June 13, 2008
MERIA
Panel Discussion*

On March 27, 2008, the U.S. Department of State's International Information Programs in Washington D.C., the Public Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Israel, and the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center jointly held an international videoconference seminar focusing on Iraq. Brief biographies of the participants can be found at the end of the article. This seminar is part of the GLORIA Center's Experts Forum series.

June 11, 2008
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Stratfor 
In a June 10 press conference, Rehman Malik, the internal affairs advisor to Pakistan’s prime minister, reported that a suicide bombing plot had been thwarted when Pakistani authorities arrested nine individuals and seized four apparent vehicle-borne improvised explosives devices (VBIEDs) containing a total of over 1,100 kilograms of explosives.

June 12, 2008
Right Side News
On Tuesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in a press conference in London exposed the Iranian regime's manufacture of new and advanced EFP (roadside) bombs in three secret centres in Iran. Also exposed were the names and particulars as well as the methods used of 51 networks smuggling the weapons on behalf of Iran's Qods force to terrorist militias in Iraq. The advanced EFPs can penetrate deeper into armoured vehicles causing more deaths and advancements have also made them more difficult to detect and defuse. I have attached the press release, the information provided at the press conference, as well as the 51 networks and their detailed work.

June 11, 2008
The Lekarev Report

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will hold a "crucial" meeting today with MK Tzachi Hanegbi and MK Eli Aflalo, to determine the framework and a possible date for a Kadima party primary.

Hanegbi, who is chairman of the committee for party affairs, and Aflalo, head of the party's Knesset faction, are meeting in light of growing internal pressure on Olmert to agree to a process that would move the Kadima primary forward.

June 10, 2008
Memri
Algerian Dissident Journalist Arezki Ait Larbi: Stop "Witchcraft Trials" For Christians in Algeria   
In the western Algerian city of Tiaret, a 37-year-old convert to Christianity is currently on trial for "practicing a non-Muslim religion without authorization," under a 2006 law regulating the religious practice of non-Muslims. The charges were brought against her after police found copies of the Bible in her possession.(1)

June 10, 2008
NEFA

The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a statement dated June 4 from Shaykh Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud, the top commander of Al-Qaida's Committee in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), titled, "Here We Come, O' Sister!"  In his statement, Wadoud swore revenge on the governments of North Africa for a violent confrontation between local security forces and a Muslim woman in Morocco.  

June 10, 2008
by Dani Reshef
 
The civil war in Algeria, which breached out in 1992, was one of the main sources for the exporting of jihad ideoloogy and  Islamic militancy in Europe. Thousands of Islamists fled Algeria to Europe and flourished in the liberal and free Europe, protected under freedom of speech, religion and political correctness.

June 9, 2008
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqué from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban movement) defending the recent peace accord negotiated between the Pakistani government and local Taliban forces.