Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] August 9-10, 2009 News

August 9-10, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

Petition Calling for End of "Blasphemy Laws" in Pakistan
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/human-rights-in-pakistan/
http://www.petitiononline.com/lawslove/petition.html

DC: National Press Club Press Conference Announcing "Black Day," Petition Against Pakistan Blasphemy Law
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/press-conference-challenging-blasphemy-law/

Pakistan: Christians remember victims of Gojra violence
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-christians-fear-no-evil/
-- UCAN Report: Christians remember victims of Gojra violence
http://www.ucanews.com/2009/08/10/christians-remember-victims-of-gojra-violence/
-- UCAN: "More than 500 people packed the Sacred Heart Church in Gojra recently to remember those who died in anti-Christian rioting"
-- Father Hadayat: "I believe their blood will not go wasted and will bring about a revolt against the black (blasphemy) laws."
-- "According to Church sources, the death toll from the rioting has now risen to 10, including three children and three women."

"Pakistani Christians shall observe 'Black Day' on August 11, 2009, instead Independence Day of Pakistan on August 14,2009' Bishop Ijaz Inayat announced here today in Karachi."
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1469
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistani-christians-in-karachi/

Pakistan Daily Times: "Blasphemy laws once again in the limelight"
-- Pakistan "cabinet ministers have stopped short of pledging to scrap the blasphemy laws"
-- "Religious affairs minister says major amendments in blasphemy laws will benefit Taliban"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\10\story_10-8-2009_pg1_9
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-daily-times-blasphemy-laws-once-again-in-the-limelight/

Canada: Canadian Pakistani Christian staged rally to condemn Gojra massacre
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1343

Pakistan - Additional Report on 60-year-old woman charged with "blasphemy"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/addtl-report-60-year-old-blasphemy/
-- BBC: "The women says it wasn't the Koran she flung to the ground but a register in which the shopkeeper had listed her credit"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8189209.stm
--- August 5, 2009: Pakistan: Mob attacks home of 60-year-old woman in Islamic supremacist 'blasphemy" charge
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-mob-attacks-womans-home/

(Pakistan) "Government will rehabilitate Gojra victims, says Farzana"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\10\story_10-8-2009_pg7_21

(Pakistan) Peshawar hit by 'rocket attacks'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8194555.stm

(Pakistan) Reporter escapes Taliban death sentence
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/07/taliban.prisoner/

(Pakistan) Fear of militants, helicopters still haunts Swat girl students
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=192287

(Pakistan) Hakimullah debunks death claim of Baitullah Mehsud
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=23802
-- Pakistan: Taliban leader's fate in doubt
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3642550469
-- "TTP confirms Mehsud dead, announces 15-day mourning"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\11\story_11-8-2009_pg1_6
-- "Al Qaeda may install Mehsud 'heir'"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\11\story_11-8-2009_pg1_5
-- Pakistan Taliban fight for control of dead leader's millions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6005544/Pakistan-Taliban-fight-for-control-of-dead-leaders-millions.html

(Pakistan) 'Qaeda leaders moving into cities'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\09\story_9-8-2009_pg7_3

(Pakistan) 12 Taliban held in Swat, Malakand
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\10\story_10-8-2009_pg7_10

(Afghanistan) Taliban attack govt compounds near Afghan capital
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2018952&Language=en

(Afghanistan) Militants launch Afghan attacks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8193092.stm

(Afghanistan) Taliban gained upper hand in Afghanistan, says US commander
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2019014&Language=en
-- US general warns that Taliban is expanding aggressively in Afghanistan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6003976/US-general-warns-that-Taliban-is-expanding-aggressively-in-Afghanistan.html

(Afghanistan) Taliban awaiting US response on captured soldier
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\10\story_10-8-2009_pg7_30

(Afghanistan) Bomb strikes Afghan wedding party
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8186882.stm

(Iraq) Twin blasts in northern Iraq kills, wounds 240 people -- police
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2018982&Language=en

(U.S.) Georgia: Judge: Enough evidence for jury in terrorism case
-- "A federal judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence for the case against Ehsanul Islam Sadequee to proceed to a jury"
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/sister-to-testify-on-111960.html

(U.S.) 7th NC terror suspect to remain in custody -- Anes Subasic
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gHM9ORF1GLmgcoCTTD3i3bLRBk-wD9A077FO0

(U.S.) Terror suspects lose extradition case in Britain
-- "Khalid al Fawwaz, a 46-year-old Saudi businessman, and Adel Abdel Bary, an Egyptian, are wanted by the United States over their alleged role in the attacks in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gkIBVaTTnTDT_lg8TWBbbawpW0cQ

(U.S.) Yemeni cleric pleads guilty to aiding terrorists
-- Sheik Mohammed Ali Hasan Al-Moayad
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jePGhLRPq-VGmxkL7MiDODInAUwQD99U96000
UK denies role in terror suspects' torture
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\10\story_10-8-2009_pg7_5

Iran Continues Imprisonment of Christian Women for Religious Beliefs
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/iran-women-continued-prison/
-- ICC Report: "Iran Continues the Illegal Detention of Christian Converts"
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10632&PHPSESSID=1b9deb32b3a46f539de4544d772a0d14

Iran prisoners were 'savagely raped' after protests
-- "A reformist candidate defeated in the Iranian presidential election has claimed that arrested protesters have been 'savagely raped' while in custody"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6004274/Iran-prisoners-were-savagely-raped-after-protests.html
-- Karroubi Calls On Rafsanjani to Deal with Rape of Young Men and Women in Iranian Prisons
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD248009

(Iraq) String of bombings kill at least 43 in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090810/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/iraq-attacks-kill-at-least-42-in-iraq-on-shiite-religious-holiday/

(Iraq) Al Qaeda blamed for Iraq violence wave
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/10/iraq.bombings/

Israel: Jets strike Gaza smuggling tunnel
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3641995356

Egyptian police arrest 7 Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Alexandria
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418558251&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Nigeria: Thirteen-year-old forced to watch Pastor hacked to death in Boko Haram deadly violence
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=893
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/nigeria-thirteen-year-old-forced-to-watch-pastor-hacked-to-death-in-boko-haram-deadly-violence/

Somalia: Hizbul Islam denounces US government
http://www.somaliweyn.org/pages/news/Agos_09/8Ago19.html

(Somalia) "In a Changing Somalia, Islamist Forces See Support Wane"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080600997.html

Mauritania bomber injures 3 near French Embassy
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gdqLsnOSMWBPcFhWrKMEsNKBfxcwD99UU9MG0

Chechen Leader Denies Blame For Killings, Accuses West Of Violence -- Ramzan Kadyrov
http://www.rferl.org/content/Chechen_Leader_Kadyrov_Denies_Blame_For_Killings_Accuses_West_Of_Violence/1795686.html
-- 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/

Turkish army kills PKK rebel
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2018921&Language=en

(Germany) Muslim Converts Confess Terror Plot Against U.S. Sites, Americans In Germany
-- Fritz Gelowicz,
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7016057133?Muslim%20Converts%20Confess%20Terror%20Plot%20Against%20U.S.%20Sites,%20Americans%20In%20Germany

Bosnia: Tunisian terrorist to be deported
-- Karray Kamel bin Ali, known as Abu Hamza
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3642110570

(Spain) Three Small Bombs Explode In Mallorca, Spain - ETA suspected
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/08/09/world/international-uk-spain-bomb.html?_r=1

(Thailand) 2 shot dead in Thai south
-- "Suspected Islamic separatist militants have killed two villagers in separate shootings in Thailand's restive south, police said on Sunday"
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/SE+Asia/Story/STIStory_414627.html

(Thailand) 3 paramilitary troopers injured in S Thailand bomb attack
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTktd.YBKDGQBaBDQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHZkMjZyBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=12oe6cait/EXP=1250052829/**http%3a//feeds.thailandnews.net/%3frid=26852713%26cat=7eb51d3138244bed

(Indonesia) Militant killed in raid probably not Indonesian terrorist leader
-- "Indonesian authorities now doubt that the man killed in a Saturday raid on a suspected terror hideout was local militant leader Noordin Mohammed Top"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0810/p99s01-duts.html
-- Indonesia: Terror fugitive may have escaped
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3641710498

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

(U.S.) Phyllis Chesler: "Was Mandana Shojaeifard Honor Murdered in Roslyn, New York?"
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/08/09/was-mandana-shojaeifard-honor-murdered-in-roslyn-new-york/

(U.S.) Florida: "Muslim Faith, Christianity Clash In Orlando Courtroom"
-- "An Ohio runaway teenager, Christianity and the Muslim religion met head-on Monday during a custody dispute in an Orlando courtroom."
-- "The girl, 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, recently converted from her family's faith to Christianity and she is worried about her family's reaction to her change in faith"
-- "'She says her life is in danger and she could be killed in an honor killing,' Rosa Gonzalez, the teen's lawyer, said after the hearing. 'Unfortunately it happens every day in the U.S.'"
-- "The teen, a non-citizen, told Lorenz she was fearful that her father would send her to Sri Lanka."
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/8/10/muslim_faith_christianity_clash_in_orlando_courtroom.html

Pakistan: Woman shot by brother-in-law dies in hospital
-- "The accused, Wakeel, with the help of his accomplices, shot his wife Rizwana Kausar, her alleged paramour Faraz and her brother-in-law Khalid."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\10\story_10-8-2009_pg7_45

Pakistan: 10, including 3 cops, gang rape married woman
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\10\story_10-8-2009_pg7_31

Sign Petition: End Domestic Violence in the Muslim World
http://www.care2.com/news/member/338686546/1215843

'The Stoning of Soraya M.': Cruel reality is behind powerful story
http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/story/756866.html

Other News:

(U.S.) Islamic Supremacist Hizb ut-Tahrir Promotes Videos on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AD2F7ED8B3ED6769
http://www.vcasmo.com/video/klove1934/5700
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1963789

(UK) Police arrest 33 after protests over Islam
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5772GK20090808
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/08/birmingham-anti-islamic-fundamentalism.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205263/Police-arrest-31-demonstration-Islamic-fundamentalism.html

(Kenya) Christians Oppose Muslim Push for Sharia in Kenya
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/ICCnews/newsdetail.php?newscode=10619&title=christians-oppose-musim-push-for-sharia-in-kenya-
-- Daily Nation: "Muslims to educate Christians on Kadhis courts"
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/636572/-/ullwc3/-/

Against Nazi News:

(Germany) Verdict due for ex-Nazi war criminal
-- Josef Scheungraber
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4555283,00.html

Against Racial Supremacism News:

(U.S.) Mississippi: Madison Co. Residents Not Frightened By Hateful Graffiti
http://www.wapt.com/news/20307945/detail.html

(U.S.) NY: Man fears KKK-style lynching, kills teen
http://www.sunjournal.com/node/101273