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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Coalition forces medically treated and evacuated an Afghan woman after the Taliban shot her for not supplying help in Shaheed Hasas District, Oruzgan Province Nov. 13.
“The Taliban came to her tribal camp asking for food and supplies,” said the detachment commander. “The tribal elders explained they did not have any extra food to give the Taliban, and that they were in short supply themselves…the Taliban retaliated by shooting at the civilian residents’ homes.”
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Taliban kill Afghan boy for teaching English
Thurs., Nov. 15, 2007
KHOST, Afghanistan - Taliban militants shot dead a teenage boy in southeastern Afghanistan for teaching English to his classmates, police said on Thursday. Taliban militants have killed a number of teachers and students in recent years for attending government-run schools, taking part in classes for girls or what the hardline Islamist militants consider un-Islamic subjects.
Armed men arrived at the school in the Sayed Karam district of Paktia province and grabbed a 16-year-old student and dragged him outside. "Taliban militants took the boy out and killed him outside the school just because he was teaching English to his classmates," said General Esmatullah Alizai, the police chief of Paktia province.
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The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza can be extradited to the US to face terror charges, a court has ruled. London's City of Westminster Magistrates Court ruled that Abu Hamza al-Masri can now be tried in the US for allegedly trying to set up an al-Qa'eda training camp in Oregon. He is wanted by US authorities on a total of 11 charges. Following the court ruling, the extradition can go ahead provided it gets the approval of Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary.
Egyptian-born Hamza, 49, who is fitted with hooks on both partially-amputated arms, is currently serving a seven-year jail term for inciting followers to murder non-believers. He was arrested on an extradition warrant issued by the US administration in May 2004 but the process was put on hold when he stood trial in Britain and attempted to appeal against his convictions. A decision by the House of Lords in January this year to refuse him leave to make a further appeal against his convictions left the path clear for extradition proceedings.
Senior District Judge Timothy Workman said: "The defendant is currently serving a sentence of imprisonment in the United Kingdom, but subject to any representations from counsel I propose to send the matter to the Secretary of State for his decision on whether the defendant should be extradited to America." The defence counsel Alun Jones QC said that he would be making submissions to the Home Office and he would also be writing to the Attorney General urging that the case be prosecuted in the UK.
Earlier this year Hamza's wife complained about her husband's treatment in high-security Belmarsh prison. In a letter to a London-based Islamic organisation, Nagat Mostafa, 46, said her husband claimed to be the victim of racist bullying and Islamophobia. An estimated one in six of Belmarsh's 920 prisoners is Muslim. Prison officers have warned of the threat of extremists "radicalising" inmates.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 08:10 PM
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Report: Series of explosions rip through Iranian military site
Haaretz.com ^ | 11-15-07 | Yossi Melman
Posted on 11/15/2007 12:50:57 PM PST by dynachrome
Report: Series of explosions rip through Iranian military site
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
tags: military, Iran
A series of explosions blasted through a crucial Iranian military industrial site last Tuesday, according to a statement released by “The National Opposition Council of Iran.”
According to the statement, the explosions were in Parchin, about 30 km south of Tehran, and sparked a large fire which caused some injuries to personnel at the site.
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ng rape victim with 200 lashes
breitbart ^ | Nov 15 10:51 AM US/Eastern | unknown
Posted on 11/15/2007 2:51:40 PM PST by picard
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms — was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for “being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape,” the Arab News reported.
But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.
A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for “her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.”
Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.
Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shiite community.
But the woman’s lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.
In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.
The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.
Lahem, also a human rights activist, told AFP on Wednesday that the court had banned him from handling the rape case and withdrew his licence to practise law because he challenged the verdict.
He said he has also been summoned by the ministry of justice to appear before a disciplinary committee in December.
Lahem said the move might be due to his criticism of some judicial institutions, and “contradicts King Abdullah’s quest to introduce reform, especially in the justice system.”
King Abdullah last month approved a new body of laws regulating the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, which rules on the basis of sharia, or Islamic law.
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“Actions speak loudest to terrorists, Mr Brown”
UK Telegraph ^ | November 15 2007 | Michael Burleigh
Posted on 11/15/2007 2:57:57 PM PST by knighthawk
“Cleric Abu Hamza cleared for US extradition”
That’s very good news.
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“Horror at sea: Survivors tell of Somali pirate attack”
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Troops Detain Suspect, Treat Taliban Gunfire Victim
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2007 – Afghan and coalition forces detained one suspect and treated a woman victimized by Taliban gunfire in Afghanistan in recent days, military officials said.
Combined forces detained one suspect in a Nov. 13 operation to disrupt foreign-fighter facilitators in the Qalat district of Zabul province.
Actionable intelligence led coalition forces to compounds in the district where they searched for militant facilitators thought to be hiding in the area. Troops found and detained a person with alleged links to foreign-fighter-facilitation operations, as well as other extremist activities, officials said. Some damage occurred to a building during the course of the operation, officials said.
“Afghan and coalition forces are aggressively dismantling the foreign-fighter facilitator networks in Afghanistan,” said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman.
In the Shaheed Hasas district of Oruzgan province Nov. 13, Taliban fighters shot a woman for refusing to help supply their ranks.
“The Taliban came to her tribal camp asking for food and supplies,” an unidentified detachment commander said. “The tribal elders explained they did not have any extra food to give the Taliban, and that they were in short supply themselves, … (so) the Taliban retaliated by shooting at the civilian residents’ homes.”
In the shooting, an Afghan woman received a gunshot wound to the hand. Her husband brought her to a coalition base, where coalition medical staff determined that the wound required extensive treatment at a more sophisticated facility. Friendly forces treated the woman’s wound and medically evacuated her, along with her escort, for further treatment.
“The Taliban continue to display their brutality,” Belcher said. “Fortunately, the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Afghan national security forces, and coalition forces continue to improve their ability to provide emergency services to the people of Afghanistan.”
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.)
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Troops Detain 26 Suspects, Uncover Five Car Bombs in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2007 – Iraqi and coalition forces detained dozens of insurgents and discovered five car bombs in Iraq in recent days, military officials said.
During a series of operations yesterday targeting terrorist networks in central and northern Iraq, combined forces nabbed 26 suspects.
— West of Samarra, coalition forces captured a wanted individual and detained 16 suspects during operations targeting foreign terrorist financiers and al Qaeda members who facilitate the movement of foreign terrorists into the region. The wanted individual is believed to be associated with senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders, including the alleged Salahuddin provincial leader, military officials said.
— During operations along the Tigris River Valley, coalition forces detained five suspects targeting foreign terrorist facilitators, propaganda operations and terrorists planning attacks against Iraqi security forces.
— South of Baghdad, troops captured a wanted individual and detained three suspects in operations targeting engineers of improvised explosive devices and terrorists operating in the Arab Jabour area.
“We remain vigilant and determined to eliminate the extremist enemies of Iraq,” said Army Maj. Winfield Danielson, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “The increased willingness of the Iraqi people to share information with Iraqi and coalition forces will end al Qaeda’s campaign of terror and intimidation.”
In other news, coalition forces uncovered five car bombs in the Rhabi neighborhood of the Adhamiyah district on Nov. 13 thanks to reports from Iraqi security volunteers. Members of Troop B, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, and elements from 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division, blocked off the al Rhabi Gardens in northeastern Baghdad to dismantle five car bombs found in a parking lot.
Explosive ordnance disposal personnel detonated the five vehicles, rendering the area safe. There were no casualties or collateral damage to the surrounding area, and the Adhamiyah fire department quickly extinguished the flames after the explosions, military officials said.
“Because these brave people in the (Iraqi security volunteers) decided to stand up against terrorists, we have been able to reduce their effectiveness. The terrorists can no longer hide in the shadows to torment the good people of Adhamiyah,” said Army Lt. Col. Jeffery Broadwater, commander of 3-7 Cavalry.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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November 15, 2007
“Al Qaeda in Somalia Promises to Behead Ethiopian Children”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Aden Hashi Farah Ayro (alt. “Eyrow), the leader of the African Courts Union’s Hizbal Shabaab youth movement today threatened to kill any and all African Union troops sent to Somalia as peacekeepers. He specifically threatened Ugandan and Burundi troops which are preparing to enter Somalia.
He also warned that Somalian jihadis would someday reach the capital of Ethiopia and behead women and children there.”
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Italy: 30-year sentences to Pakistani immigrant and sons-in-law for honor killing
UPI ^ | Nov. 13 2007
Posted on 11/15/2007 12:11:40 PM PST by ddtorquee
BRESCIA, Italy, Nov. 13 (UPI) — A Pakistani immigrant and his two sons-in-law were sentenced to 30 years in an Italian prison Tuesday for the so-called honor killing of his daughter.
Mohammed Saleem and his sons-in-law were tried under a fast-track process, the Italian news agency Ansa reported. The sentence was the longest possible after a fast-track trial.
Prosecutors said Hina Saleem, 20, was lured to her family’s home in Sarezzo and killed because her relatives were upset that she was living with an Italian boyfriend, and refused to marry a Pakistani or to return home with her mother.
Giuseppi Tempini, who found her body buried in the garden of the house, cried as the judge read the sentences. He was awarded $29,300 compensation, which he said he will donate to charity.
Saleem’s wife screamed at the judge.
During the trial, defense attorneys said Saleem killed his daughter in anger while they argued about money. They said the sons-in-law were not present.
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