit-2"

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Iran: Qom, arrestato religioso riformista

Iran: Qom, arrestato religioso riformista
AKI, 12 settembre 2007

Teheran, 12 set. -(Aki) - L'Hojatolislam Seyyed Hadi Ghabel, noto religioso riformista molto vicino all'ex presidente Mohammad Khatami, è stato arrestato questa mattina nella sua casa di Qom, da alcuni agenti delle forze di sicurezza, su mandato del Tribunale del Clero. All'origine del provvedimento, potrebbero esserci le proteste espresse nei giorni scorsi da Ghabel contro gli attacchi sferrati dagli ambienti radicali nei confronti dell'ayatollah Yousef Sanei, anch'egli vicino all'area riformista. Sanei aveva criticato duramente la nuova ondata di esecuzioni in Iran e si era timidamente pronunciato in difesa della parità tra i sessi.
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darfur

Sudan offers Darfur ceasefire
al jazeera english, 15 settembre 2007

Sudan's president has said that government forces would observe a ceasefire in the western Darfur province after the start of peace talks next month with rebel groups from the region. Omar Hassan al-Bashir made the remarks on Friday at the start of a highly criticised three-day visit to Italy.

Bashir said he hoped talks in Libya on October 27 would finally end the four-year conflict in the region. "We have given our government's willingness for a ceasefire from the start of the peace talks," he said at a news conference with Romano Prodi, the Italian prime minister. Prodi, who has been criticised by Italian politicians and other European politicians for hosting Bashir, said he had used the meeting to emphasis the international community's "strong concerns" about the situation.


Darfur 'slaughter'

A group of European parliamentarians, led by Britain's Glenys Kinnock, said it was surprised and concerned that Prodi would welcome a man "primarily responsible for the slaughter in Darfur". Foreign experts estimate that the conflict in Darfur has killed about 200,000 people and forced another 2.5 million from their homes. Khartoum disputes the figures.

Last month in Tanzania, the myriad of Darfur rebel factions agreed a common platform for new talks with the government before Khartoum agreed to attend peace talks in Tripoli. Bashir said he had asked Prodi to pressure "certain European countries harbouring some of these rebel groups" to persuade them to come to the talks. The Sudanese leader also said that he wanted an end to economic sanctions against his government and the cancellation of its foreign debt.

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kaplan sulla situazione in iraq
Bottom-Up Progress
  by Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2007 
 
The Iraq War has brought out the worst in a lot of people. Many who opposed it from the start have been beating their chests in triumph about how badly things have gone, while hunting for bad news wherever they can find it, which isn’t very hard. Many who supported the war have been searching for any positive trend that would allow them to claim that the tide is turning. This second group assumes that history will redeem them, not realizing that even if Iraq were brought gradually to rights, and the clerical regime in Iran were to suffer severe setbacks, it would still be hard to justify the loss of tens of thousands of lives merely for the sake of strategic positioning.

Of course, had the occupation been planned with the same meticulousness as the initial invasion, the loss of life might have been far less severe, and thus the war might have been justified with hindsight. That didn’t happen, though. Those like myself who argued for regime change are stuck with the facts as they are, not as we would like them to be.

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12 settembre 2007



Il gen. petraeus e l'ambasciatore crocker al congresso degli stati uniti:

1. Report to congress on the situation in iraq: "prepared statement" per il congresso by gen. petraeus

2. Statement of ambassador ryan c. crocker, u.s. ambassador to the republic of iraq: documento dell'ambasciatore crocker per il congresso

                   

3. Audizione di crocker e petraeus allla commissione armed services del senato, 11 settembre '07 (trascrizione integrale)

4. Le slide di petraeus

UNITED STATES SENATE

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

_________________________________________________

There will be a meeting of the Committee on

ARMED SERVICES

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
2:00 PM
Room SH-216, Hart Senate Office Building
OPEN

To receive testimony on the situation in Iraq and progress made by
the Government of Iraq in meeting benchmarks.
Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker
United States Ambassador to Iraq

General David H. Petraeus, USA
Commanding General
Multi-National Force - Iraq


Le slide di Petraeus
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Parla Petraeus: estratto dall'audizione al senato dell'11 settembre
da: washington post, Crocker, Petraeus Testify Before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Iraq,  September 11, 2007

(...)

SEN. CARL LEVIN, D-MICH. CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Senator McCain.

Again, our welcome to both of you, our thanks to both of you and to your families, that provide essential support for you in the extraordinarily difficult circumstances in which you both work.

We're indebted to you for your appearance here today and for the fact that this is the third of three long hearings for you.

General Petraeus?

PETRAEUS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator McCain, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide my assessment of the security situation in Iraq.

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rieccolo

 


Trascrizione del messaggio di bin laden
a cura di SITE Intelligence Group
 
All praise is due to Allah, who built the heavens and earth in justice, and created man as a favor and grace from Him. And from His ways is that the days rotate between the people, and from His Law is  retaliation in kind: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed. And all praise is due  to Allah, who awakened His slaves' desire for the Garden, and all of them will enter it except those who refuse. And whoever obeys Him alone in all of his affairs will enter the Garden, and whoever disobeys Him will have refused.

As for what comes after: Peace be upon he who follows the Guidance. People of America: I shall be speaking to you on important topics which concern you, so lend me your ears. I begin by discussing  the war which is between us and some of its repercussions for us and you.

(...)

Fai click qui per leggere l'intero messaggio di bin laden.
 
Bin Laden di nuovo in video
AKI, 8 settembre 2007

Alla vigilia del sesto anniversario dell'11 settembre e a tre anni dalla sua ultima apparizione, Osama bin Laden, il leader di al Qaeda, compare nuovamente in video. Annunciato giovedì, il nuovo filmato, da ieri nelle mani della Cia, dura circa 30 minuti e non contiene specifiche minacce nei confronti degli Stati Uniti. Secondo una prima analisi dell'intelligence, la voce sembrerebbe autentica e il messaggio sarebbe stato registrato di recente.

Lo dimostrerebbero alcuni riferimenti all'attualità, in particolare un passaggio in cui si cita l'elezione all'Eliseo (maggio scorso) del presidente francese Nicolas Sarkozy. Altri richiami importanti sono la vittoria dei democratici alle elezioni americane di mid-term (7 novembre scorso), con un attacco rivolto alla nuova maggioranza del Congresso Usa, incapace di invertire rotta sul fronte del conflitto iracheno. Il leader di Al Qaeda loda, invece, il linguista e politoligo Noam Chomsky. Bin Laden cita anche l'anniversario della bomba atomica su Hiroshima (6 agosto).

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baci e politica: ali khamenei




Politics of Kissing
da: kamangir (archer) - an iranian looking at iran as foreigner
posted by kamangir on september 7th, 2007


Ladies should not get very intimate with men in public, that’s a trivial rule in the Sharia. This very “obvious” rule has a few exceptions, though. For example, the former reformist president Khatami was under heavy artillery fire when he “sat too close to a lady in Italy”. At the same time, Ahmadinejad managed to kiss his teacher’s hand and get away with it. Why? Because, “coincidentally”, she was wearing gloves. So, the kissing is not what is wrong. What is wrong is that sinful touch of lips and the skin. For example, take this image. A lady is passionately kissing the Leader’s hand and he is having a great time. Look at his smile and also the military commander’s smile.

See? This is very complicated.

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circassi
da: esperimento
27 agosto 2007

Popolazione originaria del Caucaso (nella cartina qui sotto la zona arancione n. 8 e parte di quella gialla) subì le prime persecuzioni da parte della Russia zarista alla fine del 1700. Nel XIX secolo cominciarono ad emigrare verso ovest e passando per l'Impero Ottomano si convertirono (dal Cristianesimo) all'Islam (ora alcuni stanno ritornando al Cristianesimo). Alla fine dell''800 una parte di essi si stabilì nell'attuale Israele, fondando due villaggi: Rihania e Kfar Kama.

Attualmente ben integrati nella società israeliana, (i ragazzi di Rihania studiano nelle scuole del kibbutz di Sasa) organizzano annualmente un festival di balli che attira tanta gente da tutto il Paese. La lingua parlata è indoeuropea, ma usa un alfabeto simile a quello cinese, composto da centinaia di ideogrammi (ogni simbolo corrisponde ad una sillaba).





Per saperne di più:

21 Maggio, anniversario del massacro dimenticato
Circassi in Israele
La loro rivista
Il loro museo
Qualcosa di più sull'Adiga
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per la regione friulano il 64% degli abitanti


da: il piccolo
9 agosto 2007

di Martina Milia


TRIESTE. In Friuli Venezia Giulia solo un abitante su quattro non parla il friulano. Così, almeno, dicono i numeri: numeri che derivano dalla delimitazione dei comuni friulanofoni fissata dalla legge regionale 15 del ’96. Se tale delimitazione rimarrà immutata, se nessuno chiederà di uscirne e se il disegno di legge per l’insegnamento a scuola sarà accolto favorevolmente dalle famiglie, tre studenti su quattro nei prossimi anni potranno imparare la lingua friulana in classe. I comuni che rientrano nell’area in cui vale la tutela del friulano, come previsto dalla normativa, sono infatti 175 su 219. E includono il 64,3 per cento della popolazione totale del Friuli Venezia Giulia: 782.745 persone.

LE PROVINCE «Isola» a parte è Trieste, l’unica provincia che resta completamente esclusa dalla attuale mappatura, con i suoi sei comuni e i suoi 239.717 abitanti. Spostandosi verso ovest, invece, si vede che a Gorizia, ad esempio, il territorio è spaccato a metà, così come vuole il fiume Isonzo. Sono infatti 13 i comuni inclusi e corrispondono a 66.148 abitanti. Gli altri 12 – che hanno però una popolazione maggiore pari a 75.172 abitanti – sono fuori. In provincia di Pordenone il numero degli inclusi tende a salire: più di due terzi rientrano infatti nella «cartina» dei friulanofoni, pari a 196 mila abitanti sui 303 mila totali. La situazione più omogenea, come scontato, è offerta dalla provincia di Udine dove il friulano è la lingua che va per la maggiore. I comuni che entrano nella mappa della marilenghe sono 125 su 137 e corrispondono a 519.924 abitanti, la quasi totalità della provincia di Udine, da soli quasi la metà degli abitanti del Friuli Venezia Giulia.

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The YouTube effect
from: foreign policy
january/february 2007

Moisés Naím

A video shows a single line of people slowly trudging up a snow-covered footpath. A shot is heard; the first person in line falls. A voice-over says, “They are shooting them like dogs.” Another shot, and another body drops to the ground. A uniformed Chinese soldier fires his rifle again. Then, a group of soldiers examines the fallen bodies.

These images were captured high in the Himalayas by a member of a mountaineering expedition who claims to have stumbled upon the killing. The video first aired on Romanian television, but it only gained worldwide attention when it was posted on YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site. Human rights groups explained that the slain were a group of Tibetan refugees that included monks, women, and children. According to the Chinese government, the soldiers had fired in self-defense after they were attacked by 70 refugees. The posted video seems to render that explanation absurd. The U.S. ambassador to China quickly lodged a complaint protesting China’s treatment of the refugees.

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riccardo di giusto


da: wikipedia, "riccardo di giusto"
Riccardo di Giusto, udinese, fu un alpino, passato alla storia per essere il primo degli oltre 600.000 italiani morti nella prima guerra mondiale. Di Giusto apparteneva al battaglione Cividale dell' 8° reggimento alpini. Il 24 maggio 1915 mentre il suo reparto prendeva posizione sul monte Colovrat (in sloveno Kolovrat), in comune di Drenchia (UD), che segnava il confine tra Italia e Austria-Ungheria venne colpito a morte da un proiettile nemico.

Riccardo di Giusto è ricordato da un cippo in sua memoria sulla cima del monte Colovrat.
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stefania paquola



il gazzettino
13 agosto 2007

Può capitare di trovarsi in una condizione in cui anche scegliere diventa difficile ed è così che ci si abbandona alla quotidianità che si è stati abituati a vivere. Forse senza nemmeno farsi domande, forse senza nemmeno pensare che possa esistere e che si possa aspirare a qualcosa di meglio. Stefania Paquola viveva in via Riccardo Di Giusto, uno dei quartieri udinesi dove è più facile scontrarsi con lo strazio dei problemi.

Via Riccardo Di Giusto 90: per entrare in casa le conveniva prendere l'ascensore e pigiare sul tasto del 5. piano. «Fare le scale è lunga», avverte un ragazzino al pian terreno. Pochi secondi e si sarebbe trovata in un grande terrazzo: le entrate per gli appartamenti, incastrati in modo da contenere quanta più gente è possibile, stanno al centro; tutt'attorno si vede il panorama del quartiere, altri palazzi, altri alloggi, altre storie. Guardare giù fa un po' paura, il parapetto non è tanto alto e non ci sono protezioni. Dritta a sinistra, l'ultima porta in fondo.Ieri la porta era aperta, in casa restava la mamma Alberta e la sorella Paola. Senza parole.

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pegah emambakhsh: il volo della morte



from: IRQO
august 21, 2007

GOOD NEWS from Lesley:

We have just had some good news! - Richard Caborn, Pegah's MP has managed (together with the 'global' campaign, I think) to persuade the Home Office to defer Pegah's deportation until tues 28th August. Sarah Lawrence R C's PA has just told me, "that Pegah will be deported on Tuesday 28th August, unless representations come in from Richard Caborn and others before that date" Wilson & Co (solicitors) are currently looking at Pegah's papers and Sebastian at UKlgig expects to be able to tell me what they think sometime this evening. Will keep you all posted.

Everyone - Many heartfelt thanks for your all your support - we couldn't have got this far without you...we still need to keep up the campaign though - no flagging now!



Da: matteopegoraro@emergentesgomita.com
Oggetto: COMUNICATO STAMPA: URGENTE - SALVIAMO PEGAH
Data: 21 agosto 2007 14:51:45 GMT 02:00
A: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@nospam.uniud.it

Il caso di Pegah Emambakhsh (40), la lesbica iraniana che è in attesa di deportazione nel suo Paese di origine, dove in base alle leggi locali verrà lapidata, ha preso una svolta imprevista. Abbiamo brutte notizie che ci giungono direttamente da una fonte vicinissima a Pegah, detenuta a Yarlswood (Sheffield). Le autorità del Regno Unito hanno deciso di compiere un atto di forza, in dispregio di ogni diritto umano e di anticipare la partenza di Pegah verso l'Iran.

Il Governo britannico è in procinto di deportarla il 23 agosto 2007, con il volo diretto per Teheran della British Airline, numero BA6633, che partirà alle 21.55 dall'aeroporto Heathrow.

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leggere attentamente: dal corrispondente BBC a teheran, giugno 2005: "iran's electoral handshake test"
from: bbc news
june 2005, 18

By Gavin Esler
BBC, Tehran

Iranians have cast their ballots to elect a successor to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, but assessing the election race itself is not the only way of gauging the political temperature among voters. Here is a top tip for travellers to Iran: be careful how you shake hands. I made a big social gaffe... or perhaps it was a serious political statement. I will let you decide.

I have been spending time with the man nicknamed The Shark, the former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He is now 70 but desperate to get back his old job as president of the Islamic Republic. It had taken three months to negotiate an hour of his time for a BBC interview, and the Rafsanjani campaign workers were keen to show me they could run an election with as much skill as any Western politician. They can.

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    22 Agosto 2007

La danza del ventre di ciprì e maresco

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khatami: failure of socialist movements led people to embrace islam
from: IRNA
august 18, 2007

Tehran, Aug 18, IRNA

Head of the International Center for Dialogue of Civilizations Mohammad Khatami said on Saturday that failure of the socialist and nationalist movements have led world people to embrace Islam. He said in his statement to the Thirteenth Seminar of Baran Foundation that despite the fact that followers of different religions live in the Middle East, the region has assumed an Islamic identity in the course of history.

"Nevertheless, the resistance to aggression on the Middle East territories by foreign forces to forge dominance over the region has served to found such an Islamic identity." He said that colonialism has actually faced with the wall of Islamic identity in the Middle East.

"Though the Islamic identity can go in parallel with the positive aspects of the Western civilization, Western politicians do not accept any dispute due to their selfishness, especially when their interests are challenged." He said that the self-esteemed Western politicians see themselves entitled to stir up Islamophobia and violence against Muslims, so Islam has been exposed to damages owing the Western and Zionist campaigns.

1416/1412

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US version of democracy a big lie


from: IRNA
august 18, 2007

Tehran

Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran in his second sermon here Friday awakened world nations no longer believe US slogans for democracy, considering them big lies.

Addressing thousands of Tehrani worshipers at Central Campus of Tehran University, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami added, "The nited States has faced defeat in many of its projects, and the US humiliation is truly a blessed phenomenon." He said, "The Americans came to the region chanting slogans on democracy, and the most obvious political event in contemporary history is their absolute defeat.

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august 18 - talking to iran
from: the wall street journal
august 18, 2007

Michael Ledeen


For some time now, the chattering classes have debated whether the United States should negotiate with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both sides have endowed the very act of negotiating with near-mythic power.

The advocates suggest that "good relations" may emerge, while opponents warn it is somehow playing into the mullahs' hands. Both seem to believe that the three recent talks in Baghdad are historically significant, since they are said to be a departure from past practice.

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iran, dalla gran bretagna rischio rimpatrio per lesbica perseguitata
COMUNICATO STAMPA
17 agosto 2007

IRAN, DALLA GRAN BRETAGNA RISCHIO RIMPATRIO PER DONNA PERSEGUITATA PER LA PROPRIA OMOSESSUALITA’. IL GRUPPO EVERYONE, DALL’ITALIA: “INTERVENGA L’UNIONE EUROPEA”. E IN NIGERIA ALTRI 18 OMOSESSUALI RISCHIANO LA LAPIDAZIONE

Pegah Emambakhsh, lesbica iraniana fuggita dall’Iran in seguito all’arresto, alla tortura e alla successiva condanna all’impiccagione della compagna, nel 2005 aveva richiesto asilo al Regno Unito come rifugiata. Nonostante il suo accorato appello, la sua richiesta d’asilo è stata respinta e lunedì 13 agosto la donna è stata arrestata a Sheffield e subito trasferita al centro di detenzione di Yarlswood, dal quale avrebbe dovuto essere rimpatriata nella giornata di ieri 16 agosto.

A renderlo noto al Gruppo Everyone, le due principali organizzazioni omosessuali persiane: la Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO) e la Formerly Persian Gay & Lesbian Organization (PGLO).

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un video e un documentario bbc: atefah, la sedicenne (16 anni, sixteen years old) di neka mandata a morte in iran - nel 2004

Il documentario della BBC

BBC - Execution of a teenage girl - part 1
BBC - Execution of a teenage girl - part 2
BBC - Execution of a teenage girl - part 3
BBC - Execution of a teenage girl - part 4
BBC - Execution of a teenage girl - part 5


"She was publicly hanged from a crane in Neka, Iran, on August 15, 2004 . The judge in her case, Haji Rezai, also acted as executioner and applied the noose himself. She was left hanging for 45 minutes. He later boasted that she had been "taught a lesson" for her "sharp tongue". Her father was not notified of her e