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Pakistan: US drone strike kills six in N.Waziristan
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/18-suspected-us-drone-strike-kills-six-in-miranshah-am-03

Pakistan 'arrests five Britons at Islamabad airport'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7029184/Pakistan-arrests-five-Britons-at-Islamabad-airport.html

Pakistan blocks agenda at UN disarmament conference
-- Dawn: Pakistan "is wary of the proposed focus in the programme on limiting the production of fissile material"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/03-pakistan-blocks-agenda-at-un-disarmament-conference-ss-09

Pakistan govt seeks ban on AQ's free movement
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pak-govt-seeks-ban-on-AQs-free-movement/articleshow/5478341.cms

(Pakistan/U.S.) McCain: "Gilani is pro-America"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Zardari-on-shaky-ground-Gilani-is-pro-America-McCain-/articleshow/5475808.cms
-- April 16, 2008: Pakistan PM Gilani at National Assembly meeting calling for international death penalty for "blasphemy"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\04\16\story_16-4-2008_pg7_6

Afghanistan: Daring Taliban attack in Kabul dispels any complacency
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-afghan-attack19-2010jan19,0,1610906.story
-- Taliban attack shows tactical skill, military limits
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G0TW20100119

Afghanistan: "Taliban commander speaks out" - Sirajuddin Haqqani
http://bit.ly/6MTiIi

India: Afghan held in Bihar has Taliban links
http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/india/afghan-held-in-bihar-has-taliban-links.aspx

Iraq: Gunmen Attack Iraqi Charity in Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/world/middleeast/19iraq.html

Iraq: 50,000 ex-fighters now in Iraq government jobs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34937397/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Al-Qaeda: A threat transformed
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/173635a6-046f-11df-8603-00144feabdc0.html

(U.S.) Report: American Ex-convicts In Yemen Pose 'Significant Threat'
-- U.S. Worried About Three Dozen Criminals Who Converted to Islam in Prison, Most from New York
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/muslim-american-convicts-yemen-pose-threat/story?id=9602228

(U.S.) NYC - Siddiqui Case: Aafia Siddiqui, aka 'Lady Al Qaeda,' thrown out of court after ranting at jurors again
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/01/19/2010-01-19_aafia_.html

(U.S.) NYC - Zazi Case: Prosecutor: More charges coming in terror case
-- Suspect Adis Medunjanin allegedly conspired to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34940813/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
-- Queens terror suspect wanted to 'murder' US soldiers: feds
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_man_wanted_to_murder_us_soldiers_5mKGMbQO9GiB18sPf2HdqM
-- High school friend of Najibullah Zazi, Adis Madunjanin, received training at Al Qaeda camp: Feds
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/01/19/2010-01-19_high_school_friend_of_najibullah_zazi_adis_madunjanin_received_training_at_al_qa.html

(U.S.) Washington Post claims FBI technicially broke law in emergency telephone record searches
-- "FBI officials said they thought that nearly all of the requests involved terrorism investigation"
-- "Bureau officials said agents were working quickly under the stress of trying to thwart the next terrorist attack and were not violating the law deliberately"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803982.html

UK: Hate preacher Abu Hamza launches legal fight to keep British passport
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1244258/Hate-preacher-Abu-Hamza-launches-legal-fight-British-passport.html
-- Hamza citizenship battle will cost taxpayers a fortune
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/152613/Hamza-citizenship-battle-will-cost-taxpayers-a-fortune

UK: Speaking Up Against Azzam Tamimi
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/01/19/speaking-up-against-tamimi/

(Iran) Officials: Iran formally declines offer to ship out uranium
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147930746&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

'Iran ordered attack on Israeli convoy'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147924148&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Nigeria: Continuing Violence, Killing of Christians and Muslims in Jos Riots
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/jos-violence-continues/

Somalia: Hizbul Islam Denounces Citizen' Arrest in Nairobi
http://allafrica.com/stories/201001190834.html

Somali Pirates Killed in Fight Over Ransom for Tanker
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=aKA.9zzNNQlw

Sudan sentences 2 more Darfur rebels to death
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Sudan-sentences-2-more-Darfur-rebels-to-death/articleshow/5478536.cms

Italy: North Africa poses 'greatest terrorist threat'
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.4216239657

Italian police arrest members of 'new Red Brigades'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7020399/Italian-police-arrest-members-of-new-Red-Brigades.html

Turkish authorities arrest 13 Al-Qaeda suspected members
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2055567&Language=en

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

Germany: Man sentenced to 14 years for "honour killing" of cousin
-- DPA: "A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for killing his cousin in a so-called 'honour-killing', a German regional court said Tuesday."
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1526654.php/Man-sentenced-to-14-years-for-honour-killing-of-cousin
-- AFP: "The man, identified only as Ezzedin A., along with his 48-year-old uncle, shot the 20-year-old woman in a motorway lay-by in August, the court in Hagen, western Germany, ruled."
--- "The murder was planned in a so-called family court, which "sentenced" the young woman to death and decided that her cousin should carry out the execution."
--- "Nevertheless, it was the 48-year-old uncle, identified as Hussain K., still on the run from authorities, who actually shot the young woman in the head, which the court considered a mitigating circumstance in Ezzedin A.'s case.
http://www.dose.ca/news/story.html?id=2459975
-- Syrian sentenced for 'honor killing' in Germany
-- Ynet: "A Syrian man was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a German court Tuesday for participating in the so-called 'honor killing' of his cousin."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3836793,00.html

Italy: Police rescue abducted Pakistani teen
-- 17 year old girl Almas Mahmood was kidnapped by father after "placed in local care last April after her father savagely beat her for being 'too westernized'"
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4216238778

Ohio: Rifqa Bary might get new foster home
-- Columbus Dispatch: "Attorneys for Fathima Rifqa Bary want the 17-year-old Columbus runaway moved to a different foster home, according to a court document."
-- "Through the discovery process used to clarify evidence, Franklin County Children Services made the names of Rifqa's foster parents available to everyone involved in the case"
-- Reports on continuing threats to Rifqa Bary
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/01/16/rifqa16.ART_ART_01-16-10_B8_5HGANF8.html?sid=101

Mauritanian Muslim leaders ban female genital mutilation, say Qur'an does not endorse practice
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iViHT1ts7ZP_fL6EBm1eULiSpBjg

Other News:

Malaysia: Under Cloud of Violence, Malaysian Christians Come Together
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/world/asia/18iht-church.html

Malaysia: In the name of Allah, Malaysia's conservatives cling to power
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article6993644.ece

Egypt: HRW calls for release of pro-Coptic groups
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/01/18/HRW-calls-for-release-of-pro-Coptic-groups/UPI-15671263839724/

Indonesia: Sharia banking grows strong in Indonesia
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/01/19/sharia-banking-grows-strong-indonesia.html

India: "Love Jihad case in HC"
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/47759/love-jihad-case-hc.html

UK: Anti-extremist protesters jailed for Luton rampage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/8469077.stm

Sweden: Gov't should help Islamists leave extremism, says minister
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/01/sweden-govt-should-help-islamists-leave.html

France: 57% support burka banning law
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/01/france-57-support-burka-banning-law.html

Against Totalitarianism News:

Communist China: Google Postpones China Launch Of Phones By Motorola, Samsung
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100119-703684.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLEHeadlinesAsia

Against Racial Supremacism News:

(U.S.) Chicago: Attorney K. Reilly Smith Seeks to Create White Nationalist "Clubs" in America
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/white-nationalist-clubs/

U.S. court sends back Abu-Jamal death penalty case -- Mumia Abu-Jamal
-- Reuters: "The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an appeal by prosecutors and set aside a ruling that invalidated the death sentence of black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer."
-- "The court's action, which was not a ruling on the merits of the case, could lead to Abu-Jamal's death sentence being reinstated, too."
-- "Abu-Jamal, a former member of the Black Panthers militant group, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for murdering white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in an early morning confrontation on December 9, 1981."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60I3GL20100119
-- While involved with Black Panthers, in one of the interviews he gave at the time he quoted Mao Zedong, saying that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal#Involvement_with_the_Black_Panthers
http://www.tcnj.edu/~kpearson/Mumia/part5.htm

Against Nazi News:

Germany: Witness in Demjanjuk trial faces own charges as Nazi camp guard -- Samuel K.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1143426.html

Germany: John Demjanjuk trial: survivor speaks of nightmares about Nazi death camp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7028729/John-Demjanjuk-trial-survivor-speaks-of-nightmares-about-Nazi-death-camp.html

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