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4/27/2009 | News | AP News
Taliban deride 'worthless' truce with Pakistan
ISLAMABAD – Taliban militants declared their peace deal with the Pakistani government "worthless" on Monday after authorities deployed helicopters and artillery against hide-outs of Islamist guerrillas seeking to extend their grip along the Afghan border. The regions that straddle that frontier form a "crucible of terrorism," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said during a visit to Afghanistan, where his country and the U.S. have thousands of troops. In Pakistan later Monday, Brown said Britain wanted to work more closely with Islamabad to eliminate the terror threat.
4/22/2009 | News | Washington Times Editorial
Iranian-American journalist writing book convicted in Iran of espionage
The Washington Times received a desperate plea yesterday from inside Iran on behalf of Roxana Saberi, the 31-year-old Iranian-American journalist convicted in Iran of espionage. Her fiance, award-winning Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, wrote, "It is with tears in my eyes that I say she is innocent and guiltless." He maintains that Miss Saberi is the victim of political intrigue. She is not a spy, but a political pawn.
4/22/2009 | News | Nahal Toosi for AP News
Taliban tighten their grip on NW Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Taliban militants in Pakistan's Swat Valley have extended their grip to a neighboring northwest district, officials said Wednesday, patrolling roads and broadcasting radio sermons in the latest sign that a government-backed peace deal has actually emboldened the extremists.
4/15/2009 | News | Associated Press
Taliban given more power over women in Afghanistan
A a new conservative marriage law was passed in Afghanistan on Wednesday. Women may not leave their homes without permission and husbands may demand sex every 4 days. It's the law.
4/15/2009 | News | Fox News
8 year old girl "sold" into marriage in Saudi Arabia; court says no problem
Outraged human rights groups are calling the decision by a Saudi court to -- not once, but twice -- refuse to void the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man several years her senior a form of human trafficking. On Saturday, for the second time since December, a court in the Saudi town of Unaiza upheld the marriage of the Saudi girl to the much older man, on the condition that he does not have sex with her until she reaches puberty, Reuters reported.
4/9/2009 | News | James Zumwalt
A Taliban Leader's Doomsday Promise
In February 1998, a little known terrorist declared war against the U.S. The threat he made generated hardly a blip on the media’s radar screen. But on 9/11, America learned who Osama bin Laden was and that his declaration of war had been no idle threat. It is against this backdrop we must now examine a new threat made against the U.S.: “Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world.”
4/2/2009 | News | Jeff Jacoby
Interview with Geert Wilders on Islam and freedom of speech
Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and head of the Freedom Party. In 2008 he released "Fitna," a controversial film about the Koran and jihadist violence. Wilders was condemned as an anti-Muslim agitator but also hailed as a defender of Western values and free speech. In January, a Dutch court ordered Wilders prosecuted for allegedly inciting hatred against Islam. Last month he was invited to screen "Fitna" at Westminster, but the British government barred him from entering the country. He was recently interviewed by Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, who prepared these edited excerpts (click on link.
4/2/2009 | News | Clare M. Lopez
Rise of the 'Iran Lobby': Teheran's front groups move on-- and into-- the Obama Administration
A complex network of individuals and organizations with ties to the clerical regime in Tehran is pressing forward in seeming synchrony to influence the new U.S. administration’s policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Spearheaded by a de facto partnership between the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other organizations serving as mouthpieces for the mullahs’ party line, the network includes well-known American diplomats, congressional representatives, figures from academia and the think tank world.
3/23/2009 | News | Philip Johnston
Time to speak up about Britain's Islamists
The British Government is reluctant to call the threat Islamist and prefers to refer to it as "international terrorism". It clearly has an international dimension, but most of the 80 or so people convicted and jailed in Britian for terrorist offences in the past three years or so are British or have lived there – as, indeed, were the perpetrators of the July 7 atrocities in 2005.
3/23/2009 | News | Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Obama Plan Would Link Pakistan Aid to Taliban Fight
U.S. military analysts and officers have advised increasing the size of the Afghan National Army to as many as 250,000 troops from less than 90,000, and the police to as many as 140,000 from fewer than 80,000, said Ken Katzman, senior Afghan specialist at the Congressional Research Service in Washington.