Anti-Defamation League condemns cabbie stabber
The Anti-Defamation League, which recently came out against the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero, issued a statement today condemning the stabbing of a Muslim cab driver–an attack classified as a hate crime. ADL’s New York Regional Director Ron Meiersaid in a statement: It is especially disturbing that this attack occurred amid an [... ]
Suspected Islamists kill 3 Nigerian police: authorities
Suspected members of an Islamic sect that launched an uprising last year have killed three police officers in two separate incidents in northern Nigeria, authorities said on Friday.
UK researchers: Prisons breeding new terrorists
British researchers say the U.K. could face a new wave of threats from homegrown terrorists as extremists jailed in recent years are freed.
Wounded NY cabbie says religion had role in attack
A Muslim taxi driver wounded in a stabbing said Thursday he believed he was attacked because of his religion but did not blame the public furor over a proposed Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center site.
Britain facing home-grown terrorist threat, report says
Britain is facing an increasing threat from lone home-grown terrorists, especially among radicalized Muslims in the prison system, a report from a security think tank said Friday.
2 terrorism suspects appear in court in Canada
A man who appeared on Canada’s version of “American Idol” has been arrested as part of an alleged homegrown plot and two other suspects made a brief appearance in court on Thursday.
Third terrorist suspect appears in court
OTTAWA – The third suspect to face terrorism-related charges after a year-long investigation by police and security services appeared in court Friday.
Separatists flay Farooq’s Kashmir statement
Moderate and hard-line separatists in Kashmir on Friday took exception to Union minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah s remark in the Parliament that the people of Kashmir want to be with India.
Under attack, Obama holds cards on Afghan pullout date
Faced with mounting criticism over Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama is leaving a persistent — and, some say, strategic — ambiguity about a July 2011 goal to start withdrawing troops.
