Archived news and commentary: May 29 - June 4, 2006

2006/05/29 - 2006/06/04
2006/05/22 - 2006/05/28
2006/05/15 - 2006/05/21
2006/05/08 - 2006/05/14
2006/05/01 - 2006/05/07
2006/04/24 - 2006/04/30

› From 2001/09/11 -

Sunday, June 4, 2006

News and commentary:

"Men in black terrorise Iraq's women" (Marie Colvin and Widiane Moussa, The Sunday Times, 2006/06/04)
Baghdad II: "NOOR and her boyfriend used to go out a lot and listen to dance in their favourite restaurant in Baghdad. The 26-year-old university lecturer also used to enjoy going window shopping at night in the city’s once-glitzy Mansour district, dressed in the latest fashions.
That was before the “men in black”, the Taliban-style militias waging terror against the urban middle class, arrived in Noor’s neighbourhood, threatening to shoot, kidnap and shave the heads of anyone who challenged their draconian strictures. ...
The “emir”, identified as Abu Houzeifa, announced new rules: “Women cannot drive; women cannot go out after midday; women and men are not allowed to go out and walk together, they must walk separately.” The rules are enforced by Al-Qaeda thugs who drive around in cars in Amariya, Yarmouk and other Sunni areas that Zarqawi has declared are his. Noor said: “If they see someone breaking the rules, they shoot them.”
The “men in black” have turned women into virtual prisoners in their homes. “At first we were more afraid of bombs but now we are more afraid of being killed for what we are wearing,” Noor said. ...
The atmosphere is becoming ever more oppressive. Men came to Noor’s house and told her she could not drive any more. Her father has to drive her to her lectures at the same university where she drove to class as an undergraduate.
She dare not step outside without a hijab, or headscarf. Last month two teenage girls were dragged off the al-Amal al-Shahbi street in the Amariya district. When they emerged several hours later their heads had been shaved.
The militants issued a warning that in future women walking down the street without a hijab faced death."

"Pack up or die, street vendors told" (Aqeel Hussein and Colin Freeman, The Sunday Telegraph, 2006/06/04)
Baghdad I: "In a bizarre example of Iraq's creeping "Talibanisation", militants visited falafel vendors a fortnight ago, telling them to pack up their stalls by today or be killed.
The ultimatum seemed so odd that, at first, most laughed it off - until two of them were shot dead as they plied their trade.
"They came telling us, 'You have 14 days to end this job' and I asked them what was the problem," said Abu Zeinab, 32, who was packing up his stall for good yesterday in the suburb of al Dora, a hardline Sunni neighbourhood.
"I said I was just feeding the people, but they said there were no falafels in Mohammed the prophet's time, so we shouldn't have them either.
"I felt like telling them there were no Kalashnikovs in Mohammed's time either, but I wanted to keep my life." ...
It is, however, just one of many Islamic edicts to hit Baghdad in recent weeks, prohibiting everything from the growing of goatee beards to the sale of mayonnaise - because it is allegedly made in Israel.
Even the Arab addiction to cigarettes is being challenged, with insurgents declaring smoking bans in at least one Sunni district.
News of the latest strictures surfaced 10 days ago, when the coach of Iraq's tennis team and two players were shot dead for wearing shorts.
The killings, in Sunni-dominated west Baghdad, took place days after militants had distributed leaflets banning the wearing of shorts or T-shirts with English writing on them. They also forbade women to drive or travel on public transport with men - a rule that bus drivers have begun to enforce."

"British brigade of Islamists join Al-Qaeda foreign legion in Iraq" (David Leppard, The Sunday Times, 2006/06/04)
"UP TO 150 Islamic radicals have travelled from Britain to Iraq to join up with a “British brigade” that has been established by Al-Qaeda leaders to fight coalition forces.
Senior security sources say leaders of the Iraqi insurgency have set up a “foreign legion” composed entirely of westerners to fight alongside the insurgents in the war against British and American forces. Some are preparing to carry out suicide attacks while others have received basic combat training for attacks on western troops The so-called “British brigade” is said to be operating under the direct command of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Members of the unit are thought to be in the Sunni triangle, a combat zone and Al-Qaeda hotbed west of Baghdad.
The flow of young Muslim men from western Europe to Iraq has increased dramatically in the past two years. The “pipeline” of suspected terrorists is being fuelled by growing resentment about American and British policy and scandals such as the mistreatment of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison.
A senior security source, confirming that between 120 and 150 Britons had travelled to Iraq, said there was concern that the flow was increasing: 'The really worrying thing is that this has become a movement that people believe in. It’s not simply a matter of them joining a terrorist organisation.'"

"Terror cell 'was planning nerve gas attack on capital'" (Andrew Alderson, The Sunday Telegraph, 2006/06/04)
"Terrorists were planning a chemical attack in London similar to the outrage on the Tokyo underground, according to police and the security services.
MI5 operatives suspect that al-Qa'eda sympathisers intended to produce a nerve agent - probably sarin - and release it in a confined space, such as a tube carriage, to maximise the number of casualties.
The sarin attack on three railway lines in the Japanese capital killed 12 people and injured more than 5,000 in March 1995. It was the world's first major chemical attack and used sarin, a nerve agent which attacks the respiratory system.
Security sources suspect that a new atrocity was planned on or close to the anniversary of the July 7 attacks on London, when four terrorists killed themselves and 52 others, and injured more than 700 people. This would have provided a rallying call to al-Qa'eda sympathisers to carry on their "jihad" - or holy war - against the West."

"Canada Holds 17 In Alleged Bomb Plot" (Doug Struck, The Washington Post, 2006/06/04)
"Canadian intelligence agents and police have arrested 17 people who had amassed a huge cache of explosives and were ready to bomb public targets, authorities said Saturday.
The 12 men and five juveniles were seized in raids Friday night in the suburbs of Toronto. Police said the suspects, most of whom were believed to be Canadian citizens, had assembled three tons of ammonium nitrate and fashioned a cellphone into a detonator. ...
Authorities declined to identify the group's planned targets, but a report in the Toronto Star said the sites included the Parliament buildings in Ottawa and the Toronto offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, near the famed CN Tower downtown. ...
Although an intelligence official, Luc Portelance, said the group members were "adherents of a virulent ideology inspired by al-Qaeda," police acknowledged they had no evidence of a direct link to the terrorist group.
Instead, most of the suspects were young students or workers who fed on the political debates swirling around Canada's mosques and immigrant Muslim neighborhoods, according to what could be learned about the men and their communities. They sharpened their radicalism over the Internet without traveling to the Middle East.
"They are Canadians. They came to Canada at an early age or were born here," Toronto's mayor, David Miller, said Saturday. He questioned 'how people would get sucked into this act.'"

Saturday, June 3, 2006

News and commentary:

"Canada nabs 17 terror suspects in Toronto" (Beth Duff-Brown, AP/Yahoo! News, 2006/06/03)
"Canadian police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects, apparently inspired by al-Qaida, who obtained three times the amount of explosives used in the Oklahoma City bombing, officials said Saturday. ...
"These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of terrorism against their own country and their own people," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement. "As we have said on many occasions, Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism."
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested the suspects, ages 43 to 19, on terrorism charges including plotting attacks with explosives on Canadian targets. The suspects were either citizens or residents of Canada and had trained together, police said.
The group had taken steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other bomb-making materials — three times the amount used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injured more than 800, said assistant Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioner Mike McDonell. ...
Rocco Galati, lawyer for two suspects from Mississauga, said Ahmad Ghany, 21, is a health sciences graduate from McMaster University in Hamilton. He was born in Canada, the son of a medical doctor who emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago.
Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, is a computer programmer who emigrated from Egypt 20 years ago with his father, now an engineer with Atomic Energy of Canada, the lawyer said."

"Nervous informant who gave details of new terrorist device" (Daniel McGrory, The Times, 2006/06/03)
"THE informant told MI5 that they did not have much time to stop another lethal terrorist attack on London.
The details he passed on were so precise and so terrifying that intelligence agents had to drop some of their other investigations to concentrate on what was supposedly happening behind the net curtains of a neat terraced house in an East London suburb.
The belief was that the authorities had only days to act. Surveillance had to be hastily organised, the police and other agencies had to be told, along with ministers, that this time the terrorists were expected to use chemicals and not explosives to murder their victims.
The nervous informant claimed to have seen the chemical vest that the terrorist would use, and while he didn’t understand how the device would work, he did pass on a description and the address where he saw it. The man also offered a list of names.
Some elements of the story he had to tell agents bordered on the incredible, but security sources said that they dared not ignore this alert."

Friday, June 2, 2006

News and commentary:

"Police shoot man in dawn terror raid" (The Daily Telegraph, 2006/06/02)
"A man has been shot by police in an early-morning anti-terrorist raid on a suspected bomb factory in east London.
More than 200 officers, some from the Metropolitan Police's armed unit, raided the residential property in Forest Gate at 4am under the Terrorism Act 2000.
They shot one man, who has been taken to hospital. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Scotland Yard confirmed that the 23-year-old was later arrested in hospital on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.
He was taken to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London. Security was stepped up at the hospital and armed officers were posted at all the entrances.
Another 20-year-old man was arrested during the raid and taken to Paddington Green high-security police station.
Two other people in the house were also taken to hospital and are thought to have been treated for shock. They were not arrested.
The raid followed intelligence about a suspected plot against targets in the UK."

Thursday, June 1, 2006

News and commentary:

"Lola Elzein: Muslim "Arab American PAC" Officer Threatens My Life/Family; ICE Official Linked?" (Debbie Schlussel, debbieschlussel.com, 2006/06/01)
"To those who believe that all or even most Muslim Arabs in America are peaceful, you must ask yourself why they elect leaders who not only support terrorism, but, themselves, make violent threats against other Americans.
Take the case of Lola Elzein a/k/a Lola Ali Elzein, who has cyber-stalked me and threatened my life and the life of my family. She's not the first Muslim to do so. She is Secretary of the Arab American Political Action Committee--the Muslim group whose endorsement President Bush vehemently sought in 2000 and 2004 (and got in 2000). ...
Here are the comments Elzein apparently left on the Moskowitz page:

Listen you FUCKIN DUMB TERRORIST BITCH! FUCK U AND UR FAMILY AND I HOPE UR GRANDPARENTS BURN IN THE FUCKIN GRAVE THEIR IN FROM THEIR 'HOLOCAUST' EXPEIRENCE! YOU'RE THE FUCKIN TERRORIST YOU DUMB IGNORANT BITCH! IF I EVER CATCH YOU IN THE STREET I'M GONNA BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF YOU, YOU OLD PLASTIC DUMB DIRTY IGNORANT FAT BITCH! YOUR TITS ARE SAGGING, YOU SHOULD TRY HAVING SURGERY ON THAT!

Posted by: JewishLeader at December 17, 2005 01:22 PM ...

Her name is Lola, but she's not Barry Manilow's showgirl. She's a violent Muslim Arab woman who doesn't believe people like you or me deserve to live in peace. Don't look for the Arab American PAC to relieve her of her position, either.
Religion of Peace?"

"Kids brandish guns to test IDF vigilance" (Yaakov Katz, The Jerusalem Post, 2006/06/01)
"A group of Palestinian children were sent towards the Gaza Strip border fence holding toy guns on Thursday in order to test the vigilance of the soldiers on duty.
From a distance, troops noticed four apparently armed Palestinians approaching the border north of the Kissufim crossing.
When the four were some 400 meters from the fence, the soldiers realized that they were children, who looked to be about 13 years of age, and that their guns were toys."

"Europe's Good Intentions Have Gone Sour" (Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics, 2006/06/01)
"The Dutch, the French and the Danes are petrified about unassimilated Muslim radicals in their countries who have killed or threatened the most liberal of Europeans. Churches are almost empty. Mosques are being built; Italians wrangle over plans for one of the largest in Italy - to be plopped amid the vineyards and olive groves of Tuscany.
A majority of polled Germans now believe that the pacifist Europeans are in a "clash of civilizations" with the Islamic world.
What is going on?
Good intentions that have gone sour. ...
Who knows what the reaction will be to that splash of cold water? In response, what European populist will soon appear on the streets in Rome, Berlin or Madrid once again to deceive the public that it was someone else who caused these disappointments?
We in America should take note of the looming end of this once seemingly endless summer. We've been there, done that with this beloved continent all too many times before."

"Iran rejects US conditions for nuclear talks" (Tom Baldwin, The Times, 2006/06/01)
"Iran has rejected US conditions for groundbreaking talks on its disputed nuclear programme, saying that it was ready for negotiations with its arch-enemy but was not prepared to freeze its enrichment of uranium.
President Bush said yesterday that the United States was ready to "take the leap" and hold direct talks with Iran for the first time since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
But Mr Bush and Condoleezza Rice, the United States Secretary of State, insisted that Tehran would first have to suspend all nuclear activities and open up facilities for inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In Iran's first official response, Manouchehr Mottaki, the Foreign Minister, said today: "We support dialogue in a fair and unbiased atmosphere, but we will not talk about our undeniable and legitimate rights, because this is the right of our people according to international laws and treaties."

"In Paris Suburbs, Worrying Attack by Youths" (Ariane Benard, The New York Times, 2006/06/01)
"Youths in two Paris suburbs threw rocks at police officers and set a dozen cars ablaze overnight Tuesday, in the second night of violence reminiscent of the unrest that swept France in October and November.
The police in the two towns northeast of Paris, Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois, arrested 13 people, including Muhittin Altun, 18, the only survivor of the electrocution accident that set off the wave of violence last year. Two youths died in that incident.
About 15 youths attacked the police with rocks and other projectiles in a housing project in Clichy-sous-Bois about 9 p.m. Tuesday. The police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, and arrested a number of the alleged assailants, including Mr. Altun, said a national police spokeswoman, who under police rules cannot be identified. The attackers also burned a number of vehicles and set fire to a police car in which four officers were sitting, the spokeswoman said. The officers escaped unharmed."

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

News and commentary:

"A French and a European Union, right, flag are seen through a broken window..." (Jacques Brinon, AP, 2006/05/30)
"A French and a European Union, right, flag are seen through a broken window from Montfermeil city hall, north of Paris, Tuesday, May 30, 2006, after police clashed overnight with about 100 youths who tossed Molotov cocktails at public buildings, in an incident that revived memories of the riots that shook the nation last year. The youths, many masked and wielding baseball bats, hurled projectiles at police and lobbed Molotov cocktails at public buildings."

"Police injured as violence flares in suburbs of Paris" (Colin Randall, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/05/31)
"At least 100 youths, many brandishing baseball bats, clashed with police in a new outbreak of violence in the same Parisian suburbs in which nationwide rioting started last autumn. ...
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets after coming under attack, while Xavier Lemoine, the centre-Right mayor of Montfermeil, one of two affected suburbs, was left fearing for the lives of his wife and seven children after a stone-throwing mob gathered outside his home. ...
After the incidents at the mayor's residence, youths attacked the Montfermeil town hall, shattering its glass facade with missiles.
Petrol bombs were thrown, although they failed to ignite, and four cars and a large number of rubbish bins were set on fire. ...
Mr Lemoine, who was placed under police protection a month ago after an earlier missile-throwing attack on his home, said yesterday: 'The violence showed that the lives of my family and my seven children are in danger.'"

"US offers to join Iran talks in deal with Russia, China" (Peter Mackler, AFP/Yahoo! News, 2006/05/31)
"WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States, in a major policy shift, offered Wednesday to join talks on Iran's nuclear program in an apparent deal to win Russian and Chinese backing for UN sanctions against Tehran if needed.
As world powers geared to meet Thursday in Vienna to mull the standoff with Iran, Washington said it was ready to enter the European-led negotiations if Tehran suspended uranium enrichment activities.
Washington's willingness to have its most substantive contacts with Iran since they broke diplomatic ties 26 years ago came amid efforts to hammer out an international approach to Iran's suspected nuclear arms ambitions.
A senior US official, who asked not to be named, linked the move to what he called an agreement by Russia and China to ease their categorical opposition to UN sanctions on Iran if negotiations stalled.
"What they have agreed is that if Iran does not accept this offer of negotiations or does not negotiate in good faith, we will return to the Security Council," the official said."

Added today:
"Extremists terrorize Jews in Paris" (European Jewish Press/The Jerusalem Post, 2006/05/29)
"Europe rethinks its 'safe haven' status" (Sarah Wildman, The Christian Science Monitor, 2006/05/24)

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

News and commentary:

"Policemen guard the house of the mayor of Montfermeil..."
(Jacques Brinon, AP, 2006/05/30)
"Policemen guard the house of the mayor of Montfermeil, north of Paris, Tuesday, May 30, 2006, after police clashed overnight with about 100 youths who tossed Molotov cocktails at public buildings, in an incident that revived memories of the riots that shook the nation last year."

"Mayor targeted as youths fight police near Paris" (Reuters/Yahoo! News, 2006/05/30)
"PARIS (Reuters) - Youths clashed with police in a Paris suburb overnight and attacked the home of the local mayor in disturbances one police union said were the worst since a wave of urban riots shook France in November.
French media said some 150 youths armed with baseball bats fought around 250 police for four hours in Montfermeil north of Paris after the arrest of a youth suspected of attacking a bus driver, an incident witnessed by the local mayor Xavier Lemoine.
Youths smashed windows, hurled two petrol bombs at the town hall and stoned the mayor's home, the media reports said.
Seven police officers were slightly hurt in the violence, in which six youths were detained, police said. Three remained in custody.
"Around 100 hooded youths stoned my home shouting 'the mayor is a son of a bitch'," Le Monde newspaper quoted Lemoine as saying. "The clashes took place 50 meters (yards) from my home."
Lemoine, a married reserve naval officer with seven children, said he had been targeted after coming to help a bus driver being assaulted by youths who then recognized him.
The arrest of a suspect in the attack late on Monday triggered the violence, he said.
The mayor, whose home and family have previously been set upon, courted controversy last month when he banned unsupervised under-aged youths from gathering in groups in the town center. The order was later overturned by an administrative court."

"German Women Vowed to Mount Suicide Attacks in Iraq" (Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark, Der Spiegel, 2006/05/30)
"German authorities may have thwarted suicide bomb attacks in Iraq by German women. According to intelligence sources, three women were prevented from travelling to Iraq after one of them had announced she planned to blow herself up in Iraq.
SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that German intelligence agencies have prevented three German women from travelling to Iraq in recent weeks. The women, who have close contacts to the Islamist scene in Germany and at least one whom has converted to Islam, came to the attention of intelligence agencies after one of them had announced on an Internet site that she intended to blow herself and her child up in Iraq. ...
Well-informed sources say the women have had contacts with sympathizers of Ansar al Islam, a militant group linked to al-Qaida and suspected of smuggling suicide bombers from Germany to Iraq. The group is also suspected of raising money for the resistance to the US-led forces in Iraq."

"Azerbaijan 'flattened' sacred Armenian site" (Stephen Castle, The Independent, 2006/05/30)
"Fears that Azerbaijan has systematically destroyed hundreds of 500-year-old Christian artefacts have exploded into a diplomatic row, after Euro MPs were barred from inspecting an ancient Armenian burial site.
The predominantly Muslim country's government has been accused of "flagrant vandalism" similar to the Taliban's demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan.
The claims centre on the fate of rare "khachkars", stone crosses carved with intricate floral designs, at the burial ground of Djulfa in the Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan, an enclave separated from the rest of the country by Armenia.
The works - some of the most important examples of Armenian heritage - are said to have been smashed with sledgehammers last December as the site was concreted over.
The Azerbaijan government, which denies the claims, is now at the centre of a row with MEPs, some of whom it accused of a "biased and hysterical approach". Its ambassador to the EU also says the European Parliament has ignored damage to Muslim sites in Armenia. Azerbaijan has refused to allow a delegation of Euro MPs permission to visit the 1,500-year-old Djulfa cemetery during their trip to the region last month."

"Blunders that left Abu Hamza free" (Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, The Times, 2006/05/30)
"ABU HAMZA, the militant cleric jailed for inciting murder, should have been removed from Britain 25 years ago after being caught flouting immigration laws.
The Home Office missed several chances to deport him, and he was granted British citizenship, even though he had married bigamously, made bogus claims about fathering a child here and been arrested as an illegal immigrant.
The disclosure in The Times today is likely to intensify demands by MPs for an inquiry into why no action was taken against the Egyptian-born extremist before his conviction at the Old Bailey this year. ...
He was given a conditional discharge, but, had his immigration status been investigated, he could have been deported. Instead, six months later, he was given permission to remain."

Added in archive:
"Denmark Condemned for Mishandling Cartoon Crisis" (Robert Spencer, Dhimmi Watch, 2006/05/28)
"Dissident tells of assaults and threats against children during 66 days in jail run by Iran's clerical regime" (Philip Sherwell, The Sunday Telegraph, 2006/05/28)

Monday, May 29, 2006

News and commentary:

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Paul Belien, The Brussels Journal, 2006/05/29)
The Fall of Constantinople II: "Why have the Dutch turned against Hirsi Ali? Perhaps they are acting like the Salonicans in 1374 when they threw Prince Manuel out. Islamists threaten the Dutch with violence in response to what she says. And what do the Dutch do? They throw her out!
Last year Hirsi Ali was elected “European of the Year.” It is a bad omen for Europe when the “European of the Year” leaves for America. Let us hope and pray that history does not repeat itself and that Europe will not fall like Constantinople fell 553 years ago. Let us hope that Europe will save its honour and rediscover the will to defend the city, the way Constantine XI did. Many Dutch, however, do not seem to have much confidence in their country’s chances of survival. Last year a record number of 121,000 people emigrated from the Netherlands, the largest number ever, while only 92,000 immigrated in. This emigration figure is the highest figure in the entire history of the country so far. The Netherlands is today also the European nation with the highest proportion of emigrants. Since 2003 more people have been leaving the country than entering it. The numbers are rising. In the first quarter of this year 29,000 people left the Netherlands – 5,000 more than in the same period last year. Now Ayaan Hirsi Ali is leaving too. The bell tolls for the Dutch, and those who do not hear it must be deaf."

"Black Tuesday on a Monday" (Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 2006/05/29)
The Fall of Constantinople I: "On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II entered Constantinople, breaking through the defenses of a vastly outnumbered and indomitably courageous Byzantine force. Historian Steven Runciman notes what happened next: the Muslim soldiers "slew everyone that they met in the streets, men, women, and children without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Petra toward the Golden Horn. But soon the lust for slaughter was assuaged. The soldiers realized that captives and precious objects would bring them greater profit." (The Fall of Constantinople 1453, Cambridge University Press, 1965, p. 145.)
It has come to be known as Black Tuesday, the Last Day of the World. ...
The jihadists also entered the Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom. The faithful had gathered within its hallowed walls to pray during the city’s last agony. The Muslims, according to Runciman, halted the celebration of Orthros (morning prayer); the priests, according to legend, took the sacred vessels and disappeared into the cathedral’s eastern wall, through which they shall return to complete the divine service one day. Muslim men then killed the elderly and weak and led the rest off into slavery."

"Extremists terrorize Jews in Paris" (European Jewish Press/The Jerusalem Post, 2006/05/29)
"French police opened an investigation Monday after suspected members of an extremist group marched through a Jewish quarter in central Paris shouting anti-Semitic slogans over the weekend.
Shoppers in the historic Marais neighbourhood, one of the busiest districts in the Jewish area of Paris, were left in shock early Sunday evening after a group of extremists terrorized community members with anti-Semitic verbal abuse.
More than 20 men claiming to be members of the Tribu-Ka anti-white group walked up and down the crowded Rue des Rosiers shouting at the families and youths in the area.
The French Office of Vigilance against anti-Semitism (BNCVA) said in a statement the gang was "performing Nazi salutes, looking for a fight with the neighbourhood's Jews, threatening and intimidating them."
"We are in contact with the Interior Ministry and the police department over the matter," the head of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRCIF), Roger Cukierman, said.
"They screamed out 'Death to Jews!'" one witness, who would only give his name as Julien, told EJP. ...
Tribu-Ka's leader is Kemi Seba, formerly known as Stellio Gilles Robert, a former member of Nation of Islam in Paris who has previously been indicted for racist incitement."

 

Copyright © Watch 2001-2006.
Copyrights of quoted materials belong to their respective owners.

"When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. The term is not a slur; it is a technical label."

Jacques Barzun

Articles of the week

"Losing the Enlightenment" (Victor Davis Hanson, OpinionJournal, 2006/11/29)

"Allah’s England?" (Daniel Johnson, Commentary. November 2006)

"'Sex in the Park': The latest doings of the Danish imams" (Henrik Bering, The Weekly Standard, 2006/11/18)

"Narcissism on Stilts" (Harold Evans, New York Sun, 2006/11/16)

"Terrorists are recruiting in our schools, says MI5 boss" (Philip Johnston, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/11/10)

› AOTW Archive



From the archives

Oriana Fallaci, R.I.P.

"The Rage, the Pride and the Doubt" (Oriana Fallaci, The Wall Street Journal, 2003/03/13)

"How the West Was Won and How It Will Be Lost" (Oriana Fallaci, The American Enterprise, from the January/February 2003 issue)

"On Jew-hatred in Europe" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2002/04/13)

"Anger and Pride" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2001/12/19)

Weekly archive

2006/12/04 - 2006/12/10
2006/11/27 - 2006/12/03
2006/11/20 - 2006/11/26
2006/11/13 - 2006/11/19
2006/11/06 - 2006/11/12
2006/10/30 - 2006/11/05

› From 2001/09/11 -



Monthly index

December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006

› From September 2001 -



Author index

› Ajami, Fouad - Johnson, Paul
› Kagan, Robert - Ye'or, Bat



Support Watch

Please feel free to donate if you enjoy the daily content and links Watch provides:

Contact Watch

Email:
watch-at-windsofchange.net