Egypt’s Gama’a Islamia has re-emerged with a threat to clear Cario’s Tahrir Square of “liberals and traitors” ahead of tomorrow’s planned Friday protest mobilization. The threat comes on the heels of violent clashes between protesters and regime elements.
Rep. Peter King claims Somalia’s Shabab insurgents are aggressively recruiting in the US, while The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill claims the CIA has established secret prisons in Somalia where suspected Shabab collaborators are detained.
Communities affected by mining in Peru’s Andes issued a “Declaration of Huancayo,” demanding a new constitution guaranteeing the rights of the country’s indigenous peoples and establishing the “agricultural character of our country, and not the mineral.”
Speaking before a conference of campesina women in Cochabamba, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales said he fears a US plot to frame him for a drug offense—as his government enters into a counter-narcotics pact with the United Kingdom.
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication is contacting media outlets and Internet service providers to suppress “irresponsible rumors” about the disaster at Fukushima—where the reactors have still not been brought under control.
The Israeli troll-o-sphere is abuzz with ghastly cheerleading for the Oslo attacks, while the Jerusalem Post warns of the “the abject failure of multiculturalism.” But will the Judeophobes also call out similar verbiage from the Teabaggers and Pat Buchanan?
Was Dennis Kucinich misquoted when he said Bashir al-Assad “is highly loved and appreciated by the Syrians”? And is the dictator’s uncle Rifaat al-Assad being groomed by the West as Syria’s new boss?
A UN fact-finding team finds fuel, food and medicine shortages in Tripoli. Qaddafi meanwhile accuses NATO of bombing civilian targets, while NATO accuses Qaddafi of using civilian infrastructure for military purposes.
Accused Oslo bomber Anders Behring Breivik in his manifesto demonizes the Muslims of ex-Yugoslavia as a jihadist menace—as do professional conspiranoids like Wayne Madsen who accuse him of being a Mossad agent.
Gee, that didn’t take long. Conspiranoid cranks claim (on no evidence) that Mossad was behind the Oslo terror attacks, providing an opportunity for the right-wing Israeli press to tar “anti-Zionists” as conspiranoid cranks.
Europe’s right-wing media voices all jumped to the al-Qaeda thesis in the Oslo terror attack—but it now emerges the perpetrator is a lone right-wing extremist who evidences the predictable Islamophobic rhetoric in his Internet footprint.
A memo leaked by the hacker group LulzSec from the Tucson police on a supposed emerging collaboration between Hezbollah and the Mexican drug cartels sparked hearings on Capitol Hill. But the memo itself was mostly empty speculation.
