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Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S....

YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- Authorities in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar have seized United Nations aid intended for victims of the disaster, a move that "shuts down" future flights from the organization, according to a U.N. World Food Program official. A child sleeps on the floor as cyclone-affected families shelter in a school in western Yangon. 1 of 3more photos » The organization, which insists on distributing its own relief supplies, said the seizure of two aircraft-loads of food, medcine and equipment, has already hit out at Myanmar's refusal to all access to foreign eis workers. "This is another example of them actively...

PALM BAY -- (AP) -- Police Tasered a teenager Wednesday after the high school student would not stop fighting another student on a school campus, authorities said. Douglas Frasier, 17, has been charged with battery on a school official, disrupting a school function and resisting arrest. Frasier and the other student, Arnaldo Disla, were fighting over a girl at Bayside High School, authorities said. Frasier was stunned with the Taser twice and had a head injury after the incident, police said. ''It was not a major head injury,'' said Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Palm Bay Police Department. Disla, 18,...

A supporter of the French football club Paris Saint Germanin was shot and killed by police Thursday night after a UEFA-cup game against the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv. The tradgedy occurred outside the stadium Parc de Princes in Paris after PSG had lost against Hapoel with 2-4. According to police sources a lonely Hapoel fan was surrounded by 150 fans from the Parisian club on a street outside the areana. A policeman hurried tthere and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. He then fired two live rounds. Two PSG suporters were hit and one of them was killed....

Rome paid tribute to the barbarians clamoring at her gates. It didn't do any good. Paying ransom only postponed the inevitable sacking, burning, and looting of the empire's capital. The UK's Neville Chamberlain sought to pacify Hitler, only to see Brits hiding in basements from the blitzkrieg a few years later. Instead of remembering history's lessons, the Washington Post today indulges in feel-good, intellectual rationalization of Muslim intolerance and hatred. In a 5-page manifesto entitled, "Anatomy of the Cartoon Protest Movement," authors Anthony Shadid and Kevin Sullivan exercise unlimited poetic license, calling Islamist hooliganism "a rare moment of empowerment among...

North Korean soldiers and police suppressed angry North Korean soccer fans at a World Cup qualifying match Wednesday after they pelted referees and Iranian players with rocks and bottles following the North Korean team's third consecutive loss. The incident occurred at the entrance and exit area of the Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang after North Korea lost to Iran 2-0. The security forces took about an hour to bring the situation under control. North Korea's national team has so far lost three out of three in their six-game Asian zone final-round Group B qualifiers. It lost its two...

Jewish leaders in France yesterday demanded urgent government action after an unprecedented wave of attacks on synagogues and Jewish-owned property around the country. A synagogue in Marseille, destroyed by fire along with its Torah scrolls and other sacred books on Sunday night, was the third to be hit by arson since Friday, prompting the central consistory of French Jews to compare the violence to the Nazi-led Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, in Germany in November 1938. President Jacques Chirac issued a call for "dialogue, respect and tolerance". In a statement, the president urged the government to increase police protection...

BRITAIN has launched a campaign to reassure the Japanese that English football fans preparing to visit their country for the World Cup are not all hooligans bent on mayhem. Nevertheless, Japanese police are building new cells in time for an influx of troublemakers, most of whom are expected to come from England. Some police will have special #147;net guns#148; to halt hooliganism. British Embassy staff and Football Supporters Association (FSA) representatives will be joining forces in coming weeks to calm nerves in the three cities where England are to play first round matches in three month#146;s time. They want...