From NewIndPress: LONDON: A large amount of cash intended for ‘hawala’ transactions in the Indian subcontinent was the main target of a burglary at a British travel agency in which one woman police officer was shot dead. The killing of the officer, Sharon Beshenivsky, 38, last Friday has dominated media coverage here, including the coverage […]

And a suicide car bomb attack kills 18. From Pakistan’s Daily Times: TIKRIT: A mortar round landed on Tuesday during a ceremony attended by American ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and other top officials in the north of the country. Bodyguards formed a wall around the US envoy before rushing him away after the mortar […]

From MEMRI: On October 20, 2005, the Lebanese press reported that a delegation from the Presbyterian Church USA, headed by Father Nihad Tu’meh and with Robert Worley as its spokesman, visited southern Lebanon at the invitation of Hizbullah, and met there with the terrorist organization’s commander in southern Lebanon Nabil Qawuq… A year previously, on […]

Sharon has quit Likud to form a new centrist party ahead of elections in early spring. From the Christian Science Monitor: JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, rarely one to wait for others to act first, made a series of preemptive political strikes Monday that laid the groundwork for a new centrist party and […]

Jihad Watch News Editor, Eric Schwappach, examines a case of conspiracy theory vs. justice in Libya. Benghazi is an old city lying on the Mediterranean in northeast Libya. It has seen its share of conquest, mainly by the Greek, Roman and Byzantium empires, but it was the conquest of 7th century Muslim Arabs that holds […]

From Reuters: BAGHDAD – Once a bitter enemy, Iran is emerging as a trade lifeline for Iraq as Baghdad seeks to rebuild an economy shattered by years of sanctions, neglect and corruption under Saddam Hussein and since his overthrow. As Iraq picks up the pieces, it is becoming a key market for its neighbours, especially […]

From Reuters: CAIRO – The Egyptian authorities have released more than half of some 460 Muslim Brotherhood activists arrested in legislative elections this week, a leading member of the Islamist group said on Tuesday. The activists were rounded up before and during the elections in which the Muslim Brotherhood poses the strongest challenge to the […]

100 Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish leaders reach agreement at end of Arab League meeting. From the New Duranty Times: CAIRO – For the first time, Iraq’s political factions on Monday collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces, in a moment of consensus that comes as the Bush administration battles pressure at home to […]

But offer no real Islamic alternative. From the Washington Times: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Exploding buildings, booby-trapped cars and bloodied victims began appearing on Arab satellite television recently in daring dramas that deal with Islamic militancy in al Qaeda’s main breeding ground. The producers of the shows say they are another battleground in the […]

Madeleine Bunting believes that if British Muslims would just listen to Tariq Ramadan all their problems could be solved. (Oh, and there’s that little matter about infidel attachment to alcohol. It should be given up for the good of the community. It’s so “exclusionary.”) From the Guardian, with thanks to Interested. A year on from […]