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WASHINGTON: The United States is advising New Delhi to proceed with caution - as against the earlier counsel of restraint - in punishing Pakistan for its relentless patronage of terrorism against India.The subtle but significant change in the lexicon - from restraint to caution - stems from fears that an Indian strike could spiral into a nuclear exchange.Washington's main concern, unstated but implied, is that any Indian action could provoke Pakistan into using nuclear weapons. Although every war-gaming scenario by U.S experts sees Pakistan being decimated in an Indian retaliation, the administration does not want either side to even ...

   DETROIT -- A Muslim community leader who is on the board of trustees of an international group that was raided by federal agents last week has been detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, his attorney said Monday.    Rabih Haddad, 41, was detained by the INS on Friday and was being held on a visa violation, said attorney Ashraf Nubani. INS officials said Monday that they could not confirm or deny that Haddad was being held and said it was unlikely any information would be released on the case. The FBI referred all questions to INS.    Nubani said INS officials ...

<p>Steve Snyder's moment of truth came on Nov. 19 at about 5:30 a.m.</p> <p>He was lying on a bed in a hotel room in Palu, a small city on Sulawesi, a pinwheel-shaped Indonesian island straddling the equator. He wondered: Should he and his companions venture further into the island's war-torn interior?</p>

The Hague - About hundered protesters, radical muslims and a handfull neo-nazi's, started a demonstration against the state of Israel at 14.30 hours (CET). They gathered at the Malieveld in Den Haag (The Hague) It is an annual protest taking place on the last friday of the islamic ramadan. The protesters start at the Malieveld, proceed to the Binnenhof (where the Dutch governement is located) to the place in front of the Tweede Kamer (the Dutch highest goverement body). The protesters were displaying flags and sheets with Arabic texts and some Dutch texts, like "Israel childkillers". Neo-nazi frontman E. Horman ...

THERE IS NOT ONE CHRISTIAN NATION ON EARTH WHERE MUSLIMS ARE PERSECUTED. Yet in 83% of nations where the majority of the population are Muslims, there is systematic government persecution of Christians. (See "Religious Freedom in the Majority Islamic Countries" in the Resources section below.) This persecution includes imposing the death penalty for sharing the Christian faith with a Muslim; national laws prohibiting conversion from Islam to Christianity; destruction of churches; and murder or expulsion of Christian missionaries. Even in the few predominantly Muslim countries where the government does not openly participate in the persecution, it ignores and even encourages ...

"Eight killed" in violence in Algeria There are reports in Algeria that eight people, including a mayor and his aide, have been killed in attacks by Islamic militants. The attackers sprayed gunfire at a bus in Beri Mered, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of the capital, killing four people and injuring three others, El Watan newspaper reports. In Ouled Aissa, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Algiers, attackers burst into a cafe and shot to death the town's mayor and one of his aides, Liberte newspaper reports. In a third attack Thursday, in Oued Fodda, about 210 ...

Headline: Two months of planning, 20 involvedNEW DELHI: The Delhi Police have established the suicide squad that stormed Parliament on Thursday comprised two Afghan nationals, two Kashmir residents and a Pakistan national. Top police sources said the probe also indicated the five arrived in Delhi early on Thursday morning. A contact picked them in the same Ambassador car used in the attack. The attackers had entered Delhi in a fruit truck from Jammu, through the northwest Delhi border. They were later driven to the Walled City area, where the car was "prepared" for the attack and the weapons handed over ...

The government on Friday blamed the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba for Thursday's terrorist attack on the Parliament House complex saying it has 'credible evidence' and formally asked Islamabad to arrest the leadership of LeT and another militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad and freeze the organisations' assets. In a significant development, Pakistan High Commissioner Ashraf Jehangir Qazi was on Friday summoned by Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer and made out a demarche setting out the three demands, which included stopping of the activities of the two organisations. In the demarche, India has demanded that Pakistan stop the activities of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed. Secondly, their ...

For Mustafa Ismail, seeing was far from believing yesterday. After watching the Osama Bin Laden video, the Egyptian immigrant questioned its authenticity. "You can make a video and I'll hear what I want to hear," said Ismail, 46, who lives in Paterson, N.J. "I don't think Osama Bin Laden did that." In mosques and on the streets of Arab and South Asian neighborhoods, New York Muslims watched the videotape with a mixture of skepticism and revulsion. Hamed Nabawy insisted that U.S. officials could have easily doctored the tape to blame Bin Laden. "In this land, everything can be fabricated," said ...

NEW DELHI: In an audacious suicide attack, five armed terrorists barged into the Parliament House premises and gunned down seven persons before security personnel killed them on Thursday morning. Seventeen others were injured in the strike. No member of Parliament was reportedly injured in the attack. Armed with automatic rifles, pistols, grenades and explosives, the five terrorists engaged security personnel in a fierce fire fight which reportedly lasted for over half an hour. The terrorists, in their attempt to gain entry inside the Parliament House, also lobbed grenades at security personnel. However, security officials maintained that the terrorists were unable ...

The U. S. government released today a copy of a videotape of Osama bin Laden obtained by U.S. forces in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in late November. The video was filmed by unknown persons. &quot;There was no doubt of bin Laden's responsibility for the September 11 attacks before the tape was discovered,&quot; said Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. The release of the tape was made after balancing the concerns about any additional pain that could be caused by its release against the value of having the world fully appreciate what we are up against in the war against terrorism. The tape ...

South Africa's slide into anarchy continued in recent months. Some of the crimes and events were so horrific that they made global headlines. One such headline was the "baby rape" of a tiny infant in South Africa. Six men, aged between 24 and 66, are accused of raping and sodomizing the baby girl. The baby, who has been dubbed "Tshepang" ("Have Hope") to protect her identity, suffered injuries to her vagina and anus. Doctors say she is recovering slowly physically, but is likely to have long-term psychological trauma. Many black men in South Africa believe that if they rape ...

Thursday, 13 December, 2001, 13:17 GMT At least 22 people were injured in "terrorist" attack Twelve people have been killed in an unprecedented suicide attack on the Indian parliament in Delhi, officials said. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said it was "a warning to the entire nation" and that India would wage a "do or die" war against terrorism. FULL STORY HERE

<p>POSO, Indonesia — Thousands of Christian villagers have fled into the hills of Sulawesi island to escape an offensive by Muslim holy warriors linked by the government yesterday to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network.</p> <p>Since arriving in Sulawesi in October, well-armed extremists of the Laskar Jihad militia have terrorized Christian villagers armed with only small guns, homemade weapons and knives. Five Christians were killed and five villages were seized in a three-day assault at the end of last month, police said.</p>

Cabinet members are safe, 300 total locked inside Indian Parliament 100 which are officials.One of the terrorists got away, drove into Parliment building in Government vehicle-then gunfire and two bombs going off.Other 4 terrorists presumed dead.

Monday December 3, 4:29 PM Attacks on Christian villages force 13,000 to flee in Indonesia's Sulawesi Armed Muslim groups have burnt down six Christian villages in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province and forced some 13,000 people to flee. The residents were evacuated to other villages or fled into the forest after Muslim groups attacked and razed the villages in the area around the town of Poso in Thursday, the Reverend Erna Makarensi told AFP from the provincial capital of Palu on Monday. Reports have said at least seven people were killed in fighting over several days last week, including two of ...

Friday December 7 8:19 AM ET Indonesian Christians Flee Muslims By DESSIANING SRI ARYANTI, Associated Press Writer SANGGINRA, Indonesia (AP) - Thousands of Christians were hiding in jungle-clad mountains on Indonesia's Sulawesi island Friday after their villages were attacked and razed by Muslim militias. Hundreds of homes were destroyed last month in the latest round of sectarian violence in the region - which has left about 1,000 people dead on both sides in the past two years. In November, Muslim militants drove away security forces in the area then attacked at least three Christian villages in central Sulawesi, local residents ...

On the day last week when the Bush administration froze the assets of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, I received an attractive booklet (``Discover Islam: The Reader'') from the American Islamic Information Center. Sadly, the publication's pleading was contradicted by developments here and abroad. Lavishly illustrated with a rainbow spectrum of smiling faces, the reader answers such commonly asked questions as: ``How does Islam guarantee human rights and equality?'' ``How does Islam relate to Christianity and Judaism?'' and (no kidding) ``How does Islam elevate the status of women?'' The reader neglects to explain the affinity of ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Don FederQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comDon Feder (back to story)December 12, 2001People are discovering Islam the hard way On the day last week when the Bush administration froze the assets of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, I received an attractive booklet ("Discover Islam: The Reader") from the American Islamic Information Center. Sadly, the publication's pleading was contradicted by developments here and abroad. Lavishly illustrated with a rainbow spectrum of smiling faces, the reader answers such commonly asked questions as -- "How does Islam ...

New York, PRNewswire--John Walker, the American citizen captured with the Taliban in Afghanistan, was a "model student" at the madrasa, a primitive Islamic fundamentalist school where he studied Islam in a remote corner of Pakistan, his teacher tells Newsweek. Walker, who grew up surrounded by upper middle class affluence in California, was determined to fit in at the Islamic religious school, an austere one-story building without hot water in a tiny village outside the town of Bannu in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, Newsweek reports in the Dec. 17 issue (on newsstands Monday, Dec. 10). Speaking with the teacher, ...