A network of Syrian mosques is sending men, money and weapons to Iraq, fuelling the insurgency. An investigation by the Telegraph has shown that Arab volunteers are streaming across the border despite Damascus government claims that it is curbing cross-border terrorism. Insurgents can earn £1,600 a month fighting in Iraq Much of the traffic is […]
The two French journalists taken hostage more than 100 days ago in Iraq are alive and in good spirits, according to a Sunday newspaper. The Sunday Times said it had a CD-rom recording in which Christian Chesnot says he and his fellow reporter Georges Malbrunot are being well treated by their captors. The newspaper said […]
Pakistani authorities have banned the latest issue of Newsweek magazine for publishing material they said was offensive to Islam, it was reported yesterday. A government official in Islamabad had ordered the «forfeiture of all copies of the weekly Newsweek of November 22», the state-run agency Associated Press of Pakistan reported. It did not name the […]
Chicago Tribune har en lang serie de kaller Struggle for the soul of islam. Meget lesverdig.
Jewish groups have objected to a French government decision to allow the television arm of Lebanon’s Hizbollah guerrillas to continue broadcasting to Europe using a French satellite operator. The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish organisations accused the government of failing to protect citizens from broadcasts by Hizbollah’s al-Manar TV, which CRIF says includes anti-Semitic […]
Tayssir Alluni, reporter for Al Jazeera, ble igjen tatt i varetekt av spansk politi torsdag. Alluni er mistenkt for å være bindeledd til Al Qaida. Han ble første gang arrestert i september 2003. Alluni dekket krigen i Afghanistan, og hadde eksklusive reportasjer og intervjuer med bin Laden. Al Jazeera har backet ham opp og anklaget […]
Ebrahim Yazdi (73), leder av Irans Frihetsbevegelse, er idømt en lang fengsselstraff for å handle mot «nasjonale interesser». Yazdi var Khomeinis nære medarbeider under Paris-eksilet, og Irans første utenriksminister etter 79-revolusjonen. Iran dissident faces prison term
A man has confessed to making a death threat against a Belgian senator of Moroccan descent who had criticised radical Islam, the Belgian Interior Minister Patrick Dewael said on Friday. Socialist senator Mimount Bousakla had been warned she would be «ritually slaughtered», and on Wednesday authorities said she had been put under police protection. A […]
