Considering what Pakistan does , "Nothing" , I completely Agree ! Pakistan is a terrorist State !
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Congress Party on Saturday said the international community should consider declaring Pakistan a terrorist state in light of the latter's release of a scientist who sold nuclear secrets around the globe.
"It is time for the international community to think whether to declare Pakistan a terrorist country," Manish Tewari, the Congress party spokesman said in New Delhi, in reference to the end from house arrest of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
India's Congress Party rules in a coalition, and the call to the world community was from the party, not from the Indian government.
Khan, the man at the center of the world' most serious nuclear proliferation scandal, was released Friday after five years of house arrest.
Revered by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, he confessed to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya in 2004. He was immediately pardoned by the government, although his movements were restricted.
India's Congress party, which faces election in April, where security is likely to be a major voting issue, said Khan's release was a serious security concern.
"Defending him proves Pakistan as not only an exporter of terrorism, but has also given rise to doubts of certain countries, including (United States) America, that nuclear weapons could go into the hands of terrorists," Tiwari told reporters.
Earlier, the Indian army chief said militant camps in Pakistan were thriving and had increased in the past year, as India put pressure on Islamabad to bring militants behind last November's attacks in Mumbai to justice.
"I would not talk about the numbers specifically right now...but infrastructure is existing and active," General Deepak Kapoor told the Press Trust of India (PTI).
India has said the militant attack on its financial capital Mumbai last November, in which 179 people were killed, was planned from a camp in Pakistan.
Relations between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have been strained since then, with India saying Pakistan was not doing enough to rein in militants.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said this week Pakistan's main spy agency was linked to planners of the Mumbai attacks.
Pakistan has denied any involvement by state agencies and has said it was investigating a dossier of information from India, to which it will reply next week.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
India's Congress wants Pakistan declared terror state
Baluch group says holds American hostage in Pakistan
It just never ends ! In this part of the world the B.S. just never stops !
Kidnapping's , Beheading's ! just casual dealings in the life of a Muslim militant Islamic Whacko ! One can only hope that asswipe's like these get a J-dam or a nice American made Hellfire missile aimed down their throat's !
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - An unknown separatist group claimed responsibility Saturday for abducting an American working for the U.N. refugee agency in southwest Pakistan, a local news agency reported.
John Solecki, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the southwestern city of Quetta was snatched on February 2, after gunmen ambushed his car and shot dead his driver.
A spokesman for a group called Baluchistan Liberation United Front told the Online news agency they had kidnapped the man to make the United Nations pay attention to the "plight" of the Baluchi people.
"We have three demands, and if our demands are not met, then John Solecki will lose his life," a spokesman, identifying himself as Shahak Baluch, told the agency.
"We want the United Nations to secure the release of 141 women in Pakistani torture cells, provide information about more than 6,000 missing persons, and resolve the issue of Baluch independence under the Geneva Convention."
The group has not been heard of before, and the name is confusingly similar to the well known Baluchistan Liberation Front.
Separatist militants have fought a low-scale insurgency for decades in Baluchistan, the largest but most thinly populated of Pakistan's four provinces.
The separatists want greater political and economic rights for ethnic Baluch, who believe the rest of Pakistan is exploiting their mineral and oil and gas resources.
Saudi Arabia defends shariah law as complement to human rights
As Saudi Arabia is telling the UN Human Rights Council that shariah law complements human rights, it only allows the construction of mosques inside Saudi Arabia.
A Saudi blogger who converted to Christianity and who criticized shariah law is under arrest might face the death sentence.
Non-muslims are not allowed to go near Mecca, women are not allowed to drive, bringing in a bible into Saudi Arabia is a crime and the list goes on. AFPGENEVA (AFP) — Saudi Arabia told the UN Human Rights Council on Friday that its status as an Islamic state should safeguard fundamental rights rather than fuel abuse, as it faced western calls for action to stop violations.
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Zeid Al-Hussein, vice president of the country's three-year-old human rights commission, acknowledged there were violations in the country, often as a result of "individual practices" rooted in its tribal history.
But he insisted that Islamic law and practices should complement the legal standards the United Nations upholds.
"I wish to emphasize that -- and I weigh my words very carefully -- religious particularities, as correctly viewed in Islam, supplement rather than detract from international human rights standards," he told the Council.
Taliban says Polish hostage beheaded in Pakistan
F#*%ing savages. Where are all the rights groups protesting the taliban's blatant disregard for international human rights?
Even though the taliban ended up killing Piotr Stanczak, the Polish government did the right thing and refused to give in to the taliban's demands for ransom. NExt time the taliban will think twice about kidnapping Polish nationals. AFPISLAMABAD (AFP) — The Taliban said Saturday it had killed a Polish engineer kidnapped last year in Pakistan, but the Polish embassy in Islamabad was not able to confirm the claim.
Piotr Stanczak was seized on September 28 by armed men who killed his two drivers and bodyguard in restive northwest Pakistan, where he was working for a Polish energy company.
"We have beheaded the Polish engineer after the government failed to meet our demands and we will not hand over his body," a Taliban spokesman said by telephone.
The claim to have murdered Stanczak came just hours after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters that no ransom would be paid.
Ottawa radio station chastised for comments on Muslims
A Canadian radio host has run afoul of the shariah law, he questioned whether violence is symptomatic of islam. You can no longer speak the truth in Canada. Canada slipping further into dhimmitude. Canada.comOTTAWA — A veteran open-line radio host in Ottawa contravened Canadian broadcasting standards when he made “abusive and discriminatory” remarks against Muslims, the national broadcast watchdog ruled Friday.
According to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, Lowell Green launched an “uninformed and unfair” attack when he told his CFRA audience in early December that the majority of Muslims are fanatics, and extremist behaviour is symptomatic of the religion, not just a radical minority.
Green had been inspired by the story of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons, whose elementary class in the Sudanese capital Khartoum named a teddy bear “Muhammad,” causing a storm of outrage across the Muslim world.[...]
Green posed the question to listeners: “Is there something inherent in the Muslim faith that promotes violence and oppression of women?”
In response to one Muslim caller who tried to defend Islam, Green responded: “Baloney,” and during another call, told a sympathetic, but apparently non-Muslim, caller that she had “abandoned common sense” and was being “silly.”
“Almost every act of terrorism around the world today is carried out in the name of Islam,” responded Green. “Don’t tell me this is the work of a few fanatics.”
The broadcast watchdog, an arm’s-length organization created and funded by private broadcasters to rule on listener and viewer complaints, was especially critical of Green for refusing to listen to pro-Islam callers, especially those who were clearly informed about the religion.
Royal Marines destroy taliban base. Taliban commander killed.
These are my favorite type of stories. (Thanks to GM). LiveLeakThe death of a Taliban commander has been reported after a raid by Royal Marines saw the successful destruction of his command and communications base north of the Kajaki Dam.
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45 Commando Royal Marines' Victor Company conducted the operation in the early hours of the morning, creeping out of their remote Forward Operating Base, Zeebruge, in the mountainous region of Kajaki, under the cover of More.. darkness.
One marine from the Reconnaissance Patrol Troop said:
"We left very early in the morning, with a bitter winter wind in our faces. We moved carefully and stealthily into our positions with the aim of catching the enemy napping. We knew we'd done it when we reached our final RV [rendezvous], in his backyard, without detection."
With the assaulting troops now in place, the fire support group moved into an over-watch position on the flank, ready to support with their machine guns and grenade launchers.
The Company Headquarters, hidden on a sand dune overlooking the objective, could see the Taliban sentries change over and, as the sun rose above the mountains, the Company Commander gave the order to engage.This triggered a deliberate and punishing assault on the Taliban's defensive network, with the co-ordination of ground, mortar, artillery and air weapons, orchestrated to cause maximum disruption with the minimum collateral damage to the wider area.
The ferocity of the Commandos' attack had fixed the enemy in their trenches and pinned them down. An aircraft was then called in and dropped two precision bombs which destroyed the enemy bunkers and dug in defensive positions.
Almost immediately intelligence reports came in to indicate that the local Taliban commander had been killed during the raid. Victor Company's operations officer, Captain Paul Forrest, said:
"This is a significant blow to the Taliban, which will disrupt their ability to co-ordinate future attacks in Kajaki. It should also send a powerful message to them that their roadside bombs and threats against the local community will not be tolerated."
Friday, February 6, 2009
Mexico drug gangs threaten cops on radio, kill them
What a nice new tactic ! Last year they used to put the pictures of their future victims On Giant Billboards , Kindly notifying them , they are next !
Now they just tell them over the Police radio !
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border are breaking into police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war.
"You're next, bastard ... We're going to get you," an unidentified drug gang member said over the police radio in the city of Tijuana after naming a policeman.
The man also threatened a second cop by name and played foot-stomping "narcocorrido" music, popular with drug cartels, over the airwaves.
"No one can help them," an officer named Jorge said of his threatened colleagues as he heard the threats in his patrol car.
Sure enough, two hours later the dead bodies of the two named policemen were found dumped on the edge of the city, their hands tied and bullet wounds in their heads.
Cartels killed some 530 police in Mexico last year, some of them corrupt officers who were working for rival gangs. Others were killed in shoot-outs or murdered for working against the gangs or refusing to turn a blind eye to drug shipments.
Gaddafi defends Somali piracy
Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya and the new African Union President, has defended islamic piracy off the coast of Somalia as self-defense against Western nations. Does this mean that Gaddafi might want to resurrect the Berber pirates? Daily Nation AU chairman Muammar Gaddafi has said that his priority will be to claim colonial compensation and to limit the power of Western nations
The Libyan leader further said he believed that piracy was a way of counter defence against the greedy Western nations.
Col Gaddafi expressed the sentiments Thursday morning when he paid his first day official visit to African Union head quarter in Addis Ababa. He addressed AU officials and staff.[...]
“It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children’s food,” Col Gaddafi argued.
One step closer to real life Terminators
A machine that is able to copy itself. Hook this thing up to the internet and it won't be long before Skynet gains consciousness and attacks us with our own nukes. Science DailyScienceDaily (June 6, 2008) — A University of Bath academic, who oversees a global effort to develop an open-source machine that ‘prints’ three-dimensional objects, is celebrating after the prototype machine succeeded in making a set of its own printed parts. The machine, named RepRap, will be exhibited publicly at the Cheltenham Science Festival (4-8 June 2008).[...]
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RepRap is short for replicating rapid-prototyper; it employs a technique called ‘additive fabrication’. The machine works a bit like a printer, but, rather than squirting ink onto paper, it puts down thin layers of molten plastic which solidify. These layers are built up to make useful 3D objects.
RepRap has, so far, been capable of making everyday plastic goods such as door handles, sandals and coat hooks. Now, the machine has also succeeded in copying all its own 3D-printed parts.
Canadian troops could target taliban's opium trade
It's about time, it's an open secret that the taliban sell opium to raise money for their jihad. In the taliban's eyes thepractice is a win-win situation for them because they make money off poisoning the populations of non-muslim countries.
But the taliban break the very first rule of any self-respecting drug dealer....don't get high off your own supply. I've heard and read that many taliban fighters are high as kites when they fight NATO soldiers. CBCCanadian soldiers participating in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan could soon be ordered to hunt down drug lords and attack the country's poppy trade, which is inextricably linked to the Taliban insurgency, Canada's top general says.
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So far, Canadian soldiers have not been involved in anti-drug operations in Afghanistan, but that could change, said Walter Natynczyk, Canada's chief of defence staff.[...]
But Natynczyk said the ties between the drug trade and the insurgency are too strong to dismiss any longer, as profits or product often end up directly in the hands of fighters.
"Most times that we have operations, our soldiers, sailors and airmen have found drugs right there with Taliban," he said. "So the nexus between drugs and terror is very, very strong."
"Standoff" between Indian and Chinese ships off the coast of Somalia
Considering that just about every country in the world with a navy is sending ships to Somalia to battle islamic pirates, something like this was bound to happen. The incident doesn't seem to be so serious anyways. It appears the Indian submarine was just testing the defenses of the Chinese warships. Hindustan TimesAn Indian submarine and two Chinese warships on an anti-piracy mission were recently locked in a tense standoff in the waters off Somalia, Chinese media reports said on Wednesday. The Indian Navy said none of its submarines were in the area.
In a rare reporting of the incident, Qingdao Chenbao, a Chinese daily, said the Indian submarine "stalked" the Chinese warships and they were "locked in a tense standoff for at least half an hour" after which the Indian submarine was forced to surface.
The submarine and the two warships were involved in several rounds of manoeuvring during which both sides evidently tried to test each other's sonar systems for weaknesses. The incident occurred Jan 15 in the waters near the Bab Al-Mandab Strait.
An Indian Navy spokesperson told IANS in New Delhi that "no Indian submarine surfaced in the area".
Most wanted Nazi converted to Islam, died in Egpyt
It seems that Hitler wasn't the only national socialist who admired islam. 3 NewsFor decades Nazi hunters have been trying to trace the most wanted war criminal still alive from World War II.
Aribert Heim has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of Jews in concentration camps, and while he had been traced to Israel, investigators now believe he died in 1992 – in Egypt.
The reports said Heim was living under a pseudonym and had converted to Islam by the time of his death from intestinal cancer.[...]
The Baden-Wuerttemberg state police unit that investigates Nazi-era crimes is preparing a request asking Egyptian authorities to allow them to pursue the case in Cairo, a unit spokesman said.
2 Afghans face death penalty for translating the quran
The trial illustrates what critics call the undue influence of hardline clerics in Afghanistan
I would say the trial illustrates the undue influence of shariah law in Afghanistan. APThe pocket-size translation of the Quran has already landed six men in prison in Afghanistan and left two of them begging judges to spare their lives. They're accused of modifying the Quran and their fate could be decided Sunday in court.
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The trial illustrates what critics call the undue influence of hardline clerics in Afghanistan, a major hurdle as the country tries to establish a lawful society amid war and militant violence.
The book appeared among gifts left for the cleric at a major Kabul mosque after Friday prayers in September 2007. It was a translation of the Quran into one of Afghanistan's languages, with a note giving permission to reprint the text as long as it was distributed for free.
Some of the men of the mosque said the book would be useful to Afghans who didn't know Arabic, so they took up a collection for printing. The mosque's cleric asked Ahmad Ghaws Zalmai, a longtime friend, to get the books printed.
But as some of the 1,000 copies made their way to conservative Muslim clerics in Kabul, whispers began, then an outcry.
Many clerics rejected the book because it did not include the original Arabic verses alongside the translation. It's a particularly sensitive detail for Muslims, who regard the Arabic Quran as words given directly by God. A translation is not considered a Quran itself, and a mistranslation could warp God's word.
207 dead; army storms warehouse in Juárez
War zone ! That is exactly what it is ! The Cartels have seriously picked up the pace of killing whoever stands in their way ! A little over One month into 2009 and there is already 207 Reported murders ! I'm sure that as I write this that number is going up !
It's Friday and that is a big party day around Jaurez ! Party = cartel movement !!! Cartel movement = more deaths !!!
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More on the violence in Juárez , The El Paso Times
The Mexican army and heavily armed federal police with a helicopter flying overhead raided a drug warehouse Thursday morning in Juárez even as killings are surging beyond the extraordinary levels of last year.
If it isn't a war zone, it would be hard to tell by the body count, which has reached 207 in the Juárez area this year.
In the first five days of February, 54 people were slain, surpassing the 37 homicides in all of February last year.
The raid by forces with Joint Operation Chihuahua led to the seizure of nearly 2 tons of marijuana hidden in plastic containers apparently ready to be transported to the United States, said Enrique Torres, spokesman for the federal anti-crime operation.
The raid came as the Juárez region continues to boil with drug-related violence.
Before dawn Thursday, five men were shot execution-style in the community of El Millón, east of Juárez across the Rio Grande from Fabens, Chihuahua state police said.
The men were lined up, their heads covered and their hands and feet bound with tape when they were shot in the backyard
of a home, police said. The men, who had not been identified, were wearing pajama pants and underwear.
Some Juárez news outlets reported that the men belonged to the same family and were pulled out of a home while they slept.
Investigators said the men were killed by 11 rounds fired by a "military-style" small firearm.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Somali pirates leave Ukrainian ship-maritime group
Paying terrorists their ransom is never a good Idea ! It just encourages them !!!
But we can only hope that some of these Jackass's suffer the same as the last ones ! The sinking of their dingy , resulting in drowning !
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks seized by Somali pirates in September will be freed shortly following a ransom payment, a Kenyan-based piracy monitoring group said on Thursday.
"We hear the pirates are leaving the Faina now in small groups and it will be underway shortly," said Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program.
The MV Faina was captured in September with its 20-man crew and a cargo of Soviet-era T-72 tanks plus other weapons. Its seizure drew international attention, not only for its military cargo, but for a regional row over the destination of the tanks.
A local man helping negotiate the release of the ship told Reuters on Wednesday the pirates had been paid a ransom of $3.2 million. Mwangura said earlier on Thursday that about 100 gunmen were aboard the vessel counting the cash.
"Osama Bin Laden" rejected for dream island job
Always a joker in the bunch ! Could you see OBL Scrapbooking , or maybe doing needlepoint ?
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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - A dream job looking after a tropical island in Australia has attracted over 11,000 applicants -- including Osama bin Laden who failed to make the shortlist.
A spokeswoman for Tourism Queensland said the group had received over 11,000 video applications since advertising the A$150,000 ($96,000) "best job in the world" as caretaker of Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
One of the applications was a 30-second prank video showing the world's most wanted man, with nonsensical sounds dubbed over his real voice.
Using subtitles, bin Laden argues his case for the six-month contract, describing himself as "outgoing," "familiar with sandy areas" and experienced with "large scale event coordination."
He lists his interests as arts, crafts and renovating. Videos showing bin Laden speaking are widely available on the Internet.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Fresh attack on Pakistan lorries
I'm with Kyros in saying that I am running out of things to say about the Taliban And Pakistan ! It is just disgusting what is going on in the nether regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan ! At times it seems like that is what everybody wants Total domination by retards !
I propose surrounding the entire region and isolating them and leave them to their own Devices ! no one in or out ! BBC
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Suspected Taleban militants in Pakistan have destroyed a number of lorries in the latest attack on the supply route to Afghanistan.
Eight container lorries and a number of other vehicles were gutted near Landikotal, the main town in the Khyber tribal region, officials said.
The empty lorries had returned after delivering supplies.
Most supplies for the international forces in Afghanistan come through the Khyber Pass in Pakistan.
The US army has been setting up other supply routes to counter the increasing attacks on the road between Peshawar in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, militants blew up a bridge in the Khyber district, cutting the link to Nato forces and halting all the traffic on the road.
Tribesmen
In the latest attack, the suspected militants raided the lorry park during the night, tied down the guards and set the vehicles on fire after sprinkling petrol on them, witnesses said. No casualties were reported.
The truck drivers are local Afridi and Shinwari tribesmen who usually park their vehicles at Landikotal on their return journey before going home.
The arson attack followed Tuesday's explosion at the key 30m (100 ft) iron bridge 23km (15 miles) west of Peshawar.
Authorities say Nato supplies and other trade goods to Afghanistan have since resumed via an alternate route.
Meanwhile, militants fired at least five rockets at a paramilitary fort in the same region on Tuesday night but no casualties were reported.
Security forces launched an operation in the area last month after which the authorities said the area had been cleared of "criminal elements".
Pentagon concerned about Iran's satellite launch
Well it looks like Iran actually has launched a satellite into space. This is a big concern for the Pentagon and others because this signals Iran's ability to launch missile to the other side of the world.
But Iran insists the space program is for peaceful purposes, just like it's nuke program. See thats why they kept their nuke program secret, dug all their nuke installations deep underground to avoid detection/air-strikes. Those blueprints to build a nuke that the UN found? Don't worry about that, we were only curious.
Good thing President Obama will scrap the missile shield. No need for that. Aero-NewsIran's launch of a low-orbit satellite into orbit this week "is clearly a concern of ours" because it could lead to the development of a ballistic missile system, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said Tuesday.
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Morrell responded to questions about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement that Iran had launched its first Iranian-built satellite into orbit. A domestically built Ambassador-2 or Safir-2 rocket reportedly carried the satellite into space.[...]
"It is certainly a reason for us to be concerned about Iran and its continued attempts to develop a ballistic missile program of increasingly long range," Morrell said today. "Obviously, there are dual-use capabilities in the technology here which could be applied toward the development of a long-range ballistic missile."
The United States isn't the only country concerned about Iran's activities. "Everybody in the region," including Israel and its Arab neighbors, as well as US allies in Europe and Russia, has raised concern, Morrell said.
Taliban kidnap 30 Pakistan policemen
I've run out of stuff to say about Pakistan. The Pakistani government is only giving lip service to fight the taliban and as a result the taliban are pretty much in control of the SWAT valley. XinhuanetISLAMABAD, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants have kidnapped 30 security personnel in northwestern Pakistan, the News Network International (NNI) news agency reported on Wednesday.
The NNI quoted Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan as saying that armed militants surrounded a police station at Barikot area in Swat valley of North West Frontier Province late Monday night and Taliban captured the station after 24 hours of exchange of firing.
Muslim Khan said Taliban captured 30 security men after taking control of the police station.
Minn. Somalis cancel public statement on disappearing youth
The imam from the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in Minneapolis, who is on the no-fly list and is accused of recruiting Somali youth to join al Shabaab, is probably concerned about all the recent negative PR.
From City PagesImams, community leaders, and parents of Somali youth who have disappeared in recent months planned a press conference in response to recent media coverage. But disagreements led the organizers to cancel the event.
Several young Somali men have left the Twin Cities and their families and the FBI believe they may have joined Al-Shabab, an Islamist group in Somalia that the U.S. considers a terrorist organization. Some have blamed Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in Minneapolis, a prominent mosque that many of the men attended. The mosque denies any relationship with the disappearances.
Last week, Newsweek wrote about the disappearances and ran a photograph of the mosque's imam. A lot of their story paralleled work done by Abdi Aynte, a local BBC reporter who writes for MNIndy.
Members of the Somali community organized a press conference to take place in Cedar-Riverside today to respond to the media coverage. It was not immediately clear why the press conference was canceled. A representative from Abubakar e-mailed this:
I have been just notified that today's press release has been canceled due to some disagreements among the committee that prepared the program.
Canada urged to stop religious discrimination against Muslims
The UN's Human Rights Council is urging Canada to do more against "religious discrimination against muslims". Religious discrimination against muslims in Canada? The Human Rights Council is of course dominated by islamic countries. This is all just propaganda and the council trying to get Canada to bend to them.
If anything it's the other way around in Canada and other places. Some muslims are doing the discriminating, and against non-muslim. Notice the article does not mention a single case of religious discrimination against muslims in Canada. That's because there's nothing to report.
Canada treats its muslims very well, better then other populations within Canada. If muslims are offended by a book or a cartoon the Author (Mark Steyn) and Editor (Ezra Levant) are taken before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Muslim Canadians go fight in Afghanistan against our soldier and allies receive taxpayer funded health care when they come back (Khadr). Imams spew hatred against non-muslims and they are allowed to continue. ReutersGENEVA (Reuters) - Canada should strengthen its domestic violence laws and stop religious discrimination against Muslims, a U.N. body heard on Tuesday[...]
Canada faced questions about its anti-terrorism laws, including a controversial "special advocate" measure in which a court-appointed lawyer with high security clearance stands in the place of certain detainees in their hearings.
Sims said the practice was meant to protect highly sensitive information while ensuring detainees get fair treatment.
"This program special advocates will be challenged and will work its way through the Canadian court system. It will, in this way, be tested for how well the government has struck this important balance," he said.
On racial and religious profiling, he said that it was not used as it was contrary to the law. Canada's "bias-free" recruitment of police meant its force included racial or ethnic minorities less likely to engage in such practices, he said.
Indonesia: Women prefer divorce to polygamy in Islamic courts
A lot of young girls in Afghanistan prefer to douse themselves with gas and burn themselves to death then to get married to someone who could be their grandfather. AKIJakarta, 2 Feb. (AKI) - A growing number of Muslim women are choosing to file for divorce rather than continue in a polygamous marriage, according to data from Islamic courts in Indonesia.
The number of women who cited polygamy as a reason for seeking divorce rose from 813 in 2004 to over 1,000 in 2006, according to Nasaruddin Umar, senior representative of Indonesia's religious affairs ministry.
“There has been a significant increase in divorce because women have been rejecting polygamy in recent years,” he said, quoted by the Indonesian daily, The Jakarta Post.
Umar said he believed the number of divorce cases linked to disputes over polygamous marriages increased again in 2008 and would continue to rise throughout 2009.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
'N. Korea Set to Fire Taepodong-2 Missile'
"North Korea is always a wild card. It's almost a gimme that sooner or later, they are going to try to stir the pot, and try to destabilize things." CIA Direct Hayden. Korea TimesNorth Korea is moving to test-launch a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, Yonhap News reported quoting South Korean officials Tuesday.
An intelligence source was quoted as saying a train carrying a long cylinder-shaped object has recently been spotted by U.S. and South Korean intelligence agencies, adding it is believed to be a Taepodong-2 missile.
Taepodong-2 missiles can technically reach Alaska and western parts of the U.S. and carry a payload of up to 500 kilograms, according to defense experts.
The preparation to launch the inter-continental ballistic missile is likely to be completed in a month or two, the source said, confirming a report from Japanese media that the launch is imminent.
"The intelligence report by Japan appears grounded on facts," an official at the Ministry of National Defense said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Thief in headscarf cons jewellers
Obviously the identity of the thief is not known but investigators are pointing to a French crime ring that steals jewelery. BBCA jewel thief dressed as a wealthy Muslim woman has stolen rings worth hundreds of thousands of euros from dealers across Europe, police say.
The woman, wearing a headscarf, coat and gold-framed glasses, is suspected of swapping gems for replicas.
In one incident in Paris, the woman allegedly stole a 5.5 carat diamond ring worth 635,000 euros (£574,000).
Detectives say the thief has targeted dealers in Germany, Switzerland and France over a 10-year period.
Iran claims it launched its first satellite into space
Knowing the history of the mullahacracy to exaggerate claims I'm going to wait for confirmation from a third party. In August, Iran claimed to have successfully launched a dummy satellite into orbit but radar tracking by the USS Russell confirmed the satellite launch was a failure. Iran also likes to photoshop successful rocket launches when in reality they never left the ground. TelegraphThe launch of the Omid satellite, meaning Hope, was timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution and United Nations talks aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear programme.
"Dear Iranians, your children have put the first indigenous satellite into orbit," said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a broadcast on state television.
"With this launch the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially achieved a presence in space."
The launch has highlighted international concerns that Iran will use domestically developed space technology to develop intercontinental nuclear missiles.
Hayden: Mexico violence threat to US only second to al Qaida
Thanks to #1 Infidel blogging about the violence south of the border I can't say that this is a surprise. I half jokingly tell my friends and family I would go vacationing in Iraq before going to Mexico. H/T Jane Fox NewsIran, North Korea and Al Qaeda are still in, but Iraq is out of the list of top 10 national security threats the United States is likely to face in the coming year.
The next 5 in Hayden's list include Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea, China, and the Middle East.
As Leon Panetta faces a Senate confirmation hearing this week to be the next CIA director, outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden says several regions and disputes could create serious headaches for the intelligence community in 2009.[...]
1. Al Qaeda: "It is the organization that has the capacity to most threaten the physical safety of America and Americans. So it remains job No. 1. And we have talked about some successes and so on, but it is resilient, and therefore we have to continue to keep an eye on Al Qaeda," he said.
2. Violence in Mexico: "Our good friend and neighbor Mexico had this horrible surge in violence that may cause -- in fact has caused -- us to talk with our Mexican friends, in more meaningful and deeper ways, to discover ways that we can cooperate against what we now view to be, and has always been, a common problem. ...
"What you've got is President Calderon, very heroically, taking on drug cartels that I think everyone agrees threaten certainly the well-being of the Mexican people and the Mexican state, and taking them on in a very, very progressive way. Now, it is not quite the same thing as Colombia, where you had a politically motivated movement, the FARC, merging with narcotics organizations. Here it is largely in the business of crime but the effects could be just as dangerous, certainly to the well-being of the Mexican people."
3. Iran's nuclear program: "I included Iran, in terms of as they move forward in their own decision-making process, as they continue to churn out LEU, low enriched uranium, they do it at great cost, diplomatically and economically with regard to sanctions. They seem to be doing it with a purpose. As that quantity of that stockpile grows, you would think that at some point in that process, they are going to have to make a decision as to what it is they are going to do with it. So that is something we have to keep a close eye on as well."
4. Europe and the War on Terror: Hayden said he believes that real substantive issues separate the U.S. and Europe in executing the War on Terror. He said "growing daylight" separates the allies and it's not a question of "personalities."
5. Instability caused by the low price of oil: "The price of oil is another thing that is not quite a crisis, but it is destabilizing," he said. "As oil goes under about $40 a barrel, it probably doesn't have a big impact in Russia, which has a large (economy) and frankly invested pretty wisely. I'm not sure that it doesn't have more of an impact in Iran and in Venezuela. When (global) oil is about $40 a barrel, their heavy crude is about $30 a barrel. And that really creates stresses inside the (Hugo) Chavez regime. So again, these are not threats, but they will create torque, and may then suggest some instability."
Family denied weekend funeral service - because they're not muslims
This isn't the first time that something like this happened. How many more cemeteries across England are bending to the demands of islam?
When the first story broke out I thought the cemeteries policies were put in place by an overly sensitive dhimmih. But this story shows that it's not just one cemetery that only allows muslim burials on Saturdays. Is this policy institutionalized or cemetery managers just sensitive dhimmihs? Rochdale OnlineA grieving family has been told they can not bury their loved one on a Saturday because they are not of the Muslim religion.
The seven sons and daughters of Ronald Rigg, who passed away on Friday aged 89, are travelling from as far as San Diego to pay their respects and requested a weekend service so that everyone can attend. But they have been told by Rochdale crematorium that only Muslim families or families with “extreme circumstances” can have such a privilege.[...]
A family member said: “I’m pretty sure these are exceptional circumstances, it is such a shame we all have to travel, just so we can all make it.
“If Muslim families can have a Saturday service without any bother, why can’t we?”.
Derek Mack, cemeteries manager at Rochdale Borough Council, said: “We don’t provide routine funeral services at weekends, but in exceptional circumstances where a burial or cremation is required on a specific day we will consider the case put to us by the family. In the past we have accommodated such requests but we will look at the circumstances on an individual basis.
“We have an agreement with the local Muslim community that burials can take place at weekends to meet the needs of their faith and cultural customs.
Muslim cleric gets 15 years
Fifteen years for the cleric but only 4 to 7 and a half years for his followers. These guys should at least get double the time. AFPMELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — A Muslim cleric and six followers were jailed for up to 15 years Tuesday for forming an Australian terror cell that plotted bomb attacks designed to kill thousands.
"The organisation fostered and encouraged its members to engage in violent jihad -- to perform a terrorist act," judge Bernard Bongiorno told Victoria state's Supreme Court after Australia's biggest terrorism trial.
Firebrand cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 48, was jailed for 15 years, of which he must serve at least 12 years, while his followers received minimum terms of between four and seven-and-a-half years.
Algerian-born Benbrika had urged them to target large crowds at sports matches or a train station to pressure the Australian government to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, the court heard.
Benbrika had said it was "permissible to kill women, children and the aged," prosecutors said. Material seized from the group included bomb-making instructions and video tapes with messages from Osama bin Laden.
The men referred to themselves as mujahedeen, or holy warriors, and considered violent jihad an integral part of their religious obligations, said Bongiorno.
Gaddafi elected as next AU leader
They could've picked Mugabe. BBCLibyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been elected as chairman of the 53-nation African Union.
Col Gaddafi was elected by delegates at the AU summit in Ethiopia. [...]
"He is currently addressing the assembly as president, to outline his programme and his intentions," she said.
Col Gaddafi replaces the Tanzanian president, Jakaya Kikwete.
In its earlier sessions, AU delegates called for a lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Woman to appeal ruling forcing her to unveil face in sexual assault trial
No here's a head scratcher. A muslim is appealing the court ruling forcing her to unveil her face when she testifies at a sexual assault trial. Her lawyers will be arguing that it is an infringement of her right to practice her religion. If the court should allow women to be veiled in order to follow their religion shouldn't the court also follow this quranic verse....Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will; but do some good act for your souls beforehand; and fear Allah. And know that ye are to meet Him (in the Hereafter), and give (these) good tidings to those who believe. Toronto StarA judge has ordered a Toronto woman to testify without her niqab at a sexual assault trial – raising the thorny issue of whether Muslim women should be allowed to appear as witnesses wearing a veil that covers everything but the eyes.
The issue is a collision of two rights, pitting religious freedom against the right of a defendant to face an accuser in open court.[...]
In October, Ontario Court Justice Norris Weisman reached his "admittedly difficult decision" to force the complainant to testify with her face bared after finding her "religious belief is not that strong ... and that it is, as she says, a matter of comfort," he wrote in his ruling.
Lawyer David Butt is representing the woman and next month in Superior Court will argue that the Oct. 16 ruling should be overturned.
"For complainants in sexual assault cases, courtroom testimony is extremely difficult and often traumatic," he said last week. "During such times of great anxiety the courts should respect religious rights and practices that bring comfort and sustenance, particularly when they do not undermine the fairness of the proceedings."
Ex-Italian imam jailed for suicide attacks
Abdelmajid Zergout, an imam who preached in Italy, was jailed for 5 years in Morroco for his role in several deadly suicide attacks in 2003.
Only 5 years?? Slap on the wristAKIRabat, 30 Jan. (AKI) - The former imam of the northern Italian city of Varese, Abdelmajid Zergout, has been sentenced to five years in prison for a series of suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca in 2003.
Forty-five people were killed - including 12 suicide bombers - in several attacks which occurred in the Moroccan city in May 2003. The bombings were the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country's history.[...]
According to media reports, prosecutors had been seeking a 30-year sentence during the trial that took place in Rabat.
Birthday present
US Army Specialist Casey Hurles, who had been stationed in Iraq, surprises his son Gabriel for his sixth birthday Telegraph
North Korea says two Koreas on path toward war
From ReutersSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea warned on Sunday that the downward spiral of relations with the South has pushed the peninsula to the brink of war, two days after it said it was scrapping all pacts with its rich capitalist neighbor.
Analysts say the rhetorical volleys are aimed at changing the hardline policies of the South's president and are meant to grab the attention of new U.S. President Barack Obama.
"The policy of confrontation with the DPRK (North Korea) pursued by the (South Korean) group is ... the very source of military conflicts and war between the North and the South," the North's official KCNA news agency reported a commentary in the communist party newspaper as saying.
"In Korea in the state of armistice confrontation means escalated tension and it may lead to an uncontrollable and unavoidable military conflict and a war," it said.
Venezuela: Armed gang occupied and desecrated Synagogue
"Never in the history of Venezuela's Jewish community have we been the target of such an aggression,"
Ever since Chavez started cozying up to Iran's Imanutjob, Venezuela's Jews have been exposed to increasing danger.
Hizbollah agents are operating inside Venezuela and have been targeting Jewish businessmen for kidnappings. In fact back in September, Israeli security forces foiled two kidnapping attempts by Hizbollah inside Venezuela.
During the recent Gaza conflict, Venezuela expelled the Israeli ambassador while Turkey was holding a suspicious Iranian shipment to Venezuela.
From BBCAn armed gang has ransacked the oldest Jewish synagogue in the Venezuelan capital Caracas after occupying the building for several hours.
About 15 unidentified men broke into the building before daubing graffiti on the walls and desecrating scriptures.
They also called for Jewish people to be expelled from the country. [...]
Elias Farache, president of Venezuela's Jewish Association, said the gang had tied and gagged security guards before destroying offices and the place where holy books were kept.
Anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli slogans were painted on the walls.
"Never in the history of Venezuela's Jewish community have we been the target of such an aggression," said Mr Farache.
"The climate is very tense. We feel threatened, intimidated, attacked."
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Gunmen kidnap American U.N. official in Pakistan
Being an American , This guy is probably at a higher risk of never being seen again !Especially if they do get him across the border !
The Taliban are holding several Hostages That have not been seen for a while !!
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted an American official of the U.N. refugee agency on Monday after shooting dead his driver in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police said.
Police identified the official as John Solecki, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Quetta. He was on his way to his office when gunmen intercepted his vehicle and opened fire.
"The gunmen have taken him with them after shooting his driver," Quetta police official Wazir Khan Nasir told Reuters.
There had been no claim of responsibility, Nasir said.
Witnesses said the vehicle crashed into the wall of a house after the gunman opened fire.
"We can confirm that the incident happened with the unfortunate death of the driver and the kidnapping of a senior colleague from the UNHCR," said a U.N. spokeswoman in Islamabad, Amena Ali Kamal.
She declined to give any more details.
Security had been stepped up at the main crossing point into Afghanistan at Chaman, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Quetta, and at other points along the border to stop the kidnappers taking their hostage into Afghanistan, another police official said.
Incidents of kidnapping have increased in Pakistan over the past year, especially in the northwest in areas on the border with Afghanistan, where Islamist militants have abducted several foreigners.
Pakistani Taliban militants were believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of a Chinese engineer, and Polish engineer and two Afghan diplomats. All four were kidnapped in the northwest months ago and are still being held.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
Both Taliban and separatist Baluch militants operate in the province where the UNHCR is helping Afghan refugees.
Israel bombs Gaza tunnels in series of air raids
You Knew it could not last !
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip Sunday, targeting a Hamas security complex and tunnels used to smuggle weapons after vowing a "disproportionate" response to cross-border fire.
The aircraft carried out half a dozen strikes after three Israelis were injured by a mortar salvo, including two soldiers and the first Israeli civilian hurt since a January 18 truce ended Israel's 22-day offensive in the coastal enclave.
There were no reported casualties in the air attacks. Five of the strikes targeted tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt, used to smuggle weapons into the coastal enclave, in a zone known as the Philadelphi corridor.
A further Israeli attack was on a security headquarters in a village in central Gaza that residents said had been vacated after Israel telephoned warnings to Palestinians to leave buildings that housed any weapons.
An Israeli military statement said that "in response to rocket and mortar fire today, the air force has attacked a number of targets in the (Gaza) Strip, including six tunnels and a Hamas position." Hamas said five tunnels had been bombed.
