President of supreme council of Ahl-ul Bayt (a.s) in Egypt, Mohammed al-Derini revealed the collusion between Egyptian Islamic extremist groups such as “al-Jamaah Islamiah” leading by “Najih Ibrahim”, with intelligent service to attack and suppress minorities.

President of supreme council of Ahl-ul Bayt (a.s) said these cooperations not limited only to suppress Shias but terroristi attacks against foreign tourists in 1997, which killed about 60 tourists, was scheduled by the same groups.

Saudi Arabia on Monday freed 17 political inmates from the Ismaili community who had been jailed since 2000, sources said, in a new sign of easing tensions with the minority group based near the Yemen border.

Saudi Arabia on Monday freed 17 political inmates from the Ismaili community who had been jailed since 2000, sources said, in a new sign of easing tensions with the minority group based near the Yemen border.

King Abdullah ordered the release of the predominantly young Shia Ismailis about six months before the end of their 10-year jail sentence as part of a broader royal pardon for hundreds of inmates in the kingdom to mark the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the sources said.

“The 17 Ismailis were released this afternoon,” a source at the governorate of the southern Najran province told Reuters. “The order to release … (them) came on Sunday,” he said.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said any comment should come from the royal court. Reuters was unable to contact the court.

Mohammad al-Askar, a leading Ismaili activist, said the move put an end to “one of the most sensitive issues” that had been irritating the minority group.

“One of the 17 inmates called me early this morning to say that he and the other 16 were asked by prison authorities to sign a pledge not to participate again in protests and unrest before they get released,” Askar said.

The 17 male prisoners had initially been sentenced to death by public beheading in 2001 under the reign of King Fahd before the de facto ruler King Abdullah — who was then crown prince — commuted in 2002 the sentences to 10 years in prison.

The prisoners were arrested after a meeting in 2000 with the then governor of Najran province, a royal disliked by Saudi Ismailis, to ask for the release of an Ismaili teacher, ended in clashes that left two civilians injured.

“This is the news of the year (for Ismailis) … It shows how the government mentality has begun to change under the new (Najran) governor,” said Askar.

King Abdullah appointed one of his sons, Prince Mishaal, as governor of Najran last year after Ismaili Shias complained that efforts to settle Sunnis of Yemeni origin and give them housing and jobs were an effort to marginalise Ismailis further.

Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia said it would give land to Najran’s inhabitants in a move diplomats say was intended to improve security and combat crime. [ID:nL1558440]

Ismaili Shias, a majority in the Najran area but a minority in mainly Sunni Saudi Arabia, have long complained of discrimination and poor living standards.

Saudi authorities are keen to improve security along the border with Yemen, which is fighting a rebellion by Shias there and is also a possible staging post for attacks against them by al Qaeda.

In April, the Saudi Interior Ministry said it had arrested 11 al Qaeda-linked militants in mountains close to Yemen, accusing them of planning attacks.

Saudi Arabia and Yemen share a long mountainous border porous enough to be used for all sorts of trafficking, from illegal Muslim pilgrims to drugs and weapons.

Two days after the March 14 “orchestra” started a campaign against Lebanon’s top cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah because of the latter’s criticism of Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir’s latest comments, Hezbollah broke its silence and condemned the “organized” campaign against Sayyed Fadlallah declaring its complete solidarity with the top cleric.

On Tuesday, Sayyed Fadlallah slammed Patriarch Sfeir who has been calling for a cabinet based on the outcome of the parliamentary polls. “Why do you restrict the issue to the parliamentary majority?” his eminence wondered during an Iftar in a clear reference to Sfeir’s demands. “We call for a popular majority and popular referendum … so that people would have their say.”

Sfeir has said that the government should be made up of the parliamentary majority while the opposition should remain outside the cabinet.

In response to Sayyed Fadlallah’s comments, Patriarch Sfeir’s “spokesmen” in the March 14 secretariat general said Wednesday that no one can take away “the glory of Lebanon from its makers.” In a statement after its regular meeting, March 14 slammed what it called “the organized campaign” targeting Sfeir, paving the way for the whole “majority orchestra” to show their “verbal” competences.

In reaction, and while Sayyed Fadlallah remained silent and refrained from responding to such campaign, Hezbollah media relations issued a statement on Friday in which it condemned the campaign that broke all red lines.

“In the logic of freedom, it’s everybody’s right to discuss the stances taken by Sayyed Mohamad Hussein Fadlallah concerning the glory of Lebanon or the partnership, parliamentary and popular majority. It’s also everybody’s right to accept or reject Sayyed Fadlallah’s statements,” Hezbollah said, regretting the issuance in response of comments and statements “that surpassed all the limits of courtesy and decency and made use of fierce expressions, resorting to the personal insult of Sayyed Fadlallah, ignoring his eminence’s position, status and symbolism at national and Islamic levels.”

“Hezbollah condemns and denounces this organized media campaign that targeted his eminence and that reflects the level of deterioration and decadence reached not only in the political rhetoric but also in the political life in Lebanon where there aren’t anymore values or dignities,” the statement read.

The Resistance bloc said that discussing the ideas of any religious figure was natural “and everyone is free to accept or reject the stances of any religious figure. But to insult the other’s dignities is completely unacceptable. This is how the discussion of the political stances of the Maronite Patriarch becomes eligible and is different than insulting his religious dignity.”

Hezbollah concluded its statement by calling to re-purify the political and media scene from inappropriate speeches and to safeguard the religious dignity to all sects alongside holding the right of discussion and dialogue. “This is Lebanon that we all claim that we are keen on preserving.”

BERLIN — German prosecutors said on Tuesday they would push for a life sentence against a man charged with the brutal Islamophobic murder of a pregnant Egyptian woman, dubbed the “veil martyr.”Prosecutors in the eastern city of Dresden said Alex W., a 28-year-old Russian-born German, was motivated by “a pronounced hatred of non-Europeans and Muslims.”
As psychiatric experts had found no evidence of diminished responsibility, prosecutors said they would seek a life sentence.

Further information on when a trial might take place would be published later in the week, they said.

On July 1, Alex W. set upon Marwa al-Sherbini as she gave evidence against him in a court in Dresden, stabbing her 16 times in the chest and back with an 18-cm-long (seven-inch) knife in front of her young son, the prosecution said.

The death of the 31-year-old fuelled anti-German sentiment in some Muslim countries including in her home country and Iran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the German government for the killing, while demonstrations were staged outside the German embassies in Tehran and Cairo.

The alleged murderer, who previously called the headscarf-wearing Sherbini an “Islamist” and a “terrorist,” also stabbed her geneticist husband Elwy Okaz, who was shot in the leg by confused police who took him for the attacker.

W. has also been charged with Okaz’s attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.

Alex W. is a “Spaetaussiedler” (“late emigrant”), the name given to eastern Europeans of German descent entitled to German citizenship who have settled in Dresden in large numbers.

GAZA, (PIC)– The ministry of prisoners’ affairs deplored Tuesday the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) for barring Palestinian families from visiting their sons in the prisons of Hadarim and Shikma and allowing settlers to organize a protest outside these prisons to demand the termination of visits in Israeli jails.

The ministry revealed that it had informed the Red Cross a week ago about the intention of Israeli settlers to close streets and block Palestinian families from visiting their sons and called on it to protect the families from settlers’ attacks.

It accused the Israeli occupation authority of unleashing the settlers to harass the families of prisoners and prevent them from visiting their sons.

The ministry appealed to the international community to provide protection for prisoners against Israel’s violation of their rights as well as for their families against settlers’ assaults.

The Hebrew radio reported Monday that the IPA announced cancellation of the visits made by families of Palestinian prisoners in Hadarim and Shikma and added that this decision was taken as a result of the intention of settlers to organize a protest in solidarity with captive soldier Gilad Shalit, who is held by Palestinian resistance in Gaza Strip.

Saudi authorities used fired arms to disperse prayers at Imam Hussain mosque in Awamia but failed for the second time to arrest Shaikh Nimer Baqer Al-Nimer on Sunday night.

Witnesses said that five security patrol and forces of criminal intelligence surrounded and raided the mosque in an attempt to arrest Shaikh Al-Nimer.

Masses of the faithful came out of the mosque calmly and ignored the fired arms which led to the arrest and raid failure.

This is the second failure within the year.

Shaikh Al-Nimer appeared before the public on Friday after being in hideout for almost five months since last arrest attempt in March.

Authorities is on the tail of Shaikh Al-Nimer for breaking a ban on religious speeches and criticizing the State for its negative position on Al-Baqeea incident when Saudi Religious police attacked Shia visitors in Madinah on last February.

The Saudi reformist activist and the director of al Wastiah TV, Mohsen al-Awaji, in exclusive interview with Qods Press asked the Saudi authorities to punish those person who “advocate of disunion” and falsely disseminate extremism between sects of Muslims.

“In Saudi society there are extremists who try to disunite the Muslims and put forward their false thoughts. They are not less dangerous than radicals” al-Awaji said.

He noted that “advocates of disunion in Saudi society riding the waves of political and intellectual in order to achieve their goal, but they failed.

In Saudi Arabia Wahhabism or Salafiyah are most powerful. They have penetrated in political and religious affairs and their scholars try to separate Muslims sects.

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Making good on a threat of election day violence, the Taliban sliced off the index fingers of at least two people in Kandahar province, according to a vote monitoring group.

After they cast their ballots, the fingers of Afghan voters are stained with ink to prevent them from voting multiple times. The fingers of the two women in Kandahar, a stronghold of the Taliban, were cut off because they voted, said Nader Naderi of the Free and Fair Election Foundation.

The Taliban had vowed to disrupt Thursday’s election and the risk was too great for some Afghans to venture out, especially in the southern provinces that form the heartland of the radical Islamist group.

Just days ahead of the election, U.S. Marines and other NATO forces carried out military operations to clear and hold sectors that have long been in the Taliban grip, and free up the population to vote.

Sporadic attacks on election day killed 26 people and injured scores more. Still, Afghan officials hailed the voting as a success.

On Friday, the European Union echoed those sentiments and congratulated Afghanistan for holding elections under what it called challenging circumstances.

“While deploring the loss of life, we believe that the security measures successfully prevented any major disruptions of the elections,” the E.U. said in a statement.

Preliminary results will be announced on a piecemeal basis from Tuesday to September 5, according to the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan.

Faisal Al-Doisan stressed that, despite the directives of the Emir of the country to renounce sectarianism, but unfortunately there are those who do not want this country to stability across the target for the Shiite community.Unfortunately there are those who deliberately struck Shiite activities under a security status.

He added that Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the development of security restrictions. Ministry of the Interior has to remove security restriction against Shia groups.

He pointed out that this is contrary to the 1962 Constitution that provides freedom for all people without any differences between citizens.

It is noteworthy that these restrictions status created by some radical takfiri Kuwait.

J.A.P announce with deep regret that allama Maqsood Domki.Cheif  J.A.P of baluchistan has been targeted  in Quetta .During exchange of fire by allam’s security guard ,one terrorist have been killed.

(CNN) — Carole Grant doesn’t really trust medical doctors. She never has. Whenever she has had a health issue, she has headed straight for an herbalist, acupuncturist or other “natural” healer.A few years ago, her alternative practitioner of choice was a self-described “intuitive healer” in New York, where she lives. The healer put Grant on a regimen of herbs, supplements and vitamins to help her lose weight.

A few weeks later, Grant, a geriatric care manager, was closing up an apartment for an elderly client who’d died when she started feeling strange sensations in her toes.

“They were tingling like crazy,” Grant said. “I thought it was the carpet in the apartment, because it was old and dirty, and I’d taken my shoes off.”

When the tingling in her toes spread to her feet, Grant knew that it was more than just the dingy carpet. When it spread to her legs, she knew that she was really in trouble.

“Both legs went numb up to my knees,” she remembers.

Grant sought help from a podiatrist, who insisted that she get care from a medical doctor. Grant chose Dr. Roberta Lee, vice chairwoman of the Department of Integrative Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. After some testing, Lee discovered the reason for Grant’s numbness: She had sky-high amounts of vitamin B6 in her blood, which can interfere with circulation.”The intuitive healer had told me to double my dose of vitamin B6,” Grant said. “She never told me when to stop the double dose, and I never checked with her.”

It turned out the healer was having Grant take about 100 times the normal dose of B6, according to Lee. The healer had intended for Grant to take this high dose for a few weeks. Instead, she took it for more than four months.

“It blew my mind to think this could happen to someone like me,” Grant said. “I’m so careful. I’ll use every natural modality I can before taking medicine.”

Lee says that although it’s unusual, she’s seen other patients get into trouble with herbs, supplements and vitamins precisely because they’re less cautious with something that’s natural than they would be with a drug.

“A lot of people think herbs are safe because they come from nature, and they are safe if used properly,” Lee said. “But you can still get into trouble with them.”

“I don’t think any herb is good or bad. It’s how we use it,” said Dr. Brent Bauer, director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic. “Sometimes people take too much. They think, if two is good, then 20 must be better.”

Here’s a list of herbs and supplements that can be dangerous if taken the wrong way: either in high doses, in combination with certain drugs or before surgery.1. St. John’s wort

This herb, often taken to relieve depression, is always at the top of the list of potentially problematic natural remedies because it can cause serious side effects and increase or decrease the potency of many medications. The Mayo Clinic recommends that many people should avoid it, including those taking antidepressants, anti-blood-clotting drugs, certain asthma drugs, immune-suppressing medications or steroids.

2. Kava

A sedative herb, kava is associated with serious liver problems, even when taken for a very short time, according to the Mayo Clinic. It’s especially risky if you’re taking drugs to lower cholesterol.

3. Fish oil

Though it’s a very safe supplement to increase your intake of heart-healthy fat, Lee says she’s seen patients have excessive bleeding when taking high doses of fish oil. “It’s not life-threatening, but for example, I’ve seen where people are taking too much fish oil, and they’ll have prolonged bleeding from acupuncture needles.”

How much fish oil is too much? More than 5 grams — or 5,000 milligrams — a day, according to Bauer.

4. Artemisinin

Last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, details the case of a man who developed hepatitis after taking the herb artemisinin for stomach problems. There was no other reason for his hepatitis, and the disease went away when he stopped taking the herb, and the authors suggested that doctors be aware of a possible relationship between the artemisinin and hepatitis.

5. Various herbs when taken before surgery

Dr. David Rowe, a plastic surgeon, was operating on a patient when he noticed an unusual amount of bleeding.

“The tissue was just oozing, and we couldn’t figure out why,” he remembered, noting that the patient had told him he wasn’t taking any supplements. “After the surgery I asked the patient, ‘Are you sure you’re not taking anything?’ and he said, ‘Oh, yes, I’m taking this, this and this.’ ”

In a paper published this year in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Rowe listed about a dozen herbs that should be avoided within two weeks of surgery, including common ones such as garlic, ginseng and echinacea. Some increase bleeding and some affect the heart, and others interfere with anesthesia or other drugs.

It’s imperative that you tell your surgeon absolutely every natural remedy you’re taking, says Rowe, an assistant professor of plastic surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. Studies have shown that 60 to 70 percent of patients don’t tell their physicians about supplements.

He tells his patients to read their supplement labels carefully.

“One supplement can have 10 or 15 things in it, so you may not know what you’re on, which is really scary for us surgeons,” he said.

As for Grant, she’s still feeling tingling and numbness in her legs and feet even three years later.

Despite Taliban attacks in 15 provinces, millions of Afghans on Thursday went to 7,000 polling stations across the country to choose their president, who is elected for a five-year tenure and could serve a maximum of two terms.

Among the 41 candidates, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and former Financial Minister Ashraf Ghani are main rivals of President Hamid Karzai, who won the 2004 presidential election with 55 percent of the vote.

Karzai hailed the election a success, praising the Afghan people for braving Taliban “bombs and intimidations.” His government said at least 26 people have been killed in the attacks. The vote counting could take about three weeks and the final result is expected to be announced on Sept. 17.

“The members of the Security Council welcome the holding of the presidential and provincial council elections in Afghanistan on Aug. 20, 2009,” the statement said.

“The members of the Council reiterate the importance of these elections as Afghanistan, working together with other members of the international community, continues to make progress towards its goals and congratulate the people of Afghanistan on their participation in these historic elections,” it said.

SEOUL: A high-level North Korean delegation arrived in Seoul on Friday to pay respects to late former President Kim Dae-jung, a rare visit that raised hopes of improved relations between the tense neighbors.
A plane carrying the six-member delegation landed Friday afternoon, Gimpo airport official Park Hyun-il told newsmen. He did not provide further details.
The convoy is to head straight for the National Assembly, where Kim’s body will lie in state until his funeral Sunday. Kim, 85, died Tuesday.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry said the delegation is headed by senior Workers’ Party official Kim Ki Nam and includes the country’s spy chief, Kim Yang Gon.
It was not immediately clear whether the North Koreans would hold talks with South Korean officials before returning home Saturday.
Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters no other itinerary for the North Koreans had been set.
However, the trip — the first by North Korean officials to the South in nearly two years — could provide a valuable opportunity for contact between officials from the two Koreas, which technically remain at war.
Ties have been tense since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, a conservative, took office last year, abandoning the previous administration’s “Sunshine Policy” of reaching out to the communist North with aid.
Kim Dae-jung, a longtime defender of democracy and champion of reconciliation on the Korean peninsula, was the architect of the Sunshine Policy.
After holding a historic summit in 2000 with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, South Korea’s Kim won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his efforts at engaging the North after decades of inter-Korean tensions.
Kim Jong Il sent a condolence message to Kim’s family on Wednesday. North Korean media announced the next day that he approved sending a delegation to Seoul to visit the mourning site.
North Korea has only dispatched a condolence delegation only once before — a one-day trip in 2001 during the mourning period for Chung Ju-yung, the founder of South Korea’s Hyundai Group, which funded the first inter-Korean joint projects.

Deputy Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem reiterated that Hezbollah would avenge Imad Mughniyeh’s assassination.

“Hezbollah has kept its promise. The decision to avenge Imad Mughniyeh’s murder has been taken. The place and time would be known during execution (of the plan),” Qassem said on the assassination of Hezbollah commander Mughniyeh in a Damascus car bombing last year.

He reiterated that Israel was behind the Hezbollah commander’s killing.