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  • The Stealth Crusade
    The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
  • Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region
    Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
  • Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50
    Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50 Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 3:48 PM ET Comments5...
  • Israel threatens 'disproportionate' response to Hamas rocket fire
    Israel threatens 'disproportionate' response to Hamas rocket fire Last Updated: Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 8:41 AM ET Comments259...
  • Turkish PM gets hero's welcome after shouting match with Israeli leader
    Turkish PM gets hero's welcome after shouting match with Israeli leader Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2009 | 7:35 AM ET Comments99...
  • Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire
    Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire Last Updated: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 12:06 PM ET Comments340...
  • Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now
    Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now Published: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 8:03 PM ET Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops began to withdraw from Gaza Sunday after their government and Hamas militants declared an end...
  • Before ceasefire, Gaza doctor's grief was heard on live Israeli TV
    Before ceasefire, Gaza doctor's grief was heard on live Israeli TV 'Oh, God, my daughters!' he cried after Israeli shells hit house Last Updated: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 10:29 PM ET Comments249...
  • UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery
    UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery Last Updated: Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 5:58 AM ET Comments189...
  • UN: No fighters in targeted school
    UN: No fighters in targeted school ...
  • UN and Red Cross halt Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli attacks on staff
    UN and Red Cross halt Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli attacks on staff Module body ...
  • Rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel
    Rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel Israeli military bombs Gaza overnight as conflict against Hamas enters 13th day Last Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 | 2:12 AM ET Comments35...
  • UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets
    UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets Last Updated: Monday, December 29, 2008 | 9:53 PM ET Comments1198...
  • Uprising from the ashes of history
    China Muslim minorities Uprising from the ashes of history Last Updated: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 9:40 AM ET Comments64...
  • An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead.
    Attackers kill 16 police in Chinese border province 04/08/2008 10:53:15 PM An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead....
  • 29 dead, dozens wounded as blasts hit western India
    29 dead, dozens wounded as blasts hit western India Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 3:06 PM ET Comments16...
  • Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show
    Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show Last Updated: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 5:31 AM ET Comments109...
  • Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound
    Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound Last Updated Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:52:28 EDT CBC News Israeli aircraft fired three missiles Tuesday into the Gaza Strip compound of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, injuring two people. Abbas was not in the compound during the attack, which left deep craters in the ground. ...
  • Peace falls off agenda in Israeli vote
    Peace falls off agenda in Israeli vote Last Updated Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:08:01 EST CBC News With the centrist Kadima Party seemingly headed for a narrow win in Israel's general elections Tuesday, few of the 31 parties in the race have made peace a priority because of the recent Hamas electoral victory. INDEPTH: ...
  • Canada concerned over Afghan facing death for being a Christian
    Canada concerned over Afghan facing death for being a Christian Last Updated Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:37:37 EST CBC News Canada has joined the list of countries closely watching a court case in Afghanistan, where under Islamic law a man could be sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. INDEPTH: ...
  • Pentagon probes alleged marine 'rampage' in Iraq
    Pentagon probes alleged marine 'rampage' in Iraq Last Updated Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:43:02 EST CBC News The Pentagon has begun a criminal investigation after graphic videotape surfaced suggesting U.S. marines killed at least 15 unarmed civilians in November in the Iraqi town of Haditha. INDEPTH: ...
  • Arab League, Muslim groups blame U.S., Britain for Jericho raid
    Arab League, Muslim groups blame U.S., Britain for Jericho raid Last Updated Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:47:46 EST CBC News The Arab League and other Muslim countries have condemned an Israeli raid on a West Bank jail that netted six Palestinian militants, blaming both Britain and the U.S. for allowing it to happen. INDEPTH: ...
  • Jewish settlers terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, UN expert says
    Jewish settlers terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, UN expert says 11:07:46 EST Mar 8, 2006 BRADLEY S. KLAPPER GENEVA (AP) - Jewish settlers are terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, attacking children on their way to school and destroying farmers' trees and crops, a UN expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict said in a report. ...
  • New threats of violence in Indonesia
    New threats of violence in Indonesia Last Updated Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:42:14 EST CBC News Thousands of security forces are on guard across Indonesia amid threats that al-Qaeda-linked militants were planning attacks over the holiday period. * INDEPTH: Indonesia Maj. Gen. Firman Gani, Jakarta's police chief, said Jemaah Islamiyah militants might try to retaliate for the death of bomb-making expert Azahari Husin, who was gunned down in a...
  • Israel, Palestinians argue over tourist access to Bethlehem
    Israel, Palestinians argue over tourist access to Bethlehem Last Updated Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:30:20 EST CBC News It may be best known as the birthplace of Jesus, but some Arab merchants say the Israeli army is making it harder for tourists to visit Bethlehem. This Christmas season, it's expected about 80,000 Christian pilgrims will visit the historic West Bank town. But locals say the presence of a towering concrete wall and metal gate controlled by the...
  • Row builds over Jerusalem voting
    Row builds over Jerusalem voting by Wednesday 21 December 2005 8:53 AM GMT Shaath said without voting in Jerusalem there would be no election The Palestinian Authority says will cancel 25 January parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with plans to bar Jerusalem Palestinians from voting. "If the Israelis insist on not allowing us to conduct the elections in Jerusalem, then there will be no elections at all," Nabil Shaath, the Pales...
  • Failed Jordan hotel bomber had three brothers killed by U.S. forces in Iraq
    Failed Jordan hotel bomber had three brothers killed by U.S. forces in Iraq 04:20:54 EST Nov 15, 2005 PAUL GARWOOD AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - The Iraqi woman who failed in her bid to blow up an Amman hotel had three brothers killed by U.S. forces, while Jordanian officials unveiled tough new anti-terror measures Tuesday. The killings of Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi's three brothers in Iraq's volatile Anbar province is being considered as a possible motivation b...
  • CSIS head says Iraq war 'serious concern' for Canada's safety
    CSIS head says Iraq war 'serious concern' for Canada's safety Last Updated Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:51:29 EST CBC News Jim Judd, the director of Canada's spy agency, is speaking openly about the way the war in Iraq is creating new dangers for Canada. * INDEPTH: Iraq CSIS says Canadians have joined the Iraqi insurgency. Judd appeared before a Senate committee on Monday to answer questions about the Canadian Security Intellig...
  • Israeli defence minister: no peace with Palestinians in this generation
    Israeli defence minister: no peace with Palestinians in this generation 10:28 AM EDT Oct 28 STEVE WEIZMAN JERUSALEM (AP) - Expressing growing frustration with Mahmoud Abbas, Israel's defence minister dismissed the Palestinian leader as "a one-man show" bereft of support from his own people and said he sees little chance that a peace deal can be reached with the Palestinians in the present generation. Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz's remarks were publishe...
  • Israel Supreme Court bans military use of Palestinian civilians as 'shields'
    Israel Supreme Court bans military use of Palestinian civilians as 'shields' 12:23 PM EDT Oct 06 JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday banned the military's practice of using Palestinian civilians as "human shields" in arrest raids, saying it violates international law. The court ruled in response to petitions by human rights groups. In August 2002, the court had issued a temporary injunction against the practice. Human rights groups have said t...
  • Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip
    Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip 10:13 AM EDT Aug 04 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel announced plans Thursday to expand a settlement near Jerusalem, its latest effort to consolidate control over parts of the West Bank even as it prepares to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The plan to build 72 housing units in the Beitar Illit settlement are liable to put Israel on a collision course with the U.S. government, which oppo...
  • CSIS denies imam's charge
    CSIS denies imam's charge Last Updated Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:32:11 EDT CBC News The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has hotly denied an allegation from a Muslim cleric that two of its agents roughed up a Muslim woman. CSIS spokesperson John Dunn says the service has investigated Imam Aly Hindy's charge that security agents manhandled a young Muslim woman when her husband was out of their home. The imam, well-known in the Toronto are...
  • Israeli army seals off Gaza strip
    Israeli army seals off Gaza strip Last Updated Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:53:25 EDT CBC News Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have stormed a hotel in the Gaza Strip in order to remove 150 Jewish extremists, who had barricaded themselves inside for several weeks. The ultra-nationalists had vowed to make the derelict Palm Beach Hotel their base of operations to protest Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza. An opponent of Israel's planned pullout from the G...
  • Palestinian militant groups step up threat to call off ceasefire
    Palestinian militant groups step up threat to call off ceasefire 12:12 PM EDT Jun 13 IBRAHIM BARZAK GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - After a four-month lull in fighting, Palestinian militant groups on Monday stepped up a threat to withdraw from a ceasefire with Israel but stopped short of pulling out of the deal. The militant factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, accused Israel of violating the truce with continued military operations. ...
  • Outgoing chief warns extremist Jews could open fire during Gaza pullout
    Outgoing chief warns extremist Jews could open fire during Gaza pullout 12:22 PM EDT Jun 10 RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI JERUSALEM (AP) - Jewish extremists could open fire on troops during this summer's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, or even carry out a suicide attack to kill the prime minister, the outgoing chief of the Shin Bet security service warned in interviews published Friday. Avi Dichter, who last month ended a five-year term as head of the Shin Bet...
  • Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree
    http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-03T153128Z_01_N03252941_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-MIDEAST-REVENGE-DC.XML Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree Fri Jun 3, 2005 11:31 AM ET By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli commandos killed eight Palestinian policemen in "eye for an eye" shootings three years ago that were ordered to avenge comrades slain in an ambush on an army checkpoint in the ...
  • Afghan mosque bombed, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during Wednesday's funeral for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people, and the local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant was responsible. At least 42 people were wounded. The attack - which came on the heels of a major upsurge in rebel violence in recent months including assassinations, near-daily clashes with rebels and the kidnapping of an Italian ai...
  • The Prophet Muhammad Had Nothing To Gain By Challenging The Existing Leaders
    Many anti-Islamists charge the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him), with being an egocentric tyrant among other things, insisting that his only goal was to deceive people and that he invented Islam himself and that he did not receive divine revelation as Jesus had.The biggest flaw with that argument is the obvious point that they would never mention. Muhammad already had protection and influence because of a wealthy Uncle.He risked the life of his fri...
  • Canada Makes More Sense
    This is what an educated Canadian said on CBC about Ann McLellan's comment about us not being prepared for transit attacks. It's refreshing to see that many Canadians are educated and rational unlike our Liberal government. (If we chose the NDP we know we would not be involved in any unjust or illegal wars that put us in harms way). What some Canadians had to say about McLellan's comments on CBC view point: I have no desire whatsoever to become "psychologica...
  • Response to Jim Reed's Well Written Article
    My response to a viewpoint comment on the Jim Reed article - The revaluing of a society http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_reed/20050727.html I have to say Mr. Reed's article was well researched and well thought out and is a nice balance compared to American biased media that attempts to paint today's conflicts as a black and white, west versus east or Islam versus the world picture which could not be further from the truth. I also agree with Mr. Zarnett an...
  • Canada In Afghanistan
    Helping Afghanistan will protect Canada, says top soldier http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/15/hillier-attack050715.html I am very proud and impressed at the common sense approach our fellow Canadians have responded to these ridiculous statements Mr Hillier made. (people's comments here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/yourspace/hillier_afghans.html) I think every letter I read there got it right and it is comforting to k...

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  • The Stealth Crusade
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  • Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50
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  • Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire
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  • Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now
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  • Before ceasefire, Gaza doctor's grief was heard on live Israeli TV
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  • UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery
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  • UN: No fighters in targeted school
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  • UN and Red Cross halt Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli attacks on staff
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  • Rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel
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  • UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets
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  • Uprising from the ashes of history
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  • An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead.
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  • 29 dead, dozens wounded as blasts hit western India
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  • Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show
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  • Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound
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  • Peace falls off agenda in Israeli vote
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  • Jewish settlers terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, UN expert says
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  • New threats of violence in Indonesia
    2005-12-24 06:42:00
  • Israel, Palestinians argue over tourist access to Bethlehem
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    2005-12-21 07:10:00
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  • Israeli defence minister: no peace with Palestinians in this generation
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  • Israeli army seals off Gaza strip
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