Archive | December 21, 2012
US. Florida Muslim wanted to avenge U.S. drone attack by blowing up a New York City landmark.

US. Florida Muslim wanted to avenge U.S. drone attack by blowing up a New York City landmark.

A Pakistani-born man wanted to avenge the deaths of U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan by blowing up a New York City landmark but lacked the money and materials to carry out the plan, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Gilbert said at a bail hearing that Raees Alam Qazi, 20, researched bomb-making [...]

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Turkey. Municipality granted land to Syrian Orthodox to build a church: a Latin Catholic cemetery.

Turkey. Municipality granted land to Syrian Orthodox to build a church: a Latin Catholic cemetery.

Three years after a Syrian Orthodox foundation applied to build a church in Istanbul, the Greater Istanbul Municipality has granted them a large plot of land and a building permit. Banner headlines in the Turkish media praised the early-December decision as “a first in the history of the Republic,” declaring that never before had Turkey [...]

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