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Monday 19 October 2009 (29 Shawwal 1430)

Slain Al-Qaeda militants planned massive attack
Arab News

 
RIYADH: The two Al-Qaeda militants killed in a recent shootout entered Saudi Arabia illegally from Yemen and were planning to carry out a massive attack, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday. Four...  Full Story 
 
 
Indian Hajis first to arrive in Jeddah
Hamid Al-Sulami I Arab News

 
MAKKAH / JEDDAH: Indian pilgrims will be the first to arrive on Tuesday for this year’s Haj. In all, 160,491 pilgrims from India will perform the annual pilgrimage, said the Consulate General...  Full Story 
 
 
Guides set to receive Haj pilgrims in Madinah
Nadeen Ibrahim I Arab News
MADINAH: Over 3,500 people, including permanent and seasonal employees, will be working under Madinah’s Guides Establishment to welcome Haj pilgrims to the Prophet’s Mosque, said Walid...  Full Story 
 
 
Russian stand on Gaza lauded
Muhammad Humaidan I Arab News
JEDDAH: The director of the Saudi Foreign Ministry’s branch in the Western Region Muhammad Al-Tayyib has commended the Russians for supporting the Goldstone Report on the Israeli military offensive...  Full Story 
Huge blow to Revolutionary Guards in Iran
Jay Deshmukh I AFP
TEHRAN: A man blew himself up at a meeting of the elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran on Sunday, killing seven commanders and at least 35 others in an attack Tehran said was plotted on...  Full Story 
 
 
Taleban put up strong resistance against govt push
Agencies

 
PESHAWAR: Pakistan pounded Taleban bases from the air and bore down on their leader’s hometown Sunday, intensifying a major offensive against the militants and claiming to have killed 60 of them. More...  Full Story 
 
 
Editorial: Controlling pollution
19 October 2009
The witty underwater Cabinet submergence of Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed and his government officials could draw renewed attention to his island nation which lies just over three feet above...  Full Story 
 
 
PA on a slippery slope
Uri Avnery I avnery@actcom.co.il
IT is, of course, all the fault of Judge Richard Goldstone. He is to blame for the trouble we are having at the UN, both in New York and in Geneva. Now he is to blame also for the existential danger...  Full Story 

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