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(U.S.) Terror Attacks Against U.S. At All-Time High
DHS Report Says Pace May Increase And Include More Homegrown Extremists
--- ABC: "The report notes chillingly that while US officials 'lack insights' they believe that 'operatives are in the country and could advance plotting with little or no warning.'"

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/terror-attacks-us-time-high/story?id=10748953

(U.S.) Dallas bomb plot suspect pleads guilty

-- Jordanian Hosam "Sam" Smadi's attorney pled guilty to plot to blow up Dallas skyscraper
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052610dnmetsmadi.40f2566a.html


(U.S./Pakistan) Times Square Car Bomb Case: Faisal Shahzad's links traced to South Waziristan: Malik
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/06-faisal-shahzads-links-traced-to-south-waziristan-malik-rs-05


(U.S.) New Yorkers Unfazed by Terror, Poll Says
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/New-Yorkers-and-a-Quinnipiac-University-Poll-say-Life-goes-on-94865664.html


(U.S.) NYer accused of aiding al-Qaeda is detained
-- Wesam El-Hanafi tried to start his own "mini-al-Qaeda cell"
-- NY Post: "El-Hanafi was arrested April 30 in Virginia after he was brought to the United States from Dubai, where he had been working. He is charged along with an accountant with conspiring to modernize al-Qaeda with computer expertise and with providing the group with money."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/new_yorker_accused_of_aiding_al_8MnZ3i2OfCIh0VEx7teA6O?

(U.S.) Failed 'US bomber' in Al-Qaeda video -- Nigerian Umar al-Farouk Abdulmutallab,

-- AKI reports video "included in the documentary-style video posted on jihadist websites"
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.448871060


USS Cole bomber Fahd al Quso threatens attacks in US in Al Qaeda in Yemen Video
http://www.examiner.com/x-36012-Yemen-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m5d26-USS-Cole-bomber-Fahd-al-Quso-threatens-attacks-in-US-in-Al-Qaeda-in-Yemen-Video


(U.S.) Texas: Al Shabaab Alert on the Border
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/05/al-shabaab-alert-on-the-border


U.S. need to fight online terrorism recruiting, expert says
-- Bruce Hoffman: "Very clearly, our adversaries have a communications strategy"
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177404/U.S._need_to_fight_online_terrorism_recruiting_expert_says?taxonomyId=18


(U.S.) Top US security official: Our enemy isn't terrorism, jihad
-- John Brennan: "Nor do we define our enemy as jihadists or Islamists, because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam that means to purify oneself or one's community.”

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=176601
-- Obama doctrine to make clear 'no war on Islam'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\27\story_27-5-2010_pg7_32


(U.S.) IPT News: "Brennan Seeks Non-Existent Hizballah Moderates"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1968/brennan-seeks-non-existent-hizballah-moderates


Afghanistan: Hundreds of Taliban led by Pakistan Swat Taliban leader Fazlullah attack Afghan town
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\27\story_27-5-2010_pg1_5


Afghanistan: Car bomb strikes outside Kandahar NATO base
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE64P3G220100526

Afghanistan: Car bomb targets Taliban bastion in south

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.448643015

Afghanistan: Al Qaeda member, others killed in gun fight
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/25/al-qaeda-member-others-killed-in-gun-fight/


(Afghanistan) UK soldier killed in clashes in Afghanistan
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2090103&Language=en


"Afghans believe US is funding Taliban"
http://hurryupharry.org/2010/05/25/afghans-believe-us-is-funding-taliban/


(Afghanistan) Red Cross trains Taliban in first aid
-- Australia Broadcasting: "The Red Cross has revealed it trained more 70 members of what it describes as the 'armed opposition' in the country."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/27/2910423.htm?section=justin
-- Red Cross to continue Taliban aid
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/3745775/Red-Cross-to-continue-Taliban-aid

-- Taliban storm for Red Cross
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/137084/Taliban-storm-for-Red-Cross/

(Pakistan) Explosion, firing in Lahore kill three, wound six

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2089991&Language=en

(Pakistan) Mumbai Attacks: Pakistani court frees terrorist leader tied to Mumbai attacks

-- Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/pakistani-court-frees-terrorist-leader-tied-to-mum/

-- Pak SC allows 26/11 plotter to walk free
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pak-SC-allows-26/11-plotter-to-walk-free/articleshow/5974713.cms


(Pakistan) Suspected terrorist arrested inside police training center
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\27\story_27-5-2010_pg13_5


Pakistan media personality "Embedded with the Taliban?"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\27\story_27-5-2010_pg3_2


(Iraq) Three policemen, two soldiers killed in Mosul
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2090015&Language=en


(Iraq) Witness: Secret Iraq prison for women and children
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0526/Witness-Secret-Iraq-prison-for-women-and-children


Iran's President Calls Nuclear Deal Final Opportunity
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/news-analysis/-Iran-Calls-on-Russia-US-to-Accept-Nuclear-Deal-94910579.html


Iran and Russia Exchange Acerbic Barbs on Sanctions
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/world/middleeast/27iran.html?src=mv

Lebanese army fires on Israeli warplanes: military

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100526/wl_mideast_afp/mideastlebanonisraelmilitary

Lebanon: Hezbollah's Nasrallah threatens ships going to Israel in future war

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64O62R20100525
-- Report: Nasrallah threatens Israel with shower of rockets
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=287152


Lebanon: Hezbollah's Nasrallah questions Holocaust
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3892365,00.html

Lebanon: Hezbollah theme park woos fighters for next war with Israel

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7137553.ece

"Syria has 1,000 ballistic missiles zeroed on Israeli targets"

http://bit.ly/d29gr6

(Israel) Police hunting down two suspects who attempted an attack in Tel Aviv
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2090013&Language=en


Israel hits two Gaza terror tunnels
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/26/2739331/israel-hits-two-gaza-terror-tunnels

-- Israel conducts air strikes in Gaza
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.448023731

West Bank: Top Israeli judge slams state for building West Bank road against court order

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/top-israeli-judge-slams-state-for-building-west-bank-road-against-court-order-1.292396


West Bank: IDF fears battle as settler violence spirals
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-fears-battle-as-settler-violence-spirals-1.292441


Jerusalem Post: "'Palestinians are hijacked by Iran'"
-- "PA president: "Peace could be achieved in a week" if Israel wants"
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=176514


Mauritania Sentences Three Al-Qaeda Suspects To Death
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1316092&SM=1

(Somalia) How 13 Years Somali Boy Escaped from Al-Shabab militias

http://beforeitsnews.com/news/49/277/How_13_Years_Somali_Boy_Escaped_from_Al-Shabab_militias.html

Yemen al-Qaeda mediator killed in air strike

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10153486.stm

Yemen: Kidnapped Americans return home
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.449490054


Nigeria: Quietly, the Christian-Muslim killing continues in Nigeria
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2010/0525/Quietly-the-Christian-Muslim-killing-continues-in-Nigeria


Sudan: Shocking Torture Video from Darfur
-- U.S. supported government caught camera torturing boys
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may252010/darfur-video-aa.php


Sudan closes door on peace talks with rebels
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20100526222659632C553588


Sudan: Journalist charged with terrorism
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/05/journalist-terrorism-sudan/

Russia: Bomb Kills Five, Injures Thirty In Southern Russian City -- Stavropol

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/MarketSensitiveNews.aspx?Id=1317500&SM=1

Russia: North Caucasian mufti's resignation accepted after 'jihad' scandal

-- Mufti Ali-Hadji Evteev
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100525/159145199.html

France: Nine suspected Islamists tried in France
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/nine-suspected-islamists-tried-in-france_71073.html


Netherlands: Somali pirates go on trial in the Netherlands
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7135952.ece


(Turkey) PKK militants surrenders to Turkish forces
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2089962&Language=en


Jamaican Cleric Uses Web To Spread Jihad Message -- Abdullah Faisal
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127117312


Thailand: Muslim separatists blamed for bomb attacks -- in Yala
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.448671944
-- Bomb blasts kill 2, hurt 52 in central Yala

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/37762/bomb-blasts-kill-2-hurt-52-in-central-yala

(Philippines) Three killed in grenade blast in southern Philippines

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/325607,three-killed-in-grenade-blast-in-southern-philippines.html


Philippine Muslim rebels remove rogue commander
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SGE64P02T.htm


Women's News:

UAE: Muslim Woman Faces Lashes, Life in Prison for Consensual Sex

http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/uae-woman-charged-with-consensual-sex/
-- March 29, 2010: UAE: Victims of Rape in Dubai Face Jail

http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/uae-victims-of-rape-in-dubai-face-jail/

UAE: Sex and the City Movie Banned, Called "Anti-Muslim"

http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/uae-satc2-banned/
-- Muslim writer tells Salon he is offended by movie
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/05/26/sex_and_the_city_cultural_tone_deafness/


(U.S.) Rifqa Bary Case - Lawyer: Runaway Muslim girl has cancer
-- Rifqa Bary is to have a third operation for uterine cancer Thursday
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/25/Lawyer-Runaway-Muslim-girl-has-cancer/UPI-79271274833053/


Nigeria: Ahmed Sani On Trial - over marriage to 13 year old girl
http://allafrica.com/stories/201005250397.html

Nigeria: Child Rights Acts - Before the Curtain Falls for the Girl Child

http://allafrica.com/stories/201005260212.html

India: Muslim women must wear veil to work: Cleric
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Muslim-women-must-wear-veil-to-work-Cleric/articleshow/5978977.cms


Indonesia: Aceh's religious police crack down on tight jeans
http://www.smh.com.au/world/acehs-religious-police-crack-down-on-tight-jeans-20100526-weap.html


"Religious Predators Target Girls?"
-- "American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended that American doctors be given permission to perform 'ceremonial' female circumcisions"
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100526/religious-predators-target-girls/


Phyllis Chesler: "Why Is the Washington Post Afraid to Use the Words 'Muslim' And 'Honor Killing' In The Same Article?"
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/05/26/why-is-the-washington-post-afraid-to-use-the-words-%E2%80%9Cmuslim%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Chonor-killing%E2%80%9D-in-the-same-article/?singlepage=true



Other News:

UAE: Global Islamic fund assets level at $52 billion in 2009
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/May/theuae_May746.xml&section=theuae


Islamic finance market set to hit $1 trillion mark
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=278937

Malaysia Cagamas plans landmark $3 billion sukuk program

http://arabnews.com/economy/article57592.ece

Egyptian Convert Endures Life at a Standstill – on the Run
-- Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary and 16 year old daughter Dina

http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/egypt/20750/

Iran: Christian Women Flee Iran After Acquittal
-- Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh

http://fcnn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1428:christian-women-flee-iran-after-acquittal&catid=127:iranian-christian&Itemid=593


Pakistan: Media freedom fears after Pakistan Facebook ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10157612.stm

Pakistan: Facebook fuels American flag business in Pakistan -- to burn

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Facebook-fuels-American-flag-business-in-Pak/articleshow/5976115.cms


Pakistan lifts ban on YouTube
-- Dawn: "YouTube has been unblocked, but the links to sacrilegious content would remain inaccessible in Pakistan."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sci-tech/22-pakistan-to-lift-ban-on-facebook%2C-you-tube-minister-aj-01


Pakistan Dawn: "Why stop with just the bans? Why not outlaw the Internet altogether? That may not save much electricity, but it will surely help to keep the nation shrouded in ignorance."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/mahir-ali-throw-the-book-face-the-consequences-650


Pakistan Dawn: Face-off with Facebook
Us Pakistanis are not entirely consistent in our attachment to religious edicts, writes Irfan Husain.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/irfan-husain-faceoff-with-facebook-650


Pakistan Islamic Political Party PML-N vandalizes Church and graveyard to grab land for agriculture in Punjab
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1998


Pakistan: Muslim wedding participants desecrate church
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10050143.htm

Pakistan: Anti-Christian banners alarm Lahore Church

-- UCAN: "The Khatm-e-Nabuwat Conference, an international Islamic organization, has put up banners saying 'Jews, Christians and Marzai (Ahmadis) are enemies of Islam,' along several roads in the city."

http://www.ucanews.com/2010/05/26/anti-christian-banners-are-dangerous-say-church-leaders

(U.S.) NYC: "After Fiery Debate, Vote Approves Mosque Plans"

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/After-Firey-Debate-Community-Approves-Mosque-Near-Ground-Zero-94909169.html

-- Panel OKs Muslim center at Ground Zero
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/26/Panel-OKs-Muslim-center-at-Ground-Zero/UPI-75391274875244/

-- Vote Endorses Muslim Center Near Ground Zero
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/nyregion/26muslim.html?src=mv
-- NY Post: "NYers wage jihad vs. WTC mosque"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nyers_wage_jihad_vs_wtc_mosque_UgJiOBYEhrSOw4Q6hpvbQL?

(U.S.) Los Angeles: Police say church vandalism is hate crime

-- Santa Rosa De Lima Catholic Church in Maywood is mostly Hispanic parish of 10,000
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7459955


(U.S.) Pennsylvania: 2 Men Charged In Indiana Twp. Church Vandalism
http://www.wpxi.com/news/23681630/detail.html

(U.S.) "Pamela Geller's 'Leaving Islam?' Bus Ads Cause Controversy"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/pamela-gellers-leaving-is_n_591112.html
-- FOX News: "'Leaving Islam?' NYC Bus Ads Targeting Disenfranchises Muslims"

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/26/nyc-bus-ads-targeting-disenfranchised-muslims-decried-smokescreen/


(UK) Daily Telgraph: "The security minister and the Islamist-linked TV station"
-- new UK security minister Pauline Neville-Jones interviewed by "the Islam Channel, the Islamist-linked satellite broadcaster whose chief executive, Mohammed Ali Harrath, is the subject of an Interpol 'red notice' for terrorist offences"

-- "Islam Channel also has a programme presented by a senior officer of Hizb ut-Tahrir"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100041059/the-security-minister-and-the-islamist-linked-tv-station/


(UK) Daily Telegraph: "Is Labour handing Tower Hamlets back to the Islamists?"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100041230/is-labour-handing-tower-hamlets-back-to-the-islamists/


(UK) Call for changees in mosque operations
-- Bradford Telegraph: "Mosques and religious schools must embrace change and move forward by giving women and young people a greater say and becoming part of wider society"

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8187311.___Mosques_should_be_more_inclusive___/?ref=rss

(UK) Protest at Belgium Embassy in United Kingdom on Niqab Ban -- Sharia4Belgium/Muslim Rise

-- appears linked to Anjem Choudary
http://bit.ly/9HiVzI

Indonesia: French journalists deported after filming protest
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.448281621


'Paid-for' London Times the future of online newspapers?
-- Times Online to require paid subscription beginning June 2010
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/05/26/britain.times.online.paywall/


Taiwan: Chief acts as death toll rises at Foxconn
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/05/26/china.iphone.suicide.ft/index.html



Against Racial Supremacism News:

(U.S.) Arizona: Report on hate - White Supremacists growing in Arizona
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/arizona-report-on-hate-white-supremacists-growing-in-arizona/


(U.S.) Georgia: Teacher Lets Students Wear Ku Klux Klan Outfits To Class
http://newsone.com/nation/associated-press/teacher-lets-students-wear-ku-klux-klan-outfits-to-class/

-- Kids Wear KKK Robes at Georgia School; Teacher Defends Them
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/kids-wear-kkk-robes-at-georgia-school-teacher-defends-them



Against Nazi News:

(U.S.) Pennsylvania: Gettysburg to help police Aryan Nation rally -- June 19
http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/articles/2010/05/25/news/2616412.txt


Stalin blocked attempts to kill Hitler: general
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64O5QX20100525


Thailand Civil War:

Thaksin terror charges divide red shirts

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/37764/thaksin-terror-charges-divide-red-shirts

Thaksin lawyers challenge 'terrorism' arrest warrant

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h84dPERRbcGIyvWKIR7wdPArHx1A

DSI pushes for Interpol global alert - Help to be sought over Thaksin's extradition

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/37759/dsi-pushes-for-interpol-global-alert



Against Totalitarianism News:


Communist North Korea cutting all ties to South Korea
-- Reuters: "North Korea announced on Tuesday it was cutting all ties with South Korea in retaliation for Seoul imposing sanctions on Pyongyang after torpedoing one of the South's warships."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64O3YU20100525

North Korea should be punished by international community, says Clinton
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/7766998/North-Korea-should-be-punished-by-international-community-says-Clinton.html


Moldova: Chinese Regime Pressures Moldovan Theater to Close Doors To Shen Yun
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/36141/
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/49/478/Chinese_Regime_Pressures_Moldovan_Theater_to_Close_Doors_To_Shen_Yun.html


Communist China: Imprisoned House Church Leaders Released!
http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=105&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1466&month=05&year=2010&_nc=123e893918a0eb03ecf7ea0e6c2c5ed8

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