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As past statements of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf continue to surface, many Americans have concluded that the would-be builder of a mosque at Ground Zero is lying when he calls himself a "moderate" representative of his faith.
Published Why Islamic Moderates Are So Scarce.
12:00am via AINAThe post--Cold War New World Order is rapidly breaking apart. Nations are returning to the ancient passions, rivalries, and differences of past centuries.
Published The New Old World Order.
12:00am via AINAThe in-fighting inside the Iranian regime has become so intense that Ayatollah Khamenei has been forced to give a “serious warning” [1] to the competing factions that they must reconcile.
Published Mullah Vs. Mullah.
12:00am via AINADavid Limbaugh has a solid track record of writing comprehensive, damning indictments. He's gone after Janet Reno's Justice Department. He's exposed domestic crimes against religious freedom.
Published Obama: Unpresidential Plummet.
12:00am via AINAWhile preparing for his thesis on the rise of nationalist thinking among a rarely-studied Middle Eastern Christian minority group who speak Syriac as a common language, Raid Gharib, a PhD candidate at the University of Tübingen, happened upon a catalo...
Published Scholar Visits Harvard to Study Assyrians.
12:00am via AINAMOSUL, Iraq -- As the U.S. marks the official end of combat operations in Iraq, political deadlock and a lack of police officers in this troubled northern city are threatening hard-fought military gains, showing that the mission here is far from accomp...
Published Political Deadlock Perpetuates Mosul's Violence.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD -- The U.S. military's war is officially over in Iraq, even as the future of the country remains undecided. The signs of the end were everywhere Wednesday, despite the presence of about 49,000 American troops who remain mostly sequestered on la...
Published In Iraq, Clear Signs of a New U.S. Mission.
12:00am via AINAPresident Obama's speech to the nation on the official end of the American combat mission in Iraq neglected a major consequence of the war: hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees now scattered around the world.
Published U.S. Troops Come Home, But Iraqi Refugees Can't Return.
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September 1st
It's now clear to most Americans that while Imam Feisal Rauf has the right to build his mosque wherever he desires, his decision to build it near Ground Zero is grossly insensitive, to say the least, and flies in the face of his reputation as a “mode...
Published The Ground Zero Imam's Troubling Texts.
12:00am via AINAThere was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Published The New Moral Equivalence.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD -- Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion in American arms and military equipment, a huge order of tanks, ships and hardware that U.S. officials say shows Iraqi-U.
Published Iraq to Spend $13B on U.S. Arms, Equipment.
12:00am via AINAThe withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq is a significant event for the religious communities and those, who like me, serve those communities in Iraq.
Published Remember Religion's Role in Iraq.
12:00am via AINAThe nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
Published Obama Is Not A Muslim.
12:00am via AINA(RFE/RL) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has kept his promise to draw down the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to fewer than 50,000 by September 1.
But uncertainty about what comes next is easy to find on Baghdad's streets.Published What Will U.S. Troops Do In Iraq Now?.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD (Reuters) -- President Barack Obama is pushing Iraq's democracy out of the nest before it can fly and abandoning Iraqis while they are still at war, many Iraqis said on Wednesday after the end of U.
Published Fix Political Impasse Before You Go, Iraqis Tell U.S..
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD -- Vice President Joe Biden and top U.S. military officials gathered Wednesday in a former palace of Saddam Hussein to usher in a new era in Iraq--one marked by a lower profile for American troops and a heightened scrutiny on the fragile state ...
Published In a Fragile Iraq, U.S. Ushers in New Era.
12:00am via AINARAMADI, Iraq -- The war in Iraq is over and the United States is entering the final phase of the U.S. engagement in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
Published Gates: War in Iraq Over, U.S. Transitioning to Iraqi Forces.
12:00am via AINA(Bloomberg) -- Iraqi leaders must "match the courage" of their citizens and form a government to rule their war-shattered country, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said as American troops formally ended their Iraq combat mission today.
Published Iraq Politicians Must Match 'Courage' of Citizens, Biden Says.
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August 31st
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After our brothers in the Movement have completed their Summit Conference in Baghdad successfully, during some unstable conditions in all respects; first I wish to congratulate the participants and the winners of the election of the Central Comm...Published A Demand to put-forth the Leadership and Activists of the Assyrian Democratic Movement.
11:07pm via Zowaa.orgZowaa – Special ~ On August 30, 2010, Mr. Massoud Barzani: president of KRG of Iraq received Mr. Yonadam Kanna: member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and Secretary-General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement along with a delegation from Al-R...
Published Mr. Massoud Barzani welcomes Mr. Yonadam Kanna.
9:02pm via Zowaa.orgZowaa – Special ~ Mr. Yonadam Kanna: member Iraqi Parliament and secretary-General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement sent a message of appreciation to all who have congratulated the success of the Sixth Summit Conference of the Movement; below is t...
4:48pm via Zowaa.orgOpponents of the Ground Zero Mosque should think twice about basing their opposition to it solely on the provocative nature of the proposed site. To say, "They can build it anywhere else" seems like a reasonable compromise, but in the long run it may ...
Published To Build a Mosque.
12:00am via AINAThe United States has refused to join the United Nations Human Rights Council since it was birthed in 2006 following the dissolving of its failed predecessor, the U.
Published Obama's Human Rights Disgrace.
12:00am via AINAHe said what he had to say. He read his Teleprompter well and without stumbling. He lined up all the used-to-death clichés in an orderly line. And that was all there was to the president's nationally televised address on Tuesday night.
Published Style Over Substance In Obama's Iraq Speech.
12:00am via AINAWASHINGTON -- With the U.S. officially having ended combat operations in Iraq Tuesday, U.S. spy officials see the country's inability to form a government as the greatest security threat it faces.
Published Iraq's Failure to Form a Government Concerns U.S. Spy Officials.
12:00am via AINAThe president is commemorating "the end of the combat operations in Iraq." Except that U.S. military forces remaining in Iraq will continue to have combat responsibilities, both in support of Iraqi forces for internal security, and to protect Iraq from...
Published The Disconnect In Obama's Iraq Plan.
12:00am via AINACopenhagen (AP) -- A Kurdish-language TV station with a Danish broadcasting license has been charged with promoting a group linked to terrorism, Danish prosecutors said Tuesday.
Published Denmark Alleges Kurdish TV Station Promoted Terror.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD (AP) -- As Vice President Joe Biden presides over the formal end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, few Iraqis are cheering the American exit.
Iraqis, who for years have railed against the U.Published Iraqis Approach End of US Combat Role With Worry.
12:00am via AINAIraqis and Americans serving together has been the hallmark of Operation Iraqi Freedom in recent years. Long gone are the days of the initial invasion and the removal of Sadaam Hussein.
Published Nineveh Province Illustrates U.S. Progress in Iraq.
12:00am via AINABeginning Wednesday, the United States enters a new phase in its military operations in Iraq. I'm one of the 50,000 U.S. soldiers deployed to Iraq conducting what we call stability operations.
Published U.S. Has New Mission in Iraq, But Same Commitment to Success.
12:00am via AINAMuch has been written in recent days about Iraq and anniversaries. August 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait. August 2010: The last U.S. combat brigade withdraws from Iraq.
Published Iraq Needs U.S. Engagement, and a Slower Clock.
12:00am via AINA(CNN) -- Marking the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, President Obama said Tuesday night that America would continue supporting Iraq's government while also looking to refocus its energies on the U.
Published Obama: 'Time to Turn the Page' As Iraq Combat Mission Ends.
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August 30th
The Assyrian genocide monument, a memorial to the nearly 750,000 Assyrians murdered by Turkey’s Ottoman Government during World War I was vandalized over the weekend of August 29. The 1914-1918 genocide perpetrated against the Christian population of...
Published AUA's Press Release on the Vandelized Assyrian Genocide Monument.
6:39am via Assyrian Times
The Assyrian Genocide Monument which was unveiled only weeks ago has been badly vandalised. Its the second Assyrian memorial to...Published Police appeal for witnesses as second memorial attacked.
3:07am via The AssyrianLocation, location, location.
So far, the Ground Zero mosque controversy has focused excessively on its proximity to the scene of the September 11 massacre.Published Ground Zero Mosque: It's Not the Location, It's the Sharia.
12:00am via AINAMayor Michael Bloomberg is a very tolerant fellow. Don't believe me? Just ask him: [1]
[L]et me declare that we in New York are Jews and Christians and Muslims, and we always have been.Published Bloomberg and Illusions of Tolerance.
12:00am via AINAOne of the most common arguments of the supporters of the Ground Zero mosque includes religious freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Religion is seen as the framework to support building a mosque and community center near the site of the forme...
Published Religious Freedom and a Mosque.
12:00am via AINASydney -- The Assyrian genocide monument, a memorial to the nearly 750,000 Assyrians murdered by Turkey's Ottoman Government during World War I was vandalized over the weekend of August 29 (AINA 8-30-2010).
Published Assyrian Genocide Memorial Sponsor Issues Statement on Vandalism.
12:00am via AINADamascus, Syria -- As Iraq struggles to bolster its fledgling post-war economy, some of the young Iraqis upon whom its success will depend are falling behind.
Published At Summer School, Iraqi Refugees in Syria Try to Catch Up.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD (Reuters) -- The U.S. military formally ends combat operations in Iraq on Tuesday, limiting its troop levels to 50,000 7-1/2 years after the invasion as President Barack Obama seeks to fulfil a promise to U.
Published Iraq Faces Tests As U.S. Ends Combat Mission.
12:00am via AINABombers and gunmen killed at least 55 Iraqis in two dozen attacks across the country Wednesday, mostly targeting security forces and rekindling memories of the days when insurgents ruled the streets.
Published Attacks in Iraq Kill 55, Raise Fears of Insurgents.
12:00am via AINA(CNN) -- Two men held in the Netherlands may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked baggage, a U.
Published Dutch Arrests May Have Been Dry Run, U.S. Source Says.
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August 29th
The Assyrian Eagle Scouts along with Reverend John Kushaba, Deacon Ninos Elya and Scoutmaster Gaby Kiwarkis delivered dozens of teddy bears to th...Published Children's Hospital thanks Assyrian community.
3:32am via The AssyrianOur latest podcast on Mideast Youth features an interview with a Christian Iranian activist, Firouz Khanjani, whose brother, a pastor, was arrested twice this year in Iran.
Published Iranian Christian Activist Speaks on Persecution of Christians in Iran.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD (Reuters) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's message this weekend that Iraq would "chart its own course" may have been welcome news for war-weary Americans, but it has fuelled anxieties about the future among Iraqis.
Published Iraqis Say War 'Not Ending' Despite U.S. Drawdown.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD (AFP) -- Iraq on Sunday slammed as "illegal" an agreement between its autonomous Kurdistan region and the German energy firm RWE that is expected to help supply the planned Nabucco gas pipeline to Europe.
Published Baghdad Slams 'Illegal' RWE Gas Deal With Iraqi Kurds.
12:00am via AINABAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Iraq does not need more soldiers and police to wage war against insurgents as U.S. combat operations end, a senior Iraqi security official said.
Published Iraq Needs Intel, Not Soldiers, As U.S. Scales Back.
12:00am via AINAWASHINGTON (AFP) -- Mothers cried and children squealed with delight as a company of US troops arrived back from Iraq on Saturday, after a year-long tour marked by desert heat and monotony.
Published Joy and Tears Greet US Army Troops Back From Iraq.
12:00am via AINAArcheologists have unearthed the tablets of first written trade agreement in Anatolia.
Professor Cahit Gunbatti of Ankara University's Faculty of Letters, History and Geography said the first written trade agreement in Anatolia was made 4,000 years ago.Published Archeologists Find 4,000 Year-old Trade Deal in Anatolia.
12:00am via AINA(Reuters) -- The weakness and wealth of Iraq, now shorn of all but 50,000 U.S. troops, tempt its anxious neighbors to vie for influence among Iraqi factions struggling to form a government nearly six months after an election.
Published Iraq No Pushover in Regional Power Struggle.
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