Threat Matrix: April 2008

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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net — E-mail: assistnews@aol.com

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Murder trial resumes in Malatya, Turkey

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
TURKEY (ANS) — The trial of five men accused of murdering three Christians in southeast Turkey resumed on Monday, April 14 2008.

Two Turkish Christians from a Muslim-background, Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, and German citizen, Tilman Geske, were tortured to death on 18 April 2007 in the office of a Christian publishing company in the city of Malatya.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), says that during the 12-hour hearing on Monday, the lawyers acting for the families of the victims were informed that their request to have the bench of three judges replaced was rejected by a higher court. The lawyers had previously lodged the request declaring that the ‘impartiality and independence’ of the court was in jeopardy. The court also heard from three of the defendants.

One of the lawyers for the victims’ families, Tahir Elçi, told Turkish news agency Bianet that although these men had confessed, no one was able to find those who orchestrated the murders. Mr Elçi believes that opportunities for a deeper inquiry have been blocked. This view is shared by other lawyers and the Alliance of Turkish Protestant Churches.

The trial will resume on May 12.

CSW’s National Director, Stuart Windsor said: “It is concerning that the court is still reluctant to pursue the darker connections behind those standing trial. During the first part of 2008, reports of attacks on church properties and Christian clergymen in Turkey have increased significantly. If the court does not seek to address the larger problem, it will send out a negative and dangerous message to nationalists who have targeted Christians that their actions will go unpunished.”

CSW is a human rights organization which specializes in religious freedom, works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs and promotes religious liberty for all.

For more information, please contact Penny Hollings, Campaigns and Media Manager at Christian Solidarity Worldwide on +44 (0)20 8329 0045, email pennyhollings@csw.org.uk or visit www.csw.org.uk .

** Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent of ANS, is an international British freelance journalist who was formerly a reporter with a London newspaper and has been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station. Michael’s involvement with ASSIST News Service is a sponsored ministry department — Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) — of ACT International at: Artists in Christian Testimony (ACT) International.

** You may republish this story with proper attribution.

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ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: Turkey - "MURDER TRIAL RESUMES IN MALATYA, TURKEY" by Michael Ireland (April 15, 2008)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "TURKEY: MALATYA MURDER SCANDAL - update to WEA RL Prayer for Turkey" by Elizabeth Kendal (December 12, 2007)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "THESE ARE WHAT TRUE RELIGIOUS MARTYRS LOOK LIKE" (December 9, 2007)

BBC NEWS - Istanbul - "TURKS IN CHRISTIAN MURDER TRIAL" by Sarah Rainsford" (Last updated Novermber 23, 2007, 02:43 GMT)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "TURKEY: GERMAN SEMINARY INVESTIGATES MALATYA MURDERS" by Elizabeth Kendal (May 1, 2007)

WorldNetDaily.com: "WIDOW OF SLAIN CHRISTIAN: 'FORGIVE THEM'" by Bob Unruh (April 28, 2007)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: Smyrna, Turkey - "A LETTER TO THE GLOBAL CHURCH FROM THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF SMYRNA" by Dan Wooding (April 26, 2007)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "TURKISH CHRISTIANS TORTURED BEFORE MURDER" (April 20, 2007)

METIMES.com (REUTERS): "SLAIN EVANGELISTS WERE TORTURED, SAYS TURKISH DOCTOR" (April 20, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP via CNN.com): Malatya, Turkey - "'We didn't do this for ourselves, but for our religion ... Our religion is being destroyed. Let this be a lesson to enemies of our religion.'" (April 19, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP via IHT.com): Istanbul, Turkey - "THREE CHRISTIANS MURDERED IN ATTACK ON TURKISH BIBLE PUBLISHER" (April 18, 2007)

More Links (April 18, 2007)

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374104
(TERRORISM FOCUS)

“Police Raids Uncover al-Qaeda’s Parallel World in Turkey”
By Thomas Renard
(April 16, 2008)

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http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3036.html

Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520

This information is current as of today, Thu Apr 17 2008 04:19:38 GMT-0700 (PDT).

SYRIA

April 15, 2008

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

“Worldwide Caution”
January 17, 2008

SNIPPET: “This Worldwide Caution updates information on the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against Americans and interests throughout the world. American citizens are reminded to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness.”

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Thanks to Velveeta for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2002722/posts

“Breaking: blog which exposed the Hamdania/Haditha incident is hacked”
http://euphoricreality.com/ | 04/16/2008 | RaceBannon
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To: Velveeta; euphoriadev
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61 posted on April 17, 2008 1:27:58 PM PDT by Cindy

Thanks for the ping Mama Dearest.

Will Canada's latest human rights triumph convince you to visit there?

Datt wouldn't wash her hands. She just wouldn't -- she said she couldn't. So her employment was terminated. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered that McDonald's pay her not only $23,000 for "lost income", but an additional $25,000 for her "dignity and self-respect". You see, in B.C. a food preparation worker's self-respect trumps a company's commitment to cleanliness. They violated her "human rights". The $50,000+ penalty -- plus several years of legal fees and medical and rehab experts -- isn't the worst of it. Inventing a "human right" for a worker to go to the bathroom and then to handle meat without washing her hands in between, as an excuse for that $50,000 shakedown isn't the worst of it either.

The worst of it is that the BCHRT has ordered that McDonald's, in paragraph 298 of the decision, to "cease the discriminatory conduct or any similar conduct and refrain from committing the same or similar contravention."

Ummm, don’t eat at McDonald’s in Canada would be my plan.

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JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "NEW CHARGES FOR NAIVE KIDS" (April 17, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (MyFoxTampaBay): "PIPE BOMB EVIDENCE CAN BE USED IN FLORIDA MUSLIM STUDENTS' CASE" (February 28, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (MyFoxTampaBay): "USF MUSLIM STUDENTS TRYING TO GET BOMB EVIDENCE THROWN OUT, SAY COP WAS RACIST" (February 20, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "PROSECUTOR: FLORIDA MUSLIM STUDENTS HAD EXPLOSIVES" (February 7, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TAMPA TRIBUNE): "THIRD ARREST IN MOHAMED/MEGAHED CASE" (December 13, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TAMPA TRIBUNE): "'MARTYRDOM' DETONATOR VIDEO DETAILS REVEALED IN 'NAIVE KIDS' CASE" (November 21, 2007)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "GOOSE CREEK TWO UPDATE: JUDGE DENIES MEGAHED BAIL REQUEST" (October 29, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Tampa, Florida - "FLORIDA: MUSLIM STUDENT ACCUSED OF CARRYING BOMB-MAKING MATERIALS NOW SAYS HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS IN HIS CAR'S TRUNK" (October 24, 2007)

THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "TERROR SUSPECT WANTS HEARING CLOSED" (October 18, 2007)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "THE GOOSE CREEK TWO: MEGAHED REPORTEDLY RESEARCHED HIGH-POWERED RIFLES; ACCUSED OF SENDING CODED MESSAGES" (October 6, 2007, 09:30 am)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "THE GOOSE CREEK TWO, EGYPT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY" (October 4, 2007)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "EGYPT TO HIRE LAWYER FOR COLLEGE STUDENT FACING FEDERAL EXPLOSIVES CHARGES" (October 3, 2007)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "AFFIDAVIT SHINES MORE LIGHT ON USF CASE" (September 27, 2007)

Link

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "Breaking...MYSTERY AT GOOSE CREEK UPDATE: MAKING BOMBS TO SAVE A 'MARTYR'" (September 14, 2007, 05:42 PM)

More Links (September 27, 2007)

THE AVIATION NATION.com - blog: "USF TERROR SUSPECT HAD TWO PASSPORTS, DIFFERENT NAMES" (September 16, 2007)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org: Tampa - "USF SUSPECT PRODUCED VIDEO ON REMOTE CONTROLLED EXPLOSIVES" (September 14, 2007)

FreeRepublic.com - Discussion Forum (BLOGS.TAMPABAY.com/ST. PETERSBURG TIMES): "CAR'S EXPLOSIVE CONTENTS REVEALED AT HEARING FOR USF STUDENTS" (September 14, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES): Tampa - "MUSLIM STUDENTS ARRESTED IN SC HAD BULLETS IN CAR" (September 6, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "DADDY MEGAHED SAYS RACISM LED TO SON'S TERROR CHARGES" (September 3, 2007)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org (IPT News): "INDICTED USF STUDENT HAS TERROR PAST IN EGYPT" (August 31, 2007)

US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release: Washington - "TWO MEN INDICTED IN FLORIDA ON EXPLOSIVES CHARGES" (August 31, 2007)

Tampa.FBI.gov: Washington - "TWO MEN INDICTED IN FLORIDA ON EXPLOSIVES CHARGES" (August 31, 2007)

Link

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "MYSTERY AT GOOSE CREEK UPDATE: FEDERAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATES" (August 30, 2007)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "MYSTERY AT GOOSE CREEK: WHO ARE THE ACCUSED PIPE BOMB BOYS?" (August 12, 2007, 1:51 pm)

TAMPA BAYS 10.com: Tampa, Florida - "PROSECUTOR: ISLAMIC STUDENTS HAD PIPE BOMBS" by Mike Deeson (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "She says she saw lot of traffic, a lot of people going back and forth, oxygen tanks being delivered UPS and Fed Ex deliveries and a lot going on.") (Last updated August 7, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIERS): Goose Creek - "SOUTH CAROLINA: 2 MUSLIMS CHARGED WITH FELONIES IN EXPLOSIVES SCARE" (Agusut 6, 2007)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE CHARGE 2 STUDENTS WITH HAVING SEVERAL PIPE BOMBS NEAR NAVY BASE" (August 6, 2007)

That sounds like a good plan, until we realize that the legal department of Wendy’s, and Burger King, etc, are taking this ruling into consideration.

Blech.

doubt they really care what Canada does. Yes, they are aware of it, but not mulling it over.

We have Wendy’s and Burger King here too.

Why Izzadeen you bad, bad boy.
And apparently, you weren’t the only one.

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April 17, 2008

“UK jihadist who praised London bombings gets life term for inciting and funding terrorism”

No, I visited Canada shortly before 9/11 and had an interesting experience.
I’m not visiting again.

I'm sorry for whatever happened to you here.

I was mugged at gun point, in front of my children, in Toronto, a few years ago.

I try not to go to Toronto anymore.

:-)

BTTT

You're welcome fanfan. You have A&W there too if I remember correctly?

Case with radioactive material found at Madrid school

MADRID, Spain - Police say an equipment case containing low-level radioactive material that was stolen from a car this week has been found in the doorway of a school in Madrid.

A police spokeswoman says the case was unopened and there were no signs of radioactivity in the area.

She says the case was returned to its owners Thursday.

3 Target stores evacuated after bomb threat

Shoppers at three east metro Target stores never made it to checkout after a bomb threat on Tuesday night.

According to Target officials, stores in Roseville, West St. Paul and St. Paul were evacuated after all three stores received bomb threats.

Target said they contacted law enforcement and out of an "abundance of caution" they evacuated and closed the stores.

I’m sorry fanfan.
Our situation was weird, but not harmful.

Yours was a hard situation.

I’ve been the victim of personal crimes before; and the only bright side is that it helps you formulate a plan as to what to do to prevent that situation (if/when possible) from happening again.

thanks for the ping. All kinds of enemies out there!

Thanks for the Madrid update, Mama Dearest.