Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] January 18, 2010

January 18, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

U.S. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Observed
-- Day of Service
http://www.mlkday.gov/
-- Partnership for Volunteer Impact
http://www.volunteerhere.com/

Newslinks:

Al Qaeda threatens new US strikes
-- NY Post: "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula issued fresh threats Monday against the U.S. and its Mideast allies, promising to retaliate against a surge of strikes launched in the past month against its leaders and safe havens in Yemen."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/al_qaeda_threatens_us_new_strikes_IbHKofaNwiIsHuq8HvT7iM
--- Al Qaeda statement on Monday: "The duty of our Muslim nation is to declare jihad against the infidels and their agent helpers, not only on the ground, but in the sea and air as well as their Crusader warships in the Gulf of Aden"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703626604575010851735076606.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines
--- 'More evidence of terror danger than US admits'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\19\story_19-1-2010_pg4_1

Afghanistan: Taliban attackers strike at heart of Afghanistan's capital
-- McClatchy: "Seven Taliban attackers, including a suicide bomber driving an ambulance, hit the center of Kabul on Monday morning, killing five people, wounding at least 71 and demonstrating their ability to strike at the hub of the U.S.-backed Afghan government."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1432095.html
-- Audacious attacks by Taliban in Kabul: 12 dead
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/14-bomb-blasts-gunshots-heard-in-central-kabul-zj-07
-- Taliban launches audacious attack on targets in Kabul
-- Telegraph: "The Taliban has launched its most audacious attack on the Afghan capital in the last year with assaults on a cinema, a five-star hotel, government buildings and a shopping centre."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7018794/Taliban-launches-audacious-attack-on-targets-in-Kabul.html
-- Taliban Militants Launch Attack On Afghan Capital
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122693302
-- Kabul attack brings fear to President Karzai's doorstep
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6992992.ece
-- Kabul presents easy target for Taliban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/18/taliban-kabul-attacks-analysis
-- Kabul 'Is In Lockdown' After Taliban Attacks
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/kabul_attacks_taliban_monday_e.html
-- A Little Too Close to the Battle in Kabul
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/a-little-too-close-to-the-battle-in-kabul/
-- The Taliban won't rest until they have destroyed the government of Hamid Karzai
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100022615/the-taliban-wont-rest-until-it-has-destroyed-the-government-of-hamid-karzai/

Pakistan: Eight terrorists could target Punjab
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\19\story_19-1-2010_pg7_22

Pakistan: Militants blow up school in Pakistan: officials
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gOnt2kbR9yRBPrYtBsNDC8ZFjaSQ

Pakistan: Militants kill anti-Taliban militiaman in Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011801543.html

Pakistan: Security forces kill 10 Taliban in N Waziristan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\19\story_19-1-2010_pg7_2

(Pakistan/U.S.) US militant suspects allege torture in Pakistan
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iFKgdHA2lUsU2r3ZNjxWQRL2OZGg

Pak-based terrorists main threat to India: Narayanan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\19\story_19-1-2010_pg1_6

India: Key Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) operative held in Hyderabad
-- "Shaik Abdul Khaja alias Amjad, said to be Lashkar-e-Taiba's south India commander"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Key-HuJI-operative-held-in-Hyderabad/articleshow/5474620.cms

(India) Mumbai Attacks: 26/11 attackers were Indian, says Pakistani Ajmal Kasab
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\19\story_19-1-2010_pg7_9

Iraq: Gunmen kill two civilians in Mosul
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2055268&Language=en

Iraq: Mosul, a Christian businessman killed as the faithful celebrate their new archbishop
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=25757&t=Iraq%3A+++Mosul%2C+a+Christian+businessman+killed+as+the+faithful+celebrate+their+new+archbishop

Iraq: Al-Qaeda prisoners admit killing Iraqi Christians
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2055288&Language=en

(UK) Terror suspects set for payout after winning landmark human rights ruling over control orders
-- two men named AF and AE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1244145/Terror-suspects-set-payout-winning-landmark-human-rights-ruling-control-orders.html?ITO=1490
-- UK court scraps curfews on two terrorism suspects
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100118/wl_nm/us_britain_security_ruling

(UK) Speaker with extremist links to address Detroit bomber's former student group
-- "Hizb ut-Tahrir linked-Hamza Andreas Tzortzis will address the University College London Islamic Society on 28 January in a talk entitled '21st century misconceptions of Islam answered'"
--- Hamza Tzortzis: "We as Muslims reject the idea of freedom of speech, and even of freedom"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7012827/Speaker-with-extremist-links-to-address-Detroit-bombers-former-student-group.html

(UK) London Schoool of Economics (LSE) tutor says he is victim of McCarthyite witch-hunt over Hizb ut-Tahrir membership
-- Reza Pankhurst
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/17/reza-pankhurst-mccarthyite-witchhunt

(UK) University of Birmingham: What Violence?
-- Azzam Tamimi to address a conference on Israel and Palestine on January 20
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/01/18/university-of-birmingham-what-violence/

(UK) Plans halted for mosque near London Olympics site -- Tablighi Jamaat
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gyRsvXUjeU7HNEgfjZcjgxFtQdiw
-- Islamic sect's plan to build mega-mosque next to Olympics site collapses
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6991808.ece

UK: Tarek Heggy to Speak at King's College London - January 19
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/uk-tarek-heggy-january-19/

(U.S.) Abdulmutallab Detroit Terror Attack: Jet bomb plot review shows more missed clues
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34920028/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/

(U.S.) NYC: United States Attorney Plans Drug-Terrorism Unit
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/nyregion/18terror.html

(U.S./Indonesia) Police Offer Assistance for US Trial of Bali Bombing Suspect
http://thejakartaglobe.com/news/police-offer-assistance-for-us-trial-of-bali-bombing-suspect/353291

(U.S.) Fort Hood Attack: Washington Times - "Muslim question persists in Army shooting - Signs missed at Fort Hood"
-- Washington Times: "Fear of offending Muslims or being insensitive to religion was likely a key factor to why Army supervisors missed signs that the suspect in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage was a Muslim extremist, according to national security experts."
-- "The public version of the report, 'Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood,' makes no mention of Islamist extremism, and refers to the internal security threat posed by unspecified 'external influences' on troops."
-- "Mr. Emerson said the neglect of Islamist extremism 'stands in sharp contrast to the military's decision to weed out white supremacists a few years back at Fort Bragg by throwing out any serviceman who supported the Ku Klux Klan.'"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/18/muslim-question-persists-in-army-shooting/

(U.S.) GAO urges changes in budgeting for national security
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/17/AR2010011702562.html

Iranian FM hails lack of UN decision over further sanctions
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147922458&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Saudi Arabia identifies three al-Qaeda suspects killed in September
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1526337.php/Saudi-Arabia-identifies-three-al-Qaeda-suspects-killed-in-September

Kenyan police raid Somali suburb after riots
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G27F20100117

Yemen: Denial from al Qaida that six leaders killed
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Denial+from+Qaida+that+leaders+killed/2454745/story.html

Yemen: Al-Qaeda spreads its tentacles in Yemen
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article81682.ece?homepage=true

Yemen Kidnappers Want Release of Terror Suspects and $2 Million - for German Hostages
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,672526,00.html

Canada: Harkat an 'active jihadist,' CSIS tells court
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Harkat+active+jihadist+CSIS+tells+court/2455987/story.html

Canada: Toronto 18 ringleader gets life in prison - Zakaria Amara, 24 year old from Mississauga
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/752107--toronto-18-ringleader-gets-life-in-prison
-- Canada court sentences 'Toronto 18' terrorism conspirators
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2010/01/dnp-toronto-18.php
--- Note: Mississauga where Hizb ut-Tahrir held July event
--- July 2009: Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) Supremacist Group to Meet in Govt-Managed Community Center
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/canada-supremacist-group-to-meet/
--- August 6, 2009: Reports state Mississauga-based group promotes speaker who praises suicide bombers, condemns democracy
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/mississauga-group-on-democracy/

Canadian gets 12-yr-jail for 'terrorism' - Saad Gaya
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Canadian-gets-12-yr-jail-for-terrorism/articleshow/5474731.cms

Turkish police arrest 20 suspected Al Qaeda militants
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/590275/cs/1/

Turkey: Iran hands over two Turkish women arrested for PKK links
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2055251&Language=en

Other News:

Egypt: Suspects in Christmas attack that killed 7 in southern Egypt will be tried February 13
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iFHdinA4yGhFXp-NJPZa9TBZHC5g
-- Cairo: Coptic killings criminal, not sectarian
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=337928&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

Egypt: Coptic Christians Rally Worldwide for Believers in Egypt
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100117/coptic-christians-rally-worldwide-for-believers-in-egypt/
-- French Copts protest the killing of Christians in Egypt
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1122&Itemid=1
-- Australia: Human Rights For COPTS Protest - Melbourne 2010
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1121&Itemid=1

(U.S.) NYC - Christian Copt Rallies on January 19 - United Nations (12-2pm) and Egyptian Mission (2-4pm)
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1112&Itemid=1

(U.S.) DC - Christian Copt Rally on January 21 - Demonstration in front of the White House
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1119&Itemid=1

(UK) Christian Copt Rally on January 23 - London Coptic Demonstration
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1118&Itemid=1

Iran Demonstrators Facing Death Sentence
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Iran-Demonstrators-Facing-Death-Sentence-81930617.html

Jammu and Kashmir: "Rajnish's ex-Muslim widow kidnapped from Hindu in-laws' home in Jammu"
http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/276010cfee322bbe
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100116/j&k.htm#6

Nigeria: Muslim youth attack Catholics in Nigeria
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5184

Pakistan Christian Congress: "Catholic Bishops Conference of Pakistan not sincere to repeal blasphemy"
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1656

Israeli Police Arrest Settlers Linked to Mosque Attack
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Israeli-Police-Arrest-Settlers-Linked-to-Mosque-Attack-81980342.html

Sweden: Pig's head drawn on mosque
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/01/sweden-pigs-head-drawn-on-mosque.html

(U.S.) Tennessee: Islamic Center sign vandalized
http://www.dnj.com/article/20100118/NEWS06/1180318/Islamic-Center-sign-vandalized

(U.S.) "Google Claims Bug Blocking Islamic Search Suggestions, Not Fear"
http://thenextweb.com/2010/01/06/google-claims-bug-blocking-islamic-search-suggestions-fear/
-- "Google Blocking Negative Search Recommendations On Islam – Why?"
http://thenextweb.com/2010/01/05/google-blocking-negative-search-recommendations-islam/
-- SearchEngineLand: "Islam Is... Blocked By 'Bug' In Google Suggest"
http://searchengineland.com/islam-is-blocked-by-google-suggest-bug-32921

(U.S). Oregon: Ban on teachers' religious dress could be repealed
http://www.katu.com/news/local/81936757.html

Canada: CAIR woman says Canadian Muslims in denial on terrorism
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Muslim+woman+speaks+Ottawa+author+talks+about+Canada+Islam+women+rights+terrorism/2451422/story.html

Pakistan: Court orders separation of minor girl from 'killer' mother - four month old killed for "demons"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\19\story_19-1-2010_pg7_27

Sharia Finance - Malaysia: Bank Negara pressing ahead with Shariah parameters
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100118032413/Bank%20Negara%20pressing%20ahead%20with%20Shariah%20parameters

Against Racial Supremacism News:

(U.S.) 'Voice of civil rights remembers MLK'
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-393344?hpt=Sbin

(U.S.) "King was ordinary man who accomplished extraordinary things"
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2010/01/king_was_ordinary_man_who_acco.html

Against Nazi News: