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August 27, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(U.S.) 9/11 plotters still alive and planning more attacks: Mullen
-- "'They live and plan and train in safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border,' Navy admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/us/9/11-plotters-still-alive-and-planning-more-attacks-Mullen/articleshow/4939272.cms

Pakistan Taliban Commander: We Have 'Thousands of Suicide Bombers' Who Can 'Target Washington, Paris, London, and Kabul'
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD250509
http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/report.htm?report=3553&param=UPP

Pakistan violence kills 50, suicide attack at checkpost
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/Pakistan/Pak-violence-kills-50-suicide-attack-at-checkpost/articleshow/4943072.cms
-- At least 15 killed in suicide attack in NW Pakistan: Officials
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/Pakistan/At-least-15-killed-in-suicide-attack-in-NW-Pakistan-Officials-/articleshow/4941775.cms
-- Pakistan: Suicide attack kills police in near Afghan border
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3703894355

Pakistani Christian shall launch movement if Blasphemy Law not repealed. Nazir Bhatti
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1372

Pakistan: Police issue warrant for Bishop of Faisalabad and 128 other Christians of Gojra
-- "The First Information Reports or FIRs were filed this week by the Punjab police against the Rt. Rev. John Samuel, the Church of Pakistan's Bishop of Faisalabad and 28 other Christians, in retaliation for complaints of police incompetence in the wake of the attacks on Christians in the town of Gojra that left ten dead and destroyed three Churches and over 100 homes."
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1480

(Pakistan) To save Islamic militants in Punjab: Police registers cases against Gojra Christians
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1478

(Pakistan) Petition to U.N. on Violence Against Christians
-- "The European Center for Law and Justice has filed a petition with the U.N.'s Special Rapporteurs seeking prosecutions in Pakistan for those responsible for the attacks and killings of Christians"
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10745

(Pakistan) Explosion, firing incidents in Quetta kill five, wound four
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2022024&Language=en

Pakistan: Taliban commander 'target' of drone attack -- in South Waziristan - Waliur Rehman
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3703201126

Pakistani Taliban say chief Baitullah Mehsud dead
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/170692/pakistani-taliban-say-chief-baitullah-mehsud-dead

(Pakistan) Senior Pakistani Journalist on Baluchistan Problem: 'Pakistan has Pitted Radical Taliban Against Secular and Democratic Baluchi Forces... Promot[ing] Religious Radicalization'
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD250609

(Pakistan) Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad's sons re-arrested after release
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\28\story_28-8-2009_pg7_2

Pakistan will resist linkage of U.S. funds to nuclear programm
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\28\story_28-8-2009_pg1_1
-- Dr AQ Khan moves LHC against official protocol
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\28\story_28-8-2009_pg7_28

(India) Terror suspect arrested at station
-- "A man suspected of belonging to banned Pakistani-based terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba has been arrested carrying explosives at New Delhi railway station."
-- "The 27-year-old accused, known only as Yusuf alias Salim, was held on Tuesday just before he boarded a train. He was being quizzed by police."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5haO3ZEhyLWIOjklJaQte7HWwyw7A
-- Terror plot: 'Suspected LeT man was heading towards Aurangabad'
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/terror-plot-suspected-let-man-was-heading-towards-aurangabad/507262/

(India) 7 Hizbul Mujahideen militants convicted in sedition case
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/City/Hyderabad/7-Hizbul-Mujahideen-militants-convicted-in-sedition-case/articleshow/4941730.cms

(Afghanistan) 36 killed in Afghan blast caused by 5 car bombs
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/170696/36-killed-in-afghan-blast-caused-by-5-car-bombs

(Afghanistan) Red Cross worker among Afghan bomb victims
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/26/afghanistan.bombing/

(Afghanistan) Militant leader arrested in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2022021&Language=en

(Afghanistan) In southern Afghan city, fears of Taliban takeover
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2009/08/27/ap/international/as_afghan_fearful_city.txt
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_fearful_city

(Afghanistan) How the Taliban Thrives
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919154,00.html

(Afghanistan) US soldier dies as ISAF gets new guidelines in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2022115&Language=en

(Afghanistan) Mullen says US starting over in Afghanistan
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=218579

(Iraq) Attack in Mosul kills 3 soldiers, wounds 7
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2022095&Language=en

(Iraq) Al Qaeda-linked group claims two recent Baghdad bombings that killed 95
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq-bombings26-2009aug26,0,1660412.story

(Iraq) Inside al Qaeda underground torture bunkers
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/21/iraq.bunkers/

(Iraq) Intelligence Report: Iran Financing Al-Qaeda in Iraq
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/19444.htm

Iraq: Baghdad calls for Syria to hand over terror suspects
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3702919167

(Kuwait) Kidnapped British soldier leaps off balcony to freedom
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6098074/Kidnapped-British-soldier-leaps-off-balcony-to-freedom.html

(U.S.) IPT News: "Conspiracy Theories, Terror Support Found in ISNA Convention Literature"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1397/conspiracy-theories-terror-support-found-in-isna

(U.S.) Somali militants use many tactics to woo young Americans to jihad
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/08/somali_militants_use_many_tact.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/25/national/main5264656.shtml

US Senator moves to keep Colonel Gaddafi on tight leash for UN visit
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6810758.ece

(U.S.) Young Afghan freed from Guantanamo to sue US gov't -- Mohammed Jawad
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_guantanamo_prisoner

(U.S.) Gitmo judge bars defense from secret CIA prisons -- Ramzi bin al Shibh
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090825/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_sept11_trial_1

(U.S.) California school closed after pipe bomb attack
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5giTeO6CPFp1Z_3clZ9lMPDxbf5oQD9AABQR00

(U.S.) NY Cops: Man tried to run down Muslim mom, daughter -- Joseph Ballance
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/cops-man-tried-to-run-down-muslim-mom-daughter-1.1399170?localLinksEnabled=false
-- CAIR Seeks Federal Charges In Hate Attack On NY Muslim Mom, Daughter
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=18291

(U.S.) North Carolina: Terror trial likely not to start before late 2010
http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/story/5875859/

(U.S.) DC: Plane flies into Washington no-fly zone -- again
-- "Same Cessna entered restricted area in 2005, causing military scramble"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32582188/ns/us_news-life/

(U.S.) Full Circle: Move to Shift Interrogations Away From CIA Draws Pre-Sept. 11 Comparisons
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/27/critics-question-shift-interrogations-away-cia/

(UK) Government Statement on Anwar al-Awlaki
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/08/27/government-statement-on-awlaki/

(UK) Times poll: 61% think al-Megrahi release was about oil, not compassion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6812859.ece

(UK) British widow accuses Libya over refusal to return her husband’s remains
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6811453.ece

Iranian Daily Papers: The Palestinians Must Not Accept Anything Less Than Israel's Annihilation
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD250409

(Iran) Former Senior IAEA Official Yousri Abu Shadi: Iran Can Produce a Nuclear Bomb in Less Than Two Years
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD250909

(Iran) "Supreme Leader rejects idea that West was behind election violence"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6812893.ece

(Lebanon) Hariri: Hizbullah will join next gov't
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145121749&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Israel) Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel wants 'crippling sanctions' against Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/6099784/Benjamin-Netanyahu-Israel-wants-crippling-sanctions-against-Iran.html

(Israel) Molotov cocktails hurled at Israeli cars near Kalkilya; none hurt
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145138045&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Saudi Arabia Disrupts Al-Qaeda Finance, Recruitment
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=aJBmu5ZLI7hg

(UAE) American on terrorist charges has links with al Qa’eda, court told -- Naji Hamdan
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090825/NATIONAL/708249853/1010

(Algeria) Four armed persons surrenders to Algerian authorities
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2022012&Language=en

(Yemen) US fears Yemen next staging ground for al-Qaida
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_yemen_terror_threat
-- US urges Yemen to go after growing al-Qaeda threat
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/170837/us-urges-yemen-to-go-after-growing-al-qaeda-threat

Yemen to continue military operations against rebels
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2022038&Language=en

"Somalia President Defends US 'Cooperation'"
http://somalilandpress.com/8247/somalia-president-defends-us-cooperation/

Nigerian police arrest 30 Afghan-linked Islamists
http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=090827190809.byecl1y3.php

Ugandan Rebel Group Motives Unclear as Terror Campaign Expands
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-27-voa35.cfm

Denmark: 'All the Danes and Jews must die'
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/denmark-all-danes-and-jews-must-die.html
-- Neighbours turn nasty
http://www.cphpost.dk/news/crime/155-crime/46698-neighbours-turn-nasty.html

French intelligence officer arrives in Paris after escaping Somali captors
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2022127&Language=en

France will not let Al-Qaeda take hold in Africa: Sarkozy
http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=090826173846.wgw49l6c.php

(Spain) Basque Terror Group Weaker But Still a Threat -- ETA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090827/wl_time/08599191911000

Canada, U.S. trail others in knowledge of terrorism: expert
http://www.canada.com/news/Canada+trail+others+knowledge+terrorism+expert/1876005/story.html

Indonesia seeks second man over bomb funds: police
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7HFz_D94aDwTUiDyanyIYyj3HBA

(Indonesia) 'Prince of Jihad' arrested in Indonesia: police
-- Pakistan-educated Muhamad Jibril Abdurahman, alias Muhamad Ricky Ardan bin Mohammad Iqbal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090826/wl_asia_afp/indonesiaattacksprobe
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/STIStory_421524.html

Indonesia terror network 'larger than thought'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\28\story_28-8-2009_pg7_47
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25992507-23109,00.html
-- July 17, 2009 - Wall Street Journal: "Indonesia Is a Model Muslim Democracy"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124779665773055715.html#mod=rss_opinion_main

(Australia) Caution over bail for Somalis facing terror charges
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25987425-32682,00.html
-- Terror bail fight heads to top court
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/terror-bail-fight-heads-to-top-court-20090828-f1gt.html

Australia terror suspects wanted to 'strike big'
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iF43nm01n64aGygZE0BvOuQKMp3wD9A9ODPO0

(Philippines) Filipino terror group crippled by leader's capture
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdR4ZnKOn2D4vRnKCTuPbWnaz9SgD9A9RBKG1

(Thailand) Yala woman injured by landmine
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/152774/yala-villager-wounded-by-land-mine

(Thailand) South unrest leaves 2,897 orphans
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/147763/south-unrest-leaves-2897-orphans

(Thailand) Muslim man murdered in Yala
-- "Police blamed separatist militants"
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/152770/muslim-man-murdered-in-yala

(Thailand) Police seek warrant for car-bomber - in Narathiwat
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/152708/police-seek-arrest-warrant-for-narathiwat-bomber
-- 26 injured in Narathiwat car bomb attack
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30110596/26-injured-in-Narathiwat-car-bomb-attack

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

(Pakistan) Girls victimized by Taliban find safe haven to learn
-- "girls hide textbooks in their shawls to escape harassment"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/27/pakistan.swat.girls/index.html

(U.S.) 'Apostate' Girl's Father: The Unreported Story
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/apostate_girls_father_the_unre.html

(Saudi Arabia) Arab News: "Women backing guardianship law create a stir"
-- Arab News promotes campaign "My Guardian Knows The Best For Me"
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=125759&d=25&m=8&y=2009

(Canada) 'Honour killing' is terrorism
-- "In just the same way the Ku Klux Klan used violence to enforce white supremacy in the southern United States honour killings seek to keep women as second-class citizens unable to choose how to live their lives. Let's call honour killing what it really is. Call it terrorism."
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/2009/08/25/10598791.html#/comment/columnists/2009/08/25/pf-10594641.html

Other News:

(Pakistan) ISI says it distributed millions among Pak politicians
-- "to convince political leaders to join the then Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI)"
-- including "Pakistan Muslim League, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/Pakistan/ISI-says-it-distributed-millions-among-Pak-politicians/articleshow/4940562.cms
-- Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) division leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman well-known as "a defender of the interests of the Taliban in the grand Deobandi alliance mostly spearheaded by the jehadi militias"
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/mma.htm
-- August 22, 2009: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) justifies jihad during Ramadan
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1917717
--- 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
-- July 31, 2009: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) to hold anti-US rally on August 9 - in Peshawar
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=190767
-- August 12, 2009: Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan to take out 'Go America Go' rally on Aug 18
http://geo.tv/8-12-2009/47468.htm

(Pakistan) Al Qaeda funded ISI to destabilize Benazir's govt: former FIA official
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\28\story_28-8-2009_pg7_18

Saudi Religious Police Crack Down on 'Evil' Circuses
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542947,00.html?test=latestnews

Russian Islamic University opens in Chechnya
-- "There will be no Wahhabism and extremism in Chechnya, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said at the ceremony"
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=6353
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/grozny-russian-islamic-university.html

(Malaysia) Shariah lawyers to critics: Don't mess with court decisions
http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/26168/84/

Malaysia government bans Muslims from Black Eyed Peas concert
http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/660738/International/2/1/2

Malaysia's Road to Fundamentalism
http://thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/malaysias-road-to-fundamentalism/326253

(U.S.) Nebraska: No Ruckus at Ramadan in Greeley, Colorado? Au contraire
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/22660#CurDomainURL#/blog.cfm
-- This Ramadan no ruckus for JBS USA
http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20090827/NEWS/908269939/1051&ParentProfile=1001

(U.S.) "An Interview with Daisy Khan" -- of American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA)
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/international/1764/sisterhood_is_islamic:_an_interview_with_daisy_khan_
--- Comment: What Religion Dispatches did NOT report:
--- AMSA MLT Blog: Are there Islamic values that are in fundamental conflict with Western Values? 61% - Yes
--- posted on January 17, 2009 by AMSA's Daisy Khan
http://asmasociety.typepad.com/mlt/
--- Among the previous ASMA Programs: Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT)
http://asmasociety.org/program/mlt.html
--- January 20, 2009 - Future Muslim leaders seek fresh path
---- Pakistan's International Islamic University Madiha Younas: "it's not an Islamic value to have absolute freedom. Islam puts boundaries on you."
---- Saudi Harvard University graduage Malik Dahlan: "It is freedom not to submit [to God's will] that gives value to submission itself."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0120/p07s01-wogn.html

(U.S.) Chicago Muslim man defends lamb slaughter
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/08/27/83132.html
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/27/Muslim-man-defends-lamb-slaughter/UPI-49491251392412/

(India) Andhra Pradesh: AP plea to confer SC status on Dalit Christians
-- call for constitutional equality of Christians
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/hyderabad/AP-plea-to-confer-SC-status-on-Dalit-Xians/articleshow/4934873.cms

Against Nazi News:

(U.S.) North Carolina: Neo-Nazi gathering stirs police preparations
-- National Socialist Movement in Greensboro
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/08/25/article/city_calls_for_peace_in_light_of_neo_nazi_meeting

German neo-Nazis attack Briton in Hamburg: police
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ik6Qfb6-63Klwif3CFg99L5XvvWg

(France) Vets mark 65 years since Paris freed from Nazis
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h1WyYz9IIAE_GCdvLDCYyKjjT52AD9AA09DO3

Australian court reserves Nazi extradition decision
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/25/1007438/australian-court-reserves-nazi-extradition-decision

Auschwitz Blueprints Given to Israeli Prime Minister
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543560,00.html

Against Racism News:

Virginia: "Four teens charged in 'KKK' vandalism"
http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/manassas/article/racial_symbols_found_at_manassas_area_school/42030/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/25/AR2009082501870.html
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Vandals-Mar-Elementary-School-With-Hate-Graffiti-54758902.html
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/082509_kkk_swastika_spelled_out_in_sod

Against Totalitarianism:

Communist China: Secret CPC Directive Calls for the Dismantling of Six House Churches in Beijing
http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf