Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] January 24, 2010

January 24, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Al-Qaeda: Report: New bin Laden tape emerges
-- CNN: "A new audio tape allegedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claims responsibility for an attempt to blow up a plane en route to Michigan on Christmas Day and warns the United States of more attacks."
-- The tape, which aired on the Arabic-language news Web site Al-Jazeera on Sunday, says "the United States will not dream of enjoying safety until we live it in reality in Palestine."
-- OBL: ""God willing our attacks will continue as long as you support the Israelis and may peace be on those who follow guidance."
-- OBL: "The message intended to be sent to you was through the hero fighter Omar Farouq, may God release him, confirming an earlier message that the [September] 11th heroes delivered to you and it was repeated before and after [that event]"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/24/bin.laden.terror.tape/?hpt=Sbin
--- Osama Bin Laden News Report Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8RHb9zHbc&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbu88LoN_Ak&
-- We will hit United States, says Osama bin Laden
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/we-will-hit-united-states-says-osama-bin-laden/story-e6frg6so-1225823073095
-- Osama claims Dec 25 US plane plot, warns Obama of fresh attacks
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Osama-claims-Dec-25-US-plane-plot-warns-Obama-of-fresh-attacks-/articleshow/5495178.cms
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-obl-plane-attempt-qs-11
-- US can't immediately authenticate bin Laden words
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012401231.html
-- 'Bin Laden' claims Christmas Day bomb plot
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7000386.ece
-- Bin Laden claims U.S. plane bombing attempt
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60N0L920100124

(U.S.) Abdulmutallab Detroit Terror Attempt: Officials Describe Arrest of Christmas Day Bomber for First Time
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583749,00.html

(UK) 'They can easily make these bombs in England': A warning from Pakistan's terror front line
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1244783/They-easily-make-bombs-England-A-warning-Pakistans-terror-line.html?ITO=1490

UK students recruited for Somali jihad
-- "Young British Muslims are joining a terror group linked to Al-Qaeda that is blamed for hundreds of deaths in the African country"
-- "Somali community leaders in the UK say students from the London School of Economics (LSE), Imperial College and King’s College London are among those who have been recruited within the past year. The youngest recruit is believed to be 18."
-- "An investigation by The Sunday Times into the terrorist 'pipeline' to Somalia substantiates claims that Britain has become a fertile breeding ground for Al-Qaeda"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6999929.ece

(UK) Controversial cleric Yahya Ibrahim to tour UK universities
-- "Controversial hardline Muslim cleric Yahya Ibrahim, who is banned from visiting the United States, is planning a speaking tour of Britain universities."
-- "Yahya Ibrahim, who has described Jews as "monkeys and pigs" and is accused of advocating conflict with the West, is due to speak at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), next month and at Birmingham University in March."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7061983/Controversial-cleric-Yahya-Ibrahim-to-tour-UK-universities.html

(UK) Hate preacher Anjem Choudary vows to establish Sharia law across Europe
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/118681/Hate-preacher-Anjem-Choudary-vows-to-establish-Sharia-law-across-Europe/

(UK) Terror threat will get worse, warns Government adviser
-- Daily Telegraph: "Iqbal Wahhab, a prominent Muslim businessman, claimed that divisions between Islamic communities and the wider population will remain for another 100 years."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7061974/Terror-threat-will-get-worse-warns-Government-adviser.html

(UK) Indian hijack plot caused new UK terror alert
-- "MI5 was told about a suspected plot by militants linked to Al-Qaeda in Pakistan to hijack a flight from Mumbai or Delhi"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6999959.ece

(UK) White Powder found at airport 'harmless'
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jSUnbIiE6AtX58z0EmEoWSImvJog
-- Evacuation at Manchester Airport after white powder sparks security scare
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7063138/Evacuation-at-Manchester-Airport-after-white-powder-sparks-security-scare.html
-- Terror scare at Manchester Airport as man attempts to take 'unidentified white powder' onto flight bound for Heathrow
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245390/Breaking-News-UK-terror-threat-raised-severe.html

Pakistan: Taliban kill 7 in Pakistan's tribal belt for 'spying' for US
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Taliban-kill-7-in-Pakistans-tribal-belt-for-spying-for-US/articleshow/5495142.cms

Pakistan: Four killed in suicide car bombing in Tank
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\24\story_24-1-2010_pg7_2
- Car bomb attack kills four in Pakistan, including two children
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j_KL3ZFFcxwNPQrqpmpVZkOYzxBA

Pakistan: 13 Taliban, three soldiers killed in Orakzai clashes
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\24\story_24-1-2010_pg7_1

(Pakistan/U.S.) Gates Sees Fallout From Troubled Ties With Pakistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/world/asia/24military.html

(Afghanistan) Al-Qaida-linked suspects arrested for Kabul attack
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHAN_KABUL_ATTACK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-01-24-09-13-53

(Afghanistan) Taliban kill two US soldiers in Afghanistan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\24\story_24-1-2010_pg7_15

(Afghanistan) Insurgents kill 3 Afghan women
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/afghanistan.civilian.deaths/index.html?hpt=Sbin

(Afghanistan) Karzai: Buy off the Taliban
-- "President tells Britain and America winning battles on the ground is no longer enough to secure the future of Afghanistan"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article6999943.ece

(Afghanistan) The Taliban Doesn't Seem Ready to Talk
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24filkins.html

(Afghanistan) Troops using Twitter endanger security says MoD
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6999928.ece

Israel to rebut Gaza war report
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE60N05M20100124?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=egyptNews&rpc=401

PA warns EU against legitimizing Hamas
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147962158&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Yemen: I found Osama Bin Laden's fifth bride
-- "A former Yemeni aide to the Al-Qaeda chief tells how he delivered a teenage wife to the terrorist in the run-up to 9/11"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6999835.ece

Somalia: Pirates will die before releasing UK couple
-- "In a message to British forces via satellite telephone one of the pirates insists 'we die first before they get freed'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6999897.ece

Nigeria: Christian-Muslim violence in Nigeria warrants probe, rights group says
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/01/23/nigeria.massacre.probe/
-- Group states that if people arrested in connection with November 2008 violence had been prosecuted, current violence may not have occurred
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=942&search=

Jamaica: Radical cleric returned to Jamaica -- Abdullah el-Faisal
-- "El-Faisal once led a London mosque attended by convicted terrorists, and Britain has said his teachings heavily influenced one of the bombers in the attacks on London's transport network on July 7, 2005 in which 52 people died."
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/radical-cleric-returned-to-jamaica-2028978.html

Canada, U.S. beef up security for the winter Olympic Games in Vancouver
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204634.html

(Thailand) 6 soldiers injured in Narathiwat bomb attack
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30121012/6-soldiers-injured-in-Narathiwat-bomb-attack

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

France: Paris: Girl beaten for chatting on MSN
-- "A 16 year old might lose her eye for chatting on MSN. Caught while on her computer in December, she was beaten and locked up at home in the Paris suburb of Saint-Gratien (Val d'oise). With their parents' permission, both strict Muslims, her two brothers (28 and 32) allegedly punished the victim. The four held a family meeting to avoid legal repercussions."
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/01/paris-girl-beaten-for-chatting-on-msn.html

Other News:

(UAE/UK) Dubai royal's 'secret bride' Nivin el-Gamal flees to Britain
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6999915.ece

Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life under 'Blasphemy' Law
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/pakistan/14329/

Pakistan: Teenage boy killed on 'date'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\24\story_24-1-2010_pg12_2

Indonesia: Christians Most Hit by Religious Freedom Violations
-- Mob succeeds in getting local official to shut down HKBP church in West Java.
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/indonesia/14312/

Egypt's Orthodox Coptic Christians under the gun
http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=25728

R.E.A.L. Responds to Al-Faraeen and Tawfiq Okasha
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/response-to-anti-jewish-hate/

(UK) "Let's Not Dwell On The Past"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/01/24/lets-not-dwell-on-the-past/

(UK) Ed Balls set to ban smacking in Muslim schools -- after expose
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245610/Ed-Balls-set-ban-smacking-Muslim-schools.html

(UK) Sky News: "English Defence League (EDL) Stoke Protest: Arrests And Police Hurt At Anti Islamic Extremism March"
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/English-Defence-League-EDL-Stoke-Protest-Arrests-And-Police-Hurt-At-Anti-Islamic-Extremism-March/Article/201001415534449?f=rss
-- Sunday Mercury: Midlands - "English Defence League demonstration against Muslim Extremism turns violent"
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2010/01/24/video-english-defence-league-demonstration-against-muslim-extremism-turns-violent-66331-25671012/
-- WalesOnline: "Welsh Defence League joins major protest against extreme Islamic groups"
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/01/24/welsh-defence-league-joins-major-protest-against-extreme-islamic-groups-91466-25670720/

Against Totalitarianism News:

N. Korea threatens war after South warns of strike
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100124/koreas_tension_100124/20100124?hub=World

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