http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/embassy/ en-us Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:02:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388955/posts Zelayistas and journalists are deserting the sinking ship of the Brazilian Embassy. Yesterday, Salvadoran Padre Andrés Tamayo left. Deserters are escorted away by police and, I believe, are examined by doctors prior to release, which seems a wise move so that false accusations of ill effects from death rays, toxic gases, mind control radiation and whatever else they dream up cannot be claimed later. In one photo of a Zelaya follower telling a doctor about his symptoms, a Brazilian blogger notes with humor the skepticism in the face of a journalist (in the blue shirt) standing by watching. The fact... La Griga's Blogicito http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388955/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:02:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386756/posts SNIPPET: "An Irish jihadist living in Pakistan’s Swat valley says he is preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan. Khalid Kelly, a former altar boy from the Liberties area of Dublin who used to be known as Terry, told The Sunday Times he is undergoing weapons training in Pakistan’s mountainous tribal region in order to fight jihad against the enemies of Islam. His dream is to face a British soldier in combat, although he would “settle” for an American, he said. “I’m already on the path to jihad. I’ve already picked up a gun and done... TIMESonline.co.uk - from THE SUNDAY TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386756/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:55:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384495/posts SNIPPET: "An al Qaeda leader wanted by the US for a string of deadly attacks has been named the new leader of terror group's network in East Africa. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of several al Qaeda leaders charged with carrying out the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was appointed the leader of al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa. Fazul was "inaugurated" during an open ceremony in the southern city of Kismayo, according to a translation received by The Long War Journal of an article posted Waaga Cusub, a website operated by the Hawiye clan,... LONG WAR JOURNAL.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384495/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:35:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379319/posts It was supposed to be a public show of Iranian unity during day marking the 30-year anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by Islamic revolutionaries. But not only did anti-government demonstrators, many of them dressed in green scarves and headbands, hijack the state-sponsored event. They also managed to steal the media's attention media, much to the displeasure of the authorities, who blamed the Western media for distorting the facts. On the other hand, Iran's official media, also appeared to play fast and loose with reality. (snip) Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency, or IRNA, lashed out... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379319/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:31:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378986/posts Yesterday marked the 30th anniver sary of the capture by Khomeinist "stu dents" of the US Embassy in Tehran, triggering the 444-day hostage crisis. The Iranian public seized the chance to reject the regime -- even as the surviving hostage-takers have largely come to regret their actions. For months, Iran's state-controlled media had tried to build up the day as a "turning point" for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's troubled second term. The occasion was supposed to highlight Ahmadinejad's "victory over the American Great Satan" and Washington's implicit acceptance of Iran's nuclear project in recent talks in Geneva and Vienna. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378986/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:43:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378175/posts WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama noted Wednesday's 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, while insisting he wants the U.S. and Iran to move beyond "suspicion, mistrust and confrontation." Google/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378175/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:46:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378023/posts The source of anti-American Islamic Terrorism started today, Nov 4, 1979, in Tehran, Iran. Thank You Jimmy Carter, for abandoning the Shah The Hostage Rescue Attempt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378023/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:54:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369516/posts The State Department’s internal watchdog called yesterday for officials to demand a rebate of more than $132 million from a company that built the massive US Embassy in Baghdad to make up for shoddy work. In a report, the department’s inspector general said First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting Co. should be required to pay back roughly a quarter of the $470 million it was awarded to build the sprawling embassy. More than $730 million was spent on the embassy - the largest US diplomatic mission in the world. The report also took issue with the State Department’s oversight of work... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369516/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349724/posts It is fascinating how so many government cannot abide the idea of constitutional limits on the power of the state. Clearly the US and Brazilian governments are beside themselves that many in Honduras seem unwilling to allow their country to go the way of Venezuela. If I was the government of Honduras I would simply give the government of Brazil 48 hours to get their embassy the hell out of Honduras permanently, and when they do... solve the 'issue' of Hugo Chavez wannabe Jose Manuel Zelaya the way they should have initially... with a 9 mm wide object moving at... Samizdata http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349724/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:08:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347779/posts Ask Pakistanis why the United States needs to expand its embassy here in the capital and you'll hear a host of alarming answers. It's a cover for the construction of a Guantanamo-like prison. It's part of a U.S. attempt to colonize Pakistan. It's the first step in a covert plan to take over Pakistan's nuclear weapons. What you don't hear is the reason cited by American officials: the need for a bigger embassy operation to better manage the increased financial aid that Washington will be channeling to Pakistan in coming months... Embassy officials have held briefings for Pakistani reporters to... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347779/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:31:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344905/posts The Brazilian delegation in Honduras confirmed to AFP that Zelaya is on the premises of its embassy in this country. Followers. "I make an appeal to the crowd to join you at the Embassy of Brazil and President Zelaya found there," said Enrique Flores Lanza, an official of the ousted president. buscar http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344905/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:04:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311886/posts A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the French embassy in Mauritania's capital, wounding two members of staff. Mauritanian police say the suicide bomber was a wanted "member of the jihadist movement". AFP - A suicide bomber died Saturday after staging an explosion near the French embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, as two members of staff were jogging nearby, police and embassy staff said. Two French nationals, security employees at the French embassy, were near the man at the moment of the blast," embassy official Marc Flattot told AFP. "They are in hospital, they are unharmed, but in shock,"... FRANCE24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311886/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 14:43:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307612/posts KABUL (AP) - Afghan army officers and witnesses say one of the five rockets that has slammed into Kabul fell near the American Embassy. The rocket's impact could be seen about 200 meters (yards) down from the U.S. Embassy on a main road in central Kabul. Security officers say the rocket hit the house of a senior Interior Ministry official but caused no casualties. At the scene, Maj. Ghulam Rasul of the Afghan national army said he believed the five rockets that hit early Tuesday were fired from a long range. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307612/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 02:30:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291688/posts MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- For months, the reports percolated in Washington and other capitals. Iran was constructing a major beachhead in Nicaragua as part of a diplomatic push into Latin America, featuring huge investment deals, new embassies and even TV programming from the Islamic republic. "The Iranians are building a huge embassy in Managua," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned in May. "And you can only imagine what that's for." But here in Nicaragua, no one can find any super-embassy. Nicaraguan reporters scoured the sprawling tropical city in search of the embassy construction site. Nothing. Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce chief... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291688/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:59:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285523/posts Iranian newspaper says opposition figure should stand trial The state-owned paper says Mir-Hossein Mousavi is a foreign agent on 'a mission directed from abroad.' Meanwhile, a military commander says Iran may take over the British Embassy residence. By Borzou Daragahi July 4, 2009 Reporting from Beirut -- A right-wing newspaper close to Iran's supreme leader today accused the country's main opposition figure of being a dupe for Iran's foreign enemies who should face trial, as an military official said the "ground has been set" for a takeover of the British Embassy residence in north Tehran. A crackdown continues against supporters... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285523/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:36:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285061/posts July 3, 2009 SNIPPET: "Belgrade, 3 July (AKI) - A special Belgrade court on Friday sentenced 11 members of a radical Islamic Wahabi movement to more than 60 years in prison after they were found guilty of planning terrorist activities and illegal weapons possession. Fifteen members of the group were arrested in Serbia’s southern Sandzak region, which has a substantial Muslim population. The trial started in January last year but 12 members of the group refused to engage defence lawyers, saying they did not recognise a Serbian court and could be “judged only by Allah”...." (AKI) via JIHAD WATCH.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285061/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:49:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284718/posts A top Iranian cleric says some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who is close to Iran’s supreme leader, has made the announcement in a Friday prayer sermon. He says the detained staffers “made confessions.” Jannati does not say how many staffers will be tried or on what charges. Earlier Iranian officials said all but one of the eight embassy personnel arrested on June 27 had been released, but European Union officials said they believed more than one was still being held. Jannati is the head of... The Khaleej Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284718/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:57:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270217/posts ONE OF THEIR TARGETS WAS THE GABALA RADAR STATION The Gabala radar station is evidently capable of detecting Iranian missile launches. The facility was built by the Soviets and is now leased back from Azerbaijan by Russia. There has been talk of US/Russian cooperation in operating the site for the purpose of monitoring Iranian actions, much to the chagrin of the mullahs. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270217/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:31:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262904/posts The U.S. is embarking on a $1 billion crash program to expand its diplomatic presence in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, another sign that the Obama administration is making a costly, long-term commitment to war-torn South Asia, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The White House has asked Congress for—and seems likely to receive—$736 million to build a new U.S. embassy in Islamabad, along with permanent housing for U.S. government civilians and new office space in the Pakistani capital. The scale of the projects rivals the giant U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which was completed last year after construction delays at a cost of... McClatchy Newspapers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262904/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:27:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2255831/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Accused East Africa Embassy Bomber Held at Guantanamo Bay to Be Prosecuted in U.S. Federal Court Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility since September 2006, will be prosecuted in federal court in the United States pursuant to the March 12, 2001 superseding indictment currently pending against him in the Southern District of New York. In accordance with the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, which called for a review of all Guantanamo detainees and the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within... US DOJ.GOV/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2255831/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 21:53:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2248040/posts Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Saudi Arabia: We Prevented An Attack On Saudi Embassy In Stockholm The Saudi ambassador to Sweden has said that an attempt to set the Saudi Embassy in Stockholm on fire yesterday was part of a plan to attack it, not a random incident as the police first stated. He said that embassy security personnel noticed an unfamiliar, Arab-looking bearded man pouring gasoline on the building's entrance, and then trying to start a car parked nearby; they apprehended him and handed him over to police. Source: Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia, May 8,... ("Source: Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia, May 8, 2009") via THE MEMRI BLOG.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2248040/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 16:07:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225977/posts https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=100164 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Islamabad Heightened Security CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS South / Central Asia - Pakistan 9 Apr 2009 RELATED REPORTS 3 Apr 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: PAKISTAN TERROR THREAT 30 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: PAKISTAN POLICE TRAINING CENTER ATTACK 17 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: PAKISTAN CONSULAR SECTION REOPENING 14 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: PAKISTAN LONG MARCH CLOSURES 12 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: PAKISTAN LONG MARCH DEMONSTRATIONS STARTING MARCH 12 U.S. Embassy Islamabad released the following Warden message on April 9: This Warden Notice is to notify American citizens that... OSAC.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225977/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:02:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223766/posts Capt. Michelle Sterling goes over demolition plans with her team members while one of the three villas once belonging to bath party members is being demolished to make room for a new foreign embassy. Photo by Staff Sgt. Tim Beckham, Baghdad Media Outreach Team. BAGHDAD — It has been said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. But a group of Iraqi contractors, with the help of a U.S. Airman, are taking a different approach. They are burying the past to rebuild a new future.The past, in this case, are three villas located here in... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223766/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 01:17:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217248/posts A China-based cyber spy network has hacked into government and private systems in 103 countries, including those of many Indian embassies and the Dalai Lama, an Internet research group said here Saturday. The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which carried out an extensive 10-month research on cyber spy activities emanating from China, said the hacked systems include the computers of Indian embassies and offices of the Dalai Lama. Economic Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217248/posts#comment Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2214796/posts Yet another embassy web site is falling victim into a malware attack serving Adobe exploits to its visitors. As of last Friday, the official web site of the Embassy of Portugal in India has been compromised (embportindia.co.in). Who's behind the attack? Interestingly, that's the very same group that compromised the Azerbaijanian Embassies in Pakistan and Hungary earlier this month. Assessing this campaign once again establishes a direct connection with the Rusian Business Network's pre-shutdown netblocks and static locations. DANCHO DANCHEV's Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2214796/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:29:32 GMT