MFS - The Other News

                        Morning Posting.

• Updated !Earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the world seismic activity in Tonga 6.8 ! More info here.

• Japan : For the most accurate info on the nuclear disaster go to : Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog.Here.

• Breaking News! Four Birmingham men charged with plotting terrorist attack in UK; two others charged on other offence.(BirminghamMail).Six men have been charged with terror offences after they were arrested last week in a major operation, police have said.The men, all from Birmingham, were arrested as part of a major operation carried out by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, West Midlands Police said.The force said four men have been charged with preparing for an act of terrorism in the UK, and two more with failing to disclose information. One of those two was also charged with terrorist fundraising.All six, who are aged between 25 and 32, will appear at West London Magistrates Court tomorrow afternoon.Irfan Nasser, 30, Irfan Khalid, 26, Ashik Ali, 26, and Rahin Ahmed, 25, are all charged with engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, contrary to the Terrorism Act 2006.It is alleged that between Christmas Day 2010 and September 19 this year, they were preparing, or helping others prepare, to commit acts of terrorism.For Nasser, from Sparkhill, Khalid, from Sparkbrook, and Ali, from Balsall Heath, this is alleged to have included planning a bombing campaign; stating an intention to be a suicide bomber; collecting money for terrorism; making or helping make a homemade bomb for terrorism; and recruiting people for terrorism.Nasser and Khalid are also accused of travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism including bomb making, weapons and poison making, as well as making a martyrdom film.Ahmed, from Moseley, is accused of helping others travel to Pakistan for terrorism training, collecting money for terrorism and investing and managing money for terrorist acts.Ashik Ali's brother Bahader Ali, 28, and Mohammed Rizwan, 32, both from Sparkbrook, are both charged with failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism.It is alleged that between July 29 and September 19 this year, both had information which they knew may help prevent the commission of an act of terrorism but did not disclose the information.Bahader Ali is also charged with terrorist fundraising.A seventh man, aged 20 and also from Birmingham, who was arrested on Thursday, is still being questioned.Officers have until Thursday to charge, release or apply for a further warrant of detention.Read the full story here.

• Birmingham terrorism charges: Three of six charged accused of planning to be suicide bombers .(BirminghamMail).Three of the six men charged tonight with terrorism offences in Birmingham are accused of planning to be suicide bombers.Full details of the charges, as released by West Midlands Police, are as follows:

IRFAN NASSER (14/6/81) aged 30 of Doris Road, Sparkhill

Alleged that between Christmas Day last year and September 19 this year, he had the 'intention of committing acts of terrorism within the UK or assisting another to commit such acts engaged in conduct in preparation for giving effect to his intention, namely:

i. Travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism including bomb making, weapons and poison making.

ii. Making a martyrdom film.

iii. Planning a bombing campaign.

iv. Planning a suicide bombing campaign/event.

v. Collecting money for terrorism.

vi. Advising and counselling the commission of terrorist acts by providing information about training in Pakistan

vii. Advising, counselling on explosives and detonators.

viii. Being concerned in the purchase of components and chemicals for a home made explosive device.

ix. Construction of a home made explosive device for terrorist acts.

x. Being concerned in recruiting persons for terrorist training.

xi. Being concerned in recruiting persons for terrorist acts.

xii. Stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.

IRFAN KHALID (1/3/85) aged 26 of Timbers Way, Sparkbrook

Travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism including bomb making, weapons and poison making.

ii. Making a martyrdom film.

iii. Planning a bombing campaign.

iv. Planning a suicide bombing campaign/event.

v. Collecting money for terrorism.

vi. Advising and counselling the commission of terrorist acts by providing information about training in Pakistan

vii. Advising, counselling on explosives and detonators.

viii. Being concerned in the purchase of components and chemicals for a home made explosive device.

ix. Construction of a home made explosive device for terrorist acts.

x. Being concerned in recruiting persons for terrorist training.

xi. Being concerned in recruiting persons for terrorist acts.

xii. Stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.

ASHIK ALI (12/3/85) aged 26 of White Street, Balsall Heath

i. Planning a bombing campaign

ii. Planning a suicide bombing campaign/event.

iii. Collecting money for terrorism

iv. Providing premises for the planning of terrorism acts and making of explosives.

v. Learning about explosives and detonators.

vi. Being concerned in the purchase of components and chemicals for a home made explosive device.

vii. Construction of a home made explosive device for terrorist acts.

viii. Being concerned in recruiting persons for terrorist training.

ix. Being concerned in recruiting persons for terrorist acts.

x. Stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.

RAHIN AHMED (28/7/86) aged 25 of Moorcroft Road, Moseley

 i. Assisting others to travel to Pakistan for training in terrorism including bomb making, weapons and poison making.

ii. Collecting money for terrorism.

iii. Investing and managing money for terrorist acts.

BAHADER ALI (4/7/83) aged 28 of Turner Street, Sparkbrook, accused of witholding information which could have prevented an act of terrorism. Also charged with entering into a funding arrangement related to potential terrorism.

MOHAMMED RIZWAN (3/2/79) aged 32 of Asquith Road, Sparkbrook, accused of witholding information which could have prevented an act of terrorism.

Read the full story here.

• Obama to Blacks: Quit Cryin' and Complainin'.(Yahoo).In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too.Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent."It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.But he said blacks need to have faith in the future -- and understand that the fight won't be won if they don't rally to his side."I need your help," Obama said.Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy."Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."But at times, Obama also sounded like he was discussing his own embattled tenure."The future rewards those who press on," He said. "I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."This year's caucus speech came as Obama began cranking up grass-roots efforts across the Democratic spectrum.It also fell on the eve of a trip to the West Coast that will combine salesmanship for the jobs plan he sent to Congress this month and re-election fundraising.Obama was leaving Sunday morning for Seattle, where two money receptions were planned, with two more to follow in the San Francisco area.Hmmmm....."money,money ....money.Always sunny.In the rich man's world .Aha-ahaaa - "Quit Cryin' and Complainin'.Read the full story here.

• National Suicide? Further US Nuclear Cuts Planned.(NewZeal).In my view this is the chief reason why Barack Obama was maneuvered into the US presidency and why leftist budget expert Leon Panetta is now US Secretary of Defense.From the Washington Times

The Obama administration has been secretly working on a review of U.S. nuclear weapons in what officials say is part of the White House effort to make deeper cuts on strategic nuclear forces. “The administration has made up its mind that they want to go lower, and the only way to go lower is to change the military requirements for how many weapons are needed,” said a U.S. official familiar with the review. The review has been dubbed a “mini-NPR,” after the Nuclear Posture Review conducted last year that coincided with lame-duck Senate approval in December of the New START treaty, which calls for cutting nuclear arms to 5,000 warheads. Pentagon and U.S. Strategic Command spokesmen had no immediate comment. The mini-NPR is now looking for even lower levels, raising new concerns among national security officials about whether the United States will be able to deter China’s growing and largely secret nuclear forces or a revanchist Russia that is also bolstering its arsenal.Administration officials have made references to the nuclear-weapons-cutting effort in recent weeks. Among them were Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state for verification. She said at a conference on deterrence in August that “the United States has made it clear that we are committed to continuing a step-by-step process to reduce the overall number of nuclear weapons,” including through a possible agreement with Russia that would cover all types of nuclear arms – strategic, tactical and deployed and non-deployed.Gary Samore, White House arms control coordinator, said in May that the review of nuclear arms was under way. “We’ll need to do a strategic review of what our force requirements are, and then, based on that, the president will have options available for additional reductions,” he told Arms Control Today. “That review is ongoing.” Mr. Samore noted that the review is taking time because “we’ve reached the level in our forces where further reductions will raise questions about whether we retain the triad, or whether we go to a system that only is a dyad.” The current triad strategic force consists of three types of delivery systems: land-based missiles, bombers and submarine missiles. It is not known which delivery system would be placed on the chopping block under the mini-NPR. Mr. Samore noted that if there is no agreement or treaty for the next nuclear cuts, “even unilateral” cuts are being considered.The only real question here is – is this suicide, or is it pre-meditated murder?Hmmmm.....With Putin to become Russia's new Czar for the next 12 Years the US becomes the Sheep going to the Slaughter.Thank you for the input 'Comrades Commissars'.Read the full story here.

• Internet Hits All-Time High as News Source, TV at All-Time Low, Says Pew.(CNSNews).The Internet has risen to its all-time high as a primary source of news for Americans with 43 percent now saying they get most of their news on national and international issues from the web, according to a surveypublished Thursday by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press.Meanwhile, television sits at an all-time low as a primary source of news for Americans with only 66 percent now saying they get most of their national and international news from TV–a nadir television also hit in December 2010.Since 1991, Pew has periodically asked Americans: “How do you get most of your news about national and international issues?”In this survey, respondents are allowed to give up to two answers. (So, a person can cite both television and the Internet, or television and radio, or newspapers and television, etc., as the places where they get most of their news–and the combined percentages for the various sources can add up to more than 100 percent).In the two decades Pew has been tracking this trend in American news sources, television peaked as the primary source of news for Americans at the time s of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, when 90 percent said they got most of their news from TV. Television nearly returned to that level in March 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, and September 2005, during Hurricane Katrina. At both those times, 89 percent said they got most of their national and international news from TV.Read the full story here.

• CIS (Center for Immigration Studies): Most new jobs in Texas went to immigrants.(RRW).The Center for Immigration Studies released today the shocking results of their analysis of Governor Rick Perry’s claims about the economic “success” of his home state of Texas. Most new jobs in the state went to immigrants!Here is the introductory section of the news release from CIS (emphasis mine):

Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) has pointed to job growth in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his main accomplishments. But analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data collected by the Census Bureau show that immigrants (legal and illegal) have been the primary beneficiaries of this growth since 2007, not native-born workers. This is true even though the native-born accounted for the vast majority of growth in the working-age population (age 16 to 65) in Texas. Thus, they should have received the lion’s share of the increase in employment. As a result, the share of working-age natives in Texans holding a job has declined in a manner very similar to the nation a whole.Among the findings:

*Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).

*In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007 or later.

*Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrived non-citizens (legal and illegal).

*The large share of job growth that went to immigrants is surprising because the native-born accounted for 69 percent of the growth in Texas’ working-age population (16 to 65). Thus, even though natives made up most of the growth in potential workers, most of the job growth went to immigrants.

*The share of working-age natives holding a job in Texas declined significantly, from 71 percent in 2007 to 67 percent in 2011. This decline is very similar to the decline for natives in the United States as a whole and is an indication that the situation for native-born workers in Texas is very similar to the overall situation in the country despite the state’s job growth.

*Of newly arrived immigrants who took jobs in Texas since 2007, we estimate that 50 percent (113,000) were illegal immigrants. Thus, about 40 percent of all the job growth in Texas since 2007 went to newly arrived illegal immigrants and 40 percent went to newly arrived legal immigrants.

*Immigrants took jobs across the educational distribution. More than one out three (97,000) of newly arrived immigrants who took a job had at least some college.

*These numbers raise the question of whether it makes sense to continue the current high level of legal immigration and also whether to continue to tolerate illegal immigration.

This is a devastating report, please read the whole thing. The results of this report also help explain Perry’s instate tuition for illegal aliens law in Texas—they are an important voting block for him.Texas is the third largest recipient of refugees in the US after California and Florida. Indeed, just a couple of days ago I reported on how your federal tax dollars were going to Catholic Charities of Fort Worth for job training for immigrants, here.Read the full story here.

• Ga. Middle School: Muslim Polygamy Is Normal, Burkas Good For Women.(BigGovernment).A middle school in Smyrna, Georgia included in an assignment material that essentially shows 7th grade children that Islamic polygamy is a perfectly legitimate concept and that there is nothing wrong with the strict dress codes used to oppress Muslim women the world over.The material was presented to the 7th graders at Campbell Middle School as part of a discussion of the school’s dress codes, apparently meant to use the ideas of Islamic culture for women’s clothing as some sort of example to compare how the school regulates clothing for its students in Georgia.The concepts were presented in the lesson as a letter from a fictional 20-year-old Muslim woman named “Ahlima.” In this letter “Ahlima” tells readers that she wouldn’t mind if her husband took a second wife and also extolled the virtues of the burkha. She claims that American women are “horribly immodest” in the way they dress.As to polygamy, the fictional Ahlima says, “I understand that some Westerners condemn our practice of polygamy, but I also know they are wrong.”A father of one of the students was not very happy with the assignment. He complained that the lesson is “promoting or positively depicting their belief that polygamy” is acceptable. He also felt that there should have been some sort of disclaimer that we Americans don’t accept these concepts and he worried that the Muslim ideas were presented as completely acceptable.Another page of the assignment explained the “seven conditions for women’s dress in Islam,” presenting all of them without discussion and, in essence, endorsing them as acceptable or normal.The school told the WSB TV, Channel 2 News that it did not create the lesson plan and that it came from the state. The school pledged to review the material to see if it was appropriate. But, it is not appropriate. Not at all.First of all, this lesson plan is built on lies. The burkha, for instance, is not a requirement of Islam. It is a cultural practice that only some Muslim cultures observe. The burkha has nothing at all to do with Islam directly. Not all Muslims practice polygamy, either, so even that isn’t necessarily a strict Islamic idea, either.But, worse, the idea that burkhas should at all be acceptable to an American is a slap against our own ideals and promotes the oppressive ideas of enemies to our culture as perfectly acceptable.The culturally strict proscriptions against freedom forced on Islamic women are a crime against humanity, yet here we have our own schools presenting to our own children the idea that the oppression of women is a perfectly acceptable cultural choice.It would be exactly the same if they had a letter from a female slave saying that she was OK with being a slave. That it was perfectly acceptable for her to be owned by someone.We are teaching our children that our own principles are not the optimal principles. We are teaching our children that our own culture, our own ideals are not supreme. We are teaching our children that the oppressive ideas of Islam are just as good as American ideals.This is a result of liberals trying to make sure Muslims know that we “like” them in a post 9/11 world. With this weak, kow towing we are also making of ourselves a bigger target because there is another cultural ideal in Islam. Muslims feel that such bending over backwards as this is a weakness to be despised. Such kow towing is looked upon as pitiful. Muslims feel that such groveling is not “nice” or “neighborly” but spurs them to imagine that they can easily attack and dominate such a weak-willed culture.But, even that aside, it shows how the liberals that wrote these lesson plans despise America. It shows that they do not value our own culture. It shows that these liberals are always in search of ways to further tear down the United States and make of her just another nation with just another set of cultural ideas.If we want to bring America back from the brink of the destruction liberals have led us to we need to take back our educational system and get back to a time where we are teaching our kids why the United States is the best nation on earth.Unfortunately, today our schools are filled with lessons like this, lessons that teach our own children that the US is nothing special.Hmmmm......"CHANGE" the Obama voters wanted?Read the full story here.

• Facebook to Charge Users?Or will the info be sold to the Obama regime?(Weeklyworldnews).Facebook has announced a host of new changes to its design and new plan – charging users!Mark Zuckerberg announced a host of new changes to Facebook. He did not, however, comment on the fact that he was closing Facebook down next year.WWN’s J.B. Smitts broke the story that Facebook was shutting down on March 15th, 2012. Maybe this helped Zuckerberg come up with his new plan?Pressure from angry users has been too much and Facebook is looking at an alternative, something that will persuade Mark Zuckerberg to keep the site alive: his social media platform is going to start charging users!Facebook is planning a subscription-based service with monthly fees starting at $0.99 for a basic “friendship” which allows for the posting of text and just one profile picture. This fee will increase, depending on the number of friends you have, the messages posted and sent, and the pictures/videos/ games put on a user’s page. The monthly fee will be capped at $50.00 per month at the high-end.Bottom line: the more you use Facebook, the more you will pay.All existing content has been “grandfathered” and will not be disrupted – though Facebook has decided to share this data with government agencies, including the FBI , the CIA and Michael Moore.Goldman Sachs, which had been planning to raise $1.5 billion in financing before they learned that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to shutter the site, is thrilled at the prospect of Facebook converting to a pay service.“The addition of this substantial revenue windfall makes Facebook all that more attractive as an investment,” said Tom Wortowski, Senior Vice President of Goldman Sachs. “This will make it the largest corporation on the planet, in the history of the planet.”Industry watchers estimate that the new fee-based program will generate well in excess of $20 billion in new revenue for the company – based on the most conservative assumptions of usage and the proposed tiered fee structure.These estimates, of course, account for the fact that millions of users may quit Facebook in response to the imposition of fees.No matter. Facebook executives are excited at the prospect of charging users. “We’re going to make money hand over fist,” said Facebook CEO Cindy Sherman. “I think converting to a pay service is something that will make Mark want to keep the site going. And I’ll finally get to buy an island in the Mediterranean.”March 15th, 2012 is Facebook Day.The site will either shut down, or start charging users for its service.Hmmmmm......Paying a fee, a great way to know who is who.Read the full story here.

• Reposting: Palestinian terrorists murder Jewish father and infant on Friday.(TheMuqata).After 48 hours of foot dragging, the Israeli Police have admitted that despite their initial insistence, and the insistence of the IDF spokesman, Asher and Yonatan were murdered in a Palestinian terror attack this past Friday, when Palestinians threw rocks at the Palmer's car as it traveled on Highway 60.The police have determined via a CT scan of Asher's skull, that cracks were seen in his facial bones, caused by the rock which was found in his car (and was hurled through the windshield of his car).This past Friday afternoon, the Muqata reported the terror attack on a father and infant near Kiryat Arba, in which Palestinian Arabs threw rocks at a car, causing it to overturn, killing the car's occupants.None of Israel's primary news sources mentioned the attack, rather amorphously stated that a Jewish car overturned near Halhoul on highway 60 near Hevron and the events leading to the "car accident" were still underway.Just hours after the murderous attack, in which Asher Palmer (25) and his infant son Yonatan (age 8 months) were murdered by Palestinians, PA President Mahmoud Abbas gave his speech to the United Nations why the Palestinians deserve a state of their own.Israel's courts have already documented the facts: The car being driven on highway 60 from Northbound, suddently swerved, overturned, leading to the death of Asher Palmer (25) and his infant son Yonatan (age 8 months). The windshield had a large hole in it, and inside the car was a large rock, covered with blood.However, the police want to also an additional autopsy and blood tests to rule out alcohol in the blood or a heart attack as the reason for car swerving off the road and over-turning. The judge denied the police's request saying that the evidence is adequate that a rock hit the windshield, and the family should be able to bury their loves ones as quickly as possible, in accordance with Jewish law.Hmmmm.....Read and see Father and baby here.More on this story here.

• Council of Europe's SECRET Report 1976 on the Turkish Atrocities in Cyprus.(KitmanTV).Thanks to Panos Ioannides, President of Movement for FREEDOM and JUSTICE IN CYPRUS, for obtaining this crucial report. THE SUNDAY TIMES (London, 23 January 1977) secured a copy of a secret Council of Europe Report, which found Turkey guilty of violating seven articles of the European convention on Human Rights.On the ground of the 1976 secret Report, THE SUNDAY TIMES published on 23rd January 1977 a first page massive indictment of the Ankara government for the murders, rapes and looting by the Turkish army in Cyprus during and after the 1974 Turkish invasion, together with an Insight Exclusive titled “Turk atrocities: What secret report reveals”.

To the fury of the Turkish government, the newspaper published extracts of the secret Report, that document the KILLING and EXECUTION of civilians (men, women and children), the REPEATED RAPES of women of all ages from 12 to 71, the ENFORCED PROSTITUTION of women and girls, the SYSTEMATIC TORTURE of people (including children, women and pensioners), and the SYSTEMATIC LOOTING in all Turkish-occupied areas of Greek Cypriot houses and business premises.

The Movement for Freedom and Justice in Cyprus has secured the full text of the Council of Europe's SECRET Report on the Turkish Atrocities in Cyprus, which should have been THE BIBLE of all Governments’ (of Cyprus and Greece) efforts against Turkey since 1976.Read the full story and report  here.

• Canada - A Toronto property manager On the Run: Muslim Builds Mosque, Mansion in Bangladesh with Funds Stolen from Canadians.(TheStar)A Toronto property manager on the run after allegedly defrauding condos of millions of dollars was last seen a week ago in his ancestral village in Bangladesh where he recently built a mansion and an ornate mosque.The Daily Prothom Alo, a Bengali-language newspaper, reported that Manzoor Khan was seen in his village in Magura district, some 350 kilometres from the capital of Dhaka.Surrounded by lush plants and a high fence, Khan’s two-storey residence is named Ashirbad, which means blessed.The mosque, awash in marble, is about a mile from the house, a reporter with the paper said. Khan, president of Channel Property Management Ltd., allegedly borrowed millions of dollars against at least nine buildings — in most cases without the boards’ knowledge or approval.He is also accused of rigging the tender process on building projects by creating fake companies that would come in at the lowest bid to win lucrative work in condos his company managed. He would then subcontract the work at a fraction of the price.The total misappropriation may exceed $20 million. Several buildings have filed civil suits against Channel and Khan.Channel filed for bankruptcy last week. The company was evicted from its Woodbridge office for not paying rent.Toronto police are investigating.According to media reports in Bangladesh, Khan’s younger brother, Sayed Faisal Azam, said Khan left Bangladesh in 1996 and only recently got back in touch with his family there. He built his house in the past two years, said Azam.The brother told reporters he didn’t know where Khan was but said he would be back in a month.The Daily Amader Shomoy reported that Khan, who is also known as Azad, defrauded locals of more than $100,000 in 1984 by promising to send dozens of workers to the Middle East but then vanished. He reportedly moved to Dhaka where he dabbled in real estate.Khan left Bangladesh in 1996 for Saudi Arabia and then Dubai before settling in Canada in the late ’90s, the reports say.A police officer in Dhaka told local media that Khan received a license for a pistol and a shotgun five days ago at the police station.While some have described Khan as a conman in the local papers, others say he was generous and gave money to local groups, including a Muslim religious school.In Toronto, many also described the two sides of Khan to the Star.Imranul Haq, 68, said Khan came across as a thoughtful, religious man.It’s what persuaded the airport security worker to lend Khan $100,000 from his line of credit over several years to help launch his property management business.The pair met nine years ago when Haq was looking for work.“He was an ordinary man at that time, you know,” Haq said.Khan was a superintendent at an apartment building on Martin Grove Rd. in north EtobicokeThey became friends, meeting for coffee. On Fridays, they attended mosque together. “It’s how I got pulled toward him,” Haq said.Khan told Haq about his plans to start his own property management company and said he needed some money to get it going.At first, Haq loaned his new friend $10,000 which Khan repaid over three years.He asked for another $20,000, then another, then another.“This went on until I lost $100, 000,” Haq said.“I don’t know what kind of magic he did on me. He never made me feel that I would not get the money back.”Read the full story here.

• NATO "ALLY" Turkey to Azerbaijan: Stand with us against Israel......or else.(Ynet).The Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan called on Baku to stand beside Ankara in its diplomatic struggle against Israel and "reconsider" its relations with the Jewish State, a Persian-language US-based website reported on Sunday. According to the report, Ambassador Hulusi Kilic said that Israel should take into account "possible problems" with the oil pipeline that crosses from Azerbaijan to Turkey, and also supplies oil to Israel. He did not go into further details.The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline supplies 10-20% of Israel's oil consumption. A similar amount is supplied to Israel by Kazakhstan, through the same pipeline that crosses through Turkey. Responding to the Turkish ambassador's comments, the website quoted Israel's Ambassador to Baku Michael Lavon Lotem as saying that third-party interests should not be allowed to affect the strategic relations between Jerusalem and Baku. Azerbaijan has become an important strategic asset for Israel's security and foreign affairs. In 2010, the trade between the two countries totaled more than $2 billion – double than the trade between Azerbaijan and Turkey. Israel also supplies Azerbaijan advanced military equipment and helps train its army. As part of the cooperation between the two states, Israeli defense systems manufacturer Elbit Systems recently opened an office in the former soviet republic, and is planning to build a plant for the joint production of unmanned aerial vehicles. Baku has yet to issue a response to the Turkish ambassador's remarks, but the head of the Azeri Press Office told the local radio station that Azerbaijan hopes the "crisis between Israel and Turkey ends soon." Hmmmmm.....Why does Obama support Erdogan's actions?Read the full story here.

• Saudi king gives women right to vote.(HurriyetDaily).Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said on Sunday women in the conservative Islamic kingdom will have the right to join the advisory Shura Council as full members and participate in future municipal elections, meeting a key goal of liberal activists."Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama (clerics) and others... to involve women in the Shura Council as members, starting from the next term," he said in a speech delivered to the Shura Council."Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote," he added.Activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from travelling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative and are forbidden from driving.Those changes will come after municipal elections this Thursday, for which women have been barred from voting or standing office.Read the full story here.

• Nineteen-year-old Woman Beheaded and Dismembered by Syrian Security.(CNN).A young woman whisked away by Syrian security forces to coax the surrender of her activist brother turned up beheaded and dismembered, activists and human rights groups say, yet another high-profile display of cruelty in the conflict-wracked nation.Nineteen-year-old Zainab Alhusni stepped away from her Homs residence last month to buy groceries.Her family never saw her again until security forces returned her mutilated corpse, two opposition activist groups operating inside Syria and Amnesty International told CNN.As reports of the torture sparked outrage across Homs and the rest of the world, amateur video surfaced of dozens of woman protesting the death."They killed the rose Zainab," their placards said."If it is confirmed that Zainab was in custody when she died, this would be one of the most disturbing cases of a death in detention we have seen so far," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.The case also drew the antipathy of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which characterized the incident as "appalling" and as one example of the "targeting and attacking of families and sympathizers of the protesters by security forces."The ferocious Syrian government crackdown against dissenters began in mid-March when anti-government protests unfolded. The number of people killed over the past six months has reached at least 2,700, according to the U.N. human rights office. Some activist groups put the toll at around 3,000.Zainab's brother Mohammed Alhusni -- a prominent opposition activist praised by colleagues for leading anti-government protests and treating the wounded -- had been evading authorities for weeks when his sister disappeared, said the Homs Quarters Union, an activist group."The secret police kidnapped Zainab so they could threaten her brother and pressure him to turn himself in to the authorities. The government often uses this tactic to get to activists," a union media coordinator told CNN.The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an activist group, said security forces called Zainab's family to trade her "freedom for her pro-democracy activist brother's surrender," LCC said.Mohammed Alhusni was eventually slain on September 10, when security forces fired on demonstrators in Homs.When the family retrieved Mohammed's body from a Homs military hospital, medical officials told relatives about another unclaimed body with the label "Zainab Alhusni" that had been kept in a hospital freezer for some time.Days later, Zainab's family received the woman's headless and limbless corpse, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Amnesty International and the Homs Quarters Union said.The Homs Quarters Union provided a video to CNN showing the pale trunk of a female body beside a detached head with long black hair among dismembered limbs.Authorities forced Zainab's mother to sign a document saying both Zainab and Mohammad had been kidnapped and killed by an armed gang, Amnesty International said in an online statement.Syrian authorities could not be reached for comment on the Alhusni case. The Syrian government has maintained that armed gangs with foreign agendas, not the regime, are responsible for the violence that has plagued the Arab country for months.Hmmmm.......Assad the 'Reformer'.Read the full story here.