June 24, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

June 24, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Events:

June 26: DC Saudi Arabia Embassy Protest for Women's Rights - Washington DC
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/06/june-26-saudi-embassy/



Newslinks:


December 12, 2009 News

Pakistan/U.S. - "D.C. Five" Convicted on Conspiracy, Funding Terror Group
--- This report has numerous newlinks, videos, related information
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/dc-five/dc-five.html

--- Waqar Khan, Ramy Zamzam, Umer Farooq, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, and Aman Hassan Yemer
--- to serve concurrent terms for two charges of 10 years in prison each - Sargodha jail
--- Pakistan govt to appeal to seek longer terms

--- convicted of criminal conspiracy (10 year sentence each) and funding a banned terror organization (5 year sentence each)

Pakistani province funds terrorism-linked charity - Jamaat ud Dawa (JuD)
-- Group cited in 2008 Mumbai attacks

-- Washington Times: "The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has given more than $1 million to institutions run by an Islamic charity that is on a U.N. terrorism blacklist and affiliated with a group the U.S. considers a foreign terrorist organization."

-- "Budget documents presented in the Punjab assembly last week revealed this financial assistance to a mosque, a hospital and schools (known as madrassas) operated by Jamaat ud Dawa (JuD), the charity wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/23/pakistani-province-funds-terrorism-linked-charity/

Pakistan: Troops kill eight suspected militants in Orakzai

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-orakzai-8-killed-qs-11


Pakistan can help broker Afghan peace talks: Hague
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\06\24\story_24-6-2010_pg1_4


(Afghanistan) Taliban: McChrystal or Petraeus, war is on
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Taliban-McChrystal-or-Petraeus-war-is-on/articleshow/6088090.cms

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/afghanistan/Commander-switch-won-t-deter-Taliban/Article1-562431.aspx


Afghanistan: McCain: Don't Stop With Petraeus, 'We Need a New Team'
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/john-mccain-discusses-obamas-replacement-gen-stanley-mcchrystal/story?id=10999880

-- Gates advocated keeping McChrystal, source says
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/24/mcchrystal.gates.support/

(Afghanistan) Hanging of eight-year-old turns many against Taliban

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/hanging-of-eightyearold-turns-many-against-taliban-20100624-z3ds.html


(Afghanistan) Pentagon: We'll try to meet Afghan pullout goal
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37902707/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/


(Iraq) Suicide bombings, other attacks targeting Iraqi security forces, allies kill at least 10
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/24/officials-twin-suicide-bombings-northern-iraq-kill-police-army-troops-wounded/


(Iraq) Six Iraqi policemen killed, three injured in two separate attacks in Mosul
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2096858&Language=en


(U.S.) Homegrown attack threat not receding: NYPD chief
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\06\24\story_24-6-2010_pg1_10


(UK) Man who posed as British leader of al-Qaida jailed for five years
Ishaq Kanmi, 24, called for the assassination of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on a jihadi website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/24/al-qaida-ishaq-kanmi


Lebanon: 2 Al-Qaida members charged with planning attack
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=179455
-- Two charged over Al Qaeda links

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=370323&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17


Iranian aid flotilla cancelled, won't sail to Gaza
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/iranian-aid-flotilla-cancelled-won-t-sail-to-gaza-1.298165


(Algeria) Al-Qaida recruiting Algeria's jobless
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37909313/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

(Algeria) Al Qaeda 'building bunkers' in the Sahara

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/651486/cs/1/
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.589665671


Yemen: Four detained over failed UK envoy attack
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.589666474

Kyrgyzstan: Violence Provoked By Islamic Militants

http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/97071424.html

(Canada) Man Nabbed After Possible Terror Stash Found in Car Near G-20
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/24/canadian-police-arrest-car-weapons-gasoline-near-g-summit/


West China attack suspects "bent on jihad"
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/West+China+attack+suspects+bent+jihad/702256/story.html


Women's News:

Saudi women use fatwa in driving bid
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-women-use-fatwa-in-driving-bid-1.643431




Other News:

Pakistan: Order to block nine websites with blasphemous material
-- Dawn: "Judge Mazhar Iqbal ordered PTA to block the websites due to 'material against the fundamental principals of Islam.'"

-- "A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material."
-- "Judge Mazhar Iqbal ordered Pakistan's Telecommunications Authority to block the websites due to 'material against the fundamental principals of Islam and its preaching,' according to a copy of the judgement obtained by AFP."

-- "Iqbal called on the PTA and information technology ministry to submit detailed reports to the court next Monday." [June 28, 2010]
-- "Retired civil servant Siddique Mohammad had petitioned the court through Rehman for the ban on nine websites — Google, Yahoo, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Islam Exposed, In The Name of Allah and Bing."

-- "A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan warned that the order could strangle Internet access for millions."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-court-orders-pta-block-sites-qs-09


(Pakistan/U.S.) US study downplays Pakistan madrassa threat
-- Brookings Report: We do need to take the militant madrassa issue very, very seriously - in all likelihood they should probably be shut down." But she added: "We should really leave the question of the role of Islam in the Pakistan education system to the Pakistanis to debate"

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/03-us-study-downplays-pakistan-madrassa-threat-ss-02


(Communist China/Pakistan) China likely to go ahead with nuclear deal
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/china-likely-to-go-ahead-with-nuclear-deal-460


(UAE) Nuclear plants: Enec picks site
-- Gulf News: "Reactors will be built at Braka near Saudi border, which is close to water and far from population centres"
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/government/nuclear-plants-enec-picks-site-1.616290


Spain: Senate calls on gov't to ban burkas
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/06/spain-senate-calls-on-govt-to-ban.html


(U.S.) USCIRF Urges President Obama to Raise Religious Freedom Concerns During Saudi King’s Visit
http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3128&Itemid=1


(U.S.) Dearborn, Michigan: Christian Activists Arrested During Pamphlet Distribution
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/06/dearborn-arrests/
-- Dearborn situation becomes divisive

http://www.mnnonline.org/article/14394

(U.S.) NYC: Groups to Protest Near Mosque
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/06/nyc-groups-to-protest-near-mosque/