By a 48% to 29% margin, more Americans oppose than support conducting military airstrikes against Syria

AIPAC, an influential lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies in the United States, issued a statement Tuesday urging members of Congress to approve President Barack Obama‘s military strike on Syria.

I have to assume that George W. Bush is laughing today.

A reference to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC was mysteriously cut from a New York Times article published online Monday and in print Tuesday. The first version, published online Monday, quotes an anonymous administration official calling AIPAC the „800-pound gorilla in the room.“ The original article, which is still available on The Boston Globe‘s site, had two paragraphs worth of quotes from officials about the powerful lobbying group‘s position in the Syria debate:

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cast doubt on U.S. and French intelligence on the alleged chemical attack in Damascus and warned against a U.S. military intervention.

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood holds the putschists accountable for safety as well as health of all prisoners, including Brotherhood Chairman Badie.

As the fascist putschists’ desperate media campaign criticizes coup opponents as terrorists, the real traitors and ruthless terrorists are killing and wounding thousands of people, arresting thousands more, chasing, terrorizing and lynching to death people in streets all over Egypt, simply because they look like practicing Muslims.

The Salafist conservative Islamist party Al Nour has agreed to join the assembly that is drafting a new Egyptian constitution. The party will support efforts to base Egyptian legislation on Sharia law.

Broadcaster says it has pinpointed four different sources of jamming after commissioning an interference detection company

„Since 3 July, a total of five journalists have been killed, 80 journalists have been arbitrarily detained (with seven still held) and at least 40 news providers have been physically attacked by the police or by pro-Morsi or pro-army demonstrators,“ RWB wrote. It called the killings „without precedent in the country‘s contemporary history.“

An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of four television channels that have been accused of sympathising with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Die juristischen Berater beriefen sich in ihrem Antrag auf ein Gesetz, das nicht-staatlichen Akteuren die Bildung paramilitärischer Gruppen untersagt.

One of the aims of participating in the committee is “to defend the articles of identity which constitute a true representation of the Egyptian people’s identity, rather than that of a particular political current,” a statement issued by Nour on Sunday said.

In an interview on Al Hayah television programme, Makhioun said protests supporters of overthrown president Mohamed Morsi will “produce no good” as the “Egyptian people require stability”.

There is no agreement on figures for victims of the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, but estimates of the detained range from 1,000 to 8,000

Die Geschichte, mit der die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ihren geplanten Überfall auf Syrien rechtfertigen, hängt an einer Reihe von Indizien. Im Grossen und Ganzen behaupten sie, dass nachdem Syrien chemische Waffen besitzt und Menschen irgendwelchen Chemikalien ausgesetzt worden sind, es sich um einen Angriff mit chemischen Waffen gehandelt haben muss.