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Darfuris sold into slavery, group saysUnited Press International17 Dec 2008 - (UPI) -- Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Darfuri women have been kidnapped by Sudan-backed Arabic militias and sold into physical and sexual slavery

U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama characterized the massacre of unarmed civilians by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai India as “definitely not nice” and “not something I’d like to see repeated during my administration.” "We cannot tolerate a world where innocents are being killed by extremists," Obama said of the Mumbai attacks that killed more than 170 people, including six Americans. Obama expressed the hope that the “ritual cleansing achieved by the election of the first non-white American as U.S. president would provide a modicum of protection to U.S. citizens wherever they may travel, but I fear that the lack of unanimity of...

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), an association of the world's Islamic states, is pushing the United Nations to outlaw "defamation" of religion in general, and of one religion in particular. My remarks that follow are based on 27 years of researching in the field of international relations and conflicts, and on a decade of teaching Religions and World Politics. Since I published my first book in Arabic in 1979, where I addressed the issue of relationships between civilizations and cultural blocs worldwide, I have had the opportunity to publish ten books and hundreds of articles focusing on the rise...

(AINA) -- A Christian bishop received a threatening letter written by Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish Muslim group affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq. The letter ordered the Christians to leave Iraq en masse and stated it is sending a final warning to Christians in Baghdad and other Iraqi governorates to leave Iraq permanently.

We don’t understand our enemies any better than we did when they first strode out on that great American stage, the federal courtroom, 15 years ago. That is the upshot of Monday’s latest episode in Mohammed’s March to Martyrdom, a dreadful show that should close in Cuba before ever making it to the Great White Way. Five top al-Qaeda terrorists told a military judge at Guantanamo Bay that they want to skip their commission trial, admit — no, brag about — their guilt, and proceed straight to execution and its promised eternity of Boogie Nights. Mohammed, of course, is none...

Alleged 9/11 Plotters Offer to Confess at Guantánamo New York Times, United States ...have asked a military judge to accept their confessions in full. The request appeared to be intended to cut short any effort to try them...

In case anyone missed it, confessed 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh reminded those watching Monday's hearing that it fell on a major Muslim holy day. And he did it with a grisly salute to his spiritual leader -- al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, still at-large. Bin al Shibh, a Yemeni, blurted out his well wishes ''to the entire Muslim world,'' in honor of Eid al Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice -- and especially to ``Osama bin Laden, may God protect him.'' ''I hope the jihad continues and strikes the heart of America with all kinds of weapons...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants said they wanted to confess to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror conspiracy and asked a military judge to take their guilty pleas at once. "We don't want to waste time," Mr. Mohammed told the judge, Col. Stephen Henley. "We want to enter a plea" to capital charges stemming from the hijack attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. But defense lawyers claimed that two defendants, Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al Hawsawi, were mentally incompetent to take such a serious step, and the judge deferred a decision until psychological evaluations were considered by the military commission,...

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The pilgrimage that brings more than 2 million Muslims to Mecca every year tends to make them more religiously observant and also more tolerant, a huge study of Pakistani pilgrims suggests. Hamoud al-Massri, of Egypt, says that after this year's hajj, he will read more about people of different cultures. Muslims who undertake the hajj "return with more positive views towards people from other countries," are more likely to say "that people of different religions are equal," and are twice as likely as other religious Muslims to condemn Osama bin Laden, the study found. "People become more orthodox yet more...

PARIS — French police neutralized five sticks of explosives discovered in the restrooms of a prestigious department store in Paris on Tuesday following a warning from a group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan. Agence France-Presse said it received a letter from a group calling itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front saying that "several bombs" had been planted in the Printemps store. AFP reported that the letter called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan by February next year. The bombs were supposed to go off on Wednesday, the group said.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Jewish community, thrown in the spotlight after it was targeted in the Mumbai attacks, will rebuild the damaged Chabad-Lubavitch center, the group's country head said on Monday. Nariman House, which was nearly destroyed in a siege that killed 171 people in Mumbai, including the centre's Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, will be rebuilt and opened again shortly, Dov Goldberg said. "We are very determined to rebuild because the activities of the Chabad-Lubavitch have to continue and we cannot let this attack stop that," he told Reuters. They would assess the damage as soon as...

Ansher Intrater one of the founders of the Jewish Messianic movement has come out and spoken the truth. He has named our enemy and that enemy is Islam itself. Hopefully religious leaders from all non-Islamic religions will follow his lead, as 1400 years of silence has only strengthened the enemy.

Print By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Ramola Talwar Badam MUMBAI, India – The gunmen who attacked Mumbai set out by boat from the Pakistani port of Karachi, then later hijacked an Indian fishing trawler that carried them toward this financial capital on their suicide mission, a top police official said Tuesday. As evidence of the militants' links to Pakistan mounted, Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Ghafoor said ex-Pakistani army officers trained the group — some for up to 18 months — and denied reports the men had been planning to escape the city. "It appears that it was a suicide attack," Ghafoor...

(IsraelNN.com) The verse in the Torah that was shot up by Mumbai terrorists reads: "The Almighty spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron's two sons…." It is from Leviticus [VaYikra], Chapter 16, Verse 1. The damaged Torah scroll was discovered when officials examined the Chabad House following the massacre of six Israelis by the Muslim terrorists who staged the mass slaughter at least 10 different places Wednesday night. They saw bullet holes in the Holy Ark where the scroll was kept and then examined it to see if it had been damaged. The verse refers to Nadav and Avihu,...

The horrific slaughter in Mumbai of almost 200 innocents and/injury of 300 by terrorists shouting "Allah Akbar!" has already been morphed by the international media into the murky realm of euphemism&apologetics. Al Jazeera and Guardian label the Al Qaeda-associated Islamist terrorists responsible as "gunmen"; CNN calls them "militants." Some identified the cause asthe Kashmir dispute. Others/renowned guru Deepak Chopra concluded it's the result of "collateral-damage" caused by Washington's war-on-terrorism... But where then does the especially blood-thirsty attack on Mumbai's Nariman-Chabad House fit into this puzzle palace? New York Times theorized Chabad House may have been an "accidental hostage scene." This...

(ANSA) - Milan, December 2 - Two Moroccans arrested on Tuesday were planning terrorist attacks on targets in northern Italy after failing to make the ``necessary contacts`` to be sent abroad as jihad fighters, police said. Rachid Ilhami, 31, and Gafir Abdelkader, 42, are alleged to have been planning attacks on an immigration office and a police barracks in Milan as well as police stations, a supermarket and a night club carpark in smaller towns in the Lombardy region. Milan anti-terrorist unit chief Bruno Megale stressed that the pair were not ``an organic part of any organisation`` despite wiretapped conversations...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. chief said Wednesday he is aware of unconfirmed published reports of a possible attack by al-Qaida terrorists on the U.N.'s peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, but had not ordered further action. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters he read the reports in Lebanese newspapers and said the U.N. "will take all possible precautionary security measures."

Russian news agencies are reporting that Moscow has promised to deliver a batch of fighter jets to Lebanon. ITAR-Tass and Interfax have quoted Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr as saying that Russia has agreed to supply his country with 10 MiG-29 fighter jets.

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said on Tuesday after a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov. Serdyukov said Moscow had received a weapons procurement list from the Lebanese armed forces which would be considered in the near future. He added that the fighter deliveries would provide a fresh impetus to military cooperation between the two countries. A member of the Lebanese delegation said the aircraft would be provided "as aid." According to inside sources privy to the deal, the warplanes "will be sold at...