Egyptian Cleric Sa'd Arafat: If Women are Harassed Even when Wearing the Niqab or Hijab, It May be Because They Should Not be Outside the House at All

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In response to a series of belligerent statements and speeches by Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah about the international tribunal for the Al-Hariri assassination, Khaled Aal Humail, a columnist for the Saudi daily Al-Watan, wrote that Nasrallah himself should be brought to trial before an international court for taking over Beirut in May 2008. Conversely, Aal Humail praised the Syrian regime for its restraint and responsibility in its dealings with the international tribunal.

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Contrary to last week's announcement that Iraq and Kuwait had reached a preliminary agreement for sharing the oil in their joint fields, a source in Kuwait told the daily al-Hayat that there were technical, security and political complications that would impede the implementation of such agreement.

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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed responsibility for the attack on an army base in Nema, in eastern Mauritania, on the night of August 24, 2010. The communiqué, which was posted on jihadist websites, said that the attack was carried out in revenge for the "blood of the betrayed martyrs whom the tyrant [Mauritanian President] Ould Abdel Aziz offered up as a sacrifice to Sarkozy." The reference is to a joint Franco-Mauritanian raid against AQIM in July, in the wake of which the organization executed the French hostage Michel Germaneau.

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The United States has arranged for the employment in various countries of 140 Iraqi experts in the field of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), in an attempt to prevent their employment by countries engaged in WMD programs.