 The 28 year old Somali who is suspected of the attempted murder of caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, (pictured), worked at a Danish Red Cross center.
Up to the day before the 28 year old Somali MMG went to Aarhus to attack caricaturist Kurt Westergaard he was on watch on a Danish Red Cross center, where he dealt with young unaccompanied immigrants.
The Danish Red Cross confirmed to Jyllands-Posten that MMG was working through a temp employment agency at three Danish Red Cross centers for children and youth.
These are the centers in Gribskov, Sjælsmark and Avnstrup, which house children and youth aged 15-17 who typically come to Denmark as unaccompanied refugees. The Somali worked in keeping the children and youth occupied with the various activities in the centers.
The head of the Danish Red Cross Asylum division, Jørgen Chemnitz, discovered Thursday that the Somali had been employed in the organization.
He says that the Red Cross made sure by the Mano Crew employment agency that he had no criminal record or any problems with a former sexual offense, so he could work with children.
Jørgen Chemnitz says they think they've guarded themselves by requesting the two certificates, and that nobody among the regular staff who had worked with the Somali has anything bad to say against him. Everybody describes him as helpful, friendly and accommodating. They've never seen anything which would indicate that the man did anything against the children and youth in the center. Additionally, they have a principle that a temporary worker can't work along with the children.
According to the Mano Crew agency, the 28 year old Somali worked 600 hours altogether, but they did not say how many of those were for the Red Cross.
Source: JP (Danish)
With thanks to Islam in Europe
 US President Barack Obama today blamed a "systemic failure" in the US intelligence network for the attempted Christmas Day airliner attack and he has vowed to quickly fix the problems. Mr Obama said errors had emerged in the process of collecting and sharing intelligence on extremists and in the homeland security system that could have prevented the attack on a packed Northwest jet heading into Detroit. “A systemic failure has occurred and I consider that totally unacceptable,” Mr Obama said in a blunt statement, breaking his Hawaii vacation for a second straight day to update Americans on the incident. “There was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic breach of security,” Mr Obama said. “We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix the flaws in our system because our security is at stake and lives are at stake.” Mr Obama's remarks came as the White House hit back at the perception that the president was disengaged, as he enjoys a break away from Washington in his native Hawaii. He particularly cited the fact that the attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up the jet with concealed explosives, had been linked with extremism, but was still allowed to board the plane. The president, speaking on a Marine Base near his Hawaii vacation home, said two reviews he had already commissioned on the incident would report preliminary findings to the White House this week. But the probes had already unearthed “serious concerns” and “deficiencies”, he said. “I will do everything in my power to support the men and women in intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security to make sure they've got the tools and resources they need to keep America safe,” Mr Obama said. “But it's also my job to ensure that our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security systems and the people in them are working effectively and held accountable. “I intend to fulfill that responsibility and insist on accountability at every level.” The Australian
 Apparently the man is a Palestinian (DE).
A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi Saturday night as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna, Austria.
The attacker hurled himself at Rabbi Dov Gruzman, principal of the city’s Jewish school run by the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement, and began punching him, a local resident told Arutz Sheva.
As the rabbi tried to hold off his attacker, the Muslim suddenly bit his victim, severing part of his finger in the process.
The Muslim was caught and arrested by police, and was held for questioning. The rabbi was evacuated to the hospital where doctors rushed to reattach his finger.
Gruzman told Arutz Sheva that the Muslim had raced towards the entrance at the beginning of the ceremony and began to curse the Jews who were there and the Jewish people in general.
“I tried to hold him off, to keep him away from the entrance and he bit me really hard, and that’s how he injured me,” he said.
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Source: Israel National News (English), h/t JIHAD I MALMÖ With thanks to Islam in Europe
 At least 26 people have been killed in an attack by armed men at a mosque in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Police said armed men stormed a mosque during prayers on Friday, following an explosion at a checkpoint near the city's military headquarters. Pakistan's Geo TV reported a witness as saying armed men threw grenades into the mosque. Rao Iqbal, the Rawalpindi police chief, said that at least 26 people have been killed and more than 30 wounded. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from the scene, said that the military had secured the area and that at least one helicopter was being used to search for the attackers. "There were apparently eight attackers," he reported. "Three of them died and the others are supposed to be in the vicinity." Major General Athar Abbas, the Pakistani military spokesman, confirmed the attacks but said he had no details on casualties. "There have been killings. Bodies are shifted to the hospital but we don't know exactly how many," he was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. "It was an attack at a mosque in an area officers frequent." The attack appeared to be the latest in a series to hit Pakistan in recent months as its military presses ahead with an offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the country's northwest. Al Jazeera 
 A TRUCK bomb has killed 64 people near the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, the country's bloodiest attack in 15 months just 10 days before US troops are due to quit urban areas. The attack, which also wounded 202 people, struck near a mosque in Taza Kharmatu, a predominantly Turkmen Shi'ite town south of Kirkuk, at around 1pm (local time on Saturday, with women and children among the victims, officials said. "This ugly crime is an attempt to harm security and stability and spread mistrust of the Iraqi forces," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said. "Our forces ... will arrest those who committed the crime in Taza Kharmatu and bring them to justice." Sabah al-Daoudi, the Iraqi health ministry's representative in Kirkuk, said 64 people had died and 202 were injured in what he described as a "suicide explosion". Shukur Abdullah, the head of Kirkuk hospital's mortuary, confirmed the death toll. Mr Daoudi said around 30 of the wounded were being kept in hospital for treatment. A senior police official, who did not want to be identified, said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber, and appeared to have been an al-Qaeda bombing. More than one tonne of explosives was used in the bombing, the official said. "I saw a truck passing through a very narrow road and, a few minutes later, I heard a huge explosion and the ceiling of my shop collapsed on my head," said Akbar Zain al-Abdin, 40, whose fertiliser and farm products store was almost completely destroyed. "I didn't see a fire, but I saw a huge cloud of sand in the sky," he said. "The victims were our relatives and our friends, their houses collapsed on them." The Turkmen Front, Iraq's main Turkmen political party, announced three days of mourning and called for an "immediate investigation... and for the criminals to be brought to justice." The attack, which took place around 400 metres from the Shiite Al-Rasul mosque, also seriously damaged dozens of houses, with police saying that many victims could still be under the rubble. An AFP reporter at the scene said the bomb left a deep crater in the ground. In the aftermath of the attack, police urged local residents to donate blood. The bombing was the bloodiest single attack in Iraq since March 6, 2008, when a roadside bomb was followed by a suicide attack in central Baghdad's Karrada neighbourhood, killing 68 people. More recently, a car bomb on June 10 in a market in Batha, in the largely peaceful southern province of Dhi Qar, killed 19 people and wounded 56. The attack was blamed on al-Qaeda. Also on Saturday, a car bomb in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, killed three police and wounded seven others. The Taza bombing comes barely a week ahead of a deadline for US troops to pull back from Iraq's built-up areas as part of a landmark security accord signed between Washington and Baghdad in November. The agreement calls on US forces to leave Iraq altogether by the end of 2011. On Saturday, the US army handed over to Iraqi control a base in Baghdad's sprawling Shi'ite neighbourhood of Sadr City, once a bastion for anti-US radicals. The Iraqi premier warned earlier this month that insurgent groups and militia would likely step up their attacks in the coming weeks in a bid to undermine confidence in Iraq's own security forces. Violence has dropped markedly in Iraq in recent months, with May seeing the lowest Iraqi death toll since the 2003 invasion. But attacks remain common, particularly in Baghdad and the main northern city of Mosul. Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, is plagued with intercommunal tensions among its Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab communities. Those tensions prevented the holding of provincial elections on January 31, when all but three autonomous Kurdish provinces voted for new councils. Source: The Australian
By Aluf BennU.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran. The message was conveyed by a senior American official who met in Israel with Netanyahu, ministers and other senior officials. Earlier, Netanyahu's envoy visited Washington and met with National Security Adviser James Jones and with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and discussed the dialogue Obama has initiated with Tehran.
The message from the American envoy to the prime minister reveals U.S. concern that Israel could lose patience and act against Iran. It is important to the Americans that they not be caught off guard and find themselves facing facts on the ground at the last minute.
Obama did not wait for his White House meeting with Netanyahu, scheduled for next Monday, to deliver his message, but rather sent it ahead of time with his envoy.
It may be assumed that Obama is disturbed by the positions Netanyahu expressed before his election vis-a-vis Tehran - for example, Netanyahu's statement that "If elected I pledge that Iran will not attain nuclear arms, and that includes whatever is necessary for this statement to be carried out." After taking office, on Holocaust Memorial Day Netanyahu said: "We will not allow Holocaust-deniers to carry out another holocaust."
Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak do not oppose American dialogue with Tehran, but they believe it should be conducted within a limited window of time, making it clear to Iran that if it does not stop its nuclear program, severe sanctions will be imposed and other alternatives will be considered.
The American concern that Israel will attack Iran came up as early as last year, while president George W. Bush was still in office. As first reported in Haaretz, former prime minister Ehud Olmert and Barak made a number of requests from Bush during the latter's visit to Jerusalem, which were interpreted as preparations for an aerial attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Following the Bush visit to Jerusalem, about a year ago the previous administration sent two senior envoys, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, and the former U.S. national intelligence chief Mike McConnell to demand that Israel not attack Iran.
The previous administration also gave the message greater weight through Mullen's public statement that an Israeli attack on Iran would endanger the entire region. Since that statement, Mullen has met a number of times with his Israeli counterpart, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi.
By JPOST.COM STAFF  President Shimon Peres.
Photo: AP In an interview with Kol Hai Radio, Peres also said that the arrest before the weekend of a Hizbullah terror cell in Egypt was a blow to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's power. "Ahmadinejad recruits forces against us, but there are also forces against him," Peres said. "What happened in Egypt created a fierce opposition and we must unify all his opponents - the Sunnis and the Europeans, as well as those afraid of nuclear weapons and terror." Peres went on to say that he hoped Obama's call for dialogue with Ahmadinejad would be heeded, but warned that if such talks don't soften the Iranian president's approach "we'll strike him." "We certainly cannot go it alone, without the US, and we definitely can't go against the US. This would be unnecessary," stressed the president. Peres also referred to the case of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned in the US, saying that even if Israel had done more, it wouldn't have secured his release as "until now, all our appeals to America have been answered with an iron wall." Source: Jerusalem Post
BAITULLAH Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has threatened to launch an attack on Washington that would "amaze everyone in the world" as he claimed responsibility for the raid on a police academy in Lahore and boasted of a new regional militant alliance. Mr Mehsud, for whom the US offered a $US5 million reward last week, said that Monday's raid, in which seven police officers were killed, was retaliation for US drone attacks on Pakistan's northern tribal areas, now the main hub of Taliban and al-Qa'ida activity. The 35-year-old leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Movement of Taliban Pakistan), made the claims after taking the highly unusual step of telephoning Western news organisations from an undisclosed location. "We wholeheartedly take responsibility for this attack and will carry out more such attacks in future," he said. "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world ... The maximum they can do is martyr me. But we will exact our revenge on them from inside America." Mr Mehsud's threat illustrates his growing confidence in the Pakistani Taliban's strength and reach. He recently agreed to shelve differences with fellow commanders and join forces with the Afghan Taliban. The alliance appears to be a deliberate response to President Obama's "Afpak" strategy, unveiled on Friday, to send 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan, pour $US7.5 billion into Pakistan, and to treat the two countries as a single military theatre. Mr Mehsud's power also appears to have been enhanced after the Pakistani Government reached a controversial peace deal with the Taliban in the northwestern Swat Valley, which borders the tribal areas. He has been blamed for several attacks in Pakistan, including the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in December 2007, but most have been in the north west, and Monday's was thought to be his first on the eastern province of Punjab. The US Rewards for Justice website describes him as a "key al-Qa'ida facilitator" who has conducted cross-border attacks against American forces in Afghanistan and poses a clear threat to American people and interests in the region. The militant leader boasted that he had recently set up a "Council of Mujahidin" uniting different groups "to step up attacks on US and Nato forces in Afghanistan". That tallies with other reports that the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban have joined forces, and are also working with outlawed Pakistani militant groups with links to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. The Pakistani Taliban is led by Mr Mehsud and two rival commanders - Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Maulavi Nazir - who are all based in the tribal regions of North and South Waziristan and have long feuded with each other. Mullah Omar, the Afghan Taliban leader, is reported to have sent a six-member team to Waziristan in late December and early January to forge a new alliance with the three men against the planned increase of American forces in Afghanistan. The Pakistani Taliban leaders agreed, and in February they formed the Council of Mujahidin and issued a printed statement vowing to resolve their differences and focus on fighting US-led forces in Afghanistan. However, they also appear to have enlisted elements of Pakistani militant groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), blamed for the attack on Mumbai last year, and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, blamed for last month's attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore. They, along with elements of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), another banned militant group, give the alliance a presence in Punjab, which may explain the two recent attacks there, security officials and analysts say. "Many former fighters of LeT and JeM, and from southern Punjab, have been fighting with the Pakistani Taliban," one Pakistani security official said. Most experts agree that the militant alliance is fragile, especially since Mullah Omar wants to focus on Afghanistan, while Mr Mehsud and others have ambitions in Pakistan, but it still represents a major challenge to Mr Obama's new strategy. Michael Semple, an Irish expert on the region who was the former deputy head of the European Union mission in Kabul, predicts that some militants can be split from the group's core if governance and security are improved. "It can be done, and we do have a few demonstrated examples that prove that it is possible," he said. "But a lot of things are going to have to be done right if it is going to deliver enough people to be able to make a difference to the conflict." Source: The Australian
 ATTACKERS armed with guns and grenades killed at least 20 policemen at a training centre in the Pakistani city of Lahore today. Other police officials said the number of casualties may be higher given the heavy crossfire between the attackers holed up at the training centre and paramilitary troops who fanned around the perimeter of the ground.“The number of killed is at least 20,” police sub inspector Amjad Ahmad told AFP outside the police training ground in Manawan. “The number of casualties may be more,” said police official Rias ad Bajwa.Television footage showed bodies of policemen lying face down on the parade ground as heavy gunfire rattled out of the training ground at Manawan outside Pakistan's cultural capital Lahore.Paramilitary soldiers, armed and wearing flak jackets and helmets, opened fire and fanned out around the perimeter of the site, which was surrounded by scores of police cars and armoured vehicles, an AFP reporter said.Officials in Islamabad said the interior ministry chief was locked in an emergency meeting with senior police and security officials. The attack came weeks after another attackers armed with guns and grenades mounted a coordinated assault on Sri Lanka's touring cricket team on March 3, killing eight people and wounding seven members of the squad. Those attackers walked away unhindered by police and authorities have not announced any high-profile arrest in connection with the assault, which has at least temporarily ended Pakistani chances of hosting international sport. Officials said that assault bore the hallmarks of the November 2008 attack on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, which was blamed on Pakistan-based Islamic militants and killed 165 people. Lahore is Pakistan's second largest city and capital of wheat-bowl Punjab province which also country's political nerve centre. Extremists opposed to the Pakistan government's decision to side with the US in its “war on terror” have carried out a series of bombings and other attacks that have killed nearly 1,700 people in less than two years. Much of the unrest has been concentrated in northwest Pakistan, where the army has been bogged down fighting Taliban militants and al-Qa’ida extremist On Friday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a packaged mosque in a town in the northwestern tribal town of Jamrud, killing around 50 people. US officials say northwest Pakistan has degenerated into a safe haven for al-Qa’ida and Taliban militants who fled the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and have regrouped to launch attacks on foreign troops across the border. Such is the scale of extremist violence that US President Barack Obama has placed Pakistan at the heart of the fight against al-Qa’ida, tripling US aid to the nuclear-armed nation as part of a new strategy that also commits billions of dollars and thousands more troops to the Afghan war. Mr Obama said al-Qa’ida and its allies were “a cancer that risks killing Pakistan from within” and warned Islamabad to “demonstrate its commitment” to eliminating extremists on its soil. Last month Zardari's government suspended Punjab's provincial assembly and administration, imposing central rule after a court ruling disqualifying its chief minister Shahbaz Sharif - brother of Pakistan's opposition leader Nawaz Sharif. The governor who assumed administrative powers shuffled the bureaucracy and police in order to establish his hold, but critics say the hurried transfers undermined the security apparatus. Source: The Australian
Three students at the Janson-de-Sailly school (16th arrondissement in Paris) were victims of an attack, Thursday, Jan. 8th, in front of their school. The Students, aged 15-17, of North-African origins, were beaten by youth who came to distribute leaflets for the Jewish Defense League (JDL), an extremist organization banned in the United States and Israel. The families of the victims lodged a complaint for an intentional attack of a racist character. "The attackers were not identified and the investigation is ongoing," said a spokesperson for the prosecution. M., one of the two victims assaulted, says he was waiting for his cousin in front of the school and saw the youth handing pamphlets. He refused it and his cousin put it in the trash. The youths asked his cousin why he threw it away. He approached and then they hit him, he got a knee in his stomach and a blow to the eyebrows. They then attacked his cousin. Then someone said 'there's the cops' and they left. Read more ...Sources: Figaro, Le Monde (French) H/T: Islam in Europe
  That, my friends, will be the headlines sometime in the next ten days. Yes bunky, before Obama is sworn in as President of the United States Israel will wipe out Iran's nuclear facilities so that the blame can be put on outgoing President George W Bush and leave Obama free to pursue a new direction in the Middle East. Whether this is done with or without the knowledge or support of the States I can't say, but according to all reports the Perspective research department has received this seems to be the most logical choice. Israel and the States have to do something about Iranian nuclear ambitions sooner or later and this seems like the prefect opportunity. Oh sure, the other Arab states will scream bloody murder, but don't kid yourself, deep down they will all breath a sigh of relief. Israel has nuclear weapons but they are also rational, so nobody is too worried. But, a nuclear armed Iran is another matter entirely. Just as Iraq could not be allowed to gain a nuclear capability, so too must Iran be stopped, and timing is everything. Should be an interesting week so hang on to your hats, and remember, you heard it here first! Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E ! Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://allans-perspective.blogspot.com
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The 28 year old Somali who is suspected of the attempted murder of caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, (pictured), worked at a Danish Red Cross center.
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