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<p>Liz Wahl’s recent resignation from Russia Today (RT), due to the network’s coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine territory, was nothing more than a secretive power play by neoconservatives desperate to revive Cold War tensions, according to a new investigation by Truthdig.</p>

American Apparel, the Selma, Ala., based military clothing manufacturer closed one of its plants and continues to downsize others due to the loss of some of its contracts to FPI. According retired Air Force colonel and spokesman Kurt Wilson, the company laid off 255 employees and cut the hours of 190 employees this year alone. So private workers end up losing their jobs to prisoners.

Jakarta Police will guard a mass prayer organized by the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) for Osama bin Laden, who was shot dead in a US military operation on Monday. The service will be held at the FPI headquarters in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday. According to Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharudin Djafar, the police will guard the event as usual. He added that the FPI did not need to request permission from police to hold the event. “Its an ordinary Koran recital. We can't stop people from praying,” he added, as reported by...

The Defense Department put U.S. troops in Iraq at risk by awarding contracts for badly needed armored vehicles to companies that failed to deliver them on time, according to a review by the Pentagon's inspector general. The June 27 report, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, examined 15 contracts worth $2.2 billion awarded since 2000 to Force Protection Inc. and Armor Holdings Inc. The contracts were issued without the normal competition for government work because the military determined these companies were the only ones capable of supplying the vehicles fast enough to meet the demands of deployed troops. Yet the...

Separated at birth?? You decide. Jakarta 2006, photo of Islamic Defender Front. (Picture found on Little Green Footballs...) US, KKK rally, 1924.

FPI Leader Released November 19, 2003 04:45 PM,  Laksamana.Net -  Habib Rizieq Shihab, leader of the radical Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI), was released from jail on Wednesday (19/11/03) after serving a seven-month sentence for ordering his militant followers to attack Jakarta nightspots. His wife, child and about 500 cheering supporters were present to greet him as he walked out of Central Jakarta’s Salemba jail, detikcom online news portal reported. Rizieq told the crowd he would continue his campaign for the imposition of Islamic law and the closure of entertainment venues deemed an affront to Islam. "I will continue my attacks...

Southeast Asia Al-Habib Muhammad Rizieq bin Hussein Syihab, leader of the pro-Suharto radical Muslim group FPI (Defenders of Islam), and his storm troopers may, after two years of apparent immunity from the process of law and order, be about to be brought to account. Police over the weekend arrested 13 members of the FPI after violent attacks on several of the capital's nightspots by an estimated 600 members. A discotheque was stoned and the equipment at two late-night pool bars destroyed. Although the FPI has been consistently vandalizing and looting such entertainment venues for at least two years, there have...