A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged. The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the al-Arabiya website reported.
The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the "strife" the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.
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Tamil Tigers free 22 child soldiers
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers Monday said they had released 22 child soldiers and disputed figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund that the rebels still had hundreds of under-age fighters.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said they were also trying to locate families of 20 children still within their ranks. The guerrillas accused UNICEF, which lists several hundred children in LTTE ranks, of not updating its database. The rebels said another 41 child soldiers remained within their ranks but could not be released because most of them did not have parents or guardians.
Over the last two decades, the Tigers have promised to free children from their rank and file, but they have been accused of failing to take concrete action.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008/04/01/story_1-4-2008_pg4_13
The terrorist being eliminated in Oran province, Saturday, was carrying 8 kg TNT explosives, while targeting blowing up himself on the same day against a state owned company, concordant sources told El Khabar.
Joint security forces have foiled a suicide attack in Oran, while managing countering a terrorist plot targeting spreading suicide attack operations to the western region of the country. The same sources said intelligence services decided conducting a field investigation for a couple of weeks, following seizing a truck with falsified papers and arresting the owners.
Investigations concluded by disclosing that people being arrested are truck drivers transporting goods from Oran to eastern regions of the country and suspected of belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
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http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/?idc=114&ida=103384
Convicted Islamist terrorists exploiting growing prison gang culture (U.K.)
4/1/08
Convicted Islamist terrorists are exploiting the growing gang culture in top security jails, fuelling fears that they are trying to radicalise other inmates and foment unrest.
The emerging contacts between terrorists and existing gangs in jails is occurring as the Prison Service is expecting a big increase in the number of terrorists it must look after in the next few years. The growing concern among senior Whitehall officials at the danger of Islamist terrorists seeking to radicalise other prisoners in eight top security jails is disclosed in a Ministry of Justice document.
It reveals that officials are looking at whether more high-security prison accommodation and high-security courts will be needed to cope with the predicted number of terrorists being prosecuted. It also outlines worries within the department over the radicalisation of nonterrorist Muslim prisoners and other offenders in the high-security estate.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3648904.ece