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U.K. Doctor Plot Thickens
subtitle: All 8 detainess [sic] have ties to health service, but genesis of terror scheme still eludes investigators
... Most also have roots elsewhere, but investigators have thus far found scant few common threads in their respective backgrounds in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, India and Saudi Arabia . . .
Comment: Has SNL taken over the Toronto Star? A few days ago they printed a headline called “The ties that bind 17 suspects?” which said subtitle: “Aside from the fact that virtually all are young men, it’s hard to find a common denominator.” This time it's only worse, with spelling errors in addition to terrible reporting. I'm really hoping CBC and the Star are in some sort of parody contest...
Toronto Star -- Mitch Potter |
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Suspects in U.K. bombing plots linked through medical profession
Eight people arrested in connection with three failed car bombings in London and Glasgow all have links to Britain's National Health Service, and seven of the suspects are doctors or medical students.
With the arrest late Monday of Dr. Mohammed Haneef, a 27-year-old Indian physician at Australia's Brisbane airport, police believe all the main suspects are in custody.
Comment: Being from India, I'm guessing that Mohammed Haneef is probably Buddhist, while Dr. Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla sounds more Hindu to me. Then there's a no-brainer: Dr. Khalid Ahmed - clearly a Christan, no need to mention that. It's pretty obvious this diverse group was linked through the medical profession, nothing else. Way to go, CBC.
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Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed ten Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, Palestinians said, the bloodiest fighting in the area since the Hamas militant group violently seized control two weeks ago.
The sudden outburst of violence came as the \"Quartet\" of Mideast peace mediators was expected to name outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as its new envoy.
Reader comment: The sudden outburst of violence? Are the Associated Press and CTV trying to tell us that all was calm in Gaza during the past few weeks? Are those reporters so politically correct that they cannot see that the violence is practically all from one side: Palestinians goons against their own people and Palestinians terrorists against Israeli civilians. Totaly unacceptable.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics has bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for the author Salman Rushdie.
Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses outraged many Muslims around the world, was awarded a knighthood last week for services to literature in Queen Elizabeth's birthday honours list
"If a blasphemer can be given the title 'Sir' by the West despite the fact he's hurt the feelings of Muslims, then a mujahid who has been fighting for Islam against the Russians, Americans and British must be given the lofty title of Islam, Saifullah," the chairman, Tahir Ashrafi, told Reuters.
A Mujahid is a Muslim holy warrior. Bin Laden was one of many Arabs who helped Afghan guerrillas battle Soviet invaders in Afghanistan in the 1980s. . . .
last paragraph:
Also on Thursday, the speaker of the Punjab provincial assembly said blasphemers should be killed while Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of Pakistan's ruling party, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair was "personally and mentally against Islam"
Comment: Where to begin: The Star doesn't mention any other of Rushdie's literary achievements, but only mentions the novel that outraged Mulsims (who hadn't read it) almost 20 years ago, thereby making their anger seem rational. Also, the title Bin Laden honoured in Salman Rusdhie tit for tat, creates an equivalence between bestowing honourary titles on authors and terrorists. And the piece concludes with the smaller news -- really no big deal -- that Pakistan's ruling party is calling for the murder of blasphemers.
Toronto Star -- Zeeshan Haider |
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