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BBC Screen capture from BBC video. Clashes between police and Islamist protesters in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have left at least three people dead and 60 injured. Up to half a million protesters gathered in the city, where rioters set fire to shops and vehicles as police fought to contain them. The activists are calling for those who insult Islam to face the death penalty. Police have moved in to expel thousands of [...] Daniel McAdams In the name of democracy, the US government has supported a variety of armed opposition fighters in Syria seeking to overthrow that country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, who according to a wide variety of sources information enjoys support from the majority of the Syrian people. So to promote democracy in Syria, the US government has taken it upon itself to choose a new leader for Syria. And in keeping with the [...] Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s Islamist president, announced a month-long state of emergency in three troubled provinces bordering the strategic Suez canal after a weekend of violence in which 48 people were killed in clashes with police . He said a nightly curfew from 9 pm to 6 am would be imposed in the three neighbouring provinces of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez and warned that that he had given clear orders to [...]  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian protesters and police are clashing in Cairo just hours ahead of a planned massive rally by opponents of the country’s Islamist president demanding he rescinds decrees that granted him near-absolute powers. Tuesday’s clashes are taking place near the U.S. Embassy and the Egyptian capital’s Tahrir square. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/clashes-resume-cairo-ahead-opposition-rally Live updates: Nationwide battle against Morsi ‘dictatorship’ soars 13:30 Back on Tahrir, Ahram Online journalist Zeinab El-Guindy reports numbers are increasing, with a [...] Iran has finished installing nearly 3,000 nuclear-fuel production machines at its underground military facility near the holy city of Qom, providing Tehran the capability to double its production of medium-enriched uranium in the coming months, a new report said. These advances, outlined in a report on Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, could allow Tehran’s Islamist leaders to accumulate in as little as three to [...] The U.S. Armed Forces recently sent soldiers to Turkey amid the incidents in Syria and the soldiers deployed in Turkey have been sharing intelligence, U.S. Army Europe Commander Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling has said, according to USNews.com. “We have had a relatively few number of U.S. Army Europe personnel in Turkey recently,” the general said. “Some of that has been sharing intelligence.” http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-deploys-troops-to-turkey-general.aspx?pageID=238&nid=33221&NewsCatID=338#.UIk5KXnTRwA.twitter Turkey Seeking to Set up Military Training Camp for Syrian [...] London – Somalia’s Islamist al-Shabaab militia on Monday warned Britain it would “pay the heftiest price” for its “war against Islam” and the extradition of radical cleric Abu Hamza to the United States. In a series of 11 posts written by al-Shabaab’s Press Office on its Twitter page, the radical group threatened to inflict on Britain its worst-ever attack. “The nightmare that surreptitiously looms on British shores is bound to eclipse the [...] BBC.co.uk
Prosecutors in France have said an alleged Islamist terror cell was planning the biggest bomb attack on France since the mid-1990s. Police arrested 12 people in raids at the weekend, during which one suspect was killed as he fired on officers. Five of the detainees have since been released but seven remain in custody, on suspicion of terrorist activity. Read full article As the United Nations General Assembly gets underway and leaders from around the world begin to congregate in New York City, President Obama seemingly downgraded Israel’s traditional status as the closest U.S. ally in the Middle East. In a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, Obama simply called Israel “one of” America’s closest allies in the region. Responding to a question about Israel’s request that he explain his “red lines” on the [...] The Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamist organization that has successfully penetrated both political parties and the delicate areas of defense and national security. Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, executive vice president of the Family Research Council, told WND’s Greg Corombos that people with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood are in vital positions within every significant area of the U.S. government. He specifically cited high security clearances for such [...] Daniel McAdams That the “war on terror” is a sick, manipulative joke cannot be more clearly demonstrated by the decision of the US State Department yesterday to remove the Marxist-Islamist death and murder cult, Mujahedeen Khalq(MeK), from the US terror list. As Glenn Greenwald pointed out earlier this year, the MeK is jointly funded and trained by Israeli and US intelligence to carry out murder and mayhem inside Iran against civilian targets. It is the [...] The Russian government gave the US until 1 October to close the mission. USAID has worked in Russia for two decades, spending nearly $3bn (£1.8bn) on aid and democratic programmes. Correspondents say the government’s antipathy towards pro-democracy groups may be to blame for the move. Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin alleged that protests surrounding his re-election were orchestrated by US-funded NGOs. Among the groups likely to be affected is Golos, whose exposure of [...] Around 10,000 people participated in the main rally organised on The Mall by the Tehreek Hurmat-i-Rasool (THR). The participants marched from Nila Gumbad to Masjid-i-Shuhada on The Mall. Despite a ban on rallies on The Mall, the road remained blocked for vehicular traffic from noon to 6pm. The rally was addressed by Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, THR head Ameer Hamza, JD leader Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, Pakistan Muslim League [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/wo…-in-cairo.html Mysterious Anti-Muslim Movie Prompts Protest in Egypt Ultraconservative Islamist protesters climbed the walls of the United States Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and took down the American flag, replacing it with a black flag with an Islamic inscription to protest a movie attacking Islam’s prophet, Muhammad. Cairo Journal: A Dictator Is Gone, but Egypt’s Traffic and Congestion Seem Hundreds of protesters marched to the fortresslike embassy in downtown Cairo, gathering outside its walls [...] Tony Cartalucci Foreign Policy published a recent article literally titled, “Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists.” In it, general editor of the Neo-Con Middle East Forum Gary Gambill concedes that the Syrian government “would not be in the trouble it’s in today were it not for the Islamists,” revealing what the West and its media houses have attempted but failed at obfuscating – that the violence in Syria is the work of [...] NEW YORK – Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi is studying the possibility of keeping tanks in the Sinai Peninsula on a permanent basis, according to a senior Egyptian military official who spoke to WND. The military buildup would violate a key provision of peace accords signed with Israel in 1979 that calls for the total demilitarization of the peninsula. Over the last two weeks, there have been reports of Egypt sending in [...] President Obama Speech to Muslim World in Cairo This is BIG… and the PRESS will NOT COVER ANY OF IT.. Obama said ” I AM ONE OF You” in Aramaic Obama declares he’s Muslim! at 25 / 30 The White House did not deny rumors that President Barack Hussein Obama will officially revert to Islam just prior to his second imaculation. In Egypt, the President recited fictitious achievements of Islam, like a seasoned [...] Calls from a Bahraini Sunni cleric urging President Mohamed Morsy to destroy the Giza Pyramids were issued from a parody Twitter account online, the Daily News Egypt has learned. Several right wing online portals ran with the controversial news as a means to raise alarms over the rise of an Islamist-led government in Egypt and its threat to rich historical sites. According to the rumours, Shiek Abd Al-Latif Al-Mahmoud denounced the [...] David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terror legislation, said this summer’s Games are a “major target” and police may be intervening in cases earlier than they would normally. His comments follow a series of arrests by counter-terrorism officers in recent weeks. Last month two Muslim converts were arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack against the Olympic canoeing venue. They were later released without charge. And last week 14 people were arrested [...] |
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