Tartous Citizens Voice Support to Reform

Aug 15, 2011

http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/08/15/364103.htm

Hundreds of thousands of citizens poured into the streets in a mass rally on in Tartous Sea Corniche to express adherence to national unity and preserving the security and stability of Syria and support to the comprehensive reform program led by President Bashar al-Assad.

They also voiced rejection of foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs.

The participants gathered from the city and countryside of Tartous, Baniyas, Safita, Dreikish, Sheikh Badr, Kadmous and the villages along the coastline.

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Global Demand for U.S. Assets Fell in June

Aug 15, 2011 9:53 AM ET

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-1 ... -june.html

Net buying of long-term equities, notes and bonds totaled $3.7 billion during the month compared with net buying of $24.2 billion in May

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Aug 15, 1:25 PM EDT

ECB in record $32 billion bond buying spree

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ ... 5-13-25-43

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Aug 15, 12:20 PM EDT

AP: Somalia famine aid stolen; UN investigating

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ ... 5-12-20-05

U.N.'s World Food Program for the first time acknowledged it has been investigating food theft in Somalia for two months.

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http://theunjustmedia.com/

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AMISOM Casualties Increase as Mujahideen Conclude First Phase of Operations in Mogadishu

After more than a week since the Mujahideen declared a change in military tactics in Mogadishu’s frontline, the first phase of their operations has concluded effectively.

Mogadishu (14/08/2011). During this time, the Mujahideen have been luring the TFG & AMISOM forces and staging a series of carefully coordinated attacks that resulted in a high number of casualties among the ranks of the Ugandan and Burundian forces in Mogadishu.

This change in military tactics, as well as the increased mobility of the Mujahideen's forces in all of Mogadishu’s districts, will provide them with the ability to inflict maximum damage to the frustrated AMISOM & TFG troops whilst greatly minimizing the losses on the side of the Mujahideen.

On their part, the Mujahideen vow to continue and intensify their Jihad against the invading enemy at all cost and fully reaffirm that Somalia will not be governed according to the whims and desires of the western nations and their puppet regimes but only according the Islamic Shari’ah.

TFG = puppet Transitional Federal Government

AMISOM = African Union Mission to Somalia

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Aug 15, 12:42 PM EDT

AP Enterprise: Cheating scandal hits US submarine

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 5-12-42-39

former officers say the shortcuts exposed by the scandal are hardly unique to a single vessel.

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Cameron heckled as divided Britain debates riots

WITNEY | Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:45pm BST

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/08/1 ... 7N20110815

"He is blaming everyone but himself," said Jake Parkinson, 17, unemployed. "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. I'd love to go to university, but it's the money that is putting me off."

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17 Afghan-NATO cowards killed, 14 hurt in Paktika battle; 5 tanks eliminated

Monday, 15 August 2011 12:28

http://alemara1.com/english/index.php?o ... s&Itemid=2

three vehicles and two tanks

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Aug 15, 6:22 PM EDT

A golden decade for defense companies is ending

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 5-18-22-37

In 2001, revenues for U.S.[Superpower]-based defense [war] contractors totaled $217 billion

By 2010 revenues had grown to $386 billion.

Profits grew more than twice as fast over the same time period, from $6.7 billion to $24.8 billion.

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Dozens of Russian invader terrorists killed or wounded in ambush attack in Ingushetia

Publication time: 15 August 2011, 23:28

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content ... 4967.shtml

Mujahideen ambushed a convoy of Russian invader terrorists, consisting of Kadyrov's minions from "Vostok" gang, which is part of the gang "Russian interior ministry troops", near the village Dattyh in Sunzha district of the CE [Caucasus Emirate] Province of Ingushetia, near the border with the CE [Caucasus Emirate] Province of Chechnya.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cauca ... irate2.PNG