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July 26, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks


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Pakistan: Eight killed in suicide attack on KP info minister's house
-- Taliban claims responsibility
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\27\story_27-7-2010_pg1_4

-- 8 killed, 25 injured in Pak suicide attack
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/8-killed-25-injured-in-Pak-suicide-attack/articleshow/6219694.cms


Pakistan secretly helping Taliban: report
-- Reuters: "Pakistan was actively collaborating with the Taliban in Afghanistan while accepting U.S. aid, new U.S. military reports showed, a disclosure likely to increase the pressure on Washington's embattled ally."

-- "The revelations by the organization WikiLeaks emerged as Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of greater NATO casualties in Afghanistan as violence mounts over the summer."
-- "The documents said representatives from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence met directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize militant networks fighting U.S. soldiers."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66O1G220100726
-- Pakistan secretly helping Afghan Taliban: report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\27\story_27-7-2010_pg1_1


(Pakistan) NYT: "Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert"
-- NYT: "Behind the scenes, both Bush and Obama administration officials as well as top American commanders have confronted top Pakistani military officers with accusations of ISI complicity in attacks in Afghanistan, and even presented top Pakistani officials with lists of ISI and military operatives believed to be working with militants."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/asia/26isi.html

(Pakistan) Afghanistan war logs: White House attacks Pakistan over Taliban aid
-- Guardian: "More than 180 files detail accusations that the ISI spy agency has supplied, armed and trained insurgents since 2004"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/pakistan-isi-supporting-taliban-washington

(Pakistan) 'US long aware of ISI hand in Afghan war'

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/US-long-aware-of-ISI-hand-in-Afghan-war/articleshow/6220653.cms


(Pakistan) Wired: "WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally"
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/wikileaks-drops-90000-secret-war-docs-fingers-pakistan-as-insurgent-ally/

-- Wikileaks Afghanistan: leak inquiry centres on US intelligence analyst
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7911230/Wikileaks-Afghanistan-leak-inquiry-centres-on-US-intelligence-analyst.html


(Pakistan) Text from Dispatch on former Pakistani ISI leader Hamid Gul
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/26warlogs.html#report/78523FD0-2219-0B3F-9FF02E00B6A2578A

-- Comment: Former Pakistan ISI leader Hamid Gul's support for the Taliban is not exactly NEWS.... except for those who having not been paying attention the past 9 years or so...
-- December 13, 2001: "The former director-general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, nicknamed the "godfather of the Taliban", is believed to be behind moves to help the Taliban establish a base in Pakistan's autonomous Pashtun tribal belt, which borders eastern Afghanistan."

http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CL13Df01.html
-- Previous United States Action report on gullible media ignoring pro-Taliban views of Hamid Gul
http://unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/069.html#Gul


(Pakistan) "The audacity of Hamid Gul"
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/07/the_face_of_pakistani_treacher.html


Pakistani Officials: WikiLeaks Claims "Outrageous"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20011604-503543.html
-- WikiLeaks reports 'not based on facts': FO

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\27\story_27-7-2010_pg1_2

Afghanistan: Taliban offers to trade US prisoners

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=121792&catid=45
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/64e8d52c-9805-11df-b218-00144feab49a.html


Afghanistan: Militias a U.S. plot to split Afghanistan: Taliban
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66P25C20100726

Afghans pose awkward questions for US military chief

-- "You come here to defend us, to help protect us. But then shouldn't you be protecting us from Pakistan?"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\27\story_27-7-2010_pg7_32


Afghanistan war logs: Wikileaks founder rebuts White House criticism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/war-logs-wikileaks-rebuts-criticism


Afghanistan claims 52 civilians killed in Nato attack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7911574/Afghanistan-claims-52-civilians-killed-in-Nato-attack.html


(Iraq) Two car bombs kill 25 in Iraq
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/2534772,car-bombs-iraq-072610.article
-- 65 people killed, injured in Karbala explosions

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2102915&Language=en

(Iraq) Four killed in bomb attack on Arabiya TV in Baghdad

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/44-bomb-kills-two-at-baghdad-office-of-arab-channel-fa-01


Iran proposes restart of nuke talks
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/26/turkey.iran.brazil/index.html?hpt=Sbin



Israel to hit Lebanon if Hezbollah attacks: defense minister
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1071700/1/.html


Yemen: Shia rebels capture north Yemen base, 10 dead
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\27\story_27-7-2010_pg4_2


Yemen: Al-Qaida leader killed in attack on oil site in Yemen
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2102830&Language=en


(Libya) US 'asked Scotland not to release Lockerbie bomber'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7911516/US-asked-Scotland-not-to-release-Lockerbie-bomber-letter-reveals.html


Turkey: Four Police Officers Killed
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/190865

France: Sarkozy vows revenge after Al-Qaeda kills French hostage

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100726/ts_afp/malimauritaniafranceconflictqaeda
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\27\story_27-7-2010_pg4_1

-- France Vows Revenge After Al Qaeda Beheading
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-vows-revenge-after-al-qaida-beheads-aid-worker-michel-germaneau/19568739


France Questions Raid That Led to a Hostage's Death
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100726/wl_time/08599200646300

Canada joins crackdown on radical Muslim cleric

-- Anwar Al-Awlaki
http://www.nationalpost.com/Canada+joins+crackdown+radical+Muslim+cleric/3311770/story.html


Philippines to start Muslim peace talks after Ramazan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\27\story_27-7-2010_pg4_6



War on Women News:

India: Girl electrocuted in “honour” killing
http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/26/stories/2010072660280800.htm


New Jersey: "Cultural Defense Accepted as to Nonconsensual Sex in New Jersey Trial Court, Rejected on Appeal"
http://volokh.com/2010/07/23/cultural-defense-accepted-as-to-nonconsensual-sex-in-new-jersey-trial-court-rejected-on-appeal/

-- S.D. v. M.J.R. (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div.)
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/a6107-08.pdf


Other News:

Freedom to Believe Pledge: In Support of Freedom of Worship, Religion, and Conscience for All

http://www.realcourage.org/freedom-to-believe/
-- online petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/free2all/petition.html


Pakistan: Muslim cleric accuses Pakistani Christian minister of committing blasphemy
-- ASSIST: "Allama Ahmed Mian Hammadi, a Pakistani Muslim cleric, has claimed that Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities has himself committed blasphemy by branding the recently murdered Christian brothers as victims of Pakistan blasphemy laws."

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/muslim.cleric.accuses.pakistani.christian.minister.of.committing.blasphemy/26359.htm


Pakistan: "I am struggling for equal rights of my Pakistani Christian nation; Khalid Gill, an exclusive interview with PCP"
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=2168


Indonesia: Support for sharia law is in the minority — and declining
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/07/25/support-sharia-law-minority-%E2%80%94-and-declining.html


Sweden: Malmo Synagogue Vandalized with Fireworks, Threatened
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/07/malmo-synagogue/
-- See also January 2010: Jews flee Malmö as anti-Semitism grows

http://www.thelocal.se/24632/20100127/

(UK) Man jailed for Muslim veil attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-10766880


(U.S.) Kentucky: Group's plan to build mosque in Florence approved
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/07/26/1364008/groups-plan-to-build-mosque-in.html

---- North Kentucky Mosque Comment Mixed
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/opinionati/2010/07/26/nky-mosque-comments-mixed/

(U.S.) Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey Questions Whether Islam is a Religion

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011712-503544.html

(U.S.) Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Continues Nationwide "Muslims for Peace" Campaign by Commemorating the Roots of Religious Freedom in America

http://www.pr.com/press-release/251014

(U.S.) NYC: Quietly, another mosque operates in shadow of Ground Zero
-- Masjid Manhattan has been operating for 30 years

http://www.newsok.com/quietly-another-mosque-operates-in-shadow-of-ground-zero/article/feed/175995

(U.S.) Temecula, California: Temecula-based Islamic center responds to planned Mosque protest

-- Statement: "“It has come to our attention that a group of people seek to disrupt our prayer session on Friday, July 30th... We are disheartened and saddened that a group of our neighbors seeks to disrespect and make our community feel unwelcomed."

http://www.swrnn.com/southwest-riverside/2010-07-26/news/temecula-based-islamic-center-responds-to-planned-protest-to-mosque-plans


(U.S.) Temecula, California: Press Enterprise report on opposition to Temecula mosque
http://www.pe.com/columns/danbernstein/stories/PE_News_Local_D_dan25.47cf62e.html


(U.S.) Tennessee: Former Muslims United Launches "Stop The Murfreesboro Mosque" Digital Billboard Campaign
http://formermuslimsunited.americancommunityexchange.org/2010/07/15/former-muslims-united-launches-%E2%80%9Cstop-the-murfreesboro-mosque%E2%80%9D-digital-billboard-campaign/


(U.S.) Wisconsin: Wilson Mosque Vandalism -- June report
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/06/wisconsin-wilson-mosque-vandalism/



Against Racial Supremacism/Against Nazi News:

Virginia: Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Promotes August 7 Cross-Burning on Stormfront Web Site
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/07/virginia-kkk/


Tennessee: Nazi White Supremacist National Socialist Movement to Rally August 14
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/07/tennessee-nazi-august-14/

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