Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] December 22, 2009

December 22, 2009 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Pakistan: Islamic Supremacists Threaten, Suicide Bombing Against Pakistan Press Club
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/attack-on-pakistan-press-club/
-- Taliban target media
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\23\story_23-12-2009_pg1_3
-- Suicide bomber targets Peshawar Press Club
-- Dawn: "Taliban militants, who are powerful in northwest Pakistan, threatened media in Peshawar, said the president of the press club, Shamim Shahid."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/03-suicide-bomber-targets-peshawar-press-club-ss-01
-- VOA Report
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Suicide-Bomber-Kills-2-People-at-Pakistan-Press-Club-79883147.html
-- Three killed in suicide blast outside Press Club in Pak city
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Suicide-attack-targets-Pakistan-press-club-Police/articleshow/5365423.cms
-- Last week: December 16, 2009: "On Monday, the Peshawar Press Club was the venue of a seminar entitled 'Conspiracies of US and India against Pakistan' at which the speakers advocated talks with the Taliban on the grounds that the fight in Afghanistan is a 'nationalist struggle' and the violence in Pakistan is the direct result of the American presence in the region."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/19-please-stop-hh-01

Pakistan: Lahore - Bomb hoax at media group building creates panic
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\23\story_23-12-2009_pg7_22

Pakistan: Security forces kill 22 Taliban in Swat, FATA
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\23\story_23-12-2009_pg7_11

Pakistan: Posts From the Urdu-Pashtu Media Blog: Detained U.S. Nationals in Pakistan Say No Regrets on Planning Jihad Against U.S. Forces; Commander of Taliban's Haqqani Network -We Await Arrival of 30,000 Fresh U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3856.htm
-- Detained U.S. Nationals In Pakistan Say No Regret On Planning Jihad Against U.S. Forces, Affirm: "Martyrdom Is Our Aim; We Will Get Martyrdom If We Are Hanged"
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/23136.htm

Pakistan: Govt's plea to restore Dr AQ Khan's security protocol rejected
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\23\story_23-12-2009_pg7_8

Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi hits out at new US strategy
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/12-qureshi-hits-out-at-new-us-strategy--bi-07

Pakistan President Zardari blames "the international community" for creating "militants and extremists"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\23\story_23-12-2009_pg7_1

(Pakistan) US forces mounted secret Pakistan raids in hunt for al-Qaida
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/21/us-forces-secret-pakistan-raids
-- 'US special forces conducting ops inside Pakistan'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-special-forces-conducting-ops-inside-Pakistan/articleshow/5367783.cms

Afghanistan: Commander Of Taliban's Haqqani Network Claims They Control 80 Percent Of Afghanistan, Warns: We Have Drawn Up Counter-Plans and are Waiting for Arrival of Fresh 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to Give Them a Tough Time
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/23135.htm

(Afghanistan) Taliban will be marginalized by 2011: Top Canadian general
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Taliban+will+marginalized+2011+Canadian+general/2371368/story.html

(Afghanistan) Newsweek: Karzai: Afghan timetable is flexible
http://www.newsweek.com/id/227755

(Afghanistan) ISAF soldier, militants killed in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2049268&Language=en

(Afghanistan) Karzai's cousin murdered in revenge for 'honour killing' of another of Afghan president's relatives 30 YEARS ago
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1237825/Karzais-cousin-murdered-revenge-honour-killing-of-Afghan-presidents-relatives-30-YEARS-ago.html
-- Karzai forced to investigate family blood feud after cousin is murdered
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6965681.ece

India - Mumbai Attacks: Pradhan panel's 26/11 report blames Gafoor for lapses
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Pradhan-panels-26/11-report-blames-Gafoor-for-lapses/articleshow/5362815.cms

(Iraq) Four Hezbollah gunmen arrested in Baghdad - US army
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2049301&Language=en

U.S. authorities deport Al Qaeda-Linked immigrant to Sudan
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/37041

(U.S.) Obama to name Howard Schmidt as cybersecurity coordinator
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/nation/nationalsecurity/index.html?sub=AR

(U.S.) Fort Hood Attack: "Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect Prevented From Praying"
http://www.wesh.com/news/22031923/detail.html

(U.S.) California: Files: Terrorism feared after Jackson's arrest
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/22/files-terrorism-feared-after-jacksons-arrest/

(UK) A Radical New Year From East London Mosque
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/12/22/a-radical-new-year-from-east-london-mosque/

(UK/Somalia) Wretched, jobless, invisible: are Britain's Somalis the enemy within?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6965717.ece
-- London Times: Government officials say that dozens have already returned to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, the brutal militia with links to al-Qaeda that is fighting the Western-backed Government. They fear that these battle-hardened jihadists will bring their newly acquired skills back to the UK. One senior official told The Times that Somalia had risen sharply up the list of threats to Britain's security and was probably now second after Pakistan."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6965717.ece

Israel: 'Mediator to give Hamas Israeli response to deal'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364470582&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Gaza: Explosive device targets building of Al al-Bait Society for Heritage and Sharia' Sciences and the National Center of Research and Studies in Gaza City
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SKEA-7YYHT8?OpenDocument&query=OPT:%20Explosive%20device%20targets%20building

Iran Prez Won't Say Yes-or-No to Nuclear Bomb
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/iran-president-ahmadinejad-rule-nuclear-weapon/story?id=9393674

Iran: Ahmadinejad on Nuke Deadline: 'We Don't Care'
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580845,00.html
-- US warns Iran to take deadline seriously
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364472016&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iran: Osama bin Laden's wife and children could be Tehran's trump card
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6965713.ece
-- Osama bin Laden's missing family found in secret compound in Iran
-- "They include a wife and children who disappeared from his Afghan camp at the time of the 9/11 attacks on the United States."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6965756.ece

Egypt: "2009: The reemergence of terrorism in Egypt"
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=26647

Yemen: Al Qaida makes rare public statement at rally
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/al-qaida-makes-rare-public-statement-at-rally-1.556829
-- Yemen: Al-Qaeda 'commanders' address anti-govt rally
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4138665994
-- Al-Qaeda Militants in Yemen: We Fight the Americans, Not the Yemeni Army
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2304.htm

Yemen: "Saudi Arabia faces long battle with rebels to the south"
http://news.scotsman.com/news/Saudi-Arabia-faces-long-battle.5933502.jp
-- Over 70 Saudis killed in Yemen clashes; Al Qaeda vows revenge over raid
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/258589

Algerian forces capture terrorist group
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2049020&Language=en

Somalia: Al-Shabab militants divided over tactics, foreign control
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/DKAN-7YYSCG?OpenDocument

Mauritania police arrest suspect in kidnapping of Italians
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQUPIizmZ1bSVFhwgxEiA91wH4_Q

Ethiopian high court sentences US professor, 4 others to death on terrorism charges
-- "Among those sentenced to death was Berhanu Nega, an exiled opposition leader who was elected mayor of Addis Ababa in 2005. But Berhanu, currently an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, dismissed the legitimacy of the court and its sentence."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-af-ethiopia-terror-charges,0,2619685.story

Bosnia: Three Bosnian Islamists Charged with Terrorism
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/24582/

Philippines: Osama bin Laden came within minutes of killing Bill Clinton
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/6867331/Osama-bin-Laden-came-within-minutes-of-killing-Bill-Clinton.html

Human Rights Day Videos

December 10: Human Rights Day Videos
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/december-10-human-rights-day-videos/
-- Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) – Jeffrey Imm
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/human-rights-day-real/
-- Jeffrey Imm – Online Video – Part 1 – Our Universal Human Rights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tHoPd_VNw
-- Jeffrey Imm – Online Video – Part 2 – Our Responsibility for Equality And Liberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KTGMX5K2bg
-- Jeffrey Imm – Online Video – Part 3 – The Supremacist Challenge to Human Rights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMOevs3t9sk
-- Jeffrey Imm – Online Video – Part 4 – Why Love is The Answer to All Supremacist Hate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6KkjC1z6k

-- Pakistan Christian Congress – Dr. Nazir Bhatti
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/human-rights-day-pakistan-christian-congress/
-- Voice of the Copts – Ashraf Ramelah
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/human-rights-day-voice-of-the-copts/
-- Falun Gong – Lisa Tao and Pang Jin
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/human-rights-day-falun-gong/

Islamic Supremacist War on Women

Arizona - Noor Almaleki "Honor Killing": Father Charged with Murder
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/almaleki-father-charged-murder/
-- Arizona Republic reports:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/12/22/20091222honorkill1222.html
-- KPHO Phoenix reports:
http://www.kpho.com/news/22029312/detail.html

Ohio - Rifqa Bary Case: Court Decides Bary to Stay in Foster Care, To Receive Christmas Cards, Next Date January 19
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/ohio-rifqa-bary-case-dec-22/
-- CBN Report: Rifqa Bary to Stay in Foster Care for Christmas
-- CBN News: "After attending her first court hearing in Ohio, Tuesday, it looks like Rifqa Bary will be spend Christmas in foster care."
-- "This was 17-year-old Christian convert's first time before a judge in her home state since running away to Florida in fear that her Muslim parents would kill her for converting to Christianity."
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2009/December/Christian-Teen-Runaway-to-Appear-in-Ohio-Court/
-- Columbus Dispatch: "Magistrate rules that runaway doesn't have to sit down with parents"
--- Dispatch also reports Bary being assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder, parent's attorney withdrew motion to block Bary from receiving Christmas cards or third-party messages
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/12/22/rifqa-bary-in-court.html?sid=101
--- FOX55 reports: "Runaway Teen Christian Convert Is Getting Her Christmas Cards"
http://www.myfoxwausau.com/dpp/news/national/Runaway_Teen_Christian_Convert_Is_Getting_Her_Christmas_Cards_21294482
--- Examiner: "Resolution in Rifqa Bary case still nowhere in sight" - "The next court date in the case will be January 19th."
http://www.examiner.com/x-16867-Oakland-Evangelical-Examiner~y2009m12d22-Resolution-in-Rifqa-Bary-case-still-nowhere-in-sight

Slavery News:

UAE: Iraq girl sold into prostitution
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/couple-jailed-for-forcing-girl-into-prostitution-1.556950

(Pakistan) Slavery in Pakistan: "Girl sold in open auction"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/slavery-in-pakistan-girl-sold-in-open-auction/

Other News:

Pakistan: Blasphemy Accused Christian Languishing in Prison
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/pakistan-blasphemy-accused-christian-languishing-in-prison/

Pakistan Court Orders Mutilation "as part of an Islamic punishment"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/pakistan-court-orders-mutilation-as-part-of-an-islamic-punishment/
-- Times of India: "Pakistan court orders a nose for a nose"
-- " 'The court ordered that the nose and ears of Sher Mohammad and Ammanat Ali be chopped off as part of an Islamic punishment of a nose for a nose and ears for ears,' court official Azhar Ameen said."
-- "The men were found guilty of kidnapping a woman who had refused to marry one of them, then hacking off her nose and ears."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-court-orders-a-nose-for-a-nose/articleshow/5365523.cms

India: "Muslim youth urged to fight terrorism"
http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/23/stories/2009122353420300.htm

(U.S.) Hizb ut-Tahrir America Says "Dhimmi" Schools Permitted for Jews, But Nothing Like Today's Schools
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/hta-on-dhimmi-schools-for-jews/

(U.S.) 'Muslim Mafia' lawsuit response: Legally, CAIR doesn't even exist
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119685

(U.S.) IPT News: Balance Isn't Always the Same as Accuracy
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1585/balance-isnt-always-the-same-as-accuracy

Jordan: Study finds Islamic supremacist political parties not concerned about equality, human rights
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/jordan-study/
-- Jordan Times: "The 102-page study showed that Islamic parties' charters made the least mention of equality, accounting for only 13.64 per cent of all references to equality in party charters. In comparison, moderate parties accounted for 33.64 per cent of such references."
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=22520

Muslim Brotherhood Turns Away From "Democratic Engagement"
-- addresses disappointment of George Washington University's Marc Lynch who defended "moderate" branches of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/12/22/muslim-brotherhood-turns-away-from-democratic-engagement/

Australia: "Court rules Alan Jones 'racially vilified' Muslim youths"
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26519406-5003402,00.html

Saudi Arabia: Sorcery Charges On The Rise In Saudi Arabia
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121715788&ps=cprs

Against Nazi News:

Germany: Demjanjuk trial: 'I saw Jew's deliberate killing in 1947'
But Florida survivor has no idea whether the truck driver involved in Germany incident was Demjanjuk.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364477108&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Demjanjuk witness tells of deportation
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364472918&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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