Month: October 2010

Farooque Ahmed said wanted to kill soldiers abroad, but the FBI persuaded him to target DC METRO stations instead … Suspect in D.C. Metro Bomb Plot Sought to Fight U.S. Troops Overseas, Records Say (Washington Post) … with unexpected consequences for the local Muslim community … Hip Muslim Moms Group Undone by D.C. Metro Bomb…

Prince Alwaleed coming out against the construction of the mosque shows that the debate is not Muslim v. Christian America, but a conversation about the values of tolerance and liberty: Prince Alwaleed ‘Against’ Ground Zero Mosque (Arabian Business) “Mary Brereton, 55, a personal trainer who lives in nearby Alexandria, Va., said she was more worried…

“I wasn’t sure just how serious Aziz was with his offer – although having spent time with the former head of the Unscom weapons inspections team, Scott Ritter, I was pretty sure that Aziz was telling the truth about WMD”: Tariq Aziz Is A Man Who Knows Too Much (Guardian) “While striking down the proof-of-citizenship…

The unarmed Afghan mullah “seemed friendly. He didn’t seem to have any sort of animosity towards us,” but he was murdered and his body mutilated and evidence planted to make it appear that he was hostile: Stryker Unit Sought to Defend Killing at Heart of Afghan Murder Probe (Washington Post) Saddam’s Christian foreign minister refused…

Just one day after the NY Times reported Karzai gets “slush funds” fro Iran, the Afghan president reveals that the USA and the UAE also contribute to “official presidential expenses”: Karzai Says His Office Gets Cash from Iran, US (AP / Yahoo) As Tony Blair says that the threat of militant Islam echoes that of fascism, his sister-in-law…

As Israel Ramps Up Settlement Building, Rachel Corrie’s parent sue “the state of Israel, for a nominal one dollar, for allowing, and at some points encouraging, its soldiers to act with impunity”: Justice, Israeli Style (Al-Jazeera) “[T]he foundation of [journalists’] greater freedoms – the millionaire businessmen who opened up a generation of private media, full…

“Federal Judge Milan Smith said it was ‘repugnant to the Constitution’ for the government to say it ‘has the power to arrest and detain or restrict American citizens for months on end … merely because the government wants to investigate them for possible wrongdoing’ “: Supreme Court To Decide Civil Liberties Suit Against John Ashcroft (LA…

A report that the CIA overlooked a critical intelligence source from the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID) as an “internal power play within Jordanian intelligence” turns up the heat: CIA Ignored Jordanian Intelligence Before Suicide Bombing In Khost, Afghanistan (Christian Science Monitor) The resistance of the Taliban to the idea that it has began talks with the Karzai regime suggests that…

Leadership Council member says Muslims are not doing enough in “educating the public and allaying their fears of Muslims in the mosque, what goes on in the mosque”: US Muslims Invite Dialogue to Counter Anti-Islamic Tensions (Voice of America) Ratings of the ruling Christian Democratic (CDU) and Free Democratic parties “have slumped so badly this…

Exploitation of Islamophobic hysteria is not limited to media figures like Bill O’Reilly and paranoid bloggers who see terrorists hiding in soup cans; “socialist millionaire professor’’ Martin “Peretz has the social and economic guns to … to be defended by even those who acknowledge his bigotry, and finally be honored at the highest levels of…