Accusing the institution of being the “artery that feeds the Satanic alliance with life via oil money”, an Al-Qaida-linked extremist group attacks the Iraqi central bank, and further destabilizes Iraq’s road to economic growth:
- Al-Qaida in Iraq Claims Deadly Central Bank Attack (Washington Post)
“‘I’m cool with all their fighting terrorism and all that … more power to them,'” the Virginia native “said in American-accented English,… ‘[but my] home is America and I don’t know why I can’t go back there'”:
- Virginia Man Has Been Stuck in Limbo in Egypt for 6 Weeks After He Appeared on U.S. No-Fly List (Los Angeles Times)
The Iranian president accuses the U.S. and Israel of being enemies of Saudi Arabia and Iran, days after Riyadh publicly denied a report in the New York Times claiming it promised Israel access to its airspace:
Ignorant of the fact that Palestinians believe in David (pbuh) and the torah, and that many support a two-state solution, Sen. Chuck Schumer, in what Prof. Mark LeVine calls “among the most ethnically and religiously bigoted and even inciteful public remarks by a senior American politician” wants “to strangle them economically”:
- The Meaning of Strangulation (Al-Jazeera)
“Under the proposal, Israel would close all of its land crossings into Gaza, leaving the blockaded enclave completely dependent on Egypt for the movement of people and goods”:
- Egypt: Israel Wants to ‘Dump’ Gaza on Us (Haaretz)
A Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project survey finds “widespread concern that the United States remained a go-it-alone nation even under the new administration”:
- Muslims Around the World Less Approving of Obama (Los Angeles Times)