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Pakistan: Suicide attack outside Khosa's house kills 33 -- Dera Ghazi Khan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg1_1
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/04-blast-dg-khan-qs-09
-- Bomb blast 'kills 22' in Pakistani town of Dera Ghazi Khan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8413836.stm
-- Blast near Pakistani minister's home, 20 dead
--- Reuters: "The attack was another potent reminder President Asif Ali Zardari's weak civilian government has yet to devise a strategy to defeat militants who want to tightly control society -- with public whippings and executions of those deemed immoral."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BD17920091215

Pakistan: Militant crackdown behind latest bomb attack
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4112476214

Pakistan: Grenade hurled at police bus in Quetta
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg7_33

(Pakistan/U.S.) Stabilizing Pakistan main US goal, says US vice president
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/16-stabilising+pakistan+main+us+goal+says+biden-hs-07

(Pakistan/U.S.) Pakistan Government Attorney Changes Who Is Threat After News Reports
-- while Pakistan Govt Attorney told Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday that U.S. CIA is threat to Pakistan
-- today - a different story...
-- Taliban actual threat to democracy, Azfar tells SC
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg7_23

(Pakistan/U.S.) Northern Virginia men ordered held for interrogation in Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121501353.html

(Pakistan) Two NATO tankers torched in Quetta
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg7_9
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/04-nato-tankers-quetta-qs-01

(Pakistan) Taliban want talks with govt: Malik
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg7_14

(Pakistan) Praying behind imams who endorse terror declared haram
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg7_2

(Pakistan) 36 Taliban killed in FATA operations
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg7_3

(Afghanistan) Eight killed in Kabul suicide bomb blast in diplomatic quarter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6957019.ece
-- US soldier among six die in Afghan violence
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2047372&Language=en

(Afghanistan) Taliban stall key Afghan project
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/15-Dec-2009/Taliban-stall-key-Afghan-project

(Iraq) Explosion in Mosul kills 5 Iraqis, injures 40
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2047346&Language=en

(U.S.) Seattle: Man guilty in US Jewish center shooting
-- "Jury finds Naveed Haq guilty of murder in 2nd trial for 2006 shooting spree at Seattle Jewish Federation"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260894116978&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(U.S.) Illinois: Second Chicago terror suspect denied bail: US judge
-- "'The government has met its burden of showing serious risk of flight,' Judge Nan Nolan said of the Pakistan-born Canadian national Tahawwur Hussain Rana."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWk-YrFRJpSBqcyJPGjWlMc482Sg

(U.S.) Illinois Prison to House Gitmo Detainees -- village of Thomson, Illinois, 150 miles east of Chicago
-- WSJ: "President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire a largely unused Thomson, Ill., prison to house about 100 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, an administration official said."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126089336494292167.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird
-- Will Illinois prison become 'Gitmo North'?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-12-15-illinois-prison-terrorists_N.htm
-- White House Tries To Ease Concerns About Terror Prisoners
http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=122691
-- U.S. announces transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Illinois prison
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121501215.html

(U.S.) Mullen: U.S. focused on entire al Qaeda network
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/15/afghanistan.mullen/index.html

(U.S.) After ABC News Report of Secret CIA Prison, Head Spy Resigns
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abc-report-secret-cia-prison-leads-head-spy/story?id=9335203

UK: Beat officers 'prevented terror attack by stopping suspicious tourist'
-- London Times: "The Algerian man claimed he was a tourist but when his phone was examined it yielded 90 minutes of footage of Tube stations, security cameras, mainline rail stations and shopping centres."
-- Operation Langley investigated suspects linked to "Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb"
-- "Police are convinced the men were engaged on a terrorist reconnaissance mission."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6957646.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2
-- 'Terror group' filmed train stations
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/terror-group-filmed-train-stations/story-e6frfku0-1225810796673
-- Police hit back in 'terror' photo row by releasing footage of 'bomb plotters filming targets in London'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236127/The-moment-police-caught-duo-filming-terror-targets-Al-Qaeda-style-attack.html?ITO=1490

UK: £1,000 fine for thug who tore off Muslim woman's veil
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/146268/-1-000-fine-for-thug-who-tore-off-Muslim-woman-s-veil

Israel fury over British war crimes warrant
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6957495.ece

Hamas: Gaza's defiant Islamists reject PLO dominance
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BD34X20091214

Hamas: Mashaal: Israel must free our prisoners
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260894115998&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

'Iran arrested Western spy just before revealing Qom plant'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260894117234&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Iran) US investigates nuclear trigger as Tehran damns bomb 'scenario'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6958217.ece

(Iran) Israel: Iran nearing atomic bomb capability
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWi9hJXmHRyYjNwd_IH3RL3abpkwD9CJSA800

Somali police officers killed by Puntland bomb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8413915.stm

(Libya) LA Times: "Libya's coup: Turning militants against Al Qaeda"
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-libya-fighters15-2009dec15,0,3852951.story

Jawa Blog: Yousef al-Khattab Hangs Up Cyber Jihad Gloves
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/199983.php

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

Pakistan: Man kills wife over 'honor'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\16\story_16-12-2009_pg12_6

Yemen: Abuse an omnipresent reality for Yemeni women
http://www.yobserver.com/reports/10017750.html

Other News:

"Love Wins" Human Rights Day Message by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1577

Egypt: Bloomberg News Reports on Bias, Oppression of Christian Copts
-- OIC too busy to respond to Bloomberg News questions on Coptic Christians
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/egypt-bloomberg-news-reports-on-bias-oppression-of-christian-copts/
-- Egypt Forces Copts to Hide as Muslims Hit Swiss Minaret Ban
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=axK5Voe2uZno

MEMRI: "Egyptian Writer Muhammad Yousuf 'Adas, Former UNESCO Advisor, Denies the Holocaust and Claims: The Jews Finance Wars"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3841.htm

MEMRI: Syrian Govt Newspaper Describes Holocaust as part of a "reciprocal murderous conflict" "between Hitler and the Zionist Jewish capitalists"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3842.htm

MEMRI: "Palestinian Columnist: The 'Jewish Holocaust' Never Happened; Schools Must Teach the Palestinian Holocaust"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3843.htm

UK: British School Linked to Hizb ut-Tahrir Funding Restored
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/uk-british-school-linked-to-hizb-ut-tahrir-funding-restored/

UK: "Islamic preacher's East Lancashire visits to challenge 'extremist agendas'"
-- Shaykh Hisham Kabbani has been critical of CAIR, ISNA, etc.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/4793724.Islamic_preacher_s_East_Lancs_visit_to__challenge_extremist_agendas_/
-- background on Islamic Supreme Council of America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Supreme_Council_of_America

Germany/Austria : Calls for school headscarf ban
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/germanyaustria-calls-for-school.html

"The Greatest Battle for the 21st Century" - Human Rights Service
-- Phyllis Chesler to Human Rights Service: "I do not think that radical Islamists can yield on the subject of women's rights any more than they can yield on the subject of Israel's right to exist, true democracy, freedom of religion, or tolerance for homosexuals and for dissent. Here, then, is exactly where the greatest battle of the 21st century is joined."
http://www.rights.no/publisher/publisher.asp?id=59&tekstid=3073

Focus on Falun Gong at International Human Rights Day Press Conference at the National Press Club
http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/12/14/113131.html

(U.S.) Virginia school cancels Taliban debate
-- Eighth graders at Swanson Middle School in Arlington - "Some students would have presented the Taliban's views"
-- "Parent Chris Wilson, whose daughter was one of those asked to represent the Taliban, says he found it morally questionable to ask students to echo the extremist Islamic group."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-12-15-school-Taliban_N.htm
-- Va. middle school cancels mock U.N. debate on Taliban
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403583.html
-- Washington Post writer Valerie Strauss states: "Although I'm sure some of you think it is preposterous for students to take the Taliban's side, I think the assignment was an intriguing and legitimate exercise."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403526.html

(U.S.) Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Billboards in Minnesota
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/79306142.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUHPYDiaK7DUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr
--- Investigative Project on Terrorism Reports on Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)
http://bit.ly/5jreXK
--- Steven Emerson: "the organization itself, Islamic Circle of North America, has hosted many conferences of which we have tapes an documents from that have called for violence, that have supported suicide bombings, that have disrespected the United States"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/729/jihadi-group-to-run-ad-on-subways-in-new-york

(U.S.) Newsbusters: "CBS: 'Anti-Muslim Propaganda' To Blame for U.S. Homegrown Terrorism"
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/12/14/cbs-anti-muslim-propaganda-blame-u-s-homegrown-terrorism
-- FBI Hate Crime Report shows 1013 anti-Jewish hate incidents, 105 anti-Muslim hate incidents, and 101 anti-Christian hate reports
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/fbi-releases-2008-hate-crime-statistics/

(U.S.) CNN: "Few banks serve Muslim needs"
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/12/15/romans.islamic.banking.cnn

Malaysia: December 30 Set as Court Date for Decision on Catholic Church Right to Use Term "Allah"
http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=41363

Nigeria: Groups demand Sharia implementation and prominence
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/nigeria-groups-demand-sharia-implementation-and-prominence/

Congo: Report: UN-backed Congo troops killing civilians -- women, children, elderly killed
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/congo-troops-killing-civilians/
-- Congo: Report: UN-backed Congo troops killing civilians
-- AP: "Soldiers being fed and supplied with ammunition by the United Nations have killed civilians, gang-raped girls and cut the heads off some young men, human rights and international aid groups said."
-- "Most of the victims were women, children and the elderly, she said."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hupmIzCDRrcPb4NuaSx_hAhj5JkgD9CJI6SG0

Against Nazi News:

Florida: Retrial for accused neo-Nazi killer -- Nazi John Ditullio accused of killing woman over racial relations
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/florida-retrial-for-nazi/
-- UPI: "Prosecutors say Ditullio was trying to impress leaders of the American Nazis when he allegedly put on a gas mask, broke into the mobile home of neighbor Patricia Wells after midnight and knifed Wells in the face because he thought she was friendly with a black man. Ditullio then allegedly killed King, Tampa Bay Online said."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/14/Retrial-for-accused-neo-Nazi-killer/UPI-39201260847778/
-- July 21, 2009: Judge stays on case despite receiving racially charged letter
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jul/21/judge-will-remain-case-despite-receiving-racially-/

Virginia: Columnist testifies against Nazi leader for racial threats
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/virginia-columnist-testifies-against-nazi-leader-for-racial-threats/
-- between Leonard Pitts and Nazi William A. White
-- Roanoke Times Ongoing Reports
http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/williamwhite/category/courtroom-updates/

Against Racial News:

(U.S.) Pa. teens, police charged in hate crime - on hispanic crime
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/15/feds-charge-pa-teens-police-hate-crime/?feat=home_headlines

Against Misogyny News:

Against Misogyny: "Sexualizing America" - by Betty Jean Kling
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/against-misogyny-sexualizing-america/

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