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According to palestinian sources in Egypt, Israel has agreed to free all 450 of the prisoners demanded by Hamas in exchange for Gilad Shalit, and the dispute now revolves around Israel’s insistence that some of these prisoners be exiled abroad.
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12:43PM: The Iranians have long claimed their nuclear program is merely for “civil” purposes.
Which makes this statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rather revealing.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Iran’s presence in the space and its nuclearization are all because of the superpowers’ bad-temperedness.
“Had you not been bad-tempered and not blocked the way, the Iranian nation would not have been present in the space and not nuclearized,” President Ahmadinejad said in an address to a ceremony, held for inauguration of South Pars gas field’s phases IX and X in Assalouyeh in southern Boushehr Province.
9:37AM: Earlier this hour, palestinians fired a Qassam into the western Negev.
8:44AM: Anti-Semitic Islamic cleric of the day: Watch Dr. Zakir Naik field a question about Jews from a young Muslim Justin Timberlake lookalike.
(if video does not work, you can watch it here)
5:50AM: IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi is to meet with top American military commanders in Washington this weekend, with Iran featuring prominently on the agenda.
