SOME Roman Catholic religious orders have been sheltering priests in Rome despite claims that the men sexually abused children, it was reported yesterday.
Of the seven accused priests located by the Dallas Morning News, one has been indicted in Arizona, but refuses to return to face the charges. Two others had admitted to abuse years ago, but now face additional claims.
Supervisors of the accused clergy said they were not trying to help the men elude law enforcement or victims, but wanted to give them a place to live and work away from children, the newspaper reported.
Scotsman article
Of the seven accused priests located by the Dallas Morning News, one has been indicted in Arizona, but refuses to return to face the charges. Two others had admitted to abuse years ago, but now face additional claims.
Supervisors of the accused clergy said they were not trying to help the men elude law enforcement or victims, but wanted to give them a place to live and work away from children, the newspaper reported.
How thoughtful.
Mahmud, a former Marine who saw combat in Vietnam was recently notified that he’s “a security threat pursuant to Title 49 C.F.R. § 1572.107.” Subsequent to this notification Mahmud was forced to surrender his commercial driver’s license (CDL) without due, or any, process to the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles.
“Basically it started with me being notified by TSA in a Certified Letter. I got this letter stating that according to their findings, I posed a national security threat.” Mahmud said. “By posing a national security threat, the hazardous materials endorsement on my CDL was revoked. In that communiqué, I was instructed to immediately surrender my CDL to the state that I lived in. I had ten days to respond.”
Atlanta Voice article
“Basically it started with me being notified by TSA in a Certified Letter. I got this letter stating that according to their findings, I posed a national security threat.” Mahmud said. “By posing a national security threat, the hazardous materials endorsement on my CDL was revoked. In that communiqué, I was instructed to immediately surrender my CDL to the state that I lived in. I had ten days to respond.”
That reminds me of a fellow traveler to Venezuela - an ex-Air Force serviceman. He said that at some point in his service when the Muslim "threat" started to become an issue, he was placed in house arrest as a possible security threat, having converted to Islam. He was eventually discharged under an agreement not to publicize his case for 20 years.
German officials are growing concerned about a conference for Arabs and Muslims on "American Zionist terror" that looks like it will go ahead as planned in Berlin, despite calls for its cancellation by a prominent Jewish organization.
The conference, scheduled for Oct. 1-3, is expected to attract as many as 500 Islamists from around the world to form "a unified response" to the American presence in Iraq and to Israel's existence, according to promotional literature for the First Arab, Islamic Congress in Europe.
The conference is to determine a response at a time when "occupation troops are portrayed as peacekeepers, and the suppressed people fighting for freedom are portrayed as extremists."
Plans for the conference have prompted members of the Berlin Parliament to demand an investigation into whether it will put the city under terrorist threat.
Grand Forks Herald article
The conference, scheduled for Oct. 1-3, is expected to attract as many as 500 Islamists from around the world to form "a unified response" to the American presence in Iraq and to Israel's existence, according to promotional literature for the First Arab, Islamic Congress in Europe.
The conference is to determine a response at a time when "occupation troops are portrayed as peacekeepers, and the suppressed people fighting for freedom are portrayed as extremists."
Plans for the conference have prompted members of the Berlin Parliament to demand an investigation into whether it will put the city under terrorist threat.
Sure. Then you can ban it.
An Iraqi resistance group threatened Sunday, September12 , a volcano of attacks against the US occupation forces, who have taken Iraqi women hostage to exchange them with fighters.
A group calling itself the Saladin Al-Ayyubi Brigades, the military wing of the Sunni Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance, said the occupation troops kidnapped a mother and three girls on August 26 in Al-Latifia district, 70 kilometers south of Baghdad.
...The incident is not unprecedented. In the wake of the downfall of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, US occupation forces held captive the two wives and sister of the former Iraqi vice president Izat Al-Douri to pressure him.
One wife was released in May, but the fate of the other is still unknown, according to an Iraqi female lawyer who was released from detention in May,2004 .
According to Iraqi sources, there are at least 15 Iraqi woman detainees still in US-run detentions camps across Iraq.
Islam Online article
A group calling itself the Saladin Al-Ayyubi Brigades, the military wing of the Sunni Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance, said the occupation troops kidnapped a mother and three girls on August 26 in Al-Latifia district, 70 kilometers south of Baghdad.
...The incident is not unprecedented. In the wake of the downfall of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, US occupation forces held captive the two wives and sister of the former Iraqi vice president Izat Al-Douri to pressure him.
One wife was released in May, but the fate of the other is still unknown, according to an Iraqi female lawyer who was released from detention in May,2004 .
According to Iraqi sources, there are at least 15 Iraqi woman detainees still in US-run detentions camps across Iraq.
The US embassy in Nepal has asked Washington to allow staff families to return home for security reasons.
It has also asked for permission to suspend the Peace Corps programmes in the country.
The requests came after suspected Maoist rebels set off two small bombs at the US information centre in the capital, Kathmandu, on Friday.
BBC article
It has also asked for permission to suspend the Peace Corps programmes in the country.
The requests came after suspected Maoist rebels set off two small bombs at the US information centre in the capital, Kathmandu, on Friday.
America's presence around the world is no longer seen as a good thing.
Burning incense and sounding a conch shell horn, residents of an ancient Mexican city protested on Saturday at the construction of a Wal-Mart store on the edge of the ruins.
The sprawling warehouse-style Bodega Aurrera, a unit of Wal-Mart in Mexico, is due to open in December in Teotihuacan, a major archeological site outside Mexico City.
CNN article
The sprawling warehouse-style Bodega Aurrera, a unit of Wal-Mart in Mexico, is due to open in December in Teotihuacan, a major archeological site outside Mexico City.
And I thought it was bad that Wal-Mart has a "super store" on prime beachfront in Galveston.
Welcome to the New World. When they figure out how to use the night stars to make pictures of their logos, we'll know it's all over.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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