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Two Christian girls of 11 and 16 kidnapped, converted to Islam and forced to marry
Asia News ^ | 8/22/2007 | Qaiser Felix
Posted on 08/22/2007 4:30:45 PM PDT by camerakid400
Faisalabad (AsiaNews) – Two Christian girls, little more than children, were kidnapped from their families recently, forcibly converted to Islam and then married off to strangers. Both of the kidnaps took place in Faisalabad, the third largest city in Pakistan, and both were completely ignored by the police. The phenomenon is not a new one however, underlined numerous human rights activist, but it is dangerously on the increase.
On August 5 Muhammad Adnan, a Muslim from Zulfiqar colony Faisalabad and his sister kidnapped Zunaira, an eleven years old Christian girl from her home in Warispura. After the kidnap, they forced her to convert to Islam and marry her kidnaper Muhammad.
The small girl’s mother, Abida, told AsiaNews: “When I was roaming in streets in search of my daughter two Muslim men of the area told me that they saw Adnan and his sister taking my daughter”. Abida decided to go to the kidnapper’s house, from which however she is thrown out. Returning home, she was contacted by two men who revealed the kidnappers identity and offer to act as negotiators for her daughters release in exchange for money.
Despite being desperately poor, Abida gives them 12 thousand Rupees (200 Euro): “I didn’t want to inform the police, because my daughter was engaged and I didn’t want my relatives to know. Unfortunately I found out too late that those men who said they would help me only want money: I have sold all I have, but it wasn’t enough and now I am alone”. Abida then turned to the police, but they refused help. The fact that the marriage is invalid given the age of the bride, “is not a matter for the police” said the officers.
In the second case Shumaila Tabussum, (16), was kidnapped from her home on August 16 by a Muslim man Mazher and some other unknown people. They told Shumaila that her father had been seriously injured in an accident and offered to accompany her to the hospital where he had been taken. The girl, without waiting for her mother, got into Mazher’s car: on the way she met two uncles at shouted the news of her father’s accident to them. These made their way to the hospital but found no-one.
Salamat Masih, 37, Shumaila’s father, immediately reported the abduction to the police. He told AsiaNews that he is “very worried because cases such as these are on the increase: Christian girls abducted, forcibly converted and subjected to becoming the wives of complete strangers”.
Khalil Tahir, chairman of a free legal aid organization “Adal Trust” and a well known Christian lawyer confirms this: “the growing number of attacks against Christians is worrying. We try to aid the victim’s families and at the same time help those who are subjected to this violence legally and practically, but the government must intervene with force if this is to be stopped”.
Pristina - Kosovo police and NATO-led peacekeepers (KFOR) discovered a massive amount of explosive in the western part of the breakaway province and made two arrests, authorities in Pristina said Wednesday.
Authorities uncovered 92.6 kilos of what was believed to be TNT in two houses in Vitomirica and Novo Selo, a village in the area of Pec, 80 kilometres west of Pristina, Kosovo police spokesman Veton Elshani told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Police acted on an anonymous tip that explosives could be found in the villages, close to Kosovo's border with Montenegro, spokesman Veton Elshani told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
'In Vitomirica we found 48.6 kilos in the search, while in the nearby Novo Selo we found another 44 kilos,' he said. 'So in total we have seized 92.6 kilos.' Sources close to the police said the two arrested people were Kosovo Albanians. They said KFOR had tightened controls in the area during the search, which lasted several hours Wednesday afternoon. 'We don't know yet what the explosive was intended for, but it sure wasn't for fishing,' said Beqir Kelmendi, a senior police official in Pec, estimating that the amount seized was enough to 'blow up several buildings.'
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Homes evacuated, park closed after devices found (Colorado)
8/22/2007
BERTHOUD – Police evacuated several homes and closed a park Tuesday night while they investigated a report of suspicious devices. The two devices were found near Berthoud Park around 5:40 p.m. The park is at 200 7th Street. Berthoud Police says one of the devices was found in a trash Dumpster and the other was also found in the park.
The bomb squad was called and police closed off the area and evacuated some nearby homes as a precaution. Not many people were home when police first arrived on scene, so only a few residents were evacuated. Once people started coming home from work, they were kept out of their homes, according to police. The bomb squad detonated both of the devices as a precaution. One was detonated around 9:45 p.m. and the other was detonated earlier in the evening. Police did not say what the devices were, but treated them as dangerous. They are still investigating if the devices were bombs.
http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=75902
Suspicious powder locks down Estes plant (Colorado)
Wed. Aug. 22, 2007
PENROSE - A white powdery substance sent two people to the hospital and caused a possible hazardous materials scare at the Estes-Cox Corp. model rocket plant Tuesday.
Penrose Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Calvin Sundermann said his crew was dispatched shortly after 3 p.m. on a report of a possible hazardous materials situation at the model rocket plant. "A shipment of rocket parts from China had a white powdery substance on a box," Sundermann said. "Two male employees who had the most exposure because they were unloading the truck felt ill and as a precaution were taken to the hospital."
Those two employees were treated and released from St. Thomas More Hospital in Canon City, according to hospital spokesperson Jennifer Kemp. Also called to the scene were the Colorado State Patrol and Canon City Fire Department Hazardous Materials teams. The materials experts decided to suit up six team members in full protective gear to collect the powder which was secured by about 8:30 p.m. Testing of the powder was planned both on-site and in Pueblo. Results of the tests were not available by press time.
All employees in the building with the boxes, about 20 workers, were placed on a lock down situation pending the collection. After collection of the powder, the teams planned to put each employee through the decontamination procedure in the plant parking lot as a precaution and expected to have everyone released by 11 p.m. "The company usually receives five shipments like that a week and they have never been an issue. The rocket parts are locked and sealed in the boxes and the seal was not broken," Sundermann said.