Friday, December 19, 2008

Ahmadinejad: Justice to be administered at any price

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Ahvaz that he will stand to the end to administer justice at any price and is not afraid of reproaches.
Addressing owners of windfall wealth, he added, "If justice is administered you should get offended because you have acquired it due to injustice and discriminatory policies in the society." If the government wants to regain them and put them at the public disposal, then they'll say that such policies are wrong, he said.
He added that more than 80 percent of taxes are paid by 70 percent of population who account for 30 percent of the country's total revenues.

Pakistani Taliban releases video of beheaded 'spies' on al-Qaeda leader

Pakistani Taliban have issued a video of five beheaded persons, including soldiers, who were accused of spying on a key al-Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi who was killed in a U.S missile strike in the tribal region in January this year.
Al-Libi was a senior leader of the al-Qaeda movement in Afghanistan who appeared in several al-Qaeda videos. He was believed to have been active in the tribal regions of Waziristan. He also served as an al Qaeda spokesman and an "expert in guerilla warfare." The slain people in 'confessional statements' said that they had 'provided secret information and helped in attacks on behest of Pakistani officials, according to the video sent to several journalists in Peshawar.
However spokesman for Pakistan army Major General Athar Abbas said the government of Pakistan is not providing any intelligence to the Americans to identify targets, the BBC Urdu reported on the website.