WORLD: Al Qaeda members hide in Brazil, raise money.
Africa More than 20 dead in mass car crash in Nigeria 2 days, 17 hours ago (AP) Witnesses say more than 20 people have died after a fuel tanker slam.. The incident occurred when military made a flight transport of personal and air cover, and noticed several heavily armed people who were aboard the vehicles, so they approached and were met with gunfire, starting a shootout. In the action succeeded in.. At least 42 killed in three blasts in Pakistan. | Incidents��.
BurmaHut.com --Real News for Real Burmese People.
Credit: CNN News Aired on CNN, October 7, 2009 - 15:00 ET. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains under long-term house arrest in Myanmar, the country formerly��.
Are Jews Guilty Of Dual Loyalty? | Real Jew News
As I look at the world I see at no time are the eyes of the entire world directed toward our Father in Heaven, but at all times His eyes are directed upon the world and particularly upon true Israel, His own people.. [Simplistic, to say the least. McCarthy was under seige, cutting too close to the Jewish bone during his Communist investigations, and they in turn were inflaming the liberal Democrats, and squawking whatever asinine slurs and false charges the Jew-press��.
Context of 1996-2000: Bin Laden Visits Friendly.
[Source: Najlah Feanny/ Corbis]An attempt to topple the World Trade Center fails, but six people are killed and over 1000 are injured in the misfired blast. An FBI explosives expert later states that, ���If they had found the exact��.
How a Thai Canal Could Transform Southeast Asia
The fuel and time savings wouldnt be as great as they were in the case of the Panama or Suez canals, but a Thai Canal (also known as the Kra Canal) could assuage some of the overcrowding currently experienced in and near the Strait of Malacca.
* Al Qaeda anthrax lab technician tells DXer that he realizes.
On the last leg of his journey, as a helicopter carried him along the East River and an F.B.I. official pointed at the twin towers and observed that they were still standing, Mr. Yousef famously replied, ���They wouldnt be, if I had had enough money and explosives.��� Ali H. Soufan.. To the same effect, a lengthy, well-done February 2002 article in the Straits Time reports that government surveillance shows that Sufaat attended the summit with Hambali. Now from the��.
Osama bin Ladens Asian disciples
Through Hambali, the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah network became an al-Qaeda affiliate, offering up some of its better Asian jihadis on an ad hoc basis for training. al-Qaeda offered cash support ��� sometimes as much as $130,000 at a time ��� and.
How hardline have the redshirts become?
For those interested in the political evolution of the redshirts, here is an interesting account from Nirmal Ghosh of the Straits Times: BANGKOK: Thailands red shirt movement has recovered from [���]. However, not a lot of this gets into the media because the vast majority of the people I talk to say they are frightened to say this even to their friends. So they.. The question was, what were the reasons for Veera leaving the protest the day before the shooting started?
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The vice-president (commonly known in Burma as ���Shid-lone,��� meaning ���eight words,��� because his full name is Thi Ha Thu Ra Tin Aung Myint Oo) is trying to establish himself as the new dictatoror the most powerful man in the country.. STRAITS TIMES: Jul 7, 2011. Call for release of jailed Myanmar reporters. BANGKOK - A COALITION of media groups on Thursday called on Myanmar to end the harassment of journalists and to release 17 video reporters serving��.
The Nightly World News Report of the 5th of May 2012
Post World News: Grenade blast outside crowded bar kills 2, wounds 30 in southern Philippines, officials say http://wapo.st/KypT1g. Post World News:.. PressTV: Iranian pilgrims tortured by Syria rebels: Two Iranian pilgrims who were abducted by Syrian rebels in late. http://bit.ly/LgE2Dd. Dawn Media. The Straits Times: South Korea tells North Korea to start loan repayments for food aid shipped more than a decade ago as ties worsen http://bit.ly/JiIcpT. Bangkok��.
Read the Story of the World: Chapter 16: Covering the 5th.
BreakingNews: At least 5 people die when the bus they were travelling in veered off a highway and plunged into a ditch near Padua, Italy -AP. CBSNews: Syrian activists say deadly explosion in Aleppo kills at least 5; Another��.
Read the Story of the World: Chapter 18: Covering the 15th.
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 cnni: Group: Notorious Iraq prison still open http://dlvr.it/1ZLhC6 PostWorldNews: UK jails man for recruiting girls.. Reuters: Well-funded non-profit group seeking centrist U.S. presidential nominee says they cant find one http://reut.rs/KscZTR. The Star: Blast at Kenya refugee camp kills police officer http://dlvr.it/1Z8LTg... The Straits Times: Thai police bracing for huge turnout at Bangkok Red Shirt rally this weekend http://bit.ly/J1QG53.
Chapter 26: Covering the 29th of June - 3rd of July 2012
At least 13 people have been killed in a spate of attacks in north Baghdad, Iraqi security and medical sources say #AlArabiya #Iraq. Retweeted by World News... Reply Retweeted Favorite. 1h The Straits Times @STcom.
Sex, Islamism and the Old South
The author interviews local Malay men (southern Thailand has a large Malay minority), and finds that while they support the Islamist insurgents who murder Buddhist priests and kill policemen, they also love the female Buddhist prostitutes at the Pink.
Guitar Hero Makers Are on The Rocks Without a Buyer
During an interview for Bloomberg, he said: ���Im sure some smart investor will buy the business, feeling that they can catch a falling knife, but more people have been cut trying to catch falling knives than have benefitted from getting the timing.
Indian Shia Muslim working for an Iranian news agency.
The accusation by Egypts former President Hosni Mubarak that the Shia ���are mostly always loyal to Iran and not to the countries where they live��� were preceded by statement of King Abdullah of Jordan alleging the rise of a ���Shia Crescent��� threatening. Going by the timing of his arrest, many journalists and human rights activists said that Kazmi was made a scapegoat as India was under tremendous pressure from Israel to make some arrests in the bomb blast case.
Asias long history of carnage in the air
JAKARTA - The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 has now become almost as bizarre as the disappearance of the aircraft itself with authorities now saying it may not only have reversed course, but flew 500 kilometers back across.
Trapped in political limbo in Thai south
Located in Yala province, at the southernmost tip of Thailand, Betong was a popular holiday destination for Malaysians across the border until separatist militants set off a bomb on a pick-up truck there in July, killing two people.
Gates of Vienna: Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2009
The family of imprisoned Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos was the victim of an attempted hit on their lives this month, as the agents wife says someone broke into their home and filled it with gas, trashing photographs and pummeling their dog.. Many Italians were sceptical that the film image fully matched reality, but in 1996 leading informant Leonardo Messina confirmed the initiation rite in all its detail: ���The day I became a man of honour they pricked my finger.
Men arrested for Bangkok blasts say they were tortured
BANGKOK (AFP) - Four Thai men arrested for their alleged involvement in two small bombings in Bangkok say they were tortured in military custody, their lawyer said on Thursday. They are among more than a dozen people who have been arrested in the last .
Myanmar men plead not guilty to murder of British tourists in Thailand
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Myanmar workers have pleaded not guilty to charges including murder over the killing of two British tourists in Thailand, their lawyer said on Monday, in a case that has hit tourism and attracted widespread criticism.. Police.
AllSBNews: The Irrawaddy Magazine
Both men were arrested at the same time as two other refugees from their camp, Zau Seng Awng and Dayau Tang Gun. Mar Hkar, who also represents the other men, says they were also forced to endure horrific torture.
Missing AirAsia plane caps disastrous 2014 for aviation
The following week, the crashes of a TransAsia Airways flight amid rough weather in the Taiwan Strait and Air Algerie flight 5017 in Mali for reasons still unknown killed a combined 164 people, giving the impression planes were literally falling from.
Iranian assassination team plotted to kill Israeli diplomats, ambassador.
Israel has blamed Iran for two bombs targeting its diplomats in India and Georgia on Monday, as well as for a series of botched explosions in Bangkok on Tuesday that Thai intelligence officials said were aimed at top Israeli diplomats. Iranian.
Context of October 24, 2002: US and UN Declare Jemaah.
Also in 2006, Anthonius Wamang, the main suspect in the killings who was recently arrested, will confess that he did shoot at the teachers, but so did three men in Indonesian military uniforms. Furthermore, he. US investigators tell Time that Al Haramain is a ���significant��� source of funding for al-Qaeda linked groups in the region and they also say they are investigating possible links between al-Qaeda and top al-Haramain officials in Saudi Arabia. [Time, 9/15/2002]��.
Context of Late April 1996: US Monitors Al-Qaeda.
[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1/14/2001; United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 5/8/2001] Al Ridi will later say that at some time after the flight he heard the men had gone to Somalia to stir up tribal leaders... State Department officials will later strongly assert that while staffers at the US embassy in Kenya were told about the raid at the time, they were not told about any potential connection to al-Qaeda.