From CBN: STONETOWN, Zanzibar – Welcome to the island of Zanzibar. Anchored in the Indian Ocean 50 miles off Africa’s east coast, Zanzibar is one of the few places that can truly be called paradise on Earth. But there is more to this tropical island than meets the eye. Zanzibar was once East Africa’s main […]
Egypt: Court Suspends Ruling Recognising Bahai Rights
From IRIN: Cairo – Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court decided on 15 May to suspend the implementation of an earlier lower court ruling that allowed Bahais to have their religion recognised on official documents. “While [we are] disappointed by the decision to suspend the administrative court ruling it is important to note that the Supreme Administrative […]
Baku Says Cemetery Still Intact
Update on our earlier report that this precious Medieval cemetary had vanished from AP: BAKU, Azerbaijan — An aide to Azerbaijan’s president on Tuesday denied a report that a centuries-old ethnic Armenian cemetery had been destroyed. The report by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting said the medieval Djulfa cemetery in the exclave of […]
Jury deadlocks on Calif student in case linked to 9/11 hijacker
More news on the American justice front from the AP, . NEW YORK – A judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked Thursday on whether a San Diego student lied about his associations with a Sept. 11, 2001, hijacker in the days after the terrorist attacks. The jury in federal court in Manhattan could […]
U.S. Military Releases Video Showing Zarqawi Unable to Work Gun
This is an example of America’s big counter-propaganda offensive no doubt, but it’s pretty funny nonetheless. From Fox News: BAGHDAD, Iraq “” The U.S. military command Thursday released previously unseen images of a video purportedly posted by Al Qaeda in Iraq’s leader, showing him decked out in American tennis shoes and unable to operate his […]
In Iraqi town, trainees are also suspects
From the Bandar Beacon, aka The Washington Post with thanks to Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald. HAWIJAH, Iraq – After midnight on a bare stretch of highway near this ramshackle town last week, Staff Sgt. Jason Hoover saw what looked like a fishing line strung across the road and ordered his Humvee to […]
Indian Hostage Beheaded in Afghanistan
From AP, with thanks to Looney Tunes. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Police found an Indian hostage’s beheaded body in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. Taliban militants said they shot the hostage dead as he tried to escape. Escape beheading, perhaps? “The death of the Indian engineer who was working for the construction and reconstruction of […]
Hirsi Ali, The Hunted
This comes to us from Pieter Dorsman at Peaktalk: Just to show how far Dutch tolerance goes: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s neighbors have sued the Dutch state in order to get her to be removed from the apartment complex in which she is living under police protection. The request was initially rejected, but following an appeal […]
Killing of Al-Qaeda ‘Emir’ Called Blow to Insurgency
From today’s Bandar Beacon, aka The Washington Post: BAGHDAD, April 28 — U.S. forces killed a local leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and captured another in raids north of Baghdad on Thursday and Friday, dealing a blow to the insurgent organization’s leadership in the violent city of Samarra, Iraqi police and U.S. military authorities said. […]
Terrorist Escapes Raid in Indonesia but Two Militants Killed
From VOA: One of Asia’s most wanted fugitive terrorist leaders, Noordin Mohammed Top, has escaped an early morning raid by Indonesian police in a central Java town, but the police say they killed two other wanted militants. Malaysian-born Noordin Mohammed Top, believed to be one of the leaders in the regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah […]