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Full Title: "Police probing radicalised teenager in Belgium find video of him and five Iraqi migrants gang-raping drunk girl who fell unconscious at a party":::One suspect told police: 'She can't complain. Women must obey men' Belgian police have seized a video which reportedly shows an unconscious girl being gang-raped by a group of Iraqi migrants. Officers investigating the radicalisation of a 14-year-old boy in Ostend discovered the footage on his mobile phone. The video is believed to show him and six other attackers laughing, singing and dancing around the victim who has passed out drunk at a party. The suspects...

LET WEYNE, Somalia (AP) - An Islamic militia that controls most of southern Somalia is now expanding into the center of this Horn of Africa country, imposing order after years of anarchy but also sparking worries of an emerging Taliban-style regime. One of its Islamic courts has been governing this central town for less than a week, operating out of a crumbling stone building furnished with green plastic chairs, but already its leader is envisioning greater things. ''The world better learn who we are,'' Sheik Farah Moalim told The Associated Press in an interview this week at his headquarters in...

An Arab nation with ties to 9-11 has pledged a major endowment to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, even as the Washington-based nonprofit group insists it receives no foreign support. The United Arab Emirates recently announced on its official government website that it has set up an endowment serving as a source of income for CAIR. The amount of the funding is undisclosed, but sources say it will be enough to help CAIR finance the construction of a new $24 million office building and a planned $50 million public-relations campaign aimed at repairing Islam's -- and the UAE's -- image...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi On Thwarted Terrorist Bomb Plot Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on terrorist bomb plot thwarted in Britain today: “British authorities are to be commended for disrupting a terrorist plot targeting aircraft headed for the United States. “Today’s news is an urgent reminder that we must make America safer and the world more stable. We must implement the strong recommendations of the independent 9/11 Commission to improve airport security screening at checkpoints.”