Big Brother Brown: The Terrible Price We Are Paying for Muslim Immigration. Not Even Hitler Had This Amount of Control
THE TELEGRAPH: The travel plans and personal details of every holidaymaker, business traveller and day-tripper who leaves Britain are to be tracked by the Government, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Anyone departing the UK by land, sea or air will have their trip recorded and stored on a database for a decade.

Passengers leaving every international sea port, station or airport will have to supply detailed personal information as well as their travel plans. So-called "booze crusiers" who cross the Channel for a couple of hours to stock up on wine, beer and cigarettes will be subject to the rules.

In addition, weekend sailors and sea fishermen will be caught by the system if they plan to travel to another country - or face the possibility of criminal prosecution.

The owners of light aircraft will also be brought under the system, known as e-borders, which will eventually track 250 million journeys annually.

Even swimmers attempting to cross the Channel and their support teams will be subject to the rules which will require the provision of travellers' personal information such as passport and credit card details, home and email addresses and exact travel plans. >>> By David Millward, Transport Editor | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Obama Talks to Indonesia, Saudi Leaders on Economy
THE WASHINGTON POST: WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama discussed the global economic crisis with his Indonesian counterpart on Friday and explained his commitment to forging better relations with the Islamic world, the White House said.

The U.S. president also discussed the economic crisis and the upcoming Group of 20 summit of developed and developing nations in phone calls with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines, the White House said in a statement.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono, Obama spoke of the need for close cooperation in confronting the economic crisis, it said.

"They agreed to advance our comprehensive partnership with a focus on issues, including education, health care, climate change and counterterrorism," the statement said.

"The two leaders also discussed regional and international issues, including the president's commitment to a new and different kind of relationship with Islamic communities around the world," it said. "They also discussed how to make progress on democracy and human rights in Burma."

Obama spent part of his childhood in Jakarta and attended school there. After a previous conversation, Yudhoyono told a local newspaper that Obama had greeted him in Indonesian. >>> Reuters | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Lebanon Journalist UK Entry Veto
BBC: A Lebanese journalist with links to militant group Hezbollah has been barred from entering Britain.

Ibrahim Moussawi was due to speak at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, but the home secretary has ruled he should be denied a visa.

Mr Moussawi is editor of the Al-Intiqad newspaper, linked to Hezbollah, and a former head of the group's TV station.

The Tories, who called for him to be banned, said he was a "known extremist" who had made anti-Semitic remarks.

The Home Office said it would not comment on individual cases.

Denial

Mr Moussawi had been invited to speak at the School of Oriental and African Studies on 25 March as part of a course on political Islam.

Billed as an "expert on Hezbollah and Islamist political theory," the university said he planned to discuss Hezbollah's "history, strategy and ideology" and "current politics and prospects".

He is currently the editor of Lebanese weekly newspaper Al-Intiqad and formerly worked as head of foreign news at Hezbollah's official television channel, Al-Manar, which has been criticised for its allegedly anti-Semitic output.

Mr Moussawi, who was barred from Ireland in 2007, has denied making any inflammatory or anti-Semitic comments. >>> | Friday, March 13, 2009

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President Defends Islamic Law
NEWS 24: Kampala - Somalia's President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Friday defended plans to implement Islamic law in his war-wracked country, saying it was aimed at appeasing militants opposed to his government.

"The purpose of this decision is to ensure that he who claims that he is fighting to have sharia no longer has a reason to fight," he told reporters in the Ugandan capital, where he met President Yoweri Museveni.

"Sharia does not allow for blood to be shed for political reasons. So that door is closed."

Hardline Islamist militia fighting the government have insisted on implementation of Islamic law, or sharia, which they have imposed in areas under their control.

The Somali cabinet on Tuesday agreed to introduce Islamic law which is to presented to parliament for approval.

"Sharia is something that everyone is Somalia believes in and lives by," Ahmed said. "And it has been in existence not only for years, but especially in recent years in Somalia it has been in practice." >>> AFP | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Activists Accuse Russia of Mistreating Muslims
ASSOCIATED PRESS: MOSCOW — Two activists accused Russia's government on Friday of encouraging prosecutors to target Muslims on trumped up charges of terrorism and extremism, and said the abuse could lead to anti-government unrest.

Sergei Komkov, president of the non-governmental All-Russian Education Fund, asserted the Kremlin was trying to pin social ills on innocent Muslims and warned it could backfire against President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

"There threatens to be a powerful explosion of public discontent in the next three or four years that could, if not stopped, lead to a change in the political leadership," Komkov told a news conference attended by prominent rights activists.

Komkov said authorities in Russia's southern regions are increasingly convicting observant Muslims on trumped up charges of terrorism and extremism, in an effort to satisfy what he claimed were quotas from the central government. >>> By David Nowak | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Marshmallow Policies Will No Longer Do! It’s Time to Get Tough!
THE TELEGRAPH: The United States is facing what has been described as its "most serious instance of domestic terrorism" to date, the FBI has warned.

Officials say a second generation of Somali immigrants is becoming increasingly radicalised and could pose a growing threat to security.

The warnings come amid the revelation that 20 young Somali American men who returned to their war-torn homeland have been radicalised by a group linked to al-Qaeda.

The FBI is urgently examining links between the youths, who are all American citizens, and al-Shabaab, an Islamist group fighting in the country's long-running conflict.

Investigators are concentrating on two mosques, the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Centre in Minneapolis and the Dawah Institute in the neighbouring city of St Paul, where parents and guardians of the departed youths said their sons attended classes.

But the probe has now spread to Boston, San Diego, Seattle, Columbus, Ohio and Portland, Maine.

US law enforcement agencies are concerned young militants could return to the US to plot terror attacks, following a similar path to the British Pakistanis behind the London bombings in July 7, 2005 who made multiple visits to radical mosques in Pakistan.

The authorities began looking into the radicalisation of Somali youths after 27-year-old Shirwa Ahmed became the first known American suicide bomber in late October.

The Minneapolis student blew himself up in one of five co-ordinated bombings in northern Somalia orchestrated by al-Shabaab, whose former leader reportedly trained at terror camps in Afghanistan before being killed in an American air strike in May, 2008. US Facing Home-grown Islamic Terror Threat >>> By Alex Spillius in Washington | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Spiegel TV: Das Dritte Reich in Farbe
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First It Was PC Police, Then Came the Thought Police, Soon After Came the Healthful Anti-smoking Police. Now We’ve Got the Damn Food Police! Where Will It All End?
THE TELEGRAPH: Life is dreary enough without the killjoys encouraging us to eat more margarine. Rose Prince extols the delights of the dairy.

Cherry on the cake: Would Nigella Lawson be so keen to sample the delights of her own labours if there was margarine in the mixing bowl? Photo courtesy of The Telegrraph
Last night I cooked the season's first spring greens. Just a few minutes in lightly salted water then drained on a cloth, they were as lush as a bowling green. I looked at them, knowing that there was one last, essential ritual to perform: back into a warm pan with a good sized nut of best butter. Then each bite into the tender leaves yielded a tide of sweetcream enjoyment, enough to put unpaid bills out of mind. But, spring greens and melted marg, anyone? I don't think so. That is what a panel of killjoy nutrition advisors would have you do.

The Fat Panel, an independent group of experts, has ruled that our best known celebrity chefs use too much saturated fat in their recipes and are urging temperance. A single serving from a recipe by Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsay and Rick Stein can contain more than 100 per cent of the recommended daily allowance of saturated fat, they moan. Swapping butter for margarine or a vegetable oil spread would reduce the fat content of some recipes by at least half, they counsel.

What a blow they have struck. If there is one thing left in this gloomy, credit-crunched life where every pursuit is spoiled by over zealous health and safety measures, it is the comfort of eating. Cooking out of our favourite books is a cheap way to cheer ourselves up. Restaurants may be going bust left, right and centre, but cook books have come into their own. What are celebrity chefs for if not the sensuality of their hugely indulgent creamy soups, buttery sauces and rich puddings? The idea of Nigella Lawson licking a finger dipped into a bowl of cake batter made with margarine makes me feel sick, but it makes perfect sense when there is butter in the mix. Delights of Dairy: We All Need Buttering Up >>> Rose Prince | Thursday, March 12, 2009

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Iran Calls U.S. Sanctions "Childish"
CBS NEWS: Iran has dismissed President Obama's decision to renew economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic as "childish," and a "grave blunder".

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave his reaction Friday at a ceremony to inaugurate work on the next phases in the development of a massive natural gas field in the country's south, reports CBS News' Leily Lankarani.

The president said the U.S., "thought that with childish and ugly behavior they could stop a great nation and its capable experts from moving towards accomplishment."

On Thursday, Mr. Obama officially renewed economic sanctions against Iran which were enacted by then-President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

Ahmadinejad's defiance came, symbolically, as he inaugurated phases nine and 10 of the South Pars gas development in Asaluyeh, southern Iran.

He claimed it was actually the West's strict sanctions against his country which have motivated Iran to develop its energy technology — including nuclear energy advances. America and its allies suspect Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, though Tehran insists they just want to generate electricity. >>> Posted by Tucker Reals | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Gary Bauer: Waiting for the American Jihad
HUMAN EVENTS: Last October, Shirwa Ahmed blew himself up in a homicide bombing in Somalia. What distinguished Ahmed from other jihadists is that he was a 27-year old college student from Minneapolis and a naturalized American citizen, which made him the first U.S. citizen to become an Islamic homicide bomber.

Ahmed’s unusual path to martyrdom got the attention of American counterterrorism officials, who now report that more than a dozen Somali-American youths have disappeared so far this year. They are suspected to have returned to Somalia to wage jihad. Concerned about the radicalization of Muslim youths in America, the FBI is running active investigations in at least five major American cities.

These developments beg the question: If terrorist organizations can recruit American Muslims to travel to Africa to wage jihad, what’s stopping them from recruiting American Muslims to wage jihad in America? As Moar Jamal, Executive Director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, put it, “That kid that blew himself up in Somalia could have done it here in Minneapolis.”

With an Obama administration increasingly distracted by matters both petty (the Rush Limbaugh flap) and precarious (the economic crisis), and with what we are learning about Jihadist recruitment here, it is becoming increasingly clear that America is a country ripe for jihad.

A culture of Islamic radicalization already exists in America. But most Americans do not know about it because it’s happening in places most of us do not go -- our prisons. Prison Ministries Founder Chuck Colson has been a leader in highlighting the problem of radicalization in our prison system, and former FBI Director Robert Mueller has called America’s prisons “fertile ground for extremists.” A 2006 study called “Out of the Shadows” found that “tight knit communities of Muslims in prison are ripe for radicalization, and could easily become terrorist cells.” >>> By Gary Bauer | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Verdacht reicht, um österreichische Konten einzusehen
DIE PRESSE: Grundsätzlich bleibt das Bankgeheimnis in Österreich bestehen. Allerdings dürfen künftig ausländische Behörden auch ohne laufendes Strafverfahren Einsicht nehmen - ein begründeter Verdacht reicht.

Nach internationalem Druck hat Österreich angekündigt, sein Bankgeheimnis zur Erleichterung von Ermittlungen wegen Steuerhinterziehung etwas abzuschwächen. Bei "begründetem Verdacht" einer ausländischen Behörde könnten künftig Kontodaten auch dann weitergegeben werden, wenn noch kein Strafverfahren wegen Steuerflucht eingeleitet worden sei, sagte ÖVP-Finanzminister Josef Pröll am Freitag in Wien. >>> Ag/Red | Freitag, 13. März 2009

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US-Präsident Obama verlängert Sanktionen gegen den Iran
DIE PRESSE: Die USA sehen den Iran weiterhin als eine außergewöhnliche und besondere Bedrohung für die nationale Sicherheit. Nach den Angaben des Rechnungshofs sind Sanktionen aber wirkungslos.

Trotz erster Gesprächsangebote an den Iran hat US-Präsident Barack Obama die Sanktionen gegen die Islamische Republik um ein Jahr verlängert. Der Iran sei weiterhin eine außergewöhnliche und besondere Bedrohung für die nationale Sicherheit der USA, hieß es am Donnerstag in einer Erklärung Obamas.



Der US-Präsident hat erklärt, er sei bereit, direkte Gespräche mit der Regierung in Teheran zu führen, diese müsse aber erst ihre Faust öffnen. Die Vereinigten Staaten beschuldigen den Iran, unter dem Deckmantel der friedlichen Nutzung von Atomenergie den Bau von Nuklearwaffen anzustreben. Der Iran bestreitet das. >>> APA | Freitag, 13, März 2009

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Milliardäre in der Krise: Die 50 reichsten Deutschen – und ihre Verluste
WELT ONLINE: Die Finanzkrise hat die reichsten Deutschen um Milliarden erleichtert. Zu den Verlierern gehört laut "Forbes" Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler. Doch es gibt noch Gewinner: Drei Unternehmer schaffen es neu in die Top 50. Anderen macht der Absturz der Wirtschaft weniger aus: Einer der Aldi-Brüder kommt glimpflich davon.

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54 deutsche Unternehmer und Erben aus Firmendynastien sind Milliardäre. Dies ergibt die Auswertung der neuesten „Forbes“-Rangliste zu den reichsten Menschen der Erde. Doch die deutschen Superreichen mussten teilweise in der Krise massive Verluste hinnehmen, sei es, weil ihre Aktien an Wert verloren oder weil die Unternehmen in der Krise straucheln – wie der Autozulieferer Schaeffler. >>> Von Oliver Haustein-Tessmer | Freitag, 13. März 2009

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Die Schweiz lockert das Bankgeheimnis: Der Bundesrat will auch bei Steuerhinterziehung Amtshilfe leisten
NZZ Online: Die Schweiz ist bereit, unter gewissen Bedingungen auch bei Steuerhinterziehung Amtshilfe zu leisten. Mit dieser Lockerung des Bankgeheimnisses will der Bundesrat verhindern, dass die Schweiz auf die schwarze Liste nicht kooperierender «Steueroasen» gesetzt wird, wie Bundespräsident Merz erklärte.

Der Bundesrat macht beim Bankgeheimnis Konzessionen gegenüber dem Ausland. Wie Bundespräsident Hans-Rudolf Merz am Freitag vor den Medien ankündigte, ist er bereit, in Zukunft unter gewissen Bedingungen auch bei Fällen von Steuerhinterziehung Amtshilfe zu leisten. Die bisher geltende Unterscheidung von Steuerhinterziehung und Steuerbetrug wird also für ausländische Kunden von Schweizer Banken nicht mehr aufrechterhalten. >>> bbu | Freitag, 13. März 2009

WELT ONLINE: Steueroase: Schweiz lockert ihr heiliges Bankgeheimnis

Es kommt einer Revolution gleich: Die Schweiz lockert ihr striktes Bankgeheimnis – und will künftig unter bestimmten Bedingungen Amtshilfe bei Steuerhinterziehung leisten. So könnten deutsche Finanzämter an die Kontodaten von Steuersündern gelangen. Österreich und Luxemburg planen ähnliches.

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Die Schweiz lockert nun auch offiziell ihr striktes Bankgeheimnis. Die Regierung sei bereit, unter gewissen Bedingungen auch bei Steuerhinterziehung Amtshilfe zu leisten. Das teilte das Finanzministerium mit. Auch sollen OECD-Standards für Hilfe bei Steuerverfahren eingehalten werden. Bisher wurde Amtshilfe nur bei Steuerbetrug, etwa nach dem Fälschen von Unterlagen, gewährt. >>> | Freitag, 13. März 2009

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Reaktion auf den Papst-Brief: Piusbrüder erkennen II. Vatikanisches Konzil an
WELT ONLINE: Die Piusbrüder machen einen großen Schritt auf den Papst zu. In ihrer Reaktion auf seine jüngsten Äußerungen bekennen sie sich zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil. "Wir sind weit davon entfernt, die Tradition im Jahre 1962 anhalten zu wollen," heißt es darin. WELT ONLINE dokumentiert den Text im Wortlaut.

In den letzten Wochen ist in der Katholischen Kirche mit der Kontroverse um die Piusbruderschaft und den Holocaust-Leugner Richard Williamson der Streit um das II. Vatikanische Konzil offen zu Tage getreten. Jetzt hat sich Bischof Bernard Fellay, der Generalobere der Piusbruderschaft, in dieser Frage dramatisch auf den Papst zu bewegt.

In einer knappen Antwort auf den Brief des Papstes an alle Bischöfe vom 10. März macht Fellay unmissverständlich deutlich, dass die Piusbrüder von ihrer Fundamentalopposition abrücken. Sie wollen die Entwicklung der Kirche nach dem II. Konzil nicht mehr in Bausch und Bogen ablehnten. >>> Von Paul Badde | Freitag, 13. Marz 2009

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Ex-Vizeminister: Brutale Folter in Chinas Gefängnissen
TAGES ANZEIGER: Chinas ehemaliger Vizejustizminister Duan Zhengkun hat die Folter in den Gefängnissen des Landes kritisiert. Nach seinen Aussagen werden Häftlinge zu Geständnissen gezwungen.

Nachgestellte Szene: Mitglieder der Falun-Gong-Gemeinschaft zeigten im Juli 2004 öffentlich in Zürich, wie ihre Genossen in China gefoltert werden.
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Der Politiker sagte gegenüber Zeitung «China Daily», dass die Anstalten deshalb nicht länger von den Sicherheitsbehörden, die Verdächtige auch verhaften, geleitet werden sollten. Staatliche Medien kündigten heute an, die Regierung wolle die Gefängnisse verstärkt unter die Lupe nehmen. So solle auch gegen Gewalt unter den Häftlingen vorgegangen werden. Auslöser war der Fall eines Häftlings, der von Mitinsassen zu Tode geprügelt wurde. >>> raa/sda | Freitag, 13. März 2009

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Dutch Police Arrest 7 Suspected of Planning Attack
NRC HANDELSBLAD INTERNATIONAL: Dutch police on Thursday arrested seven people suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Amsterdam, including a relative of one of the attackers who died in the 2004 bombings in Madrid.

Mayor Job Cohen said police were acting on an anonymous tip that warned an Ikea outlet or other stores in the southeast of the city might be targeted.

"It wasn't a regular bomb warning, but a warning of a planned action aimed at creating casualties in shops," Cohen said during a joint press conference with police commissioner Bernard Welten public prosecutor Herman Bolhaar on Thursday night.

"Men were planning to put explosives in the shops and wanted to cause casualties in busy places," he said.

Cohen told NOS radio on Friday morning that no explosives were found during the searches of the suspects' houses.

Police received the tip late on Wednesday night from an prepaid cell phone in Belgium. The tip also included names of one suspect and locations for police to search. The locations included Ikea and Media Markt, a large electronics store.

Cohen said the tip was "so specific" about names and places that it was decided to treat it as credible. The poilice contacted the secret service, AIVD, in order to verify the information.

By early morning, it was revealed that one of the suspects was a relative of one of the suspects in the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and happened five years ago almost to the day. The relative killed himself when Spanish police raided his apartment at the time. "This established a link with Madrid," said Welten.

Early on Thursday morning, authorities shut down a major Amsterdam shopping street near the Arena football stadium and sealed off the nearby Ikea store. A concert by the American band "The Killers" in a local music hall was cancelled.

The houses of the suspects named by the anonymous caller were immediately put under surveillance. The first arrest took place around noon on Thursday; the last at 5.45 p.m. >>> News Staff, NRC Handelsblad International | Friday, March 13, 2009

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Il governo cinese apre al Dalai Lama "Ma il Tibet rinunci all'indipendenza"
LA STAMPA: Il leader spirituale non vuole però rinunciare all'autonomia

PECHINO: La Cina è disposta a riprendere i colloqui con gli inviati del Dalai Lama, il leader tibetano che vive in esilio in India, se questi «rinuncerà a perseguire l’ indipendenza» del Tibet. Lo ha affermato oggi il primo ministro cinese Wen Jiabao. Parlando ai giornalisti nella Sala dell’ Assemblea del popolo, il premier ha accusato «alcuni paesi occidentali» di «sfruttare» il Dalai Lama per i suoi fini. «Con il Dalai Lama - ha sostenuto Wen - bisogna guardare quello che dice ma anche quello che fa...la chiave è la sincerità». >>> © LaStampa.it | Venerdi 13 Marzo 2009

CORRIERE DELLA SERA: Wen Jiabao: «La Cina pronta al dialogo 
se il Tibet rinuncia all'indipendenza»

Il premier: «La situazione nella regione è pacifica e stabile. Pronti a riprendere i colloqui»

PECHINO - Pechino tende la mano al Tibet, ma detta le sue condizioni. «La Cina è pronta al dialogo col Dalai Lama se questi rinuncia ai propositi di indipendenza» è quanto ha ribadito il premier cinese Wen Jiabao.

«SITUAZIONE PACIFICA E STABILE» - Durante un conferenza stampa, il primo ministro cinese ha anche affermato che la situazione in Tibet è «pacifica e stabile», il che, a sua detta, proverebbe la correttezza della politica della Cina nella regione. Nelle ultime settimane Pechino ha inviato forze di polizia e paramilitari in Tibet per soffocare ogni segnale di protesta e, in particolare, per evitare il ripetersi delle manifestazioni su vasta scala dello scorso anno. >>> | Venerdi 13 Marzo 2009

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Malte, l'île où échouent les clandestins d'Afrique
Plus de 2 700 clandestins ont débarqué à Malte l'an dernier, et les chiffres ne s'annoncent pas à la baisse pour 2009 (ici un bateau intercepté le 5 février). Selon le gouvernement, l'arrivée d'un seul migrant à Malte équivaudrait à celle de 1 129 clandestins en Allemagne et 953 en Italie. Crédits photo : AFP
LE FIGARO: Depuis le début de l'année, près de huit cents demandeurs d'asile sont arrivés en provenance de Libye, espérant atteindre l'Italie.

Prisonnier incrédule du centre de détention pour clandestins de Ta'Kandja, John Oruru, un Nigerian d'une vingtaine d'années a griffonné à la hâte un message, qu'il tend au visiteur de passage comme il lancerait une bouteille à la mer. «Je suis seul au milieu d'une centaine de Somaliens avec qui je ne peux pas m'entendre puisque je ne parle pas leur langue. Je fais de mon mieux pour me sentir à l'aise, mais il sera trop difficile pour moi de rester dans ces conditions», écrit-il dans un anglais hésitant. «Quand un fils réclame à son père du pain ou un poisson, celui-ci ne lui donne pas une pierre, ni un serpent. Au nom du Père, je demande donc à être transféré dans un autre camp», conclut-il. >>> Par Pierre Avril | Vendredi 13 Mars 2009

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La Chine demande à la France "d'adopter une attitude claire" sur le Tibet
LE POINT: Wen Jiabao a appelé vendredi Paris à "adopter une attitude claire sur la question du Tibet, afin de restaurer le plus vite possible les relations entre la Chine et France". Le Premier ministre chinois a réaffirmé que la rencontre en décembre entre Nicolas Sarkozy, alors président en exercice de l'Union européenne, et le dalaï-lama avait "non seulement touché les intérêts fondamentaux chinois, mais blessé les sentiments du peuple chinois".

"Le Tibet est une partie inaliénable de la Chine, le problème tibétain appartient aux affaires intérieures de la Chine", a insisté le numéro deux chinois lors d'une conférence de presse à l'issue de la session annuelle du Parlement à Pékin. Cependant, il n'a pas précisé quelles mesures concrètes la France pourrait prendre pour revenir à de meilleures relations bilatérales, alors que les présidents des deux pays doivent participer au sommet du G20 à Londres le 2 avril. "Le dalaï-lama n'est pas un simple religieux" >>> lepoint.fr (source AFP) | Vendredi 13 Mars 2009

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