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Philippines militant 'shot dead' Gen Esperon showed journalists pictures of the dead militant A key member of the Philippines-based militant group Abu Sayyaf has been killed in a gun battle, the army says.Abu Sulaiman, also known as Jainal Antal Sali, was fatally wounded in a clash with soldiers on the southern island of Jolo, the army's chief said. Sulaiman had a $5m bounty placed on his head by the US, in part for the 2001 abduction of a group of tourists on the island of Palawan. The kidnapping resulted in the deaths of two Americans and several others. Sulaiman...

<p>Mod point of clarification: The first 100 or so replies below were posted in reaction to reports that the contractors had been fatally shot.</p>

Sheik Mohammed has been portrayed in British newspapers as an incarnation of malice, suggesting he fled Britain in haste as the new restrictions closed in on him. LONDON, Aug. 12 - Britain said today that it would bar Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, a London-based Syrian cleric, from returning to the country from Lebanon. Sheik Mohammed, known for his incendiary anti-Western views, was granted asylum by Britain some 20 years ago and has lived here ever since.... Human-rights groups and British Muslims have attacked the move to deport the 10 foreigners, saying they feared they would be sent to countries where...

A Dutch politician who received death threats after writing a script for the murdered film-maker Theo van Gogh yesterday made a defiant return to public life. Ayaan Hirsi Ali vowed not to cave into the pressures of her critics as she was escorted into the Dutch parliament by security guards after 75 days in hiding. Somali-born Ms Hirsi Ali has been under police protection since receiving repeated death threats after writing the script for the film Submission , a critique of violence against women in Islamic societies. Her collaborator, MrVan Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam last November in protest...

From the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism. CNN downplayed Muhammad's religious conversion — calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions. Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued: "There is no indication that this case is related to Islam or Muslims." Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper railed...

I don't do vanity post, but i am doing on exception now. I have just gone through one of my worst days ever. Working as a business consultans I lost my jobs in the aftermath of 911. After Having gone over a year without a job, I finally succeded in getting employed as a salesman for a publisher of industry guides in Scandinavia. However, my boss took to me to his office after work today and started asking me all sorts of questions....What do you think of America? What do you think of the jews? Bla bla bla... Then, he...

Am I one of the few to believe that the Islamic religion is NOT a peaceful religion? How can a religion claiming to be in direct contact with God believe that all people who are not of the Islamic faith should die and that it is the duty of the Islamic faithful to kill all non-believers? I love my President but I disagree with him on this issue. I can only relate these Muslims to the Nazi’s of WWII fame. Many of Nazis believed that they too were the chosen ones. I believe that to rid this country of Muslim...

How do I put this delicately? Am I surprised that a Muslim was arrested for questioning in the D.C. sniper case? No. In fact, hours before the arrest of John Muhammad, I told WorldNetDaily editors that I believed authorities were only withholding the name of the wanted man "because it must be Muhammad." I even got the name right. For three weeks, the government, the police, the FBI and most of the media have ignored the strong likelihood of a connection between the assassinations in Maryland, Virginia and Washington and Islamic terrorism.