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Protests Spread Over
Anti-Islam Video
Violent
protests
spread
across
the
Arab
World
and
other
areas
Friday
over
a
private video produced in
the United States. Crowds targeted American and
western
embassies
as
opposition
to
the
film
continued
to
grow.
Three
days
earlier,
armed
militants killed the American
ambassador to
Libya and three other
Americans in an
attack in Benghazi,
Libya.
The low budget
film
the
Prophet
Mohammed
as
a
womanizer
and
a
terrorist.
The
video
reportedly
was
made in California.
It
remains
unclear
who
made
the
video.
Some
news
organizations
have
linked
the
film
to
a
fifty-five
year
old
Egyptian
Coptic
Christian
who
lives
in
California.
They say he
recently served a prison sentence for illegal
financial activities.
The suspected director of the film spoke with
Radio Sawa. He said any claim of
government involvement in the making of
the movie is funny, and that America has
nothing to do with the film. He also
criticized the protesters. He said Arabs
learn to demonstrate peacefully against
the issues on which we disagree.
he was
saddened by the deaths, but he did not regret
making the film.
In recent years, his actions
against the Quran, Islam's holy book, incited
violence in
Afghanistan.
The protests against the film began
Tuesday on the eleventh anniversary of the
Two Thousand One terror attacks on the
United States. In Cairo, the demonstrations
began peacefully, until
a
few protesters broke through the American embassy
walls
and replaced the
American flag with a Muslim one. Later Tuesday, a
crowd attacked
the
American
consulate
in
Benghazi,
killing
the
four
Americans,
including
Ambassador Chris Stevens.
There
were
reports
that
the
attack
was
well
planned
since
it
took
place
on
September eleventh. The Obama
administration has not commented on these reports.
However, intelligence officials have
investigated the possible involvement of al-Qaida
in the film. But they say there is not
much evidence to support this idea.
On
Wednesday,
President
Obama
condemned
the
attacks
on
the
American
embassies.
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
others. But there is absolutely no
justification to this type of senseless violence.
None.
The world must stand together to
unequivocally reject these brutal acts.
Chris Stevens had served as America's
ambassador to Libya since May. He had
served as America's representative to
the country during the revolution against Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi. He recorded
this message earlier this year.
CHRIS STEVENS:
new US
Ambassador to Libya. I had the honor to serve as
the US envoy to the Libyan
opposition
during the revolution. And I was thrilled to watch
the Libyan people stand
up and demand
their rights. Now, I'm excited to return to Libya
to continue the great
work we've
started. Building a solid partnership between the
United States and Libya,
to help you,
the Libyan people, achieve their
goals...
Ambassador
Stevens was said to be popular in Libya. In the
nineteen eighties, he
taught English in
Morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer.
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ewstopics/howaboutthat/9496579/Hundreds-of-racing-
pigeons-
Hundreds
of racing pigeons vanish in 'Bermuda triangle' of
birds
Pigeon racers
are mystified after hundreds birds disappeared in
an area they have
now dubbed the
Bermuda Triangle.
Pigeon
racers are mystified after hundreds birds
disappeared
Photo: Andrew
Crowley
Only 13 out of 232 birds released in
Thirsk , North Yorkshire, on Saturday by a
Scottish
pigeon
racing
club
made
it
back
to
Galashiels,
Selkirkshire.
It
follows
a
summer on which hundred more have
vanished in the same area
。
Keith Simpson, of the East Cleveland
Federation, said pigeon racers across the
region had all suffered massive losses
since the season started in April
-
with many
losing more than half of
their birds
。
Some fanciers are considering stopping
flying the birds until they establish why
so many failed to
return
。
Scottish pigeon racer Austin Lindores
said:
Wetherby and Consett area we call
it the Bermuda Triangle because something always
seems to happen
。
is
not
the
first
time it
has
happened
in
that
area.
I
won't
be
racing
there
again.
Experts
recent bad weather may have
pushed
the
birds off
course
say
The
loss
of
homing
pigeons,
which
can
be
worth
up
to
?200,000,
has
baffled
experts,
but
the
most
popular
theory
is
the
abnormal
number
of
summer
showers,
sending birds off
course as they attempt to fly around the
downpours
。
Unusually high levels of solar activity
distorting magnetic fields and even signals
from Menwith Hill spy base, near
Harrogate , an electronic monitoring station, have
also been blamed
。
Wendy Jeffries, president of the Thirsk
Social Flying Club, said:
wasn't too
bad around here on Saturday. It has been an
atrocious year. I am down to
ten young
birds out of 29 and the people I have talked to
are the same.
The high numbers of birds
going missing in the region have also been linked
to
the high numbers of pigeons being
released within minutes of each other at weekends,
meaning different groups of pigeons
send each other off course
。
Darlington pigeon racer Stuart
Fawcett, who has been racing pigeons
for more
than
30
years,
said:
is
the
worst
year
in
the
memory
of
people
who
have
been
racing for 60
years
。
raptor problem became so
great elsewhere that races have moved to east
England.
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carr-australia-can-help-diffuse-south-
chi
na-sea-tensions/
Bob Carr: Australia Can Help Diffuse
South China Sea Tensions
EPA
Australian Minister for
Foreign Affairs Bob Carr
In
a
speech
on
relations
with
China,
Australia's
foreign
minister
is
channeling
Henry Kissinger. That might seem an
unusual tack to take with Beijing which doesn't
like being lectured by anyone, least of
all foreign politicians.
But Bob Carr, Australia's foreign
minister, is drawing on Mr. Kissinger's role in
helping open relations between the U.S.
and modern China in the 1970s.
Mr. Carr says Australia can play a role
in helping to ease tensions in the South
China Sea a hot spot in global
diplomatic circles but especially between the U.S.
and
China. That's where Canberra can
step in.
'There
is
ample
scope
for
Australian
action
and
influence,
for
what
Henry
Kissinger
calls
'co-evolution',
whereby
'both
countries
pursue
their
domestic
imperatives,
co-operating
where
possible
and
adjusting
their
relations
to
minimize
conflict,' said Mr.
Carr, at the Australia in China's Century
conference in Sydney.
'Our
national
interest
is
to
ensure
the
great
success
story
of
this
century,
the
Asian economic transformation, is not
distracted by strategic competition in the South
China Sea.
If
Australia does manage to get elected to the United
Nation's Security Council
later this
year, it may find itself in the front seat of that
dispute.
But
Mr.
Carr
made
clear
the
rise
of
China
won't
threaten
Australia's
special
relationship with
the US, which he says is a 'very long term
fundamental fact of life.'
Huawei, ZTE under fire in
US
Executives
from
Huawei
and
ZTE,
the
leading
Chinese
telecommunications
equipment
groups,
have
strongly
denied
that
their
companies
have
strong
ties
to
Beijing or pose a national security
risk to the US.
Both
companies
have
been
criticised
by
US
lawmakers
for
allegedly
stealing
trade
secrets
from
US
companies
including
Cisco
and
Motorola,
and
for
posing
security threats to critical US
infrastructure.
US
intelligence experts and politicians have
repeatedly expressed their concerns
about Huawei and ZTE, including the
relationship between Huawei, whose founder,
Ren Zhengfe, was an officer in
the Red Army,
and the
Chinese
government. These
people have also suggested that the two
companies might pose a security risk if their
advanced equipment was widely deployed
by US telecoms operators.
However,
in
a
rare
public
hearing
before
members
of
the
House
intelligence
committee,
which
has
been
investigating
the
companies’
operations
in
the
US
and
whether the telecoms
groups are influenced by the Chinese government or
facilitate
espionage by the Communist
state, the executives forcefully denied the
claims.
“It
would
be
immensely
foolish
for
Huawei
to
risk
involvement
in
national
security or economic espionage,” Mr
Ding said in his opening statement. “Huawei has
not
and
will
not
jeopardise
our
global
commercial
success
nor
the
integrity
of
our
customers’
network for any third party, government or
otherwise, ever.”
Like
Zhu
Jinyun,
ZTE’s
senior
vice
president
for
North
America
and
Europe,
testifying
through
translators,
Mr
Ding
st
ressed
his
company’s
independence
from
China’s
government.
Concerns over the two companies
surfaced in the US in 2008 when Huawei and
Bain Capital were forced to give up
their bid for 3Com, the US network equipment
maker, after the Committee on Foreign
Investment in the US - an interagency group
led by the Treasury department - raised
objections.
Huawei
was
subsequently
excluded
from
bidding
for
a
large
network
contract