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A Queens man tied to a suspected al Qaeda-trained terrorist may have been trying to kill himself when he crashed his car into the back of another at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, law enforcement sources said.
Medunjanin, 24, a recent graduate of Queens College, and Zarein Ahmedzay, 25, had been under intense surveillance in their homes since September when their former Flushing HS classmate Najibullah Zazi was arrested on suspicion of plotting a new 9/11-style attack in New York.
“We love death more than you love life!” he exclaimed in Arabic.
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Iran: Blast Kills Physics Professor in Tehran
Ali Moghari, the director of the Pardis Science Department of Tehran University, described Mr. Ali Mohammadi as an “apolitical professor,” the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. “He was a well-known professor but was not politically active,” he was quoted as saying.
There were some indications he may have been taking a more active role in the opposition that sprang up after flawed presidential elections last June. Mr. Ali Mohammadi was among 240 university professors who signed a letter before the elections expressing support for the main opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi. After brutal crackdowns, the authorities late last year broadened efforts to stifle dissent to encompass the educational system, hinting that dissident professors would be purged. A number of hard-line clerics have called for the university humanities curriculums to be further Islamized. But it was not immediately known whether Tuesday’s killing was related to that dispute.
via Blast Kills Physics Professor in Tehran – NYTimes.com.
So,a) he was not linked to Iranian nuclear program; b) he was not political; c) the only time he was, it was for signing a letter against the brutality of the Government’s crackdowns on protesters.
But Iranian TV has blamed the “Zionists” and the “West” for his death.
Really?
Kenya: Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal to stay jailed after failed deportation
This is an update on this story:
A radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric whose teachings influenced one of the 2005 London transport network bombers will stay in a Kenyan prison until authorities find a way to send him home, Kenya’s immigration minister said Monday.
Otieno Kajwang said Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal was jailed because he is a threat to the security of the country. Kajwang said he issued the order that el-Faisal be held in jail but declined to say for how long. Kenyan law allows police to hold suspects for 24 hours without charging them.
Britain has said that el-Faisal’s teachings heavily influenced one of the men who carried out the London bombings that killed 52 people. The Jamaican-born cleric has called for Americans, Hindus and Jews to be killed.
“We are, as a country, still of the opinion that this gentleman is not safe for Kenya,” Kajwang told reporters. “We are in a very difficult situation which we must tackle but in the interest of the country we will not release him until we send him home.”
via Kenyan official: Radical Muslim cleric to stay jailed after failed deportation – WGNO.
The real Choudary
You have to wonder how this man dares to tell Shariah should be enacted in the UK. I’m sure he wouldn’t have liked to have suffered its consequences, when he was smoking dope, drinking beer and taking a good look at naked girls.
Leader Of Islam4UK, Anjem Choudary Drinking Beer, Smoking Dope And Reading Porn « Security Scene.
Gulf States: Generation X
Interesting article about young people’s situation in the Gulf States:
Only a few weeks ago, the Head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Mecca, Sheikh Al-Ghamedi, expressed his support of the mixing of men and women at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
To the surprise of many, and the outrage of some, Sheikh Al-Ghamedi noted that ‘the term ikhtilat, or the separation of sexes, was a recent adoption that was unknown to the early people of knowledge… Mixing was part of normal life for the Ummah and its societies.’ ‘The word in its contemporary meaning has entered customary jurisprudential terminology from outside’, Al-Ghamedi said.
As a the head of the Hai’a, as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is known, Sheikh Al-Ghamedi’s statement is not just significant because it was he who said it. A sign of the evolution of social mores in the Gulf states, Sheikh Al-Ghamedi’s interpretation of ikhtilat also speaks of the weight that the opinion of the youth in the Gulf has on social and political developments of the region.
These progressive opinions might have been felt by some before, but they are only now being heard that they have the majority of support from the youth in the country – a constituency, so to speak, that has continued to show support for the Sheikh Al-Ghamedi’s controversial assessment when rumors of his potential dismissal abound.
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