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Fast Forward American ‘Pizza Hut’ Spies Captured in Lebanon
Dozens of spies working for the CIA were captured recently in Lebanon and Iran, current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press and ABC News on Monday. The CIA’s operations in Lebanon have been badly damaged after Hezbollah identified and captured a number of the U.S. spies, officials told The Associated Press. Hezbollah’s longtime…
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Fast Forward Settlers Target Israelis Who Hire Arabs
About 10 days ago, a fish merchant in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda outdoor market noticed a young man with sidelocks and a skullcap trying to determine which of the stalls employ Arabs. The merchant, Saleh, called the police, who detained the man for questioning on suspicion that he was planning a terror attack. But the interrogation…
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Fast Forward Cairo Clashes Kill 20 Protesters
At least 20 people were killed and 1,700 wounded in Cairo over the weekend in clashes between protesters and security forces in Tahrir Square, Egypt’s Health Ministry said on Monday. Clashes erupted on Monday morning between security forces and protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, rallying against the country’s military rulers and demanding a rapid transition…
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Fast Forward Egyptian Troops Storm Tahrir Square
At least three people were killed on Sunday as Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to tents in the middle of Cairo’s Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault to drive out thousands of protesters after two days of clashes. The Guardian reported that several candidates suspended their campaigns…
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Fast Forward U.S. Plans Tough New Iran Sanctions
The United States plans new, tough sanctions on Iran, especially its petrochemical industry, after the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday there was credible evidence Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons. The U.S. national security adviser, Tom Donilon, said yesterday Iran’s isolation is now “unprecedented”. Speaking to reporters while accompanying President Barack Obama to Indonesia, Donilon…
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Fast Forward Bibi Freezes Bills on Funding Rights Groups
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to freeze the parliamentary process that would ratify bills aimed at limiting foreign funding of Israeli human rights organizations, sources said on Saturday, a week after a Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved the bills. According to the sources, Netanyahu decided to indefinitely postpone appeals submitted against the Ministerial Committee for…
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News Iran Only Year Away From Bomb: Barak
Iran is less than a year away from being unstoppable in its goal of producing a nuclear weapon, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with CNN released on Saturday. In an advance transcript of an interview to air on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” program on Sunday, Barak said Israel was focused on…
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Fast Forward Parents Protest ‘Extremist’ Religious Schools
Parents of some 400 children in the Israeli state religious school system have banded together to protest what they view as the extreme bent the system has taken. “People are angry over the issue of women [prohibited from] singing in the IDF, but our outcry is over the prohibition against kindergarten girls singing,” Ariela Miller,…
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