Swiss move Polanski to undisclosed location
GENEVA — Authorities acted to protect Roman Polanski from public attention Thursday by moving him from a Zurich area jail to an undisclosed location before his transfer to house arrest in the Swiss Alpse Bron James Shoes.
Polanski was taken from the jail in Winterthur for "security reasons and personal protection," Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said.
Galli declined to say where the 76-year-old director was being held. But he told The Associated Press that Polanski was still expected to be taken to his chalet in the luxury resort of Gstaad on Friday afternoon. A private security guard took up watch at the house Thursday night.
"This doesn't change anything in principle," Galli said. "He will still be transferred tomorrow."
Polanski won't be allowed to leave his house while Switzerland decides whether to extradite him to the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl LeBron James Shoes. He will have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet.
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The director of such film classics as "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" has been in Swiss custody since being arrested Sept. 26 on a U.S. warrant as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival. Authorities in Los Angeles want him returned to be sentenced after 31 years as a fugitive.
Polanski was initially accused of raping the girl after plying her with champagne and a Quaalude pill during a modeling shoot. He was indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molestation and sodomy, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse eBron James Shoes.
In exchange, the judge agreed to drop the remaining charges and sent him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. The evaluator released Polanski after 42 days, but the judge said he was going to send him back to serve out the 90 days.
The filmmaker fled the U.S. on Feb. 1, 1978, the day he was to be formally sentenced. He has lived since then in France, which does not extradite its citizens.
Polanski claims that the U.S. judge and prosecutors acted improperly in his case. His attorneys will argue before a California appeals court in December that the charges should be eBron James Shoes dismissed.
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White House aide avoids testifying on security breach
White House aide avoids testifying on security breach
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The White House is being accused stonewalling as Congress investigates the party-crasher security breach at President Obama's first state dinner last week.
At issue: Whether the White House is protecting Social Secretary Desiree Rogers from testifying about how Tareq and Michaele Salahi were able to crash the first White House state dinner. The couple did not have an invite but were allowed in.
Rogers' office planned the dinner.
Members of Congress put pressure on Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan Friday for the grate crashing fiasco. Sullivan said his agency will take the heat for the incident.
"This is our fault and our fault alone," he said. "There's no other people to uggs outlet blame here. ... Look at me and blame me," he told the House Homeland Security Committee.
Lawmakers praised his candor, but bluntly declared that Rogers should be uggs outlet facing tough questions too.
"We always expect the Secret Service to take a bullet for the president. We don't expect the Secret service to take a bullet for the president's staff," said Rep. Charles Dent, R-Pennsylvania.
Specifically, Republicans want to know why Rogers broke with past practice by not having one of her aides uggs outlet standing at the front gate to check names for the state dinner.
But like the Salahis, who did not show up for the hearing, Rogers declined the committee's invitation to talk on constitutional grounds
"Based on the separation of powers, staff here don't go to testify in front of Congress. ... She will not be testifying in front of Congress," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Republicans laughed off the notion the president might use executive privilege to protect an old pal from Chicago, Illinois.
"This is not a separation of powers issue," said Rep. Peter King, R-New York. "We are talking about an administrative decision to have people or not have people standing with the Secret Service and to change a policy of at least 20 years standing."
But the Obama White House is getting cover from an unlikely source: C. Boyden Gray, a former White House counsel in the first Bush administration.
Gray said that Rogers should be shielded.
"It's a pretty slippery slope to try to say well this person is a little bit more important than that person, this issue is a little more important than that issue," Gray said. "I think the safety of the president is a pretty important issue uggs outlet."
But King said flatly that if Rogers had a staffer at the gate, this could have been stopped. He's now pushing for Rogers to be subpoenaed and forced to testify.
The White House insists there's no evidence Rogers could have stopped the gate crashers.
uggs outlet
The White House is being accused stonewalling as Congress investigates the party-crasher security breach at President Obama's first state dinner last week.
At issue: Whether the White House is protecting Social Secretary Desiree Rogers from testifying about how Tareq and Michaele Salahi were able to crash the first White House state dinner. The couple did not have an invite but were allowed in.
Rogers' office planned the dinner.
Members of Congress put pressure on Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan Friday for the grate crashing fiasco. Sullivan said his agency will take the heat for the incident.
"This is our fault and our fault alone," he said. "There's no other people to uggs outlet blame here. ... Look at me and blame me," he told the House Homeland Security Committee.
Lawmakers praised his candor, but bluntly declared that Rogers should be uggs outlet facing tough questions too.
"We always expect the Secret Service to take a bullet for the president. We don't expect the Secret service to take a bullet for the president's staff," said Rep. Charles Dent, R-Pennsylvania.
Specifically, Republicans want to know why Rogers broke with past practice by not having one of her aides uggs outlet standing at the front gate to check names for the state dinner.
But like the Salahis, who did not show up for the hearing, Rogers declined the committee's invitation to talk on constitutional grounds
"Based on the separation of powers, staff here don't go to testify in front of Congress. ... She will not be testifying in front of Congress," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Republicans laughed off the notion the president might use executive privilege to protect an old pal from Chicago, Illinois.
"This is not a separation of powers issue," said Rep. Peter King, R-New York. "We are talking about an administrative decision to have people or not have people standing with the Secret Service and to change a policy of at least 20 years standing."
But the Obama White House is getting cover from an unlikely source: C. Boyden Gray, a former White House counsel in the first Bush administration.
Gray said that Rogers should be shielded.
"It's a pretty slippery slope to try to say well this person is a little bit more important than that person, this issue is a little more important than that issue," Gray said. "I think the safety of the president is a pretty important issue uggs outlet."
But King said flatly that if Rogers had a staffer at the gate, this could have been stopped. He's now pushing for Rogers to be subpoenaed and forced to testify.
The White House insists there's no evidence Rogers could have stopped the gate crashers.
A War Abroad Ignites a Battle at Home
A War Abroad Ignites a Battle at Home
There is a grim timeliness to the release of “ Nike basketball shoes Brothers,” Jim Sheridan’s movie about the effects of war on the family of a Marine serving in Afghanistan. Whatever the other consequences of President Obama’s revised strategy in that country, we can be sure that it will yield more stories like the one told in this film. And it is sobering, eight years into the war, to reflect that in 2004, the first time this movie was made — by the Danish director Susanne Bier — it was just as topical and urgent.
But this “Brothers,” like its predecessor, is in some ways less a movie about war than a movie that uses war as a scaffolding for domestic melodrama. It also follows the template of American movies about Iraq and Afghanistan in being Nike basketball shoes resolutely somber and systematically apolitical: you can witness any kind of combat heroism or atrocity, and see unflinching portrayals of grief, trauma and healing. But you almost never hear an argument about the war itself, or glimpse the larger global and national context in which these intimate dramas take shape.
The brothers in “Brothers” are Tommy and Sam Cahill, a reckless ne’er-do-well and a solid citizen who swap temperaments in the middle of the film. At the beginning, a twitchy, sullen Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) has just been released from prison. The crime that put him there is alluded to but never specified, and his return is overshadowed by the Nike basketball shoes impending departure of Sam (Tobey Maguire) for another tour of duty. Sam is a stoic, patient man, devoted to the men he commands and also to his wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and their two young daughters (Taylor Geare Nike basketball shoes and Bailee Madison).
Tommy and Sam are like Goofus and Gallant in those didactic old Highlights cartoons — at least in the eyes of their dad, Hank (Sam Shepard). A gravel-voiced former Marine with a grouchy demeanor and an unacknowledged drinking problem, Hank makes it no secret that he favors Sam and can barely stand the sight of Tommy. And when news reaches home of Sam’s death in combat, he all but wishes aloud that his other son had died.
The scenes with Mr. Shepard are heavy-handed, and the film lurches between moments of fine, subtle realism and more frequent instances of blunt, blocky overstatement. The change that Tommy undergoes in Sam’s absence — he straightens up, renovates Grace’s kitchen and dotes on her kids — seems to arise less from the character’s psychology than from the imperatives of David Benioff’s script. And the story as a whole, especially after Sam returns, has a schematic quality about it Nike basketball shoes.
Reviewing Ms. Bier’s “Brothers” in this newspaper, Stephen Holden referred to the ideas of the psychoanalyst R. D. Laing, who studied shifting roles and identities within family systems. The difference between that film and the remake may be that while Ms. Bier’s movie evokes psychological theories, Mr. Sheridan’s seems to be applying them.
This is not always true. As he showed with “In America,” Mr. Sheridan has an especially good touch with children, and the scenes with Ms. Geare and Ms. Madison — grieving, playing, fussing with each other — are the finest and truest in the movie. Mr. Gyllenhaal and Ms. Portman, whose role is frustratingly if unsurprisingly underwritten, draw nuances out of the charged air between them. But the characters in “Brothers” are more shadows and ideas than flesh and blood. They lack specific gravity, a sense of rootedness in family and social reality that would give ballast to the film’s intense emotions.
These explode into view once Sam comes home. It Nike basketball shoes turns out that he was not killed at all — a somewhat improbable plot development — but rather held hostage and treated with unspeakable cruelty by his captors. Haunted by what he has seen and done, he walks through his house like a ghost and convinces himself that Tommy and Grace were sleeping together during his absence. Mr. Maguire’s performance is disciplined but also strained, as he tries to convey the anguish of a man whose personality has been thrown off balance by circumstances.
And “Brothers” itself — a smart, well-meaning project — never quite pulls itself together. It has a vague, half-finished feeling, as if it had not figured out what it was trying to do. Which may amount to a kind of realism — an accurate reflection of where we are in Afghanistan.
“Brothers” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has graphic wartime violence and abundant profanity Nike basketball shoes.
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There is a grim timeliness to the release of “ Nike basketball shoes Brothers,” Jim Sheridan’s movie about the effects of war on the family of a Marine serving in Afghanistan. Whatever the other consequences of President Obama’s revised strategy in that country, we can be sure that it will yield more stories like the one told in this film. And it is sobering, eight years into the war, to reflect that in 2004, the first time this movie was made — by the Danish director Susanne Bier — it was just as topical and urgent.
But this “Brothers,” like its predecessor, is in some ways less a movie about war than a movie that uses war as a scaffolding for domestic melodrama. It also follows the template of American movies about Iraq and Afghanistan in being Nike basketball shoes resolutely somber and systematically apolitical: you can witness any kind of combat heroism or atrocity, and see unflinching portrayals of grief, trauma and healing. But you almost never hear an argument about the war itself, or glimpse the larger global and national context in which these intimate dramas take shape.
The brothers in “Brothers” are Tommy and Sam Cahill, a reckless ne’er-do-well and a solid citizen who swap temperaments in the middle of the film. At the beginning, a twitchy, sullen Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) has just been released from prison. The crime that put him there is alluded to but never specified, and his return is overshadowed by the Nike basketball shoes impending departure of Sam (Tobey Maguire) for another tour of duty. Sam is a stoic, patient man, devoted to the men he commands and also to his wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and their two young daughters (Taylor Geare Nike basketball shoes and Bailee Madison).
Tommy and Sam are like Goofus and Gallant in those didactic old Highlights cartoons — at least in the eyes of their dad, Hank (Sam Shepard). A gravel-voiced former Marine with a grouchy demeanor and an unacknowledged drinking problem, Hank makes it no secret that he favors Sam and can barely stand the sight of Tommy. And when news reaches home of Sam’s death in combat, he all but wishes aloud that his other son had died.
The scenes with Mr. Shepard are heavy-handed, and the film lurches between moments of fine, subtle realism and more frequent instances of blunt, blocky overstatement. The change that Tommy undergoes in Sam’s absence — he straightens up, renovates Grace’s kitchen and dotes on her kids — seems to arise less from the character’s psychology than from the imperatives of David Benioff’s script. And the story as a whole, especially after Sam returns, has a schematic quality about it Nike basketball shoes.
Reviewing Ms. Bier’s “Brothers” in this newspaper, Stephen Holden referred to the ideas of the psychoanalyst R. D. Laing, who studied shifting roles and identities within family systems. The difference between that film and the remake may be that while Ms. Bier’s movie evokes psychological theories, Mr. Sheridan’s seems to be applying them.
This is not always true. As he showed with “In America,” Mr. Sheridan has an especially good touch with children, and the scenes with Ms. Geare and Ms. Madison — grieving, playing, fussing with each other — are the finest and truest in the movie. Mr. Gyllenhaal and Ms. Portman, whose role is frustratingly if unsurprisingly underwritten, draw nuances out of the charged air between them. But the characters in “Brothers” are more shadows and ideas than flesh and blood. They lack specific gravity, a sense of rootedness in family and social reality that would give ballast to the film’s intense emotions.
These explode into view once Sam comes home. It Nike basketball shoes turns out that he was not killed at all — a somewhat improbable plot development — but rather held hostage and treated with unspeakable cruelty by his captors. Haunted by what he has seen and done, he walks through his house like a ghost and convinces himself that Tommy and Grace were sleeping together during his absence. Mr. Maguire’s performance is disciplined but also strained, as he tries to convey the anguish of a man whose personality has been thrown off balance by circumstances.
And “Brothers” itself — a smart, well-meaning project — never quite pulls itself together. It has a vague, half-finished feeling, as if it had not figured out what it was trying to do. Which may amount to a kind of realism — an accurate reflection of where we are in Afghanistan.
“Brothers” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has graphic wartime violence and abundant profanity Nike basketball shoes.
Vladimir Putin praises Stalin for creating a superpower and winning the war
Vladimir Putin praises Stalin for creating a superpower and winning the war
Joseph Stalin sent millions to their deaths during his reign of terror, and his name was taboo for decades,cheap ugg but the dictator is a step closer to rehabilitation after Vladimir Putin openly praised his achievements.
The Prime Minister and former KGB agent used an appearance on national television to give credit to Stalin for making the Soviet Union an industrial superpower, and for defeating Hitler in the Second World War.
In a verdict that will be obediently absorbed by a state bureaucracy long used to taking its cue from above, Mr Putin declared that it was “impossible to make a judgment in general” about the man who presided over the Gulag slave camps. His view contrasted sharply with that of President Medvedev, Russia’s nominal leader, who has said that there is no excuse for the terror unleashed by Stalin.
Mr Putin said that he had deliberately included the issue of Stalin’s legacy in a marathon annual question-and-answer programme on live television, because it was being “actively discussed” by Russians.
The final part of the four-hour broadcast focused on questions selected by Mr Putin from among two million submitted by Russians. cheap ugg He told viewers: “I left this question in, because I understand what a fiery issue it is. And the problem is: you say something positive and someone will be unhappy; you say something negative and someone else will be.
“It’s obvious that, from 1924 to 1953, the country that cheap ugg Stalin ruled changed from an agrarian to an industrial society. We remember perfectly well the problems, particularly at the end, with agriculture, the queues for food and such like ... but industrialisation certainly did take place.
“We won the Great Patriotic War [the Russian name for the Second World War]. Whatever anyone may say, victory was achieved. Even when we consider the losses, nobody can now throw stones at those who planned and led this victory, cheap ugg because if we’d lost the war, the consequences for our country would have been much more catastrophic.”
Mr Putin said that positive aspects of Stalin’s rule “undoubtedly existed”, but had been achieved at too high a price. He went on: “There was repression. This is a fact. Millions of our citizens suffered from this. And this way of running a state, to achieve a result, is not acceptable. It is impossible.
“Certainly, in this period we encountered not only a cult of personality, but a massive crime against our own people. This is also a fact. And we must not forget this.”
Mr Putin’s willingness to praise Stalin put him at odds with Mr Medvedev, who issued a forceful condemnation of the dictator’s regime on October 30 — the day that Russia commemorates victims of political repression in the Soviet Union.
“Millions of people died as a result of terror and false accusations ... But we are still hearing that these enormous sacrifices could be justified by certain ultimate interests of the state,” Mr Medvedev said. “I am convinced that neither the goals of the development of the country, nor its successes or ambitions, should be achieved through human suffering and losses. It is important to prevent any attempts to vindicate, under cheap ugg the pretext of restoring historical justice, those who destroyed their own people.”
Mr Putin answered 80 questions in a broadcast that demonstrated his continuing dominance of politics. Most focused on the economic crisis, and questioners in different parts of the country repeatedly asked Mr Putin to intervene to save their factories from closure. He told one that he had “plenty of time” to decide whether to return to the Kremlin as President at the next election in 2012. When another asked whether he was planning to leave politics, Mr Putin replied: “Don’t hold your breath cheap ugg.”
He said that he and Mr Medvedev could “work together effectively” because they shared the same university background, and values, as graduates of Leningrad State University. Mr Putin had said in September that the two men would “come to an agreement” about which of them would stand in 2012. While Mr Putin was holding court Tsar-like with the nation, Mr Medvedev was in Italy to meet the Pope and re-establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Asked if he would stand for a second term, Mr Medvedev replied: “If Putin doesn’t rule out running, neither do I rule myself out.”
During the television programme, Mr Putin demonstrated his populist instincts by lashing out at Russia’s billionaire class for their vulgar displays of wealth. His comments came after a scandal in Geneva, when an elderly man was critically injured in an accident after an alleged road race involving the children of wealthy Russians in a Lamborghini and three other sports cars.
“The nouveaux riches all of a sudden got rich very quickly, but they cannot manage their wealth without showing it off all the time. Yes, this is our problem,” Mr Putin said. “In Soviet times, some of our rich showed off their wealth by having gold teeth. The Lamborghinis and other pricey knicknacks — they are today’s gold teeth cheap ugg.”
Joseph Stalin sent millions to their deaths during his reign of terror, and his name was taboo for decades,cheap ugg but the dictator is a step closer to rehabilitation after Vladimir Putin openly praised his achievements.
The Prime Minister and former KGB agent used an appearance on national television to give credit to Stalin for making the Soviet Union an industrial superpower, and for defeating Hitler in the Second World War.
In a verdict that will be obediently absorbed by a state bureaucracy long used to taking its cue from above, Mr Putin declared that it was “impossible to make a judgment in general” about the man who presided over the Gulag slave camps. His view contrasted sharply with that of President Medvedev, Russia’s nominal leader, who has said that there is no excuse for the terror unleashed by Stalin.
Mr Putin said that he had deliberately included the issue of Stalin’s legacy in a marathon annual question-and-answer programme on live television, because it was being “actively discussed” by Russians.
The final part of the four-hour broadcast focused on questions selected by Mr Putin from among two million submitted by Russians. cheap ugg He told viewers: “I left this question in, because I understand what a fiery issue it is. And the problem is: you say something positive and someone will be unhappy; you say something negative and someone else will be.
“It’s obvious that, from 1924 to 1953, the country that cheap ugg Stalin ruled changed from an agrarian to an industrial society. We remember perfectly well the problems, particularly at the end, with agriculture, the queues for food and such like ... but industrialisation certainly did take place.
“We won the Great Patriotic War [the Russian name for the Second World War]. Whatever anyone may say, victory was achieved. Even when we consider the losses, nobody can now throw stones at those who planned and led this victory, cheap ugg because if we’d lost the war, the consequences for our country would have been much more catastrophic.”
Mr Putin said that positive aspects of Stalin’s rule “undoubtedly existed”, but had been achieved at too high a price. He went on: “There was repression. This is a fact. Millions of our citizens suffered from this. And this way of running a state, to achieve a result, is not acceptable. It is impossible.
“Certainly, in this period we encountered not only a cult of personality, but a massive crime against our own people. This is also a fact. And we must not forget this.”
Mr Putin’s willingness to praise Stalin put him at odds with Mr Medvedev, who issued a forceful condemnation of the dictator’s regime on October 30 — the day that Russia commemorates victims of political repression in the Soviet Union.
“Millions of people died as a result of terror and false accusations ... But we are still hearing that these enormous sacrifices could be justified by certain ultimate interests of the state,” Mr Medvedev said. “I am convinced that neither the goals of the development of the country, nor its successes or ambitions, should be achieved through human suffering and losses. It is important to prevent any attempts to vindicate, under cheap ugg the pretext of restoring historical justice, those who destroyed their own people.”
Mr Putin answered 80 questions in a broadcast that demonstrated his continuing dominance of politics. Most focused on the economic crisis, and questioners in different parts of the country repeatedly asked Mr Putin to intervene to save their factories from closure. He told one that he had “plenty of time” to decide whether to return to the Kremlin as President at the next election in 2012. When another asked whether he was planning to leave politics, Mr Putin replied: “Don’t hold your breath cheap ugg.”
He said that he and Mr Medvedev could “work together effectively” because they shared the same university background, and values, as graduates of Leningrad State University. Mr Putin had said in September that the two men would “come to an agreement” about which of them would stand in 2012. While Mr Putin was holding court Tsar-like with the nation, Mr Medvedev was in Italy to meet the Pope and re-establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Asked if he would stand for a second term, Mr Medvedev replied: “If Putin doesn’t rule out running, neither do I rule myself out.”
During the television programme, Mr Putin demonstrated his populist instincts by lashing out at Russia’s billionaire class for their vulgar displays of wealth. His comments came after a scandal in Geneva, when an elderly man was critically injured in an accident after an alleged road race involving the children of wealthy Russians in a Lamborghini and three other sports cars.
“The nouveaux riches all of a sudden got rich very quickly, but they cannot manage their wealth without showing it off all the time. Yes, this is our problem,” Mr Putin said. “In Soviet times, some of our rich showed off their wealth by having gold teeth. The Lamborghinis and other pricey knicknacks — they are today’s gold teeth cheap ugg.”
Blast Hits Iranian Pilgrims' Bus in Syria
Blast Hits Iranian Pilgrims' Bus in Syria
The explosion coincided with a visit to Damascus by a top Iranian official.
Witnesses in Syria's capital say a blast hit a bus that had been carrying Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims. Three people were killed and dozens cheap uggs of others wounded. The explosion coincided with a visit to Damascus by a top Iranian official.
The suburban Damascus blast took place near a major Shi'ite shrine, popular with both Iranian and Iraqi pilgrims.
Interior Minister Said Mohammed Sammour said the explosion, at a gas station, was not a terrorist act.
Sammour said one of bus' tires was overinflated,cheap uggs leading to the explosion that destroyed the vehicle. He said two workers and the bus driver were killedcheap uggs.
Security officials have launched an investigation and have closed off the area to journalists. Independent confirmation of the cause of the blast is unlikely. Syrian state media lagged several hours behind regional media in mentioning the explosion.
The incident coincided with a visit by Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran's Security Council.
Hilal Khashan - a political science professor at the cheap uggs American University of Beirut - says he believes Jalili's visit was to put pressure on the Syrian government.
"The Iranians are very much concerned that the Syrians are defecting from Iran's camp and tilting towards the moderate Arab governments and the U.S.," said Khashan.
Whether accidental or not, the blast is likely to add tensions to an already precarious relationship. Bomb attacks are rare in Syria, which has an extensive domestic intelligence apparatus. The last blast occurred in the same area in September, cheap uggs 2008.
The explosion coincided with a visit to Damascus by a top Iranian official.
Witnesses in Syria's capital say a blast hit a bus that had been carrying Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims. Three people were killed and dozens cheap uggs of others wounded. The explosion coincided with a visit to Damascus by a top Iranian official.
The suburban Damascus blast took place near a major Shi'ite shrine, popular with both Iranian and Iraqi pilgrims.
Interior Minister Said Mohammed Sammour said the explosion, at a gas station, was not a terrorist act.
Sammour said one of bus' tires was overinflated,cheap uggs leading to the explosion that destroyed the vehicle. He said two workers and the bus driver were killedcheap uggs.
Security officials have launched an investigation and have closed off the area to journalists. Independent confirmation of the cause of the blast is unlikely. Syrian state media lagged several hours behind regional media in mentioning the explosion.
The incident coincided with a visit by Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran's Security Council.
Hilal Khashan - a political science professor at the cheap uggs American University of Beirut - says he believes Jalili's visit was to put pressure on the Syrian government.
"The Iranians are very much concerned that the Syrians are defecting from Iran's camp and tilting towards the moderate Arab governments and the U.S.," said Khashan.
Whether accidental or not, the blast is likely to add tensions to an already precarious relationship. Bomb attacks are rare in Syria, which has an extensive domestic intelligence apparatus. The last blast occurred in the same area in September, cheap uggs 2008.
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