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Insurgents are now using unwitting kidnap victims as suicide bombers - seizing them, booby-trapping their cars without their knowledge, then releasing them only to blow up the vehicles by remote control, the Defense Ministry said. The Iraqi announcement - the latest development in the deadly war waged by the insurgency - came as widespread lawlessness swept the capital Thursday with kidnappings, deadly attacks on police, the discovery of more mutilated death squad victims and a brazen daylight bank heist by men dressed as Iraqi soldiers. It was unclear from the Defense Ministry's statement whether the insurgents are using kidnap victims...

In non-news today, Muslims are outraged. Also, the sun rose at its usual time and the Earth continued to turn on its axis in the customary fashion. As the sentient know, extremist Muslims have found another excuse to bloody the streets, this time over a quotation from a lecture Pope Benedict XVI delivered last week at the University of Regensburg in Germany. My guess is that not many of the outraged Muslims have actually read the lecture -- it's not the sort of thing one lightly skims between effigy-burnings. To understand what the pope actually said, one would have to...

PALU, Indonesia, SEPT. 21, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Three Catholics convicted of leading a mob that killed Muslims were executed by a police firing squad in Central Sulawesi province, officials said. Fabianus Tibo, 60; Marinus Riwu, 48; and Dominggus da Silva, 42, were sentenced to death in 2001. They were found guilty of leading a mob in a 2000 attack that killed 200 people at an Islamic boarding school during Muslim-Christian clashes in Central Sulawesi's Poso region. "It has been done ... the location was around the airport," a police official who declined to be identified told Reuters. The executions occurred today....

Choudary: Refuses to discuss his dissolute youth At 39, Anjem Choudary should be a symbol of success for his peers. Born into the working-class family of a market trader in Welling on the outskirts of London, he has risen - thanks to the opportunities offered by the British education system - to become a qualified lawyer. But it is unlikely his old school will be inviting him to be guest speaker on prize-giving day. Their former pupil is not famous for his elegant oratory in court. Instead, the articulate Mr Choudary preaches hatred and murder in the streets of Britain...

The Guardian of Islamic ExtremismBy Robert SpencerFrontPageMagazine.com | September 21, 2006 As the global Muslim reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s recent remarks on Islam threaten to eclipse last winter’s Cartoon Rage in irrationality and violence, there has been the usual and by now predictable undercurrent of sympathy on the Left for those breathing threats and murder against the Pope and the West. Notable among the spokesmen for appeasement and accommodation of violent Islamic intimidation was Karen Armstrong, author of the popular books Islam: A Short History and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Armstrong on Monday published a piece in...

KANO, Nigeria Hundreds of Christians sought refuge at police headquarters in a predominantly Muslim Nigerian town Thursday after rioters protesting alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad attacked and burned churches, Christian homes and businesses, residents and police said. Violence broke out in Dutse, the capital of Nigeria's northern Jigawa state, Wednesday after thousands of Muslim youth poured out on the streets to protest alleged blasphemy by a Christian woman, resident Emeka Nworah said. It was unclear what the offensive statement was that sparked the rioting. Some said it was a market dispute, while others said she made a statement against Muhammad...

Recently a video was placed on the forum of the official website of the Young Muslims (YM) – the youth arm of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) – whose contents included an animated graphic of rockets being fired on and destroying the United States and a 9/11 message from “the American Al Qaeda,” Adam Gadahn. Both the rockets and the message had been released prior, produced by Al-Qaeda’s media studio, Al-Sahab, and shown on Al-Jazeera TV. But something else found on the video was previously unseen. It was footage from a paintball range located in the United States....

This story is very carefully worded, so that it is not clear that the "religious rioters" who set ten "worship centres" ablaze are Muslims torching churches until we are informed that those fleeing the wrath of the "irate youths" were Christians. Apparently the situation in Nigeria is so delicate that even the facts of the case, simply stated, might enflame murderous passions anew. "Religious rioters torch 10 buildings in Jigawa," from Nigeria's The Guardian, with thanks to Sky: NIGERIA once again relapsed into sectarian violence yesterday as a band of irate youths went on rampage in Dutse, Jigawa State capital....