Salafi groups Gaza rocket attacks into Israel:

about what they call the dome of iron (Iron Dome), we affirmed that military engineering they all won't be able to stop torturing them Providence. "

Dubai (Reuters)-a small group of Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel border town Thursday during the visit of U.s. President Barack Obama to the region.

Salafi group called Mujahiddin Magles al-Shoura said in a statement on the Internet, they fired a rocket air defence to show that Israel could not stop an attack on the Jewish State during the visit, reported Reuters.

Police said no casualties but the attack raises a number of damage in Sderot near the Gaza border.

"Responding to a hoax ' Roman dog and war criminals ' about what they call the dome of iron (Iron Dome), we affirmed that military engineering they all won't be able to stop torturing them Providence," said the statement, posted on the news website Ansar al-Mujahideen fighters used by the hardliners.

That statement refers to the US President, who is visiting Israel and the West Bank and calling it in a statement upon arrival in Israel the day before.

Iron Dome is anti-missile defense system Israel intended to ambush the rockets and missiles fired from Gaza.

Magles al-Shoura Mujahiddin previously claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in June 2012 in Israel from Sinai.

The Hamas movement that controls Gaza has tried to regulate against the Salafi armed groups, who support the hard-line and often fired rockets into Israel attempted in defiance of the de facto Palestinian Truce.

Israel and Hamas fighters who took control of the Gaza Strip involved in the eight-day battle in November which killed 175 Palestinians, including more than 100 civilians, as well as six people Israel--four civilians and two soldiers.

The violence that erupted on November 14, with the assassination of Hamas military Commander Ahmed Jaabari by Israel.

During the eight-day operation, Israel's military said it had struck more than 1,500 target, while Gaza fighters firing rockets into Israel, 1,254 421 were ambushed by anti-missile system, Iron Dome.

The agreement of Hamas-Israel truce reached on Wednesday (9/11), a day after shuttling diplomacy conducted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon--who tercoreng by cross-border violence that is increasingly turning out between Israel and the fighters in Gaza.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, who spoke at a news conference with Hillary, said in Cairo, the cessation of hostilities the Hamas-Israel went into effect on Wednesday at 19: 00 GMT (Thursday at 02.00 GMT).

The Hamas group took control of Gaza Strip in June 2007 after defeating Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in deadly combat for several days.

Since then the impoverished coastal territory dibloklade by Israel. The Palestinians also became two separate Union territory--the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the West Bank that is under the rule of Abbas. Now that the two camps have been doing reconciliation.

The European Union, Israel and the United States put Hamas to its list of terrorist organizations. (M014)

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Kano prayers over Nigeria attacks

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23 January 2012 Last updated at 11:28 GMT President Jonathan (l) met the Emir of Kano (r) on Sunday Both Muslim and Christian residents of Kano, the northern Nigerian city where at least 160 people were killed in a series of attacks on Friday, have been urged to heed a day of prayer.

A special prayer session has been held near the palace of the Emir of Kano, asking Allah to help end the violence.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the attacks.

At least 12 locally made explosive devices have been found in abandoned vehicles in the city, police say.

Doctors say that more bodies are arriving in the morgues and so the number of people killed in the series of bombings and shoot-outs is expected to rise.

The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubaker in the city says that some people are starting to resume normal activities in the city but that a heavy security presence remains. An overnight curfew is also in place.

'End the violence'

The call for prayers was issued by both the Kano state government and the Emirate council on local radio stations.

Both Muslims and non-Muslims were urged to gather at their respective places of worship.

Our reporter says about 200 people attended Kano's central mosque, while local mosques around the city also held prayers.

Continue reading the main story 2002: Founded2009: Hundreds killed when Maiduguri police stations stormed; leader Mohammed Yusuf captured and killedDec 2010: Bombed Jos, killing 80 people; blamed for New Year's Eve attack on Abuja barracksJun-Aug 2011: Bomb attacks on Abuja police HQ and UN buildingDec 2011: Multiple bomb attacks on Christmas Day kill dozens Jan 2012: Wave of violence across north-east NigeriaKano is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north but it has a sizeable Christian community.

Boko Haram targeted worshippers at several churches on Christmas Day and one faction has urged southerners, who are mostly Christian or follow traditional beliefs, to leave the north.

Hundreds of people have fled their homes but there have also been cases of members of the two communities supporting each other.

President Goodluck Jonathan visited Kano on Sunday to offer his condolences and vowed to defeat the "terrorists".

However, our reporter says many people are sceptical, having heard similar promises in the past.

The militants attacked several police stations and managed to free some suspected members of their group who had been detained.

Boko Haram, which wants an Islamic state, said it launched the attacks because the authorities refused to free some of its members from jail.

This is the deadliest attack the group has launched, although it has killed hundreds of people in recent years.

Its members have bombed churches, government buildings and police stations - mostly in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria.

One doctor told AFP news agency that the final toll from Friday's attacks was likely to be about 250.

"Although the bulk of the bodies were brought here [the main hospital], others were deposited at three other hospitals," the doctor said.

Boko Haram, which loosely translates from the local Hausa language as "Western education is forbidden", says it wants to overthrow the national government and impose Islamic law.

It first hit the headlines in 2009 when a series of attacks by its followers on police and government buildings in the city of Maiduguri led to a crackdown in which hundreds died.

Since then, a wave of bombings and shootings have killed police officers, government officials and both Muslim and Christian civilians.

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U.S. Wary of Further Iran Quds Force Attacks

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States believes Iran's shadowy Quds Force is becoming increasingly aggressive overseas and may be working on other international plots beyond the alleged plan to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, three U.S. officials told Reuters.

U.S. allegations last week of a foiled plot in Washington have escalated tensions between the United States and Iran. They have also renewed Washington's focus on the Quds Force, the covert operations arm of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is believed to have sponsored attacks on U.S. targets in the Middle East -- but never before in the United States.

"They're being more aggressive ... not only in Iraq but worldwide," one senior U.S. official said in an interview. The official and others insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record and because of the sensitive nature of the matter.

U.S. officials have long charged that the Quds Force -- the Arabic word for Jerusalem -- has used proxies to attack U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The Quds Force, whose power within Iran is believed to be growing, is also active in Lebanon, the Gulf, Syria and elsewhere, officials said.

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Many Iran specialists have reacted skeptically to the disclosure of an alleged Iranian plot within the United States itself. Tehran has dismissed the charges as a fabrication.

Some foreign nations briefed on the plot have raised questions. While President Barack Obama has so far demanded tougher sanctions on Iran and not a military reprisal, representatives of those nations are nonetheless wary, given the flawed intelligence case President George W. Bush made for war in Iraq.

Even U.S. officials now convinced of the plot's authenticity acknowledged they were initially doubtful due to the case's odd facts, including the bumbling nature of the Iranian-American now in custody, and his approach to a supposed Mexican drug cartel figure who happened to be a U.S. federal informant.

U.S. officials who spoke to Reuters declined to provide details of the evidence that the Quds Force may have other plots in the works. But two officials stressed they were based on more than just speculation or analysis.

"These are not merely aspirational plots dreamed up by the Quds Force. In fact, there is active planning around them," a second senior U.S. official told Reuters. Both senior officials played down concerns any attack was imminent.

A third U.S. official said the recklessness of the alleged attempt to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in Washington suggested that Quds "may be involved in other actions."

In the wake of the U.S. government's disclosure of the alleged plot, counterterrorism investigators in Britain are examining the possibility that other plots hatched in Iran were under way, a European government source said.

But the source said he and his colleagues were unaware of any current Iranian plots similar to the one the Americans said they had uncovered and disrupted.

IRAN'S 'SECOND MOST POWERFUL MAN'

U.S. officials said they believed Iran's Quds Force had expanded its power in recent years, exerting more control over the country's foreign policy.

Its commander, Qasem Suleimani, a brigadier general, has led the group's efforts to broaden Iran's influence in the Middle East, including by supporting Iraq factions that oppose the U.S. presence.

"His prominence within the Quds Force cannot be overstated. He is directly responsible for everything the Quds Force does," one U.S. military official, who is an expert on Iran, told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, described Suleimani as "arguably the second most powerful man in Iran after the supreme leader," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Suicide bomber attacks church in Indonesia

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A policeman stands guard as residents watch the site of an explosion in front of a church in Solo, Central Java September 25, 2011. An explosion caused by a suspected suicide bomber outside a church in the Indonesian city of Solo killed one person on Sunday, local media reported.

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and one other person, a police officer and a government minister said.

Seventeen people were wounded in the explosion outside a Protestant church just after Sunday service in the city of Solo, local police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Djihartono told Reuters.

"The one killed in front of the church is highly suspected as the suicide bomber. A total of 17 people are wounded and treated," he said.

The coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Djoko Suyanto, said authorities wold examine closed circuit footage from the church to identify the suicide bomber.

Solo is the hometown of radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, considered the spiritual leaders behind the group that killed more than 200 people in Bali in 2002.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim Country, has been the scene of some major attacks by militants and radical groups over the past decade, but there have been few attacks recently.

Religious tensions still bubble near the surface in the officially secular nation. Religious conflicts flared up between Muslims and Christians in Maluku and Sulawesi, in the eastern part of the sprawling archipelago, following the overthrow of former President Suharto in 1998.

(Reporting by Christianto Nusatya; Editing by Sugita Katyal)

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To Combat Democrats' Medicare Attacks, GOP Deploys Moms

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Look for a whole lot of Republican congressional candidates to be yelling "Mom" in the upcoming 2012 election as they fight off Democratic charges that they want to kill Medicare.

"Well, as long as they are photogenic, at least," kids a GOP official.

Joking aside, using candidate parents in campaign ads is now a GOP recommendation to Republicans fending off attacks that they would eliminate Medicare by adopting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget blueprint that calls for massive reforms and potential cuts of the program.

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The reason: It worked for new Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei. He was besieged by opponent Kate Marshall in ads that said he would back Ryan's plan "that ends Medicare as we know it." Anticipating the attack, Amodei cut ads hitting Marshall's support for President Obama's health overhaul law that critics say cuts $500 billion from Medicare. Then he used his mom to inoculate himself. "I will work to support and improve the program," Amodei says to the camera as his mom comes into the picture. "You'd better, Mark. I'm counting on you," she says. In a second ad his mother accuses Marshall of lying about her son's positions.

Eventually, Amodei distanced himself from the Ryan Medicare cuts, but Marshall kept hitting Amodei, and even his mom's appearances in his ads, but with little effect. In the end, he won by 22 percent, a lesson the GOP is impressing upon candidates. "When tackled head on, Republicans can win this argument by holding Democrats accountable for being the only party to support a government healthcare takeover that cut $500 billion from Medicare," says Mike Shields, political director of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Another tactic the GOP rolled out in the Nevada race others are being encouraged to copy was directly linking Marshall to Obama, whose unpopularity even helped the Republicans win a historically liberal seat in New York Tuesday. In the Nevada case, the NRCC ended some ads with a picture of Marshall with Obama. One ad titled "Echo" simply showed clips of Obama campaigning followed by Marshall saying the very same words.

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For Democrats the GOP tactics are a big whatever. They pledge to hit even harder on the Medicare issue, especially now that they know what they're up against. Polls agree that it should be a winner for the Democrats: Bloomberg says three of four adults oppose the GOP plan to cut Medicare.

But NRCC officials say that the political climate has changed, giving the Republicans a chance to make and win their case. "Democrat leaders have often declared this year that dozens of seats are within reach and that reinstating [Nancy] Pelosi as speaker was their game plan. It's now clear that the Democrats' failed economic record and unpopular polices are getting in the way of their goal," says Shields in a memo to candidates provided to Whispers. "The Democrats expected to reuse their playbook in elections across the country, but we have now seen in a real race that engaging and fighting on Medicare can not only neutralize the issue, but Republicans can win on the issue."

Below is a timeline of the key ads of the Nevada campaign on the Medicare issue.

-First Medicare attack ad from Marshall on August 5.

-Amodei's comeback, featuring his mom, on August 8.

-NRCC's ad against Marshall on Medicare August 9.

-Marshall's next hit on Amodei on Medicare on August 10.

-NRCC's next anti-Marshall ad on Medicare, August 17.

-Amodie brings his mom in to counter Marshall ads, August 18.

-Another ad from Marshall hitting Amodie and his mom on Medicare, August 30.

-Marshall's final anti-Amodie ad that includes a Medicare mention, September 5.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad attacks West, prompts walk-out

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flayed the West on Thursday for a catalog of misdeeds, but his address to the United Nations passed over Tehran's nuclear program and the Palestinian statehood issue.
In his 30-minute speech, the Iranian leader also failed to mention the pro-democracy uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year, including Syria, Iran's closest Arab ally.
U.S. delegates walked out when Ahmadinejad said "arrogant powers" threatened anyone who questioned the Holocaust and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States with sanctions and military action. Other Western delegates also left, in what has become an annual feature of Ahmadinejad's U.N. appearances.
Ahmadinejad struck out at Zionism, but did not comment on the issue that has dominated this year's General Assembly -- the Palestinian plan to ask the Security Council to admit their nascent state as a full U.N. member.
He accused Washington of using the "mysterious" September 11 attacks as a pretext for wars on Iraq and Afghanistan and said Western powers "view Zionism as a sacred notion and ideology."
The White House dismissed Ahmadinejad's attack and accused Iran's government of "vile mistreatment" of its own citizens.
British Prime Minister David Cameron also assailed the Iranian leader in his own speech to the United Nations.
"He didn't remind us that he runs a country where they may have elections, of a sort, but they also repress freedom of speech," Cameron said, accusing Iran of violently suppressing protests and "torturing those who argue for a better future."
Mark Kornblau, spokesman for the U.S. mission at the United Nations, said Ahmadinejad had "again turned to abhorrent anti-Semitic slurs and despicable conspiracy theories."
PROTESTS OUTSIDE UNITED NATIONS
Thousands of people protested against Ahmadinejad outside the United Nations complex in New York.
The demonstrators, mostly Iranian-Americans, chanted "Down with dictators, down with Ahmadinejad" and called for the overthrow of the Iranian leader, whose bitterly disputed 2009 re-election touched off months of street protests in Iran.
"We are hoping to see that the people of Iran are represented in the U.N. by a democratically elected official," said Hamid Azimi, a computer systems engineer from California.
Ahmadinejad, wearing a jacket with no tie, has often used the U.N. podium to lecture the West on its responsibility for the evils of slavery, colonialism, poverty and militarism.
This year was no exception, but the Iranian president was taking to the world stage as a figure somewhat diminished by sharp political challenges to his authority at home.
Iranian politicians, clerics and the Revolutionary Guards, who quelled the 2009 protests, have taken the president to task for his differences with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ahmadinejad has suffered a series of setbacks in his contest with Khamenei, his former mentor. In the past few months, at least 25 associates of Ahmadinejad have been arrested and several websites affiliated with them have been blocked.
His closest ally, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has been accused of graft, of leading a "deviant current" that seeks to challenge the theocratic establishment, and of links to a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as Iran's biggest ever.
Although Ahmadinejad did not mention Tehran's disputed nuclear program in his U.N. speech, he said later that Iran would stop producing 20 percent enriched uranium if it is guaranteed fuel for a medical research reactor, seeking to revive a fuel swap deal that fell apart in 2009.
"Any time they can guarantee us this sale ... we will stop 20 percent enrichment," he told reporters. "Whenever these assurances are given, we will do our part."
Tehran's refusal to halt enrichment has provoked four rounds of U.N. sanctions on the world's No. 5 oil exporting state and tighter U.S. and European Union restrictions.
Ahmadinejad acknowledged sanctions had hit the Iranian economy but said "they do not have a decisive effect."
The West believes Iran is covertly seeking nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe met his Iranian counterpart in New York and told him France and five other big powers were worried about the U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest report, which suggests Iran is violating U.N. resolutions.

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