Showing posts with label Qatar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Qatar. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

Anti-Islam film protests Live Blog

The Pope is in Lebanon. He's a little pissed about the anti-christian thing going on in the Middle East.
He called for a demand meeting. Now this was before all hell broke loose. It was right after the church desecration in Israel. The Cardinals were all pretty upset over the the teaching of anti-Christianity in Israel. Apparently the kids are taught to disrespect the priests and they take it a little to far.
Contrary to popular belief, In Israel, Jews do not like Christians.
Mean while back at the pass, the demonstrations swell.
Some are peaceful and some are not, they do what they were intended to do.
Squelch the Pope.
Believe it or not....


Anti-Islam film protests 40 minutes ago


Security forces have killed one person and injured two others during protests in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, according to the Reuters news agency. Earlier protesters in Tripoli set fire to US businesses like KFC and Hardees restaurants over the anti-Islam video. The incidents come as Pope Benedict began a three-day visit to Lebanon.


Anti-Islam film protests about an hour ago


Al Jazeera correspondents are reporting that Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protestors outside US embassy in Khartoum. Meanwhile, the UK and German embassies in the Sudanese capital have reportedly been stormed, and video shows a part of the latter embassy in flames as protesters demonstrate nearby.

Friday, August 31, 2012

Qatar group falls victim to virus attack


And so the many shall suffer, for this now, is one of the ever changing subtle faces of war.


Qatar’s RasGas, one of the world’s largest producers of natural gas, has become the second major state-owned Middle East energy company to be hit by a severe computer virus in weeks.

The disruption came after Saudi Aramco, the government-backed company that is the world’s largest crude oil producer, was also attacked by a computer virus.

Saudi Aramco said in a statement on Sunday that it has restored its “main internal network services” after the attack on August 15. But oil traders in Houston, Geneva and London on Thursday said they were communicating with Aramco’s counterpart by fax and telex, as the company’s external email services were still down.

“It’s like going back 20 years in time,” a trader said about the use of the telex.

Aramco on Thursday said it had