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Courtesy Iran — which, for those of us who are Islamorealistic, is not good news. More on this story. “Iran ready to put Muslim countries’ satellite in orbit,” by Parisa Hafezi for Reuters, August 18: TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it was ready to help fellow Muslim states launch satellites into orbit after it successfully put a dummy satellite into orbit — a move that may increase Western suspicions over its atomic ambitions.

Iran said on Sunday it had put the home-grown dummy satellite into orbit on a domestically made rocket for the first time. The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into space can also be used for launching weapons.

Iran says has no intention to do so.

Head of Iran’s Aerospace Organization, Reza Taghipour, said Iran wanted to help Muslim countries to launch satellites.

“I am announcing now that Iran is ready to launch satellites of friendly Islamic countries into space,” Taghipour told state television…. Embroiled in a standoff with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran in February tested another domestically made rocket as part of its satellite program.

Washington, accusing Iran of aiming to equip missiles with nuclear warheads, called the February test ‘unfortunate’. It cites Iran’s missile potential, among others, as the reason why it needs to install an anti-missile defense system in eastern Europe.

France and Russia both said the February test raised the suspicion that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

The United states and its European allies fear Iran is trying to obtain nuclear arms under cover of a civilian program. Iran, the world’s fourth largest oil producer, insists it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog body in a report in May expressed “serious concern” over alleged Iranian research into nuclear warheads and said Iran should provide more explanation of questionable missile-related activities.

Iran has so far said it was not the agency’s business “to delve into those allegations.”

Iran says it has home-grown missiles with a range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), meaning it could hit Israel or U.S. military bases in the Gulf.

Western experts say Iran rarely provides enough details for them to determine the extent of its technological advances, but that much Iranian technology consists of modifications of equipment supplied by China, North Korea and other countries.

Iran has been hit by three rounds of U.N. sanctions for defying demands that it suspend its uranium enrichment program. Six major powers are working on another one.

Taghipour said Iran was planning to build and launch more satellites by 2010.

“We are working on these satellites and gradually they will be put into orbit,” he told the semi-official Mehr news agency.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Sami Aboudi)

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Aabid Khan Update. “Islamic terror cell ‘may have been plotting to attack Queen’,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, August 18: Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Last Updated: 10:18PM BST 18 Aug 2008
Aabid Hussain Khan
Aabid Hussain Khan: gathered details of Royal residences Photo: PA

The cell, which included Britain’s youngest ever terrorist, arrested on his way home from his GCSE chemistry exam, was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal.

Also on the list were Princess Michael of Kent, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke and Duchess of Kent.

Aabid Hussain Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, had compiled pictures, maps and details of the opening hours of official residences from information available on the internet.

There were also details of London landmarks including the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge and the underground as well as the New York and Washington metros and a home-made video of the Washington Memorial and World Bank in the US.

A counter-terrorism source said: “They had details of explosives and poisons along with information about London landmarks and a computer folder on Royal residences. We would be foolish to rule out the fact that they may have been planning an attack.”

Detective Chief Superintendent John Parkinson, Head of the Counter Terrorism Unit in Leeds, said the men posed a “very real threat”.

He added: “Let there be no doubt, these are dangerous individuals. These men were not simply in possession of material which expressed extremist views. They were also in possession of material that was operationally useful to anyone wishing to carry out an act of violence or terrorism.”

Khan, 23, was yesterday convicted of three counts of possessing articles for terrorism but the jury was not told he was part of a network of international terrorists in Europe and North America.

It can now be revealed that Khan was closely connected to the alleged leader of a group of men currently awaiting trial for plotting an attack.

Khan, using the name Ocean Blue, was also in regular contact with an aspiring suicide bomber in Edinburgh, Mohammed Atif Siddique.

He had also communicated regularly with three terrorists who ran websites for Al-Qaeda in Iraq from London and Kent.

Khan groomed Hammaad Munshi, then 15, the grandson of the head of a sharia court in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

Munshi, who lived with his parents and four brothers, was carrying two small bags of ball bearings, a key component of a suicide vest, when he was arrested on his way home from Westborough High School in Dewsbury on the afternoon of June 2006.

He had been running his own website selling knives and Islamic flags and using the online identity Fidadee – meaning “to die for” - on the auction website ebay.

He also had hand-written notes on martyrdom and had created and circulated technical documents via email and secure web forums on how to make Napalm, how to make a detonator and the production of home made explosives.

Operation Praline, run by the Counter-Terrorism Unit in Leeds, was sparked when police, acting on intelligence, stopped Khan at Manchester airport as he returned from Pakistan.

Officers found two computer hard drives, DVDs, forged currency, false identification papers, handwritten notes and correspondence.

Mr Denison said the collection amounted to a “terrorist encyclopaedia or library that would have enabled him or others to carry out terrorist attacks here or abroad in a variety of ways, and thereby to further the cause that appeared to be his mission in life - the war on western values and anyone who was a non-believer in the Muslim faith.”

Khan, an unemployed burger-bar worker, who used the email name Delboy and FoolsandHorses claimed he was selling Islamic streetware.

It took detectives some time to unravel all Khan’s aliases and some of the conversations he held in internet chat rooms, which were found on the hard drives, were discovered too late for the trial.

Khan wrote to one recipient: “If you can find a big target and take it out, like a military base in the UK, then praise be to Allah.

“Our group is growing. We need to plan better and to adapt now a few more people are showing interest. We need to confirm and to encourage…I want to have a group of at least 12 if possible.”

He reassured another correspondent who had told him: “I am not too sure about strapping a bomb to myself anymore.”

He also talked of explosives, warning: “You need to take care to store them in low temperatures otherwise they can kill. They must not come into contact with fire, oil or detergent.”

Another associate, Sultan Muhammed, 23, a postman from Bradford, fled to London with £1,265 in cash following Khan’s arrest.

When police raided his house they found maps of the London Underground, Jerusalem and Manhattan and a book entitled Suicide Bombings.

“Perhaps one of the most chilling videos was one that provided a step-by-step guide as to how to make a suicide bomber’s vest, using ball bearings as shrapnel and demonstrating the effects of such a bomb,” Mr Denison said.

Muhammed was found guilty of three charges of possessing articles useful for terrorism and another charge of making a record of useful for terrorism.

Munshi, now 18, was convicted of making a record useful for terrorism. A fourth defendant, Ahmed Sulieman, 30, from south London, was cleared of all charges.

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Last week in Iraq, a female homicide bomber, masquerading as a Shiite religious pilgrim, murdered 20-30 pilgrims, half of them women, and injured at least 100 others. Once again, the homicide bomber stopped at a resting tent for pilgrims. Please note: The target was not American or European “occupiers,” but Shiite Muslims. And, just as Muslims have historically attacked Jews on their most religious holy days (Yom Kippur, Passover), this possibly Sunni attack targeted Shiite religious pilgrims when they were at their weariest and most vulnerable: while they were resting along the pilgrimage route. Ironically, the Shiite’s pioneered the modern suicide/homicide bombing in the early 1980s in Lebanon with their truck bombings. The tactic has now returned to haunt them.

This homicide bomber camouflaged herself three times. As a woman, she played against type and did not nurture others; she killed them. Second, she disguised herself as a religious woman, thereby winning the instant “trust” of the other religious pilgrims. A “tent” often psychologically denotes a female-centered shelter. Veiled and burqa-wearing women are often known as “tents on the move.” Third, in a sense, this homicide bomber might unconsciously have been a rebel who wanted to literally blow her own tent/prison/home right up along with other extended “family” members.

Camouflage as a tactic characterizes Arab Muslim warfare. Both Palestinian (Fatah, Al Aqsa, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.) and Iranian (Hezbollah) terrorists have occupied hospitals, ambulances, churches and civilian homes–all locations which allow them to claim victim status in the eyes of the foreign media as they continue to wage their unholy holy war against Israel and Lebanon.

This same way of thinking applies in the use of women as homicide bombers in the war between Sunni and Shiia Arab Muslims and between non-Arab Iranian Shiia and Arabs, both Shiia and Sunni.

Last week, my esteemed colleague, Dr. Nancy H. Kobrin and I published a letter in the New York Times in response to an op-ed piece about female homicide bombers by Lindsey O’Rourke. O’Rourke claimed that homicide bombings by women are indistinguishable from those by men; and that “foreign occupation” mainly provokes nationalist stirrings which have no other expression but that of homicide bombings. We begged to differ. O’Rourke’s article was titled: Behind the Woman Behind the Bomb. Here is our pre-edited letter.

The Veiled Male Professor Behind the Female Graduate Student

We read University of Chicago graduate student Lindsey O’Rourke’s op-ed piece with interest given that we have co-authored articles about suicide/homicide bombers. Her thesis mimics the work of the University of Chicago’s Professor Robert Pape, (who was John Mearsheimer’s teaching assistant), which blames suicide terrorism on foreign “occupations,” views nationalism as “liberatory,” and insists that there is “little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism.”

We disagree. Nationalist liberation movements often have little to do with foreign “occupations” and are endemic to the region. Shiia versus Sunni, Kurds versus Turkey and Iraq, Tamil Tigers versus the Sinhalese-controlled government of Sri Lanka, are all groups that are natives of the same region.

In addition, Muslims have historically persecuted, converted, and exiled people who were not only native to the region but whose national and religious existences long preceded the birth of Islam and the rise of Islamic imperialism. Yes, we are talking about Arab Jews and Christians as well as about other “infidel” groups such as Hindus, and Bahai. The biggest, hidden story about Middle Eastern refugees is that of Arab Jews. Now that the Arab Middle East is almost completely “judenrein,” (free of Jews), the newest hidden story is about the Muslim persecution of Christians. Such fights unto-the-death have little to do with “foreign occupations.”

In the last month, Christian Ethiopians were stoned by Muslim Ethiopians; a Saudi daughter had her tongue cut out before she was burned alive by her father because she had converted to Christianity; in Pakistan; Muslim men kidnapped two Christian girls as young as ten, forcibly converted and married them.

Al Qaeda has taken this kind of fight global and on 9/11 used multiple homicide bombers to attack Americans whom they see as “infidel Christians.”

Second, the “liberation” that suicide bombers seek has as much to do with liberation from dysfunctional family dynamics as it does with liberation from “foreign occupations.” Thus, the normalized sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of both women and children in Arab Muslim, Arab Christian, and non-Arab Muslim families remains barbaric, secretive, and pandemic and may indeed lead to normalized cultural paranoia, hyper-vigilance, scapegoating, and to honor-related violence, including honor murders.

This complicated family dynamic may lead to different motivations among male and female homicide bombers.

Like so many others who write about this subject, O’Rourke also accidentally obfuscates the matter. There is a profound resistance to describing Muslim terrorists as “Muslims.” (We are not talking about Muslims who are not terrorists). Muslim terrorists are described as “South Asians,” “militants,” “freedom fighters,” etc. In a similar vein, O’Rourke does not use the phrase that we have chosen to use: “Homicide bomber.” She writes of “suicide killers,” “suicide attackers,” and “suicide bombers.”

After writing about this subject for many years, we have decided that it is important to describe a murderer as a murderer. Thus, the problem is that of “homicide bombers.” The fact that they are also willing to die in order to kill means that this is the ultimate expression of death worship.

Unfortunately, more female security checkers in Iraq had specifically been requested. That request was denied. We suggest that this policy must immediately be changed. But, in addition, we propose an international ban on burqas for security reasons and as a human rights policy. In doing so, we join Daniel Pipes who called for such a ban in 2007.

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - The global credit crisis presents the $1 trillion Islamic finance industry with an opportunity to expand its appeal beyond devout Muslim investors as a haven from speculative excess. The message may have particular resonance in the West after the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market left banks holding hundreds of billions of dollars of nearly worthless credit instruments tied to home loans by a web of complex structures.

While conventional banks are nursing losses of more than $400 billion from the credit crisis, Islamic banks are virtually unscathed. The industry is playing up the contrast to scalded shareholders, bondholders and borrowers and fearful depositors.

“It’s very much a return to old fashioned conservative lending,” said David Testa, chief executive of Gatehouse Bank plc which began operations in April as Britain’s fifth Islamic bank.

“The current global market condition has given Islamic finance a great opportunity to show what it can do — help to fill the liquidity gap,” he said.

There is some merit in the argument.

Investors traumatized by the global crisis may seek comfort from the stricter rules imposed on lending by Islamic law, banning certain structures and funding methods which fast unraveled during the U.S. mortgage crisis.

Testa said Islamic finance practices were more fiscally conservative, with genuine end-investor participation that did not involve parking of assets in off-balance-sheet vehicles.

“They don’t allow infinite leverage and the structure that you will be seeing increasingly will be tied ever more closely to underlying assets. This is the right time for Islamic finance to spread its wings,” he said.

Islamic finance is based on the sharia or Islamic law. It requires that gains be derived from ethical and socially responsible investments and frowns on interest-based banking and sectors such as pork, gaming and pornography.

The Asian Development Bank estimates Islamic assets globally aggregate around $1 trillion with annual growth of 10 to 15 percent a year.

Saudi Arabia’s Al-Rajhi Bank 1120.SE and Kuwait Finance House are the two biggest Islamic banks in the Gulf region. Malaysia’s biggest Islamic lender is Maybank Islamic Bhd, subsidiary of Malayan Banking Bhd.

The jump in popularity of Islamic finance is drawing the interest of companies outside the Middle East.

Southeast Asia’s second-largest developer, City Developments, said last week it may launch Islamic debt and sell hotels to boost its financial prowess to make acquisitions.

The Islamic finance industry, which was nearly non-existent 30 years ago, has certain distinguishing features which makes it less risk-prone, analysts say.

Islamic bonds, or sukuk, replace coupons with payouts backed by tangible assets. Islamic law prohibits the payment of interest and requires transactions to be linked to assets, thus deterring the kind of complexities prevalent in conventional financing.

“The really complex products like CDO squared, which has such a remote link from the asset that you can’t tell when it is defaulting, can’t happen in Islamic finance because debt cannot qualify as an asset,” said Dubai-based Debashis Dey, head of capital markets with law firm Clifford Chance LLP.

He added that while Islamic finance was adapting conventional products to make them shariah-compliant, it was a long way from sophisticated products such as collateralized debt obligations.

“The complexity of trying to adapt even some straightforward conventional products like securitized products is daunting enough, let alone trying to think of a CDO,” Dey said.

NOT IMMUNE FROM RISK

But while Islamic products are coming into favor, analysts say market commentators and intermediaries may be too zealous in promoting the merits of Islamic finance as a safe-haven product.

Mohamed Damak of Standard & Poor’s cites the case of the Gulf’s boom in real estate financing mainly by Islamic banks in the past three years amid soaring property prices.

“A correction of the real estate sector would impact Islamic banks involved in this business line. Islamic finance is not immune from risk,” he said.

Even as experts are weighing the degree of insularity that Islamic finance provides, there are differences in the way accounts are prepared and in how sharia law is interpreted.

Banks in Britain differ in their accounting operations from banks in Bahrain, for example, which in turn differ from banks in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Clifford Chance’s Dey says the lack of standardization poses a hurdle to growth, but there are others who say a cookie cutter approach is not desirable and differences will remain.

“Complete standardization may not happen — there will always be variants,” said Raj Maiden, managing director at Five Pillars Pte Ltd, who feels it is more important to tailor products according to the needs of each market.

“Let us not try to design a product that will sell in every market. Some standardization may be required but it may not be an absolute hindrance to growth.”

While the debate rages on whether Islamic finance provides a safer bet or is merely an object of irrational exuberance, most agree it should leverage on the attention it is receiving now.

“If Islamic banks step up to the mark, then they will gain traction,” said Gatehouse’s Testa.

Al Jazeera

Hezbollah has signed a memorandum of understanding with a local Sunni faction in Lebanon, a move that could help defuse sectarian tensions that have cost the lives of more than 100 people But the deal, signed on Monday between Hezbollah and the Salafist Belief and Justice Movement (BJM), came under fire from other Salafist groups.

The agreement prohibits the shedding of Muslim blood by fellow Muslims.

Salafists follow a form of Sunni Islam and many adherents consider some Shia Islamic beliefs to be heresies.

The agreement stresses the necessity of eliminating concerns over those doctrinal differences and agrees the formation of a committee of religious scholars to contain arguments and manage disputes.

It also calls for confronting the “American agenda” in Lebanon.

Deal criticised

Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed, head of Hezbollah’s political council, represented Hezbollah in the signing ceremony, while the Salafists were represented by Sheikh Hassan al-Shahhal, who heads the BJM.

But another Salafist authority, Dai al-Islam al-Shahhal, one of the founders of the Salafist movement in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, criticised the deal.

“The Salafi movement totally rejects this document … and [he] who signed it has no right to claim belonging to the Salafi movement or representing it,” al-Shahhal said.

“This document is … harmful to the Sunni community, and will end up in vain, God willing,” he said.

Tripoli has been the scene of sectarian violence in recent months, with clashes between members of the rival Sunni Muslim and Alawite groups in the the neighbourhoods of Bab al-Tibbaneh and Jabal Mohsen claiming the lives of 23 people.

Last Thursday, a bomb attack near a bus stop in the city’s busy commercial district, killed at least 18 people.

Tens of thousands of Muslims have taken to the streets of Indian Kashmir’s main city to demand that the United Nations recognise their right to self-determination. Security was tight on Monday as a mass of people marched to a local UN office, in defiance of official warnings against holding the rally in Srinagar, still tense after deadly clashes last week.

The UN office in Srinagar houses personnel who monitor ceasefire violations along the Line of Control, or the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

“I have never seen such a big rally in Srinagar,” Abdul Aziz, a 75-year-old shopkeeper who was taking part in the procession, said.

“I couldn’t resist coming out to demand freedom from India,” he said, as he marched towards the UN office carrying a placard that read: “If freedom for Kosovo, why not for Kashmir?”

The marchers included men, women and children, who chanted slogans including “We want freedom” and “We will give blood for Kashmir’s freedom”.

Many also carried green or black flags - symbolising Islam and mourning.

Hundreds of lorries and buses overflowing with protesters, some sitting on roofs and hanging out of windows, had made their way across the disputed Himalayan region to Srinagar for the protest.

Petition presented

The crowd tore down a barbed wire fence to reach the UN office, where organisers from Kashmir’s main separatist All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference alliance, handed over a petition against Indian rule.

Buses and lorries loaded with protesters head to Srinigar [AFP]
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a separatist leader, said that the plea urges the UN “to intervene and help us in achieving the right to self-determination”.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani, another leader, told the crowd to demand “the UN, the US, Britain and international community to come and see what people want here”.

“This is a struggle for right to self-determination,” he said. “The UN should send its peacekeepers to Jammu as well as Kashmir.”

There are decades-old UN Security Council resolutions calling for a referendum to allow the Kashmiri people to choose between India and Pakistan, but they have never been implemented.

Last week, 22 Muslim demonstrators were killed in police firing in the Kashmir valley as they vented their anger over a blockade of the area by Hindu hardliners.

Land dispute

The latest tensions between Muslims and Hindus centre around a small piece of land in the valley that was awarded to a Hindu pilgrimage trust, sparking Muslim protests.

The land transfer order was then rescinded, sparking a blockade by Hindus who dominate the south of Jammu and Kashmir state - from where the main road access to the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley comes.

Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, has called for calm in the region.

“All political parties, all right-thinking people must work together to bring the situation under control,” he told reporters outside parliament in New Delhi.

Hindu-majority Jammu also saw more protests on Monday as thousands of people defied a ban on public gatherings there and gathered in large groups hoping to court arrest.

Suchet Singh, one of the organisers, said that such gatherings would go on for three days and that more than 100,000 people were expected to take part.

Head archeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar: “It is not very often that such a discovery happens in which real figures of the past shake off the dust of history and so vividly revive the stories of the Bible.”
A 2,600 year old clay seal impression, or bulla, bearing the name Gedaliah ben Pashur has recently been uncovered completely intact during archeological excavations in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David, located just below the walls of the Old City near the Dung Gate The name appears in the Book of Jeremiah (38:1) together with that of Yehuchal ben Shelemayahu, whose name was found on an identical clay bulla in the same area in 2005. The two men were ministers in the court of King Zedekiah, the last king to rule in Jerusalem before the destruction of the First Temple. According to Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University who is leading the dig, this is the first time in the annals of Israeli archeology that two clay bullae with two Biblical names that appear in the same verse in the Bible have been unearthed in the same location.
“It is not very often that such a discovery happens in which real figures of the past shake off the dust of history and so vividly revive the stories of the Bible,” Mazar noted.
The first bulla was uncovered inside an impressive stone structure, which Mazar believes to be the Palace of David, while the second bulla was found at the foot of the external wall of the same structure, under a tower that was built in the days of Nehemiah. Both bullae, clearly preserved, measuring 1 cm. in diameter each and lettered in ancient Hebrew, were found among the debris of the destruction of the First Temple period (8th to 6th centuries BCE).
Dr. Eilat Mazar recently completed the third phase of her excavation of what she believes to be King David’s palace at the City of David site. More finds are expected as archeologists continue to sift through the rubble from the dig, which was sponsored by the Ir David (City of David) Foundation together with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Hebrew University, and the Shalem Center.

The City of David is the original hilltop upon which King David dedicated ancient Jerusalem as his capital 3,000 years ago. Deep underground, the City of David is revealing some of the most exciting archeological finds of the ancient world, while above ground, the site is a vibrant center of activity and popular tourist attraction for families, complete with visitor’s center, 3D exhibition and guided tours through the excavations that include Warren’s Shaft, ancient water systems such as Hezekiah’s Tunnel and the Second Temple Shiloah pool. During the busy summer and festival periods, the site offers added family-friendly attractions, festivals, concerts, guided tours etc.

The award-winning website of the City of David is available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Hebrew.: www.cityofdavid.org.il