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Jews lobby ‘to remove
Al-Aqsa Mosque’
Extremist Jewish organizations in sanctities would become ‘inevitable’
Israel have demanded that the Al- to if Tel Aviv fails to dissemble and
Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the transfer the edifices.
Rock from East Jerusalem Al-Quds Etzion was jailed for five years in
be transferred to Makkah. the 1980s for a plot to explode the
Gershon Salomon is seeking the mosques on the Noble Sanctuary
removal of the mosques from East (Haram al-Sharif), and has vowed he
Jerusalem Al-Quds, which Israel would do the same again.
occupied during the 1967 aggression The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been
and illegally annexed it later despite attacked by extremist Jews over
international opposition, Israeli daily the past weeks while the mosque
Yedioth Ahronoth reported. compound was sealed off to Muslim
The founder and leader of the worshippers.
ultra-Orthodox Temple Mount and Israel also deployed thousands
Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement plans of troops in the area to quell
to have Israeli engineers transfer the demonstrations by Palestinians
Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of protesters who accused Tel Aviv
the Rock to the Muslims’ holy city of of efforts to take away the Islamic-
Makkah, the daily added. Palestinian identity of the Muslims’
The Israeli paper also quoted third holy site.
under a 1994 peace treaty, demanded
ultra-right Yehuda Etzion, who is Jordan, who enjoys the right to
last week that Israel keep Jewish
associated with Israeli spy agencies, look after all Islamic and Christian
extremists away from the compound
as saying that blowing up of the Muslim holy sites in East Jerusalem Al-Quds
and keep the Mugrabi Gate closed.
US court rules govt can
withhold info on torture
A US federal court has ruled that In August, the government
the government can continue argued to the court that it
to suppress transcripts of should be allowed to continue
former CIA prisoners that have to withhold the documents,
been tortured at US detention because releasing the Urdu
facilities. information in them would
The ruling came in a Freedom reveal “intelligence sources and
typsetting &
of Information Act lawsuit filed methods” and might aid enemy translation service
by the American Civil Liberties “propaganda.”
Union (ACLU) to obtain Chief Judge Royce Lamberth
transcripts from the Defense of the US District Court for the
Department’s Combatant District of Columbia refused
Status Review Tribunals, which ACLU’s request for the review
were used to determine if of the documents.
Guantanamo detainees qualify ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner
as “enemy combatants.” said that the court is allowing
The government had the government to suppress
produced the transcripts with the evidence “not to protect
heavy reactions that largely any legitimate national security
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