Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] January 29-31, 2010

January 29-31, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Al-Qaeda: Recruits seek out al-Qaeda's deadly embrace across a growing arc of jihadist terror
-- Daily Telegraph report addresses why we cannot "buy" away supremacist hate
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/7105454/Recruits-seek-out-al-Qaedas-deadly-embrace-across-a-growing-arc-of-jihadist-terror.html

Al-Qaeda: Osama Bin Laden urges abandoning dollar: Al Jazeera tape
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60S2YV20100129

Al-Qaeda: The resurgence of al-Qaeda - The bombs that stopped the happy talk
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15393634

Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills 16 as Taliban and al-Qaeda battle military
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/suicide-bomber-kills-16-as-taliban-and-al-qaeda-battle-military-1.1002695

Pakistan: U.S. drone attacks kill 15 militants in Pakistan
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-pakistan_31int.ART.State.Edition1.4bc4935.html

Pakistan Army Investigates Report Mehsud is Dead, Taliban Denies Report -- Hakimullah Mehsud
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/war/Pakistan-Army-Investigates-Report-Mehsud-is-Dead-Taliban-Denies-Report-83195772.html
--- Pakistani state television claims Hakimullah Mehsud "dead and buried"
http://www.themajlis.org/2010/01/31/pakistani-state-television-claims-hakimullah-mehsud-dead-and-buried

Pakistan: US airstrike targets Haqqani Network in North Waziristan
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/01/us_airstrike_targets_3.php

Pakistan: Three alleged terrorists held, arms, Jihad literature seized
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=97429

Pakistan: Five suspects arrested in Nowshera district
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-five-suspects-arrested-in-nowshera-district-ss-02

Pakistan 26/11 trial: Pak govt presents proof against Lakhvi, 6 others
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/26/11-trial-Pak-govt-presents-proof-against-Lakhvi-6-others/articleshow/5517461.cms

Pakistan: Muslim Khan, 23 others declared Proclaimed Offenders (POs)
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/16-muslim-khan,-23-others-declared-pos-hs-10

Pakistan: Girls' primary school blown up in Bannu
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-girls-primary-school-blown-up-in-bannu-ss-06

Pakistan: Taliban warn against operation in North Waziristan
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-taliban-warn-against-operation-in-north-waziristan-ss-10

Pakistan backs US talks with Taliban: Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/16-pakistan-backs-us-talks-with-taliban-mukhtar-hs-05

Pakistan: Taliban kill two US 'spies' in Miranshah
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\31\story_31-1-2010_pg1_3

Pakistan: Taliban threaten to bombard brothels in Attock
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Taliban-threaten-to-bombard-brothels-in-Attock/articleshow/5513333.cms

Afghan leader appeals to Taliban to lay down guns
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3842100,00.html
-- London Times: "Hamid Karzai fails Taliban who gave up arms"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7009683.ece

Afghan Taliban deny meeting U.N. envoy Kai Eide
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60T0NE20100130
-- U.N. Mission Chief Met Taliban Officials - Kai Eide
-- wall Street Journal reports: "The United Nations' top representative to Afghanistan met with Taliban officials earlier this month, amid heightened efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the eight-year-old conflict, a U.N. official said."
-- "Diplomats declined to say how senior the Taliban officials were, however, and said the overture by Kai Eide, who steps down as the U.N.'s envoy to Afghanistan in March, appears to have been his alone.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704343104575033273728303794.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
-- January 28, 2010: Afghan military strategy doomed without big changes, UN chief Kai Eide warns
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7005380.ece

Afghanistan: Taliban say no decision yet on Karzai offer of talks
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q3IW20100129

Afghanistan: Hillary Clinton keeps option open for talks with Taliban leaders
-- "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday did not rule out the possibility of direct talks between US officials and Taliban leaders but warned that such speculations at this stage were not useful."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/12-hillary-keeps-option-open-for-talks-with-taliban-leaders-110--bi-07
-- Clinton says no talking to 'really bad guys' in Taliban
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWuZQ_avZluZwnsoXGbVBJw2MJ4g

Afghanistan: Five-year plan to 'buy Afghanistan exit'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7007091.ece
-- Afghan conference designed to set date for withdrawal of troops
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7007250.ece

(India) J&K gunbattle ends, militants escape
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Gunfight-between-militants-forces-in-Kashmir/articleshow/5519327.cms

(U.S.) NYC - Aafia Siddiqui Trial: "Surprise witness at Aafia's trial"
-- Dawn: " In an attempt to prove that Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist on trial for attempted murder, was lying, the prosecution on Friday brought in a surprise witness to show that she knew how to handle a gun."
-- Massachusetts' Gary Woodsworth testifies about Aafia Siddiqui on firearms training, while she was a student at MIT in Boston
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/16-surprise-witness-at-aafias-trial-hs-10
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/01/29/2010-01-29_lady_al_qaeda_trial_gun_instructor_remembers_aafia_siddiqui_twenty_years_after_t.html

(U.S.) Accused 9/11 plotter likely to face execution - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3115512220100131

US pressed to move 9/11 trial from New York
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8487004.stm
-- Trial of alleged Sept. 11 conspirators probably won't be held in Lower Manhattan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012903213.html?hpid=topnews
-- U.S. government weighs other sites for 9/11 trial
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60R7DS20100129

(U.S.) Detroit bomber Abdulmutallab Attack: Plea deal may be in works in bomb case
http://www.freep.com/article/20100130/NEWS02/1300432/1004/Plea-deal-may-be-in-works-in-bomb-case

(U.S./Malaysia) Detroit bomber Abdulmutallab Attack: Abdulmutallab: Malaysia arrests 2 Nigerians, others linked to Al-Qaeda
http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201001291184729

(U.S./UK) Detroit bomber Abdulmutallab Attack: the police talk to London students
-- Express reports: "HUNDREDS of young Muslims who studied and prayed with Detroit plane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are being interviewed to discover if he had Al Qaeda associates in Britain."
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/155221/Detroit-bomber-the-police-talk-to-London-students

(U.S.) Detroit: "Report: Muslim cleric was shot 21 times in Dearborn raid" -- Luqman Ameen Abdullah
http://www.freep.com/article/20100130/NEWS02/100130008/1319/Report-Muslim-cleric-was-shot-21-times-in-FBI-raid
-- FBI Detroit head defends use of informants
http://www.freep.com/article/20100128/NEWS02/100128078/1320/FBI-Detroit-head-defends-use-of-informants
--- October 29, 2009: Michigan: Imam Called for Attacks on FBI, Washington DC, Police – Sought Hate, Violence Against Non-Muslims
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/detroit-imam-called-for-jihad-on-usa/

(U.S.) Minnesota: "How al-Shabaab Targets Western Youth"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1764/how-al-shabaab-targets-western-youth

(U.S.) Minnesota: "Jihadist Recruitment's Human Toll: One American Family's Experience"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1763/jihadist-recruitments-human-toll-one-american

(U.S.) Colorado: Ex-con Ojore Nuru Lutalo arrested on Amtrak when passengers report him talking Al Qaeda, terrorism
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/01/29/2010-01-29_excon_ojore_nuru_lutalo_arrested_on_amtrak_when_passengers_report_him_talking_al.html

(U.S.) Kansas: Roeder Guilty of Murdering Abortion Provider - George Tiller
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703389004575033052416975506.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird

(UK) Daily Mail: "Terrorists 'plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies' to foil new airport scanners"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247338/Terrorists-plan-attack-Britain-bombs-INSIDE-bodies-foil-new-airport-scanners.html
-- Al Qaeda to Surgically Implant Bombs in Breasts and Buttocks of Terrorists ?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2649899/al_qaeda_to_surgically_implant_bombs.html

(UK) Manchester: Film seized 'shows children being radicalized'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8489137.stm
-- BBC: "The Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) in North West England revealed they found the film during a raid in Manchester."
-- "Officers say it shows two children, aged about three and six, playing with a pistol and a Kalashnikov rifle."
-- "Material seized separately included the advice: 'No child is ever too young to be started off on Jihad training.'"
-- "The video shows a girl and young boy playing with guns and a man's voice says: 'What do you do with the weapon?'"
-- "He answers his own question: 'I want to kill the infidels [non-believers].'"
--- BBC report includes video, where a man states "You kill the Jews... You must kill the Jews"
--- This notably did not find its way into the BBC report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8489137.stm

(UK/Scotland)'Homegrown terrorist' Mohammed Atif Siddique in 'miscarriage of justice'
--- London Times: "A trial in October 2007 — soon after the Glasgow Airport attack — heard that the 24-year-old sympathised with al-Qaeda and wanted to be a suicide bomber. He also shocked classmates at the city's Metropolitan College with pictures of terrorist beheadings."
--- "The student branded Scotland’s 'first homegrown terrorist' was the victim of a miscarriage of justice, according to senior judges who say that they are now 'minded' to overturn his most serious conviction."
--- Mohammed Atif Siddique said that he was motivated only by curiosity when he downloaded material from the internet
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7008023.ece
-- Mohammed Atif Siddique terror conviction set to be quashed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/mohammed-atif-siddique-terror-appeal

(UK) Harriet Harman, Ed Miliband, Ken Livingstone and the man who justified killing British troops
-- Daily Telegraph: "Azad Ali will speak at today’s “Progressive London” conference organised by Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London, alongside Harriet Harman, the leader of the House of Commons and Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100024406/harriet-harman-ed-miliband-ken-livingstone-and-the-man-who-justifies-killing-british-troops/

(Iraq/UK) Amid heckles, the former PM told Chilcot inquiry Saddam Hussein was a 'monster' who needed to be dealt with
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/blair-iraq-inquiry-chilcot-911-terrorist-threat

(Iraq) Gunmen storm house, kill woman in Mosul -- police
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2058352&Language=en

(Iraq) Six blasts injure at least 11 in Baghdad
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/306807,six-blasts-injure-at-least-11-in-baghdad--summary.html

Jordan arrests dozens over convoy attack
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=167385

Hamas: Slain leader helped Gaza get arms
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35168049/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Hamas promises vengeance over al-Mabhouh death
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7007864.ece

Yemen police capture al-Qaeda would-be suicide bomber
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1529731.php/Yemen-police-capture-al-Qaeda-would-be-suicide-bomber

Egypt: 25 Egyptians grilled on terror charges
Report: Group planned to attack US ships in Suez Canal, Jewish tomb in Egypt.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=167371

Somalia: "Special report: The rise of 'the African Taliban'"
-- The UK Observer reports: "More than 500,000 displaced people live along the 20-mile Afgoye Corridor, west of Mogadishu. Many have lost everything, including their families, in their flight from the Shabaab – Somalia's terrifying Islamist militia"
-- Al-Shabaab's "feared and secret sharia courts have sentenced women to be buried and stoned to death for adultery or publicly beaten for infringing strict Islamic dress codes. Somalis say that, beyond the facade of harsh and rigid piety, the group robs and kills and sexually assaults with impunity."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/31/shabaab-somalia-islamic-militia-refugees
-- associated video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jan/31/somalia-refugees-forgotten-war

Somalia: Islamic Insurgents Attack Troops in the Somali Capital
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/world/africa/30somalia.html

Somalia: At least twelve die in Mogadishu attacks
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/At_least_twelve_die_in_Mogadishu_attacks?dpl_id=150789

Somalia: Anarchy and death rule in Mogadish
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7008953.ece

Somalia: British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates appeal for help
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/piracy/7119833/British-couple-kidnapped-by-Somali-pirates-appeal-for-help.html

Mali: Al-Qaeda in North Africa postpones execution of hostage
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3841804,00.html

Yemen: Al-Qaida Base Shifts To Yeme
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=85705

Yemen: Al Qaeda man captured wearing bomb belt: Yemen
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60T1GF20100130

Algerian court sends two Moroccans for jail for joining Al-Qaeda
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2058401&Language=en

Spanish Police Arrest 2 Suspected ETA Members
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/28/world/AP-EU-Spain-Basque-Arrests.html?_r=1

Canada: I never issued fatwa sanctioning terrorism in Canada, father of Toronto 18 plotter says
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2010/01/29/i-never-issued-fatwa-sanctioning-terrorism-in-canada-father-of-toronto-18-plotter-says.aspx

Canada: Accused in Toronto 18 planned to derail bomb plot, court hears
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/757193--accused-in-toronto-18-planned-to-derail-bomb-plot-court-hears

(Malaysia) ISA detainees said to be al-Qaeda 'recruiters'
http://www.mmail.com.my/content/26220-isa-detainees-said-be-alqaeda-recruiters
-- No Confirmed Link Between Malaysia Terror Suspects and Christmas Attack
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/No-Confirmed-Link-Between-Malaysia-Terror-Suspects-and-Christmas-Attack-82934172.html

Thais Say North Korea Arms Were Iran-Bound
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/world/asia/01plane.html?ref=asia

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

Jordanian's Sentence Reduced for "Honor Killing" of Sister
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/jordanians-sentence-reduced-for-honor-killing-of-sister/
-- AFP reports: "Jordanian jailed for sister's 'honour killing'"
http://bit.ly/9H6aoS

(U.S.) Rifqa Bary Case: Agreement between Rifqa Bary, parents to settle conflict short-lived
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/rifqa-bary-case-agreement-between-rifqa-bary-parents-to-settle-conflict-short-lived/
-- New motion filed in Franklin County Juvenile Court
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/01/29/Agreement_between_Rifqa_Bary_and_parents_tenuous.html?sid=101

Turkey: Bliss: Turkish hit ducks hot issues of honour killings
-- Toronto Star: rape victim in film told to be murdered by her family for "shaming her kin"
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/757426--bliss-turkish-hit-ducks-hot-issues-of-honour-killings

Gulf News: "Saudi Arabia to announce new law on marriage" -- "to deal with the problem of underage marriage"
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-to-announce-new-law-on-marriage-1.575315

Other News:

Malaysia charges three over Allah row church fires -- released on bail
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/malaysia-charges-three-over-allah-row-church-fires/

Egypt: "Press Conference Regarding Muslim Converted in Cairo"
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/egypt-press-conference-regarding-muslim-converted-in-cairo/

Egypt: "Feb 14 named remembrance day for Coptic martyrs"
http://www.wfn.org/2010/01/msg00198.html

Egypt: "The Steady Erosion of Women's Rights in Egypt: A Photographic Story" - by Phyllis Chesler
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/01/28/the-steady-erosion-of-womens-rights-in-egypt-a-photographic-story/

Pakistan: Suffering of Pakistan's second-class citizens
-- ACN: "The UK director of a leading Catholic charity has spoken out against the 'appalling' suffering of Christians in Pakistan following the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl."
http://members4.boardhost.com/acnaus/msg/1264720512.html

Iran Detains Christians without Legal Counsel
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/iran/14572/

Iran: Hard-line cleric's harsh words aimed at Iranian opposition - Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iran-clerics30-2010jan30,0,6803196.story

Iranian cleric: More opposition should be executed
-- AP: "Jannati cited verses from the Quran, Islam's holy book, that he said show Islam permits rulers to kill their opponents, including 'hypocrites, those with evil intentions and those who spread rumors.'"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_16
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/Iranian_Cleric_Calls_for_Death.pdf

Iran puts 16 anti-government protesters on trial
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ipuv64IUkj0NGRhHY2_TMTOdFolw

Iran hangs alleged dissidents to warn opposition
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7007003.ece

Nigeria Christians Rebuild After Clashes Kill Hundreds
http://www.bosnewslife.com/11204-jos-test

Briefing: Why Christians are declining in Mideast
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0129/Briefing-Why-Christians-are-declining-in-Mideast

Indonesia: Two Partially Constructed Church Buildings Burned in Indonesia '
-- Compass reports: " Suspected Islamic extremists burned two church buildings under construction in a village in North Sumatra on Jan. 22."
-- "The attackers came from outside the area to burn the partially constructed buildings of the Huria Kristen Batak Protestan Church (HKBP) and the Pentecostal Church (GPdI) in Sibuhuan village, Padang Lawas Residency, during daylight hours, said the Rev. S. Lubis of the HKBP church."
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/indonesia/14613/

Indonesia: One whipped, three escape corporal punishment
-- Jakarta Post: "Dozens of public canings have been carried out by local sharia police against violators of Islamic law."
-- Jakarta Post describes canings in front of Indonesia mosque for offenses like gambling, "under tight escort of sharia police officers"
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/01/30/one-whipped-three-escape-corporal-punishment.html

(U.S.) NPR: "Virginia Islamic School's Expansion Met Protests"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122987391
-- NPR reports: "Ali Ahmed, a Saudi dissident who works for the Gulf Institute, has been studying the ISA's curriculum for nearly 10 years."
-- "'These are ideological materials that are indoctrinating young students in hatred,' Ahmed says. 'If you are not a believer in their interpretation of the religion, you are not protected. Your blood, your honor and your property is up for grabs. And that explains suicide bombings a lot.'"
-- "The ISA had initially agreed to let NPR visit its campus, but canceled at the last minute. An e-mail said the school administrators were tired of all the media coverage and didn't want more, especially since they got the approval to expand."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122987391
--- see also: Saudi Government Extremism and the U.S. Response
--- "With the Saudi counterterrorism program now in its seventh year and the curriculum reform deadline long past, its religion textbooks, however, continue to assert highly inflammatory teachings."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/imam-talal-eid/saudi-government-extremis_b_436786.html

(U.S.) DHS and faith- and community-based groups to create intelligence network
http://www.examiner.com/x-36661-Refugee--Immigration-Issues-Examiner~y2010m1d30-DHS-and-faith-and-communitybased-groups-to-create-intelligence-network

(U.S.) Derogatory 'Jeopardy' board launches TSA probe
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/30/florida.tsa.investigation/index.html?hpt=Sbin

(U.S.) Muslim student adviser: Death penalty for 'gays' - Vanderbilt religious 'staff' says, 'I go with what Islam teaches'
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123450
-- Vanderbilt University Profile of Awadh A. Binhazim, Ph.D.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/religiouslife/chaplains.html

(U.S.) Hundreds of Coptic Christians Rally in San Francisco for Religious Freedom in Egypt
http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2010/01/29/hundreds-of-coptic-christians-rally-in-san-francsico-for-religious-freedom-in-egypt/

(U.S.) Houston, Texas: Family Dispute Results in Murder of 2 Year Old Child -- Maron Thomas
-- Houston Chronicle states: "Thomas' sister, Ka'Tara Price, 24, of Houston, said she believes anger and Thomas' conversion to the Muslim religion influenced his actions. She said she is not aware of him suffering from any mental illness."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6826959.html

"German academic body calls for Islamic theology at universities"
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article97569.ece

Kuwait: "Life of Filipino Maid Hangs in the Balance in Kuwait" -- Jakatia Pawa
-- Epoch Times: "Pawa claimed that the daughter was murdered by the family in an honor killing, after it emerged that the victim had allegedly been having an affair with a neighbor."
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/28727/

West Bank: 2 West Bank mosque arson suspects released to house arrest
-- Jerusalem Post reports: "Two men arrested earlier this month in connection with the arson attack on a mosque in the West Bank village of Yassuf were released to house arrest for a duration of 60 days by a Petah Tikva magistrate on Sunday."
-- "The suspects, Zvi Succot and Shlomo Gilbert, have been banned from contacting others, and have had a no-exit ban imposed on them."
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=167381

Against Misogyny News:

Congo: How one man gave Congo's women hope
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/congo-how-one-man-gave-congos-women-hope/
-- London Times report
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article7004898.ece

India: "Govt to make honour killing heinous crime"
-- Hindustan Times: "The new definition of honour killing will carry the same punishment as that of murder -- ranging from a minimum of life imprisonment to a maximum of death sentence."
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Govt-to-make-honour-killing-heinous-crime/H1-Article1-503615.aspx

Against Racial Supremacism News:

R.E.A.L DC Public Awareness Event February 19 on Racial Supremacist Hate
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/real-february-19/

Reply To American Renaissance's Jared Taylor – February 19, 12 Noon, Columbia Heights
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/reply-to-jared-taylor/

Against Totalitarianism:

Chinese Group Protests for Freedom in DC Outside Hong Kong Offices
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/chinese-group-protests-outside-hong-kong-offices/

Communist China threatens U.S. with sanctions on Taiwan arms
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60T07W20100130
-- Communist China's new tone raises concerns
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35167044/ns/world_news-washington_post/
-- China suspends military exchanges with U.S.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/30/china-suspends-military-exchanges-us/

Communist China bugs and burgles Britain, MI5 says
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7009749.ece

Communist North Korea: UN official to visit North Korea next month
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60U0SJ20100131

Communist North Korea holding two US citizens
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7106707/North-Korea-holding-two-US-citizens.html

Against Nazi News:

Nazi Stormfront Group Promotes Washington DC Area White "Nationalist" Conference
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/nazis-promote-racist-dc-mtg/
-- January 6, 2010: Nazis Eulogize Terrorist Von Brunn, Praise His Actions, Call for Hate
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/nazis-eulogize-terrorist-von-brunn-praise-his-actions/

South Carolina: Kosher Food Store, Restaurant Harrassed with "KKK," Swastika
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/kosher-food-kkk-swastika/