Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Slaughter And 'Submission'
CBS News | The images that aired last August in a 12-minute movie on Dutch television were meant to shock its viewers.
In one image, the opening lines of the holy book, the Koran, were written across the naked body of a Muslim woman. Another image showed Koranic verses about female obedience scrawled on the back of a woman beaten by her husband, while a female voice accused Allah of condoning the violence.
The movie, "Submission," was directed by Holland’s most controversial film maker, Theo Van Gogh, a descendant of the painter Vincent Van Gogh, and a national gadfly, who made a career insulting everyone, no matter their faith, race or gender.
“Submission” was right up Van Gogh's alley, but it wasn’t his idea. The movie was written and conceived by a 35-year-old Muslim woman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a member of the Dutch parliament, and a relentless critic of the way Islam treats women.
CBS
Monday, March 14, 2005
Europeans Investigate CIA Role in Abductions
Washingtonpost.com | A radical Egyptian cleric known as Abu Omar was walking to a Milan mosque for noon prayers in February 2003 when he was grabbed on the sidewalk by two men, sprayed in the face with chemicals and stuffed into a van. He hasn't been seen since.
Milan investigators, however, now appear to be close to identifying his kidnappers. Last month, officials showed up at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy and demanded records of any American planes that had flown into or out of the joint U.S.-Italian military installation around the time of the abduction. They also asked for logs of vehicles that had entered the base.
Italian authorities suspect the Egyptian was the target of a CIA-sponsored operation known as rendition, in which terrorism suspects are forcibly taken for interrogation to countries where torture is practiced.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Typing error causes nuclear scare
BBC NEWS | "The Sudanese government had a nasty shock this week, when it read on a US Congress website that the Americans had conducted nuclear tests in the country.
A House of Representatives committee report mentioned tests conducted in Sudan between 1962 and 1970.
However, when alarmed Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail raised it with US officials in Khartoum, it turned out to be a typing error."
The report should have said Sedan, a test site in the US state of Nevada."
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Annan demands Darfur resolution
BBC NEWS | "UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has told the Security Council that action must be taken to end 'appalling' crimes in Sudan's western Darfur region.
He urged the 15-member Council to pass a resolution imposing sanctions on those who block peace moves in Darfur."
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