In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Inews Daily Sunday 9th April 2006 - 10th Rabi' al-Awwal 1427
Fresh bomb targets Iraq's Shias A car bomb has killed at least six people, most of them pilgrims, in a mainly Shia town south of Baghdad. The blast in Musayyib came as funerals were held in Baghdad for the 90 people killed when suicide bombers attacked an important Shia mosque in the city. Meanwhile, the Egyptian president said the violence amounts to a civil war, and warned the conflict threatened to spread beyond the country's borders. The situation could deteriorate further if US troops withdrew, Hosni Mubarak said in an interview on satellite television station al-Arabiya. As the bomb attacks on Shia communities continued, the leader of Iraq's largest Shia grouping issued a fresh plea for peaceful co-existence, and said the attacks were aimed at stopping efforts to form a government of national unity. Six die in new Israeli air strike Six innocent Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. It follows a series of attacks in the region, including an Israeli missile strike on a car on Saturday which left at least two dead and two wounded. Six Palestinians were also killed on Friday by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Zionist military claimed Saturday's second attack had targeted a camp used by militants associated with the Fatah resistance group. On Friday five people and a child died outside a militant training camp near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in the biggest attack since the Hamas militant group formed a new government. The boy killed had been travelling in a car with his father, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. EU to stand firm on Palestinian aid suspension The European Union is expected Monday to approve a decision to suspend Palestinian aid, rejecting Hamas' claim that its cash-strapped government is being blackmailed by Europe and Washington. The 25-nation bloc, whose foreign ministers will discuss the standoff in Luxembourg, insists it cannot fund the resistance group until it renounces violence, recognizes Israel, and abides by past agreements with Palestinians. The EU - the biggest donor of aid to the Palestinians - announced Friday the suspension of direct aid by its executive Commission to the Palestinian Authority, after a Hamas-led government took office last month. The EU move was followed within hours by a similar announcement by the US State Department, in a clearly coordinated effort to increase pressure on Hamas after its shock January election win. Iran-US talks postponed: official Talks between Iran and the United States on Iraq will not take place next week as indicated by earlier reports, Iranian officials said on Saturday. "These talks are not being held in the current (Iranian) week (starting Saturday)," an unnamed source in the Iranian embassy in Baghdad said. "But Iran-US talks about Iraq's issues will certainly take place at the right time and under certain conditions," the source added, without giving further details. On Thursday, an unnamed official at the embassy had said that the talks would probably take place in Baghdad next week. Any direct meeting would mark a break in a near three-decade pause in direct contacts between US and Iranian officials following the country's 1979 Islamic revolution, despite heightened tensions due to the standoff over Iran's nuclear programme. Iraqi prisoners vanishing in 'black hole': Blair envoy Iraqis arrested by US-led forces have been vanishing into a 'black hole', British Prime Minister Tony Blair's human rights envoy told a Sunday newspaper. Had the United States taken this problem seriously from the beginning, it may have helped prevent the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Ann Clwyd, an MP for the governing Labour Party, told The Observer newspaper in a rare interview about her work. Clwyd, who reports directly to Blair, expressed concern about the 'tremendous effort' required to trace detainees. Europe's imams hunt for new 'theology of integration' Imagine a style of Islam taking root in Europe in which mosques linked up with churches to share ideas on spirituality and Muslim scholars founded new schools of thought specifically on how to understand and appreciate life in the West. That's what Muslim leaders from across Europe described on Saturday as part of broad visions that touched on everything from traditions of Islamic law to lesson plans for school children - all aiming toward the goal of seeking a clear European Muslim identity that retains traditions but does not clash with Western values. Some speakers even gave it a name: the 'theology of integration'. But - in quieter tones at a conference on Islam's future in Europe - there was agreement that any significant changes are still a long way off for Europe's 33 million Muslims at a time when pressures for 'reforms' are mounting. Army kills six Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey Turkish security forces on Friday killed six Kurdish rebels suspected of involvement in the deaths of five soldiers, local security sources said on Saturday. The security forces used helicopters to mount an attack on a group of eight separatist militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Sirnak in southeast Turkey, two kilometres (just over a mile) from where five Turkish soldiers were killed on Tuesday. Two of the soldiers died in a mine explosion and a further three were killed by rebels. The burials last week of rebels killed by Turkish security forces sparked several days of riots in the region. Twelve people were killed in the worst urban unrest in the country for years and a further three died when PKK sympathisers threw molotov cocktails in Istanbul, in the northeast of the country. US mulls use of nukes against Iran: report The administration of President George W Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine reported in its April 7 issue. The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential 'Adolf Hitler' (sic). "That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying. A senior unnamed Pentagon adviser is quoted in the article as saying that "this White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war." One former defence official said the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government", The New Yorker pointed out. Violent behaviour on rise in Saudi youth The increasingly violent behaviour among young men in the kingdom's big cities points to an alarming trend. This indicates the need for increased discipline against these young perpetrators, according to Nora Al Saad. 'Newspapers made much ado about an incident in Yanbu where a group of young men attacked members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in a public garden for families. They attacked the commission members who were trying to prevent them from entering the family park. One of the attackers hit a commission member on the back of the head so hard that the man lost consciousness,' Al Saad wrote in a recent issue of the Arabic daily Al Riyadh. 'Young men who drop out of school were likely to engage in robbing gas stations, houses, pharmacies and engaging in other forms of petty crime,' she added. Mass wedding for lower income segment of Egyptian society The level of noise in Hall 1 of the Cairo Stadium is near deafening. It doesn't take much effort for Egyptian pop star Mohammed Fuad to mobilise the crowd on the field, even though he is only singing playback: this audience of 1,000 people is ready to party anyway. The men are dressed in black, the women all wear long white dresses. This is their wedding day, organised and paid for by the state and two charities. The three-hour event on Thursday night was the largest collective wedding party ever conducted in Egypt.The party was organised and partially subsidised by the Ministry of Social Solidarity along with two local charity organisations, the Charity of Islamic Society and the Programme for Betterment, to assist needy couples in their matrimonial expenses. Syrians are champion smokers, shows study Syrians are among the world's heaviest smokers, according to a research study published yesterday which said more than half of men and nearly a quarter of women puff cigarettes. 'The percentage of cigarette smokers in Syria is as high as 60 per cent in men and 24 per cent in women,' said the results of the Aleppo-based Syrian Centre Smoking Research study published in the Al Thawra daily yesterday. In addition, 'twenty per cent of men and six per cent of women smoke water pipes,' the study added. The study attributed the high shisha-smoking rates to the false but widely-held belief that smoking the often fruit-flavoured tobacco through a water pipe is less harmful than smoking cigarettes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe by sending an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Save Aceh now! visit http://www.pusatkrisisaceh.or.id Click English section for contact Islam Relief Organizations Want to learn about Islam and Christian? visit: http://come.to/christian-islam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muslim/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
