More than 20 young Somali-Americans, many of them raised in Minneapolis, left the United States to join a militant Islamist group in Somalia.
Tunisian authorities have reportedly arrested nine soldiers for allegedly planning attacks on visiting American military officers.
The arrests were made under the Tunisian anti-terrorism law, lawyers said. The detainees, two of whom are officers in the Tunisian Air Force, planned to assassinate American military officers who visit the country periodically for military training and joint exercises with the Tunisian army, the German Deutsche Press Agency (DPA) reported.
From the Courier-Journal.com
WASHINGTON — The United States Capitol Police are investigating suspicious letters sent Monday to the district offices of three Republican congressmen from Kentucky. The letters were sent to the offices of Reps. Ed Whitfield of the 1st District, Brett Guthrie of the 2nd District and Geoff Davis of the 4th District. At least two of the letters claimed — falsely — to contain anthrax, spokesmen for the congressmen said.
An interesting perspective…From the Gulf Daily News, the voice of Bahrain
‘Reuters reports: “Ninety-three children and 25 adult women are among a list of 140 names of Afghans who villagers say were killed in a battle and US air strikes last week, causing a crisis between Washington and its Afghan allies.”
American Colonel Greg Julian disputed the numbers, saying: “Well I could give you 140 names too. The problem is there is no evidence of that number of graves … Are those real people? Did they ever actually exist? I can give you a list of 53 girls’ names with their ages.”‘
WASHINGTON (Fox News)– Vice President Joe Biden seemed to give Israel a green light for military action to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat, saying the U.S. “cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do.”
Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary and is wary of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who just won a disputed re-election. He repeatedly has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and contends the Holocaust is a “myth.”
