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Mohammed Hossain

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Fears grow over Iran nuclear sites - 0 views

  • second uranium enrichment site has raised concerns about possible further secret nuclear sites
  • (IAEA) raised its fears
  • Iran had claimed that work on the second bunkered site near Qom had started in 2007.
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  • evidence the project began in 2002
  • educes the level of confidence
  • requires further clarification
  • revealed to the IAEA in September that it had been building a second uranium enrichment plant
  • magery that the IAEA is looking at indicates that the tunnel entrances associated with the facility were built back in 2002.
  • The satellite imagery analysis that we have done tends to support the notion that the tunnel entrances back in 2002 may not yet have been associated with the enrichment plan.
  • atellite imagery shows that the construction would have begun before June 2007, which would put it at the first half of 2007 at the earliest, so that doesn't quite jibe with what Iran was telling the IAEA." 
  • Iran plans to prove that its nuclear programme is unstoppable.
  • That's why they have built this strike-proof (that's what Iran calls it) nuclear plant under the mountains near Qom to prove that Iran will never stop its nuclear programme.
  • concern big enough
Mohammed Hossain

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Palestinian poll delay recommended - 0 views

  • recommended the postponement of presidential and parliamentary polls
  • postponement was somewhat inevitable after the Palestinian group Hamas said it would not not allow elections to be held in the Gaza Strip.
  • postponement was somewhat inevitable after the Palestinian group Hamas said it would not not allow elections to be held in the Gaza Strip.
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  • postponement was somewhat inevitable after the Palestinian group Hamas said it would not not allow elections to be held in the Gaza Strip.
  • Election
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  • postponement was somewhat inevitable after the Palestinian group Hamas said it would not not allow elections to be held in the Gaza Strip.
  • postponement was somewhat inevitable after the Palestinian group Hamas said it would not not allow elections to be held in the Gaza Strip.
  • postponement was somewhat inevitable after the Palestinian group Hamas said it would not not allow elections to be held in the Gaza Strip.
  • postponement was somewhat inevitable after the Palestinian group Hamas said it would not not allow elections to be held in the Gaza Strip.
  • Abbas had ordered for the polls to be held on January 24
  • reconciliation pact between his Fatah faction and the Hamas failed to materialise.
  • is evidence that Hamas does not value the unity of the homeland nor national reconciliation.
  • will take the necessary decision
  • we lack the right conditions
  • Abbas has already said that he will not run for the presidency again, citing a lack of progress in peace talks with Israel.
  • Abbas is in a very tough position
Mohammed Hossain

Iran reformists warned on anniversary - CNN.com - 0 views

  • sign of continuing protest in Iran
  • along with shouts of "death to dictator."
  • 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis approaches.
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  • November 4, 1979, when a group of Islamist students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 53 hostages and effectively ending diplomatic relations with the United States
  • government will allow the "faithful"
  • hose who "intend to gather illegally and spread lies among people who gather to peacefully participate ... will be held responsible for their actions,
  • spreading anti-government propaganda
  • eformists have largely refused to back down.
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    Mixed reactions about the anniversary of the American hostages from 1979.
Mohammed Hossain

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saudi paedophile to be beheaded - 0 views

Mohammed Hossain

Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Karzai 'wins Afghan poll majority' - 0 views

  • Hamid Karzai has won 54.1 per cent of the vote in the race for the Afghan presidency - above the 50 per cent needed to avoid a run-off poll, partial results indicate.
  • James Bays, reporting from Kabul, said: "If these results were to stand, that would mean this is all over - no second round and President Karzai is once again the president of Afghanistan.
  • Bays said: "We've had the election complaints commission come out, saying they have clear and convincing evidence of fraud in these elections.
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  • "They point to three provinces where they have particular concerns and they have launched a wide ranging order - anywhere nationwide ... where there was a 100 per cent turnout, they want a recount and an audit of everything that was in the ballot box.
  • the IEC has excluded around 200,000 votes from 447 polling stations
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