Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] December 18, 2009

December 18, 2009 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Pakistan: Mosque suicide blast kills 11 in Lower Dir
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/09-at-least-four-killed-18-injured-in-lower-dir-blast--szh-01
-- 12 killed in Lower Dir suicide bombing
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\19\story_19-12-2009_pg7_10

(Pakistan) Three killed in suspected US drone strike
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-two-killed-in-suspected-us-drone-strike-ss-04

(Pakistan) 16 Taliban killed in Orakzai
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\19\story_19-12-2009_pg7_4

Pakistan: Boys' college blown up in Bara
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\19\story_19-12-2009_pg7_8

Pakistan: ISI clearance must for foreigners entering Pakistan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\19\story_19-12-2009_pg7_7

(Pakistan) Top Pakistan minister faces arrest as crisis deepens -- Ramin Malik
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6840457/Pakistans-interior-minister-Rehman-Malik-faces-arrest-as-crisis-deepens.html

(Pakistan) Ex-senator, wife shot dead
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\19\story_19-12-2009_pg7_9

(Pakistan/Al-Qaeda) "New Book by Ayman Al-Zawahiri: 'The Morning and the Lamp: A Treatise Regarding the Claim that the Pakistani Constitution Is Islamic' "
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3852.htm

(Afghanistan) Taliban bomb killed children, probe finds
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/595128--taliban-bomb-killed-children-probe-finds

(Afghanistan) Marines prep for key Taliban offensive in southern Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091217/ts_csm/269513

(Afghanistan) "Taliban Is the Real Deal": WTOP Reporter
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34482282

(Afghanistan) Taliban warns US over Afghan war
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/20091218141214843165.html

India: Mumbai terror suspect retracts confession
-- Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4124185705

India: Two cops killed in landmine blast
http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/19/stories/2009121958290100.htm

India pulls out 30,000 troops from Kashmir
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/09-india-pulls-out-30000-troops-from-kashmir--szh-02

(U.S.) Funding for jihad troubling, scholar says
-- "More than 35 percent of Egyptians and Saudis interviewed in a recent survey considered it their duty to back regional mujahedin financially, a scholar notes."
-- "Private polling of Egyptian and Saudi citizens reveals trends regarding the public sentiment toward jihadi groups like al-Qaida."
-- "Pollock adds that while many of the respondents said they did not support al-Qaida, more than 40 percent said they assumed other Muslim communities did support the group's militant message."
-- "He notes that while public support for radical Islam is dwindling, the perception that financial assistance is an obligation is troubling."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/12/18/Funding-for-jihad-troubling-scholar-says/UPI-44951261172740/

Iraq: Amid the carols and decorations, Iraq Christians fear extinction
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6962191.ece

Iran Making New Model Centrifuges for Nukes
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580532,00.html?test=latestnews

Iran: US ambassador: Iran arms Taliban
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6835102/Iran-helping-the-Taliban-US-ambassador-claims.html

Al-Qaeda's New Business Model: Cocaine And Human Trafficking
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/18/al-qaeda-cocaine-business-beltway-al-qaeda.html?feed=rss_business_beltway
-- (Ghana/Mali) African men flown to U.S. for trial linked to terrorism, drugs
-- cocaine deal between Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and FARC
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/12/18/africa.narco.terror.plot/index.html

Yemen - Source: Yemen airstrike kills al Qaeda deputy
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/18/yemen.alqaeda/index.html

Yemeni security forces arrest four injured Al Qaeda members
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2048298&Language=en

Spain: Recruitment, funding for AQIM
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/spain-recruitment-funding-for-aqim.html

Other News:

Iran: Twitter hacked by Iranians
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6838993/Twitter-hacked-by-Iranian-Cyber-Army.html

Iranian soldiers take control of Iraq oil well
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6961867.ece
-- Iraq's Government Orders Iranian Troops to Withdraw From Iraqi Oilfield
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580560,00.html?test=latestnews

Indonesia: Out on patrol with Indonesia's Sharia policewomen
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091219/FOREIGN/712189762/1015/rss

UAE: Pakistani boy raped, killed in Dubai mosque
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/16-pakistani+boy+raped%2C+killed+in+mosque-hs-08