March 15, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks
Terrorists Targeting Children Via Facebook, Twitter
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/15/terrorists-targeting-children-via-facebook-twitter/
— Hate speech infiltrates social-networking sites, report says
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/15/hate.speech.social.networks/
— Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com
(U.S.) Pennsylvania: Timeline of ‘Jihad Jane’ alleged terror plot — Colleen LaRose
— sought “to become a martyr in the name of Allah” and that her appearance will make it easty to “blend in with many people”
— reportedly sent message it is “an honor and great pleasure to die or kill for” co-conspirator
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/13/timeline.jihad.jane/index.html
(U.S./Ireland) Mother of ‘Jihad Jamie’ Describes Daughter as ‘Lonely and Insecure’
— case of Jamie Paulin-Ramirez
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589274,00.html
— Lonely jihad mom found pals in terror
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/lonely_jihad_mom_found_pals_in_terror_ZWdzfEeHMOvClHfPgKKkDN
(U.S./Ireland) Four Released in Ireland Terror Case - additional people released
— WSJ: “The released individuals could still face charges down the road. A report for each of those arrested will be submitted to a director of public prosecutions, who can then decide whether the suspect should be re-arrested and charged. This process could take ‘a matter of weeks,’ the spokesman said.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703780204575119174131560714.html
(U.S./Ireland) Article on ‘Jihad Jamie’ and Profiling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/14/jihad-jamie-islam-terrorism-us
(U.S./Ireland) Algerian, Libyan charged over Mohammed cartoonist murder plot
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/7452055/Algerian-Libyan-charged-over-Mohammed-cartoonist-murder-plot.html
— Algerian Ali Charafe Damache and Libyan Abdul-Salam Mansour Al-Jehani
— Irish police charge two men arrested over ‘Jihad Jane’ cartoonist murder plot
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Irish+police+charge+arrested+over+Jihad+Jane+cartoonist+murder+plot/2686245/story.html
(U.S.) Nidal Hasan: E-mails suggested Fort Hood shooter subpar for Army
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/16/e-mails-suggested-fort-hood-shooter-subpar-army/
(U.S.) Maryland: Al-Qaeda suspect worked at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant - Sharif Mobley
http://www.somdnews.com/stories/03122010/rectop121352_32222.shtml
(U.S.) Phares on Fox News: “Families are the first line of defense against Jihadism, the public must be educated about the threat”
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4104802/new-face-of-terror
(U.S.) Richard Holbrooke: “Al-Qaeda has ‘blown it’ and is now under pressure”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJkFfvnTMSXmmp5mBPKSc4LEYiTA
— Same Richard Holbrooke Calling for Negotiations with Taliban
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/holbrooke-surrender-on-taliban/
— Same Richard Holbrooke Meeting with Pro-Taliban Leaders
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-holbrooke-meets-with-supremacist/
(U.S.) Washington Post: “Critics: Military trial of terror suspects could open cases to legal uncertainty”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/13/AR2010031302252.html
Pakistan: Taliban (TTP) offers ‘deal’ to Punjab government
— Pakistan Daily Times: “A Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman has said that the organisation would stop targeting public and government places in Punjab if the provincial government gave an assurance that the Taliban would be spared from any action”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\03\16\story_16-3-2010_pg1_4
Pakistan: MPs object to Punjab CM’s ‘Taliban phobia’
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\03\16\story_16-3-2010_pg7_28
— Sharif said that his remark regarding Taliban sparing Punjab from attacks had been misinterpreted.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/03-taseer-lashes-out-shahbaz-sharifs-statement-ss-06
Pakistan Taliban: US drone strikes forcing militants underground
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0315/Pakistan-Taliban-US-drone-strikes-forcing-militants-underground
Pakistan: From Osama to Taliban, where are the Sharifs headed?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\03\16\story_16-3-2010_pg7_1
Pakistan: 70kg explosives seized in capital — Islamabad
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\03\16\story_16-3-2010_pg7_16
Pakistan: Three senior Taliban commanders killed in Pak
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Three-senior-Taliban-commanders-killed-in-Pak/articleshow/5685615.cms
Pakistan: Forces kill ‘mastermind’ of Mingora suicide blast
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\03\16\story_16-3-2010_pg7_6
(Pakistan/U.S.) ISI sharing intelligence and providing protection to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT_: US lawmaker
— Congressman Marvin Weinbaum: “Despite the government’s ban on LeT, Pakistan’s ISI continues to consider the organisation an asset. The ISI is believed to share intelligence and provide protection to LeT”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/ISI-sharing-intelligence-and-providing-protection-to-LeT-US-lawmaker/articleshow/5685638.cms
Pakistan: Paradise lost here lie the remains of a school for teenage Taleban
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7061720.ece
Pakistan: Military to end South Waziristan operation
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-military-to-end-south-waziristan-operation-ss-14
Pakistan’s The News Publishes Editorial calling for “Peace with the Taliban”
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=229258
Pakistan Dawn Publishes “Jihad Jane to the rescue”
http://blog.dawn.com/2010/03/15/jihad-jane-to-the-rescue/
AfPak: Afghanistan President Aide: Karzai Angry at Taliban Boss’ Arrest
— reports that Karzai was holding secret talks with Taliban’s Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
— AP: “Karzai ‘was very angry’ when he heard that the Pakistanis had picked up Baradar with an assist from U.S. intelligence, the adviser said. Besides the ongoing talks, he said Baradar had “given a green light” to participating in a three-day peace jirga that Karzai is hosting next month.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/15/world/main6302226.shtml
AfPak: U.N. set for more discreet talks with Taliban - envoys
http://bit.ly/aFT0ii
Afghanistan: Bombs kill nine, Afghan police thwart suicide squad
http://www.ptinews.com/news/566241_Bombs-kill-nine—Afghan-police-thwart-suicide-squad
Afghanistan: Rocket attack kills 1 at NATO base in Afghanistan
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/15/rocket-attack-kills-1-at-nato-base-in-afghanistan/
Afghanistan: “Pentagon official set up unauthorised team to help track and kill Taliban, say investigators”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/15/pentagon-spy-network-taliban-bourne
— “Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15contractors.html?pagewanted=1
— reports state Michael D. Furlong is being investigated
Afghanistan: Five ‘militants’ killed ahead of suicide attacks
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.124982184
Afghanistan war: How Taliban tactics are evolving
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2010/0315/Afghanistan-war-How-Taliban-tactics-are-evolving
Afghanistan: U.S. Is Reining In Special Forces in Afghanistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/world/asia/16afghan.html?ref=global-home
Afghanistan: Survivors of family killed in Afghanistan raid threaten suicide attacks - unless the perpetrators are brought to justice
— London Times: “Nato officials continued to brief journalists in Kabul yesterday that the women were victims of an ‘honour’ killing”
— “Nato had claimed that the assault force found the women’s bodies ‘tied up, gagged and killed’”
— “Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a policeman and his brother were shot dead on February 12 by unidentified gunmen.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7061709.ece
India: Terror duo sings: Mumbai strike averted in nick of time
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Terror-duo-sings-Mumbai-strike-averted-in-nick-of-time/articleshow/5688228.cms
(India/Pakistan) Phone calls made by Mumbai terror suspects traced to Karachi
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Phone-calls-made-by-Mumbai-terror-suspects-traced-to-Karachi/articleshow/5686253.cms
India: Hizbul Mujahideen’s ‘Pepsi bomber’ arrested
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Hizbul-Mujahideens-Pepsi-bomber-arrested/articleshow/5682739.cms
India: Riots on Itihad-e-Millat Council (IMC) leader Tauqir Raza Khan — in Bareilly
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/india-riots-tauqir-raza-khan/
India: Fearing Maoist revenge, states put on alert
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Fearing-Maoist-retaliation-govt-puts-states-on-alert-/articleshow/5687606.cms
Iraq: Car bomb in Iraq’s Falluja kills 7, wounds 20: Police
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Car-bomb-in-Iraqs-Falluja-kills-7-wounds-20-Police/articleshow/5685716.cms
Iran ‘tried to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7449806/Iran-tried-to-buy-nuclear-weapons-from-Pakistan.html
Gaza: ‘Hamas used kids as human shields’
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171009
Palestinians say no to peace talks
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/palestinians-says-no-peace-talks-amid-israel-settlement-growth/story-e6frfku0-1225841160769
Algeria court convicts 11 terror suspects
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2068449&Language=en
Yemen air raid ‘kills 2 top Al Qaeda militants’
http://www.tradearabia.com/news/DEF_176399.html
Yemen detains Iranian ship over suspicious cargo
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\03\16\story_16-3-2010_pg7_7
Nigeria: Rebel group bombs Nigerian government building
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/03/15/nigeria.mend.attack/
Nigeria: Niger Delta - MEND threatens oil companies
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/mend-threatens-new-attacks-niger-oil-delta
Nigeria: ICC report - “Nigerian Tells ICC ‘Army Was Involved’”
http://www.persecution.org/slaughter/?p=16
Nigerian Christians Cry Out for Help Amid Attacks
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/March/Nigerians-Urged-to-Stop-Religious-Violence/
Denmark: 6 Month Suspended sentence for Danish terrorism fundraiser
— Patrick Mac Manus raised funds for Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and for Communist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1541051.php/Suspended-sentence-for-Danish-terrorism-fundraiser
Northern Ireland: Two appear on terrorism charges in Newry
— Niall Malachy Ward and William Wong
— “The men were arrested on Thursday as part of a police operation against suspected dissident republicans in Armagh”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8567468.stm
Spain/UK: Suspected Basque Eta Member Wanted In Spain For Terror Offenses Arrested In London
— Garikoitz Murua
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018109612
Thailand: Police hunt for 2 Muslims suspected of killing famed police officer
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Police-hunt-for-2-Muslims-suspected-of-killing-fam-30124718.html
Other News:
Indonesia: Anti-Democracy Group Hizb ut-Tahrir Leads Protest Against Obama, U.S. as “Enemy of Islam”
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/indonesia-ht-group-protest/
Indonesia: “Barack Obama must pull American troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq if he wants to fulfil his dream of reconciling the Muslim world and the West, according to his Indonesian cousin”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7442793/Barack-Obama-must-pull-US-troops-out-of-Afghanistan-says-Indonesian-cousin.html
Indonesia: “How Indonesia tackles terrorism”
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=229257
International Women’s Day: Hizb ut-Tahrir Calls for Supremacist Caliphate
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/international-womens-day-hizb-ut-tahrir-calls-for-supremacist-caliphate/
Egyptian Court Refuses to Return Passport to Christian — Peter Athanasius aka Maher El-Gohary
— COMPASS reports: “On Tuesday (March 9) the Egyptian State Council Court in Giza, an administrative court, refused to return the passport of Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary”
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/egypt/16129/
Egypt: Major Unconfirmed Rumors Spread Across The Internet That Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Is Dead
http://www.businessinsider.com/major-unconfirmed-rumors-spread-across-the-internet-that-egyption-president-hosni-mubarak-is-dead-2010-3
Egypt: “Muslim Teacher Sexually Abuses Coptic Christian Children In An Upper Egyptian School”
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1828
Egypt: Fear Of Muslim Collective Punishment Grips Christian Villagers in Upper Egypt
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1805
Egypt cancels unveiling of restored synagogue
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfV1Vro5CdizKV0ZAJgOMhG1p55wD9EEEN680
Morocco Begins Large-Scale Expulsion of Foreign Christians
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/morocco/16115/
Saudi religious police smart enough not to raid event attended by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/saudi-arabia-maureen-dowd/
Uzbekistan: Baptists fined 100 times minimum monthly salary
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1421
Azerbaijan: “Distributing religious literature without state permission”
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1420
(Iran) Internet Posting Has Bin Laden Son Accusing Iran of Mistreating Family
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Internet-Posting-Has-Bin-Laden-Son-Accusing-Iran-of-Mistreating-Family-87647487.html
(UK) “Labour Minister Celebrates With Daud Abdullah At Hamas Mosque”
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/03/15/labour-minister-celebrates-with-daud-abdullah-at-hamas-mosque/
(UK) “Islamists in power: key council sympathiser under pressure”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100029915/islamists-in-power-key-council-sympathiser-under-pressure/
(UK) Daily Telegraph: “Muslim gangs imposing sharia law in British prisons”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/7428933/Muslim-gangs-imposing-sharia-law-in-British-prisons.html
(UK) Row over funding for police faith groups
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/7430802/Row-over-funding-for-police-faith-groups.html
— Outcry over Home Office ‘Pandering’ to Muslim Police
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/162835/Outcry-over-Home-Office-pandering-to-Muslim-police
(UK) Martin Amis states he “uses the term Al Qaedists because ‘Islamism’ has too many letters in common with Islam”
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100314/ART/703139964/1007
UK: Fears over non-Muslim’s use of Islamic law to resolve disputes
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/03/uk-fears-over-non-muslims-use-of.html
Germany plans state role in training imams
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/germany/100311/muslim-education
(Europe) AP: “Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hacLATOU4QIYD5lvKe8CcK8vx_mQD9EENHJG1
‘Islamic finance becomes a viable component of financial system’
http://arabnews.com/economy/islamicfinance/article30127.ece
— Shariah-compliant funds on website
http://arabnews.com/economy/islamicfinance/article30128.ece
Thailand: Islamic Bank of Thailand to offer education loans
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Islamic-Bank-of-Thailand-to-offer-education-loans-30124709.html
(U.S.) Rachel Ehrenfeld article on “Lawfare”
— “Jihad Jane’s allies in the courts”
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/03/15/2010-03-15_jihad_janes_allies_in_the_courts.html
(U.S.) IPT News: Combating Lawfare
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1858/combating-lawfare
Israel reopening of historic synagogue angers Palestinians
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Israel-reopening-of-historic-synagogue-angers-Palestinians-/articleshow/5688259.cms
Israeli-US relations at 35-year low, admits ambassador
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/15/israel-us-crisis-ambassador
— related report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/15/us-israel-dispute-history
— General David Petraeus “openly questioning Israel’s value as a strategic ally”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7063214.ece
OIC uses Mohammad cartoon to illustrate news story
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/03/oic-uses-mohammad-cartoon-to-illustrate.html
War on Women News:
Malaysian young girls separated from husbands
— Girls aged 10 & 11 married off to middle-age men by fathers
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/15/103121.html
Washington DC: International Women’s Day Awareness — March 6, 2010
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/dc-international-womens-day/
Against Racial Supremacism News:
(U.S.) Oklahoma City: Racist graffiti covers school — “KKK” and “white power”
http://www.kfor.com/news/local/kfor-news-racist-graffiti-covers-school,0,7985573.story
(U.S.) NYC: ‘Shameful and vile’: Broadway is rocked by racism claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/14/martin-mcdonagh-race-row-broadway
(U.S.) Crime History: Top Indiana Klansman kidnaps, rapes teacher - Klan had 250,000 members in Indiana at that time
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/Crime-History_-Top-Indiana-Klansman-87477462.html
Against Totalitarianism News:
Communist North Korea: U.N. Expert: North Korean Farm Controls Causing Hunger
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589302,00.html
Communist North Korea: Human rights situation in DPR Korea is bleak, independent UN expert says
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34087&Cr=dprk&Cr1=
Communist Chinese Land Official Says “Golden Lampstand Church will be destroyed”
http://bit.ly/dhAbFK
Communist China: Henan Police Interrogate Pastors to Disrupt Church Legal Training
http://bit.ly/aISuRF
Communist China: Chinese Scholar Detained for “Making Noise”
http://bit.ly/d6NF8z
Communist China: Guangzhou Police Kidnap Pastor Wang Dao of Liangren Church
http://bit.ly/aA2V99
Communist China: Chinese Activists Draft ‘Internet Revolution Declaration’
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/30567/
Communist China: Disappearance of Shen Yun Artist’s Husband Condemned — Jiang Feng
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/30518/
— Law Professor Condemns Disappearance of Shen Yun Artist’s Husband
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/30539/
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Explosion in Nigeria after militants issue bomb threat - Update ...
Nairobi/Abuja - An explosion was heard at a government building hosting
amnesty talks in the southern Nigeria oil town of Warri on Monday, after
militants ...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/314134,explosion-in-nigeria-after-militants-issue-bomb-threat—update.html
New Haven bomb scare evacuates city block- The New Haven Register ...
NEW HAVEN A bomb threat at a downtown hotel prompted an evacuation of a
city block including two apartment buildings and a row of restaurants
just in ...
http://nhregister.com/articles/2010/03/08/news/doc4b95802de7d47201591325.txt