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November 21, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(Pakistan/India/Italy) 2 linked to Mumbai terror attacks arrested in Italy
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/21/italy.terror.arrests/
-- "Italian police yesterday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping to fund and provide logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said."
-- "The two suspects in Brescia, identified in a police statement as Mohammad Yaqub Janjua, 60, and Aamer Yaqub Janjua, 31, are accused of aiding and abetting international terrorism as well as illegal financial activity."
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=420249&type=World

Pak says LeT it be, US plays along
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pak-says-LeT-it-be-US-plays-along-/articleshow/5254538.cms

(Pakistan) FATA: Six Pakistani troops, 14 Taliban killed in clashes
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1514626.php/Six-Pakistani-troops-14-Taliban-killed-in-clashes-Roundup

(Pakistan) Taliban blow up school in Pakistan: Officials
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Taliban-blow-up-school-in-Pakistan-Officials/articleshow/5255469.cms

Pakistan faces a 'demographic disaster': Report
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-faces-a-demographic-disaster-Report/articleshow/5255470.cms

(Jammu and Kashmir) 700 terrorists operating in J&K, Pak funding infiltration: DGP
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/700-terrorists-operating-in-JK-Pak-funding-infiltration-DGP/articleshow/5255678.cms

Bangladesh arrests 14 suspected Islamic extremists
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091121/wl_sthasia_afp/bangladeshislamattacksarrests

(Afghanistan/Canada) Time running out in Afghanistan, Hillier warns
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/taliban-debating-an-end-to-insurgency/article1372720/

(Afghanistan/Canada) Canadians begin new push to clear Taliban from towns
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/canadians-begin-new-push-to-clear-taliban-from-towns/article1372765/

(Afghanistan) 80 Taliban lay down weapons, join Afghan police
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26383841-5005361,00.html

(Afghanistan) "As Afghans Resist Taliban, U.S. Spurs Rise of Militias"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/world/asia/22militias.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

Afghan pullout is 'election ploy' by UK PM Gordon Brown
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6927012.ece

(U.S.) Fort Hood Attack: Hasan to Have First Court Hearing in Hospital Room
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576125,00.html

(U.S.) Miami: Final Liberty City Six Member Receives Sentence - Narseal Batiste gets 13.5 year sentence, instead of 70 year sentence
-- Ringleader in tower terrorism plot to be sentenced
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h9__Pl-twNhF9EMaBV5GSuMCUeygD9C38J800
-- image of "Liberty City Six"
http://image.cbslocal.com/31/2009/04/30/320x240/libertycitysix.jpg
-- 5 Florida men get prison for plotting terrorist attacks with al Qaeda
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/20/florida.terror.trial/

(Iran/Israel) Revolutionary Guards cleric threatens to target 'heart of Tel Aviv'
-- "Large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting nuclear facilities from attack begin Sunday; Soltanieh: Teheran needs uranium for hospitals."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258705152357&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Gaza militants agree to halt rocket fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112101277.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258705152850&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Hamas: 'Israel Won't Go to War Again'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134536

Hamas denies secret talks with Israel
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258705152591&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Yemen) Conflict deepens crisis in Yemen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112004052.html

Germany Concerned Its Evidence to Be Used to Back Death Penalty in 9/11 Trial
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/21/germany-concerned-evidence-used-death-penalty-trial/

Sri Lanka agrees to release 130,000 Tamils displaced by war
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/21/sri.lanka.war.displaced/index.html

(Venezuela) Chavez praises 'Carlos the Jackal'
-- "Venezuelan president calls alleged terrorist a "revolutionary fighter" who backed Palestinian cause"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258705153335&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

UK - Tulay Goren "Honor Killing" Case: Father Claims Tulay "Still Alive"
-- BBC: "Honour case Tulay 'still alive'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8370839.stm

Maldives: Anonymous Letter Sent Challenging Maldives Refusal to Support Children's Rights and Defy Child Marriage
http://www.minivannews.com/letter_detail.php?id=7750

Other News:

Why Human Rights Responsibility, Not Communism, is the Answer to Islamic Supremacism
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/the-needs-of-the-one/

Egypt Muslims burn Christian shops: police
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091121/twl-egypt-muslims-burn-christian-shops-p-3cd7efd.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3808467,00.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/muslims-burn-christian-shops-in-egypt-s-south-3171351

(U.S.) Chicago: Foes of Islamic center wonder if it's linked to Avila Foundation
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/religion/chi-naperville-islamic-center-22nov22,0,3784205.story

Russia: A Promising Market for Islamic Finance
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=6&id=18878

Canada's angriest 'moderate' -- Salim Mansur
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/21/robert-fulford-canada-s-angriest-quot-moderate-quot.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canwest%2FF243+%28National+Post+-+News%29

(UK) 100 Attend Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference in Quaker Facility in Euston
-- Local Muslims turn out in numbers at Pakistan conference
-- "Around a 100 members of Bedfordshire's Pakistani and Muslim community were present at the ‘Islamo-political’ seminar organised by the UK branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) at Friends House, Euston on November 15"
http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/bedsonsunday-news/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=465461

UK: Rally Challenging Sharia
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/uk-rally-challenging-sharia/
--- Why Human Rights Responsibility, Not Communism, is the Answer to Islamic Supremacism
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/the-needs-of-the-one/

(UK) Guardian Commentary: "There can be no 'banning of sharia law'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/21/sharia-law-ban-judaism

UK envoys called back to calm Muslim hotspots
-- London Times: "British ambassadors to Muslim countries are travelling back to Britain to help to counter the propaganda of radical Islamic clerics."
-- "So far 25 senior diplomats have met Muslims in radical hotspots such as Luton, where, earlier this year, troops returning from Iraq were jeered on the streets by extremists."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6926964.ece

(UK) TES: "Textbooks maintain Islam was 'evil', says historian"
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6028056

(Italy/UK) It's Barbie in a burkha: World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229760/Its-Barbie-burka-World-famous-doll-gets-makeover-hammer-50th-anniversary.html

(Saudi Arabia) Rituals of Islam are re-enacted in Islam's holy city
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6925921.ece

Iran: NYT: "Cleric Wields Religion to Challenge Iran's Theocracy" -- Ayatollah Montazeri
-- "We have many intellectuals who criticize this regime from the democratic point of view," said Mehdi Khaliji, a former seminary student in Qum and now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “He criticizes this regime purely from a religious point of view, and this is very hurtful. The regime wants to say, ‘If I am not democratic enough that doesn't matter, I am Islamic.'
-- The regime wants to say, 'If I am not democratic enough that doesn't matter, I am Islamic.'
-- "He says it is not an Islamic government."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/world/middleeast/22ayatollah.html

(Sri Lanka) "Where 'kaffir' is no insult"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6613354/Where-kaffir-is-no-insult.html

Against Racial Supremacism News:

Mississippi: Crowd Heckles KKK Protest After Ole Miss Nixes 'Dixie'
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576171,00.html

Against Totalitarianism News:

Barack Obama visit signals new era of US-China relations
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6621926/Barack-Obama-visit-signals-new-era-of-US-China-relations.html

US couple plead guilty to spying for Cuba over 30 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/6622001/US-couple-plead-guilty-to-spying-for-Cuba-over-30-years.html

'2012' a home run with patriotic fans in China -- Communist Chinese military "saves the world"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBYH6FvSiCoM9lMbs5bqu9WXsbKgD9C38RBO0

Save Children Nows News:

UK: Thousands of children subject to death threats from fathers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6623812/Thousands-of-children-subject-to-death-threats-from-fathers.html

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