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Kharotabad: Police surgeon who exposed the suicide bomber hoax killed

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QUETTA: The key witness to the Kharotabad incident, police surgeon Dr Syed Baqir Shah, was shot dead on Thursday afternoon while on his way home. Shah had carried out autopsies of five foreigners, including two women, one of whom was seven-months pregnant, who were shot dead by security personnel in Kharotabad on the pretext of [...]

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Muslim Standpoint: Remembering 9/11

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Why Should I Remember 9/11?  This question and several like this have swallowed the media for the past month and continue to be the focus.  Narrowing this question specifically towards the effects of 9/11 on Muslim lives. And they range tremendously. As a result, the U.S. directly occupied Iraq and Afghanistan for the past decade [...]

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The New “It” Word: Islamism

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The latest developments on Osama bin Laden’s death have ignited a great debate whether or not the war on terrorism is finally over.  This has many top-ranking officials and policymakers vehemently objecting.  Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security, said to the Washington Times “We killed the man but not the ideology.”  Is it back [...]

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Muslim-Christian Clashes Kill 5 in West Cairo

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO (AP) – Mobs set two churches on fire in western Cairo during clashes between Muslims and Christians triggered by rumors of an interfaith romance that left 10 dead in some of the worst sectarian violence since the ouster of the president in a popular uprising.   Egypt’s prime minister canceled [...]

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The Question: Cheering by the West about Osama’s death is understandable, but what about innocent Arabs who were killed in the antiterrorism campaign?

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By SARA KHORSHID I will have to disrupt the American and Western happiness for Osama Bin Laden’s death by raising some of the obvious points that have been typically gotten across by millions of Muslims since the beginning of the war on terror; and Bin Laden’s death now further reinforces those points. Although I do [...]

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Osama death: The real terrorists claim a false victory in continuing to veil the real issues

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Sydney, Australia, 3rd May 2011 – Australian politicians, past and present, have lined up to express their approval of the killing of Osama bin Ladin. Julia Gillard, Stephen Smith, Julie Bishop, Alexander Downer and John Howard have all ‘welcomed’ his death, claiming that Bin Ladin had been responsible for some of the worst terrorist attacks [...]

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Morocco probe says Marrakech attack was ‘terrorist,’ while death toll rises to nearly 20

Investigators work at the site of a blast at a cafe in Marrakech. (File photo)

At least 17 people, including six French citizens, were killed and 20 others wounded in the terrorist bombing that rocked a café in the center of Morocco’s second largest city, Marrakech, on Thursday, according to Al Arabiya’s correspondent. King Mohammed IV of Morocco ordered an urgent probe into the attack, the deadliest in Morocco since [...]

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UN Expert Richard Falk says “9/11 an apparent cover-up by USA”

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The United States has demanded the sacking of a UN special expert on human rights for suggesting that Washington has played a role in the September 11 attacks. The UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, wrote in his personal blog that there are “awkward gaps and contradictions in the [...]

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