Friday, April 29, 2011

I'm sure if you just glanced at the paper this week, you're aware of the agreements between Hamas and Fatah, the massacre at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, and all of the casualties in Syria. As the title of this blog may be a little misleading, I'd just like to remind you that the purpose of this weekly update is to provide information and stories you might have missed, correct falsehoods that may be promulgated by the mass media, include links to the full stories, and include how events there impact the rest of the world. 

Human Smuggling Case Evokes South America's Terror-Linked History  (IPT News)
Newsweek Starstruck by Abbas - Alex Margolin (HonestReporting)

Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria to create common visa system? - Dina Al-Shibeeb (Al Arabiya)

Gitmo docs link Pakistani, Iranian, and Yemeni intelligence agencies to al Qaeda - Bill Roggio (The Long War Journal)

U.S.: Assad No Longer Potential Peace Partner for Israel - Hilary Leila Krieger
(Jerusalem Post)
After two years of pushing Israel to reach a peace agreement with Syria, a top U.S. State Department official indicated Tuesday the Obama administration is no longer looking at the current regime as a partner for such a deal. "It's hard for us to stand by and see [President Bashar] Assad and his government engage in the kind of things they're doing against their own people and to then think easily about how to pursue other diplomatic missions," said Jacob Sullivan, director of policy planning at the State Department.

335 African refugees are murdered out at sea (EveryOne Group)
Refugees escaping Libya found in sea and washed ashore with gunshot wounds.

"Nation of Islam" Leader Louis Farrakhan Doubts 9/11: America Was Looking for a New Pearl Harbor (MEMRI) - video

Fund the Truth About Islam or Lose the War of Ideas - Phyllis Chesler (NewsRealBlog)
Hans Erling Jensen and Kurt Westergaard, the Danish Mohammed cartoonist, have just established The Westergaard Foundation to “support free speech” and to fundraise for truth-tellers whose reputations and incomes have suffered because they have dared to tell the truth about Islam.