Archive for the ‘Terrorisim’ Category
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
(Aug. 23) — As many as 200 women were systematically gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels over a four-day period last month less than 20 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations and aid groups reported.
The Associated Press reported that four baby boys were also raped in the attacks that began in a key mining district on July 30. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters today the rebels blocked a key road during the raping and looting spree.
The eastern Congo is known as the “rape capital of the world” where savage mobs use sexual violence to subdue the population and vie for control of the “conflict minerals” used to make cell phones and laptops around the world.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 9:36 AM
On Dec. 8, 2009, the New York Times published a story about a planned development in lower Manhattan:
“The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Matthew Kalman
JERUSALEM (July 28) — As the European Union announced new, tougher sanctions this week against Iran, a blue-chip coalition of lawyers and human rights activists reiterated its demand that Iranian leaders be brought before the International Court of Justice for incitement to genocide and the brutal repression of their own citizens.
The Responsibility to Protect Coalition, chaired by former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler and supported by a who’s who of international law experts, says the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “a clear and present danger to international peace and security … and to its own people.”
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
By Fred Ojambo – Jul 27, 2010 1:45 PM EDT Tue Jul 27 17:45:27 UTC 2010
The African Union called for the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir to be suspended while the continental body carries out a probe into alleged genocide in Darfur.
The Hague-based court earlier this month charged al-Bashir with three counts of genocide against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. The court had issued a warrant against al-Bashir in March for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“We have decided to establish our own mechanism,” AU President Bingu wa Mutharika told reporters today in Kampala at the end of a three-day summit of African leaders. “We are asking the United Nations to suspend for the period of 12 months” the arrest warrants against al-Bashir, he said.
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Human rights violations, including secret detention and torture, have created a climate of fear in Sudan.
Human rights defenders, political dissidents, students and members of ethnic minorities continue to be arbitrarily arrested and detained.
Chief among the agents of government repression is the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), whose members have immunity from prosecution for all crimes committed in the course of their work.
This report illustrates the human rights violations committed by the NISS in Sudan, and the extensive powers and immunities the NISS continues to enjoy under the 2010 National Security Act.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel give a press conference after the plenary session of the German-Russian government talks in Yekaterinburg on July 15.
July 15, 2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have met in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for talks aimed at improving relations between their countries.
Meeting against the backdrop of the St. Petersburg forum — an annual gathering of Russian and German businessmen and politicians that is now in its 10th year — the two leaders were overseeing the signing of deals between German and Russian companies worth billions of dollars.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
BP is facing fresh scrutiny into whether it was involved in the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, after the oil giant admitted lobbying the British government over a prisoner agreement with Libya.
PanAm flight103 exploded near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland killing a total of 270 people, on December 21 1988. Photo: AP
BP said it pressed for a deal over the controversial prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) amid fears any delays to negotiations would damage its “commercial interests” and disrupt its £900 million offshore drilling operations in the region
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Posted in Corporate (ir)responsibility, ETHICS, POLITICS, RELIGION-BASED MURDERS, Terrorisim, The Middle East, Totalitarianism | No Comments »
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Updated: 2 days 11 hours ago
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Special to AOL News
(June 29) — Anti-Semitism is the world’s oldest hatred. Yet it was a prejudice that I thought the world was moving past. But clearly, with the endless vitriol shown toward Israel, it is alive and well.
What’s that? Hatred of Israel is not motivated by anti-Semitism? Yeah, I thought so too. I was even naive enough to write column after column admonishing my fellow Jews not to jump to such simplistic conclusions.
Surely, hatred of Israel was due to the Jewish state being terrible at PR. Surely Israel, a lone democracy in a sea of tyranny, assumed that the justice of its cause was so self-evident as to require no explanation. A renewed PR effort was necessary.
Or maybe the endless and unjust criticism of Israel was simply a manifestation of the world’s natural proclivity to champion the underdog. The Arabs, numbering in the hundreds of millions, have somehow successfully positioned themselves as being oppressed by 6 million Israeli Jews. All of this could account for why Israel, a thriving democracy where 1 million Israeli Arabs vote and have robust representation in the Israeli Knesset, is hated while its tyrannical, terrorist neighbors escape censure.
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Two videos have emerged which appear to show a top Pakistani Taliban leader alive, contradicting US claims he was killed in a US drone attack in January.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
By Scott Collins and Matea Gold, Los Angeles TimesApril 23, 2010
In its 200 shows, the irreverent animated program “South Park” has mercilessly satirized Christianity, Buddhism, Scientology, the blind and disabled, gay people, Hollywood celebrities and politicians of all persuasions, weathering the resulting protests and threats of boycotts.
FOR THE RECORD: Threat to “South Park” creators: An article in Friday’s Section A about the Comedy Central network’s response to an online threat by radical Muslims made against “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said a clip of an interview with Parker and Stone was posted on the website boingboing.com. The website’s correct address is boingboing.net.
But this week, after an ominous threat from a radical Muslim website, the network that airs the program bleeped out all references to the prophet Muhammad in the second of two episodes set to feature the holy figure dressed in a bear costume. The incident provides the latest example that media conglomerates are still struggling to balance free speech with safety concerns and religious sensitivities, six years after Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was slain for making a film critical of Islamic society.
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