December 23, 2009 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks
Iraq: Christian Churches Bombed as Christmas Eve Approaches
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/iraq-christian-churches-bombed-as-christmas-eve-approaches/
-- Asia News: Mosul attacks on two Christian churches, three dead and several injured
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=17204&theme=5&size=A
-- Iraq: 2 killed in Iraq church bombing
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/23/iraq.violence/index.html
-- Deadly blast hits Iraq church in run-up to Christmas
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3EKaI2F-IrEVz8KuMSH3ZiDAG6w
-- AP report: " 'Instead of performing Christmas Mass in this church, we will be busy removing rubble and debris,' Hazim Ragheed, a priest at the church, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD9CP1CI01
-- Abbreviating Christmas in Iraq
--- NYT reports: "For Christians in Iraq, this will be a year of canceled holiday celebrations and of Christmas Masses spent under the protective watch of police officers and soldiers because of a spate of threats by extremist groups to bomb churches on Christmas Day."
--- " 'I'm very sad that we are not able to have our rituals for Christmas this year and not have a sermon, but we do not want any Christians to be harmed,' said Edward Poles, a Christian priest at Sa'a Church in Mosul, which was bombed last week, though no one was killed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/world/middleeast/23iraq.html
-- December 15, 2009: Bombs Kill Eight In Baghdad, Northern Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/15/world/international-us-iraq-violence.html?_r=1
Iraq: Five Iraqis killed in two attacks in Baghdad
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2049465&Language=en
Pakistan Taliban 'helping' beef up Afghan fight
Thousands cross border to counter U.S. troop surge, commander claims
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34570470/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
Pakistan - Asia Times: "Al-Qaeda's sights on Pakistan, and beyond"
-- regarding Chicago's David Headley: "One of Headley's handlers was [Al-Qaeda and HuJI] Ilyas Kashmiri"
-- more on Abu Yahya al-Libbi
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KL24Df05.html
-- October 13, 2009: Ilyas Kashmiri survived last month's airstrike in Pakistan
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/10/ilyas_kashmiri_survi.php
Afghanistan: Bicycle bomb kills 3 Afghan civilians
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/23/content_12694399.htm
(U.S.) Fort Hood Attack: Pre-massacre concerns about Hasan may have been off limits to FBI
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-militaryfiles_16nat.ART.State.Edition2.4bede79.html
(U.S.) As attacks increase, U.S. struggles to recruit computer security experts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/nation/nationalsecurity/index.html?sub=AR
Gaza: Blast kills Hamas member in S. Gaza
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2049405&Language=en
'Hamas received Israeli offer, will respond in coming days'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364481542&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Lebanon: Attacker of Syrian bus arrested - Lebanese source
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2049468&Language=en
Yemen: Govt to present report on al-Qaeda threats in Yemen
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news201290.htm
Indonesia Church Attacked, Burned - in Java - by Mob of 1,000
-- "They were shouting... "destroy .. destroy" The mothers take the children to throw follow-up."
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/indonesia-church-attacked-burned-in-java-by-mob-of-1000/
Indonesia: Terrorist ideology has potential to develop in 2010 - Indonesian Police
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2049401&Language=en
Other News:
Somali militants enforce Taliban-style dress code
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/somali-militants-enforce-taliban-style-dress-code/
-- AP: " Residents of a southern Somali town say Islamists are enforcing a Taliban-style dress code."
-- "Kismayo resident Abdulahi Omar Dhere says members of the al-Shabab insurgent group are targeting young men who have long hair, no beards and wear Western-style trousers below the ankle."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOMALIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-12-23-08-20-17
UK Article on Hizb ut-Tahrir -- Foreign Policy: "Reality Check: The Party's Not Over"
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/22/reality_check_the_party_s_not_over
Iran security forces clash with Montazeri mourners
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/23/iran-clashes-montazeri-mourners
(UAE) Khalifa sets up Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2009/December/theuae_December669.xml§ion=theuae
Vatican tries to quell Pius XII backlash
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364483808&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Against Racial Supremacism News:
Louisiana Man Sentenced for Civil Rights Crimes - Justin Sigler
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/louisiana-man-sentenced-for-civil-rights-crimes/
-- "Justin Sigler, 20, of Chopin, Louisiana, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for threatening and intimidating an African-American man and his wife, causing them to move out of the home they had just moved into"
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/133760
Texas: New Black Panthers call off protest in Rusk County
-- "Officials at the Henderson Police Department in Rusk County said that the New Black Panthers have canceled their protest march in front of the county jail scheduled for Tuesday afternoon."
http://www.dailysentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2009/12/22/black_panthers_cancel_122209.html?imw=Y
-- Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists New Black Panthers as a "black separatist" hate group
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/type.jsp?DT=3
Against Nazi News:
Europe: "Racist Skinhead's Wife Behind European 'News' Website"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/racist-skinheads-wife-behind-european-news-website/
-- European Union Times (EUT)
-- SPLC: "It was created by Jessica Nachtman, wife of Christopher Nachtman. He's a former member of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance who more recently has been active in Volksfront, a racist skinhead group."
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/12/16/racist-skinheads-wife-behind-european-news-website/
Canada: Nazi Suspect in Two Canadian Hate Bombings Arrested -- Kyle Robert Mckee taken into custody
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/12/canada-suspect-in-two-canadian-hate-bombings-arrested/
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