July 5, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

July 5, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks


Newslinks:

Pakistan: Govt makes conditional talks offer to Taliban
-- Pakistan Daily Times: "Information minister says militants would have to lay down arms, accept writ of state"

-- "Rehman Malik rules out military operation in Punjab"
-- "Says Punjab govt will take required action, federal govt will provide assistance"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\06\story_6-7-2010_pg1_1


Pakistan to launch peace conference as Taliban insurgency revives
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/World+Today+July+Pakistan+launch+peace+conference+Taliban+insurgency+revives/3237504/story.html

-- After Lahore, Gilani calls all-party meet on terror
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/After-Lahore-Gilani-calls-all-party-meet-on-terror-/articleshow/6132615.cms


Pakistan renews call for dialogue with some Taliban
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100705/ts_nm/us_pakistan_violence

Pakistan clerics accuse Punjab leaders of Taliban link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/10511046.stm

Pakistan army finds Taliban difficult to root out
Pak army finds Taliban difficult to root out


Pakistan: Top Taliban commander 'killed'
-- Ameerullah Mehsud
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.642225180

-- Comment: notably no matter how many "top Taliban commanders" are "killed," another takes his place

Pakistan: Suicide quartet hit Pakistan troops: officials - Lower Dir
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gxE0k0ECxyfF6Jgh-jeeuVJhugIg


Pakistan: Suicide attack foiled at Timar Garah, four militants killed
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/06-twelve-injured-in-lower-dir-suicide-attack-rs-09


Pakistan: Suspects arrested over Lahore shrine attack last week
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.640022796

Pakistan: Police arrest 12 for May Lahore attacks

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.639825105

Pakistan: Karachi - Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrests Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Zahid Khan alias Shakeel

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\06\story_6-7-2010_pg12_3

Pakistan bans 23 militant organizations after bloody shrine suicide blasts

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2098925&Language=en

Afghanistan: Canadian ambassador worries Taliban talks 'going too far, going too fast'

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/canadian-ambassador-worries-taliban-talks-going-too-far-going-too-fast/article1628408/


Afghanistan: Taliban beheads headmaster in Afghanistan
-- Sify News: "Suspected Taliban militants beheaded a headmaster and torched two schools in southern Afghanistan"
http://sify.com/news/headmaster-beheaded-schools-torched-in-afghanistan-news-crime-kg1rEDhabjd.html


Afghanistan: Haqqani militants present new threat in border region
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.640023517


Afghanistan: Karzai appoints new intelligence chief
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.640237538

Afghanistan: British soldier killed in an explosion Afghanistan -- ministry

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2099031&Language=en

Afghanistan power station on hold because of security fears

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7872705/Afghanistan-power-station-on-hold-because-of-security-fears.html


India: Taliban justice in Kerala: Lecturer's hand cut off
--- T.J. Joseph
--- Asian Tribune: "In a sign of growing Islamic fundamentalism in Kerala, Muslim fanatics in Kerala on Sunday chopped off the right hand of a college lecturer, accusing him of setting a question paper with a derogatory reference to the Prophet."

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/07/06/taliban-justice-kerala-lecturer%E2%80%99s-hand-cut

(UK) The Guardian' Mark Curtis: "Bin Laden, the Taliban, Zawahiri: Britain's done business with them all"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/bin-laden-radical-islam-collusion

(UK) Mehdi Hasan: "Why Muslims must speak out against terrorism"

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/07/muslims-terrorism-condemn

(UK) Terrorism in Britain 'mostly home grown', report says

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7871139/Terrorism-in-Britain-mostly-home-grown-report-says.html

-- Majority think Islam related terror offences carried out by Brits
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/8254403.Majority_think_Islam_related_terror_offences_carried_out_by_Brits/

-- Centre for Social Cohesion study: "Islamist Terrorism: the British Connections" by Robin Simcox
-- Adobe Acrobat Preview of Report
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/uploads/1278089320islamist_terrorism_preview.pdf


(UK) Al-Qaeda biggest threat to UK: report
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/europe/Al-Qaeda-biggest-threat-to-UK-report/Article1-567876.aspx


(UK/Libya) Dying Lockerbie bomber 'could survive for 10 years or more'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/7871234/Dying-Lockerbie-bomber-could-survive-for-10-years-or-more.html


(UK) Guardian on 7/7 Bombing Anniversary: "Muslim and British: how 7/7 changed my world"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/05/british-muslims-after-july7-attacks


(U.S.) President Obama's nighthawks: Top officials charged with guarding the nation's safety
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070202983.html


(Iran) UK, Germany, and UAE Airports refuse to refuel Iranian passenger planes after sanctions
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Middle-East/Post-curbs-Iran-jets-in-refuelling-row/articleshow/6132631.cms

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Official-Iranian-Planes-Refused-Fuel-in-UK-Germany-UAE-97800669.html


Syria: The prospect of war grows
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180514

Israel: Mastermind of Park Hotel terror attack: No regrets

-- Ynet: "Abbas al-Sayad, who was sentenced to 35 consecutive life sentences for planning two terror attacks that killed 35 Israelis, arrives in court for hearing on his appeal'"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3915448,00.html


Israel to allow most goods into Gaza
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38097614/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
-- Israel unveils new blockade rules for Gaza

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/israel.gaza/?fbid=AY1wgJx0efT

Hamas, Jihad say Barak meeting a mistake
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=297001


Nigeria: Farmer killed in fresh attack on Nigerian Christian village
-- Jos: "A farmer was killed and two others are unaccounted for after around 200 people raided a Christian village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, burning and looting, the military said Monday."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-tY8DSP1ecvCbyHrCadkMNaS4rA

'Somalia is in the hands of al-Qaeda'

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-07-05-somalia-is-in-the-hands-of-alqaeda

(Yemen) Two Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes with Qaeda

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/07/06/113116.html

(Yemen) Verdict date set in Yemen trial of Qaeda suspects
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hbS8d_VLXf7-l4uihHNYyC4vaSOQ


(Canada) Court ruling may force feds to bring Omar Khadr back from Guantanamo
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Feds+face+Khadr+deadline/3238341/story.html


(Canada) Bomb threat empties Montreal's HEC school
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Bomb+scare+empties+Montreal+school/3234872/story.html


Russia: Two Russian soldiers killed in Ingushetia
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2098932&Language=en


Turkey to cut ties unless Israel apologizes over Gaza flotilla raid
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Middle-East/Turkey-to-cut-ties-unless-Israel-apologises-over-Gaza-flotilla-raid/articleshow/6131015.cms

-- Lieberman: No apology to Turkey
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180491


Women's News:

Iran: Human rights activist tries to stop death by stoning for Iranian woman

-- Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/index.html?hpt=T1&fbid=AY1wgJx0efT

-- DC: Protests Outside Iranian Interests Building: Stop the Stoning of Sakineh Ashtiani
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/07/dc-protests-sakineh-ashtiani/

http://beforeitsnews.com/news/92/492/DC:_Protests_Stop_the_Stoning_of_Sakineh_Ashtiani.html

Pakistan: Woman and daughter stripped, thrashed

-- 50-year-old Allah Wasai and her 14-year-old daughter Ashraf Mai
-- Dawn: "Fourteen people are reported to have stripped naked a woman and her daughter on Saturday and thrashed them in the presence of a large number of people in Shehr Sultan, a town near Mirwala. "

-- "Sources said the suspects got hold of 50-year-old Allah Wasai and her 14-year-old daughter Ashraf Mai when they came out of their home in Berwali to go to their fields."
-- "They then proceeded to teach the women 'a lesson for the wrongdoing of Allah Wasai's son'"

-- "SHO Mahboob Tangwani said the main accused, Safdar, alleged that Allah Wasai’s son Saddam Husain had an affair with his daughter. He and his 13 accomplices held the woman and her daughter at gunpoint, stripped them naked and thrashed them."

-- "A large number of people were there but none of them came forward to rescue the women from the assailants."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/06-woman-and-daughter-stripped,-thrashed-570-rs-07

-- Woman and daughter stripped, thrashed in Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Woman-and-daughter-stripped-thrashed-in-Pakistan/articleshow/6130976.cms


Nigeria: No case against senator with child bride
-- AP: "Nigeria's anti-human trafficking agency says it lacks enough evidence to criminally charge a senator who allegedly took a child bride."
-- AP: "the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters said it had concluded its investigation against Sen. Ahmad Sani Yerima"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLblNs3s4jk_xGFP5ut23lEMLphQD9GP0U0G5
--- May 1, 2010: Nigeria: Senate may 'bury' Ahmed Sani Yerima, matter -- marrying 13 year old Egyptian girl

http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/nigeria-senate-may-bury-ahmed-sani-yerima-matter-marrying-13-year-old-egyptian-girl/


India: 2 teenagers tortured to death in 'honour killing'
-- another report on Hindu girl and Muslim boy killed - allegedly by Hindu girl's uncle
-- "17-year-old Shah Mohammad and 15-year-old Reena"

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/2-teenagers-tortured-to-death-in-honour-killing/articleshow/6129210.cms


India: Another 'honour killing' in Delhi; woman, lover murdered
-- PTI: "the victims have been identified as Uttam Kumar and Anju"
http://www.ptinews.com/news/765694_Another--honour-killing--in-Delhi--woman--lover-murdered


EU: Somali girls lured into sex-slave rings
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/07/eu-somali-girls-lured-into-sex-slave.html



Other News:

Indonesian Islamists open front against Christians
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h4oRG_Htk45NcsMaBQOM8KDZISqwD9GOAM982


Indonesia: "When Hard-Liners Get a Free Pass, Moderates Are Part of the Problem"
-- Jakarta Globe's James Van Zorge asks "Is Indonesia's democracy and long tradition of secularism under threat from an onslaught of Islamic fundamentalism?"

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/when-hard-liners-get-a-free-pass-moderates-are-part-of-the-problem/384346


Pakistan: Sectarianism has poisoned Pakistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/pakistan-terrorism

Iran presents 'Islamic haircut catalogue'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3915447,00.html

Australia: "Police on guard as anti-Islamists stage protest"
-- in Australia Hizb ut-Tahrir is protested by a group called "Australian Protectionist Party" (APP)

-- The Australian reported that APP group chanted "Islam must go"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/police-on-guard-as-anti-islamists-stage-protest/story-e6frg6nf-1225887774328

-- Inner West Courier reports that APP, led by Nick Folkes, has been distributing leaflets calling for end to "African crime" and members are concerned about homosexuals
http://inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/protecting-australia/

-- Google search on "Australian Protectionist Party" "African crime"
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22Australian+Protectionist+Party%22+%22African+crime%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=c401d881a5ff002f


Tennessee: "1 for All helping freedom resonate"
http://www.dnj.com/article/20100705/OPINION01/7050314/EDITORIAL++1+for+All+helping+freedom+resonate


(U.S.) "NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/


(U.S.) Chicago: Female leaders speak at largest Muslim convention in U.S.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/04/female-leaders-speak-at-largest-muslim-convention-in-u-s/

-- no context on ISNA provided on role in HLF trial
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/Attachment+A+(List+of+Unindicted+Co-conspirators).pdf


(U.S.) Florida: Gainesville Church Protests Islamic Center
http://www.news4jax.com/news/24148793/detail.html
-- Florida: Dove World Outreach Center Touts Shirts, Banners Claiming "Islam is of the devil"

http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/dove-world-outreach-center/
-- Florida: Dove World Outreach Center Views Westboro Baptist Church as Ally

http://www.realcourage.org/2010/04/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-finds-ally-in-dove-world-outreach/

---- WBC also protests Jewish synagogues, praises terrorism against Christians, attacks on police officers
http://www.realcourage.org/category/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group/