Death toll from attack on Shiites in Iraq rises to 36

.- The death toll from a suicide attack yesterday against a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims arrived on Sunday at 36, Iraqi officials said Sunday, one of the most severe attacks against that group so far this year. The victims of Saturday's attack were pilgrims who came from a ceremony at the al-Askari mosque in the former insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad.

The attack showed that the insurgents have renewed their attempts to incite violence between Shiites and Sunnis, after a lull. Medical officials and police said there were 64 injured by suicide bombing, which occurred after the ceremonies in memory of the death of a revered religious figure of the ninth century, buried in the mosque.

Afghanistan will be the next to fall, according to Taliban

The Afghan Taliban felt that the Government of Afghanistan, supported by Washington, will be the next to be ousted by the people, after the fall on Friday by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, according to the monitoring center SITE Islamic sites. According to SITE, based on U.S., Afghan Taliban broadcast on 13 February a Pashto language message on its Web site.

In this message, state that the Egyptian president's departure shows that "many weapons, soldiers and foreign aid can not keep a regime in power and can not always slow caravan 'expectations and requirements' of a nation." The message says that the Afghan people will rise up and overthrow the government in Kabul and cauda of corruption and the "atrocities" committed by the United States in the country for a dozen years of military occupation.

Confirm the presence of Mubarak in Egypt

.- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak remains in Egypt, Egyptian officials said today the U.S. television. Mubarak, who resigned last Friday as president and gave powers to the Supreme Military Council of Egypt, he moved that day to his vacation villa in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in the Red Sea coast.

Asked about the program''This Week''on ABC, the Egyptian ambassador to the White House, Sameh Shourky, said he had no exact knowledge of the whereabouts of the former president,''but I think it is in Egypt.'' The presence of Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh was confirmed earlier by Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik.

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Africa: if not now, when?

The most exciting moment in its own way of the World Social Forum in Dakar broke out around 16:00 local Thursday, February 10, while the assembly of the peoples of the Maghreb intervention of an Egyptian boy, who arrived in Senegal stunned after 14 days of continuous presence in square in Cairo. In the days before the focus had been alerted by small processions sometimes walked the streets calling for the end of the campus for nearly three decades of dictatorship backed by the West.

Post-Islamic Revolution

European opinion interprets the popular uprisings in North Africa and Egypt through a gate dating back more than thirty years: the Islamic revolution of Iran. She expects to see Islamist movements, namely the Muslim Brotherhood and their local counterparts, to be either the lead or in ambush, ready to take power.

But discretion and pragmatism of the Muslim Brotherhood astonish and disturb where are the Islamists? But if you look at those who launched the movement, it is clear that this is a generation of post-Islamist. The great revolutionary movements of the 1970s and 1980s, for them it's ancient history, those of their parents.

Anonymous claims attacks on government sites, and Mediaset Room

ROME - New episode of what is now called "Italian Campaign" by the same hackers Anonymous. The "electronic network for Internet freedom" became famous for attacks on pro-Wikileaks claims to have attacked "in 1400" the sites of government. it, the Senate. com, parliament. com and to Mediaset. The attack was carried out using the technique DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) or the "denial of service" while trying to overpower the bandwidth of the servers that host the sites.