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The Fifth Column
AQ's Squalid Theater of Terror

Al-Shabab's War on Women
19 Nov 09 - A so-called Islamic court set up by al-Qaeda ally al-Shabab have executed another young woman by stoning in Somalia, the fourth in recent months.

Accused of 'adultery', the 20-year-old woman was buried up to her waist in a public square and murdered with large stones.

Her 30-year-old alleged lover received 100 lashes from the self-appointed moral guardians.

A woman similarly executed in Kismayo recently turned out to have been a 13-year-old girl who had been raped.

In related news, the European Union will train and arm 6000 militias to fight insurgents and form the core of a Somali regular army, seen as the only way to stabilize the country.

An EU naval force already patrols waters off the Somali coast in order to suppress piracy.

Afghan Ramadan Massacre

ISI Role in Hit Suspected
03 Sep 09 - The Taliban have murdered over 23 people at the opening of a mosque in order to assassinate Afghanistan's formidable Deputy Intelligence Chief, Dr Abdullah Laghmani.

Striking far from their usual haunts at Mehterlam, 60 miles east of Kabul, the Taliban have claimed sole responsibility for the suicide bomber's 'targeted' attack.

However, M K Bhadrakumar, India’s former Ambassador in Afghanistan, says that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been stalking Dr Laghmani for a decade, as he had often frustrated their plans to interfere in his native Eastern region.

Story Coverage on Mashget >
Fmr. Ambassador Accuses ISI >

The Appetite for Control

Gaza women forced into old garb
30 Aug 09 - Dozens of Palestinian intellectuals have signed a petition against Hamas' decision to oblige women in Gaza to wear traditional dress and to forbid men from teaching at girls' schools.

The petition states that these measures are a fundamentalist invention that has nothing to do with religion.

The signatories called on the Ministry of Religious Endowments to foster instead a religious discourse that encourages tolerance, and to not allow extremists to use mosques to foment hatred and division.

Taliban Vow to Wreck Poll

Ex-President Survives Ambush
14 Aug 09 - Former Afghan President Berhanuddin Rabbani has survived a Taliban ambush in northern Afghanistan.

Afghan police say Taliban fighters attacked Mr. Rabbani's convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire Thursday in the Ali Abad district of Kunduz province.

They say no one in the convoy was hurt, but the attackers suffered casualties in a battle with bodyguards and police.

Mr. Rabbani is a supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah - a main challenger to incumbent President Hamid Karzai in elections on August 20.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on Mr. Rabbani. The militants have vowed to disrupt the vote.

Afghan News on VOA > and ABC >

FBI Arrests Cuban Spies

Thirty Years Before the Bust
06 Jun 09 - A retired US State Department employee and his wife have been charged with spying for the Cuban Government for more than thirty years.

Walter Kendall Myers, and his wife, Gwendoline Myers (who did not work for State) were charged with communicating classified information to a foreign government (spying) and with wire fraud.

In latter years Myers, who retired in 2007, worked for the ultra-sensitive Research & Intelligence section of the State Department, from whence he passed on some 200 documents to the Cubans.

FBI agents, complete with Cuban cigars, tricked Myers into spilling the beans. They allege Mr and Mrs Myers were known to their Cuban controllers as "Agent 202" and "Agent 123" respectively.

Source: BBC - ABC News Radio

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