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Russian police round up Muslim men

After Thursday's attack by dozens of Islamic militants on police and security facilities in the southern Russian city of Nalchik, police rounded up more than three dozen people - most of them Muslim men.

Holland fears killings over ban on burqa

HOLLAND’S Muslims have responded with outrage to government proposals to ban the burqa, and there are fears that Rita Verdonk, the minister behind the move, will be added to a list of “enemies of Islam” targeted for assassination.

Imam demands apology for Mohammed cartoon

The newspaper urged cartoonists to send in drawings of the prophet, after an author complained that nobody dared to illustrate his book on Mohammed. The author claimed that illustrators feared that extremist Muslims would find it sacrilegious to break the Islamic ban on depicting Mohammed.

The ties that bind American leftists and Islamic radical fanatics

Right after the beginning of the war in Iraq, a group of professors at Columbia University held a “teach-in” where they denounced the American-led military action. Professor of anthropology Nicholas De Genova called for “a million Mogadishus,” a reference to the 1993 humiliation of American soldiers in Somalia. He said that U.S. patriotism is a form of imperial warfare and white supremacy and that the “only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.”

Blogger disputing Wall Street Journal position on Joel Hinrich

But the question whether Hinrichs was part of a terrorist cell is entirely different from the question whether he intended mass murder. There are two intractable facts that suggest that there was more going on here than an "individual suicide." The Journal acknowledges both facts, but fails to deal with them. The first fact is that additional explosives were found in Hinrichs' apartment:

In fact, authorities did find, in Mr. Hinrichs's bedroom, additional explosive material. They detonated them at the police firing range the next day, jolting the city again. Given that Hinrichs had enough explosives left in his apartment to "jolt the city," isn't it reasonable to wonder whether more was going on here than an "individual suicide"?

Australians warned of mine explosives theft

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been notified of the theft of 76 kilograms of explosives from a mine site west of Mackay, in north Queensland.

10,000 man terrorist organization found in N. Delta Niger

SECURITY agencies in the country may have been placed on red alert following an alarm raised by the Federal Government that it had uncovered a 10,000-man terrorist organisation in the Niger Delta region whose motive is to disrupt Nigeria’s oil production by kidnapping and killing oil workers.

Ticonderoga Pencils closing Mo plant - moving to Mexico and Georgia - 200 to be unemployed

Officials with the plant's owner, Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini, made the announcement Thursday saying the production of lead pencils in central Missouri will be moved to plants in Macon, Ga., and Mexico City. Production will end Dec. 13, taking jobs from 160 full-time workers and about 40 part-time employees.

UW Ground Zero for world's worst flu

You probably don't need to hear that a British scientific journal just listed Madison as ground zero for a plague that, when last unleashed on the world, killed 40 million people.