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CLIPS ON HAMAS CLIPS ON AL-QAEDA
#1078 - The Will of Fahd Al-Farraj, Al-Qaeda Commander in Saudi Arabia
The Internet - 3/17/2006 - 00:05:30
#1077 - Top Iranian Official Mohsen Razai: American Forces Are Vulnerable in Iraq and Afghanistan
Iran Ch.2 - 3/16/2006 - 00:03:14
#1076 - Syrian Poet Adonis: The Arabs Are Extinct, Like the Sumerians, Greeks, and Pharoahs. If the Arabs Are So Inept They Cannot Be Democratic, External Intervention Will Not Make Them Democratic
Dubai TV - 3/11/2006 - 00:07:34
#1075 - Iraqi Cleric Ahmad Al-Kubeisi Promotes Jihad on A New Saudi Channel Broadcasting from Kuwait
Al-Risala TV (Saudi Arabia/Kuwait) - 3/15/2006 - 00:04:06
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"Muslims Take Cartoon Case to UN’s “Allah” Commission"
Brussels Journal ^ | 18 March | Edwin Jacobs
Posted on 03/19/2006 9:58:29 AM PST by ScaniaBoy
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0306/0306wafasultan.htm
"Muslim who says that violence has destroyed Islam gets violent threats"
By Jeremy Reynalds
web posted March 20, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Four weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims. Today, as a result of an unusually frank interview on Al Jazeera television on February 21, Sultan, 47, is internationally known, regarded as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die."
Slightly Off Topic and ON THE NET...
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004801.htm
Expect similar MO
Yep.
NYSUN.com: "A MOST-WANTED TERRORIST IS SPOTTED IN SYRIA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "One of the American government's most wanted terrorists visited Syria late last week with Iran's President Ahmadinejad, according to a former Reagan administration national security official and Iran watchers on Capitol Hill.")(January 25, 2006) (Read More...) (NOTE: This url may expire.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600102/posts
"KAUAI'S FLOODS 2006"
The Garden Island ^ | March 20, 2006 | The Garden Island
Posted on 03/20/2006 10:06:43 PM PST by george76
Thanks, backhoe; good work, as usual.
Curt Weldon, Able Danger, Toronto 19
Countdown to Terror ticks on
By Judi McLeod
Monday, March 20, 2006
Congressman Curt Weldon is keeping me up nights. It's the intrigues like Able Danger and the so-called "Toronto 19".
I received a personal telephone call from Weldon on Wednesday asking me if I had followed up on whatever was available through research on suspected terrorists in the "Toronto 19". Canada Free Press Associate Editor Arthur Weinreb, office manager Dan Carrier and myself had met with Weldon in his office on Feb. 15.
Both Weinreb and I tried to find more details about the fate of the group on our return to Toronto, but could come up with no more information than what Weldon already revealed in his book, Countdown to Terror.
http://www.torontofreepress.com/
ON THE NET...
stepping back in time regarding the "Toronto 19":
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=7989&only=yes
Here's the specific url for the article you noted JP:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover032006.htm
Curt Weldon, Able Danger, Toronto 19
"Countdown to Terror ticks on"
By Judi McLeod
Monday, March 20, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Congressman Curt Weldon is keeping me up nights. It's the intrigues like Able Danger and the so-called "Toronto 19".
I received a personal telephone call from Weldon on Wednesday asking me if I had followed up on whatever was available through research on suspected terrorists in the "Toronto 19". Canada Free Press Associate Editor Arthur Weinreb, office manager Dan Carrier and myself had met with Weldon in his office on Feb. 15.
Both Weinreb and I tried to find more details about the fate of the group on our return to Toronto, but could come up with no more information than what Weldon already revealed in his book, Countdown to Terror.
However, I suggested to Weldon during Wednesday’s phone call that he should try Canada's new Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day. "He's a sort of Curt Weldon of Canada," I told him. One of those politicians who comes with the courage of his convictions and one ready to rid this country of terrorists.""
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"Cuba, Vietnam Hold Communist Confab"
HUMAN EVENTS ^ | Mar 20, 2006 | Jim Burns
Posted on 03/20/2006 5:53:03 PM PST by neverdem
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An visited Cuba on Friday and met with Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro.
The Vietnamese News Agency said An’s meeting was part of a tour of Latin America. The news agency said during his meeting with Castro in Havana, An admired what he called “Cuba’s remarkable achievements” in view of the “current international situation.”
He also told Castro that Vietnam continues to support “solidarity for the Cuban revolution.”
Vietnam, Cuba and Latin America have great potential for cooperation in agriculture and bio-technology, An said.
Castro reviewed Cuba's situation and discussed energy conservation programs carried out in Cuba while An briefed Castro on Vietnam's preparations for the coming 10th National Party Congress and the results of visits to Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil.
After meeting with Fidel, An met with his brother and right-hand man Raul Castro.
Before meeting with Fidel Castro, An and Cuban Parliamentary Leader Ricardo Alarcon attended the opening ceremony of the Vietnam-Cuba Business Forum hosted by the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Cuba Chamber of Commerce in Havana.
Addressing the forum, An asked businessmen of both countries to seek mutual measures aiming at promoting commercial, trade and investment cooperation which would enhance the two countries' relationship.
Vietnam is now a favored environment for foreign investors including Cuban businessmen, he stressed."
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March 21, 2006 : Last updated 02:22 pm (Thai local time)
Police removes bomb near orphanage
Pattani — Police removed a dud homemade bomb weighing 20 kilogrammes planted near an orphanage in this southern border province Tuesday morning.
Police said the bomb was planted in front of a restaurant beside the orphanage in Muang district.
The bomb made of fertilizer weighing 20 kgs was designed to be detonated by a mobile phone. The phone record showed that a call had made to it but it failed ignite the explosives.
Police safely disposed the bomb at 8:30 am.
Pol Col Somjit Nasomyon, commander of Muang district police station, said the bomb carried number 12, prompting police to suspect that there were several other bombs prepared to be planted in the area.
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Lebanese-Canadian gets 5-year term for helping Hezbollah
CBC ^ | Fri, 03 Feb 2006
Posted on 02/03/2006 10:44:01 PM PST by ferri
A Lebanese-Canadian man who tried to sell military equipment to the militant organization Hezbollah has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison.
Naji Antoine Abi Khalil, 39, was sentenced Thursday. He pleaded guilty in August 2005 to trying to provide material support to Lebanon-based Hezbollah.
He also pleaded guilty to conspiring to export sensitive military equipment from the United States without a licence, and trying to provide Hezbollah with night-vision goggles and infrared aiming devices.
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Monday, March 20, 2006
NEW ATTACKS BY BURMA ARMY DISPLACE OVER 3,000 KAREN
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
MYANMAR (ANS) -- Over 3,000 people are in hiding following recent attacks by the Burma Army in Western and Northern Karen State. Several villages have been burned down and civilians killed. The Burma Army is laying more landmines in the area, and forcing those villagers who have not fled to work as porters for the military.
According to a media advisory put out by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), soldiers from three Burma Army battalions on March 9 attacked Klaw Kee village in the Saw Ka Der area of Mon Township, western Karen State, according to reports received from the Free Burma Rangers. One 38 year-old man, Saw Maw Sae Kya, was shot dead, and two paddy barns were destroyed.
The media release says the troops then attacked Maw La Kee village, where they burned down seven houses. At least 1,140 villagers have fled Mon Township and are hiding in the jungle. Constant Burma Army patrols in the area mean they cannot return to their homes.
On the same day, CSW says, in Ler Doh Township, similar attacks took place, forcing 1,153 villagers from Kwey Der village into hiding.
The CSW release states: "In the past two weeks attacks have also taken place against civilians in Toungoo District, northern Karen State, causing the displacement of over 700. Last month a further 640 were displaced, and they are unable to reach the Thai border due to Burma Army patrols. However, since December 2005 at least a thousand people have fled to the safety of the refugee camps in Thailand and many more may follow."
According to the Free Burma Rangers: "These attacks reflect the ongoing effort of the Burma Army to break the will of the people and control them. The murder of porters and the laying of landmines to terrorize and block food to a civilian population are two of the tactics used in the strategy of the Burma Army to dominate, assimilate and exploit the ethnic people of Burma. What is clear is that the Burma Army is slowly attempting to expand its control, that people are under great danger and there is already a shortage of food."
CSW says the attacks on Klaw Kee and Maw La Kee villages were carried out by Light Infantry Battalions (LIB) 366, 368 and 364, under Military Operations Command 10, Division 66 of the Burma Army. The attacks on Kwey Der village were carried out by soldiers from LIB 362 and LIB 363.
Burma has been ruled by a military dictatorship since 1962. Elections were held in 1990 and won by the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest. Over 1,100 prisoners of conscience are in jail in Burma.
The current military regime, known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), is perpetrating gross violations of human rights, particularly against the ethnic nationalities, the Karen, Karenni, Shan, Mon, Chin, Kachin, Arakan and Rohingya. Over one million people are internally displaced, and since 1996 over 2,500 villages have been destroyed in eastern Burma alone. Evidence of widespread, systematic rape, forced labour, forced conscription of child soldiers, use of human minesweepers, torture and killings continues to be reported regularly.
In September, 2005 the international law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary published "Threat to the Peace: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in Burma," commissioned by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu. A briefing was held at the UN Security Council in December, 2005. CSW is calling for a full UN Security Council discussion on Burma, leading to a resolution. For a copy of the report see http://burmacampaign.org.uk/unitednations.php
Mervyn Thomas, Chief Executive of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, said: "We have been working on Burma for almost two decades, and during that time the news has barely changed – continuing brutal attacks on ethnic nationalities, continuing suppression of democracy, continuing crimes against humanity. These latest attacks are tragic in themselves, but even more tragic when added to the litany of violations perpetrated by the ruling military regime over the past half a century. For too long the world has sat by and allowed these attacks to continue. It is time now for the international community to say enough is enough, and to act to stop the genocide unfolding."
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 further information, please contact Alexa Papadouris, Advocacy Director, Christian Solidarity Worldwide on +44 (0)20 8329 0035 or email alexa@csw.org.uk or visit www.csw.org.uk
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Lake Forest, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
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Monday, March 20, 2006
AFGHANISTAN: KABUL APOSTASY TRIAL
By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- On Monday 26 January 2004Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai signed the new Afghanistan Constitution into law. While many rejoiced and hailed the document as a great leap forward, most religious liberty monitors and advocates despaired.
"Article Two
Ch. 1, Art. 2
The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.
Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law.
Article Three
Ch. 1, Art. 3
In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam."
http://www.afghan-web.com/politics/current_constitution.html OR http://www.af/constitution/ (English translations vary slightly.)
In effect, the requirement of Article Three abrogates any perceived suggestion of religious liberty in Article Two.
A groundbreaking case is about to test Afghanistan's Constitution and the constitution of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai. An Afghan Christian is presently on trial in Kabul charged with rejecting Islam. He faces the death penalty if he refuses to renounce his Christian faith and return to Islam.
There have been vigilante executions of apostates in Afghanistan in recent years. Between June and September 2004, five Afghan believers, including Mullah Assad Ullah, were stabbed or beaten to death in summary executions by Taliban adherents who accused them of abandoning Islam and then "spreading Christianity" in their communities (Compass Direct 10 Sept 2004). Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi told newsgroup Reuters, "A group of Taliban dragged out Mullah Assad Ullah and slit his throat with a knife because he was propagating Christianity."
But the trial of Abdul Rahman is the first trial of its kind since the fall of the Taliban, and will be a test case for Afghanistan and for President Karzai. Fear and Islamic zeal are running high in Afghanistan in the wake of resurgent Taliban terror, the Guantanamo Bay Qur'an desecration controversy (or myth) of May 2005, and the recent Cartoon Intifada violence of February 2006. President Karzai will be under immense internal pressure to prove his Islamic credentials and uphold "the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam", while he should also be under immense external pressure from his donors and allies to defend Abdul Rahman's fundamental human right to religious freedom.
KABUL APOSTASY TRIAL
Daniel Cooney, writing for the Associated Press (AP), explains that the defendant, "41-year-old Abdul Rahman, was arrested last month after his family accused him of becoming a Christian". (Link 1)
The trigger for the case appears to be a custody dispute.
Judge Ansarullah Mawlavazada told AP that during a one-day hearing last Thursday 16
March, Abdul Rahman confessed to converting from Islam to Christianity some 16 years ago while he was working as a medical Aid worker for an international Christian group helping Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Associated Press reports that after four years in Pakistan, Rahman moved to Germany, where he lived for nine years. Rahman's father told AP that Rahman returned to Afghanistan in 2002 and tried to gain custody of his two daughters, now aged 13 and 14, who had been living with their grandparents their whole lives. AP reports, "A custody battle ensued and the matter was taken to the police. During questioning, it emerged that Rahman was a Christian and was carrying a Bible. He was immediately arrested and charged."
Judge Mawlavazada says Abdul Rahman could face the death penalty if he refuses to revert to Islam as Sharia law proposes capital punishment for any Muslim who converts to another religion. As Afghanistan's constitution states: "No law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam." (Link 2: this Middle East Times article contains a Reuters photograph of Judge Ansarullah Mawlavazada holding up Abdul Rahman's Bible as evidence.)
Daily Times of Pakistan reports (Monday 20 March), "Afghan police have detained a man for converting from Islam to Christianity, a judge said on Sunday, adding the man could face the death penalty if he refused to become a Muslim again.
"Islamic Sharia law proposes the death sentence for Muslims who abandon the religion. Afghanistan's new constitution says 'no law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam'.
"Supreme Court judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said the suspect, Abdur Rahman, was arrested after members of his family informed police of his conversion.
"He would be charged in coming days with abandoning Islam, Mawlavizada said. 'The prosecutor says he should be executed on the basis of the constitution,' Mawlavizada said, who added that Rahman could come back to Islam. 'If he does not ... he will be punished,' he said." (Link 3)
Associated Press spoke to Ahmad Fahim Hakim, deputy chairman of the state-sponsored Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission who also notes that Afghanistan's constitution is based on Sharia law which is interpreted by many Muslims as mandating death for apostates. (Link 1)
Judge Mawlavizada told AP he would rule on the case within two months. AP reports that all attempts to interview Abdul Rahman in detention were barred.
AP reports, "The prosecutor, Abdul Wasi, said he had offered to drop the charges if Rahman converted back to Islam, but he refused. 'He would have been forgiven if he changed back. But he said he was a Christian and would always remain one,' Wasi told AP. 'We are Muslims and becoming a Christian is against our laws. He must get the death penalty.'" (Link 1)
KARZAI'S CHOICE
Benjamin Sand reports for Voice of America, "The court has ordered a delay in the proceedings to give Rahman time to hire an attorney. Under Afghan law, once a verdict is given, the case can be appealed twice to higher courts.
"This is the first case in which the defendant has admitted to converting and is refusing to back down, even while facing the death penalty.
"If convicted, the case could ultimately force President Hamid Karzai's direct intervention.
"The president would have to sign the papers authorizing Rahman's execution, a move that could jeopardize Mr. Karzai's standing with human rights groups and Western governments.
"So far, President Karzai has not commented on the case.
"But political analysts here in Kabul say he will be under significant pressure from the country's hard-line religious groups to make an example of Rahman." (Link 4)
Elizabeth Kendal
rl-research@crossnet.org.au
Links
1) Afghan Christian Could Get Death Sentence
Daniel Cooney. KABUL, Afghanistan, 19 March 2006 (AP) http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5697060,00.html
2) Christian convert faces execution in Afghanistan
Reuters 19 March 2006 http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060319-072838-8361r
3)Afghans detain man suspected of abandoning Islam.
Daily Times. 20 March 2006 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C03%5C20%5Cstory_20-3-2006_pg4_17
4) Afghan Man Faces Execution After Converting to Christianity
By Benjamin Sand. Kabul.18 March 2006 http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-03-18-voa7.cfm
Elizabeth Kendal is the Principal Researcher and Writer for the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC) www.worldevangelical.org/rlc.html. This article was initially written for the WEA RLP(Religious Liberty Prayer) mailing list
Elizabeth can be contacted by e-mail at rl-research@crossnet.org.au.
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"J-XX STEALTHY FIGHTER AIRCRAFT-(china stealth fighter)"
sino defense ^ | 21 March 2006 | na
Posted on 03/21/2006 1:53:09 AM PST by Flavius
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The Stone Face of Zarqawi (Iraq is no "distraction" from al Qaeda)
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 21, 2006 | CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Posted on 03/21/2006 2:26:56 AM PST by RWR8189
In February 2004, our Kurdish comrades in northern Iraq intercepted a courier who was bearing a long message from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to his religious guru Osama bin Laden. The letter contained a deranged analysis of the motives of the coalition intervention ("to create the State of Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates" and "accelerate the emergence of the Messiah"), but also a lethally ingenious scheme to combat it. After a lengthy and hate-filled diatribe against what he considers the vile heresy of Shiism, Zarqawi wrote of Iraq's largest confessional group that: "These in our opinion are the key to change. I mean that targeting and hitting them in their religious, political and military depth will provoke them to show the Sunnis their rabies . . . and bare the teeth of the hidden rancor working in their breasts. If we succeed in dragging them into the arena of sectarian war, it will become possible to awaken the inattentive Sunnis as they feel imminent danger."
Some of us wrote about this at the time, to warn of the sheer evil that was about to be unleashed. Knowing that their own position was a tenuous one (a fact fully admitted by Zarqawi in his report) the cadres of "al Qaeda in Mesopotamia" understood that their main chance was the deliberate stoking of a civil war. And, now that this threat has become more imminent and menacing, it is somehow blamed on the Bush administration. "Civil war" has replaced "the insurgency" as the proof that the war is "unwinnable." But in plain truth, the "civil war" is and always was the chief tactic of the "insurgency."
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"Two Deputies Shot During Traffic Stop"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LOS ANGELES - Two sheriff's deputies and a suspected gunman were wounded Monday in a shootout that followed a traffic stop in the Florence area of Los Angeles County, authorities said.
Deputies Adam Kirste and Omar Miranda, both 29, were taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where they were treated for non-life-threatening wounds sustained in the mid-morning shootout, Undersheriff Larry Waldie said.
The suspect, identified as Juan Carlos Campos, 33, was taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center for treatment of four gunshot wounds following the 10:15 a.m. shooting near Compton Avenue and 70th Street.
This evening, the sheriff's department reported that Campos was in critical but stable condition, said Deputy Rich Pena."
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