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August 21, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(Pakistan) Efforts underway to engage Taliban leader Mullah Omar: Mushahid
-- "Efforts are underway in Afghanistan to hold talks with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Secretary General Mushahid Hussain said on Friday."
-- "Talking to Najam Sethi during the 'Tonight with Najam Sethi' programme on Dunya News, Mushahid said he had met an Afghan intellectual last week at the residence of former Jamaat-e-Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed, who said he wanted to convene a grand Afghan jirga so that negotiations could be initiated with all factions of the Taliban."
-- "Mushahid said the Afghan intellectual claimed that Saudi, German and Norwegian leadership were making efforts to constitute the jirga. Citing the intellectual, Mushahid said the process may be completed soon and the US was also expected to talk to Mullah Omar."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\22\story_22-8-2009_pg7_32
--- U.S. Rewards for Justice: "Seeking Information Against International Terrorism: Wanted - Mullah Omar - Up to $10 Million Reward"
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=MullahOmar

(Pakistan) Militants kill one policeman in Pakistani city, wounds another
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2021080&Language=en

(Pakistan) Bomber blows himself up in Kohat
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=85490

(Pakistan) Karachi: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) Islamic supremacist leader killed
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=194067
-- April 21, 2009: Threat of sectarian violence looms over city
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\27\story_27-4-2009_pg12_7
-- Karachi has been growing center of Islamic supremacist activity, attacks on Christians
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/14-karachi-seen-as-funding-source-for-militancy-zj-03
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=184927
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=19602&t=Pakistan%3A+Christians+ready+to+die+for+their+faith

"Pakistan must confront Wahhabism"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/aug/20/pakistan-wahhabi-islam-sufi-terrorism

Pakistan: US Predators target the Haqqanis in North Waziristan
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/08/us_predators_target.php

(Pakistan) 'We took out' Baitullah Mehsud: Obama
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\21\story_21-8-2009_pg1_4
--- December 1, 2008: Pakistan's The News - Army official calls Taliban's Baitullah Mehsud, Maulana Fazlullah 'patriots'
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=18709

(Pakistan) India gives Pakistan new dossier on Hafiz Saeed's 'role' in 26/11
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\22\story_22-8-2009_pg1_9

Pakistan should invest in schools, girls: Clinton
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/12-pakistan+should+invest+in+schools+girls+clinton--bi-13

(Afghanistan) Karzai, Abdullah teams claim lead in Afghan vote
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090821/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

(Afghanistan) ISAF says its three soldiers killed in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2021030&Language=en

Afghanistan: Taliban killed in Helmand, claims police chief
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3678044050

(Afghanistan) British soldiers vulnerable to new Taliban bombing tactic
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6068108/British-soldiers-vulnerable-to-new-Taliban-bombing-tactic.html

Iraq: Wave of bomb attacks continue
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3677097965
-- Two Iraqis killed, 22 wounded in Baghdad market blast
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2021012&Language=en
-- Car bomb blast kills four Iraqi troops
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2021108&Language=en

Iraqi authorities nab suspected culprits of last Wednesday's fiery blasts
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2021117&Language=en

(U.S.) Virginia Cities Considered for Terror Trial Locations
http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=10934126

(U.S.) Ohio: Judge's ruling could force change in terror probes
-- "KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development"
-- "The ruling issued this week by U.S. District Judge James Carr said the government violated the Constitution when it froze the assets of an Ohio-based charity it suspected of having ties to the militant Islamic group Hamas."
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/judges-ruling-could-force-change-in-terror-probes-260070.html

(U.S.) Judge Orders Release of Yemeni Prisoner From Guantanamo
-- Mohammed al-Adahi
-- "A federal judge has ordered the release of a Yemeni from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the man's brief stint at an Al Qaeda training camp and two encounters with Osama Bin Laden were not enough to justify his confinement."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103333.html

(U.S.) South Carolina Pipe Bomb Case: Judge dismisses deportation case against Florida Muslim immigrant
-- Case against Youssef Megahed dismissed, was on trip with Ahmed Mohamed
-- Ahmed Mohamed previously found guilty
http://www.wave3.com/global/story.asp?s=10970163
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541523,00.html
--- CAIR Applauds Release of Acquitted Fla. Muslim
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-21-2009/0005081381&EDATE=

(U.S.) Chicago: Terror informer made up jihad story: FBI
-- "North Side resident Uzair Ali Hashmi informed the FBI last month that terrorists were trying to recruit him and that one of them gave him a letter stating, 'Our job here is to carry out 'the mission' of giving the nonbelievers what they deserve.'"
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1717618,CST-NWS-NOTERROR15.article

(U.S.) Michigan: Residents Reject Idea of Housing Guantanamo Detainees at Michigan Prison
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082004226.html?hpid=topnews

(U.S.) Armed to the Teeth, N.C. Terror Cell Members Talked of Jihad
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1391/armed-to-the-teeth-nc-terror-cell-members-talked

US families of Lockerbie victims plan next move -- plan NYC protest September 23
-- "Relatives of Americans killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, plan to converge on New York City in September to protest Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's speech at the United Nations"
-- "Family members agreed they wouldn't spend much time on Friday’s call sharing their outrage over al-Megrahi being freed, according to Dugan, who said they’ve been e-mailing and calling one another to share their anguish. He said they would focus on planning to protest, scheduled for Sept. 23."
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/August/international_August1604.xml&section=international

(UK/Libya) Lockerbie affair linked to UK trade deals: Kadhafi's son
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090821/wl_uk_afp/britainlibyausattackslockerbietrade

Libya: Photos of "heroes welcome" to terrorist
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article6805252.ece?slideshowPopup=true&articleId=6805252&sectionName=World
-- Everyone can say they're a winner - except the families of those who died
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6805929.ece
-- Libya: Lockerbie Bomber release: international reaction
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6065961/Lockerbie-Bomber-release-international-reaction.html
-- London Times: "At home with the Lockerbie bomber"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6806087.ece

(Iran) US: Iran's work with IAEA not enough
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418664374&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iran cleric urges arrest of post-vote "riot leaders"
-- "Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful Guardian Council"
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Iran/idUSTRE57K1CN20090821
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418666505&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- In Public Trials in Iran, Former Iranian VP Abtahi, Others Charged with Leading 'Velvet Coup d'Etat'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD250109

Iranian Cabinet Nominee Wanted in Argentine Attack -- Ahmad Vahidi
-- "The man Iran's president has named to be defense minister is wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090821/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_49
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/21/world/AP-ML-Iran.html?_r=1
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418668123&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Gaza: Al-Qaida-style Islamism comes to Gaza
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418650349&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

(Somalia) 40 dead in Somalia fighting, witnesses say
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2009/08/21/40_dead_in_somalia_fighting_witnesses_say/
-- Fighting kills 22 in Somali capital Mogadishu
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLL061719

Mauritanian troops to fight Al-Qaeda in Sahara region
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Mauritanian-troops-to-fight-Al-Qaeda/H1-Article1-443850.aspx

(Russia) Chechnya: Suicide Bombers Kill Five in Muslim-Dominated Chechnya
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541333,00.html
-- Bomb blasts kill police in Chechen capital
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/21/chechnya.blasts/

Russia: Chechen rebels declare "economic war": website
-- "claiming responsibility for a recent dam disaster and a bomb in Ingushetia"
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57K1A820090821

(Philippines) Top terrorist nabbed in Marawi City
-- "Dinno-Amor Rosalejos Pareja, also known as Khalil Pareja"
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20090821-221401/Top-terrorist-nabbed-in-Marawi-City

Philippines: Are two militant groups joining forces?
-- "Philippines government alleges MILF involvement in a firefight last week with members of the militant Abu Sayyaf, calling into question a cease-fire with the rebel group."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0817/p99s01-duts.html

(Philippines) "MILF 'more liberal' than Taliban"
-- "The Moro Islamic Liberation Front will be more liberal than the Taliban in its approach to women and education in an Islamic setup it seeks to establish for the Moro people in Mindanao, a key member of the group's peace panel said here recently."
-- "but he stated that men will have 'priority' in that field [public office] under a Islamic government"
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20090821-221403/MILF-more-liberal-than-Taliban
--- June 1, 2009: Another woman abducted in Cotabato City
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=208226
--- July 23, 2008: Elderly woman killed, sister hurt in alleged MILF attack
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080723-150252/Elderly-woman-killed-sister-hurt-in-alleged-MILF-attack

Philippines: Southern Catholics gather around Youth Day Cross to pray for peace
http://www.ucanews.com/2009/08/21/southern-catholics-gather-around-youth-day-cross-to-pray-for-peace/

Australia lists Al-Shabab as terror group
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\22\story_22-8-2009_pg4_3

This Week's Posts from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project: August 11-21, 2009
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD250009

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

Florida: Judge says 17-year-old Christian convert Rifqa Bary must stay in Florida
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/judge-rifqa-bary-stays-in-florida/
-- Justice in Florida for Rifqa Bary - by Phyllis Chesler
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/08/21/justice-in-florida-for-rifqa-bary/
-- FOX News: Runaway Christian Convert to Stay in Florida for Now, Judge Rules
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541540,00.html
-- WFTV News: Judge Decides Runaway Convert Will Stay In Fla.
http://www.wftv.com/news/20491051/detail.html
-- WESH News: Runaway Convert To Stay In Fla. For Now
http://www.wesh.com/news/20495627/detail.html
-- Orlando Sentinel: Rifqa Bary: Judge says 17-year-old convert Rifqa Bary must stay in Florida
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/judge-rifqa-bary-stays-in-florida/
-- WDBO Local News Blog from Juvenile Court: Rifqa Bary hearing
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/08/blog-from-juvenile-court-rifqa.html
-- Jawa Report: CAIR formulates media strategy on Rifqa Bary
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/198547.php
-- Florida Governor’s Office Replies on Rifqa Bary Case
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/florida-governors-office-rifqa-bary-case/

Afghan woman councilor faces death
-- "Ostracised, threatened with death and her relatives killed -- welcome to the life of Afghan councillor Natbibi Omary, a mother in her 40s forced to cover up on the campaign trail"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jovKv-hSS6Esm4z2-AuuH5uHZUVQ

Afghan Politician Malalai Joya 'the Bravest Woman in Afghanistan': 'I Do Not Fear Death – I Only Fear Political Silence in the Face of Tyranny'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD249709

Phyllis Chesler: "Freedom of Religion: A Precious American Right, An Islamic Capital Crime"
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/08/20/freedom-of-religion-a-precious-american-right-an-islamic-capital-crime/

(Malaysia) Muslim model says she deserves to be caned
-- "A Muslim model has asked human rights group Amnesty International to stop asking the Malaysian authorities not to cane her, saying she is ready to face the penalty for drinking beer"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/6067483/Muslim-model-says-she-deserves-to-be-caned.html

Other News:

(U.S.) In video message, Obama speaks to Muslims as holy month of Ramadan begins Saturday
http://www.startribune.com/politics/53952767.html

Chechnya opens first Islamic University
-- "Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov opened Russia's first Islamic University on Thursday (August 20), another move in his campaign to establish Islamic values in the North Caucasus republic"
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=85486
--- March 1, 2009 - Russia: Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov defends Islamic supremacist "honor killings' - says women deserve to die
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/03/russia-chechen-president-defends-islamic-supremacism-says-women-deserve-to-die/

(Somalia) Islamist Militants Restrict Somali Wedding Celebrations
-- " Music and dancing are no longer allowed. The groups say Islam forbids the mingling of women and men. Somali Islamist militants carry their weapons as they patrol the streets of northern Mogadishu."
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/87360/-islamist-militants-restrict-somali-wedding-celebrations.html

Pakistan: "Dancing girls of Swat are out of business"
-- "still living under fear and do not meet visitors"
http://www.metransparent.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=8044&lang=en
-- Daily Telegraph: "Pakistan's dancing girls return after Taliban defeated in Swat Valley "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6031126/Pakistans-dancing-girls-return-after-Taliban-defeated-in-Swat-Valley.html

(UK) An overdraft? That'll be £200 at Lloyds TSB (but only £15 if you're a Muslim)
-- "Sharia law does not permit the payment of interest so the 'typical' Islamic account at Lloyds TSB has been set up without an overdraft facility."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208204/An-overdraft-Thatll-200-Lloyds-TSB-15-youre-Muslim.html

(Italy) Burqini banned in Italian town
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6056273/Burqini-banned-in-Italian-town.html

Against Racial Supremacism News:

Mississippi making civil rights part of K-12 instruction
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1194955.html

Against Nazi News:

(U.S.) North Carolina: Police prepare for possible neo-Nazi meeting in Greensboro
-- News and Record reports:
-- "Greensboro police are preparing for the possibility that a meeting of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement could be held in the city later this month."
-- "The NSM, a group which describes itself as 'defending the rights of white people everywhere,' is planning its Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting on Aug. 29, according to the group's Web site."
-- "The Detroit-based group, founded in 1974, says it is open to 'non-Semitic heterosexuals of European descent' and has core beliefs to 'preserve European culture and heritage, strengthening family values, economic self-sufficiency and reform of illegal immigration policies.'"
-- "The Anti-Defamation League describes the group as the largest neo-Nazi faction in the United States and states it has affiliations with the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and other neo-Nazi organizations"
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/08/15/article/police_prepare_for_possible_neo_nazi_meeting_in_greensboro

(U.S.) California: Appeals court overturns Holocaust looted-art law, but Norton Simon suit continues
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/08/federal-judges-overturn-californias-holocaust-lootedart-law-as-unconstitutional-.html

Against Misogynism News:

(U.S.) Hillary Clinton vows to 'banish sexual violence' -- in Congo
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32510028/ns/today-today_people/
--- Comment: but has consistently ignored the ideology of Islamic supremacism and its institutionalized violence against women - even in resolution on Somalia stoning case in October 2008
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/SRes711.pdf

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