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May 10, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Events:

May 12 -- Washington DC White House Protest -- Human Rights in Afghanistan

-- R.E.A.L. to lead White House Protest against "reconciliation" of Taliban that reject human rights for women, minorities, other Muslims
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/no-to-taliban/

http://bit.ly/notaliban

Newslinks:

Taliban and International Targets
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/pakistan/taliban_international.html


(Iraq) 102 killed in Iraq's bloodiest day this year
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ivtK8MT02_eZ0Pa8CtFIHXPkncYw


Kuwaiti court acquits 8 of plot to bomb US base
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/kuwaiti-court-acquits-8-of-plot-to-bomb-us-base-1.624924


(U.S./Afghanistan) White House red carpet's out for Karzai visit to Washington
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iqyaFh_efr-brDq0rMLF1hkop0tgD9FJUNFO0

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/10/snubs-red-carpets-karzai/
-- Afghan President Hamid Karzai due in US for talks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8671727.stm

-- President Obama warns team not to be critical of Karzai and "not to be 'distracted' by public spats"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7704714/Barack-Obama-warns-team-over-Karzai-visit.html

-- "Middle East Institute's Marvin Weinbaum: Let's get real about talking to the Taliban"
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/10/93821/lets-get-real-about-talking-to.html

-- Washington Post reports new poll saying 52 percent says Afghanistan war "not worth it"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/05/on_afghanistan_a_negative_shif.html

-- Karzai arrives in Washington as Taleban threaten fresh assault
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7121285.ece

-- US cannot afford another Afghanistan or Iraq, warns Defense Secretary Gates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7701718/US-cannot-afford-another-Afghanistan-or-Iraq-warns-Defence-Secretary.html


(U.S./Afghanistan) Draft Peace Agreement with Taliban calls for Tabliban members to return to "political mainstream"
--- Reuters: "draft, distributed to some diplomats and seen by Reuters, also envisages the Taliban cutting ties with al Qaeda and joining the political mainstream as part of any peace accord.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKSGE64800Q._CH_.2420

(Afghanistan) Taliban attack village militia, killing four in Afghanistan
-- four beheaded

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-afghan_10int.ART.State.Edition2.4c68435.html


(Afghanistan) Taliban returns to conquered towns
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7120695.ece


(Afghanistan) Taliban vows new operation, defeat to 'invading Americans'
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/10/taliban-vows-new-operation-defeat-to-invading-americans/


(Afghanistan) 10 Taliban killed by US, Afghan forces
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg7_5


Afghanistan Grapples with "Honor Rape"
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=28784

(U.S./Pakistan) NYC: Shazad Worked with Taliban

-- John Brennan tells CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6470135n

(U.S./Pakistan) NYC: Holder: Pakistani Taliban helped direct Times Square plot

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/09/times.square.suspect/?hpt=T1
-- Taliban behind NY bomb plot: US
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg1_2

-- US puts blame on Taliban for NY bomb plot
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/06-pakistani-taliban-behind-failed-new-york-attack-us-rs-01

-- Taliban shifts focus to targets in US, the West
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg1_6


(U.S./Pakistan) NYC: Pakistani Taliban praise Times Square terror suspect
-- Taliban on NYC Times Square car bomb attempt "brave job"
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/06/1930064/pakistani-taliban-praise-times.html


(U.S./Pakistan/Afghanistan) Taliban recruiting sees surge after Times Square bomb failure, says leader
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/05/09/2010-05-09_taliban_recruiting_sees_surge_after_times_square_bomb_failure_says_leader.html

-- "'With all this new technology, it's not difficult to recruit people in the West' says an Afghan Taliban planner and organizer who operates on both sides of the border. Over the past two years, he says, several jihadist Web sites linked to the Afghan Taliban have received hundreds of e-mails from aspiring jihadists in the West who 'want to join us.'"

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/05/07/how-jihadist-recruiters-check-for-spies.aspx


(U.S./Pakistan) FBI travel to Pakistan as country's Taleban blamed for Times Square attack
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7121802.ece

--- April 11, 2010: Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI) still backs Taliban: US
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/ISI-still-backs-Taliban-US-/articleshow/5783626.cms

--- December 1, 2008: Pakistan's The News - Army official calls Taliban's Baitullah Mehsud, Maulana Fazlullah 'patriots'
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=18709

--- Previous Pakistan Public Poll Results on "strict implementation of Sharia law"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/pakistan/pakistan.html


(U.S./Pakistan) Clinton: Hillary Pakistan would face 'very severe consequences' if successful attack traced back
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/96869-clinton-pakistan-would-face-very-severe-consequences-if-successful-attack-traced-back

-- Pakistan Daily Times: "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has threatened that if a future terror attack against the US is traced back to Pakistan, there will be 'severe consequences'"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg3_1


(U.S./Pakistan) "Faisal Shahzad's Taliban link gives President Obama an excuse to unleash fury on Pakistan evildoers"
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/10/2010-05-10_gloves_are_gonna_come_off_in_pakistan.html

-- Taliban Ties to Times Square Plot May Spark Wider Pakistan War
http://bit.ly/bpSZJJ

(U.S./Pakistan) U.S. military tries to reassure Pakistan amid Times Square probe
-- CNN: "he top U.S. military officer is reassuring his Pakistani counterpart that the U.S. military is not pressuring the Pakistani army to increase its operations against the Taliban there, a senior U.S. military official said."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/10/us.pakistan.times.square/

(U.S./Pakistan) Pakistan Daily Times: "The problem with many Pakistani-Americans is that they still have not been able to decide whether they are Pakistanis living in the US or are they Americans who came from Pakistan."

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg3_3

(U.S./World) NYC: Reactions in the Arab World to the Times Square Bombing Attempt

-- U.S. journalist Khudayr Taher claims "it is difficult to find a Muslim who loves America"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4142.htm

-- May 7 - Dr. Zhudi Jasser has a different view: "My Fellow Muslims, We Must Wake Up!" by Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/07/m-zuhdi-jasser-times-square-muslims-homegrown-islamist-terror-hasan-faisal/


(U.S.) NYC: Qaeda guru set free at JFK in 2002 -- Anwar Awlaki
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/qaeda_guru_set_free_at_jfk_in_qMK0zu23WH2ZmC5wln35jP


(U.S.) Obama Seeks to Ease Rules on Questioning Terror Suspects
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/politics/10holder.html?hp

(U.S.) IPT News: "Concerns Grow Over Shifting Terror Targets"

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1940/concerns-grow-over-shifting-terror-targets

(Pakistan) Are the Pakistani Taliban about to go global?

http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/04/are-the-pakistani-taliban-about-to-go-global/

(Pakistan) Taliban attack on army checkpoint leaves 9 troops, 37 militants dead in northwest Pakistan

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/10/taliban-attack-army-checkpoint-leaves-troops-militants-dead-northwest-pakistan/


(Pakistan) Educated and radical: Why Pakistan produces Faisal Shahzads
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0510/Educated-and-radical-Why-Pakistan-produces-Faisal-Shahzads


(Pakistan) Militant factions with global aims are spreading roots throughout Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/09/AR2010050902150.html

-- Transcript of Eric Holder on ABC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/09/AR2010050901488.html?sid=ST2010050901487


(Pakistan/U.S.) US gets tough on Pakistan, seeks action in North Waziristan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-gets-tough-on-Pakistan-seeks-action-in-North-Waziristan/articleshow/5909674.cms


(Pakistan/U.S.) US drone strike kills 10 in Pakistan: Officials
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-gets-tough-on-Pakistan-seeks-action-in-North-Waziristan/articleshow/5909674.cms


Pakistan to come under U.S. pressure on militant hub
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-48363020100510

(Pakistan) "Irresistible lure of Pakistan as nursery of global jihad"

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg7_9
-- "Pakistan - A nursery of modern jihad?"

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-pakistan-a-nursery-of-modern-jihad-ss-02

-- "Why Pakistan keeps exporting jihad"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/09/AR2010050902447.html


(Pakistan) Agencies warn terrorist may attack Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in Punjab
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg7_11


(Pakistan) Militants’ bid to blow up Landikotal school foiled
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg7_12


(Pakistan) 43 Taliban killed in drone strike, army operation
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg1_5

-- Dozens killed in battle in Pakistan's tribal region
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/10/dozens-killed-in-battle-in-pakistans-tribal-region/


(Pakistan) Kashmir freedom linked to Jihad: Hameed Gul
-- "former Chief of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt-Gen Hameed Gul" calls for Jihad
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Islamabad/10-May-2010/Kashmir-freedom-linked-to-Jihad-Hameed-Gul

--- November 7, 2007 report on "Islamist Hamid Gul"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/069.html#Gul

(Kashmir) Four killed in IHK clashes

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg7_7

(UK) Man admits terror offenses
-- Ishaq Kanmi called for deaths of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair on jihadi website

http://thebee.co.uk/news.php?item.5713.1

(UK) Al Qaeda Gives Threats To Prince Harry to Abduct Him
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/174027/Al-Qaeda-threat-to-Harry/


(U.S.) Court officer defends GPS to watch Hutaree
http://www.freep.com/article/20100508/NEWS06/5080325/Court-officer-defends-GPS-to-watch-Hutaree


(Israel) Two Arab-Israelis arrested on suspicion of spying for Hezbollah
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1554563.php/Two-Arab-Israelis-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-Hezbollah

-- 'Shin Bet nabbed 2 Arab Israelis for spying for Hizbullah'
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=175164

Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai aide cleared of terrorism charges

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/7705658/Morgan-Tsvangirai-aide-cleared-of-terrorism-charges.html


(Somalia) Russia forced to release captured pirates
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7119317.ece

Somali Islamists vow to free British hostages from pirates

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7120615.ece

(Al-Qaeda) Al Qaeda's New Recruits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Prx3l8HUM


(Al-Qaeda) NYT: "Imam’s Path From Condemning Terror to Preaching Jihad" -- Anwar al-Awlaki
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/world/09awlaki.html


(Al-Qaeda) Anderson Cooper to Present Week of Specials - American Al-Qaeda Bryant Neal Vinas
http://www.newsonnews.net/cnn/2973-anderson-cooper-to-present-week-of-specials-american-al-qaeda.html


Belgian woman Malika El Aroud sentenced on terrorism charges - 8 years
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BELGIUM_TERROR_TRIAL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-05-10-10-27-22


France: Suspected al-Qaeda cell head arrested
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/05/france-suspected-al-qaeda-cell-head.html


(Russia) Car bomb explodes near Russian military base
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6480BU20100509

(Canada) Toronto 18 Ringleader Pleads Guilty To Terrorism Charges -- Fahim Ahmad

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/national/article/76675--toronto-18-ringleader-pleads-guilty-to-terrorism-charges


Indonesia: Lawyers urge police to free 12 terror suspects
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.369656295

Philippines election: ten dead in voting day violence

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/7703717/Philippines-election-ten-dead-in-voting-day-violence.html



Other News:

UK: Anti-Democracy Group Hizb ut-Tahrir Calls for Overthrow of Pakistan Government
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/uk-ht-pak-overthrow-calls/


Bangladesh: 12 Hizb-ut Tahrir men arrested in city
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=23488

WSJ: "Islam's Nowhere Men" - by Fouad Ajami

-- "Millions like Faisal Shahzad are unsettled by a modern world they can neither master nor reject."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703338004575230142684329162.html


Afghanistan's last Jew vows to stay put - Zablon Simintov
-- from 40,000 to 1
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/09/afghanistan.last.jew/index.html


Sudan: Peacekeepers killed in ambush
http://www.africanews.com/site/Sudan_Peacekeepers_killed_in_ambush/list_messages/31844


Serbia discovers mass grave for 250 Albanians
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/7704576/Serbia-discovers-mass-grave-for-250-Albanians.html


Kansas: Son Of Westboro Baptist Hate Group Leader Speaks Out - Nate Phelps
-- in this interview he explains the abuse he suffered as a child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQK2BEzdsU&feature=player_embedded


(Pakistan) "Five Christian boys accused of blasphemy forced to leave their homes"
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10050033.htm


(Pakistan) "Police arrests Christian husband who demanded case against rapist Muslim employer"
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1613


(Pakistan) "Muslim men beat up Christians and then implicate them in 'fake' police case"
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10050050.htm


(Pakistan) Man held at Karachi airport with "therapy shoes" - arrested reported by Dawn as "false alarm"
-- Dawn: "Police and airport security officials had earlier said that Mohammad had placed two batteries hooked up to wires in cavities cut into the heels of each of his shoes."

http://news.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/03-man-held-at-karachi-airport-with-therapy-shoes-ss-09

-- Pakistan Daily Times: "Suspect found with detonator installed in his shoes"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\10\story_10-5-2010_pg7_8


"The Times Square bomb exploded our assumptions: Can we finally snap out of our oil addiction?" - by Stanley Crouch
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/05/10/2010-05-10_the_times_square_bomb_exploded_our_assumptions.html


(Australia) Law firm puts on sharia adviser
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/law-firm-puts-on-sharia-adviser-20100509-uls6.html


(United Arab Emirates) Briton jailed for kiss in Dubai condemns Emirate's 'hypocrisy'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/7700437/Briton-jailed-for-kiss-in-Dubai-condemns-Emirates-hypocrisy.html

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/174187/Blonde-jailed-for-a-kiss-slams-Dubai-hypocrisy-
-- (U.S.) Sex in the City film plot to take place in United Arab Emirates - to be released May 27

-- Hollywood glamour could boost tourism in Abu Dhabi
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100404/BUSINESS/704049938/1005/rss

-- UAE: Dubai (and Abu Dhabi) vs. Sex and the City 2
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Dubai-vs-Sex-and-the-City-2-1068


(Lebanon) Bikini ban: Lebanon's archaic legal system means wearing bikini a no-no
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/7705388/Bikini-ban-Lebanons-archaic-legal-system-means-wearing-bikini-a-no-no.html


India: Twist in 'honour killing': Boy, girl return home
http://www.indianexpress.com/comments/twist-in-honour-killing-boy.../616521/




Against Totalitarianism News:

Communist China: Chinese Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Missing Again
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/china/18821/


Communist North Korea: Man imprisoned in N. Korea phones mother -- Aijalon Mahli Gomes
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2010/05/01/man_imprisoned_in_n_korea_phones_mother/


South Korean defense chief confirms explosive chemical found in sunken ship's wreckage
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/09/experts-say-nkorean-sub-likely-sank-skorean-warship-seoul-wonders-caught-guard/?test=latestnews



Against Nazi News:

Nazi nightmare: The U.S. parents who teach their children to idolize Hitler
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1275567/Nazi-nightmare-The-U-S-parents-teach-children-idolise-Hitler.html


Greece: Athens unveils its first Holocaust memorial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/09/athens-holocaust-memorial

Germany: Exhibition opens at former center of Nazi state

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3886234,00.html

Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was on May 8, 1945
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day

-- VE Day Images
http://www.life.com/image/3432929/in-gallery/26162/wwii-ve-day-may-8-1945
-- Soviet Victory Day: May 9, 1945

-- WWII Allies march in Moscow to mark 65 years since Nazi defeat - May 9
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/wwii-allies-march-in-moscow-to-mark-65-years-since-nazi-defeat-1.289202

-- British troops mark VE Day with Red Square parade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8669975.stm

How I Spent VE Day This Year
--- IBM and the Holocaust - the Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
--- IBM's Tom Watson meets with Adolf Hitler
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/tim_archer/SubAlbum1/watson-adolph.jpg

--- Life reported IBM's Tom Watson receiving medal from Adolf Hitler as "Big U.S. Business Man does his duty in Berlin and Paris"
http://bit.ly/axVrdX
-- At Death's Door: Archivist Finds IBM Site Near Auschwitz

--- "The infamous Auschwitz tattoo began as an IBM number."
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/camps/auschwitz/Hollerith-machines-located

-- Also
http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-10-08/news/the-ibm-link-to-auschwitz/1
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/02/the-tattoo-used-in-auschwitz-was-originally-an-ibm-code-number/

--- never forget where "'racial' science" got its first real start
http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=nazi_racial_science

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