PAX GAEA WORLD POST HUMAN RIGHTS HEADLINES (12/5)
Fiji's military takes control of nation
By RAY LILLEY, Associated Press Writer
SUVA, Fiji - Fiji's military commander said Tuesday that he had seized control of the country and dismissed the elected prime minister after a weeks-long standoff between the two leaders rooted in tension between the South Pacific nation's indigenous people and its ethnic Indian minority. Commodore Frank Bainimarama told a news conference that he was using special powers under the constitution to assume the powers of the president and replace Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. Yahoo News (12/5)
Beirut protests spark fears of renewed bloodshed
Nadim Ladki in Beirut
FEARS are growing that Lebanon's anti-Government protests could turn into sectarian violence after a Shiite Muslim protester was shot dead in a Sunni district of Beirut. Security sources said gunmen opened fire with assault rifles at a group of anti-Government protesters in the tense Sunni suburb of Qasqas, a stronghold of the anti-Syrian coalition. The protesters were returning from an opposition rally in central Beirut. Sydney Morning Herald (12/5)
Senior official: US talks with Syria, Iran could isolate Israel
By HERB KEINON
With the US Iraq Study Group expected to recommend on Wednesday that the US diplomatically engage Syria and Iran, Israeli government sources differ widely about the impact this type of engagement might have on Israel. While a senior defense official said US talks with Iran would lead to a slippery slope that would eventually leave Israel alone facing the Iranian nuclear threat, other government officials indicated that US-Iranian talks were needed to stabilize the region since Iran was "calling the shots" everywhere from Lebanon to Gaza. Jerusalem Post (12/5)
Employers Skirting Saudization Quota Pledged Iron Fist
Raid Qusti, Arab News
RIYADH, 5 December 2006 — Minister of Labor Ghazi Al-Gosaibi said yesterday that his ministry would not go easy on establishments and institutions that attempt to illegally skirt Saudization quotas. “There are systemized penalties,” he said during a graduation ceremony of Al-Rimaizan Training Center in Riyadh yesterday where a batch of newly trained Saudis received their certifications. “Penalties can go up to the person or establishment being forbidden from applying for loans or services.”Arab News (Saudi Arabia) (12/5)
Wife of US Legislator Hides from Deportation
ATLANTA.— The wife of a Georgia state legislator known for his support for immigrant rights has gone underground to avoid deportation after federal agents arrived at her house with a deportation order, AP reported the woman’s lawyer as saying. US Immigration authorities ordered the deportation of Sascha Herrera, of Colombia, the wife of State Senator Curt Thompson (D) alleging Herrera did not attend a federal court hearing in February 2005, said her attorney Charles Kuck. Periodico 26 (Cuba) (12/5)
Kuwait court overturns Gitmo conviction
DIANA ELIAS
Associated Press
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's highest court of appeal overturned the conviction of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner on Tuesday, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.Nasser al-Mutairi, 28, a Muslim fundamentalist, was captured by American forces in Afghanistan in 2001 during the "war on terror" campaign that followed the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. He returned Kuwait last year after almost three years in the U.S. military prison in Cuba. Miami Herald (12/5)
Terror threat suspect held
FBI tracks email to Berbice Internet café, computers seized
THE man suspected of sending an email threatening a chemical terror attack on airlines flying from here to the United States was arrested late yesterday and is being questioned by the FBI and local investigators, sources said. Guyana Police and United States FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) agents yesterday morning swooped on the Netsurf.com internet café on Asylum Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice and seized four computers, the Guyana Chronicle understands. This newspaper has learnt that the terror threat email was sent at 17:03 h Thursday to the U.S. embassy, airlines operating the U.S. routes, and newspapers here.Guyana Chronicle (12/5)
Egyptian police arrest foreigners for allegedly plotting attacks
By Nadia Abou El-Magd, Associated Press Writer
Egyptian police have arrested an American, 11 Europeans and several others from Arab countries for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in Middle Eastern countries including Iraq, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. The group allegedly was part of an Islamic militant terror cell that had adopted extremist ideas and were living in Egypt under the disguise of studying Arabic and Islamic studies, the ministry said in a written statement. Independent (UK) (12/5)
Egypt denies anti-veil remarks
NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD
CAIRO - Egypt's parliament on Sunday determined that anti-veil remarks made by the country's culture minister were his personal opinion and didn't represent the government's view. The uproar began after Farouk Hosni said that Egypt should return to a time when women didn't feel forced to wear the headscarf and that the Arab world would not move forward if it kept "thinking backward".In response, students protested at an Islamic university and several Muslim conservatives and other lawmakers demanded that Hosni be removed from his post. Namibian (12/5)
Istanbul Journal
Where Traditional and Modern Meet and Sashay Along
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
ISTANBUL, Dec. 4 — For every stereotype of a Muslim country, Turkey has a fact to break it. It has Islamic feminists (a few) and Israeli tourists (lots). Reality dating shows have had the highest ratings on television, and Islamic fashion sashays down Turkish runways. For decades in Turkey the competing forces of the religious and secular, Christian and Muslim, East and West, were muted, as authorities scrubbed the country of differences while they built a modern state. But Turkey has become more democratic in recent years, and those forces have burst into full view, creating a sort of modern-day identity crisis. New York Times (12/5)
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