From AP via Fox News, . ISLAMABAD, Pakistan “” Thousands of Muslims marched Friday in Islamic countries from Asia to the Middle East, burning symbols of America to protest the alleged desecration of the Koran by military personnel at a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The rallies in Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia and […]
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Afghan Leader Killed; Hostage Tape Aired
From Fox News. KABUL, Afghanistan “” A video of an Italian aid worker who was kidnapped nearly two weeks ago in Kabul was broadcast Sunday on an Afghan television station. Meanwhile, Gunmen shot and killed the top Muslim leader in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Sunday, police said. Mullah Abdul Fayaz, a supporter of U.S.-backed […]
Chechen Rebel Claims Moscow Blackout
From Fox News, . MOSCOW “” A rebel-linked Web site said Friday that Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev had claimed responsibility for the power outage that plunged Moscow into chaos two days earlier. “Our sabotage units delivered a major blow to one of the most important life-support systems of the Russian empire,” the Kavkazcenter site quoted […]
Knockoff Dealers Could Have Designs on Terror
A Senate panel is told that some traffickers of high-end counterfeits have ties to Hezbollah. From the LA Times, with thanks to EPG. WASHINGTON “” When Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. John Stedman was booking a clothing store owner last year on charges of selling counterfeit high-fashion merchandise, his attention was drawn to the large […]
India: Mob Torches Mosques After Acid Attack
From Indian Express, “Mob sets fire to 2 mosques after acid attack,” with thanks to Two Stellas. MANDI – An angry crowd set two mosques in the town on fire this evening after a man threw a bottle of acid at passengers of a private bus, seriously injuring at least 11 people, including a five-year-old. […]
Muslim Protestors Burn Cross on Streets of London
From Barnabas Fund, with thanks to Nicolei. More than 300 Muslim protestors set fire to a wooden cross outside the American Embassy in London last Friday 20th May. The crowd, led by Omar Bakri Muhammad and Yassar al-Siri, were protesting against the alleged desecration of a Qur’an by American military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. This […]
Iraq: Violence Surges, 30 New Deaths
From the New Duranty Times, “Violence Surges Across Iraq With 30 New Deaths Reported” BAGHDAD, Iraq – The surge of violence that has swept Iraq since its first elected government took office nearly a month ago continued Saturday, with at least 30 new deaths reported across the country, some of them in what appeared to […]
Report: Injured Zarqawi has fled Iraq
Top insurgent may have been moved to Iran, source says. From Reuters: LONDON – Al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled the country after being seriously injured in a U.S. missile attack, a British newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting a senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency. Al-Zarqawi has shrapnel lodged in his chest […]
Arabs to EU: play the dhimmi
“Arab world urges EU to impose commercial embargo on Israel,” from the Israel Insider, with thanks to JDSP: The Arab Central Boycott Office for the Boycott of Israel has called on the European Union to ban products made in Israeli settlements, arguing the dwellings were “illegal and a violation of international law and the Geneva […]
Novak: Yemen: al-Qaeda in Broad Daylight
Speaking of reform, here’s a Yemen update from the estimable Jane Novak in Religion Journal: So did you hear the one about Yemen? They are “reforming” the press law. The proposed law now includes the death penalty for journalists. How about this one? To unify the country, the government is confiscating Shia religious material. How […]