Moroccan woman jailed 3 years

A Moroccan woman has been jailed for three years for violently abusing an 11-year-old maid. Outraged rights groups said they would appeal the sentence on grounds that it was too lenient.
The woman was also fined US $3,000 for her brutality against the little maid, Zineb Chetite, whose case attracted widespread attention in Morocco. [...]

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War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

by Michel Chossudovsky

The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. 
This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline. 
British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International [...]

Child victims of Gaza

At least 300 children are among the more than 1,000 Palestinians who have died since Israel began to bombard the Gaza Strip on December 27.
Al Jazeera has obtained the names of 210 of the young victims, 44 of which were under five years old. 

Date
Name
Gender
Age

27/12/2008
Ibtihal Kechko
Girl
10

 
Ahmed Riad Mohammed Al-Sinwar
Boy
3

   
Ahmed Al-Homs
Boy
18

   
Ahmed Rasmi Abu Jazar
Boy
16

 
Ahmed Sameeh Al-Halabi
Boy
18

 
Tamer Hassan Al-Akhrass
Boy
5

 
Hassan [...]

The Third Rail

John Morton
It is now two weeks into the Israeli war on the people of Gaza. 1000 Palestinian men, women and children, and no doubt some leaders of the militant group Hamas are dead, as compared with a handful of Israelis, some broken fences and flower pots in Israel.
While I do not normally like to comment or [...]

Kissinger calls on Obama to create a New World Order

US masses naval-air-marine might in Arabian Sea opposite India, Pakistan, Iran

Three US aircraft carriers with strike groups, task forces and nuclear submarines have piled up in the waters of the Arabian Sea opposite the shores of India, Pakistan and Iran, and in the Persian Gulf.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the US began massing this formidable array of floating firepower at the outset of the [...]

Morocco issues biometric ID cards

World’s Scariest Ghosts Caught On Tape

Protest against Judge’s decision to disallow Amazigh name for baby girl.

The refusal of a judge to allow the use of  Moroccan Berber name that parents wanted to give to their adopted daughter has aroused discontent among Moroccan organizations of human rights.
on January 28th, The court in Larache, refused to allow a Moroccan girl to have the amazigh name “Illy”, a name chosen by her adoptive parents [...]

Morocco building collapse kills 14

Fourteen people were killed when a two-storey residential building under construction collapsed in Morocco’s northwestern city of Khenitra, government officials said on Thursday.Twenty six people were injured in Wednesday’s collapse and it was not known how many people might still be trapped beneath the rubble.
The number of people on site at the time of the [...]

Road accident claims 9 in Morocco

Rabat, Morocco – Nine people were killed here Friday and 10 others wounde d, five of them seriously, in a road accident in the Khémisset region, some 70 k i lometres away, an official source told PANA Thursday.The accident took place when a lorry collided head-on with a public transport ve hicle while negotiating a [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ex-French President Chirac, wife celebrate Christmas in Morocco

Former French President, Jacques Chirac, and his wife Bernadette, who arrived in Southern Morocco since Sunday, will be spending Christmas there, reliable sources told PANA here Monday.
Chirac and his wife are currently in Taroudant (700 km south of Rabat) where the French couple has a private residence.
Over the past few years, the couple had regularly [...]

US may sell 24 Lockheed fighters to Morocco

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) – The Bush administration has told Congress of plans to sell Morocco 24 Lockheed Martin Corp F-16C/D fighter aircraft, advanced weapons and related gear valued at up to $2.4 billion.
The sale would boost Morocco’s ability to help in the U.S.-declared global war on terrorism and enhance Morocco’s ability to defend itself, [...]

Spain’s top court recognizes Saharawis as stateless people

Madrid – Spain’s Supreme Court has recognized a Western Saharawi woman as stateless because the Moroccan nationality cannot be “imposed” on her, court sources said Wednesday. The ruling opens the door for other Saharawis to seek a similar recognition in Spain. Some 200,000 Saharawis are living in camps in Algerian Tindouf, which received an influx [...]

Abdelaziz Ahnafouf criticcaly injures

Arminia Bielefeld striker Abdelaziz Ahanfouf, 29, was critically injured in a car crash on a motorway on Monday evening, the club said on its website. The club quoted a police report saying his car crashed into a truck from the Netherlands and that the fire brigade was needed to extract him from the car after it [...]

quotation of the day

“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.” 
–Albert Einstein

Lebanon bomb kills senior general

James Sturcke and agencies
Wednesday December 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The man tipped to be the next head of Lebanon’s army, Brig Gen Francois Hajj, was killed today by a car bomb in a Beirut suburb.
Three others died with Hajj as they drove through a Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital in the early morning, authorities [...]

A kosher hotel takes root in Marrakech

                                the ogre city
By Romina Ruiz-Goiriena
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
When Moroccan-born Israeli chef Mordechai Perez decided to visit Marrakech to search for his roots, he had no idea that he would also be making a career move. In short order, he would find himself the chief chef of Marrakech’s first-ever kosher hotel and restaurant, slated to open its [...]

Naqniq, R. I. P.

xymphora published these bad news…good news…..bad news because a human being was prevented from expressing himself/herself freely…..bad news because we all know why this blog was suspended and who was behind this evil act….next time don’t bring the old same story about democracy and Human Rights  and human lefts……..this blog was not suspended in iran, [...]

3,5 tons of hashish seized in Morocco

One person suspected of smuggling drugs was killed, and 3,5 tons of hashish were seized by the Moroccan army fleet near Al-Hoseima in the north-eastern part of the country, it was officially announced.
The suspect, whose identity was not revealed, was killed in a boat in which he transported 120 packages of hashish, the royal fleet [...]

Morocco counts over 2,300 HIV/AIDS cases

AIDS prevalence in Morocco up to June 30 is estimated at 2,306 cases, 39% of which are women, revealed, here on Wednesday, a study presented at a planning workshop on AIDS. The study showed that people under 40 are the most concerned by AIDS with 42% of cases documented among people aged between 30 and [...]

PIC OF THE DAY

A MOROCCAN JAIL

EXODUS….EXODUS…EXODUS

the jews want to milk arabs dry and they do not hide it…What do Andre Azoulay, king Mohamed VI’s advisor, Robert Assaraf, Serge Berduggo and Serfaty think ?As for me, i have no comment to make…
Forgotten refugeesEffort under way to focus on Jews of Arab lands
by Eric Fingerhut Staff Writer
Most everyone knows that Israel’s [...]