September 8, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com
(Pakistan) Christians in Pakistan Fear Further Firestorms
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/pakistan-christians-in-pakistan-fear-further-firestorms/
-- COMPASS reports
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/pakistan/9161/
(Pakistan) Police arrest 4 suspects involved in Gojra riots
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\09\story_9-9-2009_pg7_20
-- Comment: report neglects to point out that there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, involved in riots
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-hate-engulfs-christians/
(Pakistan) Double game that let bin Laden slip through net
-- "The hunt for Osama bin Laden has been obstructed, by Pakistan’s ambiguous relationship with the Taleban and al-Qaeda"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6826717.ece
(Pakistan) Former CIA agent's eight years hunting bin Laden in Pakistani badlands
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6826701.ece
(Pakistan) Senior al Qaeda leaders reported killed in North Waziristan strike
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/09/senior_al_qaeda_lead_6.php
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24388
(Pakistan) 30 militants killed in Bara, Orakzai Agency
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\09\story_9-9-2009_pg1_2
(Pakistan) Taliban kill 4 Pakistani schoolkids
http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/international/taliban-kill-4-pakistani-schoolkids.aspx
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Taliban-militants-attack-students-in-Pakistan-4-killed/articleshow/4984784.cms
Pakistan: Taliban leader cancels media visit after drone attack
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3746033339
Pakistan: Three Swedes suspected of al-Qaeda links
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/09/pakistan-three-swedes-suspected-of-al.html
(Pakistan) Eight tankers ferrying oil to NATO troops torched in Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Eight-tankers-ferrying-oil-to-NATO-troops-torched-in-Pakistan/articleshow/4986961.cms
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/06-nato-tankers-come-under-attack-in-quetta-rs-01
(Pakistan) Terror threat prompts high security across Punjab
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\09\story_9-9-2009_pg7_34
(Pakistan) Plans to expand US embassy worry Pakistanis
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\09\story_9-9-2009_pg7_32
(Afghanistan) 4 Americans killed in attack in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
-- Suicide car bomb kills four outside NATO airbase in Kabul
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6825988.ece
-- Afghan insurgents kill 12 in ambush, including 4 U.S. Marines
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090908/wl_mcclatchy/3307587_1
(Afghanistan) Karzai to talk with Taliban within 100 days: media
-- "Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai hopes to hold peace talks with the Taliban within 100 days if he is re-elected, he told the French daily Le Figaro in an interview published on Monday."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jEUiJ57UuJvdTq5Vs3_qrSi3vB-A
(Afghanistan) Taliban mortars kill women in Kunar
http://www.pajhwok.com/viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=81087
(Afghanistan) Taliban strike Kabul's airport
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6155052/Taliban-strike-Kabuls-airport.html
(Afghanistan) Traveling the Taliban highway - video
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/09/08/ware.afghan.taliban.hwy.long.cnn
-- Afghan highway symbol of mission in crisis
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/08/afghanistan.highway/index.html
(Afghanistan) U.N.-backed panel finds Afghan election fraud, orders recounts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_election
(Iraq) Military: Roadside bombs kill 4 US troops in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq
-- Three more American soldiers killed in Iraq on Tuesday
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2024420&Language=en
-- US soldier killed in Iraq
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2024399&Language=en
(U.S.) IPT News: "Judge's Ruling Won't Clear KindHearts"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1403/judges-ruling-wont-clear-kindhearts
(U.S.) Study: Terrorists shifting focus to 'soft' targets
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_go_ot/us_terrorism_hotel_attacks
(U.S.) Defense Dep't. nixes request for Guantanamo tour
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4xYyvWDfL4tuqx_gqzGLQCH0i9gD9AJBMH80
(U.S.) Taliban Threaten Arizona and Nevada
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20090908.aspx
(UK) Behind all terror attacks against Britain, Bin Laden's Holy Warrior Abu Ubaida Al Masri
-- "Investigators believe Egypt-born Masri is linked to the recruitment of the young British ringleaders chosen to head the cells tasked with carrying out the spectacular attacks."
-- "Known his disciples as 'Muddabir' - Pashto for 'one who plans' - he was also linked to another British terror suspect, Rashid Rauf, alleged to be a key member of the airline bomb plot."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211827/Behind-terror-attacks-Britain-Bin-Ladens-Holy-Warrior.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Airline bomb plot: mosque has been recruiting ground for 20 years
-- "A mosque frequented by the leader of the airline plot terrorist cell has been a recruiting ground for extremists for more than 20 years."
-- "The Queen's Road mosque in Walthamstow, northeast London, where Abdulla Ahmed Ali met his associates, is controlled by the ultraorthodox Tablighi Jamaat. Intelligence services around the world believe that Tablighi’s fundamentalism makes some of its followers easy prey for terrorist recruiters."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6818794.ece
--- Waltham Forest: Borough in danger of being associated with terrorism, says imam
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4586840.WALTHAM_FOREST__Borough_in_danger_of_being_associated_with_terrorism__says_imam/
(UK) Church of England recommends 7/7 bombers' mosque as tourist destination
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6137354/Church-of-England-recommends-77-bombers-mosque-as-tourist-destination.html
(UK) Ringleader of airline plot dreamed of jihad since his teens -- Abdulla Ahmed Ali
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/08/abdulla-ahmed-ali-airline-plot
(UK/Pakistan) Rashid Rauf: missing 'mastermind' of the airline bomb plot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/08/rashid-rauf-airline-bomb-plot
-- Could Rashid Rauf, the terror fugitive 'wiped out by a missile', be alive after all?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212110/Could-terror-fugitive-Rashid-Rauf-wiped-missile-alive-all.html
(UK) Flight restrictions should remain, former anti-terror chief
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2024415&Language=en
(UK) Air chaos for years: Al Qaeda is still plotting passenger plane attacks on the West
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212126/Air-chaos-years-Al-Qaeda-plotting-passenger-plane-attacks-West.html
(UK) "Al-Qaeda's focus has moved from UK, but the threat has not gone away"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6826744.ece
(UK) The airline plot denouement raises yet more questions about Londonistan
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5315351/the-airline-plot-denouement-raises-yet-more-questions-about-londonistan.thtml
Iran's confrontation with West over nuclear program 'has reached a stalemate', IAEA head says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6153642/Irans-confrontation-with-West-over-nuclear-programme-has-reached-a-stalemate-IAEA-head-says.html
Iran agents raid opposition party headquarters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32737115/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
(Iran) 'US should get more serious on Iran'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804523734&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Lebanon) Al-Akhbar: Al-Qaeda Is Preparing to Strike in Lebanon
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/19794.htm
(Lebanon) Hizbullah slams Hariri's proposed gov't
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804510652&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hamas, Fatah set to sign reconciliation accord by 2010
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804523436&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- August 16, 2009: Fatah Sixth General Conference Resolutions: Pursuing Peace Option Without Relinquishing Resistance or Right to Armed Struggle
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA54109
Gaza: "Hamas foiled plot to assassinate Carter, Blair: al-Qaeda"
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Hamas-foiled-plot-to-assassinate-Carter-Blair/H1-Article1-451525.aspx
UAE tries 8 for backing 'terrorism', says paper
http://www.omanobserver.com/Daily/World/World6.htm
How effective are terrorist rehabilitation programs?
-- "Recent attacks in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia have left some wondering whether attempts to turn militants away from terrorism have failed"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0907/p99s01-duts.html
Yemen arrests four with grenades, guns near U.S. embassy
http://www.reuters.com/article/africaCrisis/idUSL8103228
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/rest-of-world/Four-men-with-explosives-caught-near-US-embassy-Yemen/articleshow/4988650.cms
Somali Government Enthused About Negotiations with Insurgents
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-09-07-voa1.cfm
(Niger/Canada) Diplomat Fowler suspects leak led to abduction
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/08/fowler-abduction-interview0907.html
-- Canadian Diplomat: Betrayal Led to Kidnapping
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548044,00.html
Turkish father goes on trial over son's gay "honour killing"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/turkish-father-goes-on-trial-over-sons-gay-honor-killing-murder-of-ahmet-yildiz/
-- DPA: "A Turkish father accused of murdering his homosexual son in a so-called 'honour killing' went on trial in the Uskudar municipality of Istanbul Tuesday."
-- "Yahya Yildiz, 49 - who is on the run and is being tried in absentia - is accused of shooting his 26-year-old son Ahmet in June 2008 after the latter told him about his relationship with a man from Cologne in Germany. "
-- "Ibrahim Can, the victim's German-Turkish boyfriend, demanded that those who had helped the murderer also be prosecuted. But, he said, 'my expectations from the trial are minimal'. "
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1499888.php/Turkish-father-goes-on-trial-over-son-s-gay-honour-killing
--- Background on Islamic Supremacist 'Honor Killing' of Ahmet Yildiz
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/02/ahmet-yildiz/
(Germany) Al-Qaeda Targeting Germany for 'Next 9/11' - Within Weeks
-- "the upcoming German national election on September 27 has been marked as a 'red flag date'" by Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133325
-- No mention in ITRR press room
http://www.terrorresponse.org/itrr-07-pressroom.htm
-- September 4, 2009 - Germany: Intel agencies are swamped with threat warnings.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214954
Serbia jails 4 Muslims for plotting terror attack
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL8443906
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3747520619
Russia denies Arctic Sea carried missiles to Iran
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/transportshippingcrimerussia
Islamic Supremacist War on Women:
Joan Smith: One thing is certain with sharia... men make the rules
-- "If we believe in universal human rights, one of the most significant is the right of equal access to public space. If a woman isn't allowed to venture outdoors unless she takes special precautions that don't apply to men – whether that consists of covering the hair or face or being forbidden to wear trousers – then she is being denied a fundamental human right"
-- "Lubna Hussein should be hailed around the world for challenging this sexist and capricious practice head-on"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/joan-smith-one-thing-is-certain-with-sharia-men-make-the-rules-1783403.html
(Jordan) Rights group criticizes Jordan on honor crimes
-- AP: "An average of 20 Jordanian women are killed each year in slayings known as honor killings"
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1051799&lang=eng_news
Other News:
(Russia) Chechnya: In Chechnya, human rights activists wait to meet CE Commissioner
http://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/11122
Iraqi Political Groups Use Dwindling Christian Community as 'Tools'
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090907/iraqi-christians-know-they-are-tools-in-political-fight-says-reporter/index.html
(UK) £48,000 Goes to the Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/09/08/48000-goes-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/2130
(UK) "I, a former Islamic extremist, feel we have given in to the fanatics"
-- "At my East London college, the Islamic society was run by the extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, which believes in setting up an Islamic state, destroying Israel, and denounces Western values."
-- "After a petty row over the use of the snooker table, the Muslim group issued a call of Jihad against the young man and summoned their Hizb ut Tahrir contacts for 'outside backup'."
-- "An operative arrived and plunged a dagger into the boy's heart. The victim's name was Ayotunde Obunabi and I saw him lying dead. To Hizb ut Tahrir his life was worthless because he was not a Muslim."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1212114/ED-HUSAIN-I-Islamic-extremist-feel-given-fanatics.html?ITO=1490
UK: Muslim solder sues for discrimination
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/09/uk-muslim-solder-sues-for.html
(U.S.) Arizona Hate Pastor Draws Protesters Outside Church Due to Hate Speech and Calls for Death
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/arizona-hate-pastor-draws-protesters/
--- Christian Post report: "Protesters at the so-called 'Love Rally' denounced Pastor Steven L. Anderson's sermon – which called on parishioners to pray for the president's death – as hate speech."
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090908/-i-hate-obama-pastor-draws-protestors-outside-church/index.html
(U.S.) Report: U.S. military official who thinks U.S. founding fathers were "thugs" and sees value in talks with Taliban being "floated" as potential presidential candidate by political leaders
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26741.html
-- October 8, 2008 - Reuters: "Petraeus sees possible value in talking to Taliban"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08533185.htm
Against Nazi News:
(UK) British neo-Nazi sentenced in bomb plot
-- "Judge Peter Thornton of the Old Bailey court in London said white supremacist Neil Lewington, 44, must serve at least six years of his sentence after being found guilty in July of laying plans to ignite a race war by bombing 'non-British' people, The Times of London reported."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/09/08/British-neo-Nazi-sentenced-in-bomb-plot/UPI-42591252438741/
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/97855/Extremist-caged-for-bomb-plot/
Hungarian neo-Nazis reportedly holding secret camps
-- JTA reports:
-- "A coalition of anti-fascist public figures called on the Hungarian government to investigate news reports of secret military training courses for neo-Nazis being run in the country."
-- "Reports over the weekend in the Hungarian Nepszabadsag newspaper and the German Junge Welt describe training with heavy weaponry and in hand-to-hand combat allegedly carried out during the summer at a camp operated under the auspices of the extremist Hungarian National Front organization."
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/07/1007669/hungarian-neo-nazis-prepare-for-armed-struggle
Germany overturns Nazi-era treason convictions
-- "The German parliament has unanimously passed a blanket measure overturning all Nazi-era treason convictions, nearly 65 years after the end of the Second World War"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6159350/Germany-overturns-Nazi-era-treason-convictions.html
Against Misogyny News:
(Congo) Rape and recovery in the Congo
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/04/congo-expose-rape-used-tool-war/
-- Special section of Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/08/special-section-rape-and-recovery-congo/
-- Congo's shame: Rape used as tool of war
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/08/congos-shame-rape-used-as-tool-of-war/
-- U.N. peacekeepers in Congo without peace
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/08/un-peacekeepers-in-congo-without-peace/
India: "Love marriages are dirty, I don’t even want to repeat the word"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Only-whores-choose-their-partners/articleshow/4984378.cms
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