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I haven't found anything interesting, so far everything has turned up virus free. Just finished going through about 80 emails from my Yahoo! subscriptions. A few celebratory 9-11 posts. I am tired but I can't seem to get to sleep. Oh well, off to try again.
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04090066.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com, Web Site: www.assistnews.net
Friday, September 10, 2004
IRAN ARRESTS 80 EVANGELICALS
Amid Fears of New Crackdown on Christians
By Stefan J. Bos
Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
Evangelical church in Tehran.
Source: Compass
TEHRAN, IRAN (ANS) -- Iranian police invaded the annual conference of Iran’s Assemblies of God and arrested at least 80 church leaders at the church’s denominational center near Tehran as part of the worst crack down on evangelical believers in a decade, a Christian news agency reported Friday, September 10.
Compass news agency said security forces raided the meeting "without warning" in Karaj, 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of the capital, after they surrounded the church’s garden property Thursday, September 9.
Eyewitnesses were quoted as saying that all men and women present at the first day of their annual meetings were detained. "The police came from everywhere," an Iranian Christian reportedly said. "There were a lot of them."
The Christian, whose name was not identified apparently for security reasons, claimed that "every single person present was put under arrest, blindfolded and taken in for interrogation."
Compass, which has close contacts with persecuted Christians in the region, said that the detained believers were driven around blindfolded for several hours so they would be unable to understand where they were being taken.
CLOSELY MONITORED
Each of them were reportedly questioned separately by security officials, and the questions revealed that authorities had very precise information about each person, including his or her activities, relatives and other personal data, Compass said, quoting Iranian sources.
Although most of the evangelical leaders were released, ten male pastors were still in custody, and their where whereabouts are unknown to their families, who have not been allowed to contact them, the news agency said.
"This is the biggest crisis for evangelical believers in the country since three Protestant pastors were murdered 10 years ago," another unidentified Iranian source told Compass.
ORDAINED MINISTERS
Six ordained ministers were named among the prisoners, identified by their given names of Vartan, Soren, Harmik, George, Omid and Farhad. Another two men serving as pastors and two church elders were identified as Neshan, Hamid, Henry and Robert. The pastors serve in congregations located in Tehran, Urumiyeh, Rasht, Ahwaz, Boshahr and Karaj.
All the evangelicals released Thursday night were forbidden to attend church services Friday, the weekly day of rest in Iran when most churches meet for worship, Compass reported. "Anyway, all their pastors are now under arrest, so there will be no one to preach when the congregations gather for services," its source said.
"As the world’s only theocracy, Iran has strictly proscribed the activities of its evangelical Christian citizens, closing down their churches and arresting known converts to Christianity. Under Islamic law, apostates who leave Islam are subject to the death penalty," Compass commented.
Iranian officials have not commented on the case.
Read more on these and other news stories on news agency BosNewsLife at website http://www.bosnewslife.com
Award winning Journalist Stefan J. Bos was born on the 19th of September 1967 in a small home in downtown Amsterdam, in the Netherlands not far from the typewriter of his father, who was (and still is) a Reporter and ghostwriter. Already at a very young age Bos decided to become journalist and finally arrived in Hungary, the same country where his parents had smuggled Bibles during Communism.
Bos has traveled extensively to cover wars and revolutions throughout the region and received the Annual Press Award of Merit from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his coverage about foreign policy affairs including Hungary's relationship with NATO and the European Union. Stefan J. Bos can be reached at: stefan@bosnewslife.com.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
Well, you get some sleep.
I'm heading there myself
and my computer iis back on
track now.
God bless you.
Chills on the intro. Thanks for helping us never to forget.
Awesome start to an awesome thread!
Thank you for the ping.
My prayer for today is that the Good Lord will refresh our memories in this country, so that we may remember why we fight in Iraq, and must re-elect George W. Bush for President. The media and liberals would have us forget, so that they may proceed with their agenda. Dear Lord, I pray that never happens.
Thanks for the new thread.
Kudos to all who helped.
Tis much appreciated.
Thanks, JP
A beautiful tribute.
Great job!
Thanks to all who add to this thread.
Reporting for duty...
Please post your "On the Inhabitants of the Middle East"
"Did you happen to see some of al-Qaeda Hunter's recent posts at It's Happening today? Some messages appear to indicate that the jihadis are peeved with al jazeera for not airing more of the tape." ~ Donna Lee Nardo
Yes, I did notice that. I wonder when the rest of the tape will be released? It's 9/11 already. Maybe today? ~ British chick
I guess the coded message part got cut off...
Explain this to me..."
General: Bin Laden Still Issuing Orders
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040911/ap_on_re_as/afghan_al_qaida
and
Osama Bin Laden May Be Dead, Says Pak Minister
http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=091004103312
Is he dead or is he alive?
It's funny that they both come out at the same time.
Bomb Explodes in Saudi, U.S. Shuts Jeddah Consulate
Source: Bloomberg.com
Bomb Explodes in Saudi, U.S. Shuts Jeddah Consulate (Update1)
Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia closed its consulate in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah after a car bomb exploded in the town on the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
``We have closed the U.S. consulate in Jeddah for one day as a precautionary measure,'' said Bob Keith, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Saudi, in a telephone interview from Riyadh. The bomb ``wasn't close'' to the consulate, he said.
One of the assailants was injured in the blast, reported Al- Arabiya, citing security officials. His accomplice fled to a building near to the consulate, where he was caught by Saudi security men, said the Dubai, United Arab Emirates based television station. No one else was reported hurt.
A spokesman for Samba, formerly Saudi American bank, denied a report that the bomb had exploded near to its branch in an area close to the U.S. consulate. The spokesman asked not to be identified.
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is fighting suspected al-Qaeda militants who have killed close to 30 non- Saudis since May 1 in a bid to undermine the economy and bring down the ruling al-Saud family.
In June, the militants beheaded U.S. citizen Paul Johnson Jr., a 49-year-old Lockheed Martin Corp. engineer in Riyadh, and posted pictures of his body on the Internet. His head was later found in a refrigerator in a Saudi raid of a militant hideout.
The suspected leader of the al-Qaeda cell involved in the murder of Johnson was killed along with three accomplices by security forces in Riyadh.
The U.S. State department last month placed new limits on staffing at its embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia due to the continuing terrorist threat in the country. Non-essential employees and all family members of U.S. workers at the embassy in Riyadh and consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran were ordered to leave on April 15.
Related links:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/new...id=aMyXdk41Agx4
Basra blast kills two near US consulate
Source: Al-Jazeera
A roadside bomb has detonated near the US and British consulates in the southern Iraqi city of Basra killing two people and wounding three more.
An Iraqi guard outside the compound, also home to KBR, a subsidiary of the US oil services giant Halliburton, said a sports utility vehicle was destroyed when a bomb planted near a blast wall exploded 100 metres from the main gate.
One of the three people inside the car was killed and two others wounded by the bomb, the guard said, refusing to give his name.
A spokeswoman for the British-led force in southern Iraq could confirm only that there was an explosion at 1205 GMT in Basra.
According to the witness the two killed were travelling in a vehicle at the time of the blast.
Car bomb in Baghdad
Late on Friday a car bomb exploded outside a Baghdad church, shattering stained glass windows but harming no one, the church priest said.
"Nobody was injured, thank God," Uwaida Wahba told Reuters. "It was a cowardly act."
The twisted and charred wreckage of the car lay outside the Sabbatarian Adventist Church in central Baghdad. Services due to be held on Saturday morning had been cancelled, Wahba added.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts.
Related links:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/54D402A6-711C-401D-B45F-AAA27999CB6F.htm
From www.trackingterrorism.com
Maybe these are the threats against the US that AQ is making.
Or,
See tag line...
I found it a bit unsettling myself...
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