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October 13, 2009 News - UnitedStatesAction.com

(Pakistan) Taliban vow more big attacks
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg1_3
-- Taliban claim Shangla blast, vow more to come
-- Dawn: "The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing carried out by a teenage boy in northwest Shangla district, which killed 45 people at a busy market."
-- "'We claim responsibility for the Shangla suicide attack. This is revenge for our martyrs,' Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told an AFP reporter by telephone from an undisclosed location."
-- "'This is part of the series of attacks that we are carrying out. Wait and see more,' he added."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/11-taliban-claim-shangla-blast--vow-more-to-come--il--05

(Pakistan) Islamabad: General Headquarters (GHQ) attackers' leader one of army defectors
-- Pakistan Daily Times: "The leader of the attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) is one of several former military personnel to have joined terrorist groups, The Times reported on Monday. Security officials have identified him as Muhammad Aqeel alias Dr Usman and said that he was in the medical corps before joining terrorists based in North Waziristan"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg1_11

(Pakistan) Islamabad: Qaeda, Taliban behind recent attacks in Pakistan -- Interior Minister Rehman Malik
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2031657&Language=en
-- Malik: 'Int'l response not matching Pak role in war on terror'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg7_3
-- Terror-stricken schoolchildren caught in GHQ crossfire
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/terror-stricken+parents+stuck+in+traffic+mess

(Pakistan/U.S.) Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi leaves for US with 'national message' on Kerry-Lugar bill
-- "'the language' used in it needed to be reviewed"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg7_8
-- FM Qureshi discusses KLB with Holbrooke
http://geo.tv/10-13-2009/50875.htm
-- Same Pakistan FM Qureshi who urged U.S. to negotiate with Taliban
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/125.html#1

(Pakistan/U.S.) ANP, MQM voice concern over Kerry-Lugar bill, call for change
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg7_20
-- MEMRI: "Debating the Pakistani National Interest over the Kerry-Lugar Bill"
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA55309

(Pakistan) FATA: Pakistani jets bomb militants near Afghan border
-- AP: "The army says 80 percent of the militant attacks plaguing nuclear-armed Pakistan are planned from South Waziristan, while the United States says insurgent leaders blamed for spiraling violence in Afghanistan are also based in the lawless, remote area"
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8814740
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_214

(Pakistan) FATA: 'Foreign terrorists have entered cities from border areas'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg7_38

(Pakistan) NWFP: Girl's school blown up in Hangu
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg7_11

(Pakistan) NWFP: Pakistani forces kill 5 militants in Swat and arrest 38
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2031804&Language=en

(Pakistan) NWFP: Terror comes back to Swat
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/13-Oct-2009/Terror-comes-back-to-Swat

(Pakistan) Punjab's Gojra -- ICC report: "Pakistan Court Grants Bail to Six More Muslims Accused of Violence against Christians"
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10972&PHPSESSID=54ae54a9b8abc9efd0c3250a7af98e9f
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/pakistan-icc-report-pakistan-court-grants-bail-to-six-more-muslims-accused-of-violence-against-christians/

(Pakistan) Punjab's Lahore: Terror Suspect Cleared Again in Pakistan
-- Additional Reports on LeT/JuD — Criminal charges against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, alleged mastermind of 2008 Mumbai Attacks
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/world/asia/13lahore.html?_r=1&hpw
-- Lashkar chief's release cause of global concern
http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/13/stories/2009101360221000.htm

(Pakistan) Punjab's Lahore -- Pakistan Daily Times: "Police ready for jihad against terrorism: CCPO"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg7_24
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=88998

(Pakistan) Baluchistan: Soviet-era refugee camps are Taleban breeding ground
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6871785.ece

(Afghanistan/Pakistan) Taliban Steps Boldly in 2007, Invades YouTube
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/taliban-steps-boldy-in-2007-invades-youtube/

(Afghanistan/Pakistan) PBS "report makes clear that the challenge of Afghanistan is only made worse by the duplicity of Pakistan"
-- quoting on Nagl, a retired 43-year-old Army lieutenant colonel and counterinsurgency expert: "I absolutely have to hold my nose when I work with the Pakistani government... But I don't have a better alternative."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202761.html?hpid=topnews
-- Comment: No focus on human rights or challenge of Islamic supremacist ideology in report

Afghanistan: Taliban claim attack against NATO drone
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3872753791

(Afghanistan) 20 Taliban killed in southern Afghanistan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg7_6

Afghanistan: the Taliban resurgent
-- "The Taliban never actually went away"
http://mondediplo.com/2009/10/04afghanistanpics

Afghan leader accused of meddling in fraud probe
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_176

(Afghanistan) Support Troops Swelling U.S. Force in Afghanistan
-- Washington Post: "President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials."
-- "The additional troops are primarily support forces, including engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police."
-- October 8, 2009: Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Mission
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100704088.html

(Afghanistan) Rushed training 'risks turning Afghan troops into cannon fodder'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6871895.ece

(India) 3 cops gunned down by Maoists
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/3-cops-gunned-down-by-Maoists/articleshow/5121155.cms

(Iraq) Eight killed in Iraq suicide attack - in Baquba
http://geo.tv/10-13-2009/50862.htm
-- Reuters: Suicide bomber kills six Iraq's Diyala province
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LD709208.htm

Iraqis have a duty to expose sleeping terrorist cells -- Hashimi
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2031690&Language=en

(U.S.) N.Y. 9/11 trial looms: Feds weigh moving ex-Al Qaeda 'military commander' Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
http://tinyurl.com/911trials
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/10/13/2009-10-13_ny_911_trial_looms_feds_weigh_moving_terror_kingpin_cohorts.html

U.S., Russia share notes on defunct Oregon charity -- Al Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc.
-- AP: "Recent court filings in a criminal case against the operator of a defunct Oregon charity reveal that federal prosecutors traveled to Russia in an attempt to find proof that the organization had been involved in terrorism."
http://www.kyivpost.com/world/50510
--- Cold War rivals join against new foe -- with Oregon ties
--- Oregonian reports: "Prosecutors also gave the Russians evidence that 'one of defendant Sedaghaty's so-called Islamic wives' used Al Haramain computers in Ashland to translate material into Russian. Her translations appeared on qoqaz.net, a Web site supporting jihad in Chechnya, prosecutors said."
---- "They said the Russians turned over intercepted communications. Prosecutors cited communication between the leader of foreign Islamic fighters in Chechnya and Aqeel Abdul Aziz Al-Aqil, once president of both the Saudi and Oregon charities"
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/cold_war_rivals_join_against_n.html
-- IPT: "A November 2008 ruling supported the US Treasury Department's determination that the Islamic charity was controlled by and provided support to designated terrorists."
http://www.investigativeproject.org/cases.php
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/725.pdf
http://74.125.113.132/custom?q=cache:MkUrXkmHQc8J:www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/725.pdf+Al+Haramain+Islamic+Foundation+Inc.&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=google-coop-np
-- Indictment
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/480.pdf

(U.S.) Muslim New Yorkers Protest Alleged Racial Profiling -- Zazi Case
http://ny1.com/8-queens-news-content/top_stories/107155/muslim-new-yorkers-protest-alleged-racial-profiling
-- image
http://media.ny1.com/media/2009/10/10/images/ENLARGE_01raids.jpg

US wants bunker-buster fast, denies Iran is reason
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/10/13/us_wants_bunker_buster_fast_denies_iran_is_reason/

(Iran) Clinton says not yet time for Iran sanctions
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LD557725.htm

(Iran) Russian FM: Threats of Iran sanctions won't work
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_re_eu/eu_clinton_russia
-- Why Russia is not afraid of an Iranian bomb
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1255204781388&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iran launches legal case against former presidential candidate
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/iran-launches-legal-case-against-former-presidential-candidate-mehdi-karoubi/
-- APA: "Iran launched a legal case against former presidential candidate and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karoubi over his allegations that his supporters were tortured and raped in jail, APA reports quoting IRNA"
-- "Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi said that Karoubi was a cleric and his remarks should be studied at the Shari’ah court."
http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=109247

Iranian Journalists Flee, Fearing Retribution for Covering Protests
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/iranian-journalists-flee-fearing-retribution-for-covering-protests/
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09286/1005149-82.stm

(Lebanon) Hizbullah Turning Lebanon into a 'Power Keg'
http://voiceofthecopts.org/en/news/hizbullah_turning_lebanon_into_a_power_keg.html

Lebanon Army Arrests Three Fath Al-Islam Activists Who Planned To Strike At Army
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/20873.htm

Fatah: Hopes in Obama 'evaporated'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1255204786678&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

UN officials: UNHRC to reopen debate on Goldstone Report
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1255204787988&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(UK) Man arrested in Lancashire under Terrorism Act
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/man-arrested-in-lancashire-under-terrorism-act-19405944.html

Albanian Muslim charged with inciting terrorism
-- AP: "Authorities say they have charged an Albanian Muslim man for inciting terror acts through postings on a local Web site."
-- "The Prosecutor-General's office says 31-year-old Artan Kristo was arrested Monday in the port city of Durres, 20 miles (33 kilometers) west of Tirana, following a two-month investigation."
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-16/125542723722490.xml&storylist=international

German court convicts two individuals of supporting Islamist terrorists
-- "The first, an Afghan-born German citizen, was sentenced two years and nine months in prison, and the second who is a Turkish national was sentenced a year and two months in jail."
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2031704&Language=en

Italy: Two suspects arrested in military barracks attack -- Mohammed Game attacl
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3872224862
-- Milan Bomber Had Accomplices, More Explosives - Police
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LD582366.htm

Russia accuses Georgia of aiding Al-Qaeda
-- "Georgia is training and lending safe passage to Al-Qaeda agents planning terrorist acts in the Russian Caucasus, the head of Russia's FSB secret service charged Tuesday"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h85IOmH49xt06JVOy4gVxLqjR6Sw

Somalia's Shebab 'radicalizing Western youths'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091013/wl_africa_afp/australiaattackssomaliashebab_20091013141007

(Yemen) Al-Qaida suspects due in Yemeni court
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/10/13/Al-Qaida-suspects-due-in-Yemeni-court/UPI-96401255446626/

Indonesia police confirm killed terror suspects' identities
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jTG7lcsGUK2D5R7Gq_jR7nY6PQbQ

(Philippines) Navy tries to seal off Irish priest's kidnappers
-- AFP: "Philippine navy gunboats were deployed and road blocks set up Tuesday to block the escape route of suspected Islamic militants who abducted an elderly Irish priest, authorities said."
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/10/13/09/navy-tries-seal-irish-priests-kidnappers
-- Inquirer.net: "Military reports indicating the priest, who is two months short of his 80th birthday, was alive came amid concerns from his colleagues that Sinnott, who had a quadruple heart bypass several years ago, may not survive the ordeal."
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20091013-229865/Kidnapped-Irish-priest-seen-alive
-- London Times: "An Irish priest who was kidnapped in the southern Philippines earlier this week has been seen alive in an area known to be a stronghold of Muslim militants, a military official said. 'The victim and his kidnappers were sighted in Lanao del Sur,' General Dolorfino told reporters, but he declined to give specific details so as not to jeopardise a rescue attempt."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6872253.ece
-- London Telegraph: "Father Michael Sinnott, an elderly Irish priest kidnapped in the southern Philippines, has been seen alive in an area known to be a stronghold of Muslim militants, a military official has said"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/6313160/Kidnapped-Irish-priest-Michael-Sinnott-spotted-alive-by-Philippines-army.html
-- Chronology of Abu Sayyaf kidnappings
http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/top-stories/3868-chronology-of-abu-sayyaf-kidnappings
-- Manila Bulletin: "MILF denies involvement in Irish priest's abduction"
http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/224565/milf-denies-involvement-irish-priest-s-abduction

(Thailand) Soldier, police wife injured by bomb
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/156892/policeman-wounded-by-narathiwat-bomb-blast
-- "Police said insurgents attached the bomb under the truck and followed it to the spot and detonate it with a remote control."
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30114342/2-injured-in-Narathiwat-bomb-attack

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

UK: "Honor killing girl 'wanted love'" -- Tulay Goren trial - reportedly tortured by father before killed
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/uk-honor-killing-girl-wanted-love-tulay-goren-trial/
-- BBC: "Honour killing girl 'wanted love'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8302958.stm
-- "A teenager allegedly murdered by her father in a so-called 'honour killing' hated her family and wanted to run away, a court has heard."
-- "Tulay Goren, 15, a Kurdish Turk from Woodford Green, north London, vanished in 1999 and her body has never been found, the Old Bailey has been told."
-- "Her boyfriend at the time, Halil Unal, 41, told the jury she said she wanted 'a man who will love me and marry me'"
-- "He recalled the time he met Tulay at Stratford bus station, in east London after she had been beaten."
-- "'I saw that she had bruising to her eye. She told me that her father tortured her and beat her and that her uncle Cuma was pressuring her.'"
-- "Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said Tulay was killed 'to restore the so-called honour' of the family, who originate from Turkey."
-- "The court heard Mr Unal was brought up as a Sunni Muslim while the Gorens were from the Alevi branch of the faith."
--- BBC: "He added: 'In our honour customs, they are either going to finish off, kill the girl, or they are going to kill both of them. That is definite.'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8305119.stm
--- BBC: "The prosecution says Tulay was killed 'to restore the so-called honour' of the family, as a relationship between she and Mr Unal - who are from different sects of Islam - 'would not have been tolerated'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8303669.stm
--- Daily Mail: "Schoolgirl 'was tortured by her father' before she was murdered in honour killing"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219878/Schoolgirl-tortured-father-murdered-honour-killing.html

Women in Alevism
-- "According to Australian anthropologist Dr. Sevgi Kilic, while Alevi women do not experience gender segregation in the private and public domain they are subject to traditional male values about women's sexuality and constructed within the honour/shame paradigm"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alevi#Women_in_Alevism

(U.S.) Florida: Court Hearing on Rifqa Bary Case
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/florida-court-hearing-on-rifqa-bary-case/
-- Orlando Sentinel: Rifqa Bary reads Bible while Ohio, Florida judges debate her fate
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-rifqa-bary-convert-hearing-101309,0,1325695.story
-- "Lawyers in Florida and Ohio have been battling over 17-year-old Rifqa's fate. Rifqa's family wants her returned to the Columbus area. The teen wants to stay here."
-- "During today's hearing, the Ohio judge said her state should have jurisdiction and wants jurisdiction."
-- "The representative from the children's services in Ohio said a foster home has been identified for Rifqa in that state."
-- "Rifqa's Florida attorney, John Stemberger, said he objected.
-- "The Florida guardian ad litem, Krista Bartholomew, said she agrees the case should return to Ohio."
-- "However, it should be a transition to Ohio and she continue to receive services. She would like Rifqa to have a mental examination before she returns to Ohio. She also wants the parents to have a psychological exam, too."
-- "It's important to determine what services are needed. Rifqa has been seeing a counselor here in Florida, Batholomew said."
-- "Bartholomew also asked that she finish some of her schooling here in Florida."
-- "She wants the parents to follow the orders set up by the Florida court, such as the immigration issue."
-- "The parents have not addressed that issue yet, Bartholomew said. At this point, there is a chance she is in the country illegally."
-- "This could take several weeks, she said."
-- WESH: Hearing Slated In Religious Runaway Case
http://www.wesh.com/news/21279938/detail.html
-- AP: Another hearing held for runaway convert
-- "The judge is holding another hearing Tuesday that will help determine whether 17-year-old Rifqa Bary stays in Orlando or returns to her family who live outside Columbus"
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1280605.html
-- AP: Another hearing for Rifqa Bary
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/faith_news/101309_runaway_convert
-- WFTV: Ohio Judge Will Not Take Jurisdiction In Convert Case
http://www.wftv.com/news/21275283/detail.html

Italy: 15 Year Old Muslim Girl Threatened in Italy for Loving Italian Boy
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/italy-15-year-old-muslim-girl-threatened-in-italy-for-loving-italian-boy/
-- Il Griornale: "I love an Italian, dad kills me" Moroccan 15 years under cover -- 15 year old Moroccan girl threatened
-- "Request for help is heartbreaking: "Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa. Said the police in tears of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a fifteen Moroccan escaped from home in Voghera."
-- "And the soldiers have moved immediately. Now the student is in a protected location in Sydney, away from parents by herself accused of having threatened to do the same end of Sanaa. Besides its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two girls, which took the lives of 'guilty' only of loving an Italian man and not a Muslim. A script already seen."
-- "Start the harassment. Her father beat her repeatedly and the threat of death: "I'll make an end to the other ..." alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls massacred because they were trying to break free from a world of fundamentalist and dull. Beatings and threats that have witnessed without blinking, even sharing the "method of education, whether the mother. The girl tries to cling to what is around him, makes contact with friends including Social Services, as I will explain later also to the police. Anyone away from that family that now beats her and insulted almost every day. Phrase you hear is always angry, "Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya (you are always Muslim and Moroccan). These are your sources, you must not forget, and that is why you can not attend the Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your father feels dishonored. And off blows."
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.ilgiornale.it/milano/amo_italiano_papa_mi_uccide_marocchina_15_anni_sotto_scorta/09-10-2009/articolo-id%3D389459-page%3D0-comments%3D1&ei=IcrUSpnYA4fS8QaBrviIDQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&ved=0CAoQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.ilgiornale.it/milano/amo_italiano_papa_mi_uccide_marocchina_15_anni_sotto_scorta/09-10-2009/articolo-id%253D389459-page%253D0-comments%253D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
-- original report in Italian: "Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide" Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta"
http://www.ilgiornale.it/milano/amo_italiano_papa_mi_uccide_marocchina_15_anni_sotto_scorta/09-10-2009/articolo-id=389459-page=0-comments=1
-- Associated Video (in Italian)
http://www.video.mediaset.it/mplayer.html?sito=studioaperto&data=2009/10/07&id=46843&from=email

Bin Laden and The Final Shame: American Female Soldiers -- by Phyllis Chesler
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/10/13/why-bin-laden-really-turned-to-terrorism/

Other News:

(Indonesia) New Indonesia stoning law is 'torture': rights group
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hiMZg3dZTZTQpJtWA9bJpv8aBW2w

(U.S.) Necessary Gesture Or Bad Decision? U.S. Cuts Funds To Iran Rights Group
-- Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=20717&t=Necessary+Gesture+Or+Bad+Decision%
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/necessary-gesture-or-bad-decision/

(U.S.) DC: Capitol Hill - Muslim Coalition to Host Interfaith Hearing on Health Care -- speakers include representatives of MAS Freedom -- and AMT group representing CAIR, ISNA
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS28099+13-Oct-2009+PRN20091013

(U.S.) Con Air: Convicted Drug Kingpin, Arms Smugglers Keep Licenses to Fly in the U.S.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/convicted-drug-kingpin-arms-smugglers-licenses-fly-us/story?id=8790260

(UK) Qatar donates £1.5m for mosque after intervention from Jack Straw
-- "Qatar has also provided aid to Hamas and offered support to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan who has been indicted for war crimes in Darfur"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6298788/Qatar-donates-1.5m-for-mosque-after-intervention-from-Jack-Straw.html

(UK) Dutch anti-Islam MP overturns British ban -- Geert Wilders
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE59C34D20091013?rpc=401
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/6317795/Dutch-right-winger-Geert-Wilders-wins-challenge-against-British-ban.html

(UK) BBC: "Under the skin of English Defence League"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8303786.stm

(UK) Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Doesn't Understand the Term "Islamists"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/10/13/mcb-doesnt-understand-the-term-islamists/
-- MCB writes to the Jewish Chronicle
http://www.mcb.org.uk/article_detail.php?article=announcement-812

(UK) Airport trials 'naked' x-ray scanner
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,26206063-5014090,00.html

(UAE) International Shariah Expert Calls for Unified Action to Develop Islamic Finance Expertise
http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=7664&lang=en

France Adjusts Laws To Allow Islamic Banking
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113742191&ft=1&f=3

Nepal: "Under UN pressure, Nepal to probe 'disappearances'"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/nepal-under-un-pressure-nepal-to-probe-disappearances/

Against Misogyny News:

Congo: UN criticized on Congo offensive
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/congo-un-criticized-on-congo-offensive/
-- BBC: "A joint report by several international aid agencies said the mission had had 'disastrous' humanitarian consequences."
-- "It said the offensive against ethnic Hutu rebels in eastern DR Congo had caused widespread killings and rape."
-- "The Congolese and international lobby groups said the UN needed to take immediate action to protect civilians."
-- "The Congo Advocacy Coalition report said disarming the Hutu rebels is a top priority - but that for every rebel who has been disarmed this year, one civilian has been killed, seven women or girls raped, and 900,000 people made homeless."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8304721.stm
-- DR Congo: Civilian Cost of Military Operation is Unacceptable
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/12/dr-congo-civilian-cost-military-operation-unacceptable

Against Totalitarianism News:

North Korea 'preparing to launch more missiles'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/6312636/North-Korea-preparing-to-launch-more-missiles.html

Communist China tightens grip on Africa with $4.4bn lifeline for Guinea junta
-- London Times: "While the rest of the world recoiled in horror at recent events in Guinea, where at least 150 pro-democracy supporters were killed and dozens of women publicly raped by government soldiers, China has sensed an opportunity to steal another march on Western competitors in Africa"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6871943.ece

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