The Iranian website Lenziran.com assesses that Khamenei's December 29, 2010 speech, in which he blamed the heads of the protest movement for the 2009 riots, and recent statements by senior members of the Iranian judiciary against the same figures, indicate that the arrest of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi is imminent.
Saif Al-Din Al-Hasami, who heads a Sunni Islamist organization in Lebanon, has said that the March 8 Forces are establishing military cells in Tripoli in order to incite intra-Sunni fitna (civil strife) in the north of the country. He added that Hizbullah is preparing to occupy Tripoli as soon as the international tribunal releases its indictment in the Al-Hariri assassination case, in order to stop the residents of the north from possibly blocking the organization's takeover of Beirut.
Silva Kiir, president of the South Sudan autonomous government, said at a meeting with Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa that an independent state in southern Sudan, if and when it is established, will not have relations with Israel.
Sudan's ruling National Congress Party has threatened that it will not allow the referendum on the Southern Sudan split to take place if the residents of the south act unilaterally to add the oil-rich Abyei region to their future state.
The commander of the general headquarters of Fatah in Lebanon, Munir Al-Maqdah, has said that on December 31, the 46th anniversary of Fatah's founding, there will be a military parade at which "special units of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades" will be presented, at the 'Ain Al-Hilwe refugee camp.
Iranian Ambassador to Syria Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ahmad Moussavi said in Damascus last night that strengthening religious culture would fortify the foundations of resistance culture.
Moussavi made the comment in a meeting with the head of the Iran-Palestine Friendship Association, and some association members.
Source: Arab News, Saudi Arabia, December 30, 2010
Jews flock to Egypt every year to visit the shrine of Abu Hasira
Hundreds of Jews from Israel, Europe, and the United States have begun to flock to the Egyptian Nile Delta to celebrate the festival of Abu Hasira, amid popular protests and legal objections to the violation of a court order that cancelled the marking the Jewish event.
On December 29, 2010, the Al-Qaeda-affiliated media center Global Islamic Media Front and the Dar Al-Jabha publishing house electronically published an English-language book titled The Explosives Course. Links to download the book were posted on jihadi forums such as Shumukh Al-Islam and the Ansar Al-Mujahideen English forum, with jihadist sympathizers also posting links on Facebook.
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The MEMRI Cartoon Initiative was launched in 2005, in the wake of the worldwide violence over the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Cartoon Initiative has so far translated over 10,000 cartoons from the Arabic, Iranian, Turkish, Afghan, Pakistani, and Indian media. To view more cartoons, visit http://www.memri.org/cartoon/en/category.htm.
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