TERRORISM: Pakistan opened an investigation into the presence of bin Laden in Abbottabad

AFP - Prime Minister of Pakistan announced on Monday an investigation into how Osama bin Laden has been able to live with impunity in its garrison towns, Abbottabad, but he hammered that Pakistan could not be the only country to blame for the existence and acts of Al Qaeda.

"We are determined to find every way how, when and why Osama bin Laden was present in Abbottabad.An investigation was ordered, "said Yousuf Raza Gilani to the deputies of the National Assembly.

But Al Qaeda was not born in Pakistan, "he said in response to charges including Washington, on possible complicity in the army or the Pakistani intelligence.

"Who is responsible for the birth of Al-Qaeda" in the 1990s? Who is responsible for having built the myth of Bin Laden? ", He stressed, in a thinly veiled reference to the United States.

"It is necessary to remind the international community the decade of the 1990s which saw the Arab volunteers to join the jihad (the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviet occupation, ed) that turned into Al-Qaeda," he added Prime Minister.

Afghan jihadists fighting the Red Army in the 1980s thanks to financial aid and weapons from the CIA, through Pakistan's intelligence services.

CINEMA: Fifty cult films from the Soviet era to (re) watch on YouTube

AFP - The Russian film studios Mosfilm and Google, through its YouTube video platform, announced Wednesday it posted a free fifty of the greatest Soviet films in original version with subtitles.

Mosfilm said in a statement that every week five additional films will be made available on its channel www.youtube.com / Mosfilm.

Many cult films are already available: "The White Sun of the Desert", a western transposed in Central Asia on the adventures of a Soviet soldier, "Ivan Vasilyevich changing profession," a comedy about a scientist inventing a machine to travel back in time , or "The irony of fate" a romantic comedy about the trials of a man drunk on the evening of New Year.

"The goal of this project is to give the public an opportunity to legally watch quality videos and block illegal use of our films," said the director general of Mosfilm, Karen CHAKHNAZAROV.

"Most movies are online with subtitles in foreign language for the public to other countries can also watch movies of Mosfilm," he said in a statement.

At the time of the USSR, Mosfilm was one of the largest film studios in the world, whereas the Soviet cinema as a vital tool for propaganda in the country and abroad.

Image: YouTube screenshot.

LIBYA: NATO bombs a residential Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli

AFP - The office of Colonel Gaddafi, in his huge residence located in Tripoli, was totally destroyed by a NATO airstrike early Monday, while heavy explosions were felt in several areas of the city overflown by aircraft, noted journalists from AFP.

45 people were injured, 15 seriously, in the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi's office, said a Libyan official accompanying reporters on the spot, saying ignore if there were other victims in the rubble.

"This is an attempt to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi," he said. Seif Al-Islam, son of Colonel Gaddafi has described the bombing of the office of his father "a coward"."This cowardly attack on Muammar Qaddafi's office can frighten or terrorize the children but we do not abandon the battle and we are not afraid," he said in a brief statement on its television Allibiya. "Millions (of people) are with Muammar Gaddafi. People who are not afraid," he said, asserting that the battle waged by Nato was "unwinnable." "Do you see all these people who are at Bab Al-Aziziyah despite raids? How will you overcome this people?" He said.

Radio Television of State referred to NATO?

Around 3:00 local time (0100 GMT), smoke poured always a part of the destroyed building, where dozens of curious onlookers and supporters of the plan gathered, chanting slogans in praise of the Guide.A meeting room, opposite the office of Colonel Gaddafi, was hit by the blast and partially destroyed, according to an AFP journalist. African leaders gathered in this room with Colonel Gaddafi two weeks ago to propose a peace plan accepted by the regime, but ultimately rejected by the rebels.

NATO had targeted Friday night the area of ​​Bab Al-Aziziya, where the residence of the Libyan leader. The international coalition had already destroyed a building in this residence, saying it was a command center.

Heavy explosions were felt Monday around 0:10 local (10:10 p.m. GMT Sunday) in several areas of the Libyan capital, since Friday raids target of intensive NATO.The explosions, with the largest shook the capital so far, have shaken the hotel hosting the foreign press correspondents in Tripoli, not far from downtown. The retransmission of the Libyan state television was temporarily cut immediately after the explosions, before returning a few minutes later, found the AFP journalists.

Quoting a military source, the official Libyan agency Jana said on his part that "many military and civilian sites in the city of Tripoli has been the target of raids assailant colonialist crusader (NATO), which resulted in damage human and material. "The agency also confirmed the break signal of television and state radio, saying the broadcast was restored "after a few minutes with national expertise. Jana did not specify whether television transmission sites have been targeted by the raids.

An international coalition intervened in Libya on March 19 on a UN mandate, to put an end to the bloody suppression of the revolt began in mid-February against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, in power for 41 years. NATO took command of the military action on March 31.

Silvio Berlusconi appears in court for the first time in 8 years

The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared Monday in court in Milan for the first time in eight years, for a preliminary hearing for a possible trial, according to an AFP journalist.

He went directly to car inside the courthouse with his escort to visit the offices of a judge for preliminary hearings on the seventh floor of the imposing Palace of Justice in Milan.

This preliminary hearing, the first of a series of four or five, must be used to decide whether to be tried or not to tax evasion and breach of trust on the alleged overbilling of TV rights bought by Mediatrade-RTI, a company his empire, the Paramount and other U.S. majors.

Mr. Berlusconi made a hand sign to the many cameras waiting outside the entrance.Thirty activists from his party, the People of Freedom (PDL), also were waiting outside with banners proclaiming: "politics at the ballot box not in the courts," "Justice does not exist where there is no freedom "or" Silvio you must resist, resist, resist. "

The hearing scheduled at 08:00 GMT will be held in camera. However, Mr.Berlusconi might make a statement at its output.

Before going into court, the chief government complained in a telephone call to one of its private channels, the charges are "ridiculous and baseless."

He also lashed out at opponents of the leftist opposition, saying that "Italy, communism has never changed, there are still people who use the penal code as an instrument of ideological struggle."

INTERNET: An online magazine published in Arabic, trying to blend foundation and Jihad ...

What's in common between beauty tips and a Kalashnikov? Not much a priori, but the first issue of Al-Shamika (Woman majestic). This new magazine from the radical Islamist movement, presents itself as a kind of "Cosmopolitan" or "She" for aspiring jihadist wife. Al-Shamika and tries to make jihad a lifestyle.

Released these days, and discovered on Monday by the British daily The Independent, he suggested, in Arabic, an explosive mix between practical advice for the modern Muslim woman and more traditional calls for jihad.The term "jihad", with multiple definitions through the ages, has been hijacked by radical movements to legitimize the armed struggle against fellow Muslims or non-Muslims.

On its front, Al-Shamika shows a submachine gun on purple background with two pictures of women covered by a niqab. The magazine mentions and, throughout its 31 pages, cosmetics (foundation ...) and practical advice (interior design ...).

"Good" raising children

In addition to these subjects "light", the magazine is very clear on his message: "The Nation of Islam requires women who know the truth about their religion and who understand what we expect of them," Can reads the editorial in the first issue.They are asked "to raise children in the tradition of jihad" or develop "a stable home for their husbands can devote itself fully to the Jihad."

"The message of Al-Shamika nothing innovative in the sense that Islamist radicals have always given a very important role to support women as men engaged in jihad," said Gilbert Ramsay, an expert on Islamist networks and Internet Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews (England).Al-Shamika also does not call for violent action.

The magazine follows the example of the ephemeral "Little Girls Khansa" newspaper also for Muslim women who disappeared after two issues.

Jihad everywhere

In terms of women's magazines of this type, the true reference would rather "Inspire", which caused a sensation in 2010. This magazine, promoted by the American preacher of Yemeni origin, Anwar al-Awlaki, became the first online publication written entirely in English, hoping to attract potential recruits in Western countries. He is currently in its fourth edition.Unlike "Inspire", Al-Shamika has not been formally identified as a publication from Al-Qaeda nebula.

"These two magazines convey the same idea: that the precepts of jihad can be applied even in occupations most routine of daily life," Gilbert Ramsay analysis.

He said jihad has led, over the Internet, the emergence of a genuine subculture that is not dominated by calls to violence. "The movements that advocate jihad will give trouble on forums and blogs to explain that support the jihad by small daily gestures, but also to participate," he says.In order to open the mind to these new converts to the next opportunity to participate in violent acts?

BAHRAIN: Important deployment of security forces in the capital Manama

The Bahrain Police dismantled by force during the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a camp of protesters demanding political change in the kingdom, during an operation that killed two people, witnesses and opposition.

The Ministry of Interior wrote on Twitter that security forces had "emptied the place of the Pearl" in Manama and a grand avenue of the capital was partially closed.

Fifty armored vehicles were sighted Thursday morning trying to move towards the Place de la Perle.

More than a dozen tanks, military vehicles and army ambulances were seen in central Manama.

Inspired by revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, thousands of Bahrainis, mainly from the Shiite majority, protested since Monday to demand political and social reforms in the kingdom ruled by a Sunni family.

Hundreds of them had begun to camp on the Place de la Perle, hoping to transform it into a rallying point of protest to the image of what the Egyptians did on Tahrir Square in Cairo until the fall of "Hosni Mubarak.

"They are killing us"

"The police are to intervene, she launched tear gas," said one demonstrator reached by telephone in the night by Reuters.

Another said: "I am wounded, I bleed.They are killing us. "

One protester said he evacuated two wounded by car by rubber bullets.

"I was there (...) The men fled but women and children could not run as fast," said Ibrahim Mattar, a member of Wefaq, the main Shiite opposition.

"Two people are dead, it's confirmed," he added. "Others are in serious condition."

About 200 people gathered in a major city hospitals.

Place de la Perle, on which lay a strong smell of tear gas, seemed deserted in the early hours of Thursday.Abandoned tents, blankets and trash littered the ground.

Two ambulances were seen trying to leave suddenly in the night.

Poverty and unemployment

"There was no any warning. We had the impression of an offensive against the enemy. People were sleeping quietly, "said a protester who requested anonymity.

The Wefaq, which suspended its parliamentary activities, Wednesday called for adopting a new constitution more democratic.

"We do not want to establish a religious state.We want a civil democracy (...) in which the people are the source of power, and for this we need a new constitution, "said party secretary general, Sheikh Ali Salman, during a press conference.

The protesters' main demand is the resignation of Prime Minister, Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, who ruled the country since its independence in 1971. Uncle of King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, he is seen as a symbol of wealth the ruling family.

The demonstrators also denounced poverty and unemployment.They were also concerned about the benefits accorded to foreign Sunni from settling in the small kingdom (citizenship, employment in the security forces, housing) that tend to alter the demographic balance.

In the 1990s, Bahrain has already been the scene of unrest.The adoption in 2002 of a new constitution and organize elections had helped restore calm, but the opposition considers these reforms now insufficient.

The angry demonstrators had been pronounced dead Wednesday by two of them on Monday and Tuesday in clashes with security forces.

"The people calling the fall of the regime," shouted protesters Wednesday, beating his chest, a gesture of mourning for Shiites.

EGYPT: Washington believes that the Egyptian government's efforts are insufficient

The tone rose Wednesday between Washington and Cairo, the White House saying that the changes incurred by the Egyptian government remained inadequate, while the Egyptian foreign minister accused the Americans of wanting to "impose" their will on his country.

In the sixteenth day of unprecedented revolt against the regime of Hosni Mubarak's ally, Washington has had to defend itself from any interference in the affairs of Egypt, but again claiming the reforms that meet the protestors in Tahrir Square.

"Clearly, what the government has put on the table so far has not completed the minimum threshold of what is required by the Egyptians," he observed to the press spokesman of the White House Robert Gibbs.

Mr.Gibbs attacked particularly the Vice-President of Egypt Omar Suleiman, appointed by Mr. Mubarak to negotiate a political transition with the opposition.

"The transition process does not seem to expect the Egyptians," added the spokesperson for Barack Obama, warning against a new outbreak of protest in Egypt if the power does not give enough ground.

A senior State Department, Jake Sullivan, for his part stressed that "the United States has never said that Vice-President Suleiman was the appropriate person (to lead the transition) or delivered for trial who should be in control. "

"We are not interested persons (...) but concrete results," he said during a media teleconference.

The Egyptian regime has previously hinted his temper against pressure from Washington.

"When you talk about quick and immediate change to a great country like Egypt, with which you have always maintained the best relationships, you impose your will", denounced the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in a Service in the U.S. television network PBS.

"We are already changing," shouted Mr. Gheit, referring to discussions with the protesters.

Mr.Gheit also warned that "the army would intervene in case of chaos to take things in hand," according to comments reported by the official MENA news agency.

Asked about the statements, the spokesman for the State Department, Philip Crowley, urged the Egyptian army to "continue to exercise the same moderation that in recent days."

On Tuesday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Mr. Suleiman for him to claim an immediate end to the state of emergency in force for nearly 30 years.

On PBS, Mr. Gheit said he was "truly astonished" by this request: "As we speak, there are 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets because the prisons were destroyed.How can you ask me to abolish the state of emergency while I'm in trouble? "

Mr. Gheit told he had been "often angry, angry" face to the American response in the initial events in Cairo, although the relationship has since subsided.

Asked about the Egyptian minister, Mr. Crowley has assured that Washington was not seeking "to dictate anything." He defended the call to immediately lift the state of emergency is an "interference" and stressed that the solution to the crisis should be found by the Egyptians themselves.

BELGIUM: 30,000 demonstrators to Brussels to demand a government

AFP - More than 30,000 Belgians took part Sunday in Brussels in a march of "shame" to expose the unprecedented political crisis lasting record that threatens the unity of the country, due to differences between Flemish and Francophone, and ask formation of a government.

This is the first time since the Belgian parliamentary elections of 13 June 2010, ordinary citizens are expressing their exasperation with massively to the current impasse.

They were responding to a call via the Internet popularized five young Flanders and Brussels, three students and two employees, claiming no political affiliation even if one of them is the son of Minister of Justice, a Flemish Christian Democrat .Their motto: a march of "shame" for the kingdom.

"A beard for Belgium"

"What we want? We want a government," chanted the protesters, often young, the 224th day of the crisis which saw the country deprived of effective government, a record in Europe.

Many demonstrators wore also on Sunday a placard with the slogan "Divide? Not in our name!" Slogan of a meeting of artists and intellectuals held in Brussels on Friday evening, which caused a stir.

The participants, mixed Flemish and Francophone, have denounced the line defended by the Nationalist party emerged as the winner of legislative independence, the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), which contributes to the current political stalemate.

The tone of humor, speaking Geluck Philippe, the famous designer of the "Cat", is called a "revolution of mussels and fries," the Belgian national dish, along the lines of "jasmine revolution" Tunisian .

Other successful slogan, "A beard for Belgium" could be read on stickers flown Sunday some 34,000 demonstrators (by police), following a call from the Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde no longer to shave until the denouement of the crisis.

A text divides the Flemish majority

"We want a solution.Not this trench warfare between political parties, "said one protester Flemish, Christopher, 27, researcher in sociology from the University of Antwerp (Flanders, north).

For him, Sunday's protest reflects "the beginning of a rift between Flemings," since the right Flemish - N-VA and the Christian Democrats VCT - dismissed on January 6 a draft agreement prepared by a socialist Flemish with a mission of conciliation.

This text was instead supported by the Flemish and Francophone left participant for more than seven months in the endless negotiations in September

Single incident of the gathering on Sunday, five Flemish extremists were detained by police when they tried to destroy tracts for demonstrators.

One of the organizers of the march, Vandereecken Simon, a graphic designer for 23 years, welcomed a success "has exceeded our expectations."

"Our politicians will have to react after such a mobilization. Otherwise, we'll see what steps to take," he told AFP.

Belgium has been administered since 2010 by a firm responsible for caretaker absence of agreement on a new reform of its institutions.

The Francophone Wallonia and Brussels want to limit the autonomy demanded by the Flemish reinforced (60% of the estimated 11 million Belgians), particularly in tax matters, lest it be the beginning of the end for the country.