Extradition of Canadian Terrorist Challenged by Lawyers

Lawyers on Monday challenged a decision to extradite Lebanese-born Canadian university professor Hassan Diab, who is accused of being involved in the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue, calling France’s key handwriting evidence “fatally flawed.” On October 3, 1980, the eve of Simchat Torah,  a bomb went off outside the Union Libérale Israélite de France synagogue in Paris. Four people were killed and more than forty injured. The […]

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Naval Yard Shooting Testimony Uncovers 52 Convicted Felons Given ‘Routine Unauthorized Access’ to Navy Installations

(CNSNews.com) – A DoD official told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday that about 50 convicted felons were given access to Navy installations without the proper checks, and no one has been held accountable. A Sept. 16, 2013 DoD inspector general’s report, which was released the same day as the Navy Yard shooting, found […]

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Ban ki-Moon and Netanyahu

UN: Releasing Murderers is Good, Building is Bad

Releasing terrorists is good, but approving new Jewish construction in Jerusalem is wrong, according to the head of the United Nations. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement he released on Wednesday, condemned Israel’s announcement that it will build 1,500 new housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo. “Settlement activity is contrary to […]

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Surging Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea Threatens U.S. Interests

Somali coastguard (Newscom) When pirates off the Nigerian coast abducted two Americans on an oil ship early Thursday morning, resulting news coverage focused U.S. public attention on surging piracy and lawlessness in the Gulf of Guinea. The kidnappings, however, are simply the latest reminder that the Gulf of Guinea has emerged as the world’s piracy […]

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Saudi woman gets out of car

‘No Woman No Drive’

Just days after Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry threatened to use force to stop women violating a ban on female drivers, one man has come up with a creative way to protest the laws, which rights groups have slammed as discriminatory. Hisham Fageeh, who describes himself as “an artist and a social activist”, released an accapella rendition […]

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Islam: Against All Mankind

When Islam’s founder Muhammad, the very first Muslim immigrant, arrived at Yathrib, or Medina, he and his followers began military preparations and partook in a series of attacks, over 100 in one year. But against whom were all those preparations? The answer was given by Muhammad himself: against all non-Muslims. And since then nothing changed; Islamic immigration is […]

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