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“Man Says Ricin Belonged to His Brother”
AP ^ | Mar 17, 2008
Posted on 03/17/2008 4:58:37 PM PDT by John Jorsett
SAN DIEGO (AP)
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“Bavarian Cueneyt Ciftci is Germany’s first suicide bomber”
Timesonline.co.uk ^ | March 18, 2008 | Roger Boyes
Posted on 03/17/2008 5:06:12 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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“Peru arrests 2 carrying $150,000 over Ecuador border”
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
LIMA, Peru
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Authorities arrested two Peruvians on Monday as they tried to enter the country from Ecuador carrying some US$150,000 in cash, and a top official said they are linked to groups that may be funded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A Venezuelan link is also suspected in the case of Roque Gonzalez, a former high-ranking member of the Cuban-inspired Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, who was arrested Feb. 29 and is charged with forming part of an international terrorist group.”
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“Iran’s meddling in the Gulf”
By Olivier Guitta
SNIPPET: “I just wrote an article for the Middle East Times following up on the recent trouble in Kuwait after Mugniyeh’s death.”
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“Trouble brewing in the Gulf”
By OLIVIER GUITTA (Middle East Times)Published: March 17, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hezbollah chief terror master Imad Mugnieh created havoc, terror and a trail of blood during his life. His death is likely to bring more of the same. And this might not be “limited” to potential retaliation terror attacks. Indeed, Kuwait is already paying the nefarious consequences of Mugnieh’s death.
Mugnieh was not well liked in Kuwait, to say the least: at one point, he was considered public enemy number one. He was allegedly behind a 1988 airliner hijacking that resulted in the death of two Kuwaitis.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “This situation has much broader implications and might involve the major player in the region: Iran. In fact, rumors of Iran’s involvement in stirring chaos in the Gulf, by using the local Shiite population, have been abound in recent years. For analyst Nabil al-Fadhi, Iran is behind this crisis because it is looking to deter Kuwait from allowing the United States to launch attacks against the Islamic republic from its territory.
But the trouble is far from limited just to Kuwait.”
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“Aiding The Enemy”
Investors Business Daily ^ | 3-17-08 | Editorial
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Syrian Authorities Demand Daily Report On Internet Users From Internet Cafés
The Syrian Center for Communications and Freedom of Expression reports that Syrian authorities have ordered Internet café owners to tighten oversight of Internet users, and to submit a daily report including information about each user: his I.D. card or passport number, details about the computer he used, and when he arrived and when he left the café.
Source: Aafaq.org, March 15, 2008
Posted at: 2008-03-17
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“Gulf State’s First Church Opens”
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
March 17, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - The first church permitted in Qatar held its first Mass on Sunday without incident, following threats by Islamists unhappy about a Christian place of worship in the capital of the Gulf state.
Under tight security, thousands of Christians attended the service at the Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church in Doha. Local media described the meeting as lengthy and joyful.
Last week several western embassies warned citizens that the church could be targeted, following threats of violence from Islamists.
The U.S. Embassy added the new church to a list of examples of potential targets which it said could be attacked by extremists. The Australian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates, which deals with Qatar, noted that a terrorist Web site had made reference to the new church complex.
Most of the approximately 150,000 predominantly Catholic Christians in Qatar, a tiny country with a population of less than one million, are foreigners from countries including the Philippines and India.
The opening of Qatar’s first church makes neighboring Saudi Arabia the last of the Gulf States where no churches are allowed.”
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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Attack on Ethiopian Christians worshipping in church services leaves 4 dead, 70 injured and hundreds fleeing for their lives
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ETHIOPIA (ANS) — Last week, Christians gathering at local churches in a southern region in Ethiopia were enjoying singing and worship when, without warning, hundreds of men armed with machetes and clubs leapt through the open windows and indiscriminately began attacking everyone present. The attackers barricaded the doors to try to prevent people from escaping.
Envoy Ministries (www.envoyministries.org ) says that when the carnage was complete, there were three Ethiopian church planters (missionaries) dead, one more person died March 9, and more than 70 were injured, with 40 people sustaining serious injuries. The death toll is expected to rise. Hundreds fled the area and are being cared for by Christians in other towns.
David Hunt, President of Envoy Ministries, says the attack occurred on March 3, when initially three people were killed. One person later died of wounds sustained in the attack, and seven people remain in hospital.
Hunt told ASSIST News: “Three days ago evangelists began flowing into a nearby town and in one day more than 30 evangelists begged to be sent back into exact area. Yesterday we committed to support the first ten with $60 monthly — today the 10 headed back to the area saying ‘We are ready to lay down our lives.’”
The Envoy Ministries website says that why such brutal attacks would take place is hard to understand, except that as the Gospel has flourished in Ethiopia and as people put their faith in Christ, others, violently opposed to the Gospel, do anything they can to stop the proclamation of the Gospel.
The site goes on to state: “However, Jesus said, ‘I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.’ Truly we are seeing that being borne out in the Church in Ethiopia and in the lives of our brave brothers and sisters in Christ.”
Envoy Ministries says: “We have been in communication with the church there, nearly every day with news of the latest developments. As we learned of the devastation and impact on the Christians, we immediately sent $10,000 to help care for all affected. We have committed to cover the medical costs of those injured and to assist the 190 people who fled. Although this is not enough to cover all the costs, we believe we must do what we can and we invite the Christian public to join with us to care for them as long as they need help.”
In speaking with the Ethiopian Christian leadership, Envoy Ministries says of the church planters that: “They consider that they have already died and have counted the cost to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. They said they are encouraged by the response to the Gospel in this region and for every one who died; there are 20 more ready to go in their place. They asked us to help provide for at least 50 church planters to return to preach the Gospel. They said, simply, ‘We are inspired to go and work more.’”
The church leaders also asked if the ministry could help re-build the churches that were attacked.
Envoy Ministries says: “Our response was, ‘You pray and we will share with our friends.’ It now costs around $1,000 per church as they supply the land, the labor and the lumber. Our goal now has been elevated, as more churches have been destroyed and now we have 17 churches to rebuild.”
The ministry asks believers in the United States “to first pray for the church in Ethiopia, for all those who are suffering and lost loved ones, and to join us in provision as we endeavor to care for all those affected. Thank you and God bless you.”
Envoy Ministries says it is Christ’s messengers of hope to the lost and His emissaries of encouragement to the persecuted.
“We are called to serve in His name... and we are commanded to share His Gospel.
“Our ministry impacts lives, communities and nations through Bible distribution, church planting and providing practical helps to suffering and persecuted believers.”
Envoy Ministries International is “called to be God’s trustworthy envoys of hope to those who are lost and hurting.”
Interested and concerned believers may contribute toward the needs expressed by logging on to: www.envoyministries.org/donate.html
** Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent of ANS, is an international British freelance journalist who was formerly a reporter with a London newspaper and has been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station. Michael’s involvement with ASSIST News Service is a sponsored ministry department — Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) — of ACT International at: Artists in Christian Testimony (ACT) International. His weblog appears at: Michael Ireland Media Missionary.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Christian bookstore in Egypt raided by police, employee arrested
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) — Egyptian police arrested an Egyptian Christian bookstore employee midday Saturday, confiscating books, compact discs, and issues of a newspaper read by Christians in Egypt.
According to Advocates For The Persecuted, (www.advocatesforthepersecuted.org) , David Joseph, chief editor of Al Tareek Wa Al Haque [The Way and The Truth] — the only newspaper specifically geared toward serving the Christian minority community in Egypt — says Egyptian authorities arrested and interrogated Shenouda Armia Bakhait, who was working in the bookstore at the time police raided the shop.
Joseph is President of the Egyptian Christian Youth Union, which runs the Nile Christian Book Shop. The Church of God in Egypt owns the bookstore. Joseph founded the Egyptian Christian Youth Union in 1982. Pastor Safwat Al Baiadi, president of the Evangelical Churches in Egypt, is chairman of the newspaper. The newspaper’s website is www.akhbarsarra.com .
Joseph said: “At 12 noon, Cairo time, General Tarik Barakat, Lt. Assem Al Sherief, and eight undercover policemen stormed into the Nile Christian Book Shop. They spent two hours searching everything in the bookstore. Mr. Shenouda was interrogated for more than five hours by Mohamed Abou al Fetouh, a prosecutor, and Mohammed Issa, president of the court.”
He said that under Egyptian law, if the court found no basis for a formal accusation, the bookstore worker should have been set free immediately. If there were found to be a basis for accusation, he could then be held for four days to allow time for an investigation.
“The interrogators did not apply either of these options. They detained him only for the night, with plans to continue the interrogation the next day, and they requested a report from the Egyptian national security office about the activities of Mr. Shenouda and the Nile Christian Book Shop. Egyptian authorities claim they can detain Mr. Shenouda for up to 40 days without a trial under Egypt’s emergency laws,” said Joseph.
Jan Fletcher, executive director of Advocates For The Persecuted, said the arrest came one day after Mohammed Hegazy came into the bookstore, apparently to buy books.
Hegazy is the first Egyptian Muslim convert to petition Egypt’s Administrative Court to change his religious affiliation on his national identity card. A hearing over his petition sparked a melee in an Egyptian courtroom in January. Judge Muhammad Husseini denied Hegazy’s request in January, ruling that it was against Islamic law for a Muslim to leave Islam.
The Nile Christian Book Shop opened in 2006 in a location that first housed a bookstore in 1890.
Joseph is a native Egyptian and U.S. citizen, and is also President of Advocates For The Persecuted, a U.S.- based nonprofit organization that advocates for religious minorities in the Middle East, with offices in Spokane, Washington, and El Cajon, California. The organization’s website is www.advocatesforthepersecuted.org .
Pastor Safwat Al Baiadi, president of the Evangelical Churches in Egypt, is chairman of the newspaper. The newspaper’s website is www.akhbarsarra.com.
** Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent of ANS, is an international British freelance journalist who was formerly a reporter with a London newspaper and has been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station. Michael’s involvement with ASSIST News Service is a sponsored ministry department — Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) — of ACT International at: Artists in Christian Testimony (ACT) International. His weblog appears at: Michael Ireland Media Missionary.
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“Caught in the Act”
By Andrew Cochran
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 18, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “An effort by radical Islamists to smear terrorism expert Steven Emerson backfired last week when the allegations proved to be fabricated. An article entitled, “Paul Kendall: Did an ‘Expert’ on Terrorism Conspire With a Foreign Government to Violate the Constitutional Rights of American Muslims?,” was posted on PR Newswire on March 4. It was based on copies of emails the author claimed to have reviewed. “These electronic communications prove that Steve Emerson, along with some anti-Muslim advocacy groups, worked directly with the public affairs office of the Israeli consulate in Boston to formulate the creation of a smear campaign intended to stop the construction of a new Islamic cultural center,” the article claimed.
PR Newswire sought to corroborate the article’s claims. But the emails say no such thing - out of dozens posted with the article, Steve Emerson is referenced in only two. In neither case is he shown in any communication with the Israeli consulate, communication which simply did not happen. The author of the article apparently did not respond to requests from PR Newswire for corroboration.
PR Newswire therefore issued a “Kill” order on the story at 12:33 p.m. on Friday, March 7, withdrawing the original press release. This was confirmed in an email and telephone call to Steve’s attorney Richard Horowitz. WordPress.com also removed a blog containing the same report: “This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service.”
Steve Emerson expresses gratitude for the way both entities handled the situation. “I run an independent organization that takes no money from any government, or from anybody outside the United States,” he told me. “This report was an attempt at a viral smear, using the Internet to spread lies about my work. I appreciate the responsible steps PR Newswire and WordPress took to ensure they were not used any further.””
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“Letting Al-Qaeda Chat Away”
By Paul M. Weyrich
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 18, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Instead of passing reasonable legislation to modernize FISA and to provide our security agencies the tools they need to defeat those who want to harm us, the House Majority Leadership is playing fast and loose with American security in order to score a few cheap political points. If Senate Democrats and Republicans were able to agree on the legislation the House Majority Leadership should be able to as well. Twenty-one members of the so-called Blue Dog Democrats even wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) prior to the vote, urging her to support the Senate version of the legislation.
There is no excuse for the behavior of the House Majority Leadership other than the fact that they want something to take with them on the campaign trail during an election year. Oh yes, and they want to allow trial lawyers the freedom to file costly lawsuits against telecommunications companies. At least we know what the House Majority Leadership wants to protect – not American citizens but the pocketbooks of trial lawyers and other special-interest groups which would be involved in such frivolous lawsuits.”
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