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August 12, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(Pakistan) Lahore: August 11, 2009. (PCP report) Christians took out protests and hoisted black flags to observe "Black Day"
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1471
-- Petition Calling for End of "Blasphemy Laws" in Pakistan
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/human-rights-in-pakistan/

(Pakistan) Some 20 million Christians to mark 'black day' against persecution in Pakistan
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16024&theme=8&size=A

(Pakistan) Govt may re-visit blasphemy law to prevent misuse
-- State Minister for Interior Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi to call for "inquiry"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\13\story_13-8-2009_pg7_29
-- April 21, 2009 - "Federal Shariat Court (FSC) ruling that the death penalty is the only punishment that Islamic law provides for blasphemy"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/death+only+punishment+for+blasphemy--szh
-- April 16, 2008 - Pakistan National Assembly passes resolution calling for U.N. to impose death penalty internationally for blasphemy
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\04\16\story_16-4-2008_pg7_6

Pakistan: "Ahmediyya Community Murder in Pakistan"
-- "Another member of the Ahmediyya community, Rana Ata-ul Karim (36) was killed on 6 August 2009 in Multan, Pakistan. He was murdered simply for being an Ahmedi, a minority sect of Islam. Mr Karim, a well educated agriculturist, left his home for a few minutes in the afternoon and returned to find that his wife had been locked in their bedroom by three young men who had forcibly entered his house. Mr Karim was shot 3 times and died on the spot. The assailants immediately fled the scene. Mr Karim is survived by his wife and two young daughters."
http://www.examiner.com/x-16503-LA-County-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d11-Ahmediyya-Community-Murder-in-Pakistan

(Pakistan) Amnesty International "urges govt to amend or abolish blasphemy laws"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/12-ai+urges+govt+to+amend+or+abolish+blasphemy+laws--bi-07

(Pakistan) Quetta blast toll rises to two
http://geo.tv/8-12-2009/47510.htm
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/11-explosion--gunfire-at-quetta-checkpoint-kill-2--il--07

Pakistan Taliban Burning Schools to Face New Assault
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=aZeoL5Q54bCQ

(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) Bomb kills two children
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25922504-23109,00.html

(Pakistan) Schoolteacher killed in Lower Orakzai
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\13\story_13-8-2009_pg7_15

(Pakistan) Dozens die in militant battle in NW Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019373&Language=en

(Pakistan) 'Taliban won't attack forces during Ramzan'
--- "Taliban in Orakzai Agency announced on Tuesday that they would not attack security forces during Ramzan and Taliban sharia courts would remain closed 'until the tenth day of Eid'"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\12\story_12-8-2009_pg7_6

(Pakistan) Taliban in disarray following Mehsud's death: Holbrooke
http://geo.tv/8-12-2009/47520.htm
-- "Mehsud death may split Taliban"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Mehsud-death-may-split-Taliban/articleshow/4887698.cms

Pakistan goes ballistic about report on nuclear complex attacks
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/us/Pak-goes-ballistic-about-report-on-nuclear-complex-attacks/articleshow/4884892.cms

(Pakistan) 'US with Pakistan for the long haul'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\13\story_13-8-2009_pg7_3

(India) FBI agents give evidence at Mumbai attacks trial
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/07-fbi-officials-us-nationals-to-testify-in-mumbai-attack-hearing-ha-09
-- 26/11 trial: FBI confirms Pakistan link
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/26/11-trial-FBI-confirms-Pakistan-link/articleshow/4885130.cms
-- 'US to press Pakistan on Mumbai plotters'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\13\story_13-8-2009_pg7_8

(India) Lashkar threat for Azad, Bhagwat
-- "With agencies giving inputs that Ghulam Nabi Azad and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat could be LeT targets, the Centre has asked all states to take special security precautions."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-India/articlelist/-2128936835.cms

(India) Bomb threat in Indian plane
http://geo.tv/8-12-2009/47500.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/delhi/Bomb-threat-on-Indigo-Airlines-flight/articleshow/4885975.cms

(Afghanistan) American soldier killed in S. Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019439&Language=en

(Afghanistan) 4 cops, 6 Taliban killed; journalists injured in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019388&Language=en
-- Afghanistan: Taliban kill three police in northern attack
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3649067542

(Afghanistan) US Marines attack Taliban town
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6015785/US-Marines-in-mass-assault-on-Taliban-town.html

(Afghanistan) U.S. mulls pulling troops from remote Afghan outposts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090812/pl_mcclatchy/3290624

(Iraq) Four dead, 8 wounded in separate incidents in Mosul, Kirkuk
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019434&Language=en
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019407&Language=en

(Iraq) Two Iraqi policemen killed in suicide blast in Ramadi
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019311&Language=en

(U.S.) Minnesota: Third man pleads guilty in Somali terror case
-- "Kamal Hassan of Minnesota admitted in federal court today that he had been trained by and fought with al-Shabab."
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/08/3rd-somaliamerican-guilty-in-jihad-case-.html
-- Missing Somali men
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/somali_timeline/

(U.S.) Somali leader: Jihad recruiting slows
http://www.startribune.com/local/53001867.html?elr=KArks:DCiUo3PD:3D_V_qD3L:c7cQKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

U.S. judge sets trial date for terrorism suspect
-- Syed Hashmi "first person extradited to the United States from Britain on terrorism charges"
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57B5KI20090812

(U.S.) Prosecutors hail guilty verdicts in terror trial
-- "Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, faces 60 years in prison"
http://www.ajc.com/news/north-fulton/prosecutors-hail-guilty-verdicts-113804.html?cxntlid=brkng_nws_bnr
--- Second Man Convicted in Georgia Lashkar Conspiracy
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/#1377

US, India to hold anti-terror talks
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019436&Language=en

(UK) Report: Lockerbie Bomber to Be Released From Jail -- Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539204,00.html

(UK) Government seeks to recast relations with British Muslims
-- "Communities secretary John Denham urges policy shift to downplay emphasis on tackling on violent extremism"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/10/john-denham-uk-muslim-community

(UK) Dame Vera Lynn says Britain's Afghan campaign makes no sense to her
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6794038.ece

(UK) 'Defence league' recruiting football fans to march against Islamic extremism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/10/english-violence-militant-football-islamist

(Syria) Article in Syrian Government Daily: The Holocaust – Part of a Reciprocal Conflict between Hitler and the Jewish Capitalists; Its Real Victims Are the Germans and the Palestinians
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD248609

Lebanese Islamists Favor 'Offensive Jihad' to Conquer the World, Impose Islam
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD248509

West Bank: Two men lightly injured in West Bank shooting attack
-- "Army says 3 young men traveling in car near Nablus when Palestinians open fire; casualties evacuated to hospital; troops comb area for perpetrators"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418590742&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Hamas: Israel will cave in on Schalit
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418587274&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Ghana: Terror At Akwatia: As Baba Jamal Declares Jihad
-- "The attacks come on the heels of a declaration of Jihad (Holy war) by the NDC candidate, Mohammed Baba Jamal"
http://dailyguideghana.com/newd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4827&Itemid=243

(Nigeria) Al Qaeda could seek 'foothold' in Nigeria, Clinton warns during trip
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/12/clinton.nigeria/index.html

(Nigeria) Washington Post: "In Nigeria, Islamic law fails to deliver"
-- "Vows of accountability, equity under moderate Sharia are unmet"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32382904/ns/world_news-washington_post/

(Somalia) Witnesses: 5 Pakistani clerics killed in Somalia mosque
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7OaI4_kjeHA-o4UhlmP7vlWmrrwD9A1CQ480
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iEskb_DILCcLBNSaBTXYqZKyyXEA

(Germany) Suspect: Sauerland cell planned attack on German airports
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1494871.php/Suspect-Sauerland-cell-planned-attack-on-German-airports
-- Jihadists Describe Hatred Of U.S. As Reason For Terror Plot
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=22505

(Indonesia) Preacher groomed boys for jihad -- Syaefuddin Jaelani
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25917680-25837,00.html

(Indonesia) DNA confirms terrorist Noordin Top escaped gun battle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/6013545/DNA-confirms-terrorist-Noordin-Top-escaped-gun-battle.html

(Philippines) Filipino troops kill 20 Muslim extremists in raids
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090812/tap-as-philippines-abu-sayyaf-2nd-ld-wri-fe2a5de.html

(Thailand) Villagers wounded by bomb in Pattani
-- "A bomb explosion at the entrance door of Rusa Milae village school in Pattani’s Muang District on Wednesday morning seriously injured two civilians, Pattani police said."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/151577/villagers-wounded-by-bomb-in-pattani

(Thailand) Assistant village head killed in drive-by shooting in Yala
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30109440/Assistant-village-head-killed-in-drive-by-shooting

(Thailand) Curfew lifted for 2 Yala districts
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30109579/Curfew-lifted-for-2-Yala-districts

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

(Iran) "Executing Virgins, Iran Style"
-- "Iran made it illegal to execute virgins, but created a legal loophole by ordering guards to 'marry' and rape their prisoners"
http://www.aina.org/news/20090811125148.htm

Other News:

Iran - Authorities Tighten Grip on Christians as Unrest Roils
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=6057&backpage=summaries

Russia Is Still Getting Away With Murder
-- "The paradox is that Mr. Putin has succeeded in creating exactly what his predecessor Boris Yeltsin first went to war in Chechnya in 1994 to prevent: a lawless quasi-autonomous region run by a gangland-style warlord who rules through a manipulation of clan rivalries, vendettas and elements of Islamic Shariah law"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/europe/12iht-lettereuropeweb.html?_r=1
-- ACPC Exclusive: Adam Delimkhanov threatens human rights workers on Grozny TV
http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/node/2767

Al-Arabiya TV Deputy Secretary-General on Palestinian Human Rights
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/al-shiryan-palestinian-human-rights/
-- MEMRI: "Al-Arabiya TV Deputy Secretary-General Calls for Resettlement of Palestinian Refugees"
-- "Objecting to Refugee Resettlement Is Objecting to Peace"
-- "Stop Treating the Palestinians Like A Plague"
-- "The Arabs Have Turned the Palestinians Into a People Defeated Both Morally and Materially"
-- Daoud Al-Shiryan, Al-Hayat columnist and deputy secretary-general of Al-Arabiya TV on Arab countries:
--- "These countries must stop treating the Palestinians like a plague, using slogans which, as we all know, have become nothing but empty utterances in a loathsome struggle. We must break the isolation of the Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. A Palestinian should be made to feel like a welcome and dear guest - before some external intervention comes along and grants him the right to live in dignity, to everyone's consternation."
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP248309

(Israel/U.S.) Reports on CODEPINK's pressure on Oxfam as part of campaign against Israel-based Ahava comestics company
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418545631&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08062009/gossip/pagesix/sex_star__oxfam_part_ways_183164.htm
-- Oxfam website
http://www.oxfam.org/
-- Ahava website
http://www.ahava.com/
--- CODEPINK's boycott against Israel-based Ahava cosmetics
Code Pink protest calls for Ahava boycott
http://www.codepinkalert.org/section.php?id=415
--- Boycott campaign pays off as Oxfam suspends TV star Kristin Davis
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/08/boycott-campaign-pays-off-as-oxfam-suspends-tv-star-kristin-davis.html

Phyllis Chesler: "Open Season on Christians in the Islamic World"
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/08/12/open-season-on-christian-in-the-islamic-world/

Netherlands: Mohamed most popular name in major cities
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/netherlands-mohamed-most-popular-name.html

French ban Muslim woman from wearing 'burkini'
-- "because of France's pool hygiene standards"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_burquini_banned
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6017524/French-ban-Muslim-woman-from-pool-for-wearing-burkini-swimsuit.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6793574.ece
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539108,00.html?test=latestnews

"U.S. policy may unknowingly aid Shariah radicalism" - Frank Gaffney
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/12/but-is-islam-at-war-with-us/

(U.S.) CNN: "Muslim women uncover myths about the hijab"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/12/generation.islam.hijab/index.html

(U.S.) Disaster plans leave disabled behind
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/12/disaster-plans-leave-disabled-behind/?feat=home_headlines

Against Nazi News:

(Germany) Demjanjuk lawyer calls for case to be closed
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GERMANY_DEMJANJUK?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-12-14-09-51

Against Racial Supremacism News:

Georgia: Swastika painted outside Black Congressman's office
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/david-scott-swastika/
-- Georgia: Swastika painted outside Congressman's office
http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/swastika-painted-outside-congressmans-113070.html
-- Swastika painted at Georgia congressman's office
-- "Scott, who is black, said he also has received mail in recent days that used N-word references to him, and that characterized President Barack Obama as a Marxist."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090811/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_swastika_3
-- Congressman David Scott's Office Vandalized With Spray-Painted Swastika
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/08/rep-david-scotts-office-vandalized-with-spraypainted-swastika.html
-- FBI Makes Federal Case of Swastika
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090812/pl_cq_politics/politics3190787_1
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nazi-graffiti.jpeg

SPLC Reports on Rise of Militia Groups with Racial Supremacist Outlook
-- states that change has been that events have "racialize[d] the Patriot movement, which in the past was not primarily motivated by race hate"
http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=392
-- PDF of report
http://www.splcenter.org/images/dynamic/main/The_Second_Wave.pdf
-- News Report
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25922502-23109,00.html