DDMA Headline Animator

Monday, April 12, 2010

Iran boxers bag 3 medals in Turkey

Iranian boxing squad has earned one silver and two bronze medals at the Turkish Prime Ministry Tournament which was held in Ankara.

Iran's heavyweight boxer Mehdi Qorbani won the silver medal after he was defeated by his Russian opponent in the +91kg category final on Sunday.

Qorbani had reached the final game of the event by beating his Macedonian rival 4-1 at the Ataturk Sports Hall on Saturday night.

Two other Iranian boxers, Mehdi Mazaheri (-91kg) and Omran Karami (-54kg) got home bronze medals on the same day.

A total of 400 athletes from 34 countries participated in the six-day April 6-12 international Turkish Prime Ministry Tournament.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123078§ionid=3510211.

Golden day for Iran's Taekwondo

Iranian taekwondo squad Qavamin has won three gold and four bronze medals to take outright first place in the international taekwondo competitions held in Brussels.

Iran's taekwondo practitioner Reza Naderian from Qavamin team managed to defeat his competitors from the Netherlands, Australia, Denmark, Poland and Belgium to win the golden honor.

UK's national squad earned two gold and four bronze medals to stand in the second place.

Denmark landed third by achieving a gold and a silver medal.

The 31st Belgian Open Taekwondo Championship was held in Brussels from 10 April to 11 April, 2010.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123079§ionid=3510211.

Iran to replace Persian Gulf radar

Iranian scientists are planning to develop domestic radars to replace a series of aging Russian-made systems currently deployed in the Persian Gulf.

"The systems will be designed and installed chiefly for defense purposes," said Vice President for Science and Technology, Nasrin Soltankhah, in an interview with Fars News Agency on Saturday.

She added that the new radar systems will also feature capabilities to provide meteorological data for weather forecasting and analysis.

This comes only a day after Iran announced that the country's first indigenous air defense system, dubbed Mersad (Ambush), is ready to become operational.

Equipped with sophisticated radar signal processing technology, Mersad features cutting-edge technology to "destroy modern aircraft at low and medium ranges" and contains exclusive electronic equipment for guidance and target acquisition.

According to Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, Mersad features capabilities that are superior to those in the US-made Hawk missile, which Tehran purchased in the 1970s.

The country has already begun mass-producing the new medium-range missile and plans to deliver a sizable number to the armed forces by the end of the year.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123083§ionid=3510208.

Theunjustmedia Interview with a commander of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Kandahar Tahir Afghan

Sunday April 11, 2010

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Theunjustmedia.com: We are now hearing from the invaders forces that they are going to be launching an operation in Kandahar, just as they had launched one in Marjah, how do you see this move of the invaders forces.

commander Tahir Afghan: In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon all his family and companions.

Alhumduillaah (All praises belong to Allaah), the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mujahideen have a strong base in Kandahar province, groups of Mujahideen have been disperse in all the districts of Kandahar, specially a strong contingent of Mujahideen have been assigned to the city of Kandahar. The puppet administration plays no role in Kandahar, except sitting in their fortified administrative buildings, while the Mujahideen are freely move in Kandahar.

When we first head from American and NATO forces commander General Stanley McChrystal that they will soon be launching an operation in Kandahar, in response to this news the Mujahideen launched a major operation in Kandahar city, in which the puppets and invaders administration buildings where attacked, this attack was launched to send a clear warning to the invaders that the Mujahideen are ready to face any type of operation launched by the invaders and their puppets; because the help of Allaah (SWT) is with them.

If you remember in 2009, the Mujahideen took control of many areas in Kandahar, which were under the control of the invaders and their puppets, the enemy launched many operations to retake those areas but they failed, with the passing of time Mujahideen hold on Kandahar expanded and fortified.

On the other hand, the world as witnessed the heavy physicals and materials losses which the Mujahideen have inflicted on the invaders in Kandahar, which has forced some of the invading countries to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan, an example of this is Canada, which has indicated that it will be withdrawing its forces in 2011, this is a major accomplishment of the Mujahideen who’s ferociousness have forced the invaders to withdrawn, it is not out of their own whims.

The indication by General McChrystal that they will soon launch a same type of operation as they have lunched one in Marjah is just a propaganda of the invaders to divert peoples attention from their failures in Marjah, because they have not accomplished anything in Marjah, the flag waving drama which was stage by the invaders to dupe people that they have taking controlling of Marjah, however the reality is that the Mujahideen are in control of Marjah, and to prove this to the world the Mujahideen had invited journalists to come and see for themselves to who really is in control of Marjah, but to hide this truth from the world the invaders have blocked journalists from entering Marjah, only those journalists are allowed by the invaders who are on their payroll.

Theunjustmedia: We repeatedly hear from the invaders that the Mujahideen are involved in the opium trade.

Commander Tahir Afghan: Not to long ago the Americans permitted the local farms to grow poppy in their fields, to which Russia protested, because a lot of the Afghanistan opium, which is growing under the watchful eyes’ of the invaders is making its way to Russia. In this regards a complain was launched by the Russians to the NATO about the acceleration in the growth of Afghan opium since the invasion of Afghanistan, the invaders response to the Russian complain was that, if they stop the farmers from growing poppy as this was their only means to provide for their families would create a backlash against the invading forces.

This is an absurd logic giving by America and NATO, to this I ask, does not the cowardly bombardment of the invaders in which thousands of innocent lives have vanished, hundreds and hundreds of villages have disappeared, the daily raids on peoples homes in which invading soldiers have disrespected our mother's, wife's and daughter's, bombing Afghans homes with depleted uranium from which our future generation and land have be contaminated, doesn't all this create backlash for the invaders?.

The reality is that, that the invaders are producing and exporting opium, we have obtain information from our Mujahideen who have infiltrated enemy ranks and translators who are working with the invaders, that when the American invading soldiers are leaving from Afghanistan, they are taking opium in their suit cases, and the world also knows about Ahmed Wali Karzai who is the brother of the puppet president Karzai, that he is a key member of the world drug mafia, which is run by the CIA, these are the realities of the opium trade in Afghanistan, the Mujahideen are not involved in the drug trade, that is invaders propaganda.

To refresh peoples memory, during the Taliban administration the opium trade was completely prohibit, and now under the puppet Karzai and his American bosses Afghanistan is producing 90% of the world opium, so thus, it is crystal clear who are the real beneficiaries of the Afghanistan opium trade.

Theunjustmedia: So, if the Mujahideen are not involved in the drug trade, where are they getting the money to fight the invaders.

Commander Tahir Afghan: As you know the Mujahideen who are fighting the invader are Afghans, for example the Mujahideen who are fighting the invaders in Helmand are from Helmand and the Mujahideen who are fighting the invaders in Zabul are from Zabul, which means that these Mujahideen come out of their homes and launch operations against the invaders and then return home, the Mujahideen have adapted a guerrilla war tactics which means hit and run, thus the Mujahideen do not need a lot of money to continue their Jihad against the invaders and their puppets.

Theunjustmedia: Where are you getting your weapons’, we keep hearing that the Iran and China are providing you weapons.

Commander Tahir Afghan: Lets go back in history when the USSR invaded Afghanistan, at that time USSR brought so much weapons into Afghanistan, during that time the Mujahideen during fighting booty large stocks of weapons, plus when the USSR where kick out of Afghanistan by the Mujahideen they left behind very large stocks of their weapons, which included rockets, rocket launchers, Kalashnikovs, Sakeel guns, anti-air craft guns, bullets, landmines and tanks, also in the last nine years of the current invasion, the Mujahideen have booty many invaders and their puppets weapons, like tanks, rockets, military vehicles, small and large guns.

In today’s fighting in Afghanistan, the main weapon of the Mujahideen is the Improvise explosive device (IED), which has inflicting the most losses to the ranks of the invaders, and these IED's are being manufactured in Afghanistan by the Mujahideen themselves.

Recently, the Mujahideen have made a new IED called Omar which is remotely detonated, this IED has few specialties, on one hand its manufacturing cost is very minimal, while on the other hand it is very destructive, the manufacturing cost of this landmine is only US $100, but it can destroy the invaders million dollar worth military vehicle and one more specialty of this IED is that, the invaders IED detecting vehicles and equipment can not detect this IED, so the allegation against the Mujahideen that they are getting help from Iran or China is a mere propaganda, with a hidden agenda.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan invites journalists to come and see for themselves the weapons which the Emirate Mujahideen are using to fight the invaders and their puppets, this way the fraud of the fraudster can be exposed and the truth can manifest it self.

Theunjustmedia: Thanks for speaking with us.

Commander Tahir Afghan: No problem, May Allaah (SWT) help you in your propagation of the truth.

Source: Theunjustmedia.
Link: http://theunjustmedia.com/Afghanistan/Statements/April10/Theunjustmedia%20Interview%20with%20Tahir%20Afghan,%20a%20commander%20of%20the%20Islamic%20Emirate%20of%20Afghanistan%20in%20Kandahar.htm.

Palestinians face more ethnic cleansing

The Israeli military has issued a new ruling that would allow the mass deportation of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.

According to the Israeli media, the new order considers anyone caught in the West Bank who does not hold an Israeli permit to enter and reside in the area as an "infiltrator."

The order, which is due to come into effect on Tuesday, would automatically turn tens of thousands of Palestinians into criminal offenders liable to be severely punished.

They could face seven years in prison and would also have to pay the cost of their expulsion from the West Bank — most probably to the Gaza Strip.

The first Palestinians likely to be targeted under the new ruling would be those whose ID cards bear home addresses in the Gaza Strip. Also likely to be targeted are foreign-born spouses of Palestinians.

Israeli media outlets have reported that the generality and ambiguity of the ruling's language may give it a status to be also applied to Palestinian residents of Jerusalem al-Quds.

In addition, the new order puts those found guilty under the sole jurisdiction of Israeli military courts.

Meanwhile, 10 Israeli human rights groups have called on Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to rescind the new ruling.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123067§ionid=351020202.

6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Spain

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck the southern ancient city of Granada in Spain, the US Geological Survey says.

The quake hit about eight minutes after midnight on Monday (22:08 GMT Sunday) some 24 kilometers (14 miles) southeast of Granada and about 370 kilometers (230 miles) south of the Spanish capital, Madrid.

It had a recorded depth of 616 kilometers (nearly 400 miles) which means little damage is likely.

No loss of life or property has so far been reported.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123068§ionid=351020606.

Yemen not after US 'hit list man'

Yemen has said it will not hunt down a US-born religious leader who has reportedly been added to the CIA's list of targets to be killed or captured.

Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, the Yemeni foreign minister, said on Saturday that his country did not receive any evidence from the US to support allegations that Anwar al-Awlaki is recruiting for al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen.

"Anwar al-Awlaki has always been looked at as a preacher rather than a terrorist and shouldn't be considered as a terrorist unless the Americans have evidence that he has been involved in terrorism," al-Qirbi said.

His announcement came after a powerful Yemeni tribe threatened to use violence against anyone trying to harm al-Awlaki.

Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, is beset by serious political and administrative problems.

Tribal threat

In an official statement published on Saturday after a meeting of tribal leaders, the Al-Awalik tribe, which is active in the Abyan and Shabwa regions that are important al-Qaeda strongholds, said it would "not remain with arms crossed if a hair of Anwar al-Awlaqi is touched, or if anyone plots or spies against him".

Source: Al-Jazeera.
Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/04/201041115554428358.html.