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September 14, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(U.S.) New York residences raided in terrorism probe
-- "Law enforcement agents raided residences in New York City on Monday as part of a terrorism investigation, and began briefing Congress about the probe"
-- "New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne confirmed that searches were conducted in the borough of Queens by agents of a joint terrorism task force. He would not discuss the matter further"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090914/ap_on_go_ot/us_nyc_terror
-- Law Enforcement Agents Raid NYC Residences as Part of Terrorism Probe
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/14/law-enforcement-agents-raid-nyc-residences-terrorism-probe/
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/national-9/1252965089154200.xml&storylist=simetro

Al-Qaeda's Osama Bin Laden tape mocks 'powerless' Barack Obama
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6190135/Bin-Laden-tape-mocks-powerless-Barack-Obama.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6185820/Osama-bin-Laden-calls-Barack-Obama-powerless.html
-- AFP video: "Rethink your ways, Bin Laden tells Americans"
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=15546896&ch=4226714&src=news
-- Bin Laden audiotape is all about Israel
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Bin-Laden-audiotape-is-all-about-Israel/H1-Article1-453985.aspx
-- Related reports
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/14/binladen.message/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549780,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804564871&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/middle-east/To-mark-9/11-Osama-fires-salvo-at-Obama/articleshow/5011673.cms
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6833423.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6834223.ece
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58D0CX20090914

(Pakistan) Rashid Rauf 'training dozens of British terrorist recruits in Pakistan'
-- "Pakistani officials have warned that Rashid Rauf, the terrorist linked to the trans-Atlantic airline bomb plot, bas been involved in grooming two dozen British recruits to carry out new attacks"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6184087/Rashid-Rauf-training-dozens-of-British-terrorist-recruits-in-Pakistan.html

(Pakistan) 'Fazlullah cornered, will be caught dead or alive'
-- more conflicting reports -- previously reported him as "captured"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_21
-- "There have been plenty of false reports of Fazlullah's death and capture over the past several months"
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/2009/09/swats_mullah_fazlullah_capture.php

(Pakistan) Roadside bomb explosion in northern Pakistan wounds 7 policemen
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2025460&Language=en

Pakistan outsources part of terror war to militia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan_proxy_war
-- Pro-govt lashkars might also 'bite the hand that feeds'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_19

"Pakistani authorities sacked more than 700 police who failed to show up for work after they were threatened by a militant leader in the famed Khyber tribal region"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-more-than-700-khasadar-sacked-after-threats-ss-08

(Pakistan) Missile kills 4 in Pakistan; 18 die in stampede
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090914/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_36

(Pakistan) 14 policemen injured in Mansehra blast
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_8

(Pakistan) "27 Taliban killed, 152 surrender in Swat"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg1_4

(Pakistan) Police arrest mastermind of Kazmi attack
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_15

Pakistan asks India to share intelligence on terror threats
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_13

(Pakistan/India) Lashkar, Jaish still hatching terror plots, says Chidambaram
http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/15/stories/2009091554770100.htm

(India) Terrorist threat to India now more serious: Chidambaram
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-terrorism-from-across-the-border-concerns-india-qs-11

(Afghanistan) ISAF soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2025581&Language=en

(Afghanistan) US commanders 'consider new Afghan policy'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6185497/US-commanders-consider-new-Afghan-policy.html

(Afghanistan) Fifth British soldier killed in Afghan region 'cleared of Taleban'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6833698.ece
-- SAS veteran John McAleese's son was victim of new Taliban 'stealth bomb', claim
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6186431/SAS-veteran-John-McAleeses-son-was-victim-of-new-Taliban-stealth-bomb-claim.html

(Afghanistan) Taliban gain power in city key to Afghan politics - Kandahar
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32836277/ns/world_news-washington_post/
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_17

Afghanistan election: Abdullah Abdullah accuses Hamid Karzai of treason
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6185673/Afghanistan-election-Abdullah-Abdullah-accuses-Hamid-Karzai-of-treason.html

Afghanistan: Taliban commander surrenders in west
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3769379818

(Iraq) Two policemen killed while deactivating explosive device in Mosul
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2025596&Language=en

Iraq to present Syria bombing link on Ankara visit
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/September/middleeast_September313.xml&section=middleeast

Iran: Obama 'held captive' by Republicans, Ahmadinejad aide claims -- Ali Akbar Javanfakr
--- Shiite Islamic supremacist echoes Sunni Islamic supremacist Osama Bin Laden
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.3769186823

(UK) Airliner bomb plotters get life sentences
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/14/uk.airline.bomb.sentencing/index.html
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3769834566
-- Airline liquid bomb plotters jailed for 108 years for planning 'most wicked crime in Britain's history'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213356/Liquid-bomb-plotters-jailed-life-planning-atrocity-comparable-September-11.html

(UK) "Hate Israel, Love Racism"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/09/14/hate-israel-love-racism/

(UK) Asylum seeker 'faces death penalty' -- Hussain Muradi
-- "A campaign group has warned that a failed Afghan asylum seeker who has renounced Islam could face the death penalty if deported from the UK."
-- "The British Humanist Association (BHA) warned Hussain Muradi, 24, who had been living in Kent, could be killed if sent back to Afghanistan."
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asylum+seeker+faces+death+penalty/3342422
-- Afghan apostate 'faces death' if deported
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/afghan-apostate-faces-death-if-deported-1786862.html
-- Hussain Muradi moved to Dover, but told deportation "not imminent"
http://www.humanism.org.uk/news/view/356
-- 'Apostate' Hussain Muradi freed from Immigration detention
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/09/14/apostate-hussain-muradi-freed-from-immigration-detention/

Lebanese militant group takes credit for firing two rockets at Israel
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2025502&Language=en
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804564527&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israeli military attacked in central Gaza Strip
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2025587&Language=en

(Somalia) Top militant Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan 'killed' in helicopter raid on Somali village
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6834451.ece
-- U.S. Special Ops Kill Somali Terror Bomber
-- "U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted a raid in southern Somalia on Monday that killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of 4 co-conspirators wanted in the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, two senior U.S. military officials told FOX News"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550100,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804570732&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Somalia) Pakistan: Interior Minister Rehman Malik: 'Top Al Qaeda leaders fleeing to Somalia, Yemen'
-- Pakistan government sends clear message that it wants U.S. to stop looking in Pakistan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_42

Yemen says kills 20 rebels, heavy bombing in north
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LE70908.htm

(Yemen) Report: Three Jewish families leave Yemen
-- "A Yemenite Jew was killed in Yemen last December by a Muslim man who ordered Jews to convert or be killed."
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/14/1007840/report-three-jewish-families-leave-yemen

(Yemen) Al-Qaida expands in Yemen, Somalia
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/nation-world/s_642605.html

Egypt: Church Firebombed in Egypt After Opposition From Muslim Neighbor
http://www.aina.org/news/20090912153320.htm

Egypt destroys 10 Gaza smuggling tunnels
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=314784&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

(Germany) Two Al Qaeda suspects on trial in Germany
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg7_46
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1500964.php/Two-on-trial-in-Germany-for-al-Qaeda-membership

(Russia) Bomb detonates in Dagestan near police bus, no one injured
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090913/156114716.html

Russia: Concern about Swedish Jihadi site
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/09/russia-concern-about-swedish-jihadi.html
http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=3961

(Russia) Chechnya Wins Right to Open Offices in Europe
-- "Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov raised questions about his foreign policy ambitions earlier in the week when he announced that his administration had received permission from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to open representative offices in European countries"
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/383064/index.html
--- March 1, 2009: Russia: Chechen President 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/
--- April 2009: Russia/Chechnya - Islamic Supremacist Kadyrov Justifies Polygamy, Calls for "Honor Killings" Against Women Who Are "Promiscuous"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/04/kadyrov-polygamy/
--- August 25, 2009: Russian Prime Minster Putin Supports Chechen Islamic Supremacist Kadyrov Who Defends "Honor Killings"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/russian-pm-supports-kadyrov/

(Australia) Jury to deliberate in terror trial
-- "Khaled Cheikho, 36, Moustafa Cheikho, 32, Mohamed Ali Elomar, 44, Abdul Rakib Hasan, 40, and Mohammed Omar Jamal, 25, have all pleaded not guilty to conspiring to commit an act, or acts, in preparation for a terrorist act"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26070683-29277,00.html

(Thailand) 5 soldiers injured in ambush in Pattani
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30112168/5-soldiers-injured-in-ambush-in-Pattani

'Al-Sharq Al-Awsat' Editor: Bin Laden, Holocaust Museum Shooter Driven By Same Hatred
-- Conclusion is that "faults the U.S. for allowing such hatred to proliferate by protecting freedom of speech"
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD253409

Other News:

A Book Burner for UNESCO? -- regarding Egypt's Farouk Hosni
-- "The most strenuous objections to Hosni's bid have been charges of anti-Semitism tied to comments he made in May 2008 that he would "burn Israeli books" himself if he found any in Egyptian libraries."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/13/AR2009091302248.html

(U.S.) IPT News: "State Department Website Panders To Radical Islamists"
-- "The United States government's stepped-up courting of Islamist groups is on display at the State Department web portal www.america.gov. The site bills itself as a place to "meet the people" and "explore the values and ideas that define the character of the United States." But when it comes to American Muslim organizations, that often means providing a U.S. government stamp of approval to organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) or apologists like the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)."
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1411/state-department-website-panders-to-radical

(Indonesia) Council for Foreign Relations (CFR): "A Muslim Model: What Indonesia Can Teach the World"
http://www.cfr.org/publication/20199
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/13/a_muslim_model_what_indonesia_can_teach_the_world/
-- Indonesia's Aceh passes law on stoning to death
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j3xM0wMa6B_ROLfj91lT2WtRLAxgD9AN34RO0
-- Indonesia: Adulterers face stoning
http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/3d68bf0c38c14afd8a5c83af6a1d550a/14-09-2009%2009-06/Adulterers_face_stoning
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26074179-23109,00.html

Egypt: Thousands of Christians Gather to Pray for Equality in Egypt
-- "Around 7,000 Coptic Christians gathered at the Father Kyrillos church on the outskirts of Cairo to pray for an end to discrimination during the celebration of the Egyptian Coptic New Year this weekend."
http://www.aina.org/news/20090913141718.htm

(UK) Muslims warned of bogus charities
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/8255557.stm

(UK) Maddie investigator Dave Edgar recalls the horrific cases that still haunt him
-- "Shafilea Ahmed, 17, who vanished from her home in Warrington, Cheshire on September 11 2003"
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/maddie-investigator-dave-edgar-recalls-the-horrific-cases-that-still-haunt-him-14489788.html
-- "Dave suspected an 'honour killing' but the killer or killers were never brought to justice.
-- "A coroner ruled last year that Shafilea was murdered after rejecting an arranged marriage.
-- "Before her death, Shafilea drank bleach in an act of self-harm.
-- "Dave said: 'It's the one that got away for me, and the one I'll always be bitter about.'"
-- "'It was horrific to find her body so badly decomposed in that river. Honour killings these days are getting out of control.'"
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/maddie-investigator-dave-edgar-recalls-the-horrific-cases-that-still-haunt-him-14489788.html

(Pakistan) Three women of a family murdered
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\15\story_15-9-2009_pg13_1

Lockerbie bomber backlash forces Harris Tweed to shrug off its Scottish image for the U.S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213271/Lockerbie-bomber-backlash-forces-Harris-tweed-maker-drop-word-Scottish-U-S-marketing-campaign.html

France's army embraces its Muslim soldiers
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/frances-army-embraces-its-muslim-soldiers/article1287552/

Against Totalitarianism News:

(U.S.) Members of U.S. Congress Ask President Hu Jintao to Demonstrate Rule of Law in China
http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=105&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1286&month=09&year=2009&_nc=b222f585fb46d7cfe6de68300cb9aec9

Against Racial Supremacism News:

(U.S.) Cleveland area black family finds noose in yard
-- "A black family in the Cleveland area says they found a noose in their front yard and a note telling them to 'get out.'"
-- "Frederick Howery says his two daughters discovered a rope knotted into a noose at a base of a tree on Sunday, along with the note, signed 'Aryan Knights of Fairview Park.' The note also bore a swastika."
http://www.ohio.com/news/ohiocentric/57695147.html
-- Fairview Park black family finds noose, hate note in their yard
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/09/fairview_park_black_family_fin.html
-- Related report:
http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/state_regional/article/cleveland_area_black_family_finds_noose_in_yard/22785/
-- UPI
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=22600&catid=60
-- NewNet5: City Shows Support, Hopes To Solve Case Of Noose In Yard
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/20858904/detail.html

(U.S.) Virginia: Jewish center again tagged by hate
-- Daily Press reports:
-- "For Kenny Murov, the sight of anti-Semitic graffiti at the United Jewish Community Center was depressingly familiar."
-- "'Lightning has struck twice,' said Murov, president of the United Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula."
-- "On Thursday morning, four people were caught on surveillance video spray-painting swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti at the property on Spring Road."
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_graffiti_0912sep12,0,7847095.story?track=rss

(U.S.) David Duke nemesis Beth Rickey dead at 53
http://www.katc.com/global/category.asp?C=37641

(U.S.) New York: Deputies: Geneva man fled, yelled racial slurs
http://www.mpnnow.com/news/x186857801/Deputies-Geneva-man-fled-yelled-racial-slurs

(U.S.) Reports on Hate Signs and Placards
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42406957@N04/3912840785/in/set-72157622225019439/
http://tinyurl.com/nymxgp
http://tinyurl.com/mogl4w
http://tinyurl.com/m9v5oa

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