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igotthisguitar · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:06 am Post subject:

Iranian Band Plans Concert With Chris de Burgh

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have approved a plan for concerts by an Iranian pop group and singer Chris de Burgh in Tehran, the group's manager said on Saturday.

The concerts, set for the middle of next year, would be the first time since the 1979 revolution that an Iranian pop band had played alongside a Western singer inside the Islamic Republic, Arian's manager Mohsen Rajabpour said.

Rajabpour, director of Taraneh Sharghi music company, said Arian and de Burgh had recorded a song called "A Melody for Peace" which he said was intended "to reflect the peace-seeking spirit of the Iranian people to the world."

"We are trying to organize the concerts, scheduled for June and July," he told Reuters, confirming a report carried by Iran's Fars New Agency.

The plan is to hold the concert at a 12,000-seat stadium complex in Tehran. De Burgh is expected to visit Iran early next year as a tourist for discussions on the project.

De Burgh, born of British parents and brought up in Ireland, is popular in Iran and his Web site message board (www.cdeb.com) has several entries from Iranian fans.

"Iran is definitely one of those countries I would love to visit. Not only for historical reasons but also for the fact that I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world," de Burgh replied to one Iranian in a message posted in 2002.

Western pop songs with lyrics are banned by Iran's authorities although state radio sometimes plays instrumental versions. Iranian pop bands say their lyrics and tunes are vetted before they can be officially sold in Iran.

Pirate versions of the latest Western albums or songs by underground Iranian groups are available on the black market.

"The head of the music centre of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has officially announced that there is no problem with holding a joint performance," Rajabpour said when asked whether his plan had been approved.

Iranian pop groups say plans to hold concerts have to go through a tortuous process to obtain permission. Lyrics are studied to ensure they do not contradict Islamic values and even the music style, such as the use of guitar feedback, prompt disapproval for having too much Western influence, they say.

Iran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear ambitions which Western nations fear are aimed at building bombs. Tehran insists its intentions are entirely peaceful.

(Writing by Reza Derakhshi; Editing by Robert Woodward)

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igotthisguitar · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject:

Mobile Labs To Target Iraqis For Death
Robert Parry

December 13, 2007

U.S. forces in Iraq soon will be equipped with high-tech equipment that will let them process an Iraqi�s biometric data in minutes and help American soldiers decide whether they should execute the person or not, according to its inventor.

"A war fighter needs to know one of three things: Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot?" Pentagon weapons designer Anh Duong told the Washington Post for a feature on how this 47-year-old former Vietnamese refugee and mother of four rose to become a top U.S. bomb-maker.

Though Duong is best known for designing high-explosives used to destroy hardened targets, she also supervised the Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facilities project, known as a "lab in a box" for analyzing biometric data, such as iris scans and fingerprints, that have been collected on more than one million Iraqis.

The labs � collapsible, 20-by-20-foot units each with a generator and a satellite link to a biometric data base in West Virginia � will let U.S. forces cross-check data in the field against information collected previously that can be used to identify insurgents. These labs are expected to be deployed across Iraq in early 2008.

Duong said the next step will be to shrink the lab to the size of a "backpack" so soldiers who encounter a suspect "could find out within minutes" if he�s on a terrorist watch list and should be killed.

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igotthisguitar · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:27 am Post subject:

Wikipedia's Crooked Underbelly
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/

igotthisguitar · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:06 am Post subject:

Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See
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igotthisguitar · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

Hiding In Plain Sight

Once an 911 FBI suspect, Hasan Elahi now does the FBI a favor by monitoring himself every minute of the day.

By KEVIN SITES, SUN JAN 13, 8:23 PM PST

What would you do if you were "suspected" of a "crime" that could send you to jail cell in Guantanamo Bay for untold years?

http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/59371/hiding-in-plain-sight/

igotthisguitar · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

Gulf Prankster "Possible" Message Source

CAIRO, Egypt - A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a "prankster" rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.

A video and audio of the Jan. 6 incident in the Strait of Hormuz featured a man in accented English saying "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes."

The Filipino Monkey hypotheses (MORE)

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