Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: Experts say that Egypt’s new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, has the ability and the political incentives to raise or lower the Arab street’s pressure against President Barack Obama in the run-up to the 2012 election. “Obama is hostage to Morsi,” said Michael Rubin, an Arab-region expert at the American Enterprise ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNS NEWS)– Separate statements made Thursday by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed the nub of the issue that has sparked anti-U.S. protests in many Muslim countries – the incompatibility between shari’a and the First Amendment. “The Islamic sanctities and prophet Mohamed is a red line for all Muslims,” Egypt’s state ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
LA Times: Furious protests exploded around the world Friday as outraged demonstrators from Bangladesh to Sudan condemned an amateurish movie that mocked the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a bloodthirsty womanizer and child molester. One person was killed after Lebanese security forces clashed with angry protesters in the northern city of Tripoli who had hurled stones ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE) Students at North Dakota State University in Fargo and the University of Texas in Austin have been ordered to evacuate their respective campuses this morning because of bomb threats. There was no indication that the two events were connected. This alert was posted on NDSU's website: "NDSU is requiring all employees and students to leave ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(KXAN) - The University of Texas is evacuating all of its buildings due to threats on campus after a caller claiming to be with al-Qaida said he placed bombs all over campus that would go off around 10 a.m. -- which has since passed. "Immediately evacuate ALL buildings and get as far away as possible," ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WEEKLY STANDARD) Photos and video from the Twitter feed of Phil Han, a reporter and producer in CNN, who is outside the U.S. embassy in London where a mob has gathered and burned the American flag:
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(LA TIMES) Administration officials have asked YouTube to review a controversial video that many blame for spurring a wave of anti-American violence in the Middle East. The administration flagged the 14-minute "Innocence of Muslims" video and asked that YouTube evaluate it to determine whether it violates the site's terms of service, officials said Thursday. The video, ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(JP) Egypt's General Intelligence Service warned that a jihadi group is planning to launch terrorist attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Cairo, according to a report Tuesday by Egypt Independent, citing a secret letter obtained by Al-Masry Al-Youm. According to the report, the attack is being planned by Global Jihad, the group suspected ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNN) Several protests stemming at least in part from an anti-Islam film produced in the United States are unfolding outside U.S. embassies around the world. Friday's protests follow ones Tuesday at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, where attacks killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. ...
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Sep 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AP) — The snark is flying between the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the Muslim Brotherhood in a Twitter spat that erupted in the wake of an assault on the mission by protesters in the Egyptian capital. The sarcastic exchange Thursday gave a “frenemies” tone to relations that have been strained by the Tuesday night ...
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Sep 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(LWJ) The leader of the Asaib al Haq, an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia terror network that was responsible for kidnapping and murdering US soldiers, threatened to attack US interests in Iraq over a video that has angered Islamists and sparked protests in several Muslim nations. The leader, Qais al Qazali, was turned over to the ...
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Sep 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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Sep 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE INDEPENDENT) The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal. American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and ...
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Sep 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(REUTERS) - Libyan authorities have made four arrests in the investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in which the U.S. ambassador and three embassy staff were killed, the deputy interior minister said on Thursday. "Four men are in custody and we are interrogating them because they are suspected of helping ...
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Sep 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times: Expressing anger at the film mocking Muhammad that has triggered protests across the Middle East, roughly 400 young men and women gathered Thursday near the Swiss embassy in Tehran, chanting, “Death to the United States and death to Israel and death to England!” The protests had been called to take ...
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