New Report to Show U.N. Overestimated AIDS Epidemic

The United Nation's top AIDS scientists this week plan to acknowledge that they long have overestimated both the size and course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been ebbing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement. AIDS remains a devastating public health crisis in the most heavily impacted areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the sweeping revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900978.html?hpid=topnews

U.N. official says Iraq showing progress

UNITED NATIONS -- A top U.N. official reported to the U.N. Security Council Monday that recent developments in Iraq have opened an opportunity for progress. U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe briefed the U.N. Security Council that sectarian tensions are still problematic in Iraq but that recent trends including recently released figures that show September having the lowest number of causalities in 2006, are reason to believe that there is an opportunity for progress.
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2007/11/19/un_official_says_iraq_showing_progress/7541/

Russia warns Czechs over 'big mistake'

Moscow - Russia's military chief has told the Czech Republic that hosting a US missile defence shield would be a ''big mistake'' and urged Prague to delay a decision until a new US president was elected. The Czech Republic is considering whether to accept a radar station that would form part of a US missile shield - a system designed to intercept and destroy missiles from “rogue states” but which Moscow sees as a threat to its security.

[they're pushing to delay any finalization in the knowledge that should a democrat be elected president the shield will be killed in Washington]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22287077-38200,00.html

Russia to resume Cold War bomber flights

Russia will immediately resume long-range strategic bomber flights on a "permanent" basis, ending a 15-year suspension of the missions, President Vladimir Putin has said. Mr Putin said a halt in long-range bombers' flights after the Soviet collapse had affected Russia's security as other nations had continued such missions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/17/wputin217.xml

'Too late' to stop N Korea's bomb

The Australian, by Peter Alford Original Article Posted By: Photoonist - 10/4/2006 3:31:49 PM Post Reply Tokyo - While the rest of the world looks to Beijing to stop North Korea from exploding a nuclear bomb, a leading Chinese analyst says it is too late -- China cannot act without doing worse harm to its own interests. ''Basically, our country's work of persuasion with the (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) in the 12 years that the DPRK developed its nuclear program had been a failure,''

la dir post = no url...

Atomic Numbers

At 3,000 centrifuges, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran's nuclear program is "irreversible." Why do we pretend that the Islamofascists in Tehran do not mean what they say?

To become a European or United Nations diplomat is it required that you know nothing about 20th-century history?

Hitler made his goals plain in "Mein Kampf" more than a decade before Neville Chamberlain deluded himself into thinking he was not bent on world domination.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=279331377204364

Mosque leaders blame UK foreign policy for extremism

The majority of Scotland's Islamic leaders believe UK foreign policy is to blame for members turning to extremism, according to a new report. A study by the Council of British Pakistanis in Scotland found nearly half of the country's 31 mosque leaders thought extremist behavior existed in Scotland. The "vast majority" cited the UK government's foreign policy as the reason, it found. A lack of parental guidance and the misinterpretation of the Islamic religion were also given as factors.

[these are community leaders who's primary function is to preach their views to others]

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1631153.0.0.php

Italy Breaks Up European Terror Cell

MILAN, Italy - A Europe-wide sweep disrupted an Islamic cell that was recruiting potential suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, Italian police said Tuesday, announcing the arrests of 20 terror suspects. Police said the suspects, mostly Tunisians, were arrested across Europe as part of the sweep against a cell based in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.
[bumber stickers in Italy]
http://breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SO863O3&show_article=1&catnum=0

Terrorism: Jihad has failed, former Libyan Islamist tells al-Qaeda

Tripoli - A former leader of an armed Islamic group in Libya, Numan Bin Uthman, has written a letter to al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri telling him that Jihadi groups in Arab countries have failed. (Snip)

"I aks you to stop the armed operations in the Arab countries, to guarantee the security of Muslims and to retract your threats toward the West, to take away from them the terrorism card used by some Western governments to hate Islam and Muslims,"

he said.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1524980329