The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) reported Monday that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, although imprisoned in Iran, was able to see his son on the young boy’s birthday.
Nadarkhani’s son was able to visit his father in prison on April 2. This comes as a special treat for Nadarkhani as well, who will celebrate his 35th birthday after being imprisoned for for two and a half years.
“Not only does this mean that Pastor Youcef is still alive, but it is [...]
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As U.S. and Israeli officials talk publicly about the prospect of a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, the Los Angeles Times reported that the latest U.S. intelligence report indicates Iran is pursuing research that could enable it to build a nuclear weapon, but that it has not sought to do so.
Until quite recently, an alarming new intelligence emerged from intercepted communications of Iranian officials discussing their nuclear program raised concerns that the country’s leaders had decided to revive efforts [...]
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Some of the 16 suspected Islamic militants detained in France allegedly planned to kidnap a Jewish magistrate and other people, according to reports.
A source close to the investigation told the AFP news agency: “It looks like some of them planned to carry out kidnappings including that of a magistrate who has a Jewish-sounding name.”
Another source confirmed that a Jewish magistrate from Lyon in central France was to be targeted.
The head of France’s Central Directorate for Domestic Intelligence (DCRI), Bernard Squarcini [...]
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Indonesian police raided what they said was a terrorist safehouse on the outskirts of Jakarta Friday, March 30, killing two suspected terrorists. This is the third event in 3 weeks, showing continued activity and highlighting the evolution of Jemaah Islamiyah or JI, Al-Qaeda?s arm in Southeast Asia.
JI is the terrorist network that carried out the deadliest attacks in Indonesia, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.
On Thursday, March 29, Indonesia?s top counter-terrorism official, Ansyaad Mbai, linked a package [...]
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Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones filed a lawsuit today against Dearborn, alleging the city is violating his constitutional right to free speech by asking him to sign a legal agreement ahead of a rally he?s planned for this Saturday outside of a Dearborn mosque.
The lawsuit was filed in Detroit by the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative Christian group based in Ann Arbor. The civil suit says that the city of Dearborn wants Jones to sign a ?hold harmless? agreement before [...]
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The 49-year-old man named only as AH faces the death sentence in Algeria after being convicted in his absence of complicity in a bomb plot.
He was thrown out of France after serving two year jail sentence as a suspected terrorist.
Lord Justice Alan Ward yesterday allowed his appeal, on a technicality, against a ruling that he did not qualify for refugee status in Britain.
But he also expressed shock at the court of the case, telling the Court of Appeal: “It may [...]
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The Muslim Brotherhood swore up and down that it wouldn?t seek the Egyptian presidency as proof of its desire for a pluralistic society. At the last minute, the Brotherhood nominated Khairat el-Shater. According to the New York Times, State Department officials actually look at this as a good thing that could stop the more puritanical Salafists from winning.
?State Department officials said they were untroubled and even optimistic about the Brotherhood?s reversal of its pledge not to seek the presidency,? the?Times [...]
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Two Republican lawmakers on Monday urged the United States to designate Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a terrorist group, warning not to be complacent against what they called a growing threat.
The appeal comes just after a senior US diplomat recommended against a terrorist label, saying that the Islamist-oriented group was not monolithic and was primarily driven by local grievances.
Representatives Peter King and Patrick Meehan said that Boko Haram — which was blamed for coordinated attacks on January 20 that killed 185 [...]
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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas threatened on Monday to submit complaints against Israel in international institutions if it does not return to the negotiating table, according to a report in the Ma?ariv newspaper.
Abbas, who spoke in Egypt during a ceremony in which the cornerstone for a new PA embassy in Cairo was laid, once again said that the PA would not return to the negotiating table until Israel stops construction in Judea and Samaria and agrees to accept the indefensible [...]
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The brief, 2-day trial of particle physicist Adl?ne Hicheur, who had been charged with “associating with criminals in relation to terrorist activities,” ended on Friday, and the 35-year-old Franco-Algerian won’t know until 4 May whether he will spend several more years behind bars or be able to resume his scientific career. The prosecution asked the three-judge panel for a 6-year prison sentence for Hicheur, who has already been held for two and a half years in the Fresnes jail near [...]
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One of the most important challenges we face as a free people is understanding the true nature of – and threat posed by – a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine its adherents call shariah. ?So, it would seem to be good news that a $3 million public education campaign is being launched nationwide to “clarify” what shariah is.
The question is: ?Will this campaign be truthful and helpful, or will it amount to an exercise in what is not only [...]
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The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury has shown he will not leave quietly after he re opened the debate over the veil by insisting that the controversial garment can help Muslim women “assert themselves”.
Dr Rowan Williams has questioned the view that women hide behind their veils and warned against “what we sometimes think of wrongly as stereotypes”.
Speaking at?The Sunday Times Literary Festival in Oxford at the weekend, the Archbishop said that his views were influenced by a recent encounter with a [...]
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If Iran became a nuclear power, would it risk its own regime survival to strike at Israel? Such questions remain at the heart of the current debate. Those who argue either President Obama?should try diplomacy again or that containment can work argue that Iran would not launch?their weapons?in a first strike against Israel, never mind what Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said during his term as president.
A recent article in the Iranian press written by Ali Reza Forqani, an ally of [...]
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A federal judge has denied bond for a North Carolina man charged with conspiring to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses from his brother?s terrorism trial.
Senior U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt ruled Monday that Shkumbin Sherifi won?t be released before his trial in November. Prosecutors say Sherifi, 21, plotted the murders for hire with his older brother and a Raleigh special education teacher, Nevine Aly Elshiekh.
Hysen Sherifi was sentenced to 45 years in prison in January for [...]
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France has said that it was deporting five Islamic militants and Muslim preachers in the latest show of strength by President Nicolas Sarkozy as he clamps down on radical elements after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman last month.
Police commandos arrested suspected Islamic militants in raids on March 30 in several French cities including in the Toulouse region, where a Frenchman of Algerian descent went on a 10-day rampage killing seven people.
The attack turned internal security into [...]
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Top Left: Rais Atcha aged 20, jailed for 12 years. Top Right: Mohammed Asif Khan aged 26, jailed for 9 years and 4 months. Bottom Left: Fahim Kola aged 19, jailed for 10 years 8 months. Bottom Right: Baber Khan aged 25, jailed for 10 years 8 months
The dramatic moment caught on CCTV, an armed robber disguised as a Muslim woman in a burka, made his way into a jewellery store, and was followed by three accomplices who stole [...]
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In a bid to give major boost to India’s fight against terrorism and its efforts to capture 26/11 Mumbai bomb blast alleged mastermind, United States (US) on Monday announced a bounty of US $10-million on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Chief Hafiz Saeed.
This announcement was made by US Under-Secretary of Political Affairs Wendy Sherman on Monday in New Delhi who is at her maiden visit to India. Wendy has conveyed US President Barak Obama’s message to India, as US [...]
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The Obama administration is blaming Israel for the recent rise in global crude oil prices, according to a report in The World Tribune. The rise in fuel prices is deemed as harming the U.S. economy and has also hurt Obama in the polls as he seeks re-election in November.
The report cited a leading U.S. analyst, Robert Satloff, who returned from talks with Israeli officials.
Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said, according to The World Tribune, [...]
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