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To: longnshort who wrote (1792)	9/29/2006 9:44:27 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

The UN (and Laz) are sad...... U.N. Official Decries Anti-Terror Bill AP ^ \| 9/29/6 \| PAUL HAVEN sfgate.com MADRID, Spain -- The top U.N. official on torture said Friday that a bill before the U.S. Congress could deprive terrorism suspects of a fair trial and was especially troubling after the mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The legislation, expected to clear a final congressional hurdle Friday and go to the White House for the president's signature, was condemned by many politicians, human rights groups and newspapers around the world as a violation of international law and an invitation to torture. At least two U.S. allies — Poland and Britain — declined to comment directly on the proposal. Manfred Nowak, the U.N. anti-torture investigator, said the bill was particularly troubling following known abuses in U.S. detention facilities. "I'm very disappointed," he told The Associated Press in Geneva. "It doesn't send the signal that we would have expected after Abu Ghraib." In Poland, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrzej Sados would not speak directly about the legislation, but said "certain extraordinary tools in fighting terrorism are acceptable." The British Foreign Office also would not comment specifically on the measure, but said it welcomed the Bush administration's decision to grant the International Red Cross access to 14 important detainees, such as former al-Qaida No. 3 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. It reiterated Britain's view that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed. Human rights groups were among the sharpest critics of the legislation. (Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ....

To: longnshort who wrote (1792)	9/29/2006 10:12:10 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Philippines wants Islamic group included in US, UN terrorist blacklists The Associated Press Published: September 28, 2006 iht.com MANILA, Philippines The Philippine government wants the U.S. and the United Nations to blacklist a small group of Islamic converts, considered the country's most dangerous militants because of their financial backing and familiarity with Manila and other key cities, an anti-terror official said Thursday. The Philippines doesn't yet have a list of outlawed terror groups, but if it did the Rajah Solaiman Revolutionary Movement would definitely appear on it, said Ric Blancaflor, director of the government's Anti-Terrorism Task Force, adding that Manila will cooperate with any governments that plan to ban the group. The movement, believed to have about 30 members, has been linked to a number of terrorist attacks in the Philippines, including a February 2004 bombing that gutted a ferry, killing 116 people. It has been hurt by the arrests of its leader and other members but could still plot attacks, Blancaflor said. The group has collaborated with the more well-known Abu Sayyaf, based on southern Jolo island, and Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional network allied with al-Qaida, in staging attacks and organizing terrorist training in the southern Mindanao region. It also has links with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a large group fighting for self-rule in the south, Blancaflor said. "This is the most dangerous group facing the Philippines," he told a two-day Manila conference on terrorist threats facing businesses. "It is not the Abu Sayyaf, not the JI, not the MILF." Mindanao-based Muslim guerrillas are easily spotted in the country's predominantly Roman Catholic central and northern regions because of their southern accents and unfamiliarity with places beyond their rural strongholds. But many of the Christian converts to Islam grew up and were educated in Manila and key cities, he said. Although the Superferry 14 bombing was planned by Jemaah Islamiyah and the Abu Sayyaf, it was an Rajah Solaiman Islamic convert who smuggled the bomb on board concealed in a TV set. Another member of the group was responsible for a bomb that exploded last year in a passenger bus in the capital's Makati financial district, killing four people and wounding more than 100 others, he said. "What makes them more dangerous than your ordinary terrorists is that they will try to prove that they can do more than the original Islamic militants," he told the forum. Rohan Gunaratna, head of terrorism research at Singapore's Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, told reporters without elaborating that the Rajah Solaiman Revolutionary Movement "has significant ties to overseas fund-raising initiatives" by Muslim militants. About 30 to 40 homegrown militant groups worldwide including the Rajah Solaiman — all inspired by al-Qaida — pose a greater danger than Osama bin Laden's group because they operate autonomously, are very resilient and prefer "soft targets" like businesses and populated centers rather than military and government establishments, he said.