Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] February 9, 2010

February 9, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Afghan unrest kills US, NATO soldiers
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5heSnG71txXdZZuSlT9m35Yoo07ug

(Afghanistan) Troops set to seize Taliban town
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/10/troops-set-to-seize-taliban-town/

(Afghanistan) UK's Bob Ainsworth warns of difficulties faced by Afghans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8506137.stm

(Afghanistan) Taliban assemble new bomb nicknamed 'Omar'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\10\story_10-2-2010_pg7_2

Pakistan: "Change in Pakistan requires respect, reconciliation, and religious freedom"
--- Chris Seiple: "incredibly, the US State Department's recently released Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy – which argues for a better strategic communications campaign that counters the 'narrative' of the Taliban terrorists – does not mention 'faith,' 'religion,' or 'Islam.' Ignoring religion, ensures the total irrelevance of America's policy toward this crucial region."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0209/Change-in-Pakistan-requires-respect-reconciliation-and-religious-freedom

Pakistan: 'Qaeda works with impunity in Pak'
http://asianage.com/home/international/1775-qaeda-works-with-impunity-in-pak.html

Pakistan: Al Qaeda-backed banned religious outfit Jundullah planning more attacks?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\10\story_10-2-2010_pg7_35

Pakistan: Pak Taliban confirms Hakeemullah Mehsud dead
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pak-Taliban-confirms-Mehsud-dead/articleshow/5551602.cms
-- Fresh speculation over Hakeemullah's fate
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\10\story_10-2-2010_pg1_2
-- Hakimullah dead, say US channels, newspapers
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-taliban-confirm-hakeemullahs-death-ss-01

(Pakistan) Terrorists from Swat, FATA active in Karachi: Malik
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\10\story_10-2-2010_pg1_1

Pakistan's democracy is a model for the world: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\10\story_10-2-2010_pg7_20
--- Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab, where in August 2009, Gojra mob burnt Christian homes, churches, human beings for "blasphemy"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-hate-engulfs-christians/
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-mob-attacks-addtl-reports/
--- Pakistan Christian Post: "Attack on Gojra Christians was supervised by government of Pakistan"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/pakistan-christian-post-attack-on-gojra-christian-was-supervised-by-government-of-pakistan/

(Pakistan) Al-Qaida helping Taliban to destabilise Pak Government: Gates
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Al-Qaida-helping-Taliban-to-destabilise-Pak-Government-Gates/articleshow/5553308.cms

(Pakistan) U.S. Defense Secretary Gates: 'Pakistanis in the driver's seat against Taliban on their soil'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\10\story_10-2-2010_pg7_5

(Pakistan) US security team due for crucial talks
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/06-us-security-team-due-for-crucial-talks-020-rs-06

(UK) 'Wannabe suicide bomber' walks free -- Mohammed Atif Siddique
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/7196319/Wannabe-suicide-bomber-walks-free.html

(UK) 'War on Terror' to last as long as Cold War
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7199337/War-on-Terror-to-last-as-long-as-Cold-War.html

(UK) Hate preacher Abu Hamza's £280,000 house seized to pay back legal bill
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249565/Abu-Hamza-Hate-preachers-280-000-house-seized-pay-legal-bill.html?ITO=1490

(UK) Begg, Barot and Kashmir
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/02/09/begg-barot-and-kashmir/

(UK) "Double standards on human rights"
-- "Where does Amnesty International stand on women's rights after suspending Gita Sahgal for criticising links with Moazzam Begg?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/09/amnesty-sahgal-rights-row

(UK) How Amnesty chose the wrong poster-boy
-- "As if all that were not enough a video exists of a senior researcher at Cageprisoners, Asim Qureshi, addressing a rally of Hizb ut-Tahrir"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article7019817.ece

(U.S.) NYC - Zazi Case: Accused New York bomb plotter's father pleads not guilty
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/us_nm/us_usa_security_zazi

(U.S.) Obama team debated treating Detroit suspect Abdulmutallab as enemy combatant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020803658.html

(U.S.) WH: 'Our Critics Are Helping Al Qaeda. Terrorists Are Not 100 Ft Tall'
http://www.thefoxnation.com/white-house/2010/02/09/wh-our-critics-are-helping-al-qaeda-terrorists-are-not-100-ft-tall
-- John Brennan writes for USA Today
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/02/opposing-view-we-need-no-lectures.html
-- Obama aide charges 'fear-mongering' over bomber case
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gU8dQkZStoiRN22TJHt1VVa1-8hA

Iran says to unveil air defense equal to Russia system
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-45987720100208

Iran: Obama: New Iran Sanctions Being Developed Quickly
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Obama-New-Iran-Sanctions-Being-Developed-Quickly-83956942.html

Iran: Protesters attack Italian embassy in Tehran
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4293286259
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/militia-tries-to-storm-italian-embassy/story-e6frfku0-1225828541857

Gaza: Rocket fired on southern Israel from Gaza, Palestanians arrested in West Bank
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2060407&Language=en

'Israel may free Palestinian prisoners when peace talks resume'
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1148702.html

Saudi Arabia defends al-Qaeda rehabilitation scheme
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/7195400/Saudi-Arabia-defends-al-Qaeda-rehabilitation-scheme.html

(Somalia) Report: Top al-Qaeda man killed in Somalia
-- Jordanian Amar Ibrahim
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/news/article_1532194.php/Report-Top-al-Qaeda-man-killed-in-Somalia

Somali rebels warn government
http://www.news24.com/Content/Africa/News/965/9a51ecffcf3049e5991d4fd90f6460e5/09-02-2010-04-30/Somali_rebels_warn_government

Somalia: Islamist politician's home 'attacked'
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4293192520

(Sudan) Joint UN-African Union envoy to Darfur talks peace with armed rebel movements
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33726&Cr=unamid&Cr1=

Russia: Caucasus terrorist group banned in Russia -- The Caucasus Emirate
http://rt.com/prime-time/2010-02-08/caucasus-terrorist-group-banned.html

Germany: Lawyers demand jail remission for German terrorism accused -- Fritz Gelowicz
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1532199.php/Lawyers-demand-jail-remission-for-German-terrorism-accused
-- Initial 2007 reports on Gelowicz
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/044.html
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/045.html

Netherlands: Threat of Bomb on Train Dismissed as "Joke"
http://kleinverzet.blogspot.com/2010/02/breaking-jihadist-bombing-of-train.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KleinVerzet+%28Klein+Verzet%29

Philippines: Police say Bali bomber may have cheated death
-- Jemaah Islamiah's Dulmatin
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/599539

Thailand: Buddhist Teacher shot dead, torched by Muslim insurgents in Pattani
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30122126/Teacher-shot-dead-torched-by-insurgents-in-Pattani

Islamic Supremacist War on Women News:

Copenhagen: Prison imam guides husbands on wife-beating
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/02/copenhagen-prison-imam-guides-husbands.html

Turkish Women Fight Against Honor Killings
http://www.aina.org/news/20100208191029.htm

Pakistan: Annual Report of Pakistani NGO Aurat Foundation Notes 13 Percent Increase in Violence Against Women; Its Representative Rabeea Hadi Says: '1,384 Daughters of Pakistan Were Murdered, 928 Were Raped, 683 Committed Suicide and 604 Were Killed in The Name of 'Honor' In 2009'
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3963.htm

Other News:

Pakistan: Bishop Timotheus Nasir will lead legal team of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC in Shazia case
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1731
http://www.facebook.com/notes/nazir-s-bhatti/bishop-timotheus-nasir-will-lead-legal-team-of-pakistan-christian-congress-pcc-i/295537262028

Iran protester reportedly sentenced to death
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/09/iran.protests/index.html?hpt=T2
-- Iran Unleashes Wave of Arrests of Dissidents, Analysts Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/middleeast/10arrests.html

Moroccan Authorities Raid Bible Study, Arrest Christians
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/morocco/15087/

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020801385.html

Egypt: "A barometer of religious intolerance"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147689.html

(Uzbekistan) Forum 18: "Uzbekistan - Drugs planted and worshippers beaten up?" -- criminal charges against Baptists
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1406

(Kazakhstan) Forum 18: "Kazakhstan - Women's prayers lead to massive fine – and more?"
-- "illegally functioning religious community" of Baptists
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1405

UK: More on the British Social Attitudes study
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/02/uk-more-on-british-social-attitudes.html

UK: Imam at Leyton mosque jailed for beating a nine-year-old boy
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4997315.LEYTON__Imam_of_mosque_jailed_for_beating_a_child/

UK: Christian teacher 'forced out' of his job denies insulting Muslim girl over headscarf
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249690/Christian-teacher-forced-job-denies-insulting-Muslim-girl-headscarf.html

(U.S.) IPT News: "MPAC Pursues Islamist Ideology in Guise of Civil Rights Defender"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1785/mpac-pursues-islamist-ideology-in-guise-of-civil

(U.S.) California: Muslim students shout 'killer' during Oren's L.A. speech
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1148764.html
-- Another wild night on campus reminds college adminstrators why they daren't displease their Islamist students
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/stephaniegutmann/100025556/another-wild-night-on-campus-reminds-college-adminstrators-why-they-darent-displease-their-islamist-students/

(U.S.) Sports Illustrated Model Photographed in Maldives, Where Human Rights Denied
-- MSNBC: "Brooklyn Decker's 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit photographs were shot in the Maldives, an island country in the Indian Ocean."
-- a "Perfect 10 in the Maldives"
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35295325/ns/today-today_fashion_and_beauty/
--- July 2009 - Maldives: Woman gets 100 lashes in public, house arrest in Sharia punishment -- govt says Maldives too "squeamish" for other Sharia penalties
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/maldives-woman-100-lashes/
--- July 2009 - Maldives: 150 Muslim women face adultery flogging on Maldives
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/maldives-150-muslim-women-face-adultery-flogging-on-maldives/
-- Other reports on Maldives
http://www.realcourage.org/?s=Maldives

Nigerian Parliament Names Acting President
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/africa/10nigeria.html

Ethiopian plane 'exploded' after take-off
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/ethiopian-plane-exploded-after-take-off/story-e6frfku0-1225828541461

Against Racial Supremacism News:

Texas: Ku Klux Klan leaves literature on Abilene lawns
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2010/feb/08/group-leaves-literature-on-lawns/

Chicago: Black Separatist "Nation of Islam marks 80 years in North America"
http://bit.ly/aHKzEz

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