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President Obama again declined to call the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I a genocide, instead on Saturday painting the massacre as "one of the worst atrocities" of the 20th century and "a devastating chapter" in history. In a statement issued as he and first lady Michelle Obama spent a weekend getaway here in western North Carolina, the president marked the 95th anniversary of the start of the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with strong words but intently avoided branding it genocide.

KHASAB, Oman — The mountains here are solid rock, flint-colored jagged peaks slicing through the haze and dust of intensely hot days. The old Dhori family home is at the top of one unforgiving peak, a single room made of stone. No electricity, no water, a doorway as small as a window, one narrow dark room and a dirt floor. That was what the Dhoris knew for generations. Then the present ruler of Oman, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, staged a coup against his father, and the Dhori family came down to the valley. Sultan Qaboos provided water and electricity, and...

(IsraelNN.com) Dr. Wafa Sultan has been forced to go into hiding with her family following a fatwa (religious edict) from an Islamic scholar, according to Omedia. Sultan faces the fatwa following a recent debate on Al-Jazeera in which she challenged Egyptian Islamist Talat Rheim over Dutch cartoons of Mohammed, who Muslims revere as a prophet. Sultan argued that Denmark had the right to print the cartoons. Sultan joins a growing list of public critics of radical Islam facing death threats. Her supporters have asked the American public to join them in writing to the embassy of Qatar, the country which...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

An interview with Wafa Sultan

Sultan of Brunei lets slip his £4bn lifestyle By Andrew Pierce Last Updated: 1:46am BST 25/10/2007 The Sultan of Brunei, who is embroiled in the most expensive family feud in legal history, transferred $8 billion (£3.9 billion) of state funds into his personal bank account to help fund his lavish lifestyle, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. The Sultan of Brunei and his wife, Queen Hajah Mariam, is the world’s wealthiest monarch, with a £10 billion fortune The sultan, one of the world's richest men, has been forced to disclose his personal finances in a court case at the Privy Council...

Ohio No Stranger to Radical Islam http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/252977.aspx CBNNews.com - COLUMBUS, Ohio - One traditional Middle Eastern grocery is painted to match the distinctive red, white, black and green of the Palestinian flag. Over the meat counter hangs a flag often flown at rallies for the terrorist group Hamas.But this grocery store isn't located in Gaza or the West Bank. It's in Hilliard, Ohio: a sleepy suburb of Columbus. It seems an unlikely battleground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but support for the Palestinian cause runs deep."We are critical of our government policy in the Middle East, and its blind support of...

Treasuring Brunei's past By Jon Tampoi The tomb of the 5th Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, a historical monument situated at Kota Batu's hillside. - Photos: Jason LeongShards of pottery from business activities with China in the past. Brunei has a rich history of trade, and often received tribute. Many of the great civilisations in our world's history had marine origins, whether they evolved in Europe, the Americas or Asia. The kingdom of Brunei Darussalam is no exception, as historical evidence lends veracity to this claim. Relics of Bruneian culture have been found around river estuaries and ancient settlements, as proven...

Last month FrontPageMag.com published my article, Hometown Jihad, concerning my return to my hometown, Hilliard, Ohio, following a decade-long absence, only to find that one of my new neighbors was none other than Salah Sultan, a well-known international terror apologist and anti-Semite, and that he was a regular speaker at the local Islamic school here in Hilliard, Sunrise Academy. When the article came out, I harbored no illusions that I would be offered the key to the city, have a public school named in my honor, or be invited to be grand marshal of the July 4th parade for the...

Brunei Sultan weds Azrinaz KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei married former TV3 newscaster Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim at a private ceremony here last night. One of the invited guests said the ceremony, held at 8.30pm, was attended by family members, relatives and close friends of the couple. HUSBAND & WIFE: Sultan Hassanal and Azrinaz Azrinaz, or fondly known as Naz, started work as a broadcast journalist with TV3 in 1997. She won TV3’s Most Promising Journalist award in 2000 and received the MIIM Alumni Award in 2002. She quit TV3 in May, saying that she wanted...

Afghans arrest Taliban commander KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan forces have arrested a senior Taliban commander accused of leading attacks against Afghan and U.S.-led troops based in the west of the country, a defense ministry spokesman said on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Haji Sultan, a division commander for the Taliban, was arrested with Mullah Mohammad Rahim, another senior Taliban official, in the western province of Farah on Saturday, said the spokesman, Zahir Azimy. "Haji Sultan was on the U.S. military black list and we handed him over to them for investigation," Azimy said. The U.S. military confirmed Sultan's arrest, describing him as a...

BAE takes Sultan to court over £600m order for warships By Sylvia Pfeifer (Filed: 03/04/2005) BAE Systems, Britain's largest defence contractor, is taking the Sultan of Brunei, one of the world's richest men, to court over a $1bn dispute involving an order for three naval ships. The dispute centres on a lucrative export order, estimated to be worth over £600m ($1.13bn), to build three offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Brunei armed forces. The contract was agreed several years ago and BAE, headed by Mike Turner, the chief executive, launched the first ship to much fanfare in January 2001. The...

This message and the pictures are from a friend of a friend of mine who is a retired Air Force Lt.General. He wrote: I toured this aircraft as it was being "remodeled" in Waco. Yes, the sinks are solid gold and one of them is Lalique crystal. The Sultan bought the aircraft for roughly $100M; had it flown to Waco, brand-new, had the interior completely removed; and had the folks at E-Systems(now Raytheon) install $120M worth of improvements and outside. I've gained entrance to nuclear weapons storage areas much easier than gaining entrance to see this airplane.

WASHINGTON - Retired Gen. Wesley Clark sought the political support of a Muslim group that is under FBI investigation for terror ties, sources told the Daily News. The Democratic presidential candidate's videotaped message was played Dec. 27 in Chicago for the annual conference of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America - a Queens group being probed by the FBI counterterrorism agents, said two federal law enforcement officials. Both groups have held conferences featuring speakers accused of terror ties and have published material supporting suicide bombings against Israel. Clark campaign spokesman Matt Bennett said yesterday they...

A discrete ceremony marked Tuesday the departure of the last American quota of the air base of Prince Sultan with Al-Kharj, some 80 km in the south of Ryad, indicated Western military sources. Nearly 100 members of the American personnel, unit of genius, the civil ones but also of the soldiers, left the base of Prince Sultan, who accomodated the majority of the thousands of American soldiers and allied forces present in the kingdom, added these sources. The vice-commander of the US Air Force in the area, the General Robert Elder chaired the ceremony, specified a person in charge...

General Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan Al-Tikriti Secretary General of the Republican Guard IN CUSTODY new chart to follow...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A con artist who posed as the son of Kuwait's prime minister and a Harvard-educated brain surgeon was charged on Wednesday with bilking two women out of over $65,000 in cash, state prosecutors said. Sultan Ibn Chandler Sabah Al Sabah Dantata, 39, who legally changed his name from Benjamin Maybanks, was accused of conning the women by claiming impeccable credentials and temporary lack of access to his fortune. He allegedly told his girlfriends he was born in the Middle East, a member of Kuwait's royal family, part of the Kuwaiti delegation to the United Nations and...

An Al-Qaïda banker, old countable of two princes saoudiens (lawyer) Friday September 20, 2002 - 3h08 GMT WASHINGTON, 19 seven (AFP) - the preparation of the attacks of September 11 was financed partly by a money bleaching through a network of fictitious companies in Saudi Arabia and in Spain controlled by an ex-accountant of a branch of the royal family saoudienne, affirmed Thursday a lawyer of the close relations of the victims of the attacks. Mohammed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi, a Spaniard of Syrian origin, stopped last April in Spain, is regarded as the "Al-Qaïda Minister of Finance" in Europe,...

Saudi Arabia's community of foreigners is trapped between bombings by Islamic terrorists, police torture and palace feuding For Westerners seeking the good life in a desert kingdom, Saudi Arabia offered easy money, sunshine every day and a whisky-driven illicit party scene where casual sex was taken for granted. 'Are you married or do you work in Saudi Arabia?' was a common joke, echoing the colonial antics of 'Happy Valley' in Kenya. But that is all over now. The Western community is living in fear. It has become the target of a series of bomb attacks, carried out by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists...