Friday, January 19, 2007

Islams Latest Stunts get there Big Leaders into Trouble by the Public

Firebrand cleric: Police seize Muslim 'kill enemies' videos

Baghdad: Extra US troops to stay in Iraq 'until June'

Hicks's state judged by US flack

THE assessment that David Hicks's mental state was fine relied on a three-minute observation by an official who did not even exchange words with him.













Obama exposed.

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A guide to terminology:

Sunnah ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnah ) literally means “trodden path”, and therefore, the sunnah of the prophet means “the way of the prophet”. Terminologically, the word ‘Sunnah’ in Sunni Islam means those religious actions that were instituted by Muhammad during the 23 years of his ministry and which Muslims initially received through consensus of companions of Muhammad (Sahaba), and further through generation-to-generation transmission. According to some opinions, sunnah in fact consists of those religious actions that were initiated by Abraham and were only revived by Muhammad
The question of hadith (Arabic: حديث pl. أحاديث, "words and deeds of Muhammad") falling within the abode of the sunnah is an interesting one, and is highly dependent on the context. In the context of Islamic Law, Imam Malik and the Hanafi scholars differentiate between the Sunnah and the Hadith. Imam Malik, for instance, is supposed to have rejected hadiths that reached him because, according to him, they were against the 'established practice of the people of Medinah. In Shi'a Islam, the word 'Sunnah' means the deeds, sayings and approvals of Muhammad and the twelve Imams who Shi'a Muslims believe were chosen by God to succeed the prophet and to lead mankind in every aspect of life.
In the context of biographical records of Muhammad, sunnah indeed often stands synonymous to hadith as most of the personality traits of the Mohammad are known through descriptions about him, his sayings and his actions.
Wahhabism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi ) (Arabic: الوهابية, Wahabism, Wahabbism) is an Islamic movement, named after Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703–1792). It is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and recently Western Iraq. In Pakistan also, it has become dominant and Jama'at ud Da'wah is the leading organization inviting people to the purely Qur'an and Sunnah based approach.
The term "Wahhabi" (Wahhābīya) is rarely used by members of this group today, although the Saudis did sometimes use it in the past. The currently preferred term is "Salafism". From at least 1914, they usually called themselves the Ikhwan, the Brethren. The term Wahhabism was originally bestowed by their opponents.
The Wahhabis claim to hold to the way of the Salaf as-Salih, the "pious predecessors" as earlier propagated mainly by Ibn Taymiyya, his students Ibn Al Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and later by Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab and his followers.


A Guide to the political left - Muslim Students' Association of USA and Canada
MUSLIM STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF THE U.S. AND CANADA (MSA)
  • Network of some 150 campus Muslim Students' Associations
  • A key lobbying organization for the Wahhabi sect of Islam
Established in January 1963 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Muslim Students' Association of the United States and Canada, or MSA (also known as MSA National) currently has chapters on some 150 college campuses across North America. (The relationship between MSA National and the individual university chapters is not a fixed hierarchy, but rather a loose connection. Thus the policies and views of the national organization may differ from those of some of the local chapters.)

MSA's mission is "to serve the best interest of Islam and Muslims in the United States and Canada so as to enable them to practice Islam as a complete way of life." Offshoots of MSA include the Islamic Medical Association, the Muslim Arab Youth Association, the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, the Islamic Circle of North America, and the Islamic Society of North America.

According to author and Islam expert Stephen Schwartz, MSA is a key lobbying organization for the Wahhabi sect of Islam. From its inception, MSA had close links with the extremist Muslim World League, whose chapters' websites have featured not only Osama bin Laden's propaganda, but also publicity-recruiting campaigns for Wahhabi subversion of the Chechen struggle in Russia. MSA solicited donations for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, whose assets the U.S. government seized in December 2001 because that organization was giving financial support to the terrorist group Hamas. MSA also has strong ties to the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.

Charging that U.S. foreign policy is driven by militaristic imperialism, MSA steadfastly opposes the American military incursions into both Afghanistan and Iraq. The organization is also harshly critical of Israel's allegedly oppressive policies vis a vis the Palestinian people residing in the West Bank and Gaza. In MSA's view, for example, the anti-terrorist security fence that Israel has built in the West Bank is an illegal "apartheid wall" that violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians.

An influential member of International ANSWER's steering committee, MSA maintains a large presence at ANSWER-sponsored demonstrations. By supporting ANSWER, MSA tacitly endorses the agendas of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party which dominates ANSWER. At a March 15, 2003 anti-war rally in San Francisco, MSA representatives manned several booths where they displayed and distributed anti-Israel publications, banners, and placards. Many of these items contained the word "Israel" with the "s" replaced by a swastika; others likened a swastika to the Star of David.

Local chapters of MSA were signatories to a February 20, 2002 document, composed by the radical group Refuse & Resist (a creation of the Revolutionary Communist Party's C. Clark Kissinger), condemning military tribunals and the detention of immigrants apprehended in connection with post-9/11 terrorism investigations. The document read, in part: "[T]hey [the U.S. government] are coming for the Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants. … The recent 'disappearances,' indefinite detention, the round-ups, the secret military tribunals, the denial of legal representation, evidence kept a secret from the accused, the denial of any due process for Arab, Muslim, South Asians and others, have chilling similarities to a police state."

MSA strongly opposes the Patriot Act, which it describes as an "infamous" piece of legislation. The organization's chapters across the United States have similarly denounced virtually every other national security initiative implemented by the U.S. government since the 9/11 attacks.

MSA chose not to endorse or participate in the May 14, 2005 "Free Muslims March Against Terror," an event whose stated purpose was to "send a message to the terrorists and extremists that their days are numbered ... [and to send] a message to the people of the Middle East, the Muslim world and all people who seek freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence that we support them."

MSA's President as of September 2006 was Mohamed Sheibani, a fourth-year student attending the University of Ottawa; from 2003-2004, he served as President of the Muslim Youth of Ottawa.

Noteworthy news items related to MSA include the following:
  • On October 22, 2000, Ahmed Shama, President of the UCLA Muslim Students' Association, led a crowd of demonstrators at the Israeli consulate in chants of "Death to Israel!" and "Death to the Jews!" One guest speaker at the event was Hamid Ayloush, a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which co-sponsored the rally. In his speech, Ayloush solicited contributions for the aforementioned Holy Land Foundation.
  • At a January 21, 2001 MSA event, guest speaker Imam Musa declared: "If you were to say that the Soviet Union [would be] wiped off the face of the earth … people would have thought you were crazy, right? The people of Afghanistan didn't have the intellect or historical knowledge to know that they wasn't supposed to wipe out the Soviet Union, is that right? … We saw the fall of one so-called superpower; Old Sam [the U.S.] is next."
  • MSA members at UCLA raised money for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists at their annual "Anti-Zionist Week."
  • In March 2003, speaker Muammad Faheed told an MSA meeting at Queensborough Community College in New York, "The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it!"
  • At its Annual Conference in 2003, the Iowa Muslim Student Association invited, as a guest speaker, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, who had told a college audience in 1994, "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement."
  • The University of Southern California MSA invited Taliban ambassador Sayyid Hashimi to speak on campus six months before 9/11.
  • MSA at California State University Northridge held a fundraiser for Islamic Relief, an organization that received a $50,000 contribution from a front group run by Osama bin Laden.
  • In 2002, James Madison University's MSA sponsored a "Jihad" panel that included Dr. Abdulrahman Hijazi, who had once extolled an Islamic suicide bomber as a "martyr" whose "hope of having the mercy of Allah … by one of the greatest good deeds, which is jihad, was more attractive to him than by being happy with his wife at home."
  • In 2003, University of Idaho MSA President Sami Omar Al-Hussayen was ordered deported because he worked for the Islamic Assembly of North America, which has ties to al Qaeda. While on campus, he had sought access to a chemical lab containing nuclear material.
  • In October 2003, MSA invited Bill Baker, the onetime chairman of the neo-Nazi Populist Party, to speak at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University on the similarities between Christianity and Islam. According to MSA, Baker's racist affiliations were "irrelevant."
A notable former member of MSA is Asan Akbar, an American Muslim extremist who attended the MSA-controlled student mosque at the University of California, Davis. After college, Akbar joined the U.S. Army. In the early hours of March 23, 2003, he intentionally detonated a grenade amidst sleeping members of his 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division stationed in Kuwait -- killing two and wounding fifteen. Not long before this incident, Akbar, who had been reprimanded for insubordination, reportedly had told his mother that he felt the military was persecuting him because he was a Muslim.
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- Tide of death on Indonesian beaches

Muslims

Muslims dismiss 1976 refugee decision link to unrest
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
SENIOR Muslim figures yesterday dismissed suggestions that a 1976 decision to allow Lebanese Muslim refugees to flee the Middle East for Australia had ...
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CIOG says Muslims must recommit to their faith
Stabroek News - Georgetown,Guyana
The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) is urging Muslims to recommit themselves to Allah and turn away from corruption in observance of Eid-ul-Adha. ...

Muslims pray for Canadian troops
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Congress founder Tarek Fatah said that politics aside, Muslims should come together and pray for the soldiers and their families. ...

Muslims perform stoning ritual
Boston Globe - United States
... "The prayers of all Muslims when they cast their stones at the devil must be directed at [President] Bush and his devilish allies in America and the Arab world ...
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Dozens of Muslims collected outside a mosque to offer prayers for ...
Daijiworld.com - Mangalore,India
... Thousands of people, mostly Muslims and Communists took to streets across the country against the execution, accusing Bush of murdering him. ...
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Punjab Muslims burn Bush effigy on before 'Bikrid Namaj'
PunjabNewsline.com - Mohali-Chandigarh,Punjab,India
NAWAN SHEHAR: Anti America and anti-Britain speeches preceded the 'Bakrid namaj' that was offered by the Muslims of the area here at Government Secondary ...

Local Muslims celebrate Eid
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello,ID,USA
... The special prayer service marks the end of hadj — the fifth principle of Islam, which compels Muslims to make the pilgrimage to Mecca — Islam’s holy city ...

Nazareth Muslims: Islam will dominate world
Ynetnews - Israel
... march down the main streets of Nazareth this weekend, highlighting for some here the plight of Christians in this ancient city where Muslims have become a ...
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Local Muslims celebrate Eid
Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte,FL,USA
... Eid, the last day of Ramadan in the Muslim calendar and the last day of the Hajj pilgrimmage to Mecca, is a holiday for Muslims around the world. ...
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Delhi Muslims celebrates Id-ul-Zuha
Hindu - Chennai,India
1 (PTI): Muslims in the capital today celebrated Id-ul-Zuha offering namaz at mosques, exchanging gifts and praying for the soul of executed Iraqi leader ...

Report: Australian Muslims abused
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) -- Muslims in South Australia are being racially abused like never before, an Australian government report said. ...
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Muslims

Tube bombers were seen as Muslims, not British
Malaysia Kini - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
The use of the term ‘immigrant community’ was taken from Abu Mubarak’s letter Decent dressing: What are the parameters? who used it in reference to Muslims ...

To preserve the past, present, and future of Indian Muslims.
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
There has been a growing campaign in Scotland, where there are some 50000 Muslims, to follows the example of England, where more than a handful of Muslim ...

Muslims say harassment is on the decline
Canoe.ca - Canada
But even though alleged incidents of harassment and assaults against Muslims have plunged, leaders said that judging from community feedback and the number ...

Muslims protest new fast-food restaurant
QSR Web - Louisville,KY,USA
... by Islamic law and workers clad in revealing uniforms has sparked an uproar among local Muslims who claim the restaurant is an affront to Islam. ...

To preserve the past, present, and future of Indian Muslims.
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
She said the conference in another resolution demanded the government to accord most backward class status to Indian Muslims.

Muslims, Christians relationship exalted
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
The coincidence of Tobaski and New Year’s Eve last year was a great moment of joy and prayers for Christians and Muslims in The Gambia. ...

To preserve the past, present, and future of Indian Muslims.
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Schaeuble has repeatedly urged a stepped up Islam dialogue aimed at overcoming differences between Muslims and Christians. The minister's remarks on Islam ...

Muslims Dealing with Less Harassment
640 Toronto - Toronto,ON,Canada
TORONTO/AM 640 TORONTO - The attacks on September 11th set back community relations with Toronto Muslims for years but Muslim leaders in the GTA say ...

Nepal: Muslims demand representation
Spero News - USA
On Friday, according to the Himalayan Times, Muslims in Nepal staged a protest, bringing traffic to a standstill for an hour. Members of the umbrella group ...

Leader warns of plots to foment disunity among Muslims
Tehran Times - Tehran,Iran
“Today, the greatest duty of Muslims, especially the ulema, scholars, and politicians, is to make efforts to strengthen the unity of Muslims, help promote ...
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Nigeria: Hajj - Anambra Muslims Petition SCIA
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Alhaji Sadiq would also want the Anti-Corruption bodies to investigate to know if some people have fraudulently put a clog in the participation of Muslims ...

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Muslims

US has targeted unity between Shia and Sunni Muslims, speaker
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
Majlis Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said Monday that the US seeks to destroy unity between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Addressing 'The Second International ...

To preserve the past, present, and future of Indian Muslims.
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Washington, Jan 15 (Xinhua) Ice storms continued to batter central US states, killing at least 21 people, the National Weather Service (NWS) said Monday. ...

40 Muslims kept from Detroit flight, council says
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
DETROIT - Thousands of American Muslims returned to Michigan this month exhausted in body but revitalized in spirit after performing the hajj, a pilgrimage ...

The 'demonization' of Muslims and the battle for oil
Tehran Times - Tehran,Iran
It also targets Muslims in Western Europe and North America. It purports to break national consciousness and the ability to resist the invader. ...

Muslims may become majority in Germany by 2046
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
BERLIN: Muslims may become a majority in Germany by as early as 2046, the Berlin-based BZ quoted on Monday an interior ministry-financed study as saying. ...
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Thousands of Muslims visit Israeli Tourism Ministry website
Ynetnews - Israel
Surprisingly, 18254 of the visitors were Muslims, some of them Arabs, from countries that don't have diplomatic ties with Israel. ...

To preserve the past, present, and future of Indian Muslims.
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Moscow, Jan 15 (RIA Novosti) North Korea intends to disabuse its citizens of handshakes as a practice alien to Koreans, replacing it with a slight bow ...

Imam urges Muslims to enlist into army
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
He urged Muslims to emulate the Prophet of Islam, who according to him, led in fighting wars as an example to his followers. Imam decried the low enlistment ...

To preserve the past, present, and future of Indian Muslims.
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
... hanged early Monday after they were convicted along with the former Iraqi president of the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims, television reports said. ...
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To preserve the past, present, and future of Indian Muslims.
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan had a busy first day in office Monday, presiding over 52 cases including one involving insult to a ...
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Rights Group Scolds Serbia Over Muslims
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania
The group's Belgrade office said serving pork to young Serbian Muslims is another aspect of discrimination in Serbia, whose citizens are well aware of the ...

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Friends

Walid's new DVD with his address to Christians United For Israel in San Antonio is now available. It also includes the original DVD "To Redemption" in a double DVD pack. Walid's address in San Antonio was INCREDIBLE!!!

For our E-news subscribers you can purchase for the special pre release price of $22.90 which is 20% discount from the release price.

You can send a check to us by requesting by email our address, or making a donation online at our web site, following it up with an email to walid@shoebat.com, to state that the donation was to pay for the New DVD.

It will be available to purchase on the web site in a couple of weeks.

NEWS

Walid will be speaking in Lafayette Indiana this weekend. Those who live within driving distance please contact Pastor Hoffman at 219 866 3547 for more details.

Walid is just putting the finishing touches on a brand new explosive book which we plan to have ready for "Valentines Day", The title of the book is "Why We Want to Kill You!" and we are planning some major publicity to launch it.

I would also ask all our members within 100 miles of Detroit to enlist friends and Pastors to come and support the event on January 30th. Full Details can be gotten on the web site www.3xterrorists.com. There is space for 1200 people and we want to have a sell out crowd. There is no entry fee.

The new Bible study DVD series is also in production and we hope to have ready in about 90 days. This is designed for individuals and bible study groups and will have a very high production level.

The first quarter of 2007 is going to be a very hectic. We thank all those who have supported us in 2006. The thousands of good wish messages we receive each year and the many kind donations gives us great encouragement to keep us going. It also tells us that we are making a little difference to waking up America and the Western World.

Hopefully we can make an even bigger imprint on the world in 2007.



Thanks and Shalom

Keith Davies
Director of The Walid Shoebat
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Friends

Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zakariah Anani, all former terrorists now peace activists will speak together at University of Michigan Ann Arbor on Tuesday January 30th at 7 p.m. www.3xterrorists.com, so as to explain to the American people what the REAL reasons are for terrorism. The truth needs to be faced rapidly.

Three large billboards now adorn the roads of Ann Arbor and Dearborn and a major Press and PR campaign on and off Campus is about to get underway. We have already secured several major local and national radio interviews. We will also issue press releases concerning the event over the next four weeks.

I would ask all those who live within a hundred miles of Detroit to come and support this event, entry is free but we would appreciate that if you are not a student that you make a contribution to the Walid Shoebat Foundation as these events cost in the several thousands to stage. I would also like those who attend churches and synagogues throughout the country and in Michigan to pray for the success of the event and the safety of all the participants. If you do not attend churches or synagogues private prayer will be gratefully accepted. Also pray that we do not get a blizzard as January and February can be very bad weatherwise in Michigan.

We have also made appropriate security arrangements

The Truth will be heard and Islamic Terror will be defeated when the American people are both knowledgable and willing to face reality.

Shalom

Keith Davies
Director of The Shoebat Foundation
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Current Issues
Letter To Archbishop of Canterbury
19th December 2006.

Dr Rowan Williams,
The Archbishop of Canterbury,
Lambeth Palace,
London,
SE1 7JU.

Dear Dr Williams,

I have read the article in ‘The Tablet’ in which you speak about people leaving Bethlehem in large numbers and then ask the question: I would like to know how much it matters to the Israeli Government to have Christian communities in the Holy Land. Are they an embarrassment or are they part of a solution? Thats a question.

No doubt the Israelis have already given you their answer, perhaps informing you that the Christian Arab population within the pre 1967 borders of Israel has grown from approximately 34,000 in 1948 to nearly 130,000 in 2005. Ironically this is the only part of the Middle East where the Christian population is growing.

You should really have asked the Palestinian Authority how much it matters to them that there are Christian communities in their territory. The main reason for the departure of Christians from PA administered territories is the religious persecution, murder and land grabs which stems from the increased Islamisation of the region. This is the result of the PA adopting Muslim religious law in the territories in contrast to Israel which safeguards the religious freedom on its citizens.

You have nothing to say about the likes of George Rabie, featured in a recent article in the Mail on Sunday who is a taxi driver from Bethlehem and was beaten up by Muslims using his cab when they discovered he is a Christian. He said ‘Every day, I experience discrimination. It is a type of racism. We are a minority so we are an easier target. Many extremists from the villages are coming into Bethlehem.’

Nor have you championed the cause of those who have been subjected to forced marriages of Christian women to Muslim men, received death threats for distributing the Bible to willing Muslims, or been intimidated into wearing traditional ultra-modest Islamic clothing. Nor have you written about the churches which have been firebombed by Muslim extremists protesting against the remarks of the Pope (most recently in Nablus, Tubas, and Gaza). Nor about the situation in which Christian Arabs have found their land expropriated by Muslims or been forced to pay bribes to win the freedom of family members jailed on trumped-up charges.

All of this is the main reason why Christian Arabs have been selling or abandoning homes and businesses, seeking to escape the chaos and corruption of the PA and move to Israel, Europe, South America, North America, or wherever they can get a visa.

Why do you have nothing to say about any of this in The Tablet or other public media? Of course you do not need to answer. We all know. No one in public life dares to make any comment even mildly critical of Islamic behaviour. On the other hand Israeli Jews are an easy target. In this way we in the west are already submitting to Islamic demands and behaving like ‘dhimmi’ citizens subject to the rule of the mosque. I find this utterly shameful and a betrayal of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Pearce.
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Mosques in London Exposed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MSFbhIG-sk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoi5DWt3b0w&mode=user&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TjzCcTkE8&mode=user&search=
: its in 3 parts
the links are in order. These are the links to last nights program about the mosques in London.
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Today's World News:
U.N.: 34,000 Iraqis killed last year
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:36 am PST
AP - The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in sectarian violence last year, nearly three times the number reported dead by the Iraqi government. Full Story 		Top

Castro reportedly in 'grave' condition
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:48 am PST
AP - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has had at least three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection and faces "a very grave prognosis," a Spanish newspaper reported Tuesday. Full Story 		Top

Kabul bombing thwarted as Gates visits
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:08 am PST
AP - NATO-led troops thwarted a bombing at their base in Kabul on Tuesday after a man with an explosive-laden car attempted to enter inside, an alliance spokeswoman said. Full Story 		Top

Pakistan army destroys al-Qaida hideouts
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:46 am PST
AP - Pakistan's army destroyed suspected al-Qaida hideouts in an airstrike near the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing 10 people, officials said. Full Story 		Top

Rice lobbies Arabs for backing in Iraq
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:27 am PST
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's appeal for Arab allies to help support the fragile government in Iraq drew only a tepid endorsement Tuesday from the administration's strongest ally in the region. Full Story 		Top

Anger over 'racist bullying' of Bollywood queen on 'Celebrity Big Brother'
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:33 am PST
AFP - Reality television show "Celebrity Big Brother" has said it would not tolerate bullying or racist abuse following a torrent of complaints over the treatment of glamorous Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty. Full Story 		Top

2 blasts kill 15 people in Baghdad
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:24 am PST
AP - Two bombs were detonated five minutes apart Tuesday in a used motorcycle marketplace in central Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding 74 others, police said. Full Story 		Top

Rescue effort halted in Brazilian subway
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:02 am PST
AP - Rescue crews on Tuesday suspended their three-day effort to reach a minibus entombed 300 feet underground, fearing the unstable earth around a collapsed subway construction site could give way again. Full Story 		Top

Nigeria clashes leave a dozen dead
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:30 am PST
AP - Royal Dutch Shell evacuated staff from two oil installations in southern Nigeria and the military boosted troop levels in the volatile area Tuesday after community clashes left a dozen community chiefs dead, officials said. Full Story 		Top

US defence secretary in Afghanistan as Pakistan strikes militants
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:44 am PST
AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates was briefed in Afghanistan on efforts to defeat the Taliban, as Pakistan -- stung by accusations of being a militant base -- destroyed three suspected Al-Qaeda hideouts in a dawn strike. Full Story 		Top

New ethnic violence shocks Australia
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:47 am PST
AFP - Shocked Australians have wrestled with fresh signs of simmering tensions in the country's multicultural melting pot after ethnic violence erupted at the glamorous Australian Open tennis tournament. Full Story



Court drops charges against Saddam
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:31 am PST
AP - Saddam Hussein's trial for the killing of 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s resumed Monday with the late dictator's seat empty, nine days after he went to the gallows. The court's first order of business was to drop all charges against Saddam. Full Story 		Top

Islamic jungle hideout near capture
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:10 am PST
AP - A jungle hideout used by Islamic militants that is believed to be an al-Qaida base was on the verge of falling to Ethiopian and Somali troops, the defense minister said Monday. Full Story 		Top

14 survivors from Indonesian ferry found
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:59 am PST
AP - Fourteen survivors of a ferry sinking survived for nine days on a life raft, drifting almost 370 miles before they were rescued, an official said Monday. Full Story 		Top

Richardson urges Sudan to allow U.N. in
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:34 am PST
AP - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson drew on his relationship with the evasive Sudanese president to press him Monday to open the wartorn Darfur region in the remote west of his country to United Nations troops and obtain a cease-fire. Full Story 		Top

Metal found in search for missing jet
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:16 am PST
AP - An Indonesian navy ship has detected metal on the ocean floor that might be the wreckage of a jetliner that disappeared one week ago with 102 people on board, a top commander said Monday. Full Story 		Top

Diana death inquest resumes in London
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:52 am PST
AP - The British inquest into Princess Diana's death in a 1997 car crash in Paris resumed Monday with a plea from her sons that conclusions be reached quickly. Full Story 		Top

Hamas official Fatah kidnapped is freed
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:15 am PST
AP - Fatah gunmen released the deputy mayor of Nablus unharmed on Monday, two days after kidnapping him in a wave of factional violence spreading through the West Bank. Full Story 		Top

Salvadoran prison riot toll rises to 21
Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:25 pm PST
AP - The death toll from a riot at a Salvadoran prison rose to 21 after authorities on Sunday reported an additional fatality. Full Story 		Top

US governor calls for new ceasefire in Darfur
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:36 am PST
AFP - A prominent US politician has met with Sudan's foreign minister, proposing a new ceasefire and an international liaison group to stem the tide of bloodshed in the country's war-torn province. Full Story 		Top

Yahoo China portal to be reorganized
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:48 am PST
AP - Yahoo's China portal will be reorganized as a business-oriented search engine, the company's head announced Monday, saying it had to change or fail amid intense competition from domestic rivals. Full Story 		Top

Australians among longest living in world
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:51 am PST
Reuters - Australia may be the "lucky country" but its indigenous people are not so fortunate when it comes to longevity. Full Story

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US to send extra 20,000 troops

GEORGE W. Bush's new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of up to 20,000 new combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a $1.3 billion jobs program for Iraqis.








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