A Church forced to close by its dwindling congregation and spiralling repair bill will now become a mosque. St Matthew's Church closed in 2000 when Church of England leaders were told it needed a £20,000 refurbishment to meet fire safety rules.
But now the building in Boultham Park Road, Lincoln, has been rescued by the city's expanding Muslim community. Lincoln's Islamic Association, which has 1,500 Muslim members in the city and surrounding villages, has needed a new place to worship since outgrowing its mosque in Orchard Street.
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Syria's Terror Networks
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Mr. Chizari, one of the major IRGC commanders netted by Coalition Forces in December, was present in Damascus a month prior to his capture where he was meeting with senior Syrian leadership and the Lebanese Hezbollah officials in charge of a specially designated "Force 2800" which focuses on supporting fellow radical Shi'ite groups like the ones responsible for the recent kidnapping and execution of four U.S. soldiers in Karbala.
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Imad Mugniyeh, the infamous Hezbollah special operations super-terrorist who still retains a $5 million bounty on his head -- placed by the FBI due to his role in planning the Marine barrack and embassy bombings in Beirut in 1982 -- is also said to attend these meetings. Sources say that Mugniyeh was designated by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah as the head of Force 2800.
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Taliban fighters in northern Pakistan fired two missiles into the town of Miranshah, according to Pakistan's Pashto Radio. One of the missiles landed close to a military base. No casualties were reported. Following the ousting of the Taliban in 2002, many of the Afghani movement's members have fled to neighboring Pakistan. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said recently that the Taliban and Al-Qa'ida have established a sizeable presence in the northern districts of his country.
A Pakistani citizen was arrested by the Afghani authorities charged with facilitating the entry of Al-Qa'ida leader Osama Bin Laden into Afghanistan, the London-based daily Al-Hayyat reported.
The paper quoted sources in the Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry, who said they were recently informed of the matter by their Afghani counterparts. The Pakistani, Sayyid Akbar, reportedly smuggled Bin Laden into the Nouristan province in eastern Afghanistan and provided him with shelter for an unknown period of time.
The Afghani intelligence services are accusing Akbar of being the liaison officer between Pakistan's intelligence services and Bin Laden. The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry called upon Afghanistan to allow its diplomats in Kabul to meet with the detainee to identify him. Akbar is now being interrogated and is believed to have been a close aide to Bin Laden in the past two years, according to the spokesman for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Karim Rahimi.
Kabul has not specified when Bin Laden was smuggled into the country, but underlined this had taken place in the past few months.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have been trading accusations in the past few months, each claiming Bin Laden was hiding in the neighboring country. The two countries also blame each other for the constant infiltration of terrorists from one side of the border to the other.
The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan stretches along 1,510 miles. There is no fence or any other kind of barrier along the border.
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