Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] February 13-15, 2010

February 13-15, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Afghanistan: NATO troops clearing out Taliban stronghold, officials say
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/15/afghanistan.offensive/
-- US fears being bogged down in Marjah as snipers hit major offensive - Hidden enemy delays advance in Marjah
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7028205.ece
-- Taliban allow US troops very little advancement in Marjah
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\16\story_16-2-2010_pg7_4
-- Commanders Say Fighting Narrows in Afghan Battle
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/world/asia/16afghan.html?=
-- Taliban bastion 'almost under control'
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/taliban-bastion-almost-under-control-afghan-military/story-e6frfku0-1225830758838
-- Afghanistan battle to remove the Taliban: Operation Moshtarak day-by-day
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7242156/Afghanistan-battle-to-remove-the-Taliban-Operation-Moshtarak-day-by-day.html

Afghanistan: UK Soldier shot dead
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2061727&Language=en

Pakistan: Biden says twelve Al-Qaida leaders killed
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/19-12-al-qaeda-leaders,-100-associates-killed-biden-520-hh-03
-- Missile strike in Waziristan kills three
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2061777&Language=en

Pakistan: Four wanted militants held in raid on madrassa
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\16\story_16-2-2010_pg7_7

Pakistan: Dr Fauzia Siddiqui briefs students on Aafia Siddiqui case
-- Pakistan Daily Times: "She said her sister was the 'voice of a revolution' which is why she had been arrested by the US."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\16\story_16-2-2010_pg13_5

(Pakistan) Article on Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan's Ideological Founder and South Asia's Foremost Islamist Poet, Explores the Meanings of Momin ('Faithful'), Jihad, and Martyrdom; Quotes Iqbal's Poetry: 'If He Is an Infidel, He Trusts the Sword; If He Is a Momin, a Soldier Fights Sans Sword'
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3971.htm

Indian Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) on suspect list in Pune terror attack
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/02/15/indianmujahideen-let-on-suspect-list-in-pune-terrorattack.html

(India) Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group vows attacks across India
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\16\story_16-2-2010_pg7_5
-- Al-Qaeda chief delivers a warning
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LB13Df03.html

(India) Police study video for attackers of Indian bakery
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hmNDTQjWDf0Mwih0lCo1mTG7fj2wD9DSHC1O0
-- Indian investigators examine blast footage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7028304.ece
-- India on Alert After Explosion Kills 9 at Bakery in Western City
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/world/asia/14india.html?scp=1&sq=mumbai%20attack%20german%20bakery&st=cse
-- Foreign hand behind Pune blast, says govt
--- TOI: "The govt today said it cannot rule out the involvement of a foreign hand in the Pune blast, including a David Headley link, even as it disclosed that an ISI-sponsored 'Karachi Project' was on to doctrinate Indian youth into terror."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Foreign-hand-behind-Pune-blast-says-govt/articleshow/5577264.cms
-- India fears terror campaign after attack
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7026548.ece

Indian troops kill three suspected militants in IHK
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\16\story_16-2-2010_pg7_16

(India) Suspected Maoists kill 17 Indian police: official
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/31-suspected+maoists+kill+14+indian+police-ll-03

U.S. hunts for English-speaking bombers
-- Washington Times: "U.S. and allied counterterrorism authorities have launched a global manhunt for English-speaking terrorists trained in Yemen who are planning attacks on the United States, based on intelligence provided by the suspect in the attempted Christmas Day bombing after he began cooperating."
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/15/english-speakers-trained-to-attack-us/
-- Al Qaeda Looking to Recruit English Speakers, Women
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/15/al-qaeda-looking-recruit-english-speakers-women/

(U.S.) Administration 'flexible' on 9/11 trial venue
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hqKSeW2IuYNmUUr3hiqGMVbhvxwgD9DSHIF00

(U.S.) USA Today: "National security team fails to inspire confidence"
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/02/debate-on-war-on-terror-our-view-national-security-team-fails-to-inspire-confidence.html

(U.S.) Fighting terrorism: a bone of contention between Europe and the U.S.
-- on SWIFT agreement
http://www.examiner.com/x-2086-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2010m2d15-Fighting-terrorism-a-bone-of-contention-between-Europe-and-the-US

(U.S.) Massachusetts: Report: Charged prof was questioned in '93 mail bomb case
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/15/alabama.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2

(U.S.) Arizona: Airport employee: Sky Harbor luggage security 'a big joke'
http://www.abc15.com/content/news/investigators/story/Airport-employee-Sky-Harbor-luggage-security-a/71kc6c0Yy0qieTQ6y9StrA.cspx

(Iran) US to push for more UN sanctions on Iran: Obama adviser
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-to-push-for-more-UN-sanctions-on-Iran-Obama-adviser-/articleshow/5575084.cms

(Iran) Clinton expected to seek Saudi Arabia's help in confronting Iran
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/15/AR2010021501038.html

Iran moving toward military dictatorship, Clinton says
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-clinton-iran16-2010feb16,0,1406253.story

(Iran) France, Russia and US Deny New Nuke Deal Presented to Iran
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Iran-Says-Studying-New-Nuclear-Fuel-Deal-84378557.html

Iran to get nuclear weapon in one to three years - US
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2061694&Language=en
-- Clinton warns Iran not to 'build their bomb'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8514772.stm

Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Head Ali-Akbar Salehi: Attacking Iran's Nuclear Facilities Will Spell the End of Israel
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3969.htm

(Lebanon) One killed in clash at Palestinian camp in Lebanon
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-46185820100215

Iraqi police imposes curfew in Kabisa after bomb attacks
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2061743&Language=en

Gaza: Ultra-radicals rattle Hamas
-- Gaza Strip powder keg now a breeding ground for Jihadi Salafi groups that look up to Al Qaeda
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/765573--ultra-radicals-rattle-hamas

Hamas arrests British journalist Paul Martin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/7238443/Hamas-arrests-British-journalist.html

UAE: European team killed Mabhouh
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=168786
-- Dubai accuses Britons of killing Hamas chief
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/7246914/Dubai-accuses-British-passport-holders-of-killing-Hamas-chief.html

Somalia: Survived Somali minister blames Islamists for car bomb attack
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n210276
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7028287.ece

Canada: Crown to appeal 'Toronto 18' sentence
-- seeking harsher sentence for Saad Gaya
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/crown-to-appeal-toronto-18-sentence/article1468836/

Australia: Plotters Jailed for Australian Terror Conspiracy
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/human-rights/Plotters-Jailed-for-Australian-Terror-Conspiracy-84391577.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/15/2819965.htm

Blog: "Online Jihadis Really Are Connected to al Qaeda"
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201023.php

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

"Heroic Muslim Girls and Women: Missionaries to Feminist America?" - by Phyllis Chesler
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/02/15/heroic-muslim-girls-and-women-missionaries-to-feminist-america/

Spain: "Muslim woman's veil case represents clash of values in Spain"
-- Washington Post - Cunit "is famous in Spain as the town where a Moroccan-born Muslim woman with a master's degree and a head of curly hair says she was threatened by Muslim fundamentalists because she took off her veil and tried to live like a Spaniard."
-- "The treatment of Fatima Ghailan, 31, prompted an investigating magistrate to bring charges against the sheik of the local mosque, Mohamed Benbrahim, and the head of the Islamic Association, Abderraman el-Osri, the leading figures in Cunit's Muslim community."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/12/AR2010021205010.html

Other News:

Another Amnesty official questions its links with jihadi group
-- The Hindu reports: "Amnesty's Asia-Pacific director Sam Zarifi echoed concerns raised by former colleague Gita Sahgal that Amnesty was risking its reputation by making common cause with Cageprisoners, formed by Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, to highlight the plight of terror suspects in American custody."
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article106657.ece

Egyptian Court Delays Trial of Accused Christmas Eve Shooters
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100214/egyptian-court-delays-trial-of-accused-christmas-eve-shooters/

Egypt: Three plead not guilty of gunning down Copts
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=342809&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

Egypt: "International Trusteeship for Egypt"
http://bikyamasr.com/?p=8624

Report: "Muslims Confront Islamism, Get Targeted by Islamists"
http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/02/muslims-confront-islamism-get-targeted-by

(U.S.) In Al-Jazeera TV Debate on Obama's First Year, Former U.S. Senate Candidate Muhammad Said Al-Bourini, Says Obama 'Brought Zionist Jews Into His Administration... to Monitor Them Closely'; 'He Wanted There To Be Division Among U.S. Jewry – So That They Would Join Him and J-Street, and Confront... AIPAC'
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3971.htm

(U.S.) IPT News: "MPAC Staunchly Defends Terrorists and the "Charities" That Fund Them"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1791/mpac-staunchly-defends-terrorists-and

(U.S.) Buffalo - Bridges TV rebuilds from tragedy -- a year after beheading of Aasiya Zubair Hassan.
-- "network will also air a similar extended interview with Yvonne Ridley"
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/955291.html
--- February 14, 2010 - Yvonne Ridley writes article defending convicted Aafia Siddiqui
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20Editorials/2010/February/14%20o/Dr.%20Aafia%20Siddiqui%20and%20the%20Truth%20About%20US%20Justice%20By%20Yvonne%20Ridley.htm

(U.S.) California: 2 teens shot during church service in Richmond -- New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/14/MNDK1C1O68.DTL
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7277428

Nigeria: Shari'a commission receives 900 cases
http://www.triumphnewspapers.com/shr1522010.html

(Sudan) Ex-Sudan leader accuses Bashir of blemishing Islam
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HEA554944.htm

(Iraq) Lawlessness Sweeps Kurdish Town
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7950ecc.html

(UK) Brick Lane plan for hijab gates angers residents - Tower Hamlets council has been accused of trying to force through a controversial sculpture against the wishes of locals
-- Guardian states: "a plan to mark the entry points to London's cosmopolitan Brick Lane with giant arches in the shape of headscarves or hijabs has been condemned as offensive to Muslim women and a waste of £1.85m of public funds."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/15/brick-lane-hijab-gates

UK MP: "Muslim women should be allowed to wear the burqa – but how many really want to?"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/msalter/100026048/muslim-women-should-be-allowed-to-wear-the-burqa-%E2%80%93-but-how-many-really-want-to/

(UK) BBC: "Are laws against treason still relevant or useful?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8511120.stm

(UK) "With Champions Like These"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/02/15/with-champions-like-these/

UK Sun Report on Gang "Underworld"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2853450/How-Muslims-took-over-the-British-underworld.html

(UK) Prime Rate eyes $250m Islamic overnight fund
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61E34X20100215

Italy: Imam decries Egyptian immigrant murder
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.20448274

Against Totalitarianism News:

Communist China: Internet censorship and cyber heists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/15/china-cyber-attacks-foreign-companies

Against Nazi News:

Germany: Neo-Nazis rally on Dresden bombing anniversary
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/13/international/i013110S46.DTL

Against Racial Supremacism News:

DC: American Renaissance "Hate Group" Event Canceled Again – at Sheraton Hotel
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/02/ar-canceled-again/