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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that was the world’s biggest hijack, a local elder said.
Separately, police in the capital Mogadishu said they had [...]

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“Ex-Somali Army Colonel Mohamed Nureh Abdulle lives in Harardhere - the town closest to where the hijacked Saudi oil tanker, Sirius Star is moored. He tells the BBC, via phone from his home, that the town’s residents are more concerned about the apparent dumping of toxic waste than piracy.
The Harardhere-born military man advises the [...]

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“A court in Egypt has ordered the government to suspend gas exports to Israel, although it is not clear whether the ruling will be heeded.
It started piping gas to Israel earlier in 2008 under a deal to supply 1.7bn cubic metres a year over 20 years.
But the court said the deal should been [...]

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“Iran detained 10 spies carrying $500,000 in cash who had entered the Islamic Republic illegally from neighbouring Pakistan, state television said on Saturday.
Modern espionage cameras and maps of sensitive regions in Iran were found when the group was detained in Iran’s south-eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Pakistan, the report said.
Television did not give any details on [...]

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“A spokesman for a Somali Islamic group says they have publicly whipped 32 tradional dancers because it is “Un-Islamic” for men and women to dance together.
Abdirahim Isse Addow says officials of the Council of Islamic Courts on Saturday flogged the dancers in the southern town of Balad. The town is 30 kilometers (19 miles) north [...]

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“When it comes to strange Middle East bedfellows, Lebanon’s latest political partnership may be the most unlikely: The leader of one party has a reputation as a playboy with ties to neoconservatives in the Bush administration. The other group is widely viewed as a community of extremists whose puritanical strain of Sunni Islam inspired Osama [...]

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“There has been no western outcry against Saudi Arabia’s mediation between the Taliban and the Afghan government. On the contrary, the Mecca talks were accompanied by senior British and US officials indicating that such discussions were an evitable part of ending the war in Afghanistan. Only one country has denounced the meeting as an unacceptable [...]

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“As hunger strikes go, the 48-hour fast that Fowzan Mohsin al-Harbi and 39 other Saudis plan to stage this week is not likely to have a dramatic outcome.
Rather, says the mechanical engineer, the rare public protest is meant to make a statement about the prolonged detention of 11 men who had called for political [...]

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“American Muslims have been called the “outcasts” of this presidential election. Muslims themselves have told the media that Islam is being treated as “political leprosy”, a “scarlet letter”, or the “kiss of death”. In Pittsburgh, a city with a large Muslim population, the Guardian team heard sentiments like these when we attended a lecture by [...]

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“The move is intended to put pressure on Israel to halt the expansion of the settlements through Palestinian land on the West Bank.
A note circulated to the EU has called for more stringent labelling for settlement-produced goods, which often appear in UK shops either designated falsely as being from Israel, or labelled as coming from [...]

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“It is a tough time to be a journalist or broadcaster in Egypt. Cairo News Company (CNC) knows this first-hand after an Egyptian court ordered its chairman, Nader Gowhar, to pay a fine of 150,000 Egyptian pounds ($27,000) for publishing footage of a protest earlier this year that was carried by the pan-Arabic news network [...]

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“Security authorities have arrested three Saudis and two expatriates for spreading false propaganda through the Internet, the Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday.
The five were misleading young people, manipulating their religious sentiments and instigating them to create trouble, an official source at the ministry said.
Using pseudonyms to suggest they have supporters, the five accused would [...]

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“Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market’s downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America’s economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents.
And at least some of its supporters think Sen. John McCain is the presidential candidate best [...]

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“During the 1980s and 1990s, as a large Arab Muslim community took root in South Brooklyn, its leaders struggled to get their voices heard. Their events were rarely attended by local office holders. The community could not deliver many votes because older immigrants tended to stay away from the polls, doubting their ballots would [...]

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“No outsider has spent more time tracking the labyrinthine ways of the National Security Agency than James Bamford. But even he gets lost in the maze. Despite countless articles and three books on the U.S. government’s super-secret, signals-intelligence service — the latest of which, The Shadow Factory, is out today — Bamford tells Danger Room [...]

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