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October 28, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(Pakistan) NWFP: Pakistan: Bombing in Peshawar Targets Women, Children
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/pakistan-bombing-in-peshawar-targets-women-children/
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Bloodbath in Peshawar: at least 105 killed, 200 injured in Meena Bazaar car
bombing
--- "19 women, 11 children among dead, 25 in critical
condition"
--- "Mosque, several other buildings collapse"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg1_1
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'Car was parked in market 3 hours before explosion'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg1_2
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Carnage as car bomb hits Peshawar
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8329244.stm
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Pakistan: Northwest attack 'retaliation' for military offensive
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3921135134


(Pakistan) NWFP: A scene of terror and panic at Meena Bazaar
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg7_27
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TV channels must avoid live coverage: Kaira
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg7_28
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Peshawar bomb targets women, children
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/04-explosion-heard-peshawar-qs-04
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Death toll from attack highest in Peshawar's history
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg7_26
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The day a cloth market became a living hell
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg7_25


(Pakistan) FATA: Troops surround key TTP village on way to Sararogha
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg7_1


(Pakistan) FATA: Troops surround 'Uzbek base' in S. Waziristan
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/16-troops-surround-uzbek-base-in-s-waziristan-hs-10


(Pakistan) FATA: Two militants killed in Mohmand attack
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=205708


(Pakistan) Karachi: Bid to carry out major terror attacks in city
foiled
-- 5 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi men arrested
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg12_1
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=205659


(Pakistan) Islamabad: Possible terrorist attack -- Intelligence reports warn
terrorists dressed in police uniform may target the building
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg11_1


(Pakistan) PCC welcomes PCAF move to repeal blasphemy law in Pakistan
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1518


(Pakistan/U.S.) Hillary allays Pak fears, says US can be trusted
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Hillary-allays-Pak-fears-says-US-can-be-trusted/articleshow/5174412.cms


(India) Year after 26/11 Mumbai attacks, coasts still not secure
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5174775.cms


AfPak: US warned on deadly drone attacks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8329412.stm


(Afghanistan) Gunmen storm UN guest house in Kabul, 12 dead
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/28/world/main5429642.shtml
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Gunmen storm U.N. guest house in Kabul
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102800119.html?hpid=topnews
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UN chief condemns Kabul killings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8329543.stm
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Afghanistan counts cost of deadliest assault on UN in fifty years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6454819/Afghanistan-counts-cost-of-deadliest-assault-on-UN-in-fifty-years.html


Afghan war moves deeper into Kabul
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33522968#33522968


(Afghanistan) Taliban attack raises fears ahead of second Afghan vote
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/77936.html


(Afghanistan) CNN: U.S. set to pay Taliban members to switch sides
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/afghanistan.taliban.pay/index.html


(Afghanistan) Taliban Monthly Magazine Article Envisions Taliban-Russia-China
Alliance Against U.S., Ignores Chechens, Uyghurs; Warns that Australia May Have
to Be Conquered as 'Lebensraum' for Asian Settlement
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD262109


(Al-Qaeda) Osama Bin Laden 'face' appears in new video
-- AKI reports: "A
new video clip which appeared on extremist websites on Wednesday has intrigued
analysts as it appears to show the face of Al-Qaeda's elusive leader Osama Bin
Laden. The clip contains a sermon given on 20 September by one of Al-Qaeda's
leaders, Libyan-born Abu Yahya al-Libi, to mark the end of the holy Muslim
fasting month of Ramadan."
-- "At the end of al-Libi's sermon, the video
images go into soft focus and the camera zooms in on a grainy image that looks
like Bin Laden's."
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3922740128


(U.S.) Michigan: Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid -- Luqman
Ameen Abdullah aka Christopher Thomas
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_re_us/us_fbi_raids_michigan
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AP reports: "Federal authorities in Detroit say they fatally shot the leader of
a radical fundamentalist Sunni Islam group after he failed to surrender on
several criminal charges."
-- "The U.S. attorney's office says Luqman Ameen
Abdullah was killed while exchanging gunfire with federal agents Wednesday at a
warehouse in Dearborn."
-- "A court document says Abdullah is an imam, or
prayer leader, of a radical group whose primary mission is to establish an
Islamic state within the United States. Authorities say he's also known as
Christopher Thomas."
-- "The FBI was trying to round up Abdullah and 10
followers on many charges, including conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal
possession and sale of firearms."
-- "The FBI says Abdullah regularly
preached anti-government rhetoric, and some of his followers converted to Islam
while in prison."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FBI_RAIDS_MICHIGAN?SITE=OHCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/29/imam-killed-during-mich-shootout/?feat=home_headlines
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"In a court filing, the FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was
an imam of a Black Muslim radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to
establish an Islamic state within the United States."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570146,00.html
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IPT News: "Imam Killed, 10 Others Arrested in Detroit Case"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1490/imam-killed-10-others-arrested-in-detroit-case


(U.S.) Police probe assault of News photographer outside mosque raided by
FBI
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091028/METRO/910280436/1409/METRO/Police-probe-assault-of-News-photographer-outside-raided-mosque


(U.S.) Illinois al-Qaida conspirator to be sentenced -- Ali al-Marri
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=NATIONAL&ID=565675097555599377
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Lawyers Want Lenient Sentence for Al Qaeda Sleeper Agent
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570089,00.html


U.S. prosecutors add terrorism charge to Canadian living in Chicago --
Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/prosecutors+terrorism+charge+Canadian+living+Chicago/2155925/story.html


(Iraq) Bomb kills 3 civilians, wounds 5 others in Mosul
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2035589&Language=en


(Iraq) Analysis: Iraq not ready to face al Qaeda
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.analysis/index.html


(Iran/U.S.) Key US House committee approves Iran sanctions bill
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256740787855&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Iran to deliver uranium deal response Thursday
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35309
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Another day, another deadline in the fight to hold back Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6455638/Another-day-another-deadline-in-the-fight-to-hold-back-Iran.html


(Iran) The Vienna Nuclear Talks – and Iranian/Western Rashomon
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA55709


(Iran) Tehran jails British Embassy 'plotter'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6894601.ece


Lebanon: UN peacekeeping force probes rocket fired into Israel
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3922739921
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US slams rocket attack from Lebanon
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256557980593&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Lebanon: Army dismantles four rockets aimed at Israel
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3921471927


(UAE) NATO, UAE to sign agreement on security of information
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2035680&Language=en
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Secretary of DHS to visit Europe, UAE
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2035630&Language=en


Hamas to ban holding of elections in Gaza
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=90309


(Algeria) Al Qaeda expands operations in Africa -- US warns
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2035729&Language=en


Somali pirates threaten to kill British couple
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/piracy/6454287/Somali-pirates-threaten-to-kill-British-couple.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6894178.ece


Ukraine: Terror arrests
-- "The suspects had planned to set up branches in
the autonomous Crimea region and elsewhere in Ukraine of Egyptian Islamist
organization Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra, to pass death sentences on Crimean Tatar
movement leader Mustafa Jemilev and on others, and to carry put terrorist
attacks in Ukraine, Lutsenko told a news conference in Simferopol, Crimea's
administrative center."
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/10/ukraine-terror-arrests.html
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=6583


(Denmark) Copenhagen: Synagogue possible target
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/10/copenhagen-synagogue-possible-target.html
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Denmark: Terrorism incompatible with Islam, says Joint Council of Danish
Muslims
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/10/denmark-terrorism-incompatible-with.html


Greece pledges new counter-terrorism policy after Athens attack
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/29/content_12352159.htm


(Northern Ireland/UK) IRA targeted Buckingham Palace - in 1970s
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26275501-23109,00.html


(Australia) Terrorists are using blogs to engage counter-terrorists experts
online
-- "Abu Walid al Masri has written direct responses to Leah Farrall,
an Australian academic who writes the All things Counter Terrorism blog and has
years of experience fighting terrorism with the Australian Federal
Police."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100014956/terrorists-are-using-blogs-to-engage-counter-terrorists-experts-online/


(Thailand) Buddhist man shot and torched in Pattani
-- boy found his
father's body burned to death
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30115416/Buddhist-man-shot-and-torched-in-Pattani


(Thailand) Paramilitary trooper injured in ambush in Yala
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30115312/Paramilitary-trooper-injured-in-ambush-in-Yala


(Philippines) UPI "Church, police fear for kidnapped priest"
-- UPI:
"Philippine police and Catholic officials are increasingly concerned about the
health of kidnapped Irish priest Michael Sinnott, a heart bypass patient
abducted two weeks ago."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/10/28/Church-police-fear-for-kidnapped-priest/UPI-49811256747901/
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/philippines-church-police-fear-for-kidnapped-priest-fr-sinnott/


Philippines, Muslim rebels vow to spare civilians
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/28/apworld/20091028112418&sec=apworld
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August 21, 2008: report on 120,000 killed in three decades of Jihad and
Jihadists hacking civilians to death with machetes
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/099.html#Regionalization



Islamic Supremacist War on Women:


World Gender Gap Worst in Islamic Nations -- Survey Shows Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Turkey at Bottom of List
-- over 500 million
women impacted
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/world-gender-gap-worst-in-islamic-nations/
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related AP report:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/28/world/main5432606.shtml?tag=latest
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World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index Web Site
http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Women%20Leaders%20and%20Gender%20Parity/GenderGapNetwork/index.htm


Indonesia: Women Banned from Wearing Jeans and Pants - Sharia Police Plan
Raids and Patrols
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/indonesia-women-banned-from-wearing-jeans-and-pants-sharia-police-plan-raids-and-patrols/
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Jakarata Post reports "Women banned from wearing trousers"
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/28/women-banned-wearing-trousers.html


Female cartoonist's provocative work challenges Saudi society
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/27/hajjar.female.cartoonist/index.html



Other News:


Egypt arrests 30 in Muslim-Copt clashes -- Clashes erupt as Muslim residents
protest plans to increase size of Church tower, put bell.
-- Middle East
Online reports: "Muslim residents began hurling stones at Christian construction
workers after hearing that the church was planning to increase the size of its
tower and put in a bell, the official said."
-- "Thirty people were arrested
on Wednesday after Muslims and Coptic Christians clashed over the building of a
church tower in a village in southern Egypt, a security official said. Three
people were injured in the clashes which broke out late on Tuesday in
Al-Badraman, in Minya province."
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35335
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/egypt-arrests-30-in-muslim-copt-clashes-muslim-residents-hurl-stones-at-church-construction-workers/


Indonesian Islamists Bully Villagers into Revoking Church Permit
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/indonesia/11005/
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/indonesian-islamists-bully-villagers-into-revoking-church-permit/


(Malaysia) In Malaysia, sharia creates a two-track justice system unfair to
Muslims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102602643.html


(Thailand) "Autonomy equals sharia law equals extremism"
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/10/29/opinion/opinion_30115423.php


Iraq lobbying for permission to build nuclear reactors
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/6449900/Iraq-lobbying-for-permission-to-build-nuclear-reactors.html


Italy: Concordat with Islam 'impossible' says MP
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.0.3914270031


(UK) Buckingham Mosque ...what fanatics want to call the Palace
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/136843/Buckingham-Mosque-what-fanatics-want-to-call-the-Palace


(U.S.) Obama inks defense bill with hate crimes provision
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_defense


(U.S.) Leaked footage of new game 'Modern Warfare 2' shows terrorism;
publisher defends the segment
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/technology/sns-ap-us-tec-video-game-terrorist,0,3706151.story



Against Totalitarianism News:


DC: Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing Announcement - Rule of Law in
China
http://www.chinaaid.org/downloads/sb_chinaaid/TLHRCHearinginCannon.pdf


Against Nazi News:


Germany: Nazi war crimes trial gets under way -- Heinrich Boere
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6455304/Nazi-war-crimes-trial-gets-under-way.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6894367.ece



Against Misogyny News:


(U.S.) Violence against women, female teens, surges on TV
-- Reuters:
"Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased
by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as
victims rising by some 400 percent, the Parents Television Council said in a
report on Wednesday."
-- "The media watchdog said it was particularly
disturbed by the use of violence against women in comedies and said it hoped TV
networks and advertisers would stand up against the trend."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091028/tv_nm/us_violence




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