Yemeni street witnesses renewed mobilization against military rule [Al Jazeera, Qatar]

Presenter, Female #1
In Yemen, mass protests were held to denounce what was described as assassination attempts against local leaders, and the deteriorating security situation in the country. The protestors raised banners demanding an end to military rule, and the dismissal of the relatives of deposed President Ali Saleh from their military positions. They also called for accelerating the process of unifying the ranks of the military and security apparatus.

Reporter, Male #1
To express their popular fear of the repercussions of the security breakdown in Yemen, these protests were held in the capital Sanaa and a few other cities under the banner, "A salute to national leaderships." Those raising this slogan do not hide their fear of a possible return to violence in the country, especially after it was said that an assassination attempt targeted Yassin Saeed Noman. He is the most prominent leader of the Joint Meeting Parties coalition and the secretary-general of Yemen's Socialist Party. Before this attempt, his comrade in the party, Transportation Minister Waed Bathib was also targeted.

Guest, Male #2 (Mufaddal Ismail, Reform Party Member)
We are sending them the message that playing with fire will ultimately get them burned. As for the country, its countrymen, and its leaders, they are all on the same side, and share the same dedication to fulfill the goals of the revolution.

Reporter, Male #1
What happened to Yassin Saeed Noman ignited the anger of the youth of the revolution, the political parties, and civic society organizations throughout the country. Yet, those demonstrating in Sanaa wanted to express themselves in a different manner. So they marched from Taghyeer Square to the same spot from which soldiers fired at Noman's car.

Guest, Male #3 (Mohammad al-Mukbali, Revolutionary Youth Member)
The assassination attempt is one of the outcomes of the criminal immunity that was granted to the criminal, and exposed the revolutionaries, and subjected them to threats. The assassination attempt against Yassin Noman is an attempt to kill the last opportunity to build a national civic state by one of the few people interested in doing so.

Reporter, Male #1
However, the incident opened the door to other issues, leading to a discussion on the need for checkpoints inside Sanaa while the Gulf initiative stipulated the removal of all armed figures. In one way or another, this reflects a clear security division. The capital remains divided between forces affiliated to the Presidential Guard and others affiliated to the first armored division that joined the revolution.

Reporter, Male #1
Security fears are once again appearing on the Yemeni scene. This time, they are targeting political figures, and if the security situation remains as is, the political process will continue to take one step forward and several steps back. Hamdi al-Bukhari, Al Jazeera, Sanaa.

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Jordan's Islamic Front marches for reforms and an end to corruption [Al Jazeera, Qatar]

Presenter, Female #1
In Jordan, the Islamic Front organized a march, launched from the Husseini mosque in the capital Amman, to demand political and economic reforms and to combat corruption in the country. Participants in the march, that was called "We are proceeding," confirmed their objection to the parliamentary election's "one voice law." The participants in the march vowed to boycott the next parliamentarian election in the wake of the "one voice law" which they described as broken.

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Iraq denies existence of al-Qaeda-affiliated Free Iraqi Army [Al-Iraqiya TV, Iraq]

Presenter, Female #1
Security forces conducted a large-scale security operation this morning in the area of al-Jazira al-Gharbiya, north of the Euphrates River. The spokesman for the Defense Ministry, Diaa al-Wakil, clarified in a statement that ground troops, supported by the air force, executed a large-scale operation to track down terrorists in the area of al-Jazira al-Gharbiya, noting that the operation will continue until it fulfills its goals, which will strengthen the security and stability in the region.

Presenter, Male #1
The claim that an organization was formed under the name of the Free Iraqi Army in Mosul was categorically denied. This was expressed through a statement issued by the undersecretary of the Interior Ministry, Adnan al-Assadi, to Al-Iraqiya.

Presenter, Female #1
Security officials in the province said terrorists are trying to instill fear in the residents by making such claims to raise their own morale after their near defeat.

Reporter, Male #1
"I came to Ninawa to assure everyone that the so-called Free Iraqi Army does not exist." This was the statement issued by the Interior Ministry's senior undersecretary in an exclusive to Al-Iraqiya. Al-Assadi said that, quote, "My visit to the city of Mosul mainly aims to deny the rumors and gossip that claim a terrorist army was established, as promoted by some malicious satellite TV channels and some websites." He also confirmed that terrorist labels change on the basis of conditions imposed on them by the realities on the ground, depending on the time and place.

Guest, Male #3 (Adnan al-Assadi, Interior Ministry Senior Undersecretary)
Honestly, they are al-Qaeda creations. I think that what is called the Free Iraqi Army, or what is being said is a free army, is actually the al-Qaeda organization, or what is called the Islamic State of Iraq. It changed its name and it changed its attire. It went from al-Qaeda, or the Islamic State of Iraq, to the Free Iraqi Army. So it does not exist, and God willing we are monitoring any movement that aims to harm the lives and safety of the civilians and the security of our nation.

Reporter, Male #2
Statements by Ninawa's senior security officials matched al-Assadi's denial of the existence of such an army. They confirmed that all terrorist organizations were infiltrated by their intelligence.

Guest, Male #4 (Mahdi al-Garawi, Federal Police Second Division Leader)
Honestly, until this point, we did not arrest any of these people despite the large numbers who were recently arrested. I assure all Iraqis, and I honestly tell them that I am proud of the work the leaderships of Ninawa's security and the federal police are doing.

Guest, Male #4
We are monitoring all organizations. Honestly, our intelligence work is pointed at all movements, and we are aware of their directions and mobilizations. So we assure all Iraqis that such an organization does not exist.

Guest, Male #5 (Lt. Gen. Ahmed al-Gabouri, Ninawa Police Chief)
There is no truth to the claim that these organizations are present inside or outside the city of Mosul. The organization is composed of some remnants of a terrorist organization.

Reporter, Male #2
The benefits of this intelligence effort were reaped by those involved with the security issue. Some spoke of arresting a large number of people, while others displayed various weapons they retrieved, including light and heavy weapons and the highly explosive C4 element, from different parts of Ninawa Province.

Reporter, Male #2
Everyone agrees that the security challenges remain. The reasons, they say, are essential. Among them are the incubators that bind them internally and the funding that endorses them from abroad. But what is most important is the involvement of some politicians in these terrorist operations, as confirmed by al-Assadi. Haidar Shakor, Al-Iraqiya, Ninawa.

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Qassam rockets hit Sderot and Hof Ashkelon in Israel [IBA, Israel]

A Qassam rocket scored a direct hit on a home in Sderot earlier in the morning. The residents of the house were home at the time of the blast and escaped uninjured. The house sustained slight damage. Security forces arrived at the scene to remove the rocket, which failed to explode completely. An additional Qassam rocket hit an open area in Sderot earlier the night before. Another rocket hit the Hof Ashkelon region. During a visit to the damaged house, Home Front Minister Avi Dichter said that Israel must alter its deterrent strategy vis-a-vis Gaza-based terrorism.

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Iran doubles nuclear enrichment capacity underground: IAEA report [IBA, Israel]

A new International Atomic Energy Agency report said that despite the threat of a US or Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, the country is rapidly increasing its enrichment capacity by doubling its centrifuges at one of its underground facilities. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that "the window to resolve this diplomatically remains open, but it will not remain open indefinitely." Additionally, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, said that he would not want to be complicit in any Israeli strike on Iran.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei: US, Israel main culprits in Syria crisis [Press TV, Iran]

Iranian leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei blames the United States and Israel for the bloodshed in Syria. At a meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi, Ayatollah Khamenei has described the killing of people in Syria and unacceptable, saying that those who sponsor terrorist groups and supply them with arms are responsible for the situation there. He also called on the Syrian government to push ahead with its political reforms, saying that the Non-Aligned Movement should get politically involved.

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UN foreign policy chief Ashton to hold talks with Iran over nuclear program [Press TV, Iran]

UN foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will hold fresh talks with Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Dr. Saeed Jalili, over the country's nuclear energy program. It is not clear when the meeting will be held, and whether it will be face-to-face. A recent IAEA report indicated that Iran has increased its nuclear enrichment capacity at one of its main sites in southern Tehran.

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Eight killed in drone strike in east Yemen [Press TV, Iran]

Another US drone strike in Yemen killed at least eight people in Hadhramaut Province. This is the second such attack on the region in the past two days. On Wednesday, a similar drone strike killed four people traveling in a vehicle.

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Pakistan: Funeral for Shiite judge gunned down in alleged 'targeted killing' [Press TV, Iran]

A funeral procession has been held for a Muslim Shiite judge who was gunned down in an alleged "targeted killing" in Pakistan. People came out in the streets of Karachi to mourn Zulfiqar Naqvi, who was killed by an unidentified gunman along with his driver and bodyguard in southwestern Balochistan Province on Thursday. There has been outcry over the killings, as groups say that Shiites have become frequent targets for attacks in Pakistan's cities.

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Hezbollah rejects deployment of UN forces to Syrian-Lebanese border [Press TV, Iran]

Lebanese movement Hezbollah rejects calls for deploying international troops on the Syria-Lebanon border. Hezbollah Deputy Secretary Sheikh Naeem Qassem says the group is against any foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs. The Lebanese Future Movement group has proposed stationing international troops on the border with Syria, but some dismissed the plan as an Israel plot to drag Lebanon into the ongoing unrest in Syria.

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Thirty-seven killed across Syria as demonstrations call for downfall of al-Assad regime [BBC Arabic, UK]

Presenter, Female #1
The Syrian Revolution's General Commission said that 37 people were killed today, most of them in Homs, as a result of the shelling on its old neighborhoods. And as clashes are reportedly continuing to rage in the city of Aleppo, opposition activists said areas in Daraa, Deir az-Zour, Idlib, the countryside of Damascus, and others were shelled. Protests were also held, during which opposition members called for the downfall of the Syrian regime.

Reporter, Male #1
Daraya, in the countryside of Damascus, and the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli shared the name of this Friday's demonstration. Syrian opposition members took to the street in various parts of the country to call for the downfall of the regime, as accustomed to since the beginning of the uprising.

Reporter, Male #1
The massacres that the opposition says regime forces are committing on a daily basis were reflected in the chants of the demonstrators who cried out in anger at what they view as the silence of the international community. President Bashar al-Assad also had his share of chants and slogans in response to his latest interview with the pro-government channel, Al-Dunya TV.

Reporter, Male #1
But for quite some time now, the Friday demonstration is not the only event that occurs. The shelling and the search for bodies in the rubble of the buildings, which are destroyed by the Syrian army's artillery or its fighter jets, has become a daily part of the lives of the Syrian people, as shown here in Aleppo's town of Abu Thuhur.

Reporter, Male #1
The same applies to the abduction of government members, and their display in video clips. Official Syrian media said government forces destroyed dozens of cars carrying machine guns in the countryside of Aleppo, and raided a rebel-held base in Homs, killing a number of rebels.

Reporter, Male #1
Meanwhile, the city of Aleppo witnessed intense clashes, particularly in the neighborhoods of Saif al-Dawla, Hanano, and al-Sakhour, according to activists. Parts of Daraa Province came under violent shelling and witnessed clashes as well.

Guest, Male #2
The shelling targets the eastern neighborhoods at times and the western parts of the city at others. The situation in the city of Busra al-Harir is bad. We saw a massacre that took the lives of almost 35 people. There are many injured in this town.

Reporter, Male #1
Opposition activists spoke of executions in the countryside of Damascus as battles, shelling, and gunfire was reported in the provinces of Deir az-Zour and Hama. Wael al-Hajjar, BBC.

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Hamas supporters mark 43rd anniversary of Al-Aqsa Mosque burning [Al-Alam, Iran]

Presenter, Female #1
Dozens of foreign activists and members of the anti-Zionism association held a sit-in in front of the Israeli entity's embassy in Amman after a delegation from "Welcome to Palestine" was prevented from entering the occupied territories. The campaign had called for holding a protest in front of the embassies of France and the Israeli entity in Amman. Jordanian security forces arrested a number of the protestors to prevent them from approaching the Israeli entity's embassy.

Presenter, Female #1
Activists noted that the occupation's authorities prevented them from entering the West Bank through the Jordanian border, but they confirmed that they will try to enter again this year, describing the Palestinian territories as a big prison.

Presenter, Female #1
On the 43rd anniversary of the burning of the holy al-Aqsa mosque, the Hamas movement organized a festival in Gaza in solidarity with occupied Jerusalem and its residents, who are subjected to all types of aggressions and the Judaization of the city. The Palestinians called on the Islamic world to bear its responsibilities towards Jerusalem and occupied Palestine.

Reporter, Male #1
The festival that was organized by Hamas in Gaza, on the 43rd anniversary of the burning of the holy al-Aqsa mosque, provided an opportunity to expose the ongoing Zionist crimes and plots to take over Jerusalem, and the attempts to Judaize it, demolish its holy sites, and implant imaginary and forged realities for the Jewish people underneath the city.

Guest, Male #2 (Ahmed Abu Halbia, Hamas Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council)
The Zionist enemy is increasing and continuing its operations to dig and establish a network of tunnels underneath the holy al-Aqsa mosque and its squares and surroundings. The Zionist enemy is using chemical substances to burn and fragment the foundations of the holy al-Aqsa mosque.

Reporter, Male #1
Hamas confined the inevitable demise of the Israeli occupation from all of Palestine, and the nation's holy sites, adding that the demise of the occupation is a mere a matter of time.

Reporter, Male #1
Thousands of participants in the festival confirmed Jerusalem's Muslim identity and its inevitable return to Muslim rule and governance. They called on the nation to bear its responsibilities towards Jerusalem and Palestine.

Guest, Male #3
We all came out to directly tell Arabs, the world, Muslims, and Islamic countries that Jerusalem is part of our belief system, a part of our religion, and that we will never abandon it. We will continue until its return to Arab and Islamic rule.

Guest, Female #2
Where are the 1.5 billion Muslims? I tell the people that now is the time. Al-Aqsa is being desecrated, destroyed and demolished. We are being deprived of praying in it. The time has come!

Reporter, Male #1
The Muslims' first destination for holding prayers is a wounded captive, whose holiness is being violated by gangs and flocks of extremist settlers, while the nation of a billion is in deep sleep. But the verses of a holy book preserved by God will not vanish, and all the aggressors' plots will fail. History's damnations will haunt them, and will haunt those who remain silent. Mustafa Abdelhadi, Al-Alam, from the Palestine field in the city of Gaza, Palestine.

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Rights observers praise Western Sahara's struggle for self-determination [Algerie TV, Algeria]

Presenter, Female #1
In the Western Sahara, the president of the Robert Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Kerry Kennedy, led a delegation that included representatives of international human rights organizations to Sahrawi refugee camps. She described the conditions of these camps as distinguished.

Presenter, Female #1
The president of the Kennedy center expressed admiration for the peaceful struggle of the Sahrawi people for their right to self-determination. She confirmed that she will raise awareness about the Sahrawi issue in all the countries she will visit, and with the organizations that have ties with her foundation.

Presenter, Female #1
The members of the delegation heard input from representatives of organizations working with the families of prisoners, missing persons, and victims of antipersonnel mines, which the Moroccan occupiers placed along the wall that separates the desert into two parts. At the end of the visit, the delegation was received by Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz; in attendance were Sahrawi officials. The delegation plans to work on a detailed report about this mission and to publish it in the near future. Trust in the UN secretary general's personal envoy to the Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, was renewed and he has maintained his post. Katia Abbad reports.

Reporter, Female #2
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon refused the Moroccan kingdom's demand to replace his personal envoy to the Western Sahara, Christopher Ross. He reaffirmed that Ross will continue to serve as his personal envoy, so he can continue his task of supervising the negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco on the basis of the Security Council's guidelines.

Reporter, Female #2
The Moroccan kingdom had lost confidence in Ross in May, accusing his decisions of being biased and imbalanced. Immediately after Ban Ki-moon renewed his confidence in his personal envoy, the Polisario Front called for quickly setting a schedule to organize a referendum so the Sahrawi people can decide on their fate. Keeping Ross as the head of this mission will certainly guarantee negotiations will proceed according to international legitimacy that states that the Sahrawi people have the right to self-determination.