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...June 2008, James Cromitie, a.k.a. Abdul Rahman, allegedly told an FBI informant in Newburgh, N.Y., that he wanted to join the jihad, or holy war, and strike a target in the U.S. Cromitie, whose parents had lived in Afghanistan, claimed he was angry about the war there; the U.S. military, he told the informant, was killing many Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He talked about possibly traveling to Afghanistan to become a "martyr" and go to paradise. He added that he was interested in doing "something to America." (See pictures of the life of Osama bin Laden...
...July 2008, Cromitie and the FBI informant allegedly discussed the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed. When the informant claimed a connection to this group, Cromitie supposedly said he'd like to join. (Read about the activities of Jaish-e-Mohammed...
...Bayat who, despite her outspokenness, espouses a different vision of women's rights. A representative in Iran's majlis (or legislature), she and her female colleagues reinstituted gender segregation in the seating of the parliament. They worked to reverse efforts by female reformist MPs in the previous session to join the U.N.'s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Such membership would have obliged the Iranian government to abolish discriminatory rules against women regarding such matters as inheritance, child custody and blood money...
Earlier this year, Libera and FAADA mounted a campaign to encourage the Barcelona city government, which oversees the zoo, to transfer Susi to a safari-type institution where she would have more space and would be able to join a herd. But their efforts received little notice until they let it be known that both José Saramago, the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese novelist, and Sofia, Queen of Spain, had interceded on Susi's behalf. For her part, the Queen, who has long championed animal rights and is herself a vegetarian, forwarded the organizations' letter to the city government, urging...
...Texas Tantrum," Nancy Gibbs failed to mention that for 10 years Texas was a country--which successfully fought for independence from Mexico in 1836--before choosing to join the U.S. Do not compare Texas to Vermont, Hawaii and California. Mike Gallagher, HOUSTON...