Indon gunmen attack church, kill minister
JAKARTA - Unidentified gunmen burst into a Christian church in central Indonesia and opened fire, killing the female minister and wounding four worshippers, police said on Monday.

The killing on Sunday evening took place in Palu, central Sulawesi province, which has been hit by sporadic violence between Muslims and Christians since 2001. At least 1,000 people have been killed

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Three Men Sneaking Into Israel Killed

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordanian border authorities shot and killed three armed men and detained a fourth Monday as they tried to sneak through the frontier into Israel, a government spokeswoman said.

Police were investigating the early morning incident in Waqas, a small village near the Jordan River that is 40 miles north of the Jordanian capital.

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A spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas told Reuters that they had slit the throat of Muslim cleric Maulawi Assadullah on 30 June because he was propagating Christianity in the remote Awdand district of Ghazni province.

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IRAN : POLICE ARREST CHRISTIAN PASTOR
May 26 (Compass) -- Iranian police arrested a Protestant Christian pastor in northern Iran three days ago, jailing him along with his wife and two teenage children.

Pastor Khosroo Yusefi and his wife Nasrin were arrested on May 23 in Chalous, a town along the Caspian Sea coast in Mazanderan province. Together with their 18-year-old son and a daughter age 15, they remain imprisoned without known charges.

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Iran trial debacle angers Canada
Canada is recalling its ambassador to Iran after Tehran abruptly ended the trial of an intelligence agent accused of killing a Canadian journalist.

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Gun battle erupts between Palestinians in Rafah
Gun battle erupts between Palestinians in Rafah
18 Jul 2004 17:42:28 GMT

GAZA, July 18 (Reuters) - A gun battle erupted on Sunday between Palestinian militants and forces loyal to Gaza's new security commander Moussa Arafat in a new flareup of violence among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Witnesses said gunmen from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades opened fire at a military intelligence headquarters in the southern Gaza town of Rafah during a march protesting Arafat's appointment of his cousin to the position of Gaza's security chief.

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Iran cracks down on women clothes
Iranian security forces have stepped up what appears to be a major crackdown on insufficiently veiled women by launching raids on shopping centres and shops selling skimpy clothing.

According to one witness, scores of policemen - and policewomen in chadors - raided the Milad commercial centre in the west of Tehran on Sunday, and detained dozens of young women deemed not to be respecting the Islamic dress code.

They also confiscated coats they considered to be too transparent or figure-hugging.

Mullahs Turn Iran to Islamic Whorehouse, Shame on Iranians
A measure of Islamic fundamentalists' success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing, and stoning to death.

The head of Iran's Interpol bureau believes that the sex slave trade is one of the most profitable activities in Iran today. This criminal trade is not conducted outside the knowledge and participation of the ruling fundamentalists. Government officials themselves are involved in buying, selling, and sexually abusing women and girls.

Iran rejects Canadian observers for Kazemi trial


Iran rejected on Wednesday a request by Canada to allow its observers to attend the trial of an Iranian intelligence agent charged with the "semi-intentional murder" of a Canadian journalist.

The death a year ago of Zahra Kazemi, 54, a Canadian photographer of Iranian descent, after she was arrested for taking pictures outside Tehran's Evin prison has soured ties between Iran and Canada.

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Timeline of Events Following Her Death, July-August 2003 and more about it here

Turkish version of Star Trek (something awful)
This Turkish version of Star Trek is a complete rip off of the original Star Trek series, only the main character in this is a lecherous drunk accompanied by an entire soundboard of wacky effects. Everything about this film is below Z-grade.



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