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August 11, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(Pakistan) Washington DC National Press Club "Black Day" Press Conference Videos Online - Calling for End to Pakistan Blasphemy Laws
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/081009-dc-press-club-videos/
-- Part 1: Introduction by Ahmar Mustikhan and Jeffrey Imm of Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AziW4mde4Xc
-- Part 2: Dr. Nazir Bhatti - Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQqJ8-HshfA
-- Part 3: Jeremy Sewall, International Christian Concern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Y4v-XhGtM
-- Part 4: Ahmar Mustikhan, AFB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1aV4Cbk3EM
-- Part 5: Ahmar Mustikhan, AFB Continued - on Baluchistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cLSkbHiZCI
-- Petition Calling for End to "Blasphemy Laws" in Pakistan
http://www.petitiononline.com/lawslove/petition.html

(Pakistan) DC: Full Text of Dr. Nazir Bhatti Press Conference Statement on Pakistan Blasphemy Law and Attacks on Christians
-- Washington DC: August 10, 2009; (PCP report) Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC appealed to US administration and EU to press upon Pakistan
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1470
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/dc-full-text-of-dr-nazir-bhatti-press-conference-statement-on-pakistan-blasphemy-law-and-attacks-on-christians/

(Pakistan) Christians rally on ‘black day’ against Gojra killings
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\12\story_12-8-2009_pg13_4
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-christians-rally-on-black-day/

Pakistani Christians Protest Violence with 'Black Day'
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090811/pakistani-christians-protest-violence-with-black-day/index.html

(Pakistan) US Congress urged to expedite passage of Kerry-Lugar Bill
--- tripling aid to Pakistan to "win the hearts and minds of the Pakistani people"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\12\story_12-8-2009_pg7_26

(Pakistan) Boys detail intense days in Taliban training camp
-- 14 year old boy: "'They were always preaching jihad and telling us it was our ... duty,' the boy said. 'They said we shouldn't let anyone hinder us. And if our parents stood in the way, we were told we could kill them.'"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-taliban-boys-0810-0811aug11,0,2127042.story

(Pakistan) Taliban torch 7 schools in Buner
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\12\story_12-8-2009_pg1_1

(Pakistan) Taliban kill tribal elder in Mohmand
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\12\story_12-8-2009_pg7_7

(Pakistan) Hakeemullah's followers in Orakzai clash; 21 killed
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-militant-infighting-leaves-19-dead-orakzai-qs-13

(Pakistan) Baitullah killed while getting 'leg massage': US intel
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/09-baitullah-killed-while-getting-leg-massage-us-intelligence--szh-01
-- Prove Baitullah Mehsud is alive, Pak govt challenges Taliban
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Prove-Baitullah-Mehsud-is-alive-Pak-govt-challenges-Taliban/articleshow/4882460.cms

(Pakistan) Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan to take out 'Go America Go' rally on Aug 18
http://geo.tv/8-12-2009/47468.htm

(Pakistan) Jihadis thrice attacked Pakistan nuclear sites
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Jihadis-thrice-attacked-Pakistan-nuclear-sites/articleshow/4879235.cms
-- Pakistan's nuclear bases targeted by al-Qaeda
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6011668/Pakistans-nuclear-bases-targeted-by-al-Qaeda.html
-- Pakistan Nuclear Arms Security: FAIL
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/#1373
-- Pakistan Calls Nuke Attack Report 'Out of Context'
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538959,00.html
-- Pakistan nukes secure, says Pentagon
http://geo.tv/8-12-2009/47469.htm

(Pakistan) US hits Baitullah bastion, kills 14
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/US-hits-Baitullah-bastion-kills-14/articleshow/4883461.cms

Pakistan denies accepting bodies of 26/11 attackers
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Pakistan-denies-accepting-bodies-of-26/11-attackers/articleshow/4881159.cms

(Afghanistan) President Karzai to invite Taliban to table if wins election
http://geo.tv/8-11-2009/47446.htm
-- Hamid Karzai 'will not' win Afghan election outright
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6010602/Hamid-Karzai-will-not-win-Afghan-election-outright.html

Afghanistan: Four NATO troops killed in attacks
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3646613300
-- (Afghanistan) Three US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=84769

(Afghanistan) Taliban Chief Writes 'Handbook' to Win Hearts and Minds of Afghans
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538949,00.html

(Afghanistan) Taliban Statement on Sarkozy's Islamic Veil Comments: 'Anti-Islamic' Sarkozy 'Wants to Arrogantly Force Muslim Women to Lose Their Identity by Mingling in the Lascivious Western Culture'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD248409

Iraq: Car bombs kill eight in Shi'ite Baghdad district
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LB277412.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/11/iraq.bombings/index.html?section=cnn_latest
-- Ten people die in 3 blasts in Baghdad -- police
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019247&Language=en

(Iraq) U.S. Commander in Iraq: Al Qaeda Remains Combat Power
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538967,00.html

Somalia: Islamic Supremacists Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers in Somalia
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/somalia-behead-christian-orphanage-workers/
-- ICC Report: Islamic Extremists Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers in Somalia
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10638&PHPSESSID=be928ddf516bb53a8e99b34c9d7ad4eb

(U.S.) Georgia: Closing Arguments Begin in Terror Trial -- Ehsanul Islam Sadequee
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/Ga_Terror_Trial_Could_go_to_Jury_081109
-- Deliberations to continue in Atlanta terror trial
http://www.ajc.com/news/deliberations-to-continue-in-113222.html

(U.S.) White advisor John Brennan disputes 9/11 Commission Report description of jihad
-- White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan defines "jihad"
-- "'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal"
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/06/a_new_approach_to_safeguarding_americans_0?page=0,3
-- U.S. 9/11 Commission Report references to the term "jihad"
http://clusty.com/search?input-form=simple-clusty-gov&query=Jihad&v%3Aproject=clusty-gov&v%3Apersonality=&v%3Asources=911

(U.S.) White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan in 2008 on Hezbollah
--- "It would not be foolhardy, however, for the United States to tolerate, and even to encourage, greater assimilation of Hezbollah into Lebanon's political system, a process that is subject to Iranian influence."
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200908115906/editorial/brennan-on-hizballah-they-cant-be-terrorists-they-have-lawyers.html
http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/618/1/168

(U.S.) NYC: "Westboro Baptist Church" Hate Group Spreads Anti-Semitic Hate
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/nyc-westboro-baptist-church-hate-group/
-- Jerusalem Post: Extremist Christians: 'God hates Jews'
-- "Westboro Baptist Church members protest in front of several Jewish institutions throughout New York"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418582622&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- "Westboro Baptist Church" on Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) list of hate groups
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/type.jsp?DT=26

(UK) Kensington Welcomes Jihadi Preacher
-- "Anwal al-Awlaki is an American extremist based in Yemen"
-- Anwar "Awlaki to deliver a video message at Kensington Town Hall in West London on 30th August"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/08/11/kensington-welcomes-jihadi-preacher/

Kuwait nabs al-Qaida group planning US base attack
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_kuwait_al_qaida

Hamas: We've got UNRWA's ambulances
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418573127&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Gaza: Terrorists who fought U.S. in Iraq make way to Gaza
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1106689.html

Prominent Salafi-Jihadi Scholar Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi: 'We and Hamas Share Neither Ideology Nor Doctrine'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD248209

Yemen welcomes home cleric expelled from US -- Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5guX0pr4LGwh_uf2jZ8N8qiOdOVGw

Chechnya: Head of children's charity shot dead in Chechnya - Zarema Sadulayeva and husband Alik Dzhabrailov
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/chechnya-childrens-charity-head-killed/
-- Reuters reports:
http://www.kyivpost.com/world/46821
-- "The kidnapped head of a children's charity and her husband were found murdered in the boot of a car in Russia's Chechnya on Tuesday in the latest in a string of killings in the troubled Muslim republic."
-- "The bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and husband Alik Dzhabrailov were found with multiple bullet wounds hours after they were seized from the office of the Save the Generations charity in the regional capital Grozny, prosecutors said in a statement."
-- "The attack comes a month after leading Chechen rights activist Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped and murdered by unknown assailants, triggering international outrage."
-- Also Gulf Times report
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=308587&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

Spain: Islamist terrorism in Andalucia "stable and structural"
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/spain-islamist-terrorism-in-andalucia.html

Kosovo editor: Islamist hackers block Web site
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/state/kosovo-editor-islamist-hackers-block-web-site-769092.html

Belgium: Prison escape accomplice caught
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/belgium-prison-escape-accomplice-caught.html

Indonesia: President Yudhoyono warns that terrorists are planning more attacks
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16021&size=A

(Indonesia) Radical Islam regeneration remains risk in Indonesia
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE57A1V020090811

(Australia) Pull the plug on Hezbollah TV
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25911012-7582,00.html

Thailand Won't Extradite Suspected Arms Dealer -- Viktour Bout
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/asia/12bangkok.html?_r=2

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

Mali: Threats of violence greet new family code
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/mali-threats-of-violence-greet-new-family-code-offering-rights-for-women/
-- "While rights groups are celebrating a newly-adopted family code in Mali that changes marriage laws and expands girls' rights, Muslim leaders and youths have vowed, even threatening violence, to block the code from becoming law."
-- "The code – under discussion for 10 years before its adoption on 3 August – includes more than 1,100 new articles, including setting the legal minimum age for marriage at 18, abolishing the death penalty, recognizing only secular marriages and expanding inheritance rights to girls. The code must be approved by the president to become law."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/65ee8153f8163b88ce65bd67b2e9ff34.htm

Egypt: Report on Increasing Islamic Supremacist Intolerance to Women, Christians
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/egypt-report-on-increasing-islamic-supremacist-intolerance-to-women-christians/
-- NYT report: On Beaches, Intolerance Wears a Veil
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/middleeast/12iht-letter.html
-- also addresses increasing violence against Christians
--- "there are sharper signs of intolerance: increasing Christian-Muslim clashes, unfamiliar to old Alexandrine eyes"
--- "On April 4, a Muslim man was allegedly stabbed by his Coptic Christian landlords in a dispute over garbage collection, according to a July 30 report by the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a human rights watchdog. When the man died the next day, Muslims praying at a mosque in the city’s Karmouz district chanted 'they will die' and then trashed Christian-owned stores, the report said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/middleeast/12iht-letter.html

Sudanese woman in trouser case banned from travel
-- "Sudan has barred Lubna Hussein, a woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in violation of decency laws, from travelling abroad, she said on Tuesday."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\12\story_12-8-2009_pg7_36

Other News:

If You Convert You Die - by Nonie Darwish
http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35777

(U.S.) Virginia: Experts Believe Islamic Saudi Academy Continues to Teach Islamic Supremacism
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/virginia-experts-on-isa-teachings/

(U.S.) Hide and Seek -- NPR article on Virginia's Islamic Saudi Academy
-- "A Virginia school scrubbed jihad from its textbooks, but may still preach violence"
-- Nina Shea and Ali al-Ahmed report on Virginia's Islamic Saudi Academy
-- "For nearly 25 years, the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), the Virginia school founded by royal decree of Saudi King Fahd in 1984, immersed students of its Islamic-studies curriculum in the same Wahhabi interpretation of Islam that is taught in Saudi Arabia and in Saudi-funded madrassas around the world. That curriculum includes praise for militant jihad to 'spread the faith” and permission for the killing of various categories of “unbelievers,' as well as other endorsements of religious intolerance."
-- "Now, as it seeks permission from Fairfax County to expand its operations, ISA claims that, over the last school year, it replaced the Saudi religious curriculum with a more moderate one."
-- "Through private channels, we were able to acquire ISA's Islamic-studies textbooks, all marked for use in the first semester of the 2008-09 school year. Compared to the original Saudi Education Ministry versions, these new Arabic-language textbooks -- one slim, single volume for each grade -- are indeed redacted and condensed."
-- "We wish we could celebrate the deletions we helped catalyze, but we are not persuaded that the problem is solved. The books contain no significant discussion of jihad and make few references to the religious 'other.' The silence is deafening. It raises the question -- a question ISA has yet to answer-- of what supplemental material the academy is using."
-- "The question is not whether ISA supplements these new textbooks with other material, but what these other materials contain. There is evidence that the school, over the past school year, did in fact continue to use some extremist supplemental resources."
-- "ISA's website for 2008-09 stated that the school 'follows the Islamic Studies curriculum which has been set forth by the Kingdom.' As the first resource on its 'Useful Links' webpage, ISA linked to the Saudi Education Ministry site, where the noxious curriculum is posted in full. Those books, according to the Ministry, are electronically formatted to facilitate copying, cutting, and pasting. This underscores the problem of a piecemeal approach to Saudi educational reform."
-- "Even the new texts themselves reference several extreme Islamic authorities. For example, the new twelfth-grade book directs students to Ibn Taymiyyah for resolving moral questions. A 14th-century author, Ibn Taymiyyah extolled the militant jihad we call 'terror.' His fatwas were found in a recent study by West Point's Combating Terrorism Center to be 'by far the most popular texts for modern Jihadis.' Renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins wrote that Osama bin Laden cites Ibn Taymiyyah as a 'special hero.'"
-- "In addition, it's important to note that on matters besides jihad, the books still largely reflect Wahhabi orthodoxy. For example, ISA’s new texts endorse marriages between adults and pre-pubescent children, teach that women should not be judges or exercise 'greater governorship,' and starkly divide the world into believers and unbelievers."
-- "Nina Shea is director of the Center for Religious Freedom of the Hudson Institute and serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Ali al-Ahmed is a Saudi expert and directs the Gulf Institute, a Washington-based policy research center."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWIwMWQ5MTFjMjBmMDI4YjFiZmUwMzg2M2JkZmIxOWE=

-- See also:
--- Researchers Dubious that Islamic Saudi Academy Curriculum Problems Solved
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3974/pub_detail.asp
--- July 31, 2009: R.E.A.L. Statement to Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/real-to-fairfax-county-073109/
--- July 13, 2009: Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Statement to Virginia’s Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on the Islamic Saudi Academy
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/islamic-saudi-academy/
--- March 18, 2009 R.E.A.L. Statement to the Fairfax County Planning Commission
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/03/real_fairfax/

(U.S.) Punk meets Islam for new generation in U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/11/generation.islam.punk.rock/1

Iran: Families: American hikers entered Iran by mistake
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090811/ap_on_re_us/us_iran_missing_americans

Scotland is emerging as new hub of Islamic finance
http://www.daily.pk/scotland-is-emerging-as-new-hub-of-islamic-finance-8385/

Iran Protest News:

Iranian opposition puts election unrest toll at 69
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705322659/Iran-opposition-puts-election-unrest-toll-at-69.html?linkTrack=rss-5

Iran: UN's Ban congratulates Iran President Ahmadinejad
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11544093.htm

(Iran) French student's 'confession' at Iran court
-- French language teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6790673.ece

Against Totalitarianism News:

(Burma) Myanmar sentences Suu Kyi to more house arrest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090811/ap_on_re_as/as_myanmar_opposition_leader

(North Korea) Treasury Designates Financial Institution Tied to North Korea's WMD Proliferation
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg260.htm

Against Nazi News:

German commander jailed for life in Nazi trial
-- Josef Scheungraber
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6009145/German-commander-jailed-for-life-in-Nazi-trial.html