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Crisis File, November 27, 2006
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Death of an ex-agent puts spotlight on renaissance of Moscow secret services
more - A week ago, few westerners or Russians had heard of Alexander Litvinenko. Yet his gaunt and sallow face, splashed across newspapers this week, threatens to become a defining image of Vladimir Putin's Russia. His deathbed charge that the Russian president was responsible for his demise may dog Mr Putin for the rest of his presidency and beyond...
Founder of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood dies
more - Mohammed Abdul Rahman Khalifa, the founder of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood movement and a former parliamentarian, died Friday of natural causes, the group's political wing announced Saturday. He was 87. A lawyer, Khalifa established the Muslim Brotherhood, as a legal opposition entity in 1942. He served as a lawmaker in the country's parliament and as chairman of the Islamic Charitable Society...
Muslim ex-spy shows 'inside jihad'
more - A Muslim man who was a spy in the mid-1990s for several European intelligence services inside the global jihad network that later became al Qaeda has written a memoir saying the agencies did not understand the nature of the threat the group posed. "Inside the Jihad," written under the pseudonym Omar Nasiri, is a copiously detailed account of a young man's journey from the fringes of the Islamist movement in Belgium to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan...
Rally in Turkey blasting pope as enemy of Islam draws 25,000
more - Deep divisions: Nearly 25,000 denounced Pope Benedict as an enemy of Islam at a rally Sunday that underlined deep divisions in Turkey before the pontiff's four-day visit, beginning Tuesday. Officials hoping to promote their ambitions of becoming the first Muslim nation in the European Union urged calm. But the protest, organized by an Islamist political party, was the largest mass gathering so far against the pope's visit...
Probe Clears Australian Government Of Iraq Bribes
more - An inquiry into the payment of huge bribes to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein has cleared the Australian government of illegal activity. But the inquiry, in a report made public today, said criminal charges could be brought against 11 officials of the national wheat company, the Australian Wheat Board...
Yemeni journalist imprisoned for defaming Islam
more - A Yemeni newspaper editor has begun serving a year in prison for reprinting the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Kamal al-Aalafi, the editor, said the verdict "takes Yemen back to totalitarian rule, contradicts freedom of expression, and represents a real violation of democracy and freedom of the press," he told reporters...
U.S. study group on Iraq weighs overture to Iran and Syria
more - A draft report on U.S. strategies for Iraq, which will be debated here by a bipartisan commission beginning Monday, urges an aggressive regional diplomatic initiative that includes direct talks with Iran and Syria but sets no timetables for a military withdrawal, according to officials who have seen all or parts of the document...
Arab Ambassadors Meet in Brazil to Discuss Palestine
more - The ambassadors for Arab countries based in Brasília, the capital city of Brazil, met yesterday, November 21, with Brazilian Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim. According to a statement issued by the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations), the theme of the meeting was the current situation in Palestine...
Radical Islam rising in the West
more - Radical Islam has made inroads in most countries with a Muslim majority, and its influence is steadily growing in many Western nations, fuelled by "petrodollars", according to Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Centre for Democracy. Writing in the Washington Times on Thursday, Ehrehfeld notes that in many European countries, Islamists are staging demonstrations against legislators' actions to ban veils...