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The London bombings have prompted the UK government to outlaw Hizb ut Tahrir - a radical Islamic group that wants to replace secular governments with an Islamic Caliphate. The group is particularly strong in Central Asia. High in the mountains of poverty-stricken Kyrgyzstan, a bearded man with a fierce gaze slices a watermelon. It is a very colourful sight - red drops of juice on the green carpet, with the glistening snow-covered peaks in the distance. "In this village, people trust us, not the authorities," says Nur Mohammed, a local leader of Hizb ut Tahrir, which is also banned in...

Thriving women-only village is attacked by jealous locals By Mike Pflanz in Archer's Post (Filed: 16/07/2005) A group of Kenyan women who fled abusive husbands to set up their own women-only community are facing increasingly violent attacks by local men angry at their success. Turning traditional African patriarchy on its head, 15 women established Umoja village in 1990, as a refuge after their husbands' behaviour forced them to flee their homes. Mkamasiye Lebwaketa and Paulina Lekuriya wear the tribal bead necklaces their ‘women-only’ village sells Since then the village where women rule has expanded, its 48 members earning a living...

Fear of Old Testament-style revenge grows among Arabs in 'village of traitors' By Tim Butcher in Dahaniya (Filed: 07/05/2005) The village of Dahaniya is protected round the clock by the Israeli army but the 350 residents are not Israelis living in fear of a suicide bomber. They are Arabs grouped together in what is known in the Gaza Strip as "the village of traitors". Inside the security fence that shields the villagers from the vengeance of their neighbours, fear is growing as the date of the Israeli army's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip approaches. Abed Shtiwe, a 37-year-old farm...

Saturday, April 30, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RODHAM WATCH Hillary gets the Catholic out of Catholic college School's invitation to pro-abortion senator prompts archdiocese to cease relationship -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 30, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A college has been stripped of its status as a Catholic institution because it invited pro-abortion Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., to give its commencement address and receive an honorary degree. The decision Thursday by the Archdiocese of New York to end its relationship with Marymount Manhattan College marks the fourth time since the late Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae –...

<p>When the tsunami disastrously struck Southeast Asia on Dec. 26, 2004, Las Vegas Libertarian Avan Perera happened to be in Sri Lanka -- the land of his birth -- visiting his parents. They recently retired back to Sri Lanka after living in the United States for 20 years.</p>

7,000-year-old Village found in Ningbo The Ningbo Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology announced this month that, after a 4-month excavation of 725 square meters, they have confirmed the discovery of a 7,000-year-old village of the early Hemudu culture. The site is at Fujiashan in the Jiangbei District of Ningbo City, in the eastern province of Zhejiang. According to a specialist from the institute, the site is one of the largest-scale, highest-yield and best-preserved sites in the province after the Hemudu site itself. The relics excavated showed it to be a Neolithic site in the early stage of Hemudu culture,...

Parthian era subterranean village discovered near Maragheh Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- Iranian archaeologists have discovered a Parthian era village under the earth near the Mehr Temple of the northwestern city of Maragheh, the director of the Maragheh Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department said on Wednesday. “Since the Mehr Temple is one of the little known sites of Iran, our team planned to carry out some excavations around it to ascertain some details about the temple. The excavations resulted in the discovery of an underground village which archaeologists believe dates back to the Parthian era,” Nasser Zavvari added....

Dec. 26, 2004 19:29Archeologists find ancient village near Tel-Aviv By ASSOCIATED PRESS Archeologists have discovered a village near the Mediterranean coast dating from the 4th century B.C., the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Sunday - a rare find. The discovery provides an unusual insight into a turbulent period when there were intense struggles for control over the area, said Uzi Ad, who led the dig. During this period the region was under the rule of the Egyptian Ptolemy empire and then the Selucid Greeks from Syria before it was conquered by the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty in the second century B.C. "The...

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Full Excavation for Irish Viking Village? By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Oct. 19, 2004 — Preliminary work to build a bypass road in an Irish village has yielded what could be the most significant piece of Viking history in Europe: a virtually intact town that some have already called Ireland's equivalent of Pompeii. Evidence for the ancient settlement was discovered last year by archaeologists testing areas ahead of road builders. Located near the banks of the river Suir at Woodstown, five miles from the city of Waterford, the potential Viking town lies below pasture fields commonly used for horse grazing....

A Romanian village was left deserted...

n Avenue of the Americas from Greenwich Village to Chelsea, there is more sex for sale than at any time in the neighborhood's memory. At No. 313, near West Third Street, there are X-rated DVD's and anatomically correct gadgets known in the sex industry as "marital aids." A few doors down, at Crazy Fantasy, two mannequins in the window suggest the provocative lingerie that can be found inside, along with many more DVD's. Stores at 597 and 599 offer more, more, more of the same, and at Xcellent DVD, at 515, there are private booths for viewing videos, staffed by...

Aug. 25, 2004 23:03 | Updated Aug. 26, 2004 11:02Second Temple village uncoveredETGAR LEFKOVITS Israeli archeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old Canaanite city and a 2,000-year-old Jewish village from the Second Temple period alongside each other in the Modi'in area. The adjacent ancient sites, which were known to exist but previously lay untouched, lie on a barren, wind-whipped hilltop spanning 120 dunams near the present-day Israeli town of Shoham. The area of the sites was to be converted into an industrial zone, but the finds – which include the remnants of ancient streets in each city, being excavated now by archeologists...

Treasures uncovered in Ryedale's lost village by Gazette reporters MILL SEARCH: Landscape investigator Al Oswald using GPS equipment in the newly-discovered monastic mill pond at Wharram Percy and, inset, the mill as it may have looked. RYEDALE'S famous lost village has given up another treasure for archaeologists. A long-lost water mill and farmstead at Wharram Percy, run by the "luckless" Cistercian monks of Meaux Abbey, came to light during a survey of the landscape around the wolds village, which is one of England's largest and best-preserved deserted medieval villages. English Heritage, working with the Wharram Research Project, combed through ancient...

<p>Alaska State Troopers seized dozens of bottles of alcohol and thousands of grams of marijuana in September that were bound for Western Alaska, officials said Friday.</p> <p>Troopers with the Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport seized 95 750-milliliter bottles and one 375-milliliter bottle of alcohol, troopers said in a press release. They also seized 2,371 grams, about 5.2 pounds, of marijuana.</p>

The Antidote to Hillary's Book: How to Destroy a Village   By Jason Fodeman June 5, 2003   Jason D. Fodeman is the author of the book,'How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old '. No, I did not receive an eight million dollar advance. Actually I received a couple of books gratis and nominal consideration. Yet I am grateful to PublishAmerica for publishing my book, ‘How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old’ , and affording me the opportunity to put into the public domain the antidote to the...

Let's be up front about the ultimate responsibility for children -- it lies with parents. I don't want to give the impression that I disagree with that. However, here's the issue. We have a local opportunity to have our own village gain control of our local schools rather than have them run by the county seat which is about 25 miles away from us. I personally think that local people will care more for their own children than will someone miles away. My question is this: "Is local control of children MORE biblical than is regional control?" I really solicit...

Oldest, largest primitive village unearthed in north China Xinhuanet 2002-10-28 17:00:53 ¡¡¡¡HOHHOT, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A 8,200-year-old village of Xinglongwa Culture was recently discovered in the Aohan Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ¡¡¡¡The oldest village site so far discovered in China, it is also the largest and most well-preserved, announced the archeologists whose excavation of the Xinglonggou Site near the Xiliao River came to a close Oct. 25. ¡¡¡¡According to Liu Guoxiang, assistant researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11 house foundations, 10 graves and 12 ash pits were found there. ¡¡¡¡The foundations unearthed are half-underground...

Contact: Andrea Lynn a-lynn@uiuc.edu 217-333 -2177 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ancient Illinois village unearths lode of questions CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Digging under a blazing sun in an Illinois cornfield, archaeologists this summer unearthed a fascinating anomaly: a 900-year-old square hilltop village. The discovery near Shiloh -- about 15 miles southeast of St. Louis -- challenges previous notions of the area's first people and adds a piece to the puzzle that was Cahokia, a huge "mother culture" that suddenly appeared, and just as suddenly vanished, leaving only traces of its majesty and meaning in the 11th century. Until now, archaeologists...

It takes a Fortress to protect your child from the village.By Roscoe Thorndyke Yes we all remembers Hillary Clintons book “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child, know the one that shared views with Hitler’s “My comfort”. Hillary never raised her child, you know the drunken harlot over in England. Yes she was raised by nannies and private schools. Hillary was too busy making shady legal deals and Bill was involved with politics and any tramp he could get his hands on. Boy they are a bunch of ideal parents I would want to take advise from, not! No...