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To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/17/2006 7:42:59 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Murder of Pakistani woman shocks Italy (honor killing) Dawn ^ \| Augustus 17 2006 \| AFP ROME, Aug 16: The killing in Italy of a young Pakistani woman by her own family has shocked Italians and prompted a discussion about integration, just as the government pushes through legislation making it easier for immigrants to obtain citizenship. The stabbed body of 21-year-old Hina Saleem, whose boyfriend — a 33-year-old divorced and re-married Italian — raised the alarm to police about her disappearance, was discovered on Saturday buried in the garden of the family home at Sarezzo, near the north-eastern city of Brescia. The killing was “a kind of punishment inflicted by her father because she did not respect the rules of their ethnicity and culture,” Brescia prosecutor Giancarlo Tarquini said at a news conference. The father and brother-in-law of the young woman were charged with murder and concealing the body, while a third male family member was still being hunted by police on Wednesday. Investigators are trying to determine whether the murder was premeditated, a hypothesis supported by the fact that the women and children of the family appeared to have been removed from the house before the murder. The father told police that he killed his daughter because he did not want her to “become like the others.” He has remained silent since then and his lawyer has described him as an extremely pious man “who respected the Quran to the letter”. “Hina was very beautiful. She used to wear mini-skirts or show her belly button like all girls of her age, and she spoke Italian very well,” a woman living next door to the flat the young woman shared with her boyfriend told news agency ANSA. A spokesman for the Brescia Pakistani community, Mohammed Tofi, condemned the murder.

To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/17/2006 7:45:39 AM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 9838

There u go complaining again..

To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/17/2006 9:21:04 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

France considers only symbolic force for UN Reuters UK ^ \| Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:45 PM BST \| Crispian Balmer today.reuters.co.uk PARIS (Reuters) - France is considering providing only a symbolic force for the United Nations contingent in Lebanon, and not the thousands of troops UN officials had hoped, Le Monde newspaper said on Thursday. If true, such a move could seriously delay the UN mission, seen as vital to securing peace between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas, or even scupper the whole operation. Quoting U.N. and diplomatic sources, Le Monde said France might send just a dozen officers and around 200 personnel from an engineering division for the beefed-up UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). President Jacques Chirac's office said the military options "were still under review". A French diplomatic source said France had always highlighted the dangers of such a mission and said the conditions for the operation had to be clarified. The source added there was no turnaround in the French position and no misunderstanding with the United Nations. French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Wednesday that France was willing to lead the UN force until at least February, so long as it was given a clear mandate. However, she declined to say how many troops France would commit to UNIFIL, which is eventually expected to consist of 15,000 soldiers, up from 2,000 at present.

To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/17/2006 12:14:43 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Top al Qaeda Man In Pakistan Nabbed ABC ^ \| 8/17/06 \| Gretchen Peters and Habibullah Khan blogs.abcnews.com Gretchen Peters and Habibullah Khan Report: A senior al Qaeda commander allegedly tied to the London airplane bomb plot has been arrested in Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence and law enforcement officials have told ABC News. Matiur Rehman, one of the most wanted men in Pakistan, is known to have met with the alleged plot ringleader Rashid Rauf, according to the officials. Rehman’s capture could provide the most important leads in months to the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s top two leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. Rehman was believed to be in frequent contact with Zawahiri. Rehman was taken into custody in the southern Punjab city of Bawalpur, the same town where alleged London plot ringleader Rashid Rauf was arrested last week. ABC News saw a copy of the police report on Rehman, with an attached copy of his photo. Pakistani officials told ABC News earlier that 29-year Rehman was known to be planning a terror spectacular to mark the fifth anniversary of the 9/ll attacks, and the London plot may have been it. ABC News consultant Alexis Debat, a terrorism expert at the Nixon Center in Washington D.C., says, "[Rehman] is the interface between al Qaeda's leadership and thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Pakistani militants who are able to provide the muscle for al Qaeda's operations not only in Pakistan but around the world."

To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/17/2006 12:16:46 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Reuters Uses Havana Correspondent Who Wrote for Communist Daily newsbusters.org Reuters Uses Havana Correspondent Who Wrote for Communist Daily Posted by Greg Sheffield on August 17, 2006 - 03:38. First Reuters had a photo scandal to face. Now Go Pundit Go has discovered that Reuters is currently employing a former writer for the People’s Daily World, a Communist Party USA publication. And it turns out his propagandistic tendencies haven't left him, as he recently wrote a glowing review in the Financial Times on how Cubans are dealing with their leader's poor health:

To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/17/2006 2:36:42 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Islam needs to face up to its failures (this from a muslim) Sydney Morning Herald ^ \| 8/17/2006 \| Tanveer Ahmed smh.com.au THE latest arrests in Britain and Pakistan relating to another possible terrorist attack by Western-raised Muslims are a pivotal point in the shaping of popular opinion and in setting a course of action for Muslims living in the West. After the London bombings in July last year there were ceremonial hugs between sheiks and the Mayor, Ken Livingstone; not this time. Nor were there immediate police announcements in Muslim districts to avoid criminalising entire communities. In fact, quite the opposite. The former Metropolitan Police chief, John Stevens, wrote in the News of the World: "When will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is their problem?" The tone of opinion and editorial pieces has also become less sympathetic. Even progressive newspapers such as The Guardian have accused Muslims of burying their heads in the sand. To a large extent, it is justified. Despite repeated terrorist attacks and the normality of radical views in the community, Muslims have done little to speak up about the extremists in their ranks or to condemn the abuses of radical Islamic groups and governments. Rather, their political voices have been limited to cries of discrimination and criticism of the foreign policy of the West. This reached a climax in Britain this week after a council of Islamic representative groups handed a document to the Government outlining how British foreign policy needed to be altered, based not on any principle, but because it was increasing the appeal of extremism in their communities. Similarly, here the Federation of Islamic Councils has been lobbying the Federal Government to remove Hezbollah from a list of banned terrorist groups. The claims that terrorism is linked solely to Western foreign policy look increasingly weak, especially since the latest investigations in Britain suggest there were plans for attacks on London from the mid-1990s. When Muslim voices are heard, victimhood themes and, even worse, ludicrous levels of denial dominate. In London this week, interviews with Muslims revealed that large sections of the community still believe there was no proof that Muslims were behind the London bombings and that there was a Jewish conspiracy behind the World Trade Centre attacks. Surveys in London's Daily Telegraph in February found 6 per cent of Muslims believed the London bombings were justified. This equates to about 100,000 people in Britain who could see nothing wrong with the July 7 attacks in their country. Almost 35 per cent were sympathetic. While no similar surveys have been carried out in Australia, I suspect the figures would be little different. The groups that tend to harbour undesirable views see Islam as morally superior and believe it needs to be instituted at all costs. They take solace in their belief that despite the overwhelming economic, administrative and technological superiority of the West, at least they can hold on to their superior morals. They create cultural fortresses to ward off the forces of their adopted home while still hoping to benefit from its economic advantages. It is the children who, raised in such cultural fortresses, feel few ties to their country of birth and are vulnerable to radical ideologies offering a higher, supra-national identity. The time has come for Western Muslims to take a more aggressive stance, to take control of the institutions and commentary that demean them and accept that Islam is full of failures that require action. Furthermore, there should be a growing sense that while Islam has been instrumental in offering meaning and purpose to billions, it has been more useful as a system of spirituality than as a system of jurisprudence. This should be the new battleground between radicals, moderates and cultural Muslims, and recent events demand these issues be confronted directly and debated openly. Tanveer Ahmed is a psychiatry registrar who is writing a book that takes a comic look at Muslim life in Sydney, to be published early next year by ABC Books.

To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/17/2006 3:21:27 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

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To: steve harris who wrote (8182)	8/18/2006 2:19:34 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

China abortion activist on trial BBC News ^ \| 8/18/2006 The trial of an Chinese activist who raised concerns about forced abortion and sterilisation has taken place. Chen Guangcheng, under house arrest since September 2005, is charged with public order offences. It is not clear when a verdict will be announced. He had accused officials in Shandong of breaking family planning laws in their enforcement of the one-child policy. Before the trial, three lawyers connected to his case were arrested, but two have now been released. One of them, Li Fangping, told the BBC that Mr Chen had been represented, against his will, by two state-appointed lawyers in the closed-door proceedings. His wife told the news agency AFP she had not been allowed to attend the trial, which according to reports lasted about two hours. Hundreds of police surrounded the courthouse and blocked Mr Chen's supporters from attending, reports said. Illegal Mr Chen faced charges of "wilfully harming public property" and "gathering masses to disturb traffic order", which relate to protests that took place after he was detained. He had accused local health workers in Linyi city of forcing people to have late-term abortions or sterilisations in order to enforce the one-child policy. His allegations were covered in the international media, including an article in Time Magazine which claimed some 7,000 people had been sterilised against their will in Shandong. In 2006, the magazine named Mr Chen as one of the world's 100 most influential people for exposing the problem. Several workers were later arrested or sacked over the claims, state media reported, acknowledging "successive complaints" about illegal practices in Linyi. China brought in its one-child policy 25 years ago, in a drive to curb population growth, but forced sterilisation and abortion are illegal.