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October 22, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(U.S.) Boston - "Feds: Terror suspect is Qaeda reject"
-- Boston Herald: "The Al-Qaeda reject busted by the feds yesterday is a tinhorn terrorist who lives at home with his parents in the suburbs and talked tough about attacks on shopping malls and government officials - even though he failed to make the cut at terror school and couldn’t find any guns to carry out his big plan, prosecutors said."
-- "Federal authorities allege Tarek Mehanna went on a wild goose chase seeking terror training in Yemen. His alleged partner in jihad, Ahmad Abousamra, was also rejected by the notorious Taliban, which cited his 'lack of experience,' records reveal."
-- "Mehanna, a 27-year-old trained as a pharmacist, lives with his parents in Sudbury in a two-story home with a white picket fence, yet allegedly fancied himself as a jihadist bent on killing innocent Americans because they pay taxes to the government."
-- "An American of Egyptian descent who attends a Shrewsbury mosque, Mehanna allegedly conspired with Abousamra and others to obtain automatic weapons to unleash a bloodbath at an undisclosed mall, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael K. Loucks said."
-- "Former U.S. Army Col. Andrew Bacevich, a Boston University international relations professor, said, 'We cannot know how many would-be jihadists are in Massachusetts today. This is encouraging evidence that law enforcement is alert.'"
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1206480
-- Sudbury man arrested on terror charges
http://www.bostonherald.com/galleries/index.php?gallery_id=3128
-- Boston terror arrest
http://www.upi.com/Daily-Briefing/2009/10/22/Boston-terror-arrest/UPI-19511256215829/

(U.S.) Boston - Feds say Tarek Mehanna plotted since 2001
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091022feds_say_tarek_mehanna_plotted_since_01_neighbors_describe_kindness_of_terror_suspect/
-- Gun laws may haved KO'd plot
-- Boston Herald: "Federal investigators said that in the case of Tarek Mehanna, the inability to get an assault rifle likely jammed his alleged plot to pull off a shopping mall massacre somewhere in Massachusetts."
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091022gun_laws_may_haved_kod_plot/
-- Suspect allegedly mused about martyrdom on blog
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1206468
-- FBI says Massachusetts man sought terrorist training, plotted attacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102101088.html

(U.S.) Boston - Terror suspect taught at Muslim school in Central Massachusetts -- Islamic Center of Boston in Wayland
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/10/21/Terror-suspect-taught-at/1256174447.html
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/breaking_news/story/1126621.html

(U.S.) Officials say malls remain vulnerable
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091022officials_say_malls_remain_vulnerable/

(U.S.) Homemade "ANFO" Bombs Still a Threat as DHS Rules Languish
-- "Ammonium nitrate fertilizer, when mixed with fuels like diesel to make the explosive AMFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil), was the key bomb-making ingredient used in several notorious terrorist attacks: the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/terror-sting-video-highlights-bomb-threat/story?id=8881663

(U.S.) IPT News: "Terror Cases Share Desire to Kill Americans"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1469/terror-cases-share-desire-to-kill-americans

(U.S.) IPT News: Two Other Toledo Defendants Sentenced
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/#1483

(U.S.) White House Faith Adviser Dalia Mogahed Defends Sharia Remarks -- Appeared with Islamic Supremacist Hizb ut-Tahrir Organization
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/10/22/exclusive-white-house-faith-adviser-defends-sharia-remarks.html?s_cid=rss:god-and-country:exclusive-white-house-faith-adviser-defends-sharia-remarks
-- See also:
-- October 8, 2009: White House Adviser Joins UK Interview with Anti-Democratic Hizb ut-Tahrir Group
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/white-house-advisor-interviewed-by-anti-democratic-hizb-ut-tahrir-group/

Pakistani Taliban: 'whole country now war zone'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6405705/Pakistani-Taliban-whole-country-is-now-a-war-zone.html
-- Profile: Hakimullah Mehsud
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6408425/Profile-Hakimullah-Mehsud-leader-of-the-Pakistani-Taliban.html

(Pakistan) Taliban militants on motorcycle gun down brigadier, driver in Islamabad
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Taliban-militants-on-motorcycle-gun-down-brigadier-driver-in-Islamabad/articleshow/5150757.cms
-- Pakistan soldiers 'killed in capital ambush'
http://bit.ly/1NIsiC
-- Pakistan: Senior soldier killed in Islamabad shoot-out
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3905263686

(Pakistan) Punjab - Dawn: "Top guns of Punjabi Taliban captured"
-- "Iqbal and Gul Muhammad are believed to have masterminded the 10/10 attack and other high-profile strikes in Lahore"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/12-top+guns+of+punjabi+taliban+captured--bi-07
-- Security stepped up in Lahore
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=89734

(Pakistan) FATA: Taliban dig in as Pakistani army slowly advances
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_430
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/asia_pacific/view.bg?articleid=1206664&srvc=rss
-- Pakistan: Taliban ups the pressure on security forces
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3905264381

(Pakistan) FATA: Top al-Qaida operative among 3 killed in US drone attack in Pak
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Top-al-Qaida-operative-among-3-killed-in-US-drone-attack-in-Pak/articleshow/5146300.cms

(Pakistan) FATA: 24 Taliban killed in Operation Rah-e-Nijat
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\23\story_23-10-2009_pg1_3

(Pakistan) FATA: Fight continues surrounding Taliban-held town of Kotkai
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3904979135
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-another-25-militants-killed-south-waziristan-qs-10

(Pakistan) Certain forex dealers financing terrorists: Malik
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\23\story_23-10-2009_pg1_5

(Pakistan) Terrorists plan attacks on army convoys in Punjab, NWFP
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\23\story_23-10-2009_pg1_7

Pakistan braces for attacks as offensive continues
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59L0MK20091022

(Pakistan) Around 200 terror suspects arrested
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\23\story_23-10-2009_pg1_10

Pakistan: Security fears prompt closure of UN agency food hub
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3900828931

(Pakistan) Cabinet formally accepts the Kerry-Lugar Bill
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/19-cabinet-formally-accepts-the-kerry-lugar-bill-hh-84
-- US aid to Pak too less: Pakistan Ambassador to United Nation (UN) Abdullah Husain Haroon
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=89747
-- Pakistan's The News - Lahore: "Stage is set for holding Jamaat-e-Islami's public referendum on Kerry-Lugar Law and US interference in the country on Friday"
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=204630
-- Arrangements finalized for Jamaat-e-Islami referendum
--- "Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has finalized arrangements in Rawalpindi and Islamabad to hold referendum on Kerry-Lugar Bill today (Friday)"
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=204655

Pakistan's Second Front
-- "Islamabad's full-on assault in Waziristan is targeting the Taliban on the country's western border. The problem, however, is in the east, too."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/218930

(Pakistan) One-month extension in Sufi Muhammad's detention
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=89726

(Pakistan) Iran interior minister visits Pakistan on Friday
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/October/middleeast_October580.xml&section=middleeast

(Pakistan) All Christian Parties Conference to End Blasphemy law set to launch movement
-- "Pakistan Christian Congress PCC extended invitation to leaders and organizations which are struggling to repeal blasphemy law in Pakistan to participate in All Christian Parties Conference on October 25, 2009, at Rawalpindi Press Club."
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1514

(Afghanistan) U.S. forces step up attacks as Afghan runoff looms
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/22/us-forces-prepare-for-afghan-runoff-vote/?feat=home_cube_position4

(Afghanistan) British soldier killed by explosion in Afghanistan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6408351/British-soldier-killed-by-explosion-in-Afghanistan.html

(Afghanistan) Gates says moving ahead on Afghan troop policy
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59L0VR20091022

(Afghanistan) Refusing runoff would be 'insulting democracy,' Karzai says
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/22/afghanistan.karzai.election.runoff/index.html

(India) West Bengal: Maoists free cop in prisoner swap
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/West-Bengal-Maoists-free-cop-in-prisoner-swap/articleshow/5150895.cms

(Iraq) Police: 6 Al Qaeda suspects arrested in Iraq
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/October/middleeast_October572.xml&section=middleeast

'Iran may gain enrichment legitimacy'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150030857&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Iran) US lawmakers unveil new Iran sanctions bill
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/October/international_October1549.xml&section=international

Israel, Iran Reportedly Held Secret Nuclear Talks
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-22-voa60.cfm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150023246&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/6409326/Israel-and-Iran-hold-first-talks-in-30-years.html

Iran faces nuclear deadline
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/6399523/Iran-faces-key-deadline-in-nuclear-talks.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6886328.ece
-- Senior Iran MP casts doubt on atom fuel deal
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/October/middleeast_October570.xml&section=middleeast

Iran objects to talking to French
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6389221/Iran-objects-to-French-involvement-in-nuclear-talks.html

Iranian Guards vow revenge on Britain and US
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6880877.ece

(Lebanon) UN chief calls on Hizbullah to disarm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150025034&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Lebanon) Hizbullah MP: "Syria Opens Its Borders to Anyone Wishing to Wage Resistance, Including Al-Qaeda Fighters on Their Way to Iraq"
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD261209

Gaza: Israeli air strike on Gaza after rocket attack
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/October/middleeast_October566.xml&section=middleeast

U.S.-Born Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki on the State of Jihad Eight Years After 9/11: The U.S. Cannot Win – There is No Rolling Back the Worldwide Jihad; 'If America Failed to Defeat the Mujahedeen When It Gave Its President Unlimited Support – How Can It Win With Obama Who Is On a Short Leash?... How Can It Win Today With a Recession – If Not a Depression – At Hand?'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD261009
-- U.S.-Born Iman Anwar Al-Awlaki: 44 Ways of Supporting Jihad
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD260909

(UK) Labour ministers met Libyans before bomber's release
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6408229/Silent-cold-callers-will-face-2m-fines.html

Somali Airport Shelled by Islamists; At Least 18 Dead
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=a3PWifql6D1g

(Somalia) Mortars fired at Somalia's airport as president boards plane; at least 20 killed in battles
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091022/world/af_somalia_52

(Sudan) Gunmen kidnap French aid worker in Darfur
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150030575&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Sudan) Irish aid worker endured mock executions
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6881003.ece

(Philippines) Messenger sent to deliver medicine to kidnapped priest Fr. Sinnott
http://www.ucanews.com/2009/10/22/messenger-sent-to-deliver-medicine-to-kidnapped-priest/

(Australia) Muslim 'cleric' arrested for sending hate mail to families of dead Australian soldiers -- Sheikh Haron
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6406933/Muslim-cleric-arrested-for-sending-hate-mail-to-families-of-dead-Australian-soldiers.html
-- Hate mail sent to Australian war widows sickens political leaders
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=321839&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

(Indonesia) Tourists flock to site where Indonesian Islamic militant made last stand
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6886247.ece

Sri Lanka war victims sue Rajaratnam in U.S. court
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59L4BH20091022

Islamic Supremacist War on Women News:

(U.S.) Rifqa Bary Case: Rifqa Bary tells Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) she was abused, was supposed to have arranged marriage
-- Orlando Sentinel: "Ohio teen runaway Fathima Rifqa Bary told Florida investigators about her religious conversion, explained how and why she ended up in Florida and detailed a fearful life with her Muslim family, including the fact she was supposed to be in an arranged marriage."
-- "A month after she ran away from her home outside Columbus, the 17-year-old girl met with several investigators with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for more than two hours and answered questions about her journey to Florida and her family life."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-rifqa-bary-fdle-interview-102209,0,3688358,full.story
-- Video
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=2c360b4e-9109-4a2d-aff2-081454d402
-- Audio
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-rifqa-bary-fdle-interview-mp3-102209,0,5898388.mp3file

(UK) How 'family councils' help plan honour killings
-- Yakin Erturk, former UN expert on violence against women, gives a insight on barbaric practices during Tulay Goren trial
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6884530.ece

(UK) Muslim woman 'blackmailed by couple who threatened to show family photos of her wearing Western clothes'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222115/Asylum-seeker-blackmailed-Muslim-friend-threatening-devout-family-photos-wearing-Western-clothes.html

Pakistan: Acid burn victim seeks help to fight her misery
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=204677

Sudan: Women punished for wearing trousers
-- IOL ZA: "Two Sudanese women were on Thursday sentenced to 20 lashes and fined for committing an act of indecency by wearing trousers, weeks after a similar case sparked worldwide controversy."
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_Africa&set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20091022222800856C932053

Kuwaiti women win right to obtain passport without husband's approval
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/kuwait/6402047/Kuwaiti-women-win-right-to-obtain-passport-without-husbands-approval.html

Other News:

(AfPak) Strong earthquake strikes Afghanistan and Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_earthquake

(India) Malegaon imam, a product of deoband, is MLA
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Malegaon-imam-a-product-of-deoband-is-MLA/articleshow/5151207.cms

Jamestown Foundation Report: "Dagestani Official Reportedly Calls for Anti-Islamist 'Revenge Squads'"
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35626&tx_ttnews[backPid]=13&cHash=822960e04e
http://tinyurl.com/yj2whxh

France: 8 graves of Muslim soldiers desecrated
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150027151&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Bermuda: Former Guantanamo bay prisoners swap jumpsuits for Bermuda shorts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6397033/Praise-be-to-Allah-we-are-in-Bermuda-now.html

(U.S.) Hate crime bill set to become law
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/10/senate_approves_hate_crimes_me.html?hpid=topnews

Against Totalitarianism News:

Communist China: 10 More Arrested After Detainees Refuse to Leave Without Fellow Linfen Pastor
http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=105&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1308&month=10&year=2009&_nc=03baca893d8f3f6eccd3ce7cf759b386

U.S. should engage with North Korea economy: report
-- Reuters report on comments by Asia Society and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation makes NO MENTION of North Korean human rights abuses
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59L5C620091022

Against Nazi News:

UK: 'I am not a Nazi,' National Party leader Nick Griffin says on BBC
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/22/griffin.bnp.bbc.question.time/index.html
-- Angry scenes face Griffin at BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8321157.stm
-- Video
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8321566.stm
-- Griffin appearance on front pages
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8321627.stm
-- BNP leader ducks Shoah denial question
-- "On leading British debate show, Nick Griffin says he doesn't have 'a conviction' for Holocaust denial"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150031686&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Anti-fascist protesters storm BBC
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26248648-23109,00.html
-- Controversy and chaos but BBC is delighted by BNP leader's 'humiliation'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6886620.ece
-- Nick Griffin caught in TV's glare amid hail of criticism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6886436.ece
-- The BNP on Question Time: live-blog
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100014488/the-bnp-on-question-time-live-blog/
-- Arrests as anti-BNP protesters clash with police
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6409897/BNP-on-BBCs-Question-Time-protesters-clash-with-police.html
-- BNP's Nick Griffin attacks Muslims and gays
---- "Following clashes between police and protesters ahead of his arrival, the BNP leader uses Question Time appearance to attack Muslims and homosexuals while defending the Ku Klux Klan."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6410764/BNP-on-Question-Time-Nick-Griffin-uses-BBC-appearance-to-attack-Muslims-and-gays.html
-- Jeered, scorned and ridiculed - still BNP's Nick Griffin milks his moment in spotlight on Question Time
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222331/BNPs-Nick-Griffin-jeered-appears-Question-Time--BBC-faces-Question-Time.html