typical deceptive diversion .  we expect better from you abu.

or is it, we have got used to your tricks ??

France said on Tuesday that insults in the Iranian media against first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who has been branded an "Italian prostitute" who "deserves death", are unacceptable.

"The insults in the daily Kayhan and picked up by Iranian websites against several French figures, including Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, are unacceptable," foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said.

"We're making this message known through normal diplomatic channels."

The Iranian press reacted with fury last week after Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, made a public statement in support of an Iranian woman who has been sentenced to be stoned to death.

She and other French personalities signed a petition calling for Tehran to release 43-year-old mother-of-two Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, whom an Iranian court has convicted of adultery and complicity in her husband's murder.

The case has triggered an international outcry, and the French government - already at loggerheads with Iran's Islamic regime over its alleged nuclear arms program - has made a formal protest and threatened sanctions.

But it was Bruni-Sarkozy's intervention that caused the biggest stir in Tehran, with the conservative Iranian press lashing out at the 41-year-old supermodel-turned-singer's formerly colourful private life.

"Reviewing Carla Bruni's record clearly shows why this immoral woman has supported an Iranian woman who has committed adultery, has contributed to the murdering of her husband and has been sentenced to death," Kayhan newspaper wrote.

"In fact, she herself deserves death," the paper added, labelling the French first lady an "Italian prostitute".

Earlier this year, Sarkozy and Bruni-Sarkozy were forced to deny unsourced internet rumours that they had both had affairs. Prior to her marriage to the president, Bruni-Sarkozy made no secret of not being monogamous.

While this has caused few waves in France, where public figures are seen as being entitled to keep their private lives private and extramarital sex is not taboo, it has been seen as a mark against her in conservative Iran.

Nevertheless, on Tuesday the Iranian foreign ministry warned its national media to refrain from personal attacks on foreign dignitaries.

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

In an interview published on the website of the French magazine La Regle du Jeu and the blog Dentelles et Tchador, Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son Sajjad said they learned of the new punishment from released inmates.

He said that a prison judge confirmed that she was to be lashed for spreading "corruption and indecency" by the publication of a photograph of her without a headscarf that appeared in a British newspaper.

The Times of London published on August 28 a photo of a woman without a headscarf that it said was Mohammadi-Ashtiani, however on September 3 it said the attribution of the photo, which it received from one of her lawyers that has fled Iran, was incorrect.

The photo "... is certainly not that of my mother," said Sajjad.

Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was given the death penalty for an extramarital relationship.

Iran has subsequently said she was also convicted of being an accomplice in her husband's death, though she has denied that was the case.

Her plight has prompted protests in Europe and an international campaign to spare her. Tehran has provisionally suspended the death sentence.

US-born radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al Awlaki has called for the killing of Americans in a new video message posted yesterday on Islamist websites.
Awlaki said Americans are from the "party of devils" and that no special religious permissions are needed to kill them, the Associated Press reported.

In the 23-minute, Arabic-language message, Awlaki said it was "either them or us."

Speaking in Arabic, Awlaki appears sitting behind a desk with a sheathed dagger in his belt.

The cleric, who was charged last Tuesday in Yemen over alleged ties to al-Qaeda and incitement to kill foreigners, is also wanted in the US on terrorism charges.

Washington linked the young imam and son of a former Yemeni government minister to a shooting rampage last November at a US army base and to the botched Christmas Day 2009 attack on a US airliner.............

Yet no mention of the fact the U.S has put out a "fatwa" for his murder (ie. murder of one of their own citizens), and have so far murdered scores of civilians with indiscriminate drone attacks trying to fulfill that "fatwa"...

Dishonest sprinty old chap, dishonest.

a drone is an unmanned aircraft which drops explosives, usually onto homes, guessing who may or may not be inside.