January 5, 2010 | Posted in: world | Comments: 0

Book, Iran sojourn shed light on bin Laden family (AP)

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2008 file photo shows Omar bin Laden during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt. Two weeks ago, Omar, the son of Osama bin Laden, revealed that many of the children who had been with their father in Afghanistan escaped to Iran following the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, and were still together in a walled compound under Iranian guard. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)AP – With a book written by one of Osama bin Laden’s sons, and with news of a daughter sheltering in the Saudi Embassy in Iran, some of the blanks are being filled in on the life of the 9/11 mastermind’s large family, including lurid details of his parenting style.


January 2, 2010

Iran warns West it will make its own nuclear fuel (AP)

FILE - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, in this Dec. 21, 2009 file photo. Mottaki told state TV on Saturday the West must 'make a decision' whether to accept the Iranian counterproposal to either sell Tehran the fuel or swap it for Iran's enriched uranium. Mottaki says this is an 'ultimatum.' (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)AP – Iran set a one-month deadline Saturday for the West to accept its counterproposal to a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan and warned that otherwise it will produce reactor fuel at a higher level of enrichment on its own.


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January 2, 2010

Late cleric’s son warns of more Iran turmoil: report (Reuters)

VIDEO: Iran urges supporters onto the streets. Originally filed: 301209. Duration: 00:30. Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has said he is ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign to have the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad overturned.(AFPTV/IRINN)Reuters – Iran’s rulers must compromise with opposition figures to avoid a worsening of the political turmoil, the son of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said in comments released on Saturday.


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