Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] August 20, 2009 News

August 20, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

Pakistan seeks lawyers to defend al Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE57I64Q20090819

Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi: Talks possible if Taliban disarm, accept govt's writ
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\21\story_21-8-2009_pg7_4
-- Same Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi who called for U.S. to negotiate with Taliban in Afghanistan
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/125.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSISL24406020090210?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

(Pakistan) Bomb wounds 7 close to Pakistan capital
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD9A6PSLG0

(Pakistan) Taliban commander, over 60 others surrender in Swat
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\21\story_21-8-2009_pg7_5
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/12-sixty+taliban+of+fazlullah+group+surrender--bi-07

(Pakistan) Pak anti-terror court declares Maulana Fazlullah fugitive
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Pak-anti-terror-court-declares-Fazlullah-fugitive/articleshow/4909680.cms
-- Same Maulana Fazlullah reportedly "killed" on July 3
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/World/Pak-Taliban-chief-may-be-dead/articleshow/4729326.cms

(Afghanistan) Low turnout seen in Afghan election; 26 Afghans killed in election day attacks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090820/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
-- Afghanistan Vote: Threats, Anger, Empty Polling Stations
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599191763600

(Afghanistan) Analysis: Afghan vote shows Taliban still potent
-- "Americans are tiring of the conflict. New polling shows a majority -- 51 percent -- of those surveyed now believe the war is not worth the fight"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090820/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_afghanistan_analysis
-- Low turnout in Afghanistan as voters fear Taliban
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6062344/Afghanistan-election-low-turnout-as-voters-fear-Taliban-attacks.html
-- Afghanistan election: voters too scared or disillusioned to cast ballots
-- "Zabiullah's mother and sister were so afraid he would die in a Taliban attack as he cast his vote, they took matters into their own hands."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6062001/Afghanistan-election-voters-too-scared-or-disillusioned-to-cast-ballots.html
-- Taleban threats take toll on Afghan polls
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6804558.ece

(Afghanistan) Violence sweeps Afghanistan ahead of poll
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/08/18/Violence-sweeps-Afghanistan-ahead-of-poll/UPI-43761250607600/

(Afghanistan) 'Indelible' ink used to mark Afghan voters may stain election success
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6804584.ece

(Afghanistan) Taliban's latest threat: cutting off noses and ears to anyone who dares voting
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16062&size=A

(Afghanistan) Taliban destroy Chinook in attempted election 'spectacular'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6062278/Taliban-destroy-Chinook-in-attempted-election-spectacular.html

(Iraq) Christian Doctor kidnapped, two killed in northern Iraq
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iZuUwxxrSS1BtxWjMgJTqUGU_PDg

(Iraq) Series of bombs in southern Iraq, four killed
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLK31076

Iraq attacks: al-Qaeda's perfect timing in Baghdad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/6058117/Iraq-attacks-al-Qaedas-perfect-timing-in-Baghdad.html

Iraqis can contain surge in terrorism, says Petraeus
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraqis-can-contain-surge-in-terrorism-says-petraeus-1775231.html

(U.S.) Source: CIA hired security firm to hunt al Qaeda
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/08/20/cia.blackwater/index.html

(UK) Lindy McDowell: How can Miliband justify his stance on Taliban terror?
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lindy-mcdowell/lindy-mcdowell-how-can-miliband-justify-his-stance-on-taliban-terror-14457428.html

Gaza: Al-Qaida-style Islamism comes to Gaza
Al-Qaida-style Islamism comes to Gaza

Iran parliament to reject Ahmadinejad ministers: MPs
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLJ67097620090820

Hezbollah Readies for War as UN Peacekeepers Can Only Observe
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeol1KbCenkM

Lebanon arrests al Qaeda militant near refugee camp
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LJ91511.htm

Saudi Arabia announces al Qaeda arrests
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/19/saudi.alqaeda.arrests/

(Libya) Lockerbie bomber freed, returns to cheers in Libya
-- "thousands of young men were on hand at a Tripoli airport where al-Megrahi's plane touched down"
http://www.wtol.com/global/story.asp?s=10966038
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_lockerbie
-- Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi flies home to hero's welcome
--- "The terrorist had served less than eight years of a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6804745.ece
-- Boisterous welcome for Lockerbie bomber
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/20/scotland.lockerbie.bomber/index.html
-- Lockerbie bomber returns to hero's welcome and Scottish flag waving in Libya
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6063529/Lockerbie-bomber-returns-to-heros-welcome-and-Scottish-flag-waving-in-Libya.html

Somali government says it's taken town from Islamist fighters
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/20/somalia.town.captured/
-- Comment: as if the Sharia-supporting Somali government was any "different"
--- Somalia's Government to Soon Sign State of Emergency Law
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-08-21-voa1.cfm

Ethiopian Official Says Somali Militias Use Ethiopia to Attack Rebels
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-20-voa32.cfm

Germany: Killing Germans is a duty, Sauerland cell terror suspect tells court
-- "One of the men accused of planning attacks on US military bases in Germany in 2007 told a Dusseldorf court Wednesday that the armed fight against German soldiers in Afghanistan was a 'duty.'"
-- "Adem Yilmaz, part of a group of suspected militant Islamists arrested in Germany's Sauerland region in September 2007, told the court in one of Germany's largest terrorism trials since the 1970s that it didn't matter to him whether the soldiers were American, German or Turkish."
-- "'For me they are all the same,' said Yilmaz, who is himself Turkish. 'Allah gave us the right to fight against those people who are fighting us,' he said, adding that many Muslims had been attacked in Iraq and Afghanistan."
-- "Yilmaz also said he stood by an earlier statement that he wanted to kill as many non-believers as possible."
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4582668,00.html

(Australia) Terrorist 'had six macabre videos'
-- "Victorian terrorist Shane Kent was not simply a barracker on the sidelines of a Melbourne terror cell but a man "front and centre" within the group organisation who had six graphic videos of Muslim extremists beheading Westerners."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25954892-5006785,00.html

(Indonesia/U.S.) Militants behind Indonesia hotel bombs plotted to shoot Barack Obama
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6804565.ece

Indonesia Arrests 2 Suspects in Jakarta Bombings
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-19-voa19.cfm

(Indonesia) Police facing difficulties in tracing overseas financing of terrorism
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/08/19/police-facing-difficulties-tracing-overseas-financing-terrorism.html

Indonesia: Terror attacks 'funded from Middle East'
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3676501747

(Phillipines) Two dead, score injured in separate attacks in Philippines
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6734801.html

(Colombia) U.S. Treasury Targets FARC Operative and Affiliated Companies
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg265.htm

Islamic Supremacist War on Women News:

(U.S.) ICC Calls On Florida Social Services (DCF) to Not Return Christian Girl to Ohio -- Rifqa Barry
-- "May Face Honor Killing If Returned"
-- "International Christian Concern (ICC) is calling upon officials in Florida to retain custody of a Rifqa Barry, a Christian girl who has alleged that her fundamentalist Muslim Father in Ohio threatened to kill her upon finding out about her conversion to Christianity. Rifqa faces a jurisdictional hearing Friday at 3:15 pm from Florida’s Department of Children and Family (DCF) to decide if she should be sent back to Ohio Social Services or her parents. ICC has extensive experience with fundamentalist Islam and is warning Florida officials that they must take these allegations seriously."
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10699
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/icc-urges-protection-of-rifqa-bary/
-- Florida: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting from Islam to Christianity
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/florida-ohio-girl-convert-threatened/

(U.S.) Florida: Court Expected to Send Runaway Teen Home Despite Muslim Honor Killing Fears -- Rifqa Bary
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541205,00.html

(U.S.) Florida: Gov. Charlie Crist Must Act to Save Muslim Girl -- Rifqa Bary
http://www.newsmax.com/frank_gaffney/crist_muslin_bary/2009/08/20/250292.html

(Iran) Stop the stoning of Sakine Ashtiani by barbaric Islamic Republic of Iran
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55479797684
-- Petition:
http://stopstonningnow.com/sakine/sakin284.php?nr=50326944

(Iran) Bishop pleads for captive female converts in Iran
-- "The case of two of them, Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, also suffering in Evin prison, has been taken up by the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, who steps down soon as a diocesan to concentrate on helping persecuted Christians around the world."
-- "Dr Nazir-Ali told me: 'Maryam and Marzieh are being held simply because they have changed their belief. The UN Declaration on Human Rights says people everywhere should be free to do this and the Iranian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. I appeal to the Iranian President to have mercy and to release these two young women forthwith so that they can receive the medical treatment which they so desperately need.'"
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/08/bishop-pleads-for-captive-female-converts-in-iran.html

(Pakistan) Honor killing of 40 women in month of May, 2009, in Sindh
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1364
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-honor-killing-of-40-women-in-sindh/

Afghan women to miss out on vote in landmark election
-- Independent reports: "Millions of Afghan women will be denied their chance to vote in presidential elections this week because there aren't enough female officials to staff the women-only polling stations."
-- Independent reports: "Strict cultural norms mean women can't vote in male-run stations."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghan-women-to-miss-out-on-vote-in-landmark-election-1773091.html
--- Comment: Islamic supremacism against women is not merely "strict cultural norms"

(Germany) Muslim man sentenced to life in jail after killing his German-born wife because she was 'too independent'
-- "The 27-year-old Kurdish man, identified only as Onder B, was found guilty today of stabbing his wife in the eyes, beating her with a billiard cue and then running over her in his car."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1207931/Muslim-asylum-seeker-sentenced-life-jail-killing-wife-independent.html

Sudan's Rosa Parks
http://www.aina.org/news/20090819102812.htm

Other News:

'Saudi Arabia working on plans to build a nuclear power plant'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418661994&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Canadian Pakistani Christians hold awareness rally on persecution in Pakistan
-- Pakistan Christian Post reports:
-- "Scarborough: August 19, 2009. (PCP) Despite the Scorching heat of Sunday noon, temperatures rising to 32c the determined friends of Christian Minority of Pakistan held an awareness rally on August 16, 2009 to protest the Acts of Evil by the hands of Muslim Extremists in Scarborough, Canada at the doorsteps of ST. Barnabas Church which holds 3 services each Saturday and Sunday which very much get attended by 500 to 700 worshipers each service."
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1476

"Egypt - Two Copts Imprisoned after Reporting Attack"
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=6074&backpage=summaries
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/egypt-two-copts-imprisoned-after-reporting-attack/

(UK) 'A man is trying to kill my mummy': Heartbreaking 999 call made by girl, 7, as she sees mother stabbed to death
-- "Rabina Bibi was stabbed repeatedly by Iranian immigrant Zakarya Rezaie"
-- "Miss Bibi, whose arranged marriage broke down six years ago, met Rezaie when he worked in a shop in Coventry and they had a brief relationship."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207591/A-man-trying-kill-mummy-Heartbreaking-999-girl-7-sees-mother-stabbed-death.html

(UK) London Times: "World's first Muslim superheroes, the 99, out to conquer the West"
-- London Times: "a Sharia-compliant version of the X-Men that has taken the Arab world by storm and has its sights set on the West"
-- London Times: "An animated series is being produced by Endemol, the Dutch company that made Big Brother internationally ubiquitous. Its mission: to instil old-fashioned Islamic values in Christian, Jewish and atheist children."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6802598.ece
-- "World's first Muslim superheroes, the 99, are headed for British television screens"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/cartoons/6059421/Worlds-first-Muslim-superheroes-the-99-are-headed-for-British-television-screens.html

UK: British Muslim youth more assimilated
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/uk-british-muslim-youth-more.html
-- Muslim youths in UK feel much more integrated than their European counterparts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207935/Muslim-youths-UK-feel-home-European-counterparts.html?ITO=1490

Netherlands: Tariq Ramadan responds
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/netherlands-tariq-ramadan-responds.html

(U.S.) CAIR Welcomes Ruling in Support of Muslim Charity's Due Process Rights
-- "KindHearts, an Ohio-based Muslim charity that had its assets frozen by the government more than three years ago"
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-19-2009/0005080354&EDATE=

Against Racial Supremacism News:

Oklahoma: Police: Rape suspect may be KKK recruiter
http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/local/local_story_232004430.html

Virginia: Racist Graffiti Hits City
http://www.rocktownweekly.com/news_details.php?AID=40122&CHID=1

Texas: Klan distributes leaflets in Abilene
-- "The United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan peppered some Abilene neighborhoods on Saturday night with leaflets."
-- "the local Klan group is seeking to recruit new members"
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/aug/16/KKK-propaganda/

New Mexico's white supremacists keep the hate alive
-- Frontline Aryans group
http://www.sfreporter.com/stories/birther_of_a_nation/4937/

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