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SPECIAL REPORT: Should We Be Ashamed Of the Crusades (Pt. II)

Catholic Online–Middle East - 0 sec ago

Jerrilyn Szelle Holladay treats the harassment of Pilgrims and the Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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Al Qaeda: Christians Leave Iraq or Have Throats Slit

Catholic Online–Middle East - 0 sec ago

“There’ll be no room in Iraq for the Christian infidels from now on.”

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Full Text from Ayman al-Zawahri

Catholic Online–Middle East - 0 sec ago

"America, the criminal, trespassing Crusader, continues to be the same as ever, so we must continue to ...

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Israeli leaders make secret journey to Jordan (AP)

Yahoo/Mideast - 41 min 54 sec ago

AP - Israeli leaders made a secret journey to neighboring Jordan earlier this week, listening to pleas from King Abdullah II to avert a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Jordan officials confirmed Thursday.

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Oil price hovers at $50 a barrel

BBC News Middle East - 1 hour 29 min ago

Oil prices are hovering around $50 a barrel amid growing fears over a global recession and lower demand for oil.

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Hebron settlers desecrate mosque

BBC News Middle East - 1 hour 36 min ago

Jewish settlers protesting against an eviction order in Hebron spray an insult to the Prophet Muhammad on a mosque wall.

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Jackson to appear at High Court

BBC News Middle East - 1 hour 58 min ago

Singer Michael Jackson is to give evidence at London's High Court to counter allegations that he breached a music contract.

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Crisis meeting over Somali piracy

BBC News Middle East - 1 hour 58 min ago

A spate of pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia prompts an emergency meeting between nations bordering the Red Sea.

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Peace plan adverts target Israelis

Al Jazeera English - 2 hours 9 min ago

Palestinian president promotes Arab initiative in four Hebrew-language newspapers.

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Settlers spray inflammatory graffiti on mosque (AP)

Yahoo/Mideast - 2 hours 12 min ago

AP - Jewish settlers on Thursday spray-painted graffiti on a mosque slurring the Prophet Muhammad and defaced a Muslim cemetery, Israeli military officials said, threatening to worsen tensions in this volatile West Bank city.

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Yemen 'faces crisis as oil ends'

BBC News Middle East - 2 hours 20 min ago

Yemen faces economic and political turmoil as its oil runs out, with security implications for the whole region, a report says.

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Arab plan explained in Hebrew ads

BBC News Middle East - 3 hours 22 min ago

The Palestinian Authority has placed a full-page advert in Israel's Hebrew newspapers to promote an Arab peace plan.

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Despair and anger

BBC News Middle East - 3 hours 35 min ago

Gazans report worst ever living conditions

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Polls show Israel's Likud party leading (AP)

Yahoo/Mideast - 3 hours 47 min ago

AP - A pair of polls published Thursday showed opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline Likud party leading Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's moderate Kadima party in the run-up to Israel's Feb. 10 elections.

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Palestinians advertise peace plan in Israeli press (Reuters)

Yahoo/Mideast - 4 hours 19 min ago

An Israeli girl waits for her turn (L) as Palestinian girls participate in a 'Hand in Hand' basketball practice in Jerusalem November 6, 2008. (Eliana Aponte/Reuters)Reuters - The PLO took the unprecedented step of placing advertisements in Israeli newspapers on Thursday to promote a six-year-old Arab peace plan for the region.


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Gazans cook on wood fires because of power cuts (AP)

Yahoo/Mideast - 5 hours 53 min ago

AP - While an Israeli cutoff in fuel shipments has closed down a dozen of his competitors, baker Khalil Awad stays in business thanks to a little creativity and dirty black oil drained from car engines. The cutoff in fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip's sole power plant started a week ago in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.

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Explosion kills Hamas man in Gaza (Reuters)

Yahoo/Mideast - November 20, 2008 - 12:28am

An Israeli border police officer stands guard during a protest by left-wing activists in Tel Aviv calling for an end to cross-border violence November 18, 2008. (Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)Reuters - An explosion in the Gaza Strip killed a member of the Hamas Islamist group on Thursday, hospital staff and witnesses said.


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Al Qaeda Coldly Acknowledges Obama Victory

New York Times - November 20, 2008 - 12:22am

Al Qaeda’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, sought to dampen enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s election by saying that the “new face” of America only masked a “heart full of hate.”

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Holy Land excavation digs into Mideast rifts (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - November 19, 2008 - 11:28pm

Tourists are seen visiting the ancient hilltop fortress of Masada in the Judean desert. Sprawled across a hemispherical mound where the Judaean Hills meet the desert, ancient Herodium lies deep inside the occupied West Bank but has borne up a treasure trove of finds for Israeli archaeologists.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)AFP - Sprawled across a hemispherical mound where the Judaean Hills meet the desert, ancient Herodium lies deep inside the occupied West Bank but has borne up a treasure trove of finds for Israeli archaeologists.


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Israeli leaders make secret visit to Jordan: report (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - November 19, 2008 - 11:08pm

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (right) listens to Minister of Finance Roni Bar-On speak during a special cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Olmert and Defence Minister Ehud Barak made a secret visit to Jordan and met with King Abdullah II, Israeli public radio reported(AFP/Pool/Kevin Frayer)AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Ehud Barak made a secret visit to Jordan and met with King Abdullah II, Israeli public radio reported on Thursday.


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November 20 2008

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