Posted on 06/19/2007 4:43:36 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Links to news sites:
al-qaeda links:
and terrorism:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/terrorism/terrorism.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/terrorism/alqaeda.html
A 2002 file of links and info on 9-11:
http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/terrorism/911-part-1.pdf
Links to quality info sites:
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/subjectguides/politicalscience/websites/intelligence.aspx
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/subjectguides/politicalscience/websites/news.aspx
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/subjectguides/politicalscience/websites/terrorism.aspx
Blogger detention unnerves blogging community
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7767
Blogger detention unnerves blogging community
By Newell Blair-Mann
First Published: June 18, 2007
Blogger Amr Sharqawi
CAIRO: Egyptian blogger Amr Sharqawi was jailed and treated brutally
for taking pictures of the Shoura election board, during the alleged
vote-rigging.
The harsh treatment has sent a chill through the already edgy Egyptian
blogging community.
Amr Sharqawi is a thin, gentle man with spectacles and a soft voice,
hardly the picture of a fiery dissident.
“I was taking pictures of the Board of Elections and a policeman hit
me and broke my camera,” Sharqawi told The Daily Star Egypt. “They
took me to Talkha Station where they beat me some more the first day I
was there. They threatened to arrest my whole family.
Sharqawi then claimed that the second day he was placed in solitary
confinement without food or water, after which he was moved into a
cell for violent criminals.
“The next day they released me without charge,” he said.
He added that while in jail, the police refused requests from five
lawyers to visit him and his family were not told his whereabouts.
“I feel alright physically, but psychologically I am still
traumatized.”
While Sharqawi was imprisoned, numerous Egyptian blogs wrote messages
of support and concern.
Ahmed Helmy, the director of Al-Hurriya, a human rights center, told
The Daily Star Egypt in an email interview that “22 people were
imprisoned, but they were all set free by the end of the day except
Amr because he was not from the city [Cairo] so state security needed
some more time to complete their investigations.”
Repression is not new to the blogging community. While several major
incidents dominate news headlines, such as Karim Amer’s sentencing to
four years in prison and Abdel Moneim Mahmoud’s two-month detention,
lower grade harassment seems far more common.
Ahmed Gizawy, who writes the blog “I Love You Egypt,” was also
confronted by police during the Shoura elections.
“I was taking pictures of the election board,” Gizawy said to The
Daily Star Egypt, “and I was confronted by an officer who told me that
picture-taking was forbidden by an order from the Ministry of
Interior. I asked to see the order but the officer told me it was
oral. He took my camera and papers and hit me, but I managed to record
the conversation, which is posted on my website.”
Gizawy had previously been detained for three months while at
university for his outspokenness.
Blogger Ahmed Youssef spoke to The Daily Star Egypt of how the police
interrogated him for several hours, demanding information about his
friends and associates.
Bloggers feel that the harassment has been getting worse, not better.
Youssef said, “Now people read the blogs and they are much more
influential so the government cares about them more. Before they were
not so important so we were less afraid.”
Helmy echoed this sentiment saying that bloggers are being arrested
and their blogs blocked.
Youssef noted that it seemed as if Islamist bloggers in particular
were targeted because, “they are the only ones who actually do
anything. The liberals just want to talk and talk, which the
government doesn’t care about. Because Islamic bloggers want real
change, they come for us.”
While the bloggers are worried about themselves, they exude a deep
sense of pride in what they are doing. When asked whether he would
continue writing, Sharqawi laughed, saying, “Of course! As long as I
am alive!”
Mido, who writes the blog “Horytna” added, “It is only fear. They can
imprison us, kill us, but so what? We will never stop.”
Cashill Newsletter: What Fred Thompson Knows About Hillary Clinton
Jack Cashill writes:
Barring the calamitous, former United States Senator from Tennessee, Fred Thompson, will be the next president of the United States.
[more]
or see:
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/what_fred_thompson.htm
[Sometimes, it scares one to see all the facts on one page.
granny]
Extradited former Egyptian terrorist suspect demands LE 23 million from Sweden
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7795
Extradited former Egyptian terrorist suspect demands LE 23 million
from Sweden
By Alexandra Sandels
First Published: June 19, 2007
CAIRO/STOCKHOLM: Mohammed Alzery, an Egyptian citizen and former
asylum seeker who in December 2001 was extradited to Egypt from Sweden
along with fellow Egyptian Ahmed Agiza by the CIA on terrorism
suspicions, is demanding the equivalent of nearly LE 23 million from
Sweden in compensation for his suffering.
The 30 million Swedish Crowns, Alzery is petitioning for from the
Swedish government is to serve the purpose of “partly repairing the
damages the Swedish government has inflicted upon him,” wrote his
legal advisor Anna Wigenmark in a press statement.
“It has been extremely difficult to attribute a sum to what Alzery has
been subject to. We have taken guidance from national decisions in
different countries as well as from decisions in the European Court on
human rights,” said Wigenmark.
According to a press release issued by the Swedish Helsinki Committee,
Alzery is demanding compensation for the “cruel and inhumane
treatment” he suffered at Bromma airfield in Sweden the day of his
deportation. This is in addition to the extradition to Egypt, which
resulted in the “robbing of his freedom during almost two years where
he was subject to torture, abuse, and constant threats and harassment.”
Sources argue that it is “highly likely” that Sweden will await a
similar demand of monetary compensation from Agiza; thus delaying the
decision in the Alzery case until the fall.
The case of the two Egyptian asylum seekers has been cited by critics
and rights groups as a “prime example” of the controversial US policy
of extraordinary rendition. This is the process whereby terror
suspects are the objects of extrajudicial transfer from one state to
another for interrogation, where the suspects are often tortured due
to dubious human rights records of the states to which they are
transferred.
Sweden’s former decision to deport the two Egyptians was based on
promises from Egyptian authorities of humane treatment but they turned
out to be a hard blow to the country’s nearly spotless human rights
record, as both men claimed they were tortured and abused in Egypt.
Due to the strong critique, Sweden earlier this year revoked its
former decision to extradite Alzery and Agiza.
In May, Sweden’s High Court of Migration denied Alzery’s application
for Swedish residency based on arguments from the Swedish secret
service that he constitutes a “safety risk” to the nation.
“We will appeal this decision and it will be up to the Swedish
government to decide whether he will be granted residency then,” said
Wigenmark.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1853832/posts
Los Gatos Urologist Arrested for False Diagnoses
KCBS ^ | Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Posted on 06/20/2007 11:22:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Los Gatos urologist was arrested Wednesday on charges that he falsely told three elderly men they had prostate cancer leading one 87-year-old victim to have unnecessary surgery. Dr. Ali Moayed is being held on $500,000 bail. He faces a possible sentence of more than seven years in prison if convicted of all charges, according to Deputy District Attorney Bill Butler.
In early 2005, Moayed allegedly falsified the medical records of the three men showing they had prostate cancer. He recommended they undergo brachytherapy, a form of radiation therapy where a patient undergoes general anesthesia and a radioactive “seed” is inserted into or adjacent to the cancerous tissue.
Prosecutors said one man actually underwent the surgery and the other two would have if the partner of the oncologist who performed the surgery had not become suspicious and informed hospital authorities.
Prosecutors said that following an extensive investigation by the California Medical Board, the doctor relinquished his license to practice medicine in California.
Authorities are concerned that there may be additional victims who were falsely diagnosed.
June 21, 2007 Anti-Terrorism News
(Iraq) Suicide truck bomber kills 18 in N.Iraq attack — blast in
Sulaiman Bek
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070621/wl_nm/iraq_dc_20;_ylt=AgYzk51ZB.LWroDb5jpTP0JX6GMA
Iraq: Explosions strike US-controlled Green Zone
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409604392&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iraq) 41 insurgents killed as US presses assault on Al-Qaeda - in past
2 days
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusdiyala_070621074037;_ylt=Avj_6d4G3xr6dvYpOFt5L71X6GMA
(Iraq) US forces launch new crackdown against al-Qaeda in Iraq
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=996471
(Iraq) Attacks kill 14 American soldiers in Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19349522/
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813091129&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iraq) British hostages held by “Iran-backed” killers - US General
Petraeus: Mahdi Militia kidnapped 5 Britons
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1964088.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_re_mi_ea/britain_iraq_hostages_1;_ylt=AnqtUr4T.ZTl2lYitlv.e8xX6GMA
(Iraq) US military’s new Iraq strategy: religious conciliation
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p03s01-woiq.html?s=hns
(Iraq) Allen: Fallujah to be clear of al-Qaida - by August
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_anbar_province_2;_ylt=Ai9QHHIAqFBO2fWkz2zp3g4wuecA
(Iraq) Pope concerned about fate of Christians in Iraq
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409606480&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iraq) America can’t just walk away from the fight with al-Qaeda, US
general insists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1964043.ece
Afghanistan: 7 suspected Taliban die in clashes
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409604559&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Afghanistan) Taliban are ‘recovering’, says rebel leader
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Taliban_are_recovering_Rebel_leader/articleshow/2138611.cms
New Taliban Military Commander Mansour Dadallah: Bin Laden Is Alive and
Well
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD163007
(Afghanistan) NATO soldier killed in Afghan landmine blast
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestnato_070621100108;_ylt=Ajh.GnYavNOuvL33G1VPi2zOVooA
(Afghanistan) Taliban ‘shifting focus to Kabul’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6224900.stm
(Afghanistan) Taliban vows more attacks on Afghan capital
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/June/subcontinent_June827.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
(Afghanistan) Iraqi tactics come to Afghanistan - Taliban hunt spies,
target Kabul with Iraq-style tactics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6222574.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/ts_afp/afghanistanunresttaliban_070621111852;_ylt=AtUjsRYe5PfCm4va4aYfoiZX6GMA
(Afghanistan) UN halts food deliveries to southern Afghanistan over
attacks, looting
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Stolen-Food.php
Iran denies US claims it is arming Taliban rebels
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409606636&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Lebanon) Army, Islamists trade fire on day 33 of Lebanon camp siege
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/wl_mideast_afp/lebanonunrest_070621121146;_ylt=AhLd0jt7vsYX3eH4vaTg.UTagGIB
Lebanon camp militants “fighting like rats”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/June/middleeast_June388.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
Lebanese army insists on militants’ surrender
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/June/middleeast_June393.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
Syria closes Lebanon border post because of camp siege
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/wl_mideast_afp/lebanonunrestsyriaborder_070621074502;_ylt=AhUbdXBBFf810cyt3uAHqP_agGIB
(Palestinian Territories) Abbas Says Hamas Is Trying To Kill Him
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1271593,00.html?f=rss
(Palestinian Territories) Islamic Resistance Movement ‘murderous
terrorists,’ Abbas says — Hamas seeking ‘Kingdom of Gaza,’ Palestinian
president claims
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b6b4c1e7-66c5-4fad-a468-10fed2cc4065
(Palestinian Territories) Abbas rules out talk with Hamas “terrorists”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/June/middleeast_June384.xml§ion=middleeast
(Palestinian Territories) A leader of Hamas warns of West Bank peril
for Fatah
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/africa/21mideast.php
Hamas warns off Fatah in West Bank
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/06/21/hamas_warns_off_fatah_in_west_bank/9697/
Hamas creating ‘empire of darkness’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/21/whamas121.xml
(Hamas) In Israel, Palestinians tell of Hamas butchery
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873555.html
Gaza: Hamas threatens to reveal names of Palestinian “Mossad agents”
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.428004362&par=0
Gaza militants launch ‘web-war’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6221694.stm
Egypt sets multilateral talks to pre-empt Hamas
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/news/mideast.php
(Israel) 4 militants killed near Kissufim, 2 Islamic Jihad men in W.
Bank
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873554.html
(Israel) IDF officers: ‘Israel should not maintain any ties with Hamas’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813090374&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims Kassam rocket attack
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813087916&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Jordan) Police step up hunt for convicted terrorists
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews4.htm
(Indonesia) Report: Fugitive Bombing Mastermind “Arrested” -Detikcom
news agency reports arrest of Malaysian national Noordin Mohammed Top
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.427912728&par=0
(Indonesia) Police: Indonesian terror suspect Abu Dujana to face
possible death penalty
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/asia/AS-GEN-Indonesia-Terror-Charges.php
Indonesia: Abu Dujana is lying, says Bashir spokeman
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.427926093&par=0
Indonesian Jemaah Islamiyah in disarray after arrests, member tells
Al-Jazeera
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/wl_afp/indonesiaattacksji_070621034518;_ylt=AikcRgnsyIXKTLX4c5SJ6RvaHXcA
Pakistan hardliners honor bin Laden in Rushdie row - given bin Laden
the title “Saifullah,” or sword of Allah
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070621/wl_nm/rushdie_pakistan_dc_2;_ylt=Aq.Gt_N7Jx3EEsVBacmc9dLzPukA
(Pakistan) “Suicide Bomb” Religous Affairs Minister may go to UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6225428.stm
(Pakistan) Rocket hits girls’ school in Bajaur Agency
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/21/2007#5
(Pakistan) Landmine explosion in Pakistan kills three people - in
Pakistani tribal agency of Kurram bordering Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=996334
(Pakistan) KFC ransacked in Pakistan riots
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_bi_ge/pakistan_power_riots_4;_ylt=Argu1japjkTXywtFr7cKURvzPukA
(Pakistan) Death toll in missile strike in North Waziristan increases
to 34
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/21/2007#1
Report: Waziristan blast caused by “new U.S. weapon”
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.427804800&par=0
(Pakistan) China asks Pakistan to hand over 22 militants hiding in the
tribal areas
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/21/2007#11
(India) Former Kashmir rebel wounded by “cigarette bomb”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070621/india_nm/india304142_2;_ylt=AqsRUfxKa3qnF3OmeJsUHO01NXcA
(India) Protesters in Indian Kashmir march against Rushdie knighthood
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/asia/AS-GEN-Kashmir-Rushdie-Protests.php
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/march+against+rushdie+knighthood/568632
New Rushdie protests after Britain defends award
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/wl_uk_afp/britainrushdie_070621123214;_ylt=AsaOiCs.ipAQPfFmrfwR6wwwuecA
(UK) Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett: Britain ‘sorry’ if Muslims are
offended by Rushdie award
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news?articleid=2971003
(India) Two bomb blasts in Manipur
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/21/2007#6
(India) Maoists kill police personnel in Chhattisgarh
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/21/2007#4
Algeria: leader of al-Qaeda gets 20 years prison sentence in absentia
— national leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Abu Musab
Abdelouadoud alias Drudkal
http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6609
(Nigeria) Gunmen driven from Nigerian oil facility - leaving a dozen
gunmen dead
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_re_af/nigeria_oil_unrest_2;_ylt=AqzYaJDlQ_pMSHZk4.KWgjzZ9YEA
Nigeria: Militants Demand N12m for Indian Hostages
http://allafrica.com/stories/200706210689.html
(USA) Judge expected to rule on bin Laden video in Padilla case
http://www1.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI52224/
US State Dept weighs reaching out to the Muslim Brotherhood (my title)
http://www.nysun.com/article/56899
Germany indicts Lebanese for bomb attempt — accused of planting
terrorist bombs a year ago on German trains
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=41116
Swiss trial convicts two Muslims accused of supporting terror on
Internet
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Swiss-trial-convicts-two-Muslims-accused-of-supporting-terror-onInternet/2007/06/21/1182019288114.html
Switzerland: Terror incitement trial
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/06/switzerland-terror-incitement-trial.html
France expels Iranian suspected of ties to nuclear drive
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=41147
Spanish police discover ETA car bomb after end of ceasefire
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1320630.php/Spanish_police_discover_ETA_car_bomb_after_end_of_ceasefire
(UK) Seventh terror suspect flees control order - new terrorist suspect
on run - suspect subject to control order vanished Monday night
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/21/ncontrol121.xml
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007280728,00.html
(UK) Convicted Terrorist states ‘Led astray’ by Al Qaeda general Dhiren
Barot
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1488240.mostviewed.led_astray_by_al_qaeda_general.php
(UK) Leicester: ‘Look out for signals of terrorist activity’
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132935&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132702&contentPK=17622578&folderPk=77465&pNodeId=132393
(Guyana) Sons Of Guyana Terror Accused Freed On Bail - sons of JFK
Plotter Abdul Kadir
http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_files/details.asp?newsid=12982&title=Top%20Stories
Australia mulling to block terror recruiting websites
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/151165.php/Australia-mulling-to-block-terror-recruiting-websites
(Thailand) Sweep-up operation in Yala
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30037473
(Thailand) Airport scanners working again after computer virus shut
them down
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/asia/AS-GEN-Thailand-Airport-Scanners.php
(Philippines) Anti-terror law’s implementating rules being finalized
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2007/06/21/anti.terror.law.s.implementating.rules.being.finalized.(10.a.m.).html
(Sri Lanka) Army: Dozens of Sri Lanka rebels slain - update
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_re_as/sri_lanka_4;_ylt=Ap2cpbGRcx9SdRXSTmGWLuItM8oA
(Nepal) Hindu train suicide bombers in Nepal
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1104623
(Columbia) Freed rebel ruins hopes of peace with call to fight
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070621/FOREIGN/106210051/1001
North Korea says bank problem could stall nuclear moves
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070621/pl_nm/korea_north_dc_47;_ylt=Ai3dikpKIr9EkxAaRT3_25WCscEA
(North Korea) Chief U.S. Nuke Negotiator Visits North Korea
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,285333,00.html
(North Korea) U.S. to hold direct talks in North Korea on arms
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/asia/21korea.php
U.S. citizen passport rules postponed
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/06/21/us_citizen_passport_rules_postponed/1971/
TSA workers get trash reminder - Orlando, FL airport trash
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/06/21/tsa_workers_get_trash_reminder/608
Commentary:
Al Qaeda’s Franchise in Africa - J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.
http://worlddefensereview.com/pham062107.shtml
Beware of Al-Qaeda’s Franchise in Africa - J. Peter Pham, Ph. D.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=1084483
Other News:
(UK) New group for those who renounce Islam — Council of ex-Muslims
of Britain plans to speak out against Islamic states that still punish
Muslim apostates with death under Sharia law
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/21/wrushdie221.xml
Netherlands: Growth in Islamic banking
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/06/netherlands-growth-in-islamic-banking.html
Norway: “Koran exhibit” upsetting Muslims
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/06/norway-koran-exhibit-upsetting-muslims.html
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=141518
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/ostafjells/buskerud/1.2307080
Norway: Somalis support female circumcision
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/06/norway-somalis-support-female.html
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1843443.ece
Sweden: Call to ban arranged marriages
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/06/sweden-call-to-ban-arranged-marriages.html
http://www.thelocal.se/7668/
Denmark: Adding Spanish and Arabic as foreign languages
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/06/denmark-adding-spanish-and-arabic-as.html
Christine Antorini, education spokesperson for the Social Democrats
said the call for more Arabic benefits teens with roots in the Middle
East.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854074/posts
CCCI Convicts 99: Sentences 16 to death, 7 to life imprisonment
COMBINED PRESS INFORMATION CENTER ^ | 6/21/07 | Unknown
Posted on 06/21/2007 9:40:36 AM PDT by SoldierDad
CCCI Convicts 99: Sentences 16 to death, 7 to life imprisonment Thursday, 21 June 2007 MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ COMBINED PRESS INFORMATION CENTER BAGHDAD, Iraq http://www.mnf-iraq.com 703.343.8790
June 21, 2007 Release A070621b
CCCI Convicts 99: Sentences 16 to death, 7 to life imprisonment
continues......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854077/posts
Taliban threat a ‘PR move’: Day (Stockwell Day, Public Safety Minister, Canada)
Macleans Magazine ^ | 2007-06-20 | (staff)
Posted on 06/21/2007 9:46:07 AM PDT by Clive
A Taliban threat to send hundreds of suicide bombers to attack Canada is being dismissed by top security officials as a desperate publicity stunt.
ABC News obtained a video this week that showed a Taliban military commander lining up approximately 300 graduates at a training camp and announcing they will be sent to Canada, the United States, Germany and Britain in retaliation for those nations’ presence in Afghanistan.
But officials insist the video is merely a scare tactic in response to the Taliban’s losing battle in Afghanistan. “Their purpose is to strike terror, put fear in people’s hearts,” Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Tuesday. “I think the Taliban are aware that our troops cannot be intimidated, our troops prevail on the field of battle in Afghanistan. And so they’re trying through public relations means to worry the hearts of Canadians at home.”
Day said he is confident in intelligence and security officials’ ability to protect the country. “Canadians can sleep well at night knowing that we have very effective security capabilities,” he said, although he added that the threat must be taken seriously. “It’s a sign of desperation, but it’s not a sign that can be dismissed ... We’ve always said that Canada is not immune to threats of terrorism.”
Acting RCMP commissioner Bev Busson echoed Day’s statement, saying, “We never ignore these kinds of threats.” But assistant commissioner Mike McDonell testified at a Senate national security committee on Monday, before the video was made public, that the police force is already strained for personnel and that he’s been forced to borrow 100 officers from other departments to help with counterterrorism investigations.
McDonnell, who announced the arrests of 18 terrorist suspects last year after an alleged plot to detonate truck bombs was uncovered, indicated the threat of home-grown terrorist cells in Canadian cities is still very real and shouldn’t be taken lightly. “It is fair to say that the centre of gravity for us with respect to today’s national-security threat is in the Toronto area,” he said.
A Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokeswoman said the agency will monitor the situation, but gave no details about exactly what action, if any, it would take in response to the video.
With files from Canadian Press
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Families Receiving Mysterious Phone Messages
KIRO TV Washington ^ | June 20, 2007
Posted on 06/21/2007 10:14:09 AM PDT by Sopater
FIRCREST, Wash. — Three families in Fircrest are being terrorized and threatened through strange voice messages.
“It is like we’re living in a scary movie, and I’m just waiting for someone to wake me up. It’s like a nightmare,” Heather Kuykendall said.
The threats began with a strange-sounding voice leaving mysterious messages and then the messages became darker.
“They threatened to kill us on Feb. 20, and names of all of our family members off by name, and there’s so many threats,” Kuykendall said.
Whoever is behind the messages knows private information about the three families being targeted and sometimes plays conversations recorded inside their homes.
“When I first reported it to the police, I was talking to the dispatcher and describing what happened, they’re activating our microphones on our cell phones, they’re recording our conversations, we have to take the batteries out of our phones if we don’t want to be listened to and she said to me that’s not possible, no one can do that,” Darci Price, another threat victim said.
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TB scare in S.C. puts immigrants’ health in spotlight
The Charlotte Observer ^ | FRANCO ORDOÑEZ AND AMES ALEXANDER
Posted on 06/21/2007 7:43:39 AM PDT by 300magnum
131 EXPOSED IN GREENVILLE
The number of workers exposed to tuberculosis at a Greenville, S.C., chicken plant has grown to 131, but state health officials cautioned Tuesday only one is suspected of having an active form of the infectious disease.
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control began testing employees at the House of Raeford Farms plant late last month after the agency was told about the infected worker. So far, 286 employees who have been in contact with the worker have been tested.
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Prosecutor: FBI Sting Stopped Arms Dealers
1010wins ^
Posted on 06/21/2007 6:18:38 AM PDT by Calpernia
NEW YORK — An Armenian immigrant accused of plotting to sell military weapons to an FBI informant posing as an arms dealer went on trial Wednesday with a prosecutor saying he was greedy for a fast buck and his defense lawyer saying he merely wanted a green card.
[Calpernia has filled this thread with facts on this case]
New Photos Show Secret Pakistan Plutonium Plant
June 21, 2007 10:51 AM
ABC News
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Elizabeth Sprague Reports:
New_photos_show_mn A satellite photograph obtained by ABC News reveals Pakistan is nearing completion of a third, previously unknown plutonium production reactor, suggesting Pakistan may be planning to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal.
“With large stocks of plutonium, Pakistan can build a new generation of lighter, more powerful weapons that can more easily be launched via missiles and can cause far more damage,” said David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), which, along with Digital Globe, provided the satellite image to ABC News.
The image, taken on June 3, indicates the new reactor is a replica of a second heavy water reactor, also under construction, at Khushab, approximately 109 miles south of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital.
The third reactor is located a few hundred meters to the north of the second. The original reactor at the site began operations in 1998.
According to Albright, construction of the third reactor has been especially rapid. In the GeoEye image from August 2006, only minimal ground excavation is visible.
The Pakistani Embassy had no immediate comment.
Pakistan’s facilities at Khushab are not subject to safeguard inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The existing reactor at Khushab is known to produce plutonium for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program.
Pakistan has not signed the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). It is one of only four states to opt out of the international treaty designed to promote cooperation in achieving nuclear disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Cuba, India, Israel are the other three.
Experts estimate Pakistan has already built about 60 nuclear weapons.
Until more is known about the power of these two new reactors, Albright says, it is difficult to estimate the number of weapons that could be built from plutonium harvested from the reactors’ spent fuel.
With that caveat, he notes, the number of produced weapons could easily reach at least 10 each year.
Swiss trial convicts two Muslims accused of supporting terror on
Internet
June 21, 2007 - 11:20PM
A Swiss court on Thursday convicted two Muslims for supporting a
criminal
organisation by running Web sites that posted statements from
al-Qaida-linked groups and showed executions.
The main defendant, Moez Garsallaoui, a Tunisian, was sentenced to six
months in prison and given an additional 18 months suspended. Malika El
Aroud, widow of an al-Qaida suicide bomber, received a six-month prison
sentence suspended for three years.
The verdict can be appealed at Switzerland’s high court.
The two defendants in Switzerland’s first Internet terrorism trial had
maintained their innocence when they appeared in a high-security
courtroom
on the first day of the trial Wednesday.
The two were accused of running Web sites that supported terrorists and
gave
details of how to make bombs and carry out attacks. They were detained
in
February 2005 during anti-terror raids in two Swiss cantons, or states,
the
Federal Criminal Court said.
The suspects, who are now married to each other, were released on bail
after
their initial detention and had moved to Belgium.
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Thieves Steal Herman Munster’s Identity
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Jun 20, 1:53 PM (ET)
By TED BRIDIS
WASHINGTON (AP) - Did Internet thieves steal Herman Munster’s MasterCard number? Crooks in an underground chat room for selling stolen credit card numbers and personal consumer information offered pilfered data purportedly about Herman Munster, the 1960s Frankenstein-like character from “The Munsters” TV sitcom.
The thieves apparently didn’t realize Munster was a fictional TV character and dutifully offered to sell Munster’s personal details - accurately listing his home address from the television series as 1313 Mocking Bird Lane - and what appeared to be his MasterCard number. Munster’s birth date was listed as Aug. 15, 1964, suspiciously close to the TV series’ original air date in September 1964.
CardCops Inc., the Malibu, Calif., Internet security company that quietly recorded details of the illicit but wayward transaction, surmised that a Munsters fan knowledgeable about the show deliberately provided the bogus data.
“The identity thief thought it was good data,” said Dan Clements, the company’s president.
Clements said evidence indicates the thief, known online as “Supra,” was operating overseas. “They really stumble over our culture. He’s probably not watching any reruns of ‘The Munsters’ on TV Land.”
Herman Munster was portrayed by Fred Gwynne, who died in July 1993.
“Phishing” thieves often trick consumers into revealing financial secrets by sending e-mail requests that appear to originate from banks. A consumer’s financial details can be worth $4 and $40 among online thieves, who can use the information to open fraudulent credit accounts.
CardCops eavesdrops on conversations among thieves in underground Internet chat rooms to monitor for stolen credit card numbers being sold or traded. It offers monitoring services to alert consumers whose information is compromised by hackers.
CardCops: http://www.cardcops.com
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Pilot Stranded in Miss. Tree for 2 Days
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Jun 21, 10:15 AM (ET)
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A high school history teacher survived more than two days dangling from a tree in his single-engine plane after it crashed during a cross-country trip.
Dennis Steinbock, 52, was rescued Wednesday after the Civil Air Patrol detected an emergency signal. He had been in the plane for about 50 hours, had serious injuries to both legs and was dehydrated when he was found in a densely wooded gully.
The cause of the crash was not known.
Steinbock, from Klamath Falls, Ore., was hospitalized in good condition Thursday in Memphis, Tenn., said Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer. She declined to release further information citing patient privacy laws.
Steinbock’s son, Steven, said his father bought the plane in Alabama and was flying it home to Klamath Falls, Ore.
“The Civil Air Patrol saved that man’s life,” Lafayette County Sheriff Buddy East said Thursday. “They kept calling us ... we went out there and helped but they kept at it. That plane was in a place we couldn’t get to without their help.”
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4 Charged With Homicide, Abuse in Wis.
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Jun 21, 9:51 AM (ET)
By TODD RICHMOND
(AP) In this undated photo released by the Columbia County Jail, shown is Candace Clark in Portage, Wis....
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PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) - Police initially went to a rental property in this sleepy Wisconsin town in search of a 2-year-old girl kidnapped from her Florida foster home by her mother last fall.
What they found was a house of horrors, detectives say: A roving band of suspected identity thieves who had killed one of their own, buried her in the backyard and locked her bloody and beaten 11-year-old son in an upstairs closet.
continued, may be the worst incident that I have ever read.
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US Gen: Militia Kidnapped 5 Britons
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Jun 21, 5:41 AM (ET)
LONDON (AP) - Five Britons who were kidnapped in Baghdad last month are being held by a secret cell of the Mahdi Army militia that was armed, trained and funded by Iran, the top U.S. commander in Iraq was quoted Thursday as saying.
“A very intensive effort” is under way to find the hostages, Gen. David Petraeus told The Times.
The captives - four security guards and a consultant - were abducted from the Iraqi Finance Ministry on May 29 by some 40 heavily armed men who took them in the direction of Baghdad’s sprawling Shiite district of Sadr City.
Iraqi officials have said they believe the Britons were taken hostage by the Mahdi Army militia, which is largely loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
But Petraeus told The Times that “it is a secret cell of Jaish al-Mahdi (the Mahdi Army).”
“They are trained in Iraq, equipped with Iranian (weapons) and advised by Iran,” Petraeus was quoted as saying. “The Iranian involvement here we have found to be much, much more significant than we thought before.”
Washington has accused Shiite Iran of arming and financing Shiite militias fighting American and Iraqi troops in Iraq - charges Iran denies.
Petraeus said told The Times there have been several operations to try to rescue the hostages but “we just have not had the right intelligence.”
Iraqi officials have said the Mahdi Army may have grabbed the men in retaliation for the killing by British forces of the militia’s commander in the southern city of Basra.
The British ambassador to Iraq, Dominic Asquith, has appealed to the kidnappers of the five Britons to release them or open negotiations.
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Man Slashes Students in China; 4 Hurt
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Jun 21, 4:42 AM (ET)
BEIJING (AP) - A knife-wielding man slashed four students, wounding one seriously, state media reported Thursday, in the latest in a string of violent acts at Chinese schools.
Xinhua News Agency said the four students were wounded when a man with a knife broke into a high school Wednesday in Fuzhou, capital of southeastern China’s Fujian province.
It said a teenage girl was in critical condition, while the other three were out of immediate danger.
The victims are all in grade 11. Xinhua gave no other details or motive for the attack, the latest in a series of random incidents at China’s schools.
Last Friday, police fatally shot a suspected mentally ill man who threatened to blow up a school in southern China with dynamite, according to the Beijing Morning Post.
It said police shot the man after several hours of unsuccessful negotiations. The man was suspected of having a mental illness.
Also last week, Xinhua News Agency reported that a man broke into a primary school in Guangdong province in southern China and killed a 9-year-old boy with a kitchen knife, Xinhua said. Three other students were seriously wounded.
Xinhua said the attacker had been seen quarreling with the boy’s parents in the past.
Computer Gremlin Strands Thousands of United Airlines Passengers
By Katherine Noyes
E-Commerce Times
Part of the ECT News Network
06/20/07 1:49 PM PT
A computer outage at United Airlines on Wednesday caused the cancellations of 24 domestic flights and the delays of 268 domestic and international flights. The financial costs for the airline will be substantial, considering that a flight on an airplane such as a Boeing 737 brings in revenues between $15,000 and $20,000, and that United operates roughly 4,000 flights per day.
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A computer failure at United Airlines prevented the takeoff of all the air carrier’s flights worldwide for about two hours on Wednesday.
Flights scheduled to depart between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. EDT were grounded, causing backups and delays around the globe. Twenty-four domestic flights were canceled, and approximately 268 domestic and international flights were delayed by an average of about an hour and a half, United spokesperson Robin Urbanski said.
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You could spend the rest of your life on this site, researching.
I checked the name of Kissinger from the list, the connections are eye opening.
granny
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Bill, James A. The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1988. 520 pages.
Iran has oil and it borders the former Soviet Union. These were two excellent reasons for the interest that Britain and the U.S. had in Iranian affairs since World War II. After the CIA-sponsored coup in 1953 that installed the shah, American elites held his caviar and champagne in high regard, not to mention their profits from arms sales. It was the job of SAVAK, the secret police founded by the CIA and trained by Mossad, to keep the rabble quiet. As late as September 28, 1978, several months before one of the major revolutions of the twentieth century, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency reported that the shah “is expected to remain actively in power over the next ten years.” (page 258)
Even after the revolution, private policymakers such as Kissinger and Rockefeller apparently managed one last scam. The author explains how Chase Manhattan Bank, which feared that the new Iranian government might withdraw their funds and repudiate the shah’s loans, had nothing to lose by lobbying Washington for the admission of the shah into the U.S. This resulted in the takeover of our embassy, the freezing of Iranian assets, and a declaration of default by Chase that allowed them to seize those assets to offset the loans. “In the end, the resolution of the crisis clearly benefitted the American banking community.” (page 344)
ISBN 0-300-04097-0
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