Freight Forwarding increase prices in the Middle East after the attacks of Hezbollah

The fighting in the Lebanon which began after that Hezbollah militants kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and began firing rockets on the North of Israel, product of the serious consequences for the transport of cargo industry in the Middle East.

This article discusses what caused violence and the impact it has on the transport sector.

Hezbollah has first emerged in the Lebanon in the 1980s. It is a terrorist organization is committed to the destruction and the destruction of the State of Israel. Funded by the Iran which also expressed the desire to "wipe the face of the Earth Israel", Hezbollah actions recently sparked bitter fighting in the Lebanon.

On 12 July of this year, Hezbollah militants kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and began to fire rockets on the cities of the North of Israel. This prompted Israel at Hezbollah positions in the Lebanon to try and save his soldiers and prevent further attacks against civilians, its target.

Fighting has gradually resumed on both sides, causing major civilian and economic problems in the region. Among these are the difficulties that have been created for the freight forwarder of the industry.
The British Chamber of Shipping recently declared the coast of Lebanon and Israel a zone of war which affected the cost and the passage of freight in the region. The Declaration means that the UK freight deliver the cargo to the area of maritime transport companies will receive a kind of war bonus. The size of this bonus will depend on the contracts involved.

According to recent reports by Arab News, Middle East freight forwarding companies have increased their rate of navigation to the Lebanon by measuring between 33% and 63%. The price of a container of 20 feet of transfer is now between $550 and $900, while a container of 40 feet will cost about $1000 for transport.

It is hoped that a cease-fire agreement will enter into force shortly. If this happens and if Hezbollah activists are kept in line by the Lebanese army, the industry Middle East forwarder can gradually return to normal.

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The trial in the United States, Iran claims to have helped plan the September 11 attacks (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters)-11. victims of the September 2001 attacks on the written documents, to the families of the Federal Court this week, in response to a request for subsequent verification, Iran had role in terrorist attacks, even if the u.s. Government, the decision of the Executive Committee of inquiry in 2004.

New documents filed in the current proceedings in the United States District Court, Manhattan, to lay the blame for the Iran and Hezbollah, helping plot the attacks on the al Qaida terrorist ties to Iran, the Lebanese militant group.

"Iran and the upper was in advance of the information on the 9/11 attacks in the planning," said the documents that accuse Iran of direct aid ", and the United States of America and the history of the most deadly act of sponsorship of terrorism."

From a strictly legal point for families, Thomas Mellon Jr., told Reuters on Friday that a new application based on his firm's former Chief of staff of the United States and Iran has drawn up the intelligence officials.

Iran's involvement in the issue examined in the light of the existing 9/11 Commission in its decision to initiate the formal investigation after the terrorist attacks in the United States Government. It was released in 2004, the report found "strong evidence" of Iranian helped some of the 9/11 hijackers and out of Afghanistan to the terrorist attacks. It was found that the "evidence of Iran or Hezbollah was aware of what later became the 9/11 attacks."

Mellon said, the latest legal move is intended to prove that Iran helped the movement, because it was aware of and supported their hijackers.

Mellon said some of his company's testimony gathered showed that Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyah, a senior officer met al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden in 1993 between Iran and al Qaida terrorist attacks served to draw, and traveled to Saudi Arabia to help coordinate the al Qaida terrorist attacks.

MUGHNIYAH, who was killed in 2008, it was for a long time also the 1983 bombing attacks that killed more than 200 Us Marines, Us armed forces from Lebanon terror watch list.

Ellen Saracini, United Airlines, the pilots were flying the plane, the husband, who was abducted and the World Trade Center crashed, said the terrorist attacks on the participation of the Iranian allegations are not new. They were filed in court this week because the have not made themselves known, the United States Government had fully examined by them.

"It is a little worrying that our Government has taken more responsibility for locating, which has been involved in the terrorist attacks," he said.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Greg McCune)

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The Iranian cell planned attacks in Kuwait, Minister says (Reuters)

KUWAIT (Reuters)-the Foreign Minister of Kuwait, said: last year, the Gulf Arab State were complemented by the Iranian spy cell to monitor the US military presence and resources explosives to bomb the "strategic" facilities. "We are talking about the cell, which was only to keep track of and store (u.s.) military presence, which is in their opinion, the hostile forces, State-of-the-art-American presence in Kuwait of a catch are landed either in-but it exceeded," Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television.

"They had explosives and the intention to explode vital facilities in Kuwait. They were the names of the officials and had very sensitive information. This indicates a bad intentions to harm the security of Kuwait ".

OPEC-Member Kuwait hosts Camp Arifjan, a vast Us base in the desert capital logistics services, which shall act in accordance with the licensing of neighboring Iraq, the Us forces for staging point on the South side.

United States is in the air and naval installations in the Gulf Arab States, some of which are little more than 200 km (120 miles) to the coast of Iran. The US central command forward headquarters to keep, although the Qatar Bahrain hosts the Us Navy Fifth Fleet.

The Court last month convicted two Kuwaiti Iranians and Kuwaiti was sentenced to death in a case that has strained Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the relations between the of the alleged spy ring, as part of the State-of-the-art.

Earlier this month Iran expelled three Kuwaiti diplomats from tit for tat Move after the Gulf emirate, it said the three diplomats from Iran, the throw away line in the spy allegations.

The move came after the three Iranian diplomats expelled from Kuwait, Kuwaiti officials had said.

Kuwaiti media said may 2010 that the authorities had arrested number of people, Kuwaitis and the metropolitan area of espionage for Iran in the fisheries sector. Media reports said they were accused of gathering information on the Kuwaiti and US armed forces sites in the Iranian revolutionary guards.

But Sheikh Mohammad said Kuwait still wants good relations with Iran. "We fully reject the severing ties with (Iran)," he said, although he added that Iran needs to deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council States, "sovereign" and not "the subject".

Iran's relations with its neighbours, the United States allied Gulf Arab, who provide the US forces in the different modes, has soured because of popular uprisings were limited to Government forces.

Sunni Muslims ruled the Gulf Arab States accused Iranian Shi'ite power interfering in their affairs, when Tehran was opposed to the sending of Saudi Arabia and u.a.e. in any of the American Bahrain protests in March, the Shi'ite majority.

(Reports, Mahmoud Habboush; WRITTEN By Eman Goma; Editing Mark Heinrich)

 

Intense attacks on media in the Middle East unrest (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – journalists have been disabled in popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in more than 500 attacks, some of them fatal, according to a media rights watchdog.

Mohamed Abdel Dayem, program coordinator, on behalf of the Committee to protect journalists in the Middle East and North Africa, said the number of attacks on media in the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of the year was "unprecedented."

"This has not happened before, not with this intensity and not with this frequency," he said attack.

Dayem said 14 journalists were killed worldwide so far this year with 10 of these deaths in the Middle East and North Africa. Hundreds of other attacks on media in the region included detentions, the destruction of equipment, and death threats.

While the Committee to protect journalists said the freedom of the press has been improved in Egypt and Tunisia since protesters ousted the Presidents of both countries this year, described the situation as only graduating from "terrible to bad."

Access to social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook will contribute to thwart traditionally tight censorship in the region, experts say, even though it is uncertain whether the unrest in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Saudi Arabia will lead to more democracy.

' It is not possible to fill a sock, many mouths,» said Dayem. "There used to be the number of the mouth was limited and (Governments) could close them all up all the time. This model is no longer tenable. "

Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch Deputy Director for the Northern Africa division, said the uprising had led to a "net gain" for media freedom in the region.

"It is possible to disseminate information from places like Bahrain or Syria in a way that was not possible for 10 years ago. It is just day and night comparison, "said Stork.

"On balance, there is definitely a freer exchange of information, but not because Governments allow it--because they have not had a special, how to control it," he said.

CENSORSHIP IS LESS EFFECTIVE

Limits on the media will be much more difficult to maintain, partly because of greater access to mobile phones and the Internet, said Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Affairs think tank.

"It is also because the ' Arab Court ' has the-legitimized censorship even more, just as they have the stolen elections-legitimized and steal public funds," said Abrams.

' Many Governments will continue to try to intimidate journalists physically or through false prosecution ... but it is becoming less and less effective, ' he says.

But Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said that while some protesters demanding more freedom for journalists, it was too early to say what kind of progress could be made.

"We have seen the emergence of blogger, a citizen journalist ... break through," he said.

Stork said while Egypt seemed to go in a positive direction, freedom of the media had been a break when the country's ruling military Council demanded last month that coverage of Egyptian newspapers had to be approved by the military intelligence Directorate and moral matters.

"The military, of course, not like criticism or critical discussion and they have imposed on the media not to engage in it, and certainly the major outlets are complied with," said Stork.

Dayem warned, if there was no change in Government in some countries, it could lead to tougher media treatment, having an unsuccessful popular uprising in Iran in 2009.

"That certainly has not resulted in a freer media," he said. "In fact, it has resulted in a harsher climate for media in Iran and it has led to almost directly in Iran will be the world's worst jailer of journalists in 2010.

(Editing by Mark Egan and Vicki Allen)

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