us drones and israel

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/231562.html At least 30 people have been killed and a dozen injured in an attack by US assassination drones in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.


The unmanned aircraft fired several missiles at al-Shabab positions in the Dayniile district of south Mogadishu on Tuesday. 

Sheik Ibrahim Jaabar, a senior al-Shabab official, confirmed the attack, saying the aerial strike caused major damage to the group’s positions. 

Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. 

The weak Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab fighters for the past five years and is propped up by a 10,000-strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi, and Djibouti.

File photo shows the wreckage of a US drone crashed in Somalia Wed Mar 7, 2012 7:18PM GMT

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UN Chief urges Libya to address human rights violations

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says a new report, released by an international expert panel, provides strong basis for Libyan authorities to address the human rights violations committed during last year’s uprising and ouster of Muammar Gaddafi. The panel concludes that both Gaddafi and anti-Gaddafi forces were responsible for crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The report also indicates that NATO did not deliberately target civilians in its bombing campaign in Libya.

Israelis warned against travel to Turkey over terror threat

Israel's counterterrorism office has warned Israeli citizens against traveling to Turkey, saying that“terror groups are planning to carry out attacks against Jewish and Israeli sites inside Turkey in the coming days.” Last week, Mossad reportedly warned Turkey that Israeli diplomatic missions in the country could be the target of attack. Turkish daily Hurriyet reported that four individuals had already "entered Turkey from Iran" with the materials to carry out attacks. Last month, Israel warned of an imminent attack in Thailand just before suspected Iranian agents wounded an Israeli in a bombing in Bangkok

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Egypt calls Israel its number one enemy, saying it will “revise all its relations and agreements” with Tel Aviv. In a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, Egyptian MPs have voted to expel Israel's Ambassador in Cairo, and to halt gas exports.

"Egypt will never be the friend, partner or ally of the Zionist entity [Israel] which we consider as the first enemy of Egypt and the Arab nation," reads the text of a report prepared by the Arab Affairs Committee of the People's Assembly,  the lower house of Egyptian parliament.  

The resolution was passed on Monday night with the majority of the country's Islamist-dominated 508-seat chamber voting in favor of halting of gas exports in protest against Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

Egyptian MPs also called on the government “to revise all its relations and agreements with that enemy,” referring to Israel. 

According to the approved text, MPs suggest the expulsion of Israel's Ambassador to Egypt and a recall of the Egyptian Ambassador from Tel Aviv. 

Monday’s vote is said to serve as an indication of how relations between two countries may wrap up next.

There has been no official comment from Israel on the vote so far.

The vote is seen as largely symbolic as only the ruling Military Council, the country’s current government, can make such decisions.

Egypt became the first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, after intense negotiation. However, since Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year and the new government came to power, the treaty became one of its concerns. Egypt’s new parliament, in which half of the seats are controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, has several times threatened to cancel the agreement.

Former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Zvi Mazel has told RT that something is wrong in the parliament, if MPs from “a great country like Egypt” approve such statements. 

“Israel is a friend of Egypt. We did nothing wrong to Egypt since the peace treaty was signed,” Mazel said. 

The only reason for such statements, Mazel says, is “fanaticism and hatred.”“There is no other explanation to such a statement,” he said. “It is nonsense.”

Meanwhile, Egypt has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and the insurgent groups based in Gaza. It went into effect during the early hours on Tuesday.

But despite that, there were reports of continued shelling of Israel and retaliatory air strikes on the Gaza Strip.

During four days of violence, 25 Palestinians were killed and 200 rockets were fired at Israel. Twenty of those killed were militants and the other five civilians, according to medical officials. At least 80 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were reported wounded.

Egypt had earlier condemned Israel's attacks.

"We are against the Israeli attacks on Gaza, as they violate the settled cease-fire between the parties," said Egyptian Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman on March 10.

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Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:35AM GMT

“The Western forces in Afghanistan have long outlived their usefulness, if there ever was any, and it is time to go and not wait until 2014”
British MP Jeremy Corbyn

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of the consequences of the withdrawal, as has been promised, of the occupying forces from Afghanistan in 2014, saying the potential move would leave the war-ravaged nation short of a future ‘perfect democracy.’

Heading to Washington for talks with the US president, Cameron acknowledged that both in Britain and the US “people want an endgame” in Afghanistan.

“They want to know that our troops are going to come home, they have been there a very long time,” said Cameron.

“I accept it won't be a perfect democracy. There will be huge development problems,” he added describing the situation in Afghanistan as he claimed that the occupying forces would be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014

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