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Rabat - Authorities in Morocco have shut down about 60 Qur'anic schools belonging to a Muslim theologian who argues that girls as young as nine can marry, officials said on Thursday. The authorities also plan to close down the internet site on which Sheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al-Maghraoui decreed earlier this month that the marriage of nine-year-old girls is allowed by Islam. The sheikh said his decree was based on the fact that the Prophet Mohammad consummated his marriage to his favourite wife when she was that age.

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

AMSTERDAM, 19/09/08 - MPs and local council members of Moroccan origin are routinely approached by the Moroccan secret service to defend the interests of Morocco. So says Fouad el Haji, a Labour (PvdA) council member in Rotterdam. The Lower House is shocked and has demanded an explanation from the cabinet. El Haji said on n TV programme Pauw&Witteman that Moroccan-Dutch MPs, local politicians, entrepreneurs and police officers are enticed by the Moroccan secret service to serve the interests of Morocco. Rabat wants to bind them to it financially, culturally and politically, he stated. El Haji suggested that within the PvdA,...

Shortly after 9-11, Robert Satloff and his family went to live in Rabat, Morocco. Mr. Satloff was on a mission to uncover the roles Arabs played in helping or hindering Nazi Germany and its allies with the expansion of the Final Solution into North Africa. “It was challenging to be an American living in an Arab capital several months after 9-11 and after the start of the war in the Gulf,” Mr. Satloff said by telephone from his office in Washington, D.C. “It was a challenge being a Jewish American at a time when, in May 2003, there were a...

The President returned from Camp David on Saturday and hosted a Tee Ball game on Sunday. The Vice President concluded his overseas trip with meetings in Italy on Saturday and Sunday and has now boarded AF2 for what I presume is the flight back to the US. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Sunday a three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco Pray for President Bush - Day - 2916 & McCain/Palin - Day - 10 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

Britain's 200-year jihadOn my travels for the past few days, I have been reading a book which tells the story of a quite astonishing part of British history of which I was previously unaware. In 'White Gold', Giles Milton records the appalling details -- gleaned,it appears, from a wealth of historical documents including diaries and letters -- of a seaborne Islamic jihad against Britain which lasted for no less than two centuries. From the early seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, thousands of British men women and children were kidnapped by Arab corsairs and sold into slavery in Morocco where they...

Bread and circuses versus the clash of ignorance Moroccan state's promotion of cultural festivals hangs from a political skeleton CASABLANCA: If you were under the impression that Muslims have something against music, the sheer number of summer music festivals around the Middle East and North Africa might come as something of a surprise. Morocco provides a case in point. The Casablanca Festival turns Morocco's commercial capital into an urban Woodstock, with masses of young people clogging the mosque-filled streets and partying to the pulse of hip-hop, rock, pop and Arab music. An estimated 2 million people attend free concerts at...

CASABLANCA: If you were under the impression that Muslims have something against music, the sheer number of summer music festivals around the Middle East and North Africa might come as something of a surprise. Morocco provides a case in point. The Casablanca Festival turns Morocco's commercial capital into an urban Woodstock, with masses of young people clogging the mosque-filled streets and partying to the pulse of hip-hop, rock, pop and Arab music. An estimated 2 million people attend free concerts at a dozen venues, many snapping up the action on their cell phones. Casablanca's is only one of about 400...

If any evil forces were lurking Friday night along the Bangor waterfront, Hassan Hakmoun drove them away and called down healing spirits that blanketed the American Folk Festival crowd at the Railroad Stage. “Feel the spirit,” he told the crowd, “and pray for the world to become one.”

Italy: 5 arrested on suspicion of planning attacks ROME - Police broke up a suspected terror cell Saturday and arrested five North Africans, including the alleged leader who Italian officials said recruited Islamic extremists for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

Morocco is to send more than 170 preachers throughout Europe from September until Ramadan to protect its citizens from extremist speeches, the government said Wednesday. The decision follows a request from King Mohammed VI. The 167 men and nine women have been given the task of "answering to the religious needs of the Moroccan community abroad, to protect them from any speeches of an extremist or irregular nature and shelter them from fanaticism and extremism," according to a government statement. They must also ensure that expatriate Moroccans remain true to their roots and Malikite traditions and instill in them the...

A Muslim member of the French Government has attacked the head-to-toe Islamic dress as a prison, applauding a court decision to deny citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wore it. “The burka is a prison, a strait-jacket,” Fadela Amara, the Minister for Urban Affairs and a longstanding women's rights campaigner, said yesterday. “It is not religious. It is the insignia of a totalitarian political project for sexual inequality.” The court decision denying Faiza Mabchour, 32, French citizenship has drawn approval from both Left and Right, highlighting a rejection of Muslim customs that conflict with the values of the secular French...

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....

An imam in Morocco's eastern city of Fez has said that marriages between Moroccan women and European men who are not Muslims are forbidden under Islam. Each summer in Morocco, a growing number of local women are reportedly marrying young European men. "This kind of marriage, between Moroccan women and European men, is forbidden by the Koran (the Muslim holy book) and the Sunna (the way or deeds of the Prophet Mohammed)," Sheikh Mohammed al-Tawil said in a TV interview. "A Muslim woman may not marry an unbeliever while a Muslim man may marry Christian and Jewish women," he told...

Rabat, Morocco - Some years ago, a visitor to the Moroccan capital Rabat was unlikely to be reminded of the nation's Amazigh (Berber) component by other than touristic details such as water sellers in colourful costumes, with their brass cups and jangling bells. Today, however, researchers interested in the Amazigh people can visit the imposing building housing the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in a sign that the authorities' traditional lack of interest is giving way to a more inclusive attitude. "Amazigh culture is part of the Moroccan national heritage," IRCAM director Ahmed Boukouss says in his large office...

The Hunt for American al Qaeda The United States is turning up the heat in the hunt for the California boy turned al Qaeda operative, Adam Gadahn, who has been charged with treason and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. If caught and convicted, Gadahn could face the death penalty. The State Department along with the Department of Diplomatic Security announced the beginning of a publicity campaign in Afghanistan urging locals to provide any information on Gadahn's whereabouts, with a reward if the information leads to his capture. Radio advertisements with information concerning the $1 million reward have...

Because of them, telephone taping was carried out a year before the massacre.Two of the Moroccoan Islamist Fugitives Were the Key to Investigate Jamal Zougham Before 3/11.LD (Luis del Pino) The surprising flight of nine Islamists from a Moroccan prison last week has taken an unexpected turn, when it was discovered that two of them, the Chatbi brothers, were allegedly linked to the top sentenced for 3/11, Jamal Zougham, and his stepbrother Mohamed Chaoui, arrested like Zougham on March 13th, but released a few weeks after the Madrid attacks. Although that relation between Zougham and the Chatbi brothers was finally...

RABAT, APRIL 18 - Visiting French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon pledged that his country is determined to help Morocco get an advanced status in its relations with the European Union. "We want to help Morocco to have the special status it seeks in the European Union," Fillon said on the sidelines of a dinner banquet held in his honor by his Moroccan counterpart, Abbas El Fassi, Map news agency reports. The French official, who started yesterday a two-day visit to Morocco to co-chair with El Fassi the 9th high-level Moroccan-French joint commission, added that "we seek to widen the cooperation...

Rabat - A Moroccan court Thursday banned an Amazigh party on the grounds that the law did not allow parties based on religion, language or ethnicity, judicial sources said Thursday. The court in Rabat confirmed the earlier decision of the Interior Ministry, which had refused to recognize the Democratic Amazigh Moroccan Party (PDAM), which had been established in July. None of the other parties showed solidarity towards the PDAM, largely because the party had championed the full normalization of Morocco's relations with Israel. The founder of the PDAM, Ahmed Dgharni, sparked a scandal in December by visiting Tel Aviv for...

Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and...

Casablanca - Nine convicted terrorists have escaped from a Moroccan jail through a tunnel they dug out under their cells. The nine fundamentalists were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for their involvement in suicide attacks in Casablanca five years ago. Forty-five people, including 12 suicide bombers, were killed in Morocco's deadliest bombings ever. The Moroccan authorities have launched a large-scale manhunt for the nine convicts.

Moroccans and Tunisians have rejected fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's call to violence in two audio recordings aired last week. In bin Laden's first message, aired Wednesday (March 19th) by al-Qaeda's As-Sahab media unit, the terrorist leader accused Pope Benedict XVI of playing a role in a "new crusade" against Islam and warned of a "severe reaction" to cartoons containing images of the Prophet Mohamed reprinted in Danish newspapers in February. In the second message, aired on Thursday, bin Laden rejected negotiations and dialogue and called on Muslims to "liberate Palestine" with "fire and iron". He urged support for...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

Rabat - Belgian police officers are in Morocco to investigate a suspect who has confessed to murdering six prominent figures in Belgium in the 1980s. Abdelkader Belliraj, a Moroccan national, was arrested in Morocco last month together with dozens of other suspects regarded as the leading members of al-Qaeda in Morocco. His victims in Belgium are thought to include a cleric at the Great Mosque in Brussels and a leading member of the Jewish community. He also worked since 2000 as an informer for the Belgian secret service and possibly the CIA. Since Rabat never extradites Moroccan nationals, it is...

Moroccan terror ring raised funds with European thefts, planned assassinationsMorocco's government said it has dismantled a terrorist network that raised funds through robberies in Europe and plotted to assassinate Cabinet ministers and members of kingdom's Jewish community... Morocco banned an Islamist political party, Al Badil Al Hadari... Police arrested a total of 32 people.. Abdelhafid Sriti, correspondent for Hezbollah militant group's Al-Manar television station..university professor, a police superintendent.... discovered stashes of weapons..Kalashnikov assault rifles, Uzi submachine guns...leader.. Abdelkader Belliraj.. links with al-Qaida and local terror groups and is suspected in six assassinations in Belgium from 1986 to 1989... murders were...

Moroccan Prime Minsiter, Abbas El Fassi, issued on Wednesday a decree dissolving the Islamist party "Al Badil Al Hadari" (Civilzational Alternative), as part of the dismantling of a terrorist network described as "Jihadist" earlier this week. A press release of the Prime Minister's office, cited by MAP, said that the decision has been taken in line with article 57 related to the political parties, on the basis of the alleged links between the network and the creation of the party, as well as on "the serious evidence on the involvement of its main leaders." The party Secretary General, Mustapha Mouatassim,...

MPs unhappy at Morocco's emigrant plan Friday 15 February 2008 Government and opposition MPs are unhappy with plans by Morocco to strengthen ties with its citizens living abroad, reports ANP news agency on Friday. Khadija Arib, an MP with the government coalition Labour party, calls the move undesirable and old-fashioned. ‘This [Moroccan] minister doesn’t understand the situation of Moroccans abroad. The new generation has a different relationship with Morocco than its parents. They go there on visits, on holiday or for business but they have chosen the Netherlands or somewhere else to live,’ Arib told ANP. The Rabat government said...

Rome, 14 Feb.(AKI) - Association of Moroccan Women in Italy president, Souad Sbai, claims that some Muslim women in the north of Italy are being kept chained up in their homes. "In northern Italy, there are women that live chained at home, from the kitchen to the bathroom, without being able to open the door," said the leader of the women's group. "In the North,[of Italy] there are 4 and 5 year old girls that wear the [Islamic] veil in the summer, and in the winter. This is the culture of male chauvinists, of fundamentalists - and nobody is shocked,"...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ― Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago. Two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin were arrested in pre-dawn raids in western Denmark, the police intelligence agency said. The Dane was suspected of violating Danish terror laws but likely would be released after questioning as the investigation continues, said Jakob Scharf, the head of the PET intelligence service. The two Tunisians would be expelled from Denmark, he...

Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest what they see as evidence of their second-class status in Germany. Police warn the city could be ready to explode. The owner of an electronics shop on Cologne's Kalker Hauptstrasse had rolled down the shutters on the windows in case there was unrest. Now they have photos of a 17-year-old Moroccan boy taped to them. The teenager, whose name was Salih, was killed in front of the shop two weeks ago. The sidewalk is a sea of...

After a Moroccan thug was stabbed to death in self-defense by a German man he was trying to rob, Muslims in Cologne took to the streets in protest. Apparently, they believe it’s their right to mug Germans, and the Germans should just accept it. And Spiegel Online seems to agree, in an article dripping with sympathy for the demonstrators: ’We’re Sitting on a Powder Keg’: Immigrants Protest Death of Moroccan Teenager in Cologne. Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest what they see as...

MADRID (Reuters) - A Moroccan suspected of direct involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people was arrested on Sunday in Rabat, a judicial source in Spain familiar with the case said on Monday. Abdelilah Hriz, 29, will be tried in his home country for his suspected part in Europe's deadliest Islamist attack, the first time Morocco has agreed to try one of its citizens for crimes allegedly committed abroad, said the source. Spanish Judge Juan Del Olmo recently traveled to Morocco to question Hriz and take DNA samples, the Moroccan state news agency MAP said last...

Moroccan organisations in the Netherlands want Geert Wilders prosecuted for discrimination against Muslims. THE HAGUE – Moroccan organisations in the Netherlands want the public prosecution department to prosecute Freedom party PVV leader Geert Wilders for discrimination against Muslims. If the justice department refuses, then the organisations will approach the court to force the prosecution department to take action. Chairman of the National Moroccan Council (LBM) Mohamed Rabbae said this on Thursday, partly in response to the film on the Koran that Wilders is currently working on. Rabbae says that the public prosecution department is hesitant to follow through on the...

THE ENIGMAS OF 3/11. CHAPTER 40. THE EMBASSY by Luis del Pino The Moroccan Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Met Secretly [Socialist] Moratinos One Week After 3/11. With the Government presided by José María Aznar still in office and the police investigation on the March massacre hardly starting, took place in Madrid a meeting between the number two of the Moroccan Secretary of State and the one that, one month later would become the Spanish Secretary of State. Neither our Embassy in Rabat nor the Government still in hands of the [right wing] PP had any notice of it. It was...

The secret war On the North-West Frontier, soldiers are trying to tighten the noose around bin Laden's forces. But in Europe and America, there is no clear enemy to fight - yet every expert knows that a terrorist atrocity is coming Mark Townsend in Tangier, John Hooper in Madrid, Greg Bearup in Peshawar, Paul Harris in Washington, Peter Beaumont in Baghdad, Antony Barnett, Martin Bright, Jason Burke and Nick Pelham in London Sunday March 21, 2004 The Observer There were shadows in the rocks. As the 12 US Special Forces soldiers arrived at a remote mountain region in eastern Afghanistan...

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is “Arab”Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Arabs have been unanimous in rejecting the idea of Israel being a “Jewish state.” Their reasons are that, by definition, a Jewish state would be discriminatory against Arabs and Muslims.If you define “Jewish” in purely religious terms, that would mean that any state that defines itself as “Islamic” is, by definition, equally guilty of this discrimination. If you define “Jewish” in ethnic or national terms, then any state that defines itself as “Arab” would be equally guilty of the racism that Israel is being accused of. Time to check out the official hypocrisy...

US proposes Lockheed Martin F-16 sale to Morocco By Graham Warwick US Congress has been notified of the possible sale of 24 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters and 24 Hawker Beechcraft T-6B trainers to Morocco, together valued at up to $2.6 billion. French officials announced in October that Morocco had rejected its offer of Dassault Rafale fighters and selected the F-16, but the notification by the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency is the first formal acknowledgement by the US government. The DSCA says Morocco has requested the possible purchase of 24 F-16C/D Block 50/52 aircraft with Northrop Grumman APG-68(V)9 radars and...

No one thought it was strange when Muncif Ben Aboud disappeared from his crowded, unkempt neighborhood in the Moroccan city of Tetouan. Men are always leaving Jamaa Mezuak, as the quarter is known. And Muncif, who was 21, had ventured off before, roaming the worn medinas of Casablanca and Marrakesh, posing stiffly for snapshots to take home. His curiosity pulled him in many directions. He was brilliant with numbers but would lose himself in novels. He began training to be a military pilot but then changed his mind and settled on engineering. A year later, in 2006, he switched to...

French launch post-mortem on Morocco jet deal Tue 23 Oct 2007, 20:09 GMT By Tim Hepher and Elisabeth Pineau PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - France trumpeted business successes during a trip by President Nicolas Sarkozy to Morocco on Tuesday, but a post mortem has already begun into how Paris was snubbed over a major fighter order, defence analysts said. In a surprise blow to France's standing in the region, industry sources said Morocco had cancelled interest in French Rafale combat jets and opted for cheaper F-16s from the United States, casting a pall over Sarkozy's first visit as president. After...

It has been an unusually violent week for Amsterdam's western Slotervaart district. Cars were torched and youths clashed with police on several consecutive nights after a 22-year-old ethnic Moroccan was shot dead at a police station. He was killed by a policewoman he had just stabbed a number of times. The riots that followed reminded Amsterdam's Chief Commissioner Bernard Welten of a major nightmare for Western European cities: violence on a Parisian scale. Every major town in the Netherlands has its share of so-called problem youths, the type of violent adolescents who gang up to terrorise the neighbourhood. Many of...

Morocco photo is not Madeleine McCann By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz and Richards Edwards in Zinat, northern Morocco Last Updated: 10:50pm BST 26/09/2007 Kate and Gerry McCann are facing further heartbreak after the mystery girl caught in a photograph in Morocco turned out not be Madeleine, but a local farmer's daughter. The grainy image of a fair-haired girl being carried on the back of a woman bore a startling resemblance to the four-year-old, who went missing in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3. Bushra, the five-year-old Moroccan girl who was mistaken for Madeleine McCann...

NOW A 'PHOTO' OF MADELEINE IN MOROCCO A PHOTO has emerged that could prove Madeleine McCann is alive and being held in Morocco. Interpol is investigating the picture of a very frightened blonde girl being carried by a gang of Moroccans. It was taken from a car window by a Spanish couple in Zinzat, in the north of the African country on August 31. The group was walking along a road in the direction of Tangiers and the blonde head of the little girl can be seen behind a woman's shoulder. Another previously unreported sighting in Morocco came to light...

A snatched picture purporting to be of Madeleine McCann in north Morocco was published last night, generating new momentum in the search for her. Gerry and Kate McCann called last night for the picture, taken on August 31 by a Spanish tourist and handed to the McCanns’ lawyers yesterday morning, to be fully investigated. The picture shows a light-skinned, blonde-haired girl being carried in a sling on a Moroccan woman’s back near the town of Zinat. It is the fourth reported sighting of a girl fitting Madeleine’s description in Morocco since she disappeared on May 3 but the first published...

Dassault Aviation to lose Rafale order in Morocco to Lockheed Martin - report September 21, 2007: 02:39 AM EST PARIS, Sep. 21, 2007 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- Morocco is likely to order US-made F-16 fighter planes instead of Rafales made by France's Dassault Aviation, La Tribune reported, citing 'several' agreeing sources. The US is said to have offered 36 F-16s made by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Corp for less than 2 bln usd while France was proposing 18 Rafales for 2.3 bln eur, the business daily said. In response to the US offer, the French authorities amended their proposal...

OUJDA, Morocco — Antonio, 29, left Ghana eight months ago after his mother died and his father begged him to help support his three siblings. Armstrong, 31, couldn't make ends meet as a carpenter in his native Cameroon, so he set off a year and a half ago after promising his young daughter he'd return with new toys. Omar, 25, lost track of his family after rebels raided his village in the tumultuous Central African Republic. He fled his country last year with a handful of cash and the clothes on his back. Lured by tales of opportunity, all three...

Moroccans voted Friday in elections expected to result in gains for the main opposition Islamist party. The Justice and Development Party (PJD), which has vowed to take on corruption, could become the largest single party. According to AFP, the electoral system allows none of the 33 competing parties to get a ruling majority, and no mainstream party wants to link up with the PJD. However, PJD secretary general Saad Eddine Othmani still projects that his party will win at least one million of the 15.5 million eligible votes and at least 70 seats in the 325-deputy chamber. Formed in the...

Sunday’s national meeting for the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir included incitement to destroy Israel and a re-establishment of the Caliphate Islamic empire Controversial Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir celebrated its annual congress in Copenhagen on Sunday with words of anger against Jews and the West, reported daily free newspaper Nyhedsavisen. Nearly 600 Muslims attended the meeting at KB Hallen in the city’s enclave of Frederiksberg, where religious leaders spoke of the rise of an new Islamic Caliphate and the fall of Western powers. ‘The Caliphate can arrive in an hour, two months or two years from now,’ said Fadi Abdullatif, Hizb ut-Tahrir’s...

Disaster Looms in Pakistan Decorum was abandoned as accusations ricocheted between the wood-panelled walls of Pakistan's national assembly on Monday night. "Murderers! Murderers of innocent people!" screamed an MP from a religious party, his yellow turban shaking as he wagged a finger towards the government benches. Five female parliamentarians, their faces concealed behind black and white burkas, slapped the benches with open palms. Another mullah stood up and started shouting. The speaker strained to maintain order. Others were less captivated by the debate on last month's siege of the Red Mosque, in which more than 100 people died. One...

Why Does Olmert Evict Jews, But Not Arabs, From Unauthorized Dwellings Following yesterday’s forcible eviction by some 3,000 Israeli military personnel of two Jewish families from their homes in Hebron who had been originally promised permits... “We are shocked and deeply concerned by the deployment of 3,000 Israeli armed personnel ... to evict two Jewish families from their homes and destroy the holy place of worship, the Shalhevet Pass synagogue, named in commemoration of the ten-month-old baby murdered by a Palestinian Authority (PA) sniper in 2001. At a time when little or no action is being taken by the Olmert...