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The jail break occurred Wednesday night when seventeen prisoners, five of them on death row, climbed out of a small bathroom window to freedom. One of the prisoners, all members of al-Qaeda, has since been caught.

All praise be to the One who brought victory to his slave Muhammad, honored his army, and defeated the [various] parties [which gathered to annihilate the Muslims] Alone. May peace and blessings be upon Muhammad – His slave, messenger, beloved and chosen – upon all his family and companions. To proceed:

The deaths of the five troops in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force comes after four others were killed on Saturday in attacks already announced by ISAF, as violence surges ahead of the August 20 polls.

China has decided to air an Arabic TV Channel directed to the Arabic region , the new Arabic Channel will be another member to the CCTV family . There is already an English CCTV Channel on the Nile Sat.

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The UN Human Rights Council has issued a report blasting the US for killing civilians, violating human rights and creating a “zone of impunity” for unaccountable private contractors to fight its wars. The UN group also criticized the US use of drones to attack Pakistan. The report, released this week was authored by Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

(Ansar al Sunna ) The “scientific technical unit” of the Iraqi insurgent group Ansar al Sunna announced the launch of a new and enhanced missile developed by the group, under the name “Al Ansar’s Arrow.” The new missile has a range of 70 kilometres, according to the group, and is capable of carrying cluster bombs and chemical, or nuclear payload as well as conventional explosives. The group also released a 51-page manual as well as a 10-minute instructional video, detailing the specifications of the missile, the parts it’s made of and ways to put them together. CBS

Cultures of Resistance Activism Forum is a project that aims to address the Western hostile use of language intended to restrict debate related to mainstream Islamist movements and currents. The project will explore more effective means to respond to hostile use of language – as well as explore how better to insist on extending public debate beyond its standard focus on ‘Islamist violence’ – by launching a ‘positive’ (non-defensive) discourse on Islamism. In partnership with a wide number of social activist and public campaign groups, we aim to advocate for a shift in language from the defensive to the positive; to learn how others, in different struggles, have achieved this transition; and by this means, and by gaining greater critical mass, to open space in which a discourse of rebuttal and ‘resistance’ can be developed through visual and other means to imposed narratives and stereotyping. The aim is the change the terms of debate and to move to a more directly challenging, but more widely accessible, advocacy of understanding of Islamist ideology.

“Although proponents of this form of applied anthropology claim that culturally informed counter-insurgency work will save lives and win ‘hearts and minds,’ they have thus far not attempted to provide any evidence of this. Instead, there has been a flurry of non-critical newspaper accounts in publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor that portray these HTS anthropologists as heroically serving their nation without bothering to report on the ethical complications of