A comunidade cristã teme uma nova onda de violênciaMOSUL, quarta-feira, 12 de novembro de 2008 (ZENIT.org).- O homicídio de duas irmãs católicas voltou a semear o pânico na cidade de Mosul, no Iraque, ultimamente teatro de numerosos ataques anticristãos. A associação Ajuda à Igreja que Sofre (AIS) difundiu a notícia da morte das mulheres, assassinadas a punhaladas depois que os assassin
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new video recording and, separately, a text communiqué from Al-Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). During the video, an unidentified individual presented as the official ISI spokesman for the Nineveh province of Iraq (Mosul) sharply denied reports of the ISI's defeat in the city of Mosul: “we bring the good news to you that we are at
Speaking about Iraq at a townhall event on Thursday evening in Greensdale, Wisconsin, Sen. John McCain declared, "I can tell you that it is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it's succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet." McCain was wrong on two points, and despite his wishes, most Americans aren't buying his lies about how well
Mosul resembles a dead city as American and Iraq troops begin their attack which is designed to crush the last remaining al-Qaida forces in the city. Patrick Cockburn, writng for The Independent, says soldiers are shooting at any civilian vehicle. Two men, a woman and a child in one car which failed to stop were [...]
Abu Ayyub al-Masri. AP Servicios de inteligencia suponen que Abu Ayyub al-Masri ayudó a Zarqawi a formar la primera célula terrorista en Bagdad luego de la invasión encabezada por Estados Unidos en 2004. Milenio.com - Madrid.- El líder de Al Qaeda en Irak, Abu Ayyub al-Masri fue arrestado hoy en la norteña ciudad de Mosul, de acuerdo con reportes de prensa que citan al ministro de Defensa iraquí, Abdul Qadir. Masri, también conocido como Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, se cree que es quien formó la primera célula de Al Qaeda en Bagdad. La información no ha sido confirmada por las fuerzas militares estadunidenses basadas en Irak. El militante, nacido en Egipto, asumió el liderazgo en Irak poco después de que Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fue asesinado por un ataque aéreo estadunidense en junio
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I just have to post a couple comments from the commenters at Free Republic upon hearing of this news…very funny…
“It can’t be true. Al Qaeda is NOT in Iraq. The MSM told me so.”
“Find the water board!”
“Put panties on his head.”
“Not dead? Not shot? What the h*ll is this arrest sh*t??”
“Hang him quick,now.”
“Bush’s [...]
Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul in Northern Iraq, the highest-ranking Chaldean Catholic clergyman, has been killed after being kidnapped. In all the violence in Iraq, the one thing that never entered the heads of those who perpetrated the so-called "War on Terror", was what would happen if the lid came off Saddam Hussein's political kettle. When the lid was blown off, it allowed all the mayhem that follows when a plan is only on the back of an envelop.I doubt if the Bush administration ever bothered to ask if there were minorities in Iraq. Why, they're all Muslims, aren't they? So the Christians of Iraq fell into the category of easy prey. Five years on and going to church in Iraq is still a dangerous activity. The only thing that kept us in church today in Sparkbrook, Birmingham wa
:: OMVÄRLDEN BLUNDAR skrev SOKU (080301) Nu har den kaldeiske biskopen Faraj Rahho mördats. FN pratar, men inget händer! TimesOnline skriver utförligt om mordet. REFLEKTION Den svenska kristenheten omfattar också assyrierna, som också kallas syrianer och kaldéer. Nu sörjer man i Johanneskyrkan i Mesopotälje och ute i landet den mördade. Hur djup, bred, smal, inkluderande eller exkluderande är Den svenska kristenheten? Är invandrarkyrkorna integrerade i en svenskkristen kärlek? Vad som dock är visst är att gentemot omvärldens passivitet ljuder ett skri såsom från Rama: "Skydda assyrierna, som också kallas syrianer och kaldéer NU!" Den som har öron, han höre. . .Technorati tags: Faraj Rahho -- Andra bloggare om: Faraj Rahho, Södertälje, kaldeisk katolska kyr
Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho outside
of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
The Archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was found dead earlier after having been kidnapped and martyred by al-Qaida in Iraq. There’s not much that can be said that you can’t already read in the Catholic Online article about this.
Because I know there are [...]
Daniel Pipes - About 100,000 Turkish troops, backed by aircraft and tanks, are poised to enter Iraq for counterterrorism purposes. But once there, they might just stay permanently, occupying the Mosul area, leading to dangerous regional consequences.To understand this danger requires a refresher in Turkish irredentist ambitions harking back to the 1920s. The Ottoman Empire emerged from World War I on the losing side, a predicament codified in 1920 by the Treaty of Sèvres imposed on it by the victorious Allies. With Kemal Atatürk's military victories of 1919-22 and the reassertion of Turkish power, however, Sèvres was never applied. Instead, the Treaty of Lausanne, signed in 1923, established all of Turkey's present borders but for the one with British-occupied Iraq. For Iraq, Lausanne stipulated a provisional boundary.The Kuwait War of 1991 led to a further collapse in Iraqi authority north of the 36th parallel, prompting Turkish forces to engage in hot pursuit across the border 2
Rebirth of the Mosul Vilayet? (parts I, II, III)Interview with J. Anton Keller - mailto:swissbit@solami.comby Ekopolitik editor Murat Sofuoglu - (url: www.solami.com/rebirth.htm)This map was composed on the basis of those attached to the 1925 Report of the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Mosul Vilayet (reproduced from: P.E.J.Bomli, "L'Affaire de Mossoul", H.J. Paris, Amsterdam 1929). According to the Report by HM's Government to the League Council on the Administration of Iraq for the year 1929 (p.71), the 1920 census revealed:Iraq's demography in 1920 Vilayets Surface km2 Sunnites Shiites Jews Christians Total Baghdad
