Ayatolla uzma Hakim:ideological differences should not lead to division and rivalry, the intersection

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(Alforat Tv-Najaf/Iraq)The religious authority of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Said Al-Hakim that ideological differences should not lead to division and rivalry, the intersection

He pointed to His Eminence that the country had lived in times of familiarity and peaceful coexistence. He attributed the situation of the discourse and the rivalry that prevailed in the past years with the tolerance of the bad and uses the base interests of the Iraqi people who want to bad, wise discourse, calling people to take their hands towards the right path and alerting them to the embracing the bad consequences of bad guys who want to tear this country dear in order to achieve their own evil purposes. His Eminence during his meeting with a delegation of Messrs Al-Badri in Samarra, his office in Najaf on Wednesday, 22 Rajab 1430 H, that the letter of the religious authority for the reunification and unity of word and class and to promote the spirit of peaceful coexistence among the people of the country is the same speech since the first day and still continues, a discourse which was inherited by the religious authority of the Holy Prophet (may Allah bless him and his family and peace) and the people of his home Alothar (peace be upon them). Balugea and called on His Eminence, intellectuals and men of the tribes to cooperate and go to rebuild the country and repair the wrecked evil terrorists and invest the resources of the country enough to everybody, and describing Iraq as a discourse that one of the best and richest countries, where the considerable resources of water and abundant fertile land and the existence of the competencies that need to unify the intentions and directions in order to restore the glories of the country in various fields.

US State Department: Imposing Sanctions on Israel “Premature”

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( Almanar Tv) Washington believes it is too early to talk about imposing sanctions on Israel to force it to freeze settlement building in occupied east Jerusalem, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Tuesday. “It’s premature to talk about that,” Wood said when asked about the possibility of US financial sanctions.


“What we are trying to do, as I said right now, is to create an environment which makes it conducive for talks to go forward,” he added. “And you know, as I said, Senator Mitchell is working very hard on this.”

US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was due to leave Washington later Tuesday, another State Department official said, asking to remain anonymous. No precise itinerary was given, but the official said Mitchell would meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but would probably not travel to Syria.

Israel came under intense diplomatic heat Tuesday over its settlement activity in occupied east Jerusalem, with the European Union and Russia warning it not to violate a so-called Middle East peace plan.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy also repeated “the need for a complete freeze” of settlement activity after talks with Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.

Israel’s deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon said the Jewish state was “working and will continue to work in accordance with its vital national interests, especially with respect to Jerusalem.”

But Wood responded: “Well, certainly no one is asking Israel to act outside its national security interests. “What we’re asking both parties to do is to fulfill their Road Map obligations. Both sides have committed to do that.”

SURGE IN US VISITORS
Senior White House adviser Dennis Ross will join an already crowded list of top US officials travelling to the occupied Palestinian territories next week, a step interpreted positively in Israel as an attempt by the Obama administration to engage more constructively with Tel Aviv.

Diplomatic officials confirmed that Ross, who last month was named special assistant to the president for the Central Region will pay his first visit to Israel next week in his new role.

Ross will come in the same week as Mitchell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Adviser James Jones, who will be coming with some 10 members of his staff.

Asked about the sudden surge in high-level US visitors, one senior Israeli diplomatic official said, “It’s about time. It’s much better that the two countries discuss the issues between them face-to-face, and not through the media.”

These high-level visits, another senior Israeli official said, underscore the importance Washington continues to attribute to its relations with Tel Aviv. The official said these visits were not tied to the recent spat over plans to build 20 apartments in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied east Jerusalem, although this issue was sure to be raised.

Saudi authorities arrested the son of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimer al Nimer

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he Saudi authorities arrested on 18 July 2009 the Shiite citizen Mohammad Nimer Baqir al-Nimer, 22 years , from al- Awwamiya, a Shiite village near Qatif , in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province , a student in Jubail University , the son of the notable leading Shia cleric Sheikh Nimer al Nimer.
The Saudi authorities arrested on 18 July 2009 the Shiite citizen Mohammad Nimer Baqir al-Nimer, 22 years , from al- Awwamiya, a Shiite village near Qatif , in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province , a student in Jubail University , the son of the notable leading Shia cleric Sheikh Nimer al Nimer.

Mohammad al Nimer was arrested without any charge but used by police as pressure on his father to give himself up to the authorities .

Sheikh al Nimer went into hiding to avoid arrest since the protests in Awwamiya in March 2009.

Mohammad al Nimer went himself to recover his car which was confiscated by Awwamiya police in previous time , but he did not know that it would be his fate behind bars.

7 Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq

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KERMANSHAH, July 22 (MAN) – Seven Iranian pilgrims were killed and 31 others injured last night in a shooting as they crossed the Khosravi border point in western Iran, Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization announced on Wednesday.

The pilgrims came under fire inside the bus at 11:00 p.m. local time as they were moving toward Baghdad. The pilgrims were from Mashhad, northeast of Iran.

Qasr-Shirin governor Bahram Teimouri told the Mehr News Agency that the injured pilgrims are under treatment in a hospital in the Iraqi city of Khanaqin. Teimouri said the injured are in stable condition.

The bust was just 40 kilometers away from the Khosravi border point that assailants attacked it, the governor said.

Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization deputy director Hossein Akbari said the caravan sent to Iraq had been organized by travel agencies acting outside the supervision of the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization.

SC summons Pervez Musharraf on July 29

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ISLAMABAD, Jul 22 (APP): The 14-member larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday summoned former President Pervez Musharraf to defend charges leveled against him for imposing emergency on November 3, 2007. The larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, issued a notice to Pervez Musharraf to appear in person or through counsel on July 29.

Darkness falls in Asia during total eclipse, luring masses

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(CNN) — The longest solar eclipse of the century cast a wide shadow for several minutes over Asia and the Pacific Ocean Wednesday, luring throngs of people outside to watch the celestial spectacle.

A woman looks through a refractor telescope with a solar filter on top of the roof of a school in Hong Kong.

Day turned into night. Temperatures turned cooler in cities and villages teeming with amateur stargazers.

The total eclipse could be seen starting in India on Wednesday morning and moving eastward across Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Vietnam, China and parts of the Pacific. Millions cast their eyes towards the heavens to catch a rare view of the sun’s corona.

Cloud cover in some areas prevented people from fully savoring the phenomenon. Still, many were awed.

Tim O’Rourke, a 45-year-old freelance photographer from Detroit, Michigan, lives in Hong Kong but traveled up to Shanghai — touted as one of the best spots to watch the eclipse.

“It was pitch black like midnight,” said O’Rourke, standing in People’s Square with what appeared to be a crowd of thousands.

“Definitely not disappointed we came. Of course it would have been much better with nice weather, blue skies. But still it was a great experience, it was a lot of fun.” he said.

Total eclipses occur about twice a year as the moon passes between the Earth and the sun on the same plane as Earth’s orbit. Wednesday’s event lasted up to more than six minutes in some places. 

In India, where an eclipse pits science against superstition, thousands took a dip in the Ganges River in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi to cleanse their souls, said Ajay Kumar Upadhyay, the district’s most senior official.

Shahroudi urges campaign against western lies

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The tyranny, hegemony and the false claims of certain western countries on human rights should be unveiled and displayed to the Muslims and other world people,” Shahroudi said in a meeting with high-ranking judiciary officials in Tehran. He also referred to the murder of an Egyptian Muslim woman in a courtroom in the German city of Dresden and described it “a stain on the reputation of human civilization”. Shahroudi reiterated the need for Muslims to extend support and “defend the rights of Sherbini and her family.” He urged the Muslim community to “unravel the catastrophic incident and inform the world people of the event”. Marwa el-Sherbini has been named “martyr of Hijab” after he was murdered by a German citizen who accused him of being terrorist only because she was veiled. The German murderer, unemployed Axel M., killed Sherbini, a PhD studnet in a courtroom in the eastern German city of Dresden in front of her 3-year-old son on July 1 as she gave evidence against him for insulting her. Axel M., 28, (whose full name cannot be publicized before the end of the legal proceedings under the German law), was in court appealing against an earlier court decision that had imposed a fine on him for having insulted Sherbini by calling her – among other things – a “terrorist.” He was a neighbor of his victim.