Two French security advisers seized in Somalia will be tried under Sharia law, an official from their captors, the Islamic al-Shabab militia, says. The unnamed spokesman said they would be tried for spying and "conspiracy against Islam". The two, who were training government troops, were kidnapped by gunmen in a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and later handed over to al-Shabab insurgents. Al-Shabab and its allies control much of southern Somalia. The al-Shabab official said no date had been set for the trial of the two men. They were on an official mission to train the forces of the interim government, which has recently appealed for foreign help to tackle Islamist insurgents. Moderate Islamist President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed was sworn in in January after UN-brokered peace talks. He promised to introduce Sharia law but the hardliners accuse him of being a western stooge. Somalia has not had a functioning national government since 1991. |
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Sharia trial for Somalia hostages
Fugitive linked to Jakarta blasts
Indonesian officials say there are "strong indications" a key wanted fugitive was behind Friday's deadly attacks on two hotels in Jakarta. Noordin Mohamed Top is wanted for plotting the Bali bombings of 2002 and 2005 and other Indonesian attacks. Nine people, including two suicide bombers, died in the attacks on the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott. At least four of Friday's victims are said to be foreigners but have not all been formally identified. Police in the Indonesian capital are studying DNA and other evidence to try to identify those behind the attacks. The anti-terror chief, Ansyaad Mbai, has told the BBC he believes there are strong indications that Noordin was the mastermind behind the blasts.
Noordin was said to be a key financier for the Jemaah Islamiah militant group but is now thought to have set up his own splinter group. Jemaah Islamiah has links to al-Qaeda and has a long track record of bomb attacks in Indonesia including the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed more than 200 people. Friday's bombs contained nails, ball bearings and bolts, identical to ones used by Jemaah Islamiah, police said. Mr Mbai said he believed the aim of the attacks was to embarrass Indonesia's government at a time when the country was enjoying a greater degree of stability than it had in the past. The BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta says the Indonesian people have been truly shocked by these attacks as they thought they had put events like this behind them. Investigators on Friday recovered an unexploded bomb and other explosives material from what they said was the "control centre" for the attacks - room 1808 in the Marriott. The attackers paid to stay at the hotel and smuggled in the explosives before detonating them in two restaurants on Friday. CCTV footage showed one attacker wearing a cap pulling a bag on wheels into the Marriott restaurant, followed by a flash and smoke. Security has been tightened across Indonesia in the wake of the attacks, with 500 troops put on standby to support police in the capital. 'Shoulder to shoulder' A New Zealander, businessman Tim Mackay, has been confirmed killed.Indonesian police say Australians Nathan Verity and Garth McEvoy also died. Their countryman, diplomat Craig Senger, was at the same breakfast meeting. He is missing and feared dead. A health ministry report said a Singaporean and an Indonesian were also confirmed dead. At least 17 foreigners were among the wounded, including eight Americans. Other foreign nationals wounded included visitors from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea and the UK. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned the attacks as "cruel and inhuman". US President Barack Obama said: "I strongly condemn the attacks that occurred... in Jakarta and extend my deepest condolences to all of the victims and their loved ones." Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is due to arrive in Jakarta on Saturday. He said he wanted to stand "shoulder to shoulder with Indonesia at this terrible time". The Manchester United football team had been booked to stay in the Ritz-Carlton next week ahead of a game in Jakarta. The team has cancelled the Indonesian leg of their tour. The attacks come just weeks after the peaceful presidential elections. The country of 240 million people has been praised in recent years for maintaining a pluralist democracy while finding and punishing radical Islamists responsible for the series of bombings more than five years ago. |
இஸ்லாமிய பெண்கள் ஹிஜாப் அணிய தடை?! சீக்கியர்கள் டர்பன் அணிய தடை இல்லை! - பிரான்ஸ் அரசின் பாரபட்சம்
பிரான்சில் பள்ளிகளில் மத அடையாளங்களைத் தடை செய்யும் சட்டம்நிறைவேற்றுவது தொடர்பாக பிரெஞ்சு அரசு இஸ்லாமிய பெண்களின்ஹிஜாபிற்கு தடை விதித்தநிலையில் பிரான்சில் வாழும் சீக்கிய மக்கள் தலைப்பாகை (டர்பன்) அணிய தடைவிதிக்கப்படாது என அந்நாட்டு அதிபர் நிக்கோலஸ்சர்கோஸி தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
எனினும், பிரான்ஸில் டர்பன் அணிவதற்கு தடைவிதிக்கும்எண்ணம் எதுவும் தமது அரசுக்கு இல்லை என அதிபர் சர்கோஸிதன்னிடம் தெரிவித்ததாகவும் பிரதமர் கூறியுள்ளார்.
பிரான்சில் உள்ள 6000க்கும் அதிகமான சீக்கியர்கள், பிரெஞ்சு அரசின் இந்தச்சட்டத்தை தீவிரமாக எதிர்க்கின்றனர். தங்களின் தலைப்பாகை மதஅடையாளம் அல்ல; மாறாக தங்கள் வாழ்க்கையுடன் பின்னிப் பிணைந்தஒன்று என்று அவர்கள் கூறுகின்றனர்.
தீவிரவாதத்தின் பெயரால் வேட்டையாடப்படும் ஒரு குடும்பம்
காஸாவின் எல்லை மற்றும் கடலோரத்தில் இஸ்ரேல் மீண்டும் போர் விமானத் தாக்குதல்
காஸாவின் எல்லை மற்றும் கடலோரப் பகுதிகளில்நேற்றிரவு இஸ்ரேலியபோர் விமானங்கள் ரோந்து பணிகளில் ஈடுபட்டதோடு தாக்குதலையும்நடத்தியது. இத் தாக்குதலில் உயிரிழப்புகள் எதுவும்இல்லை என டாக்டர்.முஆவியா ஹஷனின் (Director Gazan Health Ministry's Emergency and Ambulance Services )உறுதி படக் கூறியுள்ளார்.
கடந்த டிசம்பர் 27 ல் காஸா பகுதியில் வாழும் 1400 அப்பாவிமக்களைகொன்றதும், 1000 கும் மேற்ப்பட்டவர்களை ஊணப்படுத்தியதும் இந்தயூதபயங்கரவாதிகளே என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.
மதநம்பிக்கையின் அடிப்படையில் தீவிரவாதிகளை அடையாளப்படுத்துவது சரியல்ல - மும்பை உயர்நீதிமன்றம்
"மதநம்பிக்கையின் அடிப்படையில் தீவிரவாதிகளை அடையாளப்படுத்துவது சரியல்ல" என்றும் தனது தீர்ப்புரையில் குறிப்பிட்டார்.
இந்தோனேஷியா தலைநகர் ஜகார்த்தாவில் குண்டு வெடிப்பு:9 பேர் மரணம்
செய்தி:தேஜஸ் மலையாள நாளிதழ்.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Plane fault 'caused Iran crash'
The crash of a Caspian Airlines flight that left 168 people dead was probably caused by technical problems, an Iranian official has said. Deputy Transport Minister Ahmad Majidi was quoted as saying that the plane's pilot was probably not to blame. The Russian-built Tupolev plane crashed on Wednesday in farmland in Qazvin province, 120km (75 miles) north-west of Tehran, killing everyone on board. Flight data recorders have been recovered but are badly damaged. The plane, which was flying from the Iranian capital to Yerevan in Armenia, crashed 16 minutes after take-off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport. Witnesses said the 22-year-old Tu-154, which had 153 passengers and 15 crew, nose-dived from the sky with its tail on fire. Wreckage was scattered over a large area. On Thursday, state television said the cause of the crash was still unknown. But Mr Majidi was quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying that the pilot was experienced and the crash was "likely due to technical problems". He added that the flight data recorders, or "black boxes", might be sent to Russia for analysis. "Because of the severity of the crash, the two black box recorders found are badly damaged, even though they are made of steel," Mr Majidi said. "The tapes were out on the ground. We might send the black box to the country where it was manufactured [Russia] to chase the issue with their help." Most of those on board the flight were Iranian, though there were also some Armenian and Georgian citizens.
Mr Majidi said DNA testing would be needed to identify the remains. Friends and relatives of the victims gathered at the crash site for a religious ceremony on Thursday, throwing flowers into the crater created when the plane hit the ground. Archbishop Sebo Sarkissian of Iran's Armenian community was among those to take part. It was the third deadly crash of a Tupolev Tu-154 in Iran since 2002. Correspondents say Iran's civil and military air fleets are made up of elderly aircraft, in poor condition due to their age and lack of maintenance. Since the Islamic revolution of 1979, trade embargoes by Western nations have forced Iran to buy mainly Russian-built planes to supplement an existing fleet of Boeings and other American and European models. |