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"Before we rush to condemn America we must remember that even today millions of poor and miserable people all across the world are lining up outside US embassies eager to come to America, not just to live here but to become an American. No Muslim country today, can claim that people of other nations and other faiths see it as a promise of hope, equality, dignity and prosperity." -- Muqtedar Khan, Ph.D. Association of Muslim Social Scientists, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy

Friday, August 11, 2006

Terrorism

Twenty-four people were arrested on Thursday in police raids in London, the south of England and Birmingham after a police investigation into a plot to blow up several trans-Atlantic airliners. Their names are Abdula Ahmed Ali, Cossor Ali, Shazad Khuram Ali, Nabeel Hussain, Tanvir Hussain, Umair Hussain, Umar Islam, Waseem Kayani, Assan Abdullah Khan, Waheed Arafat Khan, Osman Adam Khatib, Abdul Muneem Patel, Tayib Rauf, Muhammed Usman Saddique, Assad Sarwar, Ibrahim Savant, Amin Asmin Tariq, Shamin Mohammed Uddin and Waheed Zaman. The oldest person on the list, Shamin Mohammed Uddin, is 35. The youngest, Abdul Muneem Patel, is 17. Most of these are London residents. + Read the Al Jazeera story

The explosions (BBC) that rocked the Mumbai commuter rail on July 11, killing more than 180 people and injuring some 700, were just the latest episode in India's decades-long struggle with terrorism. According to the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, last year India suffered more fatalities due to terrorism than any other nation but Iraq, and the U.S. State Department reports that India endures hundreds of terrorist attacks every year. + Read more at the Council On Foreign Relations.

In other news...

+ Greek Orthodox Christian fasting lowers cholesterol ++++ Greece: illegal antiquities found by police
+ Greek-Americans in U.S. 2006 House and Senate races

+ British troops under-equipped, overstretched in Iraq ++++ Foreign Affairs Special: What to Do in Iraq
+ China typhoon's death toll rises

10 Comments:

Drama Mawmah said...: Thanks for the read of my blog. Sweet of you to stop by. You are most welcome. I post daily drama so it may be refreshing from the crap going on in the world that you report on.

Very educational read here. Thanks :); 5:35 PM
Anh Khoi Do said...: Hi. I've heard about the terrorist plot that was stopped by the British authorities. When we heard about that in Canada, most of our airports were paralyzed, in a manner of speaking. People who were about to get on a plane were searched by custom agents even more thoroughly then we could believed even though the custom agents were aware that they're making people's life very hard.; 6:19 PM
FreeCyprus said...: Anh Khoi Do, yes I have to agree that travelling now is getting a bit harder with those searches, the crowded planes, the longer lines...

I think, though, that I don't mind. I don't mind the hassles, the removal of shoes, etc...as long as I and my friends and family get to our destinations in one piece.; 6:39 PM
FreeCyprus said...: Drama Mawmah, I should be thanking you! Your site is indeed a refreshing change from the often depressing news surrounding us.
Keep up the good work.; 6:46 PM
Al-Hajeji said...: personally, I think the british intelligence had nothing else better to do...What a load of crap, why arrest 30 people, who live so far apart, do not know each other and do not have any intentions to go anywhere?; 9:55 PM
Ergotelina said...: The terrorists do their work
through the internet..............

Cia says...

I am scared
:)

maybe they are among us...

:); 8:34 AM
FreeCyprus said...: ergo, my cousin made me laugh the other day...he said "the CIA are the Jews of Greece - we blame everything on them"

:-)

"I lost my job and I'm an alcoholic...but you know who's fault it is don't you? The CIA!"; 8:43 AM
SusyQ said...: oh yeah right
i guess it was a "cia-backed" islamist group that killed my cousin with that bomb 10 yrs ago in India

i bet there are uneducated people who evem think the cia did the whole 9/11 tragedy; 3:01 PM
sappho said...: Ergo te lina:
If I understood your comment correctly, It means you have a great sense of sarcastic humour, which I totally love!!! ;); 11:33 PM
FreeCyprus said...: yep, I liked the sarcasm as well
;-); 9:08 AM

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