Iraq’s Foreign Ministry says a
Saudi Arabian individual has hacked its website, putting offensive,
sectarian-charged content on it. Ministry spokesman Ahmad
Jamal announced the news on Saturday, saying the ministry staff were
trying to fix the problem, according to the country’s Arabic-language
al-Sumaria TV network. The cyber-attack came only a day after
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry reacted harshly to earlier remarks by Saudi
Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who had said Baghdad should not
recruit Iraqi volunteer fighters known as al-Hashad al-Sha’bi or
Popular Mobilization Units in its pending push to liberate the northern
city of Mosul from the Takfiri terror group of Daesh. The fighters
have proven a pivotal force in extricating the country from the
clutches of the terrorists, who have been ravaging it since 2014. Iraqis
carry a coffin during the funeral of members of the Iraqi government
forces and volunteer fighters, who were killed in the Khalidiyah area of
Iraq’s Anbar province in battles against Daesh, in the holy city of
Najaf, August 25, 2016. (Photo by AFP)The ministry called the remarks void of any value and not even worthy of Baghdad’s attention. After
closing in on the city for several months, Iraqi forces on Thursday
started to take positions for the ultimate push to free it. Daesh has
declared the city its so-called headquarters in Iraq. Also, in a
unilateral move, Saudi Arabia has withdrawn its ambassador to Baghdad
Thamer al-Sabhan, naming Abdulaziz al-Shammari as the kingdom’s chargé
d'affaires at its diplomatic mission in the Iraqi capital. The move is regarded as a unilateral downgrading of ties not yet recognized by the Iraqi government.
In fact, no ideology has been as genocidal as Islam… Islam has killed more than 5 times the number of people killed by communism. In the total numbers we have updated over 80 million Christians killed by Muslims in 500 years in the Balkan states, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia. Then we have India. The official estimate number of Muslim slaughters of Hindus is 80 million. However, Muslim historian Firistha (b. 1570) wrote (in either Tarikh-i Firishta or the Gulshan-i Ibrahim) that Muslims slaughtered over 400 million Hindus up to the peak of Islamic rule of India, bringing the Hindu population down from 600 mil to 200 million at the time. With these new additions the Muslim genocide of non-Muslims since the birth of Mohammed would be over 669 million murders. Islam: The Religion of Genocide Perspective: Think the Spanish inquisition was bad? More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition* combined. The Spanish inquisition ( Tri...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese efforts to spy on the Dutch are intensifying, with the focus on semiconductors, Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans said on Saturday. "The semiconductor industry, which we are technologically leading, or technology advanced, of course, to get that intellectual property - that's interesting to China," Brekelmans said in an interview on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore. The Dutch military intelligence agency said in its annual report in April last year that Chinese spies have targeted the Dutch semiconductor, aerospace and maritime industries to try to strengthen China's armed forces When asked if the spying had stopped, Brekelmans said: "It's continuing. In our newest intelligence reports, our intelligence agency said that the biggest cyber threat is coming from China, and that we do see most cyber activity when it comes to us being as from China. That was the case last year, but that's...
Kabul: Five members of the US-led international military coalition were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against foreign troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week. The renewed violence came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that his government has been receiving funds from CIA for more than a decade as part of regular monthly assistance from the US government. Karzai told reporters at a news conference that the CIA's station chief in Kabul has assured him that regular funding the US intelligence agency gives his government will not be cut off. Karzai had earlier confirmed that his government had received such payments following a story published in The New York Times that said the CIA had given the Afghan National Security Council tens of millions of dollars in monthly payments delivered in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags. "The help and assistance f...
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