ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces arrested the leader of a radical mosque under siege in Islamabad as he tried to flee while disguised in a burqa on Wednesday, officials said.
SARAJEVO - Two armed men disguised as Muslim women in burqas held up a bank in Sarajevo and got away with some $40,000, Bosnian police said on Tuesday.
كنت أجلس فى صالة الترانزيت بمطار فرانكفورت وكنت متعبا بعد سفر طويل, وأثناء الإنتظار الممل غفوت قليلا وأنا أحتضن حقيبتى الصغيرة, ثم فتحت عينى وأنا بين النوم واليقظة ففوجئت بذقن طويلة جدا كثيفة سوداء تجلس بجوارى وفى أعلاها وجه نحيف وبجانب الذقن جلست خيمة سوداء بدون أى شبابي؟وكانا يحملان أكياسا عديدة من البلاستيك تحمل علامات محلات السوق الحرة لمطار فرانكفورت, ولما صحوت تماما إكتشفت أن الذقن الطويلة ماهى إلا لشخص يرتدى الزى الأفغانى وكان يمسك بيده عصاة صغيرة أصغر قليلا من قلم رصاص يضعها فى فمه بين الحين والآخر
When Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicated the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., in June 1957, his 500-word talk effused good will ("Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements") even as the American president embarrassingly bumbled (Muslims in the United States, he declared, have the right to their "own church"). Conspicuously, he included nary a word about policy.
Eight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned.
THE car-bomb/suicide-terror operations in London and Glasgow should have provided a fresh opportunity for reminding everyone, especially Muslims in Britain, that terrorism in the name of Islam still poses a major threat to public peace and safety. Yet this is not what is happening.