Posted on 06/19/2007 4:43:36 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Saudi King Says Middle East Crisis Will Affect The World
DUBAI, June 19 (Bernama) -- The Saudi king has warned of an impending "explosion" in the Middle East, saying that it will not only affect the region but will spread all over the world, the English daily Gulf News reports.
"The Middle East region suffers from the longest conflict in our contemporary history which is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Israel's occupation of Arab lands," King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, said in an interview with the Spanish El Pas newspaper which was published simultaneously in Al Riyadh newspaper yesterday.
"At this point in time we are exerting efforts to solve this conflict, but we are witnessing an expansion of the crisis to include other countries like Iraq and Lebanon," he said.
"This makes the region replete with troubles that pose grave concerns for us. My fears are the fears of all reasonable men that the explosive situation will not be confined to the region but will extend to the whole world," he added.
The Saudi monarch yesterday began a five-nation trip that will take him to Spain, France, Poland, Egypt and Jordan.
King Abdullah also underlined the importance of solving the problem of Iran's nuclear programme peacefully in a way that guarantees all countries in the region to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in accordance with the standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=268361
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Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
Arrest over fatal house explosion - UK
The arrested man was not named....
Arrest over fatal house explosion
David Leggett died of smoke inhalation
A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal explosion in a
building in north London.
David Leggett, 52, a builder of Potters Bar, Herts, was rescued from
the rubble in Lancaster Road, Enfield last week.
He died later from smoke inhalation. Three others suffered burns and
remain in a serious condition in hospital.
Officers have been speaking to local residents and handing out
leaflets to get information about the incident. The building
collapsed after the explosion.
The arrested man is being held a north-east London police station.
Police launched a murder inquiry and were treating the explosion as
suspicious.
Detectives said they were investigating whether an explosive device
had been placed in the building or whether it was an arson attack.
‘Potential witnesses’
The three-storey building housed a tattoo parlour in the ground
floor and homes on the floors above.
Officers are appealing for information about a red Mark 3 Ford
Escort seen leaving the scene in the direction of Lavender Road,
between 0500 and 0600 BST on Saturday.
A man in his mid-30s was also seen running from the building and
getting into the car which was driven by another man.
Det Insp Bob Mahoney said: “In particular we would like to talk to
two men wearing white T-shirts who were walking past the location
just before the explosion occurred.
“They are potential witnesses and may have information vital to our
inquiries.
“We are also keen to speak to anyone who may have visited the tattoo
parlour in the last few weeks.”
He also praised the members of the public who rescued the three
injured people, a man aged 25, and two women aged 27 and 54, from
the building.
One person climbed up a drainpipe and helped a 54-year-old woman off
a balcony into an adjoining property.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6952131.stm
Shin Bet nixes Olmert’s planned summer vacation in North Italy
Haaretz, Last update - 20:40 19/08/2007
Shin Bet nixes Olmert’s planned summer vacation in North Italy
By Yossi Verter, Haaretz correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894980.html
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be forced to spend his summer vacation
next week - all five days of it - within the walls of the chilly,
ceremonial fortress known as the Prime Minister’s Residence, at 3
Balfour St. in Jerusalem.
Olmert does not want to go to a Galilee bed-and-breakfast, so as not to
ruin the vacation of thousands of Israelis with the Shin Bet’s extreme
security measures. The prime minister’s motorcade (a recognized
nuisance
in the capital) ran over a young girl who was crossing the street at
the
entrance to the city on Friday.
Olmert’s original plan was to spend his vacation in Italy. He wanted to
rent, and pay out of pocket for, a house in a remote part of northern
Italy for a quiet week with his family. His aides held a serious
discussion about every aspect of the trip, from public relations to
security and diplomatic-foreign relations. His men believed the move
could send a message of reassurance to the Syrians: If the prime
minister is vacationing abroad, he is not readying for war.
The Shin Bet was instructed to explore the issue, discretely, with
their
Italian counterpart. The PM naively thought he could take a few
bodyguards with him to his vacation home and hang out there, with the
Italian police and security services seeing to wider security concerns.
He even discussed it with his Italian counterpart and friend Romano
Prodi, who encouraged Olmert to come.
But after making inquiries, the Shin Bet informed the prime minister
that it would not be so simple. If you go, they told Olmert, we’ll have
to send a Hercules with three armored cars and dozens of security
officers. At that point, officials in the Prime Minister’s Bureau
realized that their problem wasn’t Syria, it was with the legions of
Internet jockeys who would be chasing after Olmert from their keyboards
with axes, pitchforks and flaming torches in various Web forums. The
vacation plan was dumped immediately.
Many world leaders vacation in other countries - Mitterrand and Chirac
in the Caribbean; Schroeder, Merkel and Blair in France or Italy;
Sarkozy spent his recent vacation in New Hampshire. American presidents
spend their one-month summer vacations far from the White House in
Washington. But the Israeli mentality cannot tolerate this. Olmert long
since realized, fortunately for him, that the kind of foreign vacation
that the Shin Bet had planned for him would cost the Israeli taxpayers
hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. And that’s the last
thing
he needs right now.
Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
Center for Delinquent Boys Evacuated - Iowa
Center for Delinquent Boys Evacuated
By Associated Press
12:41 AM EDT, August 18, 2007
DES MOINES,
Iowa - A center for delinquent boys was evacuated Friday night after
15 or more people were hospitalized with vomiting and nausea,
authorities said.
David Morlan of the Boone County Emergency Management Agency said
the cause of the sickness at the Woodward Academy has not been
confirmed but a gas leak may be to blame.
Academy officials said the boys were moved to Woodward-Granger High
School while a hazardous materials crew examined the building.
Mandy Moses, the academy’s executive director, said staff and law
enforcement were responding, but that she knew little else.
Morlan said that 15 to 20 young men in their late teens and early
20s were taken to local hospitals but did not have serious injuries.
Jennifer Perry, an Iowa Methodist spokeswoman, estimated about 50
child and adult patients were taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center
and Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines with the sickness.
The academy is about 30 miles northwest of Des Moines. It offers
programs ranging from 90 days to 18 months and works with boys 12 to
18 years old.
More articles
Copyright © 2007, The Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-academy-evacuation,0,5849372.story
Thanks to milford421 for this report:
This mite just be what’s itching you
By James Janega | Tribune staff reporter
August 15, 2007
The mystery nibblers have interrupted a pool party in Bolingbrook
and picnics at Ravinia. They’ve been blamed for itchy splotches from
western Kane County to Michigan vacation grounds. They’ve attacked
in Willow Springs, Chicago Heights and La Grange.
Nobody knows exactly what’s causing the rash of rashes, but
authorities think they’ve got a good idea of what they’re dealing
with, anyway—and they warn that it’s likely something small,
invasive and really annoying.
Biting mites.
Reported cases (pdf)
“We don’t have positive identification on the type of mite that it
is. We do know that it is a mite,” said Kitty Loewy, spokeswoman for
the Cook County Department of Public Health.
Scientists haven’t been able to catch one yet—they are incredibly
small—but the belief that mites have invaded Illinois is based on
the telltale rash that develops after the bites.
continued...........
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-web_itchmiteaug15,1,1584611.story?page=2&track=rss
Abdullah Orders Compensation for Rash of Camel Deaths Saudi Arabia
Abdullah Orders Compensation for Rash of Camel Deaths
Arab News
JEDDAH, 17 August 2007 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King
Abdullah has ordered the payment of compensations to the herdsmen
whose camels died recently showing symptoms of consuming toxic
substances, the Saudi Press Agency quoted Minister of Agriculture
Fahd Balghunaim as saying yesterday.
Deaths of a large number of camels were reported from Wadi Al-
Dawasser governorate and other places after they showed symptoms of
poisoning.
An official of the Agricultural Ministry dismissed the presence of
any camel disease in the region and attributed the mysterious deaths
over the past few days to a cattle feed containing toxic substances
supplied in markets of the region.
Muhammad Al-Shaiha, assistant undersecretary for animal resources at
the ministry, said in a press statement on Wednesday: “On receiving
reports of animal deaths the ministry sent a veterinary team to
inspect the animals and found that the deaths were caused by the
spasm of the nervous system, which led to a state of paralysis, loss
of consciousness and eventual death.” He said the animals that ate a
particular type of feed have shown the symptoms. “The deaths are not
caused by any type of illness.”
Al-Shaiha said that a total of 232 camels died while several other
camels responded to treatment by the veterinary team, according to
the Arabic daily Al-Watan.
The official said the team sent samples taken from the dead animals
for further investigations.
On the other hand, Ali Al-Hasawi, a member of a veterinary team that
treated a number of cases in the region, said the right treatment
for the disease could not be decided without getting the results of
the laboratory tests and identifying the real cause of the
deaths. “The results of the laboratory tests will soon reveal if the
deaths are caused by any toxic feed or by some virus spreading in
the air. Reports indicate that the disease is spreading in a
noticeable manner in different regions in the Kingdom,” the
veterinarian said.
Meanwhile, local residents complained that the animal bodies posed a
serious environment threat in the region. They say the foul odor
from the carcasses is spreading in the villages making it impossible
for people to move about freely.
Abdullah Al-Saeed, an official of the local municipality, said that
steps were under way to burn and bury the bodies.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=99967&d=17&m=8&y=2007
Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
Health officials baffled by child’s mysterious skin rash
By AP
8/16/07
LAWTON (AP) — A skin rash on a young patient that doctors originally
feared was smallpox still has not been identified, state health
officials said Friday.
Test results for the virus used in the smallpox vaccination came
back negative, said Kristy Bradley, state epidemiologist.
The child arrived at Lawton’s Southwestern Medical Center emergency
room Tuesday evening with a skin rash that resembled smallpox. The
rash, including open sores, was on the child’s face, neck, arms and
legs.
Initially, doctors feared the child, whose age and sex have not been
disclosed, had contracted smallpox, a disease that has been
eradicated in the United States since the 1950s, and isolated the
patient. The hospital was shut down for several hours.
Officials later believed the child had contracted the vaccinia virus
from a family friend who is a Fort Sill soldier and had recently
been vaccinated for the disease in preparation for reassignment to
South Korea.
Vaccinations for smallpox ended in 1972. The military began
vaccinating troops again in 2002 out of fear that terrorist groups
might use the smallpox virus in biological warfare.
http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/articles/2007/08/13/news/state/news188.txt
August 20, 2007 Anti-Terrorism News
(Iraq) Roadside bomb kills second Iraqi governor — Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, governor of Muthanna province
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/wl_nm/iraq_dc_46;_ylt=ApXa6hdri5MvICtSXCiEy2tX6GMA
Iraqi-US forces arrest 31 suspected terrorists during Qaeda meeting
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1012821
(Iraq) Baghdad explosion leaves 3 dead, 12 injured - motorcycle rigged with explosives parked in Al-Rasafi square
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1012844
(Iraq) Rocket attacks on Basra airbase increase
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1012925
(Iran/Iraq) Iranian Guards training Iraqi militants: US general
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\20\story_20-8-2007_pg7_6
(Iran/Iraq) Ahmadinejad plans to visit Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070820/wl_mideast_afp/iraniraqdiplomacy_070820083015;_ylt=Ag0hhRGm7OhgpiUU7AfaSYRX6GMA
(Afghanistan) 10 Taliban said killed in base attack - Sangin district of southern Helmand province
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070820/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest_070820083715;_ylt=ApwEvoH6RP7UGNOCz55Jxg3OVooA
Afghanistan: Korean hostages on hunger strike
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1216994750
(Afghanistan) Kidnappers of German woman arrested in Afghanistan
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=43036
(Pakistan) Violence in northern Pakistan kills 4, wounds several others - in Hungu town - north of Islamabad —
also roadside bomb in Tank and driveby shooting of intelligence official in Dera Ismail Khan district
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1012817
Pakistan: Suicide bombing kills 3 troops — outskirts of Thal,in the North West Frontier Province
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_1;_ylt=Al09shDnp40B.d5LEoCWam3zPukA
Pakistan: Military attacks militants in North Waziristan - in three villages - Eisuri, Hurmez and Khushali
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1217065302
Pakistan frees al-Qaida computer expert Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan after three years in custody
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/20/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Terror-Suspect.php
Pakistan: Pro-Taliban militants agree to free soldiers
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1217162826
Pakistan govt, militants agree on ceasefire in South Waziristan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pak_govt_militants_agree_on_ceasefire_in_South_Waziristan/articleshow/2293594.cms
‘Pakistan is world’s most dangerous country’ — per US’ Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pakistan_is_worlds_most_dangerous_country/articleshow/2293320.cms
(Pakistan) Bhutto links Pakistan terrorism to Musharraf regime
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070819/wl_sthasia_afp/canadapakistanbhuttopolitics_070819053436;_ylt=Al5AUTQg.LXmMSPb2H7nKVoTv5UB
(Turkey) Turkish police: Egyptian hijacker of Turkish plane attended al-Qaida camps
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/19/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Hijacked-Plane.php
(Turkey) Hijacker of Turkish plane had links to al-Qaeda - reports -
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95642.html
(Turkey) Reports: Turkish plane hijacker trained by Qaeda
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=89206
Turkish plane hijack bomb ‘block of clay’
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=191178&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30153
Bosnia: International official under fire over al-Qaeda statement
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1217590503
Bosnian Minister denies Al-Qaeda presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1835529&Language=en
(India) 15 suspected al-Qaeda operatives arrested in India
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95622.html
(India) Manipur: 15 Al Qaeda operatives arrested - 10 were Myanmarese and 5 were Bangladeshi nations - entering Bangladesh
through India’s Assam
http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20070820/746437.html
(India) Manipur: 15 Al Qaeda operatives arrested - list of names of those arrested, one had Thailand work permit
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/aug/20qaeda.htm
(India) Pakistan-based Jaished-e-Mohd plans to launch sleeper cells across India: Police
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1012923
(India) 1993 Bombings Conviction: Bollywood star Dutt released on bail
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_en_mo/india_dutt_trial_1;_ylt=Ai9uJZsujOqxPvVDt4fLoqRA7AkB
(India) Two arrested for Naxal links from Govandi
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?id=809d55a5-37e0-4a96-9b51-17448c750817Indiawounded_Special&&Headline=Two+arrested+for+naxal+links
Yemen arrests 3 suspects in July terrorist attack on Spanish tourists
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/19/africa/ME-GEN-Yemen-Terror-Arrests.php
Somalia: Roadside Bomb Blast Wounds Three in Mogadishu
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708200580.html
Somali elder shot dead
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22272503-23109,00.html
(Somalia) Aid agency: Violence in Somali capital forces doctors, patients to stay home
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/20/africa/AF-GEN-Somalia.php
(Egypt) Four Islamists sentenced to 25 years in prison for 2005 Cairo bombs
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1345288.php/Four_Islamists_sentenced_to_25_years_in_prison_for_2005_Cairo_bombs
(Bahrain) Two terror suspects freed
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=191100&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30153
Lebanon: 2 troops die; army drops bombs on camp
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1187502423310&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Lebanon soldier killed as siege enters fourth month
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070820/wl_mideast_afp/lebanonunrest_070820112930;_ylt=AiUi_SIkIR_51b7TbL.H5JHagGIB
‘Hamas has formed West Bank cells’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1187502417353&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
West Bank ‘could soon fall to Hamas’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GG5R2DN5RXACFQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/08/20/wmid120.xml
Hamas’s approach to jihad: Start ‘em young
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070820/ts_csm/ojihadbee
(Gaza) EU cuts funding to Gaza plant
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_3;_ylt=AgRqYpLNHjE93RGy7WO6ghvuyucA
(Israel) Amnesty agreement result: Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group will not disarm or cease attacks (my title)
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57234
(Israel) Two Kassam rockets fired into the western Negev
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1187502423838&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Ohio) Report: Hilliard Man Shares a Moment with Global Terrorist Yousef Al-Qaradawi
http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/2007/08/hilliard-man-shares-moment-with-global.html
(U.S. - Oregon) New nuclear terror drill sparks conspiracy scare
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57213
Iran says 12 hostages freed in Pakistan
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/August/middleeast_August211.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
Iran wants IAEA to highlight atomic cooperation
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/wl_nm/iran_nuclear_dc_1;_ylt=AnAGnAM08n3aS5QPVsHzWdhSw60A
(Iran) Commentary: Hitting Tehran where it hurts
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070820/EDITORIAL/108200003/1013
Australian court to decide on Haneef’s work visa appeal
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Court_to_decide_on_Haneefs_work_visa/articleshow/2294585.cms
(UK) Glasgow Bomber Kafeel Ahmed had sent email wanting martyrdom
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?id=ecd61192-8c93-4ab7-b493-77a947925c6cindiandocsinukterrorplot_Special&&Headline=Kafeel+had+sent+email+wanting+martyrdom
(UK) Final email of Glasgow airport bomber: ‘I want to die for Allah’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=476492&in_page_id=1770
(UK) Terror suspect’s family claims he was tortured by Spanish police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,,2152471,00.html
UK more suspicious of Muslims than America and rest of EU
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8fb36962-4eb5-11dc-85e7-0000779fd2ac.html
(UK) Britain: Population ‘more suspicious’ of Muslims
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1217124093
(UK) A third of Britons believe: ‘You can’t be British AND Muslim’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=476542&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist propaganda on YouTube — update
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22272200-2,00.html?from=public_rss
Malaysia frees 4 Islamic terror suspects held without trial, rights group says
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/20/asia/AS-GEN-Malaysia-Militant-Suspects.php
(Thailand) Soldier, villager wounded in South blast
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/previousdetail.php?id=120972
Philippines: Summit between govt. and Muslim rebels ‘cancelled’
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.1217163499
(Philippines) Terrorists hit back in Philippines
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22271933-31477,00.html
(Sri Lanka) Five dead in Sri Lanka rebel attack
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070820/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaunrest_070820103950;_ylt=AlJglIgKCtYQqe0KHrFsAwotM8oA
(New Zealand) Police investigate Christchurch bomb scare
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4171666a10.html
(Columbia) Chavez to visit Colombia to push for hostage swap
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070818/wl_nm/colombia_hostages_chavez_dc_1;_ylt=ApzEVHDbEKWjCQLf1uniwyiwv7kA
Survival skills for an era of terrorism
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2152315,00.html
Analysis: Emerging maritime security net
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070820/COMMENTARY/108200020
(Spain) American anarchist faces charges in Spain
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=43031
Other News:
Stop the NYC madrassa - by Daniel Pipes
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1186557457251&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Italy: New mosque to open in Rome next to church
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1217165774
(Netherlands) Wilders won’t talk with Muslim Council
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=43016
(U.S.) CAIR Says ADL Seeks to Hinder Legal Rights of U.S. Muslims
http://newsblaze.com/story/20070817162530tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
(UK) Terror victims are BBC licence-payers, too
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/08/20/dl2001.xml
Belgium: Speaking Dutch
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/08/belgium-speaking-dutch.html
Norway: Interest in interest-free banks
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/08/norway-interest-in-interest-free-banks.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/08/017835print.html
August 19, 2007
Khatami: Failure of socialist movements led people to embrace Islam
In the 1960s Sayyid Qutb in Egypt wrote that both capitalism and socialism had failed and that Islam was ready to assume a role of world leadership. Now Khatami explains how this is in full swing.
From IRNA (thanks to James):
Head of the International Center for Dialogue of Civilizations Mohammad Khatami said on Saturday that failure of the socialist and nationalist movements have led world people to embrace Islam.
He said in his statement to the Thirteenth Seminar of Baran Foundation that despite the fact that followers of different religions live in the Middle East, the region has assumed an Islamic identity in the course of history.
“Nevertheless, the resistance to aggression on the Middle East territories by foreign forces to forge dominance over the region has served to found such an Islamic identity.”
He said that colonialism has actually faced with the wall of Islamic identity in the Middle East.
“Though the Islamic identity can go in parallel with the positive aspects of the Western civilization, Western politicians do not accept any dispute due to their selfishness, especially when their interests are challenged.”
He said that the self-esteemed Western politicians see themselves entitled to stir up Islamophobia and violence against Muslims, so Islam has been exposed to damages owing the Western and Zionist campaigns.
Not that Islam has done anything to provoke negative reactions. Not that Muslims have committed any violence of their own in the name of Islam. Oh, no.
Posted at August 19, 2007 6:32 AM
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/08/017837print.html
August 20, 2007
Jihadists granted amnesty by Olmert will fight on
Another example of how fantasy-based policymaking just doesn’t work.
“Terrorists: Amnesty shamnesty! We prefer human slaughter: Militant leader says organization granted ‘free pass’ by Olmert won’t disarm,” by Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily.com (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
JAFFA, Israel – The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group will not disarm or cease attacks on the Jewish state in spite of an amnesty agreement forged with Israel last month in which top Brigades members pledged to turn in their weapons and refrain from attacks, a senior Brigades leader told WND.
“We respect our leaders but will keep fighting until Israel withdraws completely from the West Bank. We are the resistance. We will keep fighting and never give up our weapons until Israel withdraws,” said Ayad Frehat, a Brigades leader in the West Bank city of Jenin.
“Whenever the Israeli army acts in the West Bank, we will fight side-by-side with our brothers from the other resistance movements,” Frehat told WND.
Frehat is on a list of Brigades members presented to Israel for amnesty consideration.
Last month, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert granted amnesty to 178 members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the declared “military wing” of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah’s organization, in exchange for pledges not to engage in terrorist activity.
The Brigades, along with Islamic Jihad, has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years. The amnesty agreement reportedly was made as an Israeli gesture to Abbas’ and to bolster Fatah against Hamas in the West Bank.
Israel issued documents for the 178 Fatah fugitives to sign, pledging their resignation from any so-called paramilitary organizations. The wanted militants – who comprise much of the senior Brigades leadership – also were required to turn in their weapons, spend a week in a PA holding area and restrict their movements to the area in which they reside for three months. After that, they would be allowed to move freely throughout the West Bank.
Posted at August 20, 2007 5:18 AM
[The last time this went around, the muslims went out and bought a few groups of the ‘buy a membership American Indian groups/ala/Ward Churchill’ and got them to notarize statements that all their ancestors prayed to allah and told stories of muslims that came before Columbus arrived...granny]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/08/017826print.html
August 18, 2007
Muslims were in America before Columbus!
“Islam in America before Columbus” by Hisham Zoubeir appears this week in the Muslim Weekly (thanks to all who sent this in), but actually it has been making the rounds for years, and can be found on many Islamic sites.
Zoubeir claims that there is archaeological and linguistic evidence for a pre-Columbian Muslim presence in North America. I don’t know of any scholarly refutation of the claims he makes, and for all I know they could be true, although they recall Khrushchev-era Soviet propaganda about how the Russians actually were the first people to do just about everything.
Zoubeir’s article may seem to many to be simply an exercise in chauvinistic overreaching until one realizes that to some Muslims who take his claims seriously, America is now Muslim land — and Islamic law stipulates that Muslims possess by right any land that once formed part of the House of Islam; this is a key element of the claims to Israel and Spain put forward by Hamas, Al-Qaeda, and others. Chauvinistic overreaching, yes, but quite possibly with a political agenda.
Posted at August 18, 2007 9:07 AM
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2007/08/017824print.html
August 18, 2007
Imam puts ‘unlimited reward’ on Taslima’s head
What the heck is an “unlimited cash reward”? Is the Imam Syed Mohammed Noorur Rahman Barkati going to give the killer of Taslima Nasreen all the money in the world? Meanwhile, he demands that she be deported and threatens to set up a roadblock in front of her home.
And why all the threats and terrorizing? Because she “exposed Indian Muslims to ridicule and contempt” and defamed “Islam and the Prophet.” It doesn’t seem to occur to the Imam Syed Mohammed Noorur Rahman Barkati that he might deal more effectively with whatever threat to Islam he thinks is coming from Taslima Nasreen by refuting what she says, or at least debating her and making his case while she makes hers.
But in India as in the United States, Muslim spokesmen who take umbrage at statements by non-believers don’t seem interested in debating their opponents and taking the opportunity to demonstrate the truth of what they’re saying and the falsity of what their opposition is saying. Instead, in a manifestation of utter intellectual bankruptcy, they resort to threats. Legal threats instead of death threats here — for now at least.
An update on this story. From Rediff.com (thanks to all who sent this in):
Charging her with defaming Islam and the Prophet, an Imam in Kolkata on Friday declared “unlimited reward” on the head of Taslima Nasreen, the controversial Bangladeshi writer. Taslima was attacked in Hyderabad last week.
Speaking at a rally after the Friday prayers, Syed Mohammed Noorur Rahman Barkati, imam of the Tipu Sultan Shahi Masjid, also demanded that the writer be deported from the country in a month.
“If our demand is not met, there will be an unlimited cash reward for whosoever kills her. The United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre and the Left Front government in the state will be responsible for the consequences,” he told the gathering at Esplanade, in Kolkata.
‘If you harbour Taslima and Rushdie in India, then drive away all the Muslims from this country,’ a banner at the rally said.
Alleging that Taslima had exposed Indian Muslims to ridicule and contempt, the imam threatened to organise a road block in front of the writer’s residence in Kolkata after the month of Ramzan.
Posted at August 18, 2007 7:51 AM
“Iranian clerics goose-step over American flag”
[photo....they really are goose stepping.....]
AP: Psych Clinic Releases Russian Activist
Psych Clinic Releases Russian Activist
August 20, 2007
MOSCOW (AP) - A member of an opposition group led by the former chess
champion Garry Kasparov was released Monday from a psychiatric clinic
after being held against her will for 46 days, a spokeswoman for the
group said.
Larisa Arap, 48, a member of Kasparov’s group in the northern port city
of Murmansk, was forcefully hospitalized July 5 in what opposition
activists said was revenge for exposing alleged abuse of children in a
local psychiatric hospital.
Her case was taken up by human rights defenders, who saw in it echoes
of
the Soviet-era practice of locking up dissidents in psychiatric
hospitals.
Arap was released Monday from a psychiatric hospital in Apatit, a city
180 miles from Murmansk, and was picked up by her husband, said Marina
Litvinovich, a spokeswoman for Kasparov’s United Civil Front. Arap was
moved to the hospital farther from her home in late July.
Arap’s release came after a commission, sent by human rights ombudsman
Vladimir Lukin to look into her case, said it found no reason for her
forced hospitalization.
Her family had appealed her detention in court, but the request for her
release was denied.
Arap was bundled into an ambulance on July 5 after visiting a doctor to
secure documents attesting to her mental health as required by Russian
law in order to receive a new driver’s license.
When the doctor realized she was the one who had criticized conditions
at the psychiatric hospital in an article published in an opposition
newspaper, the doctor called the police, according to her daughter,
Taisiya Arap.
Other members of Kasparov’s group, including Kasparov, have been
detained by the police, but Litvinovich said Larisa Arap was the first
to be held in a psychiatric clinic.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl/
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/08/beckham-justin-timberlake-targeted-by.html
Monday, August 20, 2007
David Beckham & Justin Timberlake Targeted By Al Qaeda
Criminal influences on young Muslims...
Justin Timberlake, David Beckham and Puff Daddy are targeted in a new video released this week by a radical Islamic website that promotes attacks on Westerners.
News of the World reported that soccer stars David Beckham and Wayne Rooney and music stars Justin Timberlake and P Daddy are the targets of a new Al Qaeda murder plot:
A terrifying internet video call to action for supporters of Osama bin Laden also fingers ex-Arsenal striker Thierry Henry for assassination.
It was launched this week on a Glasgow-based website named after al-Qaeda that regularly supports attacks on Westerners.
It has also been uploaded to the massively popular YouTube video-share site, visited by millions of youngsters.
The sports stars are branded EVIL for being CRIMINAL influences on young Muslims.
The sick film shows a picture of Manchester United ace Rooney with the headline: “Why do u love the evildoers?”
Beckham, who is now at LA Galaxy, is shown under the caption: “What made u among the losers?” And the slogan across an image of Henry asks: “Why do u imitate the people of desires?”
Alarmingly the video then flicks to a series of graphics depicting graveyards and bodies. One shows the feet of a CORPSE on a mortuary slab with a toe tag marked “Death”.
A caption across the screen threatens: “Every soul shall taste death.” Much of the soundtrack is a sermon given in London recently by a young militant cleric linked to radical Omar Bakri Mohammed, barred from Britain after praising the 7/7 bombings.
His rant declares that Muslims who are passionate about sport or music are hellbound like the “disbelievers” they admire. Other celebrities rubbished on the video include P Diddy and Justin Timberlake. It ends with the rousing message: “Rise up, oh youth!”
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/20/2007 05:33:00 AM
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Russian Communists Plan to Honor Chavez & Castro
The Russian communists may think the dictators in Cuba and Venezuela are super...
...But, the opposition members in Venezuela clearly oppose the latest move by the Marxist Chavez to obtain absolute power.
El Universal reported today that the Communist Party in Russia is planning on using pictures of Castro and Chavez in the upcoming elections:
The Russian Communist Party plans to use the pictures of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Cuban ruler Fidel Castro, and Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko for the upcoming election campaign to the Duma, the Russian Chamber of Deputies, reported Tuesday communist leader Guennadi Ziuganov.
The party made such a decision because these persons are “the most successful leaders,” Ziuganov reasoned, Russian news agency Interfax quoted.
The Russian Communist Party has good chances in the election for Parliament next December, particularly in Siberia, said Ziuganov during a press conference in Novosibirsk.
It’s not clear what the Russians meant by “most successful.”
Maybe it has something to do with Hugo’s latest move to keep himself in power for the next 20 years.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/19/2007 06:27:00 PM
Radical Islam Reaches Critical Mass in Middle East
This doesn’t sound too promising...
Author Barry Rubin writes that radical Islam has now reached a critical mass in the Middle East in his article today at the GLORIA Center:
What has happened now, however, is that radical Islamism has reached a critical mass. It now poses serious challenges to Arab nationalism as the leading opposition in every Arabic-speaking country. Islamism plays a key role in governing Iraq; Hamas defeated Fatah on the Palestinian front; and Hizballah is close to gaining at least equal power in Lebanon.
For years, probably decades, to come, the Middle East will be shaken by a titanic battle between Arab nationalism and Islamism for control. This struggle, and certainly not the Arab-Israeli conflict, is the central theme and underlying factor in every regional issue.
This is so for several reasons. One is that the Islamist cause is now promoted by an alliance including two regimes, Iran and Syria, as well as by Hamas and Hizballah, which both rule territory. Syria’s government, technically “secular” and ruled by a non-Muslim Alawite minority no less, behaves like an Islamist one, especially in its foreign policy, as to keep loyal its Sunni Muslim majority.
It is folly to think that this HISH alliance (Hamas-Iran-Syria-Hizballah) can be split. After all, the parties have common aims and ideologies, their cooperation is so mutually beneficial, and last but not least they think they are winning.
Historically, there were two barriers for Iran’s trying to become the Middle East’s leading power: the Persian-Arab and Shia-Sunni divides. How could Persian, Shia Iran appeal to Arabs who mostly were Sunni? The HISH alliance solves that problem. Three of the four members are Arab, and Hamas is Sunni as is the majority of Syrians. If one adds Iraq’s Sunni Arab insurgency that breakthrough becomes even clearer.
Nor does this exhaust the Islamist forces working today to seize state power throughout the region. Al-Qaida is a factor, mostly in Iraq—where it cooperates closely with Syria—and Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaida is far more a threat in terms of terrorism, however, than in a strategic sense. Since it has only one tactic, in comparison to other Islamists’ flexibility, al-Qaida is unlikely to take over any countries.
There is more from Barry Rubin at GLORIA Center.
HotAir has more on the “cross-pollination” between the Iranian-linked terror groups.
Here’s another example:
The US released information in July on Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Hezbollah leader apprehended in Iraq, who is responsible for terrorist acts and is funded by the Iranian Regime.(MNF-I)
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/19/2007 05:26:00 PM
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[lots of photos]
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Green Activists Attack Jewish Warehouse- Hoist Palestinian Flag!
Young “climate change protesters” attacked an Israeli warehouse yesterday near the Heathrow Airport outside of London where they are campaigning against Heathrow’s planned expansion.
They took down the Israeli flag at the warehouse...
And... They hoisted the Palestinian flag. (UK Indymedia)
It was part of their protest against carbon emissions(?)
Here is part of the “green activists” report on the attack on the warehouse:
The General Manager, Amos Orr was called out, and on his arrival he seemed most upset to see his staff group standing under the Palestinian and Anarcho-syndicalist flags. Staff had seemed unconcerned about the new flags prior to this, and one staff member is quoted as saying “I don’t give a damn about this war crimes and anti-semitism nonsense!” By now staff should be fully aware that the actions are against the company’s involvement in marketing settlement goods, and should realise that aggression is uneccesary and pointless.
The Pro-Enviroment/Anti-Israel activists chained themselves to the trailers inside the warehouse and shut down operations for three hours.
The “Green” activists also took down the Israeli flag at the warehouse. (UK Indemedia)
UK IndyMedia had this report on the attack at the Jewish warehouse:
40 activists left Climate Camp undetected and have occupied Carmel Agrexco, the 50 % Israeli state owned exporter/distributor of Illegal settlement produce from the West Bank.
The Israeli flag is no longer flying outside the depo and all the gates have people D locked to them, blocking in a food lorry.
Well done !!
It was not the first time that the young Leftists attacked the Jewish warehouse.
Photos from UK Indymedia.
** Charles Johnson and Breitbart.com posted an initial report on the warehouse attack.
TigerHawk has thoughts.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/19/2007 09:55:00 AM
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[has photo of muslim design]
Flight 93 Family Opposes Islamic Hijacker Memorial
Flight 93 hero’s family wants their son’s name removed from the planned Islamic Hijacker Memorial.
Thomas E. Burnett, Jr., 38, Senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company, and the father of three. He made four calls to his wife, Deena, from the plane. Deena Burnett said that her husband told her that one passenger had been stabbed and that “a group of us are going to do something.”
ROP and MSNBC reported today that a Flight 93 family does not want their loved one to be associated with the planned Islamic-style memorial at the crash site:
PITTSBURGH - The father of a man killed when hijacked Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, wants his son’s name withheld from a victims memorial because of renewed concerns that its design is centered around Islamic symbolism.
Tom Burnett Sr. served on a jury that picked the winning design, originally named “Crescent of Embrace,” and said the request was “something I’d rather not do, but I can’t get anyone to listen.”
Burnett’s son, Thomas E. Burnett Jr., 38, died along with 39 other passengers and crew when Flight 93 was hijacked and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pa., while flying to San Francisco from Newark, N.J. An investigation concluded the hijackers crashed when passengers rushed the cockpit and tried to regain control of the aircraft.
...Burnett, of Northfield, Minn., said he is looking for is a “thorough, honest investigation” of the design and the elements discussed by Alec Rawls, a conservative blogger from Palo Alto, Calif. Burnett said many of his concerns were based on Rawls’ theories.
Left image: a traditional Islamic sundial. The shadow is just reaching the outer curved vertical, indicating time for Islamic afternoon prayers. Right image, the Tower of Voices from the planned Flight 93 Memorial. Shadow calculations confirm that, on any day of the year, when the shadow of the crescent shaped tower reaches the inner arc of trees, it will be time for Islamic afternoon prayers.
** Alec Rawls at Error Theory again has the latest news on the planned memorial to honor the Flight 93 heroes and hijackers.
Previously:
Pennsylvania 9-11 Memorial Still Honors Hijackers
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/19/2007 08:54:00 AM
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[photo and video]
Young Girl Shot By Regime in Iran (Video)
Here is the video of a young girl shot by regime police in Iran:
Aryamehr and Kamangir posted this video earlier.
Kamangir also translated the video- “...The Police has shot her. Police shot her. In her own home!...”
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/18/2007 06:23:00 PM | 5 comments links to this post Trackback (1)
Cold Buns
600 stip in the Alps in Greenpeace protest against global warming.
Hundreds of naked people pose in front of the Aletsch glacier during a massive naked photo session with U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, near Bettmeralp, Switzerland, Saturday Aug. 18, 2007. The environmental group Greenpeace commissioned Tunick to take pictures of nude volunteers on a Swiss glacier to call attention to the issue of global warming and its impact on glaciers. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/18/2007 06:22:00 PM | 6 comments links to this post Trackback
Ahmadinejad: “Israel Flies Flag of Satan & Will Soon Fall Apart”
Again today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted the end of Israel.
An Iranian cleric walks pass a photo of Secretary General of Lebanons Hezbollah Seyed Hassan Nasrollah, during a religious meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday Aug. 18, 2007. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Israel was the standard bearer of Satan and the Jewish state would soon fall apart, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported . The agency did not elaborate on what he meant by Satan. Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, however, Iran has regularly referred to the United States as ‘the Great Satan.’ (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
Ahmadinejad blasts Israel as “the flag of Satan” today in a speech at the opening of an Islamic Conference in Tehran.
Iranian News reported:
“The international equations are rapidly changing in favor of justice and against falsehood,” stressed the president.
Referring to the position of arrogant powers, he added the Western arrogance started deploying its forces worldwide following the collapse of the former Soviet Union.
President Ahmadinejad said the US invasion of Iraq and its occupation as well as massacre of defenseless people of Palestine and Lebanon were clear examples of US and the Zionists crimes against humanity.
Noting that the enemies were trying to sow discord among Muslims, the president said: “Despite all these efforts they (enemies) are caught in a quagmire from which they would hardly find a way out.” Stressing that nobody believed in the US-style democracy worldwide, President Ahmadinejad said: “No one supports the world arrogance’s war-mongering policies.
“They (arrogant powers) have even failed to implement a true liberal-democratic system in their own countries,” criticized the president.
Noting that Zionism was the pioneer of Western-style
liberal democracy and the vanguard of occupation and aggression worldwide, he said, “The Zionist regime is the flag of Satan.” The Fourth Ahl-ul-Bait General Assembly started work here Saturday in the presence of President Ahmadinejad.
Religious and political figures from 110 countries are taking part in the two-day gathering.
The Ahl-ul-Bait World Assembly is a non-profit and non- governmental organization based in Tehran which was established in 1990 aimed at promoting Islamic teachings and culture.
Reuters adds that, “In June he said a “countdown” had begun that would end with Lebanese and Palestinian militants destroying Israel. His government last year hosted a conference on the Holocaust, questioning the German Nazi genocide of the Jews during World War II.”
posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/18/2007 04:54:00 PM
Thanks to Milford421 for this link:
From the brief:
“NOW COMES, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (”CAIR”), by
and through its undersigned counsel, respectfully submitting this
Amicus Curiae brief in opposition to the public issuance of the
unindicted co-conspirator list and seeking the Court to strike their
name from the list, along with the names of all other unindicted
individuals and organizations, and take any other action that it
deems to be appropriate. [Highlights added].
The smoking gun against CAIR?
LISTEN to the latest TRIAL WATCH update at this link.
DISCUSS this topic on the Patriot Brigade Talk Radio Network forum
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http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/CAIRHLFAmBrief0818
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