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"Virus Sickens Over 380 on Cruise Ship"
Dec 3rd - 11:53pm
AP
MIAMI (AP) -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A guest previously exposed to norovirus likely brought it on board Nov. 26, the company said.
Noroviruses, characterized by stomach flu-like symptoms, affect about 23 million Americans annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
An outbreak struck more than 700 passengers and crew members aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise last month on the Carnival Cruise Lines' Liberty."
NOTE: The folloiwing text is a quote:
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06120015.htm
Sunday, December 3, 2006
Sadr Followers Target Assyrian School Girls in Baghdad
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) -- Followers of Moqtada al-Sadr have issued a fatwa(1) concerning school girls, according to an Assyrian priest in Baghdad.
This was revealed in a story released by the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA ) which says, “The fatwa requires all girls to wear the veil while attending school. In an unusual twist of logic, the fatwa implies that failure to wear the veil would be tantamount on the girls' part to complicity in the death of the Imam Husayn ibn Ali (killed in 680 A.D. in Karbala in a battle with the army of the Caliphate.)
“The priest indicated the fatwa was at least for the New Baghdad neighborhood, where many Christians live, and that he feared for the safety of the Christian girls in the area.
“The fatwa appears to be an attempt by Sadr and his followers to establish a Taliban style Islamic theocracy in Iraq.”
According to an article in the Middle East Journal, “Muqtada called on May 2 [2003] for strict Islamic law to be applied to Iraq's Christians, as well, including the prohibition on bars and on allowing women to appear unveiled. This ruling appears to be a restatement of one of his father's fatwas, but this time the al-Sadr family had the authority to make it stick in some parts of Iraq.
“In contrast, Grand Ayatollah Sistani issued a statement saying that the Najaf establishment had not called for forcible veiling.”
Editor' note: AINA has withheld the name of the priest to ensure his safety.
1) A fatwa is a Muslim pronouncement on a specific issue, issued by a Muslim cleric.
For more information, go to www.aina.org
Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com. danjuma1@aol.com.
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