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To: John Carragher who wrote (20391)	9/7/2003 7:58:59 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

'Rats' slur writer is facing Muslim race case By Philip Delves Broughton in Paris (Filed: 06/09/2003) news.telegraph.co.uk. An Italian author who wrote an attack on Muslims, calling their culture rotten and backward and saying "the sons of Allah are multiplying like rats", was accused of inciting racial hatred in Paris yesterday. Oriana Fallaci, 73, an Italian journalist now living in New York, was unable to attend the court hearing as she has cancer. She first published her polemic against Islam, titled The Rage and the Pride, in an Italian newspaper but such was its impact that it was turned into a best-selling book. If successful, the case against her will set a precedent in French law. Up to now, only the public prosecutor or official anti-racist associations have been allowed to bring cases alleging incitement to racial hatred. Ms Fallaci's accusers are 11 young Muslim men from the Lyons suburbs. "When a victim is clearly designated, the sons of Allah, why should I, a Muslim, not feel victimised?" asked their lawyer, Gilles Devers. "I have as strong a claim as the associations." Ms Fallaci's lawyers, and those of her French publisher, Plon, said allowing individuals to bring such cases would create a class of "thought police" tying up writers with endless frivolous lawsuits. They also argued that victims must suffer an expressly targeted prejudice. A similar case against Ms Fallaci was brought by French anti-racist associations last year but was rejected on technicalities. The judgment on the latest case will be heard next month. She renowned as one of the few western women to have interviewed the Ayatollah Khomneini, the late Iranian revolutionary leader, and for ripping off her chador - the all-covering garment she was obliged to wear - at the end of the encounter.

To: John Carragher who wrote (20391)	9/8/2003 7:56:45 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Al-Qaida's doomsday warning to America New tape says next terror onslaught will obliterate memories of Sept. 11 September 7, 2003 worldnetdaily.com A new tape reportedly made by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and broadcast on al-Arabiyya satellite TV channel threatens a terrorist onslaught against America so devastating it will surpass Sept. 11. The message, dated Sept. 3, was broadcast today. "We announce there will be new attacks inside and outside (the U.S.) which would make America forget the attacks of September 11," said an al-Qaida spokesman who identified himself as Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Najdi. "We assure Muslims that al-Qaida ranks have doubled. ... Our casualties are nothing compared to our (good) conditions now. Our coming martyrdom operations will prove to you what we are saying," he added. Washington said last week it was on alert for possible attacks by the militant group. The speaker denied al-Qaida had been involved in the car bombing that killed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, a leading Shia cleric, in Iraq last month. "We strongly deny that al-Qaida had any hand in this bombing which killed Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, violated the sanctity of one of God's houses and killed innocent people," the speaker said on the tape. "Our highest aim is to fight the Americans and kill them everywhere on earth and drive them out of Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq," he continued. He accused the U.S. and Israel of orchestrating the attack on Hakim. "We have no motives. Those who killed Baqr al-Hakim are the Americans and Jews. They wanted to get rid of him because they know that his loyalty was to Iran," he said. In the tape, al-Qaida insisted bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar, the ousted Taliban leader, were both alive and leading the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. FBI and Homeland Security officials warned last week the United States faces threat of attack from al-Qaida, saying it still targets Americans and has a presence in U.S. cities two years after the Sept. 11 attacks that killed about 3,000 people. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory saying it remained concerned about al-Qaida's "continued efforts to plan multiple attacks against the U.S. and U.S. interests overseas." But the advisory, based on a review of intelligence ahead of the two-year anniversary of the attacks, said the department had no specific data on individual targets or dates for any attacks.