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April 13th, 2010Greece: Prosecutor charges six over guerrilla attacks
April 13th, 20100
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Greece has charged six suspected members of its most militant guerrilla group, the leftist Revolutionary Struggle, over a series of bomb attacks, court officials said on Monday.
The five men and one woman, aged between 30 and 40, were arrested on Sunday in what appeared to be a major strike against those believed to be behind a number of attacks on police, the government and businesses since 2003.
“The prosecutor has charged them with participating in bomb attacks, participating in a terrorist group and attempted murder, illegal possession of explosives and guns, among other things,” said a court official who declined to be named.
The six suspects have all denied any wrongdoing.
Yeah, of course, what are they going to say? That they have done it?
… Revolutionary Struggle is best known for firing a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Athens in 2007. The group is also believed to have shot and seriously injured a policeman guarding the culture ministry after riots in December 2008.
The court official said all the charges related to crimes committed since September 2003, when Revolutionary Struggle first appeared, about a year after the capture of the guerrilla group November 17, which killed more than 20 people in 27 years.
Police said the suspects included Nikos Maziotis, 39, who had been jailed for three and a half years for planting a bomb outside a ministry in 1997.
via Greece charges six over guerrilla attacks | Reuters.
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Afghanistan: Taliban threaten to kill kidnapped journalists
April 13th, 20100
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Taliban militants in Afghanistan are threatening to kill two kidnapped French journalists unless their demands are met, including the release of some detainees held by France.
In a video posted online, the journalists – kidnapped in December – are shown in separate clips.
Speaking in English and French, one reads a lengthy statement saying that if the full video is not aired on French TV, the journalists will be killed, along with their translator and driver.
“The French president, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, must understand that we are now in danger of death. I repeat: the French president much negotiate very quickly – otherwise we will be executed soon,” he says.
via Taliban militants threaten to kill kidnapped journalists – Afghanistan Crossroads – CNN.com Blogs.
Do what we want or else. But CNN continues to name them “militants”, not terrorists.
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Pakistan: Arrested Christian Rights activist Hector Aleem needs money
April 13th, 20100
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Christian human rights activist and director of NGO Peace Worldwide, Hector Aleem, was taken into custody in January 2009 because a militant Islamic group accused him of sending a ‘blasphemous’ text message from his cell phone. If convicted, he faces the death penalty under Pakistani law.
Prior to the 55-year-old’s arrest, Aleem was threatened by Islamic groups with assassination attempts and lawsuits because he objected to the illegal destruction of a church by Islamabad’s capital development authority (CDA). Muslim leaders threatened to kill him and his sons, and to forcibly convert his daughters to Islam.
Although a heart patient, Aleem has not been allowed to consume his medication and he has been denied visitation in prison. He was denied bail because Islamic mobs filled his trial courtroom and threatened to kill the judge, Aleem, and Aleem’s lawyer.
Aleem is the recipient of a peace award by Pakistan’s Prime Minister.
His Facebook page is here.
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History: liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp
April 13th, 20100
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Horrible. Just plainly horrible.
it is the place where Anne Frank died of typhus on 1945. It is estimated that more than 50,000 Russian POWs and other 50,000 inmates died there, up to 35,000 dying of typhus on the first months of 1945.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial official webpage.
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on Wikipedia.
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Morocco: “Christian Proselitism is Terrorism”, 7000 ulemas say
April 13th, 20100
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Read at El PaÃs:
7000 Moroccan ulemas (Qu’ram scholars) reject in a message, Christian proselitism in their country and consider it even as “a moral rape” and as “religious terrorism”, when it tries to “divert Moroccan children from their faith”.
The message published this week-end is the last phase in a campaign undertaken by the Moroccan authorities against foreign Christians living in Morocco. The latter are accused of proselitism and of attempting to break Muslims’ faith a crime punished by the Moroccan Criminal Code.
Last March 70 Christians were forced to exit the country, according to the numbers published by several churches, but the Moroccan Home Ministry only acknowledged the expulsion of 16 who run a little orphanage in Ain Leuh, in the Atlas’ range.
The Christian victims of the Home Ministry’s decision are all protestans, except for a Franciscan friar who lived in Larache. He is the first Catholic ever expelled from North Morocco, according to the Tangier’s Archbishopric whose speaker has denied that he did proselitism. Instead he was looking after a very tiny community of Christians in that city.
The ulemas express their “total support and great pried” of those who sign it in front of the “historic decisions taken by the public powers to abort the hypocrite plan of a group of proselytizing Christians”. Â Their behaviour towards children, it continues, “is a moral rape, a form of religious terrorism and is similar to the kidnapping of little innocent children”.
“These firm decisions”, it ends, “soothe (us) about the confesional future of the nation protected by the Divine Providence and which is ensured by His Majesty Mohammed VI, the Believers’ Commander, as the defender of the faith (…)”. The text of the Islam scholars was published by its higher hierarchical body, the Ulema’s Superior Coumcil, whose president is the King.
Rabat and Tangier’s Archbishoprics, Rabat’s nuncio and the official representative of the Protestant churches in Morocco have asked for explanations to the authorities about the expulsions. But till now, they have obtained non. Some Moroccans who have converted to Christianism have been victims in March of police harrasment.
At least two Government, US and the Netherlands, have critizised the measures taken by Moroccan authorities. But the Spanish one, who is the EU President now, hasn’t. The more numerous expulsions were carried out during the first week.end of March when the first summit between the EU and Morocco, supported by Spain, was being held in Granada.
Yep, because EU and Morocco were negotiating the “united economic space“. Then RodrÃguez Zapatero will claim they defend Human Rights. Hah! 
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Australia: Muslim who strangled wife to death for being “too Australian”, sentenced to 22 years
April 12th, 20100
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A man who killed his wife by using her veil to strangle her in their Melbourne home did so in the belief he was entitled to dominate her, a Supreme Court judge has found.
Soltan Azizi was today sentenced to 22 years’ jail by Justice Betty King, who said the Afghani refugee had been physically abusive towards Marzieh Rahimi throughout their 14-year marriage.
Justice King said Ms Rahimi had sought help from social workers and was intending to leave Azizi, despite him warning that he would kill her if she tried.
She said Azizi had complained to Ms Rahimi’s sister in the days prior to her killing that his wife was becoming “too Australian“, meaning “she was not a docile and good wife in the terms you expected her to be”.
“It is clear you were unable to accept that your wife had rights, which rights included the ability to leave you if that was what she desired,” Justice King said.
“… Her death clearly resulted because of your belief that you were entitled to dominate and dictate to your wife what she could and could not do.”…
via Australia: Muslim strangles wife to death for being “too Australian” – Jihad Watch.
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Lieberman: Omitting ‘Islamic’ Terrorism From Security Document Dishonest, ‘Offensive’
April 12th, 20100
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Sen. Joe Lieberman slammed the Obama administration Sunday for stripping terms like “Islamic extremism” from a key national security document, calling the move dishonest, wrong-headed and disrespectful to the majority of Muslims who are not terrorists.
The Connecticut independent revealed that he wrote a letter Friday to top counterterrorism adviser John Brennan urging the administration to “identify accurately the ideological source” of the threat against the United States. He wrote that failing to identify “violent Islamist extremism” as the enemy is “offensive.”
via FOXNews.com – Lieberman: Omitting ‘Islamic’ Terrorism From Security Document Dishonest, ‘Offensive’.
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Afghanistan: Italian workers held in assassination plot
April 12th, 20100
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Afghan authorities have arrested three Italian medical workers in a plot to assassinate the governor of the southern Helmand province.
The three workers were arrested Saturday along with six Afghans from a hospital run by Milan-based Emergency in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province.
Emergency is one of the few foreign-run clinics in the city.
The nine were planning to conduct suicide attacks in the province, said Daud Ahmad, the provincial governor’s spokesman.
Authorities said the suspects had taken $500,000 from the Pakistan Taliban to launch their attack in a crowded location when Gov. Gulab Mangal was present.
Authorities found two suicide vests, two pistols and explosives hidden in medicine cartons at the clinic, Ahmad said.
Emergency has maintained a presence in Afghanistan for more than a decade, with its Lashkar Gah clinic treating more than 66,000 people, the group said.
via Italian workers held in Afghan assassination plot – CNN.com.
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Tariq Ramadan: “Let’s not Talk About Muslims Integrating”
April 12th, 20100
On Thursday, Ramadan said the ban undermined American values and that it was no longer appropriate to speak about “Muslims in the West,†but rather “Western Muslims.â€
“The difference is that we are not here in a host country. We are at home, and Islam is a Western religion,†Ramadan said.Ramadan will also speak Saturday in Chicago at a banquet sponsored by the Council on American Islamic Relations, and on Monday at Georgetown University.
Talk of Muslim integration was old, too, he said. “It’s time not to speak about integrating, it’s to think about contribution, what do you give to your country. This is a step forward, when you give something, people are not asking where do you come from, they want to know where we are going together.â€
via Obama’s Islamist: Let’s not Talk About Muslims Integrating | Loganswarning.
Does he tells the same to non-Muslims in Islamic countries?
And, why integration shouldn’t be a requirement for Muslims immigrants? Oh, no wait. There should be a moratory for stoning adulterers, so… they don’t have to integrate, in Ramadan’s view, because they should be waiting for the appropriate timing, isn’t it?
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