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Aerial signposts point to Scientology's sacred text storage facility There are symbols in northern New Mexico that mark a Church of Scientology vault built in a mountainside. The facility contains founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings etched into stainless steel tablets that are stored in titanium capsules. The Church of Scientology apparently asked Albuquerque TV station KRQE not to air its report last week about the markings in the desert. From the Washington Post: The church offered a tour of the underground facility if KRQE would kill the piece, the station said in its newscast. Scientology also called KRQE's owner, Emmis...

Society Becomes Stranger and Stranger Tragically, many psychologists and sociologists have noted that even in same-sex “marriages,” both partners take on heterosexual gender roles. That is, one person will play a female role and the other will play a male role. Some members of the gay community have denounced this imitation of heterosexual marriage by inventing a new term. The new term for the phenomenon to be avoided is called “couple-ism.” Since marriage is thought to be an outmoded “patriarchal” institution, taking on gender roles within a same-sex marriage is to be avoided. In other words, same-sex marriage is good...

SCORES of protesters incensed by European Union moves to send Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council hurled stones and smoke bombs over the walls of the British embassy compound in Tehran overnight. The violence, easily contained by riot police, coincided with a vote by lawmakers to speed discussion of a bill that would force the government to scale back its cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog, state media reported. The bill to limit the scope of nuclear inspections is in retaliation for a resolution approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors last week recommending...

US animal rights activists stripped off in the first of a worldwide blitz of nude demonstrations to protest Australia's treatment of sheep. A small, but committed, group of members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated outside the Australian embassy in Washington. In the coming days PETA plans nude protests outside Australian embassies in Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Sao Paulo. In Washington, four women and one man stripped down to g-strings and painted Australian flagson their bodies. Five other activists held large gruesome photos of bloody sheep that had been mulesed. There were no arrests or...

I spent most of the day beating my head against a wall. Figuratively speaking that is. I dared respond to website claiming that President Bush’s visit to New Orleans delayed delivery of food and disaster supplies. Of course, I countered with the Red Cross being forced to sit on the sidelines by the Louisiana Dept of Homeland Security. Big mistake – trying to confront a Liberal with facts is like trying to make Michael Moore stop eating. I ended up in an email duel with someone that’s sole purpose in life is to bash President Bush. In my head, I...

Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans just two days before the annual homosexual "Southern Decadence" festival was to begin in the town, an act being characterized by some as God's work. Southern Decadence has a history of "filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars," says a statement from the Philadelphia Christian organization Repent America. This year's 34th annual Southern Decadence festival, which drew 125,000 revelers last year, was set to begin today in the Big Easy and run through Monday. As writer John d'Addario explained in "Southern...

Local girl takes second place in 9/11 art contest Advocacy group gives her $100 prize for artwork with a statement By Tara Ramroop, STAFF WRITER SAN MATEO — Hannah Stutz, 11, turned her love of art into a heavy political statement that earned her second place in a peace organization's art contest. The soon-to-be Borel Middle School student recently beat out a handful of youth applicants in the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance's "9/11 Truth for Peace and Justice" art contest, picking up a $100 prize. The group believes that the U.S. government isn't telling the whole truth or giving...

In an interesting case study here, a postal worker is allowed to sue the U.S. Postal Service for harrassment because a customer allegedly threatened her (with an implicit reference to the locale being a "redneck town") for being zealous in enforcing postal regulations. Click on the link to see the .pdf file. What is interesting here is that there appeared to be major friction between the postmaster of the town and the customers, resulting in administrative leave against the plantiff.The postal worker in question was, in fact, the postmaster of the office where the incidents occurred. As the highest ranking...

WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill Democrats may be saying that the chairman of the Democratic National Committee doesn't speak for them, but Democratic activists and rank-and-file members outside the Beltway say they are happy with Dean's no-nonsense approach. "People outside Washington, D.C., love Howard Dean. He raises money for state parties, he sends money to state parties and he's attacking Republicans. That's what the chair of the party is," said Bob Mulholland (search), a campaign adviser to the California Democratic Party and one of the DNC members who in February voted for the former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential hopeful to...

HARDLINE Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he would form a government of moderation but triggered Western concern he would toughen policy on his country's nuclear program and roll back freedoms at home. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Mr Ahmadinejad, who takes over from reformist President Mohammad Khatami on August 3, was "no friend of democracy (and) no friend of freedom". The European Union also expressed worries. Mr Ahmadinejad said he would press on with the nuclear program, which Iran says is only for power generation but which Washington charges is designed to create atomic bombs. The former Tehran mayor...

ST. PAUL, Neb. -- A honey-mustard pretzel that the seller, the Naylors, of St. Paul, Neb., believe is in the shape of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus, shown in March 2005, in St. Paul, sold on eBay on Wednesday, March 9, 2005, for $10,600. Machelle Naylor's 12-year-old daughter, Crysta, said she discovered the pretzel while snacking and watching television with her family on Feb. 27. (03/09/05 AP Photo/The Grand Island Independent)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations must recognize Hezbollah as a force to be reckoned with in implementing the U.N. resolution calling for the withdrawal of all Syrian forces from Lebanon and the disarmament of the country's militias, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday. He was responding to a question about the disarmament of Hezbollah, which showed its strength Tuesday at a huge pro-Syrian rally in Beirut attended by hundreds of thousands of people who chanted anti-U.S. slogans. Two huge banners read in English: "Thank you Syria" and "No to foreign interference." Annan said the world needs to accept that...

The purpose of this thread is to post links to articles on FreeRepublic on the topic of Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all other non-Muslims For example: Muslim Rioters Destroy 13 Churches www.barnabasfund.org Nigeria November 21, 2003 Posted on 11/30/2003 1:49 PM EST by miltonim

The separatist Republic of Texas group, which largely dissolved after an abortive uprising in the Davis Mountains left several of its leaders dead or in prison in 1997, has reformed, and is again pushing its message that Texas should be a free and independent nation, 1200 WOAI news reported today. From a newly established 'capitol' in the east Texas town of Overton, Daniel Miller, President of the Republic of Texas Interim Government, says a desire to be free, combined with ballooning concerns over rising taxes and property rights, will convince more Texans to support a 'referendum' on whether Texas should...

Thursday, January 27, 2005 Moroccan youth at school At the schools in Holland there are many problems with Moroccan youth. Most do not finish their school education and there are many stories about violence against teachers. The teachers do not receive any support from their management or the police. Thing is, Dutch schools, are not allowed to remove aggressive students. They can only try to get him on an other school, but other schools are also not waiting for an aggressive student. Last year, one student, even shot a teacher through his head, fellow student went on the streets to...

Bosnian terrorists, German terrorists, South American terrorists, and terrorists from a shadowy and evil Halliburton-like conglomerate: they’ve all been featured on Fox’s 24, a gritty drama about terrorism. Any kind, apparently, will do, but recently 24 has featured Muslim terrorists — or at least terrorists who look Middle Eastern. But while no Bosnians, Germans, South Americans or Halliburton execs contacted the network to complain about the way they were portrayed on the show, when Fox ventured into Islamic terror territory, the network immediately aroused the ire of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sabiha Khan of CAIR’s Anaheim chapter...

Radical environmental group says Auburn, Lincoln attacks a prelude to further sabotage Auburn Police Department Detective Sgt. Chris Reams snaps photographs of one of five firebombs found at an Auburn construction site last week. Photo by Ben Furtado/Auburn Journal In a letter received at the Auburn Journal on Tuesday, the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility for five firebombs planted in a newly constructed Auburn building last week and a similar bomb planting in Lincoln discovered Dec. 27. The letter said it was sent to the Journal from the Earth Liberation Front, an eco-terrorist group claiming to be non-violent. Officials are...

   #455 - A Discussion on Wife Beating in Islam MBC - 12/30/2004 - 00:03:09    #454 - Saudi Cleric Al-Qahtani on Separation of Authorities As Reflected in the Chopping Off of Hands Saudi TV Ch.1 - 12/30/2004 - 00:01:43    #453 - An Iraqi Elections Broadcast Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai) - 1/2/2004 - 00:00:00    #452 - Tsunami Reactions (2) - Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajjid: Allah Finished Off Richter Scale in Revenge of Infidel Criminals Al-Majd (Saudi Arabia/UAE) - 1/1/05 - 00:01:36  

CAIRO, December 21 (IslamOnline.net) - The first Islamic satellite to be used in crescent sighting will go into orbit in 15 months’ time, an Arab ad hoc committee said Tuesday, December 21. The committee, comprising a host of Arab scholars and representatives of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Muslim World League, has already invited tenders to start manufacturing the new satellite in March in cooperation with Cairo University’s Space Studies Center. “The satellite will fly at a low altitude and beam crescent images to ground stations,” President of Cairo University Ali Abdul Rahman told reporters at a...

Addis Ababa Scholars have urged African nations not to be pressurized by the American-led war on terror and press anti-terrorist legislation. Scholars attending the international conference on "African conflict Management" and related issues here in the capital said that African governments have been put under enormous pressure to press anti-terrorist legislation. Professor Ali A. Mazrui, a well known afro American intellectual stated that some African countries have already yielded to the American pressure. "Some countries have already capitulated to American pressure, often compromising the civil liberties of their Muslim fellow citizens and reversing some of the gains in democratization which...

John Kerry's sister said at a "Women for Kerry" rally Sunday at Sawyer Point that President Bush has waged "war against women" and that her brother will be a champion for women if he's elected president Nov. 2. "We're on the eve of the most important election of our lives, certainly that is true for women," Peggy Kerry told about 1,500 people -- some men along with mostly women -- at the rally on the banks of the Ohio River. "W stands for the war against women," she said. "This is what my brother stands for -- it can all...

Appeal to the International Criminal Court Press release - France had taken a courageous position against the war in Irak, before the United States took actions against this country. President Chirac reacted with good common sense, as a world in Peace is the most preferable and constructive, and he was relayed by millions of pacifist demonstrators in the first few weeks of 2003. This did not stop George W. Bush, President of the USA, from sending his troops and, since one year and a half, from ravaging the country as we know it today. All this under the pretext of...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A headless corpse dressed in an orange jumpsuit has been found by Iraqi police in the Tigris River and handed over to U.S. forces, but it has not yet been identified, a U.S. military spokeswoman said Thursday. She said it was not known whether the body was that of a Bulgarian hostage killed by his captors earlier this week. A deadline for the threatened execution of a second Bulgarian hostage passed last night without news. The body was found near Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad, Wednesday night. "The body had been decapitated. It was dressed in...

EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) -- The recent beheadings of two Americans in the Middle East have added fuel to the angry backlash against Arab-Americans and Muslims that began after the 2001 terrorist attacks. The murders of Paul Johnson and Nicholas Berg triggered hate mail, verbal attacks and anti-Muslim signs. Muslims received death threats and their mosques were vandalized. "Since 9/11, every time there is an incident overseas attributed to Muslims or Arabs, we go on orange alert ourselves," said immigration lawyer Sohail Mohammed. "There are individuals here who are off the wall, who think that every woman who wears...

Even those of us who were skeptical about the manner of post-September 11 American engagement with Islamic extremism, and particularly about the war for Iraq, would have been hard put to pinpoint beheading as the defining memory of this age. Mass murder, a carnage involving tens or hundreds or even thousands of victims, unless personally survived, has become diffuse in our minds. It is not the image of the swirling dust of disaster and ruin that stays, but the image of a single man cowering, terrorized in the most unequivocal, original meaning of the word, shaking and begging to live,...

J&K encounter: 40 women trapped inside mosque Saturday, June 26, 2004 (Srinagar): Close to 40 Kashmiri women were made human shields by militants today during an encounter with security forces in South Kaskmir. The militants entered a mosque earlier this evening and the women were in a house adjacent to the mosque and had got trapped in the crossfire. According to latest reports, all the women have been rescued by the army. Earlier, troops cordoned off the mosque in Litter village in Pulwama district following specific information about the presence of militants. Encounter on The exact number of the militants...

Much of the city is under control of mujahideen loyal to Zarqawi, who enforce tough versions of syariah BAGHDAD - The killing of a South Korean translator by Islamic militants reportedly loyal to Jordanian terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has brought the flashpoint central Iraqi city of Fallujah back into the spotlight. The beheaded body of 33-year-old Kim Sun Il was discovered on a highway between Baghdad and the dusty agricultural hub of 300,000, now ostensibly under the control of the Fallujah Brigade, a United States-backed all-Iraqi military unit. But witnesses from Fallujah say much of the city is under...

March 12, 2004 Madrid Bombings Highlight Extent and Capability of Islamist NetworksReactivation of Bosnian Support Net for New US Attacks? Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS. A series of tightly coordinated bombings on the commuter rail networks of Madrid, Spain, during rush hour on the morning of March 11, 2004, were clearly linked to the al-Qaida-related group, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which during 2003 and 2004 were engaged in geographically dispersed terrorist bombings in Ankara, Turkey, and against the UN compound in Baghdad, Iraq, in August 2003. More than anything, however, the March 11, 2004, bombings highlighted the...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia announced a limited amnesty Wednesday for Muslim militants who surrender in the next month, saying they will not face the death penalty and will only be prosecuted if they committed acts that hurt others. Crown Prince Abdullah read the brief announcement on behalf of his half-brother, King Fahd, on state television Wednesday. He said the offer was open to anyone who has not yet been "arrested for carrying out terrorist acts." "We are opening the door of amnesty ... to everyone who deviated from the path of right and committed a crime in the...

Korean Internet Users Divided on Response to Hostage Slaying Related Articles - Kim Sun-il Executed by Captors in Iraq - Hostage Executed as Soon as Gov't Rejected Iraq Deployment Demands - An Unpardonable Act of Barbarism - Korea Reaffirms Decision to Send Troops to Iraq - Int'l Governments Condemn Beheading of Korean Hostage - Foreign Media React to Killing of S. Korean Hostage - Booby Traps Installed Around Kim’s Body - Kim Sun-il Possibly Abducted on May 31 Korean Internet users are split between those wanting to take reprisals for the killing of Kim Sun-il in Iraq and those...

An organization calling itself 'The National Army for the Liberation of Iraq' issued a statement alledging that Kurdish and Shiia militias will begin liquidating 3,000 army officers and national and religious leaders immediately upon the transfer of power on June 30. (Al Madar Newspaper, London) The leaders of the Sunni tribes in Iraq held their first organized meeting in Baghdad to unify their ranks in preparation for the transfer of power to Iraq on June 30.The lead speaker called on participants to 'continue the program that will please Allah and his messenger..by adhering to the great Islam, the religion of...

The phony fight against terrorism and Saudi followers of ChristJune 23, 2004The Associated Press is reporting today that the government of Saudi Arabia has "offered a one-month amnesty to terrorists". The report makes it clear that such amnesty is about quieting the terrorists for now and not about pursuing justice against the terrorists in the Saudi Kingdom.Foreign Minister Prince Saud declared that Saudi citizens are not allowed to go to Iraq to fight against the Americans. "Any call for holy war (in Iraq) is illegitimate", said Prince Saud. It is interesting to note that Prince Saud is actually saying that...

His death was met with outrage in Washington and remorseful determination in Seoul. On the streets of Baghdad, there was little sympathy for South Korean Kim Sun-Il, beheaded by his captors and dumped on the road between Baghdad and Fallujah. Abu Zaman, a 53-year-old driver, was blunt on the fate of the 33-year-old evangelical Christian: "He deserved it. I object to beheading, but if he was co-operating with the Americans he made a bad decision." A portrait of Kim Sun-Il, who was killed by Iraqi militants, is displayed in front of a bible at a hospital in Busan. Photo: AFP...

A fifty-year-old resident of Kumanovo was kidnapped last weekend near the village of Vaksince by unknown criminal gang. He was beaten up and then released, security sources told Makfax news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity. The same sources said a group of masked and armed persons had abducted the Kumanovo resident with initials O. F. near the Kumanovo’s village of Vaksince. The incident took place late on Saturday at 22:00 hours. The kidnappers demanded EUR 500.000 ransom to set him free. Once they became aware that the ransom money would not be paid, the kidnappers had severely beaten the...

While Big Media prattles endlessly about the leaked 9-11 Commission staff report that claims Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had no connection whatsoever to al Qaida (directly contradicted by Republican and Democrat Commissioners, by the way), the American people remain convinced the evil twins were in cahoots, at least at some level. According to the latest survey conducted on behalf of ABC News/Washington Post and another conducted by Harris, both in the last week, Americans by significant margins believe the Bush administration over its many critics, like John Kerry.According to the ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted between June 16th and June 20th,...

    Militants Vow to Kill Iraq PM as U.S. Handover LoomsWed Jun 23, 2004 03:19 PM ET By Alistair Lyon BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamist militants vowed on Wednesday to assassinate Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, threatening to step up a bloody campaign of beheadings and other killings a week before a U.S. handover to Iraqi rule. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian accused by U.S. officials of having links to al Qaeda and who claimed responsibility for the beheading of a South Korean hostage this week, made the threat on an Islamist Web site. "As for you, Allawi...

U.S. Kills 20 Foreign Fighters in Iraq, Official Says By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: June 23, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 23 — Up to 20 foreign fighters were killed overnight during an American military strike on a house in the city of Falluja, a senior military official said today. The assault came after Muslim insurgents beheaded a South Korean hostage and threatened to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister. "Falluja has become a place where large numbers of foreign fighters remain," a senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters in Baghdad. "We are concerned about this. We don't know...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) - A nighttime attack this week in the Russian republic of Ingushetia by militants near the border of war-ravaged Chechnya killed 92 people and wounded 125, a regional government official said Wednesday. Among the dead were 67 members of law enforcement agencies, said the official, Magomed Ziyaudinnov. About 1,000 militants had taken part in the attacks late Monday night, Ziyaudinnov said, quoting the Ingush Interior Ministry. Ingush officials had previously said about 200 fighters had participated. The regional branch of Russia's Federal Security Service received information about the movements of an armed group about 30 minutes before...

Execution in Iraq stirs up hornets' nest By David Scofield Will the kidnapping and execution of a Korean contractor prompt South Korea to rethink its dispatch plans? Like the tragic execution of American Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia, Kim Son-il, a 33-year-old South Korean man working for a Korean US military contractor in Iraq, has become the latest victim in a campaign targeting independent contractors supporting the United States military in the region. Initially it seemed Kim, a student of Arabic, may have been granted a reprieve as the time of his execution lapsed and Arab television later reported his...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The South Korean hostage beheaded in Iraq was likely kidnapped at the end of May and not June 17 as initially reported by his employer, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. Controversy about when Kim Sun-il was abducted arose after an Islamic militant group made good on threats to kill him when the South Korean government refused to cancel plans to send more troops to Iraq. In early June — before it was widely known that Kim was missing — a videotape was delivered to Associated Press Television News in which Kim says in English...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A recording purportedly made by the mastermind of bombings and beheadings in Iraq threatened to assassinate Iraq's interim prime minister and fight the Americans "until Islamic rule is back on Earth." The audio, found Wednesday on an Islamic Web site, is supposedly from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the same Jordanian-born terrorist whose group claimed responsibility for the beheading of of American hostage Nicholas Berg and Kim Sun-il, a South Korean whose decapitated body was found Tuesday evening between Baghdad and Fallujah. South Koreans reacted with sorrow and anger to Kim's beheading Wednesday, with President Roh Moo-hyun calling...

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<p>Flight attendants on commercial airlines are still being trained to cooperate with hijackers and be victims rather than fight back, despite the attcks of September 11.</p> <p>"Their wrists were bound, their throats slashed," Patricia Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday.</p>

The commission looking into the causes of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States did not conclude that claims by the Bush administration of ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were pure myth, as many newspaper headlines and broadcast reports asserted. As the vice chairman of the panel, Lee Hamilton, stated, "There were connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government. We don't disagree on that." Perhaps this can be placed in a context more Americans would understand. Suppose that instead of radical Islamists (would the non-radicals kindly step forward and isolate and eliminate the radicals?), we were...

IN THE NO-FLY ZONES OF northern and southern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's gunners blindly fired surface-to-air missiles at patrolling American and British warplanes. In Yemen, terrorists seized a group of British Commonwealth and American tourists, and four of the hostages died in a shootout. In Tel Aviv, the U.S. Embassy abruptly closed down after receiving a terrorist threat. Perhaps it was just a typical week in the Middle East. But in a region where no one puts much faith in blind coincidence, last week's conjunction of Iraqi antiaircraft fire and terrorism aimed at the countries that had just bombed Iraq convinced...

Allah's Butchers By Ralph Peters FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2004 "Perhaps the greatest blasphemers in any religion are those who appoint themselves as God’s executioners. When an entire civilization embraces such butchers, both the civilization and the religion are in trouble. The ritual slaughter of Paul Johnson Jr. in Saudi Arabia wasn’t simply the act of a cluster of terrorists, but a reflection of the failure of the entire Arab world. Religions are what men make of them. In the Arab heartlands of Islam, Muslims are making a gory mess of their faith. It’s time to end the politically correct...

Every day it seems another American soldier is killed in Iraq. These grim statistics have become a favorite of network news anchors and political chat show hosts. Nevermind that they mix deaths from accidents with actual battlefield casualties; or that the average is actually closer to one American death for every two days; or that enemy deaths far outnumber ours. What matters is the overall impression of mounting, pointless deaths. That is why is important to remember why we fight in Iraq -- and who we fight. Indeed, many of those sniping at U.S. troops are al Qaeda terrorists operating...

Yet another innocent American civilian has been slaughtered at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Here was a man who never hurt a soul, had nothing but admiration and respect for Moslem culture, murdered in cold blood with his decapitated head propped grotesquely atop his lifeless body. Savage is too kind a word to describe the perpetrators of this act. Savage is a word you apply to human beings. If anything good can be said to have come from the death of Paul Johnson, it is that perhaps it will be a moment of epiphany for the American people on all...

WAMPUM, Pa. (AP) - At a racetrack north of Pittsburgh, the air is thick with the smell of burning rubber and overheated brake pads. Cars hit speeds of 100 mph, then execute 180-degree, sliding turns. But the drivers squealing around the BeaveRun Motorsports Complex aren't risking lives in the name of speed - instead, they're speeding to save lives, teaching people leaving for Iraq the skills they may need while driving in a war zone. As government agencies and private security teams prepare people for deployment, business at racetracks offering instruction on driving through roadblocks, past roadside bombs and away...

SEOUL, June 22 (Reuters) - A member of parliament for South Korea's ruling party said acquaintances serving as religious coordinators in Iraq had seen a South Korean hostage alive and safe on Tuesday. "Those clerics, who also had helped release Japanese hostages earlier, told me in telephone talks this morning and an email this evening they saw Kim Sun-il this morning in Baghdad," Kim Seung-gon told Reuters. Kim is secretary general of the Asia Conference of Religion for Peace, a interdenominational religious organisation.