August 22, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com
(Pakistan) Militants dispatch suicide bombers to avenge Pakistan's Swat operations
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2021138&Language=en
-- Taliban assign targets to 50 suicide bombers: report
http://geo.tv/8-22-2009/48073.htm
(Pakistan) Hakimullah Mehsud appointed as new Pak Taliban chief
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Hakimullah-Mehsud-appointed-as-new-Pak-Taliban-chief/articleshow/4922755.cms
http://geo.tv/8-22-2009/48059.htm
Pakistani Taliban quiz Mehsud kin over 'spying
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=international&xfile=data/international/2009/August/international_August1630.xml
(Afghanistan) Taliban cut off fingers of 2 Afghan voters
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090822/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
-- Monitors: Taliban cut off fingers of Afghan voters
-- "Election officials say results will be rolled out starting August 25"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/afghanistan.election/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
-- Legitimacy concerns over Afghanistan elections
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6806239.ece
(Afghanistan) Soldier, 59, is oldest U.S. service member to die in Afghanistan
-- First Sgt. Jose San Nicolas Crisostomo
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/afghanistan.oldest.death/index.html
Afghanistan fears ethnic unrest
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/August/international_August1638.xml§ion=international
Iraqi Official: Baghdad Bombings a Possible Inside Job
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541626,00.html
(U.S.) Report: "CIA used mock execution to get Al-Qaeda info"
-- Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iZcyvMuB1tcqzkLqhZnExwFgHXWg
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/08/21/report-details-harsh-cia-methods-interrogation-threats-power-drill/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/22/AR2009082200045.html
(UK) Pakistani students held in anti-terror raids abandon deportation fight
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6805888.ece
(UK) Britain under pressure amid Lockerbie release
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090822/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_lockerbie
-- Lockerbie bomber: Britain denies trade deal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6072174/Lockerbie-bomber-Britain-denies-trade-deal.html
-- UK Government faces questions over Lockerbie bomber
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6806172.ece
(Libya) Gaddafi meets with Lockerbie bomber
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/rest-of-world/Gaddafi-meets-with-Lockerbie-bomber/articleshow/4921655.cms
(Syria) Senior al Qaeda leader leaves Pakistan, directs Iraq operations from Syria
-- Sheikh Issa al Masri
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/08/senior_al_qaeda_lead_5.php
Iranian boy who defied Tehran hardliners tells of prison rape ordeal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6805885.ece
Egypt: Al-Takfir Wa Al-Jihad Helped Jund Ansar Allah
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/19356.htm
Nigerian militants give up weapons to police
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_NIGERIA_AMNESTY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-22-09-00-51
Yemen seizes Iranian-made weapons in rebel caches
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=85569
Sri Lanka to train Pakistani army to fight Taliban
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/6069018/Sri-Lanka-to-train-Pakistani-army-to-fight-Taliban.html
--- 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
(Thailand) 3 officials killed, 4 injured in bombing ambush in Yala
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30110423/3-officials-killed-4-injured-in-bombing-ambush-in-
(Thailand) Two wounded in Pattani attacks
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/152401/police-villager-wounded-in-pattani-attacks
(Thailand) Villager shot dead in Narathiwat
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/152400/villager-shot-dead-in-narathiwat
(Thailand) 2 homemade bombs found at Klong Toey market
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30110370/2-homemade-bombs-found-at-Klong-Toey-market
"Muslim world braces for Ramadan violence"
-- MEMRI quoted: "in Muslim tradition it is also perceived as a month of jihad, a month in which Allah grants military victories to his believers"
-- National Post: "On Saturday, Islamist websites are filled with rumours of a new Ramadan message from Osama bin Laden. In the past, al-Qaeda called for Ramadan terror campaigns 'to come closer to Allah through the blood of infidels.'"
-- National Post: "This week, Maulana Noor Muhammad, a spokesman for the Pakistani religious organization Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam [JUI], told the Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Dunya the Prophet Muhammad regularly undertook battles during Ramadan."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1917717
--- August 19, 2009: Pakistan/U.S.: U.S. Envoy Richard Holbrooke meets with Pakistan JUI-F's Fazl-ur-Rehman "the Father of the Taliban"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-holbrooke-meets-with-supremacist/
--- August 19, 2009: Lisa Curtis of Heritage Foundation describes JUI-F "as a legitimate political force"
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE57I0LO20090819?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=11611
Other News:
(U.S.) Obama greets Muslims across globe on Ramadan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/us/Obama-greets-Muslims-across-globe-on-Ramadan/articleshow/4921912.cms
-- White House messages
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Ramadan-Kareem/
-- "We are also moving forward in partnering with the OIC and OIC member states to eradicate polio"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-in-Ramadan-Message/
-- Obama pledges to resolve issues with Muslim world
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-obama-pledges-to-resolve-issues-with-muslim-world-qs-01
(U.S.) Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation leases space for Ramadan as "area mosques are bursting"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/08/21/GA2009082103809.html
(UK) Christians call on MP to help women held in Iranian jail
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/4558635.Christians_call_on_MP_to_help_women_held_in_Iranian_jail/
(UK) Harrow mosque protest cancelled after Sharia court denial
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/4553713.Mosque_protest_called_off_after_Sharia_court_denial/
Against Nazi News:
Russia declassifies secret documents on Nazi-Soviet pact
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/21/russia-documents-nazi-soviet-pact
-- Russia Defends Soviet Pact With Nazis 70 Years Later
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541602,00.html
Against Totalitarianism News:
North Korean officials hold first talks with South for two years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/6072289/North-Korean-officials-hold-first-talks-with-South-for-two-years.html
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