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Posted on 12/01/2007 8:47:13 PM PST by nwctwx
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“Fake Indian office issues birth, death certificates: report”
Yahoo/AFP ^
Posted on 12/16/2007 9:42:35 PM PST by nuconvert
Fake Indian office issues birth, death certificates: report
Mon Dec 10, 2007
SNIPPET: “A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services and even handed out birth and death certificates, a report said Monday.”
Fyi.
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“UPSTATE CELL-OUT [New York State]”
New York Post ^ | December 16 2007 | NY Post Editorial
Posted on 12/16/2007 12:35:44 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2153988.ece
“Insurance against terror”
SNIPPET: “Controversial mullah Krekar, former leader of Islamist guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam, and now eligible for deportation after a Supreme Court ruling, has written an open letter in Aftenposten.”
(December 14, 2007)
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3483332,00.html
dditional victims of shock from Qassam landfall in Negev en route to hospital
Published: 12.16.07, 18:45 / Israel News
Magen David Adom medics treated a 12-year old girl from a Kibbutz in the western Negev for shock after a Qassam rocket landed in her back yard Sunday.
So far eight people were transported to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon following this incident, including a two-and a half-year old infant who was lightly injured. The rest of those injured were treated for shock. The al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, assumed responsibility for this latest round of rocket fire. (Shmulik Hadad and Ali Waked)
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847352499&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Dec 16, 2007 16:00 | Updated Dec 16, 2007 23:40
“Toddler hurt after Kassam hits home”
By REBECCA ANNA STOIL
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “After a near-miss at one western Negev kibbutz over the weekend, Kibbutz Zikim was less fortunate Sunday when a rocket landed directly under the window of a kibbutz residence, causing extensive damage and hurting a three-year-old boy.
Rom Gertal was playing on the floor of his living room with his mother sitting a few meters away when the Kassam rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip slammed into the side of the small kibbutz home. Sivan Katzir said she immediately ran over to her son and picked him up.
Within minutes, kibbutz residents and emergency teams flocked to the house, she said. Both mother and son were evacuated to Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center, where the boy was treated for scratches to his face and Katzir was treated for shock.
Their house has a “secure room,” Katzir said, but she hadn’t heard any alarm sounded alerting her to take cover.”
Regarding Iran:
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=672.0
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=1296.0
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/17/news/Russia-Iran.php
(AP)
“Russia makes first nuclear fuel shipment to Iran’s Bushehr plant, Foreign Ministry says”
The Associated PressPublished: December 17, 2007
MOSCOW
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3483474,00.html
(REUTERS)
“Russia says has Iran’s assurances on nuclear fuel”
Published: 12.17.07, 09:53 / Israel News
Ping.
WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): Moscow - "GENERAL SAYS U.S. LOOKING FOR FIGHT" by Mike Eckel (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Among the issues that have most undermined Russian-U.S. relations in recent years is a U.S. plan to put elements of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic -- former Warsaw Pact members that have joined NATO. Russia has claimed the system will be used to spy on Russian missile and military forces; Washington says it will help defend Europe from a potential missile attack from Iran.") (December 16, 2007)
blog:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/12/the_awakening_al_qae.php
“The Awakening, al Qaeda clash in Iraq”
By BILL ROGGIO
December 17, 2007 2:05 AM
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“Ansar al-Sunnah Acknowledges Relationship with Ansar al-Islam, Reverts to Using Ansar al-Islam Name”
By Evan Kohlmann
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“Free Trade Zones Ease Passage of Counterfeit Drug”
NY Times ^ | December 17, 2007 | WALT BOGDANICH
Posted on 12/17/2007 12:32:21 AM PST by neverdem
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
Thanks to bd476 for the ping to this post.
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True.
And in the It’s Bad All Over category, here’s a larger escape, this time centered around a Maoist rebellion.
New York Times
300 Inmates Break Out of Indian Jail
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Published: December 17, 2007
NEW DELHI — In the epicenter of the Maoist rebellion in central India, 300 prisoners who were apparently led by Maoists broke out of jail on Sunday evening, the police said...”
300 Inmates Break Out of Indian Jail
4 posted on 12/17/2007 12:59:42 AM PST by bd476
Thanks Cindy.
You’re welcome bd476.
More Details UPDATE:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071217/NATION/331199585/1001
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“Young gunmen try to ‘glorify’ Columbine”
By Valerie Richardson
December 17, 2007
LITTLETON, Colo. —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Last week’s deadly Colorado church shootings were no exception. Web postings left by 24-year-old Matthew Murray show he idolized Columbine High School gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and wanted to emulate their deadly 1999 rampage.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Murray left behind an extensive collection of entries on a Web site for ex-Christians revealing a troubled loner who resented his religious upbringing and the “christian God who is full of hate.” In postings written in the 11 hours before the two shootings, he made it clear that Columbine was his inspiration.
“Christian America this is YOUR Columbine,” he said.”
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07120110.htm
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
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Angry Muslims Attack Stores Owned by Christians
By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
ISNA, EGYPT (ANS) — Seven Muslims were detained in southern Egypt on Sunday after setting fire to a church, and stores owned by Christians.
The violence was in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Muslim girl, a security source told AFP News.
According to AFP, the seven individuals set fire to 13 stores owned by Egyptian Christians in the southern city of Isna late on Saturday. They also threw Molotov cocktails at a local church, AFP reported the source told the news service.
They told police they were acting in retaliation for the alleged rape last week of a Muslim girl by three Christians boys.
AFP reported the three Christians were detained on Saturday and taken to a police station, where an angry crowd of about 150 Muslims hurled stones and bottles.
“The seven were also demonstrating outside the police station. Then they left the protest and started setting fire to property owned by Christians,” the source told AFP.
AFP said that tensions often run high between Egypt’s Muslim and Christian communities in an increasingly religious society that is dominated by Sunni Muslims.
Reuters reported that Egypt suffered its worst Christian-Muslim clashes in decades in 1999 in southern Egypt, when 20 Christians were killed, 22 people wounded and scores of stores destroyed.
According to Reuters, last year a 45-year-old Muslim man stabbed a Coptic Christian man to death and wounded five others in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, sparking three days of sectarian clashes in which one Muslim was killed. Egypt said the attacker was mentally ill.
AFP said that Egypt’s Copts — the largest Christian community in the Middle East — account for an estimated six to 10 percent of the country’s 76 million inhabitants, and complain of systematic discrimination and harassment.
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico’s largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction. He has a master’s degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is “Homeless in the City: A Call to Service.” Additional details about “Homeless” are available at http://www.HomelessBook.com He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jeremyreynalds@comcast.net. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145. Note: A higher resolution JPEG picture of Jeremy Reynalds is available on request from Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Radical Sheikh Says Christmas Day is Not Off Limits for Attacks
By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (ANS) — Exiled radical sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed gave a shocking answer to a question he was recently asked in an Internet chat room.
Asked on one of his regular sessions on Paltalk whether Muslims can attack “Christian invaders” on Christmas Day, Bakri says that the celebration is not a holiday, or a “proper day of respect” for Muslims and is an appropriate day for attacks.
“That is really for them and not for us,” he says.
Bakri says that times of attack are chosen by Islamic commanders, and they make a decision whether to attack regardless of the festival or celebration.
Bakri is the founder of banned Islamic fundamentalist groups Al-Muhajiroun and Al-Guraba. He left London for Beirut after the July 2005 London terrorist attacks, which claimed the lives of 52 people.
He is still banned from reentering Britain (http://omar-bakri-news.newslib.com/story/5347-2391600 ).
Bakri caused a media storm after the bombings by declaring that the only people he blames for the London bombings are the government and British public (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4144892.stm ).
Bakri and Santa Claus
Another member of Bakri’s cyber flock asks him, “I have a son going to (elementary) school, being given Christmas cards and being told to believe (in Santa Claus). What can be done?”
Bakri tells the father he needs to obey the laws of Allah, and that to save his family from Allah’s hellfire he should not send his son to the kuffar (heathen) school during the Christmas period.
Bakri says during the Christmas season, his son could be exposed at school “to all that corruption and (heathen goings on), and even celebration.”
Bakri continues, telling the man that it is also forbidden for him to take his son to visit Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, as he is dubbed in England.
Bakri says visits to Santa Claus will just cause problems for the man’s children. He says that such visits will “make them lose that title (of) children of heaven when they grow and mature, and (they will) know nothing about Islam. They will become ... the children of hell fire!”
Bakri encourages the man to save himself and his family from that fate. He then encourages his online Islamic flock to occupy themselves during the Christmas period with preaching Islam to anyone who will listen, and spending time with other Muslim families.
Bakir says that in addition, the giving of gifts and the purchase of Christmas trees is absolutely forbidden.
Bakri warns his listeners not to watch television, or listen to the Christmas song Jingle Bells (www.carols.org.uk/jingle_bells.htm), or even anything with bells.
Bakri says he lived in England for a number of years and doesn’t know the words to Jingle Bells even though it is played every Christmas, because, he says, he never allowed himself to listen to it.
However, Bakri sarcastically adds, there is no problem with Christmas cards, because if people send the man’s family cards, there (are) enough (trash cans) to throw them away.
Gifts from Santa
Someone else from Bakri’s cyber question and answer session asks Bakri whether he should throw away gifts given by Santa Claus to his son.
Bakri says a father should take any gift given by Santa Claus to his child, hide it and bring the child another gift. He says the father should tell his child, “This (gift) is from me to you.”
However, Bakri adds, the father wait a little while and give, or even sell, the child’s Santa Claus gift to whomever he likes. That’s because, Bakri says, the issue isn’t with the gift. It’s that the child would always associate the gift as being from Santa Claus.
Muslim Children Going to Non Muslim Schools
Returning to the subject of Muslim parents sending their children to non-Muslim schools, Bakri says, that a “compromise” is allowed only during the time the child is at “nursery” or pre-school.
He says that when he was living in England, he did his best not to send his children to public schools. However, he says, if the child does go to a non-Muslim (kuffar) school, it is the parent’s duty to make sure they are never exposed to anything that will affect their “honor.”
Bakri emphasizes again it is forbidden for children to hear about Santa Claus and Jingle Bells, and parents risk “hell fire” if they allow their children to experience such things.
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico’s largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction. He has a master’s degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is “Homeless in the City: A Call to Service.” Additional details about “Homeless” are available at http://www.HomelessBook.com He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jeremyreynalds@comcast.net. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145. Note: A higher resolution JPEG picture of Jeremy Reynalds is available on request from Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
“Belarus: Christian youth leader beaten and hospitalised
- Malady Front leader, Zmitser Fedaruk (19), targeted for punishment.”
By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Mon Dec 17 2007 04:08:50 GMT-0800 (PST).
Worldwide Caution
October 09, 2007
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