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Archive for June 20th, 2007

Some days ago I wrote about Al Kassar. You can read what Douglas Farah writes about him here h/t Counterterrorism Blog. Summing up:

armed Farah Aideed in Somalia.
Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
was close friends with Abu Abbas, the notorious PLF terrorist.
Government files in various countries indicate that he was jailed in the UK on hashish charges in the [...]

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This would be great news! From BBC NEWS | Americas | 
The head of an opposition-aligned TV station in Venezuela banned by President Chavez has said he may air programmes from Mexico.
Marcel Granier, the head of Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) – taken off the air on 27 May – said he would broadcast to [...]

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 - Yahoo! News

U.S. soldiers helped rescue 24 abused and severely malnourished boys this month from a Baghdad orphanage, where they were found in conditions of appalling squalor, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
Iraqi and U.S. soldiers were led to the Al-Hanan orphanage on June 10 by members of a neighborhood council and immediately [...]

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And we continue with the great crisis of Hamastan and the fleeing of refugees from Gaza to Israel: Israeli planes, tanks hit Gaza – Yahoo! News

EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip – Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas [...]

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From Catholic news agency:

Catholic schools in Spain refusing to allow parents to opt kids out of controversial course Madrid, Jun 20, 2007 / 12:03 pm (CNA).- The civil rights watchdog organization HazteOir.org has reported that a number of schools run by religious congregations are not allowing parents to opt their children [...]

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Carter blasts US policy on Palestinians (AP)
AP – Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas’ new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled [...]

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