News Agencies – May 6, 2011 Police in Morocco arrested three people for a cafe bombing in the tourist city of Marrakesh on April 28 that killed 16 people, and said the chief suspect showed “loyalty” to al-Qaeda. The three suspects were all Moroccans, the official news agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying. Most…
News Agencies – February 8, 2011 City councillors in Paris unanimously adopted a proposal to name a street, square or other site after Mohammed Bouazizi, the Tunisian vegetable vendor whose protest suicide sparked that country’s Jasmine Revolution. The proposal had been brought forward by Tunisian-born Mayor Bertrand Delanoe. Bouazizi, 26, doused himself with petrol and…
French police said a “small explosion” occurred at the Tunisian consulate in a Paris suburb, which the country’s ambassador denounced as a “terrorist act”.The blast took place around 5:00 am at Tunisia’s office in Pantin and “caused minor damage to the consulate’s metal shutters,” said police, who have opened an investigation. Tunisia’s ambassador to France,…
In an interview in the TV channel al-Arabiya, based in the United Arab Emirates, General Zia Kanani, head of the Iraqi anti-terrorism unit, said the Swedish suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab was trained in Iraq for three months preceding the bombing in Stockholm in December 2010. Kanani said this information was obtained from a detained Islamist…
Young Muslim women are often forced to lead double lives in Europe. They have sex in public restrooms and stuff mobile phones in their bras to hide their secret existences from strict families. They are often forbidden from visiting gynaecologists or receiving sex ed. In the worst cases, they undergo hymen reconstruction surgery, have late-term…
