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Afghan teacher killed after speech condemning suicide bombings
2008-05-14 19:49:00 IHT - Abdul Hadi criticized such attacks as un-Islamic and un-Afghan during a speech Tuesday in the Archi district of Kunduz province, said Khair Mohammad Subat, the provincial education department director.Hadi spoke at a gathering of about 700 people, including the Kunduz governor, and was on his way home when he was killedIn January, Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks spiked in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia. According to UNICEF, there were 236 school-related attacks last year.In central Logar province, meanwhile, education department director Kamaluddin Zadran said three girls schools have been set ablaze in the past three weeks. More About: Suicide , Teacher , Bombings , Killed , Speech
Al-Qaeda is Dwindling in Afghanistan and Iraq
2008-05-14 17:20:00 The most interesting discovery during a visit to Jalalabad, where Osama bin Laden planted his flag in 1996, is that Al-Qaeda seems to have all but disappeared. The group is on the run, too, in Iraq , and that raises some interesting questions about how to pursue this terrorist enemy in the future."Al-Qaeda is not a topic of conversation here," says Colonel Mark Johnstone, the deputy commander of Task Force Bayonet, which oversees four provinces surrounding Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan . Lieutenant Colonel Pete Benchoff agrees: "We're not seeing a lot of Al-Qaeda fighters. They've shifted here to facilitation and support." More... More About: Al Qaeda
China eyes overseas land in food push
2008-05-14 17:14:00 Chinese companies will be encouraged to buy farmland abroad, particularly in Africa and South America, to help guarantee food security under a plan being considered by Beijing. More... More About: Food , China , Eyes , Land , Overseas
Taliban deliver silent death threats after midnight
2008-05-13 17:05:00 Afghans call them 'night letters' -- notes scattered or pushed under doorways by Taliban militants in the dead of night, threatening villagers' lives if they cooperate with foreign forces and the government.The notes are often poorly written but the message is clear -- have nothing to do with the foreign troops or serve in the government they back, otherwise, your business will be destroyed, your livestock snatched or your throat cut. More... More About: Death , Silent , Threats , Midnight
Algeria: The creation of new counterterrorism brigades to fight Al-Qaeda
2008-05-13 17:00:00 These brigades will rely on information collected by creating intelligence, and emergency intervention brigades. Their agents will wear civil suits, and will be extended through the entire province in which they will serve.El Khabar source has linked the decision of stretching these investigation and research brigades, with a new institution to be established in the near future. This institution will be created at the aim of countering Al-Qaeda branch in Algeria , especially after the terrorist attacks shaking Algiers, last December. More... More About: Fight , Al Qaeda , Creation
Hizballah received 35 new Iranian speedboats shortly before current crisis
2008-05-12 10:29:00 DEBKAfile’s military sources report that three weeks before Hizballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speedboats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod Mediterranean ports and raid its coastal oil installations.The speedboats were tailor-made for Hizballah by Iranian Revolutionary Guards shipyards at Bandar Abbas as the only marine terror fleet operating in Mediterranean waters. Our military sources report the boats are capable of carrying chemical, biological and radiological weapons systems.They were delivered in mid-April by an Iranian freighter at the Syrian port of Latakia and trucked to Naimah port south of Beirut. There they were hidden in the subterranean hangars belonging to Ahmed Jibril, head of the Palestinian Liberation Front-General Command. Today, the PLF-GC is financed and directed by the Revolutionary Guar... More About: Current , Crisis
Two for the price of one
2008-05-11 13:52:00 THE Borough of Poole has scrapped a policy which meant Muslims had to pay more for their graves than other locals. Muslims believe they should be buried south-east, facing Mecca, which means they may need to take up two plots.With the council running out of burial space, it was normal practice to charge for both plots.But Clive Smith, head of leisure services, who is responsible for cemeteries at the council, said the policy had been reviewed. "With immediate effect in all Poole cemeteries, if two plots are needed in order to meet the needs of personal belief or faith such as in the Muslim example, only one will be charged for," he said. More... More About: Price
Lebanese minister: Hizbullah believes way to Tel Aviv passes through Beirut
2008-05-10 13:38:00 "Iran is responsible for what is happening in Lebanon. The subject now is the Iranian attack on Lebanon. They want us to surrender totally without any compensation," Lebanese Sports Minister Ahmed Fatfat said Friday during an interview with the Al-Arabiya television network Friday amid reports that Hizbullah gunmen seized control of large parts of Beirut ."Hizbullah has turned from an opposition party into a militia attempting to impose its control. I think Hizbullah believes that the way to Tel Aviv passes through Beirut," he said. Fatfat said Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah had "taken advantage of the government's decision to outlaw the (Shiite) group's communications network in order to declare war." More...
Al-Qaeda 'declares war on Hezbollah'
2008-05-10 13:34:00 Press TV - Al-Qaeda has reportedly called on its operatives to go to Lebanon and defend what it called the Sunni community of the country. The report came while some Arab media outlets described the current clashes in Lebanon as a fight between Sunni and Shia communities.Sheikh Ali al-Jozo, Mufti of the Jebel region, who is well known for his harsh stance against Hezbollah told the TV network that the clashes are a battle between Lebanon's Shia and Sunni communities and called on Arab leaders to prevent "Iran's influence in the country." The TV network reported that al-Qaeda on all of its websites urged its operatives to defend the Sunni community of Lebanon. More About: Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda No. 2 says Iran propagated 9/11 theory
2008-04-25 11:55:00 Osama bin Laden's chief deputy on Tuesday denied a theory that Israel carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and blamed Iran and Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea to discredit the Sunni al-Qaeda 's strike against the U.S.The comments in a recording posted on an Islamic website reflected the increasing criticism by al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri against Iran. Al-Zawahri has accused Iran in recent messages of seeking to extend its power in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and through its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon. More... More About: Al Qaeda , Theory , Al-Qaeda
German Charity Helps Turkish Women Escape Forced Marriages
2008-04-25 11:48:00 The German charity Hatun and Can, set up in memory of "honor killing" victim Hatun Sürücü, helps Turkish women who are in danger of becoming victims of violence. Two women who fled forced marriages tell their stories.Aylin (not her real name) had just turned 15 when her parents decided she should get married. She had finished her secondary school education and was studying nursing at a vocational school. Of course, she was still living with her parents, in a small town in the German state of Hesse.A potential husband was soon found, M. from Frankfurt. He had studied business administration and was 13 years older than Aylin. “My parents met him at a relative’s wedding,” she recalls. More... More About: Women , Charity , Forced
Christian Assyrians Face Extinction in Northern Iraq
2008-04-25 11:36:00 Thousands of Christian s fleeing persecution in other parts of Iraq have returned since 2004 to ancestral lands in the Nineveh Plain, just north and east of Mosul.While they have escaped the Islamic militias who slaughtered family members and burned down their houses and churches in Baghdad and Mosul, now they face a new battle. Today's enemies are poverty, joblessness, and despair.Jamal Dinha, mayor of Bartella, a large Christian village east of Mosul, painted a dire picture of the life these persecuted Christians now face in this Kurdish-controlled safe haven."The situation in our region is critical. Our young people are unemployed. We have IDPs [internally-displaced people] from everywhere. Our infrastructure is bad. Our cultural and scientific institutions don't exist. We have no electricity, bad water, broken streets."The despair is driving many families to emigrate a second time to Syria and Jordan. More... More About: Face , Extinction , Northern
N. Koreans Taped At Syrian Reactor
2008-04-24 16:37:00 A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government and the Bush administration that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium for North Korea's nuclear arsenal, according to senior U.S. officials who said it would be shared with lawmakers today.The officials said the video of the remote site, code-named Al Kibar by the Syrians, shows North Koreans inside. It played a pivotal role in Israel's decision to bomb the facility late at night last Sept. 6, a move that was publicly denounced by Damascus but not by Washington.Sources familiar with the video say it also shows that the Syrian reactor core's design is the same as that of the North Korean reactor at Yongbyon, including a virtually identical configuration and number of holes for fuel rods. More... More About: Reactor
Pakistan: Peace Deal Between Islamabad, Pro-Taliban Militants Rankles U.S.
2008-04-24 16:33:00 Rferl - Pakistan 's new government is close to signing a peace accord with pro-Taliban militants as part of a softer counterterrorism policy from Islamabad that deemphasizes military strikes and calls for U.S. forces to show more restraint in the area.Britain has expressed reservations about the strategy, and Washington has said it wants Pakistani forces to continue fighting insurgents in the tribal regions near the border with Afghanistan.Under the proposed deal, pro-Taliban militants would order their fighters to stop using violence and stop sheltering or giving support to foreign Al-Qaeda fighters. In return, Pakistani government troops would be gradually withdrawn from the region.The orders to the militants were reportedly issued in pamphlets on April 23 by Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the country's umbrella militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The pamphlets say militants who violate Mehsud's directives "will be publicly punished." More About: Peace , Deal
The Democrats' Jimmy Carter Problem
2008-04-23 13:44:00 Michelle Malkin - So much for Jimmy Carter 's triumphal peace mission in the Middle East. Like everything else he has done on foreign policy, the world's biggest tool for jihad propaganda created yet another bloody mess. Quick review:After proclaiming that Hamas terrorists were willing to accept Israel as a "neighbor next door," Carter's Hamas hug buddies flipped him the bird. They gladly accepted the diplomatic legitimacy Carter's visit conferred upon them, while clinging bitterly to their insistence on the destruction of the Jewish state. More... More About: Democrats , Jimmy Carter , Problem
UN Forces Backed Down From Hizbullah Gun Bust
2008-04-23 13:04:00 Hizbullah terrorists scared off UNIFIL armed forces last month after the armed international soldiers found a truck carrying arms and ammunition for the group.According to Haaretz, which quotes an unnamed "source in Jerusalem," the UNIFIL troops were on patrol and pulled the truck over. When they approached the vehicle, armed Hizbullah terrorists exited and threatened them at gunpoint. The UNIFIL troops returned to their cars and went back to their base.The March 31 incident, which undercuts confidence in the ability of international troops to prevent the activities of the terrorist group in the region, was kept secret at the time. It was mentioned in a semi-yearly report submitted to the UN Security Council by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. More... More About: Hizbullah , Bust , Forces
Sunni Wahabi Insurgent Dressing like a woman
2008-04-22 21:05:00 Via The Jawa Report More About: Sunni , Woman , A Woman , Dressing
Seven Ancient Tehran Synagogues Razed; Neighbors Protest
2008-04-22 21:03:00 In the once-Jewish neighborhood of Oudlajan in Tehran , seven ancient synagogues have been razed to the ground in recent weeks to make way for residential skyscrapers and other urban renovation. The municipality denies it is behind the destruction of the synagogues, several of which had previously been declared national cultural Aside from the synagogues, developers also destroyed two historical mosques in the neighborhood.heritage sites by the Iranian government."These buildings, which were part of our cultural, artistic and architectural heritage were burnt to the ground," said Ahmad Mohit Tabatabaii, the director of the International Council of Museums' (ICOM) office in Tehran. More... More About: Protest , Neighbors , Ancient
Zawahiri criticises Hamas position
2008-04-22 21:01:00 In a new internet message urging support for Muslim fighters in Iraq and elsewhere, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, has criticised Hamas for reportedly being ready for peace with Israel subject to a Palestinian referendum."As for peace agreements with Israel, they [Hamas] spoke of putting it to a referendum despite considering it a breach of the Sharia [Islamic law]," he said in a message posted on Tuesday on the World Wide Web."How can they put a matter that violates Sharia to a referendum?" More... More About: Position
Muslims say Mecca not Greenwich should be the source of the world´s time
2008-04-21 17:45:00 Muslim "scholars" have decided there is yet another way to implement their Global Caliphate. Insisting that "Mecca is the center of the world's land" they want to change the reference point for world time from Greenwich, England to... where else but Mecca. They have even invented the Mecca watch. Muslims balk at what they feel is the Western world inflicting Greenwich upon them. In fact these inbred thinking "scholars" even want to discard Western maps. More here and here. More About: Time , Source , The Source
FBI organizes defense against cyber-attacks
2008-04-21 17:41:00 The FBI quietly established last summer a task force involving U.S. intelligence and other agencies to identify and respond to cyberthreats against the United States.Called the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, the group has "several dozen" personnel working together at an undisclosed location in the Washington area, said Shawn Henry, the FBI's deputy assistant director of its cyberdivision.The FBI's justification for next year's budget, in which it has requested an additional 70 agents and more than 100 support personnel for its cyberdivision, says the task force "seeks to address cyber-intrusions presenting a national security threat."The idea, Mr. Henry said, is for the partner agencies to "share information and make sure we're not overlapping in our response." More... More About: Defense , Attacks
Hamas explodes U.S. vehicles in massive attack
2008-04-21 17:36:00 Hamas used two seized U.S. military vehicles to carry out a large-scale attack this weekend against a major Israeli border crossing, Hamas leaders told WND.The vehicles were captured when Hamas last June took complete control of the Gaza Strip, overtaking all U.S.-backed security compounds in the territory associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. The U.S. provided Fatah with weapons, vehicles and large sums of financial and military aid.Yesterday's border attack, the largest terror op in 3 years, was to 'execute mass killings and abductions'. More... More About: Vehicles , Massive Attack , Hamas , Attack
Spanish fishing boat with 26 crew hijacked off Somalia
2008-04-21 17:34:00 Pirates armed with grenade launchers have hijacked a Spanish fishing trawler and its crew of 26 off the coast of Somalia .The Playa de Bakio was attacked 250 miles from the shoreline yesterday, and is headed back to Somalia. A Spanish navy frigate has been diverted to the scene of the hijacking.The attack comes just a week after a luxury French yacht with 30 crew on board was released by Somali pirates following payment of a £1m ransom. French special forces troops later chased the pirates as they fled inland, arresting six men and recovering £100,000 in cash. More... More About: Fishing , Boat , Crew
Democratic candidates gain support abroad: Obama in Afghanistan, Hillary in
2008-04-19 11:50:00 Kabul, 18 April (AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - US presidential candidate Barack Obama has generated broad support in Afghanistan , while Somalis would prefer to work with his Democratic rival Senator Hillary Clinton.These are the findings of a survey conducted by the international think-tank, The Senlis Council, in Afghanistan and Somalia in March and April. According to the think-tank, the results of this year's US presidential elections are "critical to both countries," as they are both "strongly affected by US policy". When asked which of the presidential candidates they would back, 69 percent of those questioned in Afghanistan favoured Obama, while 26 percent were in favour of Clinton. In Somalia, 47 percent of civilians surveyed supported Clinton, while 44 percent backed Obama. More About: Democratic Candidates , Support
Police Find IED and Iraqi Cash in Stolen Car in New Mexico
2008-04-19 11:29:00 Gateway Pundit - The FBI is now involved in the theft of a car after it was found in Los Lunas with an explosive device and Iraqi currency inside FBI agents say that they have ruled out terrorism The car was reported stolen last week. After the theft, the car’s owner was fueling his motorcycle when he spotted his stolen car. “While he was refueling his motorcycle, low and behold, the vehicle that he had reported stolen that belongs to him happened to pull into the gas station area also,” said Los Lunas Police Captain Charles Nuanes. The car’s owner pulled the keys out of the ignition of his stolen car and the people in the car fled. When police arrived, they found the explosive device and less than $1,000 worth of Iraqi cash. More About: Mexico , New Mexico , Stolen , Find
Iran should defend Islamic world: top cleric
2008-04-19 11:25:00 A high-ranking Iran ian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West."In a not so distant future, we should reach a point to have the most powerful military equipment in the world so that no one even think about invading our borders." Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in his Friday prayer sermon carried live on state radio."And not only that of the Islamic republic, but also the borders of Islam ... We must defend oppressed Muslims everywhere so that the enemies do not dare to attack Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq."On Thursday's annual Army Day celebration in Tehran, dozens of fighter jets and other aircraft flew over the parade ground in a bid to show the power of the air force. Also on display was Iran's Shahab-3 missile, whose range includes Israel and even the fringes of Europe. More... More About: World , Islamic World
Trashy WTC Security
2008-04-19 11:20:00 It's a good thing Osama wasn't walking through SoHo yesterday morning.Two sets of confidential blueprints for the planned Freedom Tower, which is set to rise at Ground Zero, were carelessly dumped in a city garbage can on the corner of West Houston and Sullivan streets, The Post has learned.Experts said the detailed, floor-by-floor schematics contain enough detail for terrorists to plot a devastating attack."Secure Document - Confidential," warns the title page on each of the two copies of the 150-page schematic that a homeless, recovering drug addict discovered in the public trash can. More... More About: Security
Iraq offers Europe increased gas and oil supplies this year
2008-04-17 12:02:00 The Jerusalem Post - EU officials say Iraq has offered to increase its supply of natural gas to the 27-nation bloc over the next three years.The Europe an Commission says the offer was made during talks Wednesday between Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani and EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. The EU head office said Iraq "made a political gesture of goodwill" promising to export at least 5 billion cubic meters of gas to the European market.The Commission says Iraq has also said it would increase its oil production to reach 3 million barrels per day by the end of this year. More About: Supplies , Offers , Year
Trailer for "Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden"
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