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  • Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list

    Ireland continues to suffer from its false implication in the high profile assassination of a militant in Dubai more than three years ago. Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh was on a visit to the UAE on his way to China from Damascus. Twenty seven suspects were named by Dubai Police and it soon became apparent most of them were carrying passports belonging to citizens of other countries. ...

  • Hezbollah leader vows victory in Syria

    The leader of the Lebanese Shia militant Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, has promised his supporters of victory in Syria, where they are backing President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian rebels in the besieged town of Qusair say they are under heavy bombardment from Hezbollah combatants. Qusair is important for the Syrian government because it links the capital, Damascus, with the Alawite ...

  • Hezbollah Chief Confirms Syria Presence

    The chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday Hezbollah was fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists. It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah's fighting presence in Syria. The ...

  • Bondholders join forces in bid to oust Dankner

    IDBH ) bondholders has turned its back on Nochi Dankner, and has withdrawn from the outline arrangement formulated with Argentinian businessman Eduardo Elsztain, in favor of joining forces with the representatives of the IDB Development bondholders. The implication is that Dankner will lose control of IDB. After long discussions, on Friday morning the IDB Development bondholder representatives, ...

  • Isolated West Bank Settlements Should be Evacuated-Israeli Minister

    Occupied Jerusalem,May 26 (BNA) - The Israeli Social Welfare Minister Meir Cohen said Saturday that isolated Jewish settlements in the West Bank should be evacuated. "There is no doubt that the settlements should be dismantled right now without waiting for negotiations," the minister said at a cultural gathering in Holon, a city near Tel Aviv. "These settlements cost us a lot ...

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Salesman [DVD]

Salesman [DVD]

What is it about salesmen that bring to mind failure? From Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman to David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, dramas on page, stage, and screen have consistently cast salesmen in the role of the tragic loser--the fundamental prototype of the failed American dream. Maybe it is because it is their job to peddle the wares of the American dream--those desirable ma ... ...

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  • 2 rockets slam into Beirut stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah group wounding 3

    A Lebanese army officer investigates part of a rocket which struck a car exhibit on a street at the Mar Mikhael district, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday May 26, 2013. Rockets slammed Sunday into two Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding at least 4 people, Lebanese security officials and media said. Tensions have been running high in Lebanon, and ...

  • Better Place to be liquidated

    Better Place , notified the TASE today that it has decided not to invest the venture's upcoming financing round because no investors were found to share in the large investment needed. Better Place will shortly submit a motion for liquidation with the court. Market sources estimated recently that Better Place would need at least another four years, and investment of another $500 million, to ...

  • Rockets hit Hezbollah Beirut heartland

    Four people were wounded on Sunday when tworockets exploded in the Shiite-majority Hezbollah heartland of south Beirut, aLebanese security source ...

  • Hezbollah chief vows to stand by Syrian regime in fight against rebels

    "The battle is ours, and I promise you victory," Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in televised remarks Saturday. Nasrallah is committing his followers to a battle in Syria to salvage the rule of President Bashar Assad. BEIRUT - The leader of the militant group Hezbollah on Saturday aligned his powerful movement squarely behind the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and ...

  • Israel will have only nuclear weapons left

    Only two days after Obama announced the budget cuts, Israeli Finance Minister said at a government meeting that the economic difficulties in the U.S. concerned Israel and expressed hope that they would not suffer from the cuts. The U.S.-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, a powerful pro-Israel lobbying organization, at its annual conference in Washington intends to seek preservation of military ...

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