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Mogadishu - Government forces have incarcerated at least seven Pakistani men, who were preaching people praying in a mosque near the presidential palace of Villa Somalia where President Abdulahi Yusuf is staying currently. The religious men known as Tabliq (Preachers or missioners) always traveled to every part of the country to preach people about Islam.
Abdulkadir Abdi Dahir, a resident Hamar Jajab, where the incident took place, told Shabelle that residents suddenly rallied at the area to protest against the government forces who took the men in a car. “The police force have dispersed us and they told us they would investigate the men’s identity and motive in the country”, he said. Tabliq are known to be linked to no political group or particular religious organization. The government was not available for comments over the issue.
http://www.shabelle.net/news/ne2040.htm
China says militants still at large in northwest
09 Jan 2007
BEIJING - China said on Tuesday that the hunt was still on for terrorists at large, adding they had links to international forces, a day after it disclosed details of a massive raid in its Central Asian border region of Xinjiang. Police killed 18 people the government described as terrorists and captured another 17 in the raid on a training camp in the Pamirs plateau in southern Xinjiang that it said was run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
"At present, some terrorists are still at large. The Public Security department is pursuing them," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular news conference. "We have evidence that East Turkestan groups are connecting with international terrorist forces and plan to conduct terrorist activities," he said.
Oil-rich Xinjiang is home to 8 million Uighurs, a Turkic, largely Islamic people, many of whom resent the growing Han Chinese presence in the region and government controls on their religion and culture.
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK140905.htm
Iran: Ahmadinejad To Embark On South American Tour
9 Jan. 2007
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is preparing to leave Tehran on Friday for a tour of Latin America which will lead him to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Ahmadinejad, who had already visited the region in September, is scheduled to land Saturday morning in the Venezuelan capital Caracas where he will be greeted by president Hugo Chavez, his closest ally in South America.
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.374799865&par=0