Solsticewitch13's BOS: [unitedstatesaction.com news] January 8, 2010

January 8, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Pakistan: Six dead in Khyber suicide attack
-- Dawn: "Two boys who had come to the mosque along with Ansarul Islam men were among the dead."
-- "An official told this correspondent that the teenage bomber exploded himself when he was stopped by Ansar volunteers at the gate of Bagh Markaz mosque."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/07-blast-injures-12-in-khyber-agency-officials-ha-01
-- Six killed in suicide blast targeting Ansarul Islam (AI) headquarters
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\09\story_9-1-2010_pg7_4

Pakistan: No let-up in violence as eight more gunned down in Karachi
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/14-explosion-in-baldia-town-causalities-feared-zj-04

Pakistan: Karachi bomb victims were 'fugitive militants'
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4174515918

(Pakistan/U.S.) Missile strike in Waziristan kills 3
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2052860&Language=en

(Pakistan/U.S.) US policies can hurt bilateral ties: Pakistan PM Gilani
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\09\story_9-1-2010_pg1_1
-- Jamaat-e-Islami (JI): Govt should target US drones attacking Pak areas
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\09\story_9-1-2010_pg7_22
-- Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Secretary General Mushahid Hussain: US should reconsider drone policy
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\09\story_9-1-2010_pg7_21

(Pakistan/U.S.) Rockets hit US consulate site in Herat
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\09\story_9-1-2010_pg7_34

Pakistan: 'Swat Taliban have fled to Karachi, South Waziristan'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\09\story_9-1-2010_pg7_6

(Pakistan) MEMRI: "Article In Pakistani Daily Explains How Al-Qaeda's Lashkar al-Zil Planned the Attack on the CIA Base In Khost"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3893.htm
-- note subscription only article

(India) 4 'LeT men' let off for want of proof
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Frame-up-4-LeT-men-let-off-for-want-of-proof/articleshow/5425613.cms

(India) I am a Pak army deserter: Terror suspect Rana
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/I-am-a-Pakistani-army-deserter-Terror-suspect-Rana/articleshow/5419965.cms

(India/U.S.) National Investigation Agency (NIA) may file chargesheet on Chicago's David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana in the Mumbai terror attack and planning other attacks
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/NIA-may-file-chargesheet-against-Headley-Rana-soon/articleshow/5425251.cms

(Afghanistan) US, Afghan soldiers die in IED blasts
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2052801&Language=en

(Afghanistan) Too few British troops to defeat the Taliban, says US military
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6951503/Too-few-British-troops-to-defeat-the-Taliban-says-US-military.html
-- British troops set to hand frontline Afghanistan role to US
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6981599.ece

(Afghanistan) Jihadi Forum Publishes Posthumous Article by CIA Khost Base Bomber
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3891.htm

(Afghanistan/Jordan) Jordan releases suicide bomber's brother - Asad Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi
-- "The brother of the man named as the suicide bomber who killed eight at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last week was released by Jordanian authorities Friday after having been held since shortly after the attack, his family said."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/08/afghanistan.jordan.attack.brother/index.html

(Iraq) Eight people lose life in violence in northern Iraq
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2052832&Language=en

(U.S.) NYC - Zazi Case: New York bomb suspect charged with false statement to FBI
-- Zasrein Ahmedzay
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100108/ts_alt_afp/usattackscourt

(U.S.) NYC - Zazi Case: Two arrested over New York City 'bomb plot'
-- Adis Medunjanin and Zasrein Ahmedzay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8448563.stm
-- 2 Men Arrested in Connection With Zazi Terror Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/nyregion/09zazi.html
-- FBI seizes passport of man questioned in terror probe
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/08/new.york.terror.case/
-- FBI grills Queens man Adis Medunjanin after he flees; sources say he has ties to Al Qaeda, Zazi
http://bit.ly/4FGiLl
-- Two More Terrorism Suspects Come to Brooklyn After Crash on Bridge
--- Adis Medunjanin "called 911 and made threatening comments"
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=32867

(U.S.) Barack Obama: US is at war with al-Qaeda
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6950879/Barack-Obama-US-is-at-war-with-al-Qaeda.html

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(U.S.) Continuing Reports on Abdulmutallab Foiled Terror Plot
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/abdulmutallab.html

January 8, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports

-- Accused Underwear Bomber Abdulmutallab Pleads Not Guilty
--- Plea Comes as Experts Debate Whether He Should Even Be in Court
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-pleads-guilty-attempted-plane-bombing/story?id=9510524
-- Abdulmutallab: 'Not guilty' plea in Detroit plane bomb case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8448367.stm
-- another report
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6953334/Detroit-bomb-plot-Abdulmutallab-pleads-not-guilty.html

-- Abdulmutallab impassive in court
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8449660.stm

-- Christmas Plane Attack Case Will Test Defense
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9509717&page=1

-- Mistakes in Obama Administration's Review of Intelligence Mistakes
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/oops-mistakes-obama-administrations-review-intelligence-mistakes/story?id=9512301

-- Northwest 253 Aftermath: Europe Considering Full-Body Scanners at Airports
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-253-aftermath-europe-full-body-scanners-airports/story?id=9505333

-- Nigeria: Bomb plot forces new look at Lagos airport security
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jUhV2ZT_KllDxyiytlajF314cJ8w

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(U.S.) Detroit Free Press: "Muslim, Nigerian leaders rally against terrorism"
-- Detroit Free Press reports: "Chanting 'No more terrorism,' about 150 Muslim and Nigerian protesters waved U.S. flags as they rallied in the cold outside the federal courthouse during a hearing for the suspect accused of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day."
-- With article, DFP provide image of "Imam Steve Mustapha Elturk, of the Islamic Organizations of North America in Warren... reads a statement from the organization's council of imams during today's news conference held by the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan in Detroit"
http://www.freep.com/article/20100108/NEWS05/100108015/Muslim-Nigerian-leaders-rally-against-terrorism
-- Debbie Schlussel states that she interviewed Steve Mustapha Elturk in 2007
http://bit.ly/5Cexrx
-- UPI article on "Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan" quotes Jewish Community Relations Council lead that "Muslims in Detroit became pro the other side -- pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas"
http://www.upi.com/Features/Culture_Society/2009/11/17/Interfaith-efforts-seek-to-educate-encounter-some-obstacles/12584803477458/

(U.S.) Detroit Free Press article (cont):
-- "The protest was led by Dearborn attorney Majed Moughni. Moughni said he organized the rally after becoming angry over the attempted attack on Christmas Day. It marks one of the first rallies in recent memory where local Muslims are rallying against Muslims who commit terrorism acts."
http://www.freep.com/article/20100108/NEWS05/100108015/1001/NEWS/Muslim-Nigerian-leaders-rally-against-terrorism

(U.S.) Detroit Free Press article (cont): CAIR shows up at "rally against terrorism"
-- Detroit Free Press article page 3: "Dawud Walid, assistant imam at the Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit and head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, noted that Muslims are rooted in the history and culture of metro Detroit, saying they have lived here for at least a century"
-- " 'We have a long track record of speaking out against terrorism,' Walid said. Walid later participated in the rally at the courthouse, waving a U.S. flag."
http://www.freep.com/article/20100108/NEWS05/100108015/1001/NEWS/Muslim-Nigerian-leaders-rally-against-terrorism

-- Note: I have communicated with the organizer of this rally, Majed Moughni, who has challenged CAIR's position's in the past
http://www.arabdetroit.com/news.php?id=870
http://ihsanalkhatib.blogspot.com/2009/09/battle-of-head-scarf-muslim-woman.html
-- I expressed my concerns on the need to address the ideological challenges that the Detroit attack represented
-- Majed Moughni indicated to me that today's Detroit rally was exclusively for "the world to see is that American Muslims are against terrorism. We do not want to dilute from this message. I hope you can understand."
-- I will keep you posted if we hear anything different from Majed Moughni in the future

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U.S. more focused on al-Qaeda's plans abroad
-- Jet plot report says agencies did not pay attention to threats inside country
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34760846/ns/us_news-washington_post/

(U.S.) Terror watch lists have limited uses, experts say
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34770722/ns/us_news-security/

(U.S.) Gilani wants review of new US rules to screen Pakistan travelers
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Gilani-wants-review-of-new-US-rules-to-screen-Pak-travellers/articleshow/5424555.cms

(U.S.) Maine: No Prison for Battered Wife who Killed White Supremacist Husband who was Plotting Dirty Bomb
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/maine-trial-amber-cummings/

(U.S.) TSA Guard in Security Breach Called Model Employee
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9516372

(U.S.) TSA employees fall victim to identity theft
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010704021.html?hpid=politics

(U.S.) Brush with Terror Changes Muslim Woman's View of Profiling
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/#1626
-- Privacy advocate changes stance after Flight 253
http://www.freep.com/article/20100107/FEATURES07/1070453/1032/Features07/Privacy-advocate-changes-her-stance-after-ride-on-Flight-253

U.S. appeals court wary of habeas corpus challenge by detainees in Afghanistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703205.html

(U.S.) Miami: Courtroom exchange with Asad and Judge Cueto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eczdPx7Wks8&
--- January 7: Florida: Ohio Man Arrested on Detroit Flight – Stated "I Want to Kill All the Jews" – Tells Police "Go Back to Africa"
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/mansor_mohammad_asad/

(U.S.) OFAC Treasury Actions Against Individuals from Switzerland, Columbia
http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/actions/20100108.shtml

(U.S.) Washington Post: "Anti-terror storyline to be supplanted by jobs, health-care reform"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/01/rundown---010809.html?wprss=44

UK's Con Coughlin Blames U.S. CIA, not Al-Qaeda, for Airline Difficulties in major western newspaper
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/6949529/Flying-has-become-a-nightmare-thanks-to-the-CIA-not-al-Qaeda.html

UK: Islamic convert fabricated a Jewish hitlist over Israel support
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/25826/islamic-convert-fabricated-a-jewish-hitlist-over-israel-support

(Lebanon) Israel accuses Hezbollah of planting explosives
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UN_ISRAEL_LEBANON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-01-07-20-51-29

Lebanon detains wanted Islamist
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100108/twl-lebanon-detains-wanted-islamist-3cd7efd.html

Iran: US preparing military for possible Iran conflict
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339426936&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iran: 'China sent Iran part with nuclear uses'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339432594&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Hamas Leaders Warmly, Repeatedly Greet Viva Palestina Convoy
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1625/hamas-leaders-warmly-repeatedly-greet-viva

(West Bank) Six Palestinians wounded in clashes with Israeli troops
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2052810&Language=en

Egypt Coptic Christians Murdered in Terrorist Attack Outside Church -- updated report - with additional information on the January 6 attack, and the response of police on January 7 and 8
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/coptic-christmas-church-attack/
-- Coptic bishop real target in Christmas attack in Egypt
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=17293&theme=5&size=A
-- The Vatican with the Coptic Patriarch: United in face of oppression
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=17300&theme=5&size=A
-- Copt killings heighten Christian alarm
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/01/07/Copt-killings-heighten-Christian-alarm/UPI-81551262891300/

Egypt: Galloway persona non grata
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339431410&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Yemen's internal divide complicates U.S. efforts against al-Qaeda, analysts say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010704303.html

"Yemen: Al-Qaeda growth 'exaggerated' despite threats"
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4172700595

(Yemen) Huthi cell caught in Yemen
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2052866&Language=en

Somalia: Hizbul Islam Denounces Soldiers of TFG and Amisom Are Planning Attacks
http://allafrica.com/stories/201001070879.html

Somali pirates holding Britons issue terrifying ultimatum: Pay £1.9m or yacht couple die
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241748/Pirates-holding-Britons-issue-terrifying-ultimatum-Pay-1-9m-yacht-couple-die.html

Angola says Togo team attack an act of terrorism
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6071X820100108?type=marketsNews

Turkey: CIA bomber's wife says war must go on against US
-- AP: "Defne Bayrak, the wife of bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, said in an interview with The Associated Press that his hatred of the United States had motivated her husband to sacrifice his life on Dec. 30 in what he regarded as a holy war against the U.S."
-- "Bayrak also said Friday, 'I think the war against the United States must go on.' "
-- "Turkish police questioned and released Bayrak on Thursday. But she says police confiscated a book she had written called 'Osama bin Laden the Che Guevera of the East.' "
http://bit.ly/84CYTV
-- CIA Suicide Bomber's Wife Speaks -- Balawi's Wife Says 'I Am Proud of My Husband'
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/watch-cia-suicide-bombers-wife-speaks/story?id=9504161
-- ABC Video Report
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9505511
-- Newsweek Turkey: The Bomber’s Wife
http://www.newsweek.com/id/229792

Turkey: Hurriyet Daily News Interviews with Turks and Israelis
-- some Israelis will not come back to Turkey due to growing anti-semitism, some Turks calling for Islamic supremacist caliphate, praise Hizb ut-Tahrir
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=shock-and-anger-in-israeli-streets-2010-01-07

Spain refuses ransom to al-Qaida
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Spain-refuses-ransom-to-al-Qaida/articleshow/5423665.cms

Russian Police Kill 2 Rebels After Suicide Blast
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/07/world/AP-EU-Russia-Caucasus-Violence.html?_r=1

Northern Ireland: Bomb blast leaves police officer seriously injured in Northern Ireland
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/6950423/Bomb-blast-leaves-police-officer-seriously-injured-in-Northern-Ireland.html

Indonesia's Central Java: Islamic radicalism on the rise in Solo mosques
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=17299&theme=5&size=A

Malaysian Christian Churches Firebombed
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/malaysian-christian-churches-firebombed/
Catholic Herald Malaysia Online: Muslim protests after Friday prayers following church attacks
--- "Allah for Muslim Only" -- protesters say issue must be brought before a Sharia court
http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/storydetails.php/Mild-protests-after-Friday-prayers-following-church-attacks/3774-1-1
--- image
http://www.realcourage.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/malaysia-muslim-protest.jpg

(Philippines) 5 killed in fresh Maguindanao violence
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100108-246213/5-killed-in-fresh-Maguindanao-violence

(Philippines) 7 houses in Maguindanao town set on fire
-- 50 gunmen believed to be members of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) torched seven houses in Datu Hofer town
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100107-246010/7-houses-in-Maguindanao-town-set-on-fire

Islamic Supremacist War on Women:

UAE: British Woman Raped, Then Arrested and Put in Jail for "Illegal Sex"
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/uae-rape-victim-arrested/

Against Slavery News:

Europe Court of Human Rights Raises Sex-Trafficking Oversight
-- "The European Court of Human Rights ruled for the first time since it was created in 1998 that sex trafficking is a violation of antislavery conventions, in the case of a 20-year-old Russian woman who died two weeks after she came to Cyprus to work in a cabaret where she was sexually exploited."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126290990008520599.html

Other News:

Wall Street Journal: "The world ignores the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574643821742562800.html

(UK) Waltham Forest Muslim Group to Join Islam4UK March
-- "Group forms to attend controversial protest through Wiltshire town"
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4841665.WALTHAM_FOREST__Muslim_group_supports_planned_march_through_Wootton_Bassett/

UK: British Radicalization Studies
-- "The U.K.'s universities offer the most conducive environment an Islamic extremist could inhabit outside Waziristan."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574643912730752216.html

UK: Muslim who called soldiers baby killers says words were not offensive
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/6952013/Muslim-who-called-soldiers-baby-killers-says-words-were-not-offensive.html

UK: "All rise in court - or would the Muslims like to sit this one out?" - Telegraph article praising judge for changing court rules that apply to all
-- Telegraph reports: "When the case opened, the accused refused to stand for Miss Mellanby. Their religion, they argued, forbids them to stand for anybody except Allah, and they were therefore unable to show their respect for the court’s officers in the customary manner."
-- "Faced with seven men in full Muslim dress, the District Judge bravely changed the rules to accommodate the accused. She did not – as others might have – suggest they might be in contempt, but instead arranged that, thenceforth, the men would enter the court after her, so that the sticky issue of respect would not have to be dealt with again."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/gill-hornby/6953132/All-rise-in-court---or-would-the-Muslims-like-to-sit-this-one-out.html

Iran: Christian Mother Hamideh Najafi, Others Arrested, Coerced
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/iran-christian-mother-others-arrested-coerced/

Iran opposition leader shot at by mob
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6981003.ece

(U.S.) ISNA - New Secretary-General of ISNA from Chicago -Safaa Zarzour, former chairman of CAIR in Chicago
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=36683&seenIt=1

(U.S.) NYC: Artists4Israel 2 the Rescue
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/681/artists4israel-2-the-rescue

(U.S.) Reuel Marc Gerecht Notes the "Impressive Feat" by Al-Qaeda Terror Groups in Wall Street Journal
-- Gerecht: "one has to admire the skill of suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi's handlers"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574644132628157104.html
--- Jeffrey Imm has previously criticized Reuel Marc Gerecht for Gerecht's position
on the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood [as] "the most popular political and cultural force in Egypt," and concludes this as a positive for "triumphing" of democracy
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/120.html#Gerecht
-- November 2008: Reuel Marc Gerecht: "God, Man, and the Ballot Box"
http://www.american.com/archive/2008/november-december-magazine/god-man-and-the-ballot-box

(U.S.) Massachusetts College Relaxes Ban on Head Coverings After Muslim Uproar
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582518,00.html

(U.S.) California: Police treating case of burned Koran as a hate crime
http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2010/01/08/local_news/dpt-koran010910.txt

(U.S.) California: Man sentenced to 90 days in jail for hate crimes against muslims
http://www.examiner.com/x-32279-SF-Crime-Examiner~y2010m1d8-Man-sentenced-to-90-days-of-jail-for-hate-crimes-against-muslims

Indonesia: Dancers' arrests stir fears of Sharia law in Indonesia
http://australianetworknews.com/stories/201001/2787743.htm?desktop

Norway: Controversial Muslim cartoons reprinted
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/newspaper-reprints-kurt-westergaard-muslim-cartoons/story-e6frfku0-1225817536377
-- "Liberal Norwegian Muslims stand up for free speech"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/01/08/liberal-norwegian-muslims-stand-up-for-free-speech/
-- Pakistan Daily Times: "Norwegian paper reprints blasphemous cartoons"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\09\story_9-1-2010_pg7_7

Italy: Muslim cleaning woman called 'security threat' in Italy: Report
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Muslim+cleaning+woman+called+security+threat+Italy+Report/2419908/story.html

(Philippines) Islamic banking in the Philippines
http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=4261

Against Nazi News:

Poland: European Former neo-Nazi leader Angers Hoegstrom ‘ordered Auschwitz sign theft’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6980065.ece

Fox News Medical Contributor Attacked by Murder Suspect
- "by murder suspect Keith Luke, who has a swastika carved into his head"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582612,00.html

Against Misogyny News:

UK: Rapist laughs, sings through court case -- Afghan asylum seeker
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/gang-rapist-laughs-sings-while-victim-relives-ordeal/story-e6frfku0-1225817536399

Against Totalitarianism News:

Communist China: Obama crosses fingers on China in new year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6950665/Obama-crosses-fingers-on-China-in-new-year.html

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