A Pakistani man and his son have filed a complaint with US federal officials claiming they were removed from an internal flight because of their appearance.
Fazal Khan, 59, and Mohammed Khan, 28, boarded a SkyWest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Oakland, California, on Jan 31, 2006, wearing white skullcaps, tunics and loose trousers. Both men also have long beards.
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.277626808&par=0
A Balkan Base for Al Qaeda?
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 20, 2006
The War on Terror suffered a major blow three years before it was ever announced. It happened when the people of this democracy were misled into attacking the sovereign, emerging post-Communist democracy of Yugoslavia--over rumors of genocide and ethnic cleansing that proved false. In so doing, we put the final touch on delivering the Balkans to al Qaeda.
Today we are being asked to seal that historical blunder, whose repercussions seven years later are only escalating as those we “rescued” turn their weapons against UN and NATO forces. While NATO spends most of its time rooting out terror cells in Kosovo and Bosnia—which served as the logistics bases for the London and Madrid bombings--the 2006 deadline to complete our eagerly forgotten debacle and determine the province’s final status is fast approaching.
To persuade the international community that only one final status will be acceptable, our Albanian "rescuees" have been stepping up the violence, a message to the West that it has only one possible exit strategy: grant unconditional independence--without border compromises with Serbia and without protection guarantees for what’s left of the non-Albanian minorities.
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Russia is Significantly Upgrading Its Ballistic Missile Nuclear-Powered Submarine Fleet
Moscow has begun construction of its third Project 935 Borey-class fourth-generation strategic nuclear-powered submarine at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk in northern Russia. The Borey-class is designed to carry 20 SLBM ballistic missiles.
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Iran is using academic institutions as a cover for research and development of its nuclear weapons program, a leading opposition figure said Monday.
"Given Tehran's record of lies and deceptions, using academic institutions to develop a nuclear bomb, makes it even more difficult to stop Iran's secret development of a nuclear weapon," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, president of Strategic Policy Consulting.
"There are (academic) nuclear sites involved in research and development of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which remain un-inspected by the (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors to date," he continued.
Jafarzadeh, who insisted his information was "precise and verified" from sources inside the hard-line regime, said they include Imam Hossein University of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran.
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