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<p>KKTV.com Court documents reveal that the victim of an alleged vicious sexual assault remembers some of the suspects telling her about being unhappy with the way they were treated in the United States. Five Iraqi nationals were arrested in connection with the case.</p>

from Carl: To all my friends in battle, The Judge pulled the lawyers for the three cases into chambers before it all began and advised them that he would be issuing a default judgment in our favor, since the Defense council failed to show, and wanted to end it there. We argued that all the evidence needed to be entered in to record so the Judge allowed for a speedy hearing where all evidence was entered into the court record. What that means is this… Any appeal, if one is even possible, would be based on the evidence provided by...

Israelis urged to return home for fear that peninsula will become launching pad for terror attacks as police abandon posts, facing increasing violence. Concern is mounting in Israel over reports that the Egyptian police force has abandoned the Sinai Peninsula in face of growing Beduin violence, and that the territory will turn into a breeding ground for global jihad. According to information that has arrived in Israel, Egyptian police authorities have abandoned dozens of police stations throughout the peninsula after they were attacked by Beduin armed with missiles and assault rifles. This concern was behind Israel’s decision two weeks ago...

Iran now is actively encouraging what it calls a “freedom seeking” movement in Egypt to help create its dream of a fundamentalist Islamic Middle East. Iranian officials, for the first time, said Tuesday they are offering support to the protesters in Egypt. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on state television, "With the knowledge that I have of the great revolutionary and history making people of Egypt, I am sure they will play their role in creating an Islamic Middle East for all freedom, justice and independence seekers." They declared that the revolutionary movement in Egypt is a spiritual one,...

The officers' political objectives are clearly stated. A return to a Fatah-Hamas unity government in the Palestinian Authority would gain "widespread international support and deprive the Israelis of any legitimate justification to continue settlement-building and delay statehood negotiations,” they wrote. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

Mitchell is armed by mainstream American media that generally have accepted U.S. President Barack Obama’s view that Israel should freeze all building for Jews in areas of Jerusalem claimed by the PA, as well as all of Judea and Samaria. Last fall, Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to a 10-month freeze as a concession to both the Obama administration and Abbas. Residents told Voice of Israel government radio that Mitchell should be concerned with their humanitarian situation in the face of Gaza terror instead of worrying about increased shipments for Gaza while its terrorists continue to attack Israel.

A federal judge has delayed the trial of four men accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues because the prosecution says it needs more time to comply with a ruling favorable to the defense.

The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up "moderate elements" within Hizbullah and to diminish the influence of hard-liners, Reuters reported John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism saying Tuesday. He had recently returned from a visit to Lebanon.

WASHINGTON – A top White House counterterrorism official said Tuesday that the US was seeking to strengthen moderates in Hizbullah, according to media accounts. John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, was quoted by Reuters as telling a Washington conference that elements of Hizbullah “are truly a concern to us, what they’re doing. And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements.” In his comments, he also apparently charted the course of the “very interesting organization” from “purely...

(CNSNews.com) – Four months after the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit and nine years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, only 14 of the 57 U.S. consulates identified as being at “high risk” for potentially providing visas to terrorists have been furnished with units of the Department of Homeland Security’s Visa Security Program (VSP). President Barack Obama, meanwhile, is planning to freeze the program’s budget for fiscal 2011.

US President Barack Obama is expected to reveal details on the US nuclear stockpile during next week's UN nuclear disarmament summit at New York, Israel Radio reported Saturday. Experts estimated the US nuclear arsenal at 9,000 nuclear warheads, with 5000 active and the rest slated for deactivation.

Citing unnamed US officials, Wall Street Journal reports White House seeking conference on non-binding agreement emerging from 1995 UN review of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Initiative could raise new tensions between President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu US officials are in talks with Egypt over a plan to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, part of an effort to block the Iranian nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the White House wanted to build on a non-binding agreement that emerged from a 1995 UN review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). That agreement...

President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central document outlining the US national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

Do you feel secure with 0bama as our president? Go to the link and watch video again as many have and then answer if "his path of rule" will in any way make a secure country in any way.

(IsraelNN.com) The United States administration once again urged the government of Israel and the American-backed Palestinian Authority to promote dialogue on Friday...The American government, and much of the international community, strongly advocates an Israeli surrender of Judea, Samaria and most of Jerusalem to the PA.

(IsraelNN.com) Political consultants Dick Morris and Eileen McGann say that United States President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton want Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu out. They continue, "Livni, who thinks nothing of trading land for peace, no matter how flawed the peace might be, will then hold Netanyahu's government hostage and force it to bend to the will of Washington

(IsraelNN.com) The administration of United States President Barack Obama has encouraged "resistance" by Arabs to protest Israel's presence in eastern Jerusalem, according to a senior Palestinian Authority official cited by WorldNetDaily on Thursday The claim follows a news conference immediately following a meeting in Jordan last week between PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Middle East envoy George Mitchell, during which Abbas declared the Arab "right" to "resistance" against Israel.

(IsraelNN.com) More than 75 percent of Congressmen in the U.S.House of Repreentatives have signed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing support for Israel and demanding an end to the highly-publicized state of tensions with Israel. Signed by 327 Representatives, out of 435, the letter calls on Clinton and the Obama Administration to settle its disputes with Israel in a non-public and friendly fashion. The current tensions “will not advance the interests the U.S. and Israel share,” the letter states, as “above all, we must remain focused on the threat posed by the Iranian nuclear weapons program...

Former UN envoy Bolton says Washington pressuring Israel not to strike nuke facilities. Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton expressed concern Sunday that Washington was coming to terms with a nuclear Iran. “I very much worry the Obama administration is willing to accept a nuclear Iran, that's why there's this extraordinary pressure on Israel not to attack in Iran,” Bolton told Army Radio. The former envoy claimed that this pressure was the focus of last week's meetings in Washington between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhau and US officials, including President Barack Obama. Bolton said that the Obama administration had...

(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, emboldened by U.S. President Barack Obama’s tough talk on Israel, has rejected American-mediated talks with Israel unless Israel agrees to demands to stop building for Jews in most newer parts of Jerusalem. Abbas told the Arab League summit in Libya that Israel must make more concessions in accordance with President Obama’s view that large parts of Jerusalem are “occupied.” Abbas has taken the president’s condemnation of Israel’s building for Jews in all of Jerusalem as a signal that Israel can be pushed into a diplomatic corner. The Executive Branch’s policy contradicts stated Congressional policy,...