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Sudanese storm German embassy, hoist Islamic flag
Gilani’s son arrested, gets bail
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50 dead in Afghan bus accident
French magazine sets off new storm with Kate’s topless photos
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Film Fury Khartoum, September 14 The obscure California-made production had triggered an attack on the US consulate in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans on Tuesday, the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaida attacks on the United States. Rallies against the film were also staged on Friday in Egypt, Yemen, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq. Protesters clashed with the police near the US embassy in Cairo before a nationwide protest called by the Muslim Brotherhood which propelled Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Mursi to power. The police in the Sudanese capital fired tear gas to try to disperse 5,000 protesters who had ringed the German embassy and nearby British mission. A Reuters witness said police stood by as a crowd forced its way into Germany's mission. Demonstrators hoisted a black Islamic flag saying in white letters "there is no God but God and Mohammed is his prophet". They smashed windows, cameras and furniture in the building and then started a fire. Staff at Germany's embassy were safe "for the moment", Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Berlin. Witnesses said police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters to stop them approaching the US embassy outside Khartoum. Protesters also clashed with the police in Yemen, where one person died and 15 were injured on Thursday when the US embassy compound was stormed. Hundreds of members of hardline groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah joined protests across Pakistan against a controversial anti-Islam film, with many calling for severe punishment for the movie's makers and demanding the expulsion of American diplomats. The US and other Western embassies in other Muslim countries had tightened security, fearing anger at the film may prompt attacks on their compounds after the weekly worship. The protests present US President Barack Obama with a new foreign policy crisis less than two months before seeking re-election and tests Washington's relations with democratic governments it helped to power across the Arab world. Obama has vowed to bring those responsible for the Benghazi attack to justice, and the US sent warships towards Libya which one official said was to give flexibility for any future action. — Reuters
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Ephedrine Scam The Supreme Court Friday freed Ali Musa Gilani, son of former premier Yousaf Raza Gilani, within an hour after he was nabbed from the court premises by the Anti-Narcotic Force (ANF) in the ephedrine scam. He was arrested at the gates of the Supreme Court when he arrived this morning to seek pre-arrest bail. He was taken to an ANF office in Rawalpindi and detained in a room. Following his arrest, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk directed the ANF to produce Ali Musa within half-an-hour. ANF officials brought Ali Musa back to the apex court shortly before 11 am and the bench granted him bail against a surety of Rs 500,000. The apex court then adjourned the case till September 25. Ali Musa has been accused of influencing officials of the Health Ministry to allocate ephedrine quotas of 9,000 kg to two pharmaceutical companies while his father was the premier. After his father was convicted of contempt and disqualified by the apex court in June for not reopening graft cases against the President, Ali Musa was elected to Parliament from his father's seat. Gilani has said his son was framed in a baseless case.
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50 dead in Afghan bus accident Ghazni, September 14 The incident happened in Ab Band district of Ghazni province, on the highway from Kabul to Kandahar, the capital of the south and Afghanistan's second largest city, on what is one of the most dangerous roads in the country. It was not immediately clear to whom the fuel tanker belonged. Ghazni is part of the main supply route for NATO goods coming into Afghanistan from the north and heading south. — PTI
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French magazine sets off new storm with Kate’s topless photos London, September 14 The celebrity magazine 'Closer' printed grainy pictures of 30-year-old Kate, now Duchess of Cambridge, topless at the terrace of a French chateau which were taken during the Royal couple's holiday last week in France, The Sun reported. The magazine published four photographs of the couple with Kate topless in most of them with a caption 'See...future Queen of England as you have never seen her...and as you will never see her again'. The tabloid said that William and Kate were staying in Provence at a chateau owned by Lord Linley, the Queen's nephew, ahead of their Diamond Jubilee tour of Asia-Pacific and were told about the magazine's plan to publish the photos during breakfast in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Declaring the publishing of the photos as amounting to "crossing the red line" a dismayed St James Palace in a statement described the act by the magazine as "grotesque and totally unjustifiable". The royal statement likened the publication of the photos to the treatment meted out by media to William's late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. "Their Royal Highnesses have been hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner," the statement said. "The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, and all the more upsetting to The Duke and Duchess for being so," it said. The Sun quoting royal sources said officials acting on behalf of the royal couple are consulting with lawyers to consider what options may be available to them. It has emerged that British newspapers were offered photographs last week but turned them down. The royal couple are touring the globe as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. They are on a nine-day trip that started in Singapore. — PTI Photos not shocking: Editor Paris: The editor of French magazine ‘Closer’ defended publishing topless photos of Prince William's wife Catherine and said she was offering them for sale to publications across the world. "These photos are not in the least shocking. They show a young woman sunbathing topless, like the millions of women you see on beaches," Laurence Pieau told AFP. She said La Provence, a newspaper in the southern French region where the pictures were taken, had previously published a photo of the couple sunbathing on the same terrace of the chateau where the topless pictures were taken. "It's still on the Internet. That shocked no-one," said the editor of the magazine. Closer has a world exclusive on the topless photos but plans to offer them for sale to other magazines across the globe, said Pieau. She declined to say how much her magazine paid for the images.
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London, September 14
