(AFP) Nigeria has criticised new security measures for passengers flying to and from the United States as unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against 150 million people. The US government has announced that travellers from 14 countries, including Nigeria, are to be subjected to extra checks including body pat-downs, after a young Nigerian was [...]
The Wall Street Journal: ranian media on Sunday reported Tehran will conduct a large-scale defensive military exercise next month, coinciding with what government officials now say is a deadline for the West to respond to its counteroffer to a nuclear-fuel deal. The commander of Iran’s ground forces, Brig. Gen. Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan, said the drill will [...]
Newsweek: President Barack Obama begins and ends each workday at the White House by going over a to-do list with his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. The two were reviewing things recently when Emanuel reminded him of the sheer size of the administration’s workload, which includes fending off the Great Recession and dealing with terrorists [...]
News Busters: Remember when dissent was supposed to be patriotic? Well, it seems that only applies when a Republican is president. Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, criticism of him is “un-American” and “traitorous.” This new “tolerant” view of dissent comes from Joan Walsh of Salon.Com as you can see in this [...]
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused global Muslim outrage and was shot and wounded by police. Hours later, the 28-year-old was stretchered into court on Saturday and denied charges [...]
(AFP) US President Barack Obama Saturday for the first time accused an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a thwarted suicide mission to blow up a US airliner. Obama, in his weekly radio and video address posted on the White House website, promised to hold the group, Al-Qaeda [...]
SHAH HASAN KHEL, Pakistan (AP) – Tribal elders in a Pakistani village where a suicide car bomber killed nearly 100 people insisted Saturday that residents will keep defying the Taliban, even as the bloodshed laid bare the risks facing the citizens’ militias that make up a key piece of Pakistan’s arsenal against extremism. The New [...]
WAYLAND, Mass. (AP) – A small but growing South Asian and Middle Eastern punk rock movement is attracting children of Muslim and Hindu immigrants and sparking new bands across America. Bands like The Kominas (kuh-MEE’-nahs), based in Wayland, Mass., are trying to use their music to explore their identities as Americans and fight stereotypes about [...]
(AFP) Once-bustling Dubai will open the world’s tallest skyscraper on Monday, boasting new limits in design and construction, hopeful of polishing an image tarnished by the debt woes afflicting the Gulf emirate. Emaar, the giant property firm part-owned by the government and which developed the needle-shaped concrete, steel and glass structure, has declined to reveal [...]
There are two new areas of operation for which I’ve had a particular interest in setting up SAFE operations in. One is Nogales, the other is the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. The most pressing of the two, for a variety of reasons, was the reservation. Due to a confluence of facilitating circumstances, the appropriate moment [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Transportation Security Administration, which functions under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security, on Thursday dropped its subpoenas it had issued to two Internet writers in its effort to find the leaker of an airline security directive. The subpoenas were criticized by a leading journalism organization. The TSA said the [...]
LA Times: GOP poised for comeback in midterm elections Republicans could have a big year, but they need to win 40 House and 11 Senate seats to regain control of Congress. That’s a tall orderr. Reporting from Roswell, N.M. – After losing the White House and nearly 70 congressional seats in the last two elections, [...]
