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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08010144.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
Friday, January 18, 2008
Car bomb explodes outside Iraqi church
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
MOSUL, IRAQ (ANS) — A car bomb has exploded outside a church in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, January 17, where two persons were reported to be injured.
The motor vehicle carrying the explosive device was found parked outside the Chaldean Tahira church in western Mosul’s al-Shifaa neighborhood had slightly injured a police officer and a little girl who were both wounded in the blast. No fatalities were recorded though the church building was damaged.
According to the www.christiantoday.com web site, this was the second time the church was bombed after it closed down from the first attack. Around 10 days ago, a series of coordinated bomb attacks were carried out in both Mosul and Baghdad against Christian buildings such as churches and convents, in what a Chaldean bishop had described as a planned attack to intimidate Christians into leaving the country.
This seemed to be working, according to the figures provided by Neal Youngquist, the International Services Director for Asia with Prison Fellowship International, who wrote the Christian community suffered a 50 percent decline in their population since the 1990s.
He said, “Consequently, the Christian community has decreased to some half million - a decrease of almost 50 percent since the 1990s… since June 2004 forty churches have been the targets of bomb attacks resulting in destruction, death and injury.”
The Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri Al-Maliki, has committed his government to protect the Christian community in the war-ravaged country, reported the Christian Today web site.
Dan Wooding, 67, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma of 44 years. 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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Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
January 16 , 2008
“Two days of hard fighting in the south: Israeli counterterrorist activities
and Hamas rocket attacks (January 15-16)”
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3496697,00.html
Palestinians plant explosive device near Ramallah fence
Published: 01.20.08, 22:14 / Israel News
Palestinians set a car tire on fire near the security fence west of Ramllah near the village of Beit Liqia on Sunday evening. An IDF force that was alerted to the scene identified an improvised explosive device placed within the tire.
Sappers detonated the explosives in a controlled manner. No injuries were reported in the incident but damage was caused to the fence. (Efrat Weiss)
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Friday, January 18, 2008
“Church faces fresh eviction threat and more incitement to media intolerance in Uzbekistan”
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN (ANS) — Although members of the embattled Grace Presbyterian Church in the Uzbekistan capital Tashkent say criminal charges against their leaders have now been dropped, they told a Western news agency they fear they will soon be thrown out of their church building.
They also complain of a media campaign against the church which one local activist close to Protestant Churches described to Forum 18 News Service as “Stalinist.”
“Many religious organizations are now frightened,” the activist told Forum 18 on January 16. “Everyone believes the Grace Church case is a trial balloon. Everyone is afraid that churches’ right to property will be reviewed.”
In an article for Forum 18 (www.forum18.org) , Mushfig Bayram writes the agency was told that the Grace Church continues to meet at the former cinema it bought back in 1999, even though its rights to the property were stripped away from it in late 2007 by Tashkent city Economic Court.
Officials have already demanded that the church vacate the property in Tashkent’s Khamza District. “We are in imminent danger of a visit by the bailiffs and being thrown out of the building,” one church member who did not give his name out of fear of reprisals told Forum 18.
Begzot Kadyrov, the leading specialist of the government’s Religious Affairs Committee, refused to discuss the Grace Church’s problems. “The new official rule is that all the foreign correspondents should contact the Jahon public relations department of the Foreign Ministry with their questions,” he told Forum 18 on January 18. “The Ministry then passes them on to the committee.”
One source close to the Grace Church told Forum 18 that through the church’s ministry over the years, many desperate people in the community have received help and have recovered from addictions. But now because of the problems, the 400 church members are being scattered. “This is particularly sad because two of our missionaries have died in Uzbekistan while serving the Lord,” the source told Forum 18 on January 17. “One of the missionary widows is one of those people that have remained there and is now being forced out of the country.” He said the grave of her deceased husband is in Tashkent at his request “because of his love for the Uzbek people.”
On January 15, the Russian news agency Interfax cited Tashkent city Justice Department officials as declaring that criminal charges had been laid against the church’s 32-year-old senior pastor, Felix Li, the 65-year-old chairman of the organization Il Kim, and against an American woman who has already left the country. They were accused over drugs held by the church which the authorities claimed were psychotropic (mind-altering). Investigators particularly focused on one called SYN-Rx DM, which is a commonly-used medicine for treating coughs.
Grace church members told Forum 18 on January 17 that the criminal charges brought against Pastor Li and Kim were dropped after the police established that the cough medicine belonged to one individual.”
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080118-9.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 18, 2008
Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process
White House News
On January 23, 1995, by Executive Order 12947, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by grave acts of violence committed by foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process. On August 20, 1998, by Executive Order 13099, the President modified the Annex to Executive Order 12947 to identify four additional persons, including Usama bin Laden, who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process.
Because these terrorist activities continue to threaten the Middle East peace process and to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency declared on January 23, 1995, as expanded on August 20, 1998, and the measures adopted on those dates to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond January 23, 2008. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 18, 2008.
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Jerusalem Post ^ | 1-20-08 | TAWFIK HAMID
Posted on 01/20/2008 10:57:25 AM PST by SJackson
The United Arab Emirates is set to launch a nuclear programme, becoming the first Arab state to go ahead with announced ambitions to develop nuclear power.
Flush with petrodollars, the government in Abu Dhabi is preparing a policy document that will soon be sent for comment to world powers, including the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
FBI dnies file exposing nuclear secrets theft
Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.
She says the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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“A Night With Hitler”
26 December 2007 Belgrade _
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hitler’s portrait in a Nazi uniform with a prominently painted swastika dominates one of hotel’s most asked-for rooms, the owner Dusan Zobunovic told Belgrade’s daily Blic.
He decorated 61 rooms with paintings of world’s top politicians and dictators.
‘Hitler marked an era and no one can deny him a place in history’, Zobunovic is quoted as saying.”
A 22-year-old man experimented was visited by the FBI and state authorities after he collected Americium-241, bought radioactive ore on eBay, and bragged about his nuclear lab on the Internet. Authorities decided he was doing nothing dangerous or illegal, but took away his equipment at the request of his parents.
Thank you for these articles.
I hope that we see more articles about Edmonds on the internet.
That may or may not prove interesting.
Yep.
From the Dallas Morning News article: “No charges will be filed because it is legal to possess the ore he had, Mr. Dricks said. “It’s naturally occurring uranium, like you’d find in the ground. It’s only when it’s processed and the radioactive component is concentrated is where a license is required. He had not been doing that.””
Snippet: “...and bragged about his nuclear lab on the Internet.”
It will be interesting to note if he does any follow-up research.
Dengue is a common initial misdiagnosis for H5N1 infection.
Oh lovely. Thanks for the info MamaD.
ALGIERS - The U.S. embassy in Algeria has instructed employees in Algiers to tighten security due to a risk of terrorist attacks in the city, a message to U.S. expatriates said.
The statement, the second such message since twin bombings in Algiers last month claimed by al Qaeda, added that all Americans in Algeria were advised to limit their movements around the country, the embassy message, dated January 18, said.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/20/AR2008012000516.html
NYPD Finds Explosives In Brooklyn Heights Apartment
January 20, 2008
NEW YORK -- The NYPD bomb squad rushed to a Brooklyn Heights apartment Sunday after officers saw what appeared to be several pipe bombs inside. Numerous weapons were also found inside the Remsen Street apartment, police said. Investigators are questioning the 31-year-old resident about why there were so many weapons inside the apartment.
Police stress there is no evidence of any plot or planned attack with the devices. Both police and emergency medical crews were sent to the apartment after the man called 911 saying he had shot himself in the hand, one law enforcement official said. The man was treated at an area hospital and is now being questioned at the 84th precinct station house, officials said. Once safely removed, the devices will be taken to a range in the Bronx and safely detonated, police said. Investigators will then examine the contents of the explosives to see what was in the devices, police said.
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Thank you DC, I didn’t know that.
Thank you Oorang.
Adding a snippet and link to post no. 797:
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“Evacuations in Brooklyn after explosives found”
BY JENNIFER BARRIOS |
1:46 PM EST, January 20, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Terrorism has not been ruled out, police said. Officers took several items, including a computer processor and a fascimile machine, out of the apartment building.”
I give this boy's parents a lot of credit for putting a stop to their son's "experiment." The entry into teens rooms by parents is sometimes viewed as an "invasion of privacy," let alone having the FBI checking out the boy's room.
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