MFS - The Other News

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• Iran has a heart: 'Stoning woman' to be hanged instead.The Iranian woman who became the center of an international outcry after being sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is to be hanged for murdering her husband, local media reported Tuesday.The new fate planned for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was announced by Iran’s national prosecutor general, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, at a news conference in Tehran Monday.“According to the court’s ruling, she is convicted of murder and her death sentence has priority over her punishment [for committing adultery]”, the Tehran Times reported, citing Mohseni-Ejei.The newspaper said that the prosecutor’s remarks mean Ashtiani -- an illiterate 43-year-old Azeri mother of two whose husband was killed by her cousin -- will not be stoned to death for committing adultery because she should first be executed for murder.Sounds like the Middle Ages all over again."First quarter them, then hang them?"Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Terrorists form alliance for attacks during the Commonwealth Games.Leaked police documents show that two extremist groups in possession of explosives and planning attacks during the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.The Indian intelligence gathered the information mainly through phone taps. The Delhi Police will be in the interest of safety not officially comment on the document that the header "strictly confidential"In one of the pieces is, however, describe how the intelligence of an attack two collaborating groups fear.The Mars-organization, which comes from Delhi, would have entered into an alliance with the Maoists in eastern India. Through cooperation, the terrorists have been able to obtain explosives for an attack in Delhi. "Talks between the two groups suggest that the Delhi-based group explosives and detonators supplied to the Maoists, specifically are made for an attack during the Games," write terror specialists. "The purpose of the attacks,is to take over the Commonwealth Games."Anonymous investigators called the new information "absolutely terrifying."The only thing we know for sure is that there are people walking around who are firmly committed to the athletes to attack, and that they have the means to enforce their intentions." Read the full story here(Google Translate).Click here for comments.

• HT:Breibart TV.New Black Panther King Shamir Shabazz: Whites Use Black Babies as Alligator Bait.This is the man the Obama/Holder Justice Department chose to let off with a slap on the wrist.Ahmadinejad met with the New Black Panthers a few days ago. That puts everything into perspective now. Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:InfidelBloggers.Iran 'launches radar-evading flying boats'.Iran's state television says the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard has received its first three squadrons of radar-evading flying boats. The report says the domestically made craft can be used for surveillance and can carry guns and transmit data.Its production is part of Iran's effort to boost its arsenal and military capabilities, despite international sanctions over the country's controversial nuclear program."Bavar-2 is a surface-moving flying boat and performs patrol and reconnaissance missions on the sea," Brig Gen Vahidi said, according to Fars News Agency, Iran's semi-official news agency.He added that the vessels are equipped with machine gun, night vision and reconnaissance equipment to record and send images and data.Iran's military achievements cannot be independently verified.Looks like a crossbread of a dinghy and an Sukhoi Ekanokran Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Senior Jihadist Cleric Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi: All in the West Will Bear the Consequences of Koran Burnings, Mockery of the Prophet; There Will Be More Muhammad Attas and More Zarqawis.Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, the most influential religious scholar among global jihadists, has published a new article in which he warns the United States and other Western countries that they will be subject to attack as a result of the recent Koran burning controversy and other violations of Muslim sanctities. The main point of his article is to state that the populations of these countries on the whole are to be held responsible and punished for the anti-Islamic acts of individuals.A perfect example of "Interfaith dialog?".Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Children Under Sharia Law, Part 4: Kids See Dad Killed, Forced to Convert and Train for Terror.It boggles the mind how much of the Left-leaning media is still arguing that Sharia is not so bad. The strict enforcement of Islamic law all over the world brings slavery, violence, and destruction. Children are often the hardest hit target, as the situation in Somalia in recent weeks has shown.In the last couple of weeks a few small news organizations began to report on a Christian family being attacked in this East African nation. On July 21, 2010 Al-Shabaab insurgents broke into the home of Osman Abdullah Fataho and shot him dead in front of his wife and 4 children. Fataho was a Muslim convert to Christianity and was a leader in an underground church group. The Al-Shabaab then told the wife that she could go but they were keeping the children.Why would the Al-Shabaab movement keep the kids of the man they just murdered? Their goal was to brainwash them into converting to Islam and then train the children as terrorists to help enforce Sharia. Abducted were: 5-year-old Ali Daud Fataho; 7-year-old Fatuma Safia Fataho; 10-year-old Sharif Ahmed Fataho and 15 year-old Nur Said Fataho.“We know they have taken the children to brain-wash them, to change their way of life from Christian to Muslim and to teach them the Quran,” an anonymous source told Compass Direct News.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Russia: Bronze Statue Dedicated to Soldier Who Was Beheaded by Chechen Jihadis For Refusing to Remove Cross and Accept Islam.Private Rodionov was killed by Chechen militants, when kept a prisoner in Chechnya, on May, 23rd, 1996. He was decapitated for refusal to take off the underwear cross he was wearing and accept Islam.“The monument depicts a bronze candle with its flame embracing a soldier who is holding a cross”, – the report reads.Read the full story here.Click here for comments. 

• Obama: Fox News is 'destructive' to America.Is this guy for real?Has he looked in the newspapers lately?Officials in the Obama White House have long made Fox News a punching bag, launching a full blown offensive last year when aides declared the network to be "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Then-White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said the cable outlet "operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," and top aide Valerie Jarret called Fox "clearly biased."But the new comments from Obama constitute the president's most direct attack yet on the network owned by business mogul Rupert Murdoch.Read the full slander story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Gatewaypundit.Rush Limbaugh: Michelle Obama Got Her “No-Show” Job in a Chicago Hospital Because of Barack (Video).He reminded viewers that she didn’t get her “no-show” job in Chicago on her own. It was only because of her husband that she was hired to work at a hospital where she was paid $63,000 in 2008 for a job she didn’t go to.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Blogger sentenced in Iran to 19 years.A Canadian-Iranian blogger has been sentenced in Tehran to 19 years in prison after being convicted of creating anti-government propaganda.Hossein Derakhshan was arrested in Tehran on Nov. 1, 2008.He was tried on charges of collaborating with enemy states, creating propaganda against the Islamic regime, insulting religious sanctity and creating propaganda for anti-revolutionary groups.There were fears that Derakhshan could have faced the death penalty, but the conservative website Mashreghnews.ir, which has close ties to the office of Iran's president, said he has been given a prison term.The website reported that Derakhshan can appeal his sentence.Derakhshan, 35, is considered the first blogger to help other Iranians post weblogs in the Farsi language.He moved to Toronto in 2000 from his native Iran after the reformist newspaper he had worked for in Tehran was closed by the authorities. He is now a Canadian citizen.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Harvard Pilgrim cancels Medicare Advantage plan.Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has notified customers that it will drop its Medicare Advantage health insurance program at the end of the year, forcing 22,000 senior citizens in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine to seek alternative supplemental coverage.“We became concerned by the long-term viability of Medicare Advantage programs in general,’’ said Lynn Bowman, vice president of customer service at Harvard Pilgrim’s office in Quincy. “We know that cuts in Medicare are being used to fund national health care reform. And we also had concerns about our ability to build a network of health care providers that would meet the needs of our seniors.’’Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• First batch of Afghan 'sisters' joins the fight.Twenty-nine women will soon be Afghanistan's first female officers, trained at the hands of a hard-boiled group of female drill sergeants based in Oklahoma.The women will be the first-ever graduates of the Afghan National Army's female Officer Candidate School (OCS), set up by drill sergeants from the 95th Division under the U.S. Army Reserve Command.Initially, 44 Afghan women signed up, answering a nationwide television campaign to recruit women to attend the OCS program.Only about 300 women serve in the Afghan National Army, which has more than 134,000 soldiers. The Afghan military eventually wants 10% of its force to be female, some through female OCS, or FOCS.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Azerbaijan could 'secretly' be used for US attack on Iran.News.Az interviews Vladimir Khrustalev, an expert at the Centre of International Studies at Vladivostok's Admiral G. Novelskiy Maritime University.How do you explain Russia’s decision not to sell S-300 anti-aircraft systems and other types of weapons to Iran?Formally, I can explain this as the observance of UN sanctions but, in fact, it is difficult to explain. Probably, it comes from the wider political context of relations with the West.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• And now for something completely different!I've heard of pink elephants, but this is ridiculous: Amazing images of rare pink hippopotamus captured in Masai Mara.Wading through the muddy waters this rare pink-o-pottamus stands out from the crowd.British brothers and wildlife photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas captured these images of the brightly coloured hippo in the Masai Mara, Kenya, last week. Visiting the African country on the hunt to photograph the legendary wildebeest migration the Londoners were in for a treat when rumours of a pink hippo surfaced.Hmmmm....ever heard of "Albino animals"?Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Stonehenge boy 'was from the Med'.Chemical tests on teeth from an ancient burial near Stonehenge indicate that the person in the grave grew up around the Mediterranean Sea.The bones belong to a teenager who died 3,550 years ago and was buried with a distinctive amber necklace.Analysis on a previous skeleton found near Stonehenge showed that that person was also a migrant to the area.The "Boy with the Amber Necklace", as he is known to archaeologists, was found in 2005, about 5km south-east of Stonehenge on Boscombe Down.The remains of the teenager were discovered next to a Bronze Age burial mound, during roadworks for military housing."He's around 14 or 15 years old and he's buried with this beautiful necklace," said Professor Jane Evans, head of archaeological science for the BGS."The position of his burial, the fact he's near Stonehenge, and the necklace all suggest he's of significant status."Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, of Wessex Archaeology, backed this interpretation: "Amber necklaces are not common finds," he told BBC News."Most archaeologists would say that when you find burials like this... people who can get these rare and exotic materials are people of some importance."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• A French chocolatier launched a 3.5m chocolate and sugar boat in front of a crowd of hundreds of onlookers in the port of Concarneau. Chocolate creator Georges Larnicol, who owns a dozen shops across western France, won a bet by successfully building a seaworthy boat from chocolate."Liberté, égalité, fraternité,Chocolatier?"Read and see the whole story here.Click here for comments.