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September 5-6, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

Pakistan Prime Minister Gilani: Govt pursuing long term, multi-pronged strategy to root out terrorism -- seeks to improve "law and order"
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85525&Itemid=38
-- September 6 - Defense Day today
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=196989
-- UK Foreign Secretary Miliband praises Pakistan's fight against terrorism
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\06\story_6-9-2009_pg7_4
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=218965
-- August 13, 2009 - Pakistan: New Poll Shows 78 Percent of Pakistanis Support Death Penalty for Leaving Islam
-- 83 percent support stoning adulterers
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-78-percent-call-for-apostate-deaths/
-- April 16, 2008 - Gilani at Pakistan National Assembly mtg where it passes resolution calling for U.N. to impose death penalty internationally for blasphemy
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\04\16\story_16-4-2008_pg7_6

Pakistan: Murder of Couple and Adopted Child -- Motive Appears Their Freely Choosing Marriage -- Family Suspected
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/pakistan-murder-of-couple-and-child/

(Pakistan) Swat militants kill two brothers
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=196971

(Pakistan) Swat, Malakand 'almost' cleared of Taliban: Zardari
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Swat-Malakand-almost-cleared-of-Taliban-Zardari/articleshow/4976202.cms

Pakistan forces destroy militant headquarters - in Khyber region bordering Afghanistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Pak-forces-destroy-militant-headquarters/articleshow/4975703.cms
-- 43 militants killed in Khyber Agency
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\06\story_6-9-2009_pg1_5

(Pakistan) US terror suspect fails to show in Pakistan court - Jude Kenan Mohammad
-- one of suspects "at large"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0b7Nl29JNiawnJGQgmjSv8yL5WgD9AH65D80
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\06\story_6-9-2009_pg7_17

Pakistan Prime Minister Gilani: Sri Lankan elements behind attack on SL cricketers
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Lankan-elements-behind-attack-on-SL-cricketers-Gilani/articleshow/4978820.cms

(Pakistan) Times of India: Osama Bin Laden introduced former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Saudi royals: ex-ISI officer
-- Khalid Khwaja: "During a meeting with bin Laden as Prime Minister in the 1990s Sharif asked him to provide employment to Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia and undertake development projects in Pakistan"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Osama-introduced-Nawaz-Sharif-to-Saudi-royals-ex-ISI-officer/articleshow/4978856.cms
-- Previously reported March 22, 2006: Sharif met Bin Laden, says ex-ISI official
-- which stated that "Khwaja, who developed a friendship with Osama while fighting against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 80s"
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub-Continent&month=March2006&file=World_News2006032214825.xml
-- December 2008: "Khalid Khwaja, an old ISI colleague of Mr Gul, said he suspected his was another name the United States aimed to add to the UN list."
http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/08/top17.htm

(Afghanistan) American soldier killed in eastern Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2023852&Language=en

(Afghanistan) Bomb targets German troops in north Afghanistan
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD9AH0AUO2

(Afghanistan) Taliban mortars kill women in Kunar
http://www.pajhwok.com/viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=81087

(Afghanistan) Taliban attacks in north Afghanistan spike
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/06/taliban-attacks-in-north-spike/

Afghan villagers bury their dead as Taliban watch
-- "The fighters' presence underlined the Taliban's tightening grip in once-quiet parts of northern Afghanistan at a time when U.S.-led forces are battling to contain an increasingly aggressive insurgency mainly centred in the south and east."
http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINB22607120090905?rpc=401&

(Afghanistan) U.S. Gen. Confirms Afghan Civilians Wounded
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/05/world/main5290056.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
-- General McChrystal goes on Afghanistan TV to promise airstrike death inquiry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6143748/General-McChrystal-goes-on-Afghanistan-TV-to-promise-airstrike-death-inquiry.html

(Afghanistan) President Hamid Karzai takes 100% of votes in opposition stronghold
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6823431.ece
-- Votes thrown out at 447 Afghan polling sites; Karzai leads
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090906/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_election

(Afghanistan) UK MoD blocked warning that Britain faces Afghan defeat
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6823319.ece

(Iraq/Syria) Following August 19 Baghdad Bombings, Syrian Daily Teshreen Warns Obama: The Syria-Iran Alliance, Which Is Cultivating the Resistance, Has Won a Great Victory – And Will Not Wait Until Hesitant Obama Reaches a Decision
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD251909

(U.S.) White House adviser resigns amid 9/11 controversy -- Van Jones
-- "Presidential adviser Van Jones is resigning after coming under fire for signing a controversial petition regarding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks"
-- "The Jones controversy centers on a 2004 petition he signed on a Web site that said: 'A call for immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11 attacks to occur.'"
-- "An administration source told CNN that Jones did not carefully review the language on the petition."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/06/obama.adviser.resigns/index.html
-- Text of Resignation Letter From Van Jones
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/09/06/raw-data-text-resignation-letter-van-jones/

(U.S.) Administration Seeks to Keep Terror Watch-List Data Secret
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/05/AR2009090502240.html?hpid=moreheadlines

(U.S.) CIA asks Justice to probe leaks of secrets
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/04/cia-asks-justice-to-probe-leaks-of-secrets/?feat=article_top10_read

(UK/Libya) Lockerbie decision will be 'rewarded' by trade deals, say Libyan officials
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6143874/Lockerbie-decision-will-be-rewarded-by-trade-deals-say-Libyan-officials.html
-- Libya and Britain: the new special relationship
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6823266.ece

(UK/Libya) Gordon Brown vetoes Libyan payout to IRA victims
-- "because it might have jeopardized British oil deals with Libya"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6823348.ece
-- In the Megrahi affair, the more we learn, the worse it gets
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/6143741/In-the-Megrahi-affair-the-more-we-learn-the-worse-it-gets.html

(UK/Libya) New anguish in Lockerbie over 1988 bombing
-- "Twenty years after Pan Am Flight 103 exploded 31,000 feet above Lockerbie, residents are still finding debris"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32713071/ns/world_news-washington_post/

(UK/Libya) Tony Blair and Colonel Gadaffi discussed Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6823336.ece
-- Libya paid for medical advice that helped Lockerbie bomber's release
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6143073/Revealed-Libya-paid-for-medical-advice-that-helped-Lockerbie-bombers-release.html

(UK/Libya) Colonel Gaddafi's controversial Muslim clerics head for Midlands
-- "A group of controversial Muslim clerics funded by Colonel Gaddafi are set to make appearances at three Midland Mosques."
-- "Eleven preachers sponsored by the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), which was founded, led and paid for by the Libyan leader, will be holding events in Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham during Ramadan."
-- "in a recent speech, Colonel Gaddafi said that the aim of Wics was to convert the whole of Europe to Islam."
-- Gaddafi quoted: "This religion shall overcome all other religions before it... This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted to Islam. Europe will one day be a Muslim continent."
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/09/06/colonel-gaddafi-s-controversial-muslim-clerics-head-for-midlands-66331-24615894/
--- February 2009: "Williams also recently addressed the World Islamic Call Society in Libya about interfaith relations"
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34174
--- Special Agent of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Brett Gentrup: WICS "the outlet for state approved religion, as well as a tool for exporting the revolution abroad." (page 14)
http:/fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usalamoudi93003cmp.pdf
--- U.S. State Dept: "Libyan leader Colonel Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi established the Islamic Call Society (ICS), which is the outlet for state-approved religion, as well as a tool for exporting the revolution abroad"
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2002/14007.htm
--- "Eyes Wide Shut" - report on WICS and money-laundering
http://spectator.org/archives/2003/12/17/eyes-wide-shut/print

(Iran/Russia) Missing channel pirate ship carried Russian arms for Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6823300.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6145336/Arctic-Sea-ghost-ship-was-carrying-weapons-to-Iran.html

(Lebanon) Army arrests 11 suspects involved in clashes in N. Lebanon
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2023809&Language=en

Hamas commander threatens Schalit
-- "Muhammad Sinwar of Hamas's armed wing says he'll hurt soldier if his brother isn't included in deal"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804496956&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Israel) Plot to kill Israel's army chief of staff -- alleged Hezbollah plot
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6823407.ece

(Saudi Arabia) Al-Otaibi dreamed of jihad since his teens – mom
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009090649019

Yemen new hot spot for terrorists: minister
-- "Canadian officials observing 'flow' of extremists"
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1964663

(Somaliland) Al-Shabab Leader Threatens Somaliland
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-04-voa40.cfm

Somalia: African Union Allows Peacekeepers to Attack Militants
http://allafrica.com/stories/200909050001.html

(Russia) Two militants killed in Chechnya
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2023765&Language=en

Germany on Alert -- Intel agencies are swamped with threat warnings.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214954

(Italy) AKI: "Italy: Ramadan may be used to 'recruit militants' in prison "
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.0.3731049377

(Netherlands) Dutch to free suspected jihadists
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news/Dutch-to-free-suspected-jihadists_56026.html

(Canada) Stern messages on terrorism
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/691582

(Thailand) Southern Thailand's Turmoil Grows
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/world/asia/05thailand.html
-- Poll: Southern violence not to end soon
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/153516/poll-southern-violence-not-to-end-soon

(Thailand) Yala: Muslim man killed, wife injured in drive-by shooting in Yala
-- "Police said the couple were riding their motorcycle to their rubber plantation when two insurgents on a motorcycle caught up and opened fire at them."
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30111568/Muslim-man-killed-wife-injured-in-drive-by-shootin

(Venezuela) Chavez: Iran is 'a true strategic ally'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804498310&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

Pakistan: Murder of Couple and Adopted Child -- Motive Appears Their Freely Choosing Marriage -- Family Suspected
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/pakistan-murder-of-couple-and-child/
-- Pakistan Daily Times: "Couple's bodies identified"
-- "A 40-year-old man killed a day earlier along with his wife has been identified as a retired army personnel on Saturday. The police is said to have adopted their six-month-old child."
-- The investigators believe that their family is behind the assassination as they got married according to their own free will after escaping from their hometown two years ago."
-- "A day has passed since their assassination but their families have not yet contacted the police and the investigators, through their efforts, have identified the couple and are still trying to contact their families. The man was identified as Mohammad Idrees, son of Mohammad Saleem while his wife as Tasleem, 34."
-- "The gunshot bodies of the couple were found from the nullah located at factory area, Abidabad in the limits of Mochko police station on Friday and then the bodies were shifted to the Edhi morgue, Sohrab Goth after legal formalities were completed in the Civil Hospital, Karachi (CHK). The case of the dual murder has also been registered at the Mochko police station."
-- "Both got married according to their own will out of love."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\06\story_6-9-2009_pg12_6

Other News:

Iran: Growing Fear Iranian Govt will Purge Studies Deemed "un-Islamic"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/growing-fear-iran-govt-will-purge-studies/
Scotsman News: "Education targeted as threat to Islam"
Scotsman News reporter Michael Slackman:
-- "As Iran's universities prepare to start classes this month, there is a growing fear that the government will purge political and social science departments of professors and curriculums deemed 'un-Islamic'"
-- "The concerns have been stoked by speeches by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as confessions of political prisoners that suggest that the study of secular topics and ideas has made universities incubators for the political unrest unleashed after the disputed presidential election in June."
-- "Khamenei said last week that the study of social sciences 'promotes doubts and uncertainty.' He urged 'ardent defenders of Islam' to review the human sciences that are taught in Iran's universities and 'promote secularism'"
-- "For years, the study of subjects such as philosophy and sociology has been viewed suspiciously by Iranian conservatives. During the earliest days of the Islamic Revolution, the nation's leaders closed universities and tried to sanitise curriculums to fit their Islamic revolutionary ideology. The efforts ultimately failed under the weight of more pragmatic forces eager to engage with Western economies, and a student population hungry for contemporary ideas and contact with the West."
-- "But in recent years, academics who attended conferences abroad, or took part in cultural exchange programmes, have often been vilified at home or viewed suspiciously. Some have been arrested on charges of trying to organise a soft revolution."
-- "The recent speeches by the country's leaders suggest they may no longer be willing to live with such ambiguity after months of unsuccessfully trying to extinguish the political and social crisis set off by the election."
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Education-targeted-as-threat-to.5621587.jp

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says ideology "universal"
http://bikyamasr.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-says-ideology-universal/

Egypt arrests 155 for "not fasting" during Ramadan
http://bikyamasr.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/egypt-arrests-155-for-not-fasting-during-ramadan/

Egyptian Copts abroad call for national strike in Egypt
http://bikyamasr.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/copts-abroad-call-for-national-strike-in-egypt/

(Saudi Arabia) 2 in trouble for photographing public lashings
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009090649016

(Pakistan) World church body to Pakistan: Don't punish blasphemy with death
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-09-02-pakistan-muslim_N.htm

(Iraq) Christians continue to suffer in Iraq
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/christian-soldiers/

Malaysia Muslim protest derails Hindu temple plan
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804498185&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Nigeria) Church missions spread in Nigeria despite extremist Muslim harassment
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=17021

(UK) Scotland: "I was sacked for being a Christian"
-- "Mahboob Masih is going to the European Court of Justice in a bid to defend freedom of speech in Scotland"
-- "The Rev Mahboob Masih came to Scotland from the Pakistani city of Faisalabad in part to escape the daily persecution he faced as a Christian in a Muslim country"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6823080.ece

(UK) London Mayor Boris Johnson at East London Mosque
-- "Speaking during a visit to the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/borisjohnson/6137842/Boris-Johnson-fast-during-Ramadan-to-understand-Muslims.html
-- "Its imam, Abdul Qayum, is a signatory of the pro-Hamas Istanbul declaration (pdf), the fruit of an assembly of radical Islamist clerics and Hamas leaders in Turkey in February 2009. Tolerance is most certainly not a word that springs to mind when one reads the declaration."
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/09/04/a-slow-learner/
http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/istpdf.pdf
-- Clerics urge new jihad over Gaza
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7895485.stm

(UK) Violence flares at anti-Islamic extremism protest
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggB311ExVP-WxnuS0xT8NGvYSiQQ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6143569/Riot-police-arrest-20-as-right-wing-protest-in-Birmingham-ends-in-violence.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6823767.ece
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/07-anti-islamic-extremism-rally-turns-violent-in-uk-ha-01
-- Note images with London Times report
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00610/EDL_04_610227a.jpg
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00610/EDL_07_610226a.jpg
-- Then note how Pakistan Dawn report portrays images
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/b02470004f79d9efac5aac9e0af43e54/BirminghamProtestAFP_608x32.jpg?MOD=AJPERES

(U.S.) Detroit: Some Muslims say hijab case has no merit - Majed Moughni criticizes CAIR
http://www.freep.com/article/20090905/NEWS05/909050337/1322/Some-Muslims-say-hijab-case-has-no-merit

(U.S.) The Baltimore Sun: "Give this man a Muslim holy book" -- quotes CAIR
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/09/john_piper_quran_cair.html

(U.S.) Washington Post: "Islam Goes to Bat for America" - Dar-ul-Islam mosque in Elizabeth, N.J.
-- "Muslims Organizing Service Outside Capitol to 'Pray for the Soul' of the Nation"
-- previously reported September 1 - this article written by same New Jersey Star-Ledger author Jeff Diamant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090403877.html
http://dar-ul-islam.org/
-- last week's "top sponsor" was Siraj Wahhaj - no longer on web site
-- "MASJID TAQWA Imam Siraj Wahhaj 50 buses"
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/THIS_WEEK_TOP_SPONSOR.html
-- "Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Imam of Masjid Taqwa in New York"
-- "Imam Wahhaj has been Vice President of ISNA U.S. since 1997"
http://www.imamswahhaj.com/about-imam-siraj-wahhaj.html
http://www.egypttoday.com/popimage.aspx?ImageID=13456
-– Siraj Wahhaj was a character witness for convicted 1993 World Trade Center terrorist "blind sheik” Omar Rahman, has called for replacing the American government with a caliphate. According to Siraj Wahhaj, “if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional govt. with a caliphate. If we were united and strong, he said, we would elect our own emir and give allegiance to him. Take my word if 8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/independence-day/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Siraj_Wahhaj
http://web.archive.org/web/20071230232756/http://www.kashmirtelegraph.com/jagan.htm
-- Stoning advocate to address Connecticut crowd
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56496