echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com - 11/10/2008
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This is a piece of news from over a week ago. I have kept it from the blog until now because she is dead whatever I do and because I wanted more attention to her case than the election week here allowed: MOGADISHU, Somalia - A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death ...
timesonline.co.uk - 11/18/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
THE Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands
on the high seas, has been told by the...
Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights. Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been ...
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Pirates can claim UK asylum
mypetjawa.mu.nu - 11/12/2008
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mypetjawa.mu.nu —
The al Qaeda supporter and blogger arrested by
the FBI earlier this week has been identified as...
Tarek Mehanna. Mehanna was arrested as he attempted to leave the country on charges that he had lied to the FBI about prior...
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Arrested Blogger Identified: Tarek Mehanna
boston.com - 11/12/2008
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boston.com —
Statements that Tarek Mehanna allegedly made to the
FBI two years ago in the midst of a...
terrorism investigation came back to haunt him last weekend, when the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy graduate was arrested as he was about to board a Boston ...
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FBI accuses man of lying in terror case
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Women are sluts who deserve to be punished:
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.
Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, ...
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