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POPSThe Taliban Letters Until recently Leah Farrall was a senior Counter Terrorism Intelligence Analyst with the Australian Federal Police and the organization’s al Qaeda subject matter expert. During her time at the AFP Leah worked on a range of international and domestic counter terrorism investigations as well as serving as the senior Intelligence Analyst in the AFP’s Jakarta Regional Cooperation Team (JRCT) in Indonesia and at the AFP’s Forward Operating Post in response to the second Bali bombings.
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POPSIndonesia minister says immorality causes disasters I wonder what his reaction was to the govt being blamed for these natural disasters. Maybe this is his way of deflecting blame. The politician should be attempting to lead the people into this century, not treating them as backward.
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POPS100 Things blamed on Global Warming 26. Snowfall in Baghdad 27. Western tree deaths 28. Diminishing desert resources 29. Pine beetles 30. Swedish beetles 31. Severe acne 32. Global conflict 33. Crash of Air France 447 34. Black Hawk Down incident 35. Amphibians breeding earlier 36. Flesh-eating disease 37. Global cooling 38. Bird strikes on US Airways 1549 39. Beer tastes different 40. Cougar attacks in Alberta 41. Suicide of farmers in Australia 42. Squirrels reproduce earlier 43. Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya 44. Confusion of migrating birds 45. Bigger tuna fish 46. Water shortages in Las Vegas 47. Worldwide hunger 48. Longer days 49. Earth spinning faster 50. Gender balance of crocodiles
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POPS‘War on Words’ Conference (International Press Institute) For complete program of events, go here, http://www.freemedia.at/events/war-on-words-programme/ Session 1 “September 11, Combating Terrorism, and the Erosion of Civil Liberties” Session 2 “Tortured Logic – How Has the Media Reported on Terrorism and Torture?” Session 3 “The Watchdog Role of the Media in the Fight against Terrorism" Session 4 “Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theatre: Incitement, Freedom of Expression and Religious Tolerance” Session 5 In the final session, participants discussed the draft “Vienna Declaration on Terrorism, Media and the Law” (final document will be available soon).
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POPSIndonesia quake toll soars past 500 The U.S. Geological Survey declined to say whether the two quakes were linked. "The simple answer is we can't speculate on a connection," said Carrieann Bedwell of the USGS. "Both are in highly seismic areas." The epicenters of the two temblors are about 4,700 miles (7,600 kilometers) apart.
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POPSDeath by stoning in Indonesia Those crazy Christians again....oh wait, nevermind, it's Sharia law....my bad But boohoo, those Christians are reading people bible verses....the horror....
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POPSSuicide blasts at Jakarta Ritz, Marriott kill 8 see images of the aftermath: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto Suspicion will fall on the Southeast Asian Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah or its allies. The network is blamed for past attacks in Indonesia, including a 2003 bombing at the Marriott when 12 people died. The blasts at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, located side-by-side in an upscale business district in Jakarta, blew out windows and scattered debris and glass across the street, kicking up a thick plume of smoke. Facades of both hotels were reduced to twisted metal. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw bodies being shuttled away in police trucks. Alex Asmasubrata, who was jogging nearby, said he walked into the Marriott before emergency services arrived and "there were bodies on the ground, one of them had no stomach," he said. "It was terrible."
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POPSIndonesia's "love shacks" "He is my special man," she says giggling, nervously flipping her pack of clove cigarettes. "None of the other customers are special." At first he was like all the rest, coming several times a week with friends after long, backbreaking days. Her man tours the local factories, searching for discarded waste that he can clean and resell — Indonesia's version of the recycling truck. He quickly became one of Lina's many regulars and after only a few months, she says they decided to get married. Now, when he visits Balebut, he comes not as a customer, but as Lina's husband. When they get enough money, she said, they plan to find a house and move away from the Citarum area.
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POPSHead Scarf Emerges as Indonesia Political Symbol Golkar Party officials rejected accusations by the president’s party that they were trying to exploit Islam for politics; they also denied having anything to do with the recent distribution of leaflets that stated, falsely, that Boediono’s wife was not Muslim, but Roman Catholic. The fundamentalists are trying to force women to wear the jilbab as an act of submission, and had already done so in various municipalities across the Indonesian archipelago in recent years, Ms. Neng said. For the progressives, she said, wearing the jilbab was an expression of a woman’s right. “For women in Indonesia, whether they want to wear the jilbab or not is their choice,” said Ms. Neng, who started wearing one five years ago. “It shouldn’t be political.”
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POPSIndonesia's psychedelic fish named a new species "The fish, which has a gelatinous fist-sized body covered with thick folds of skin that protect it from sharp-edged corals, also has a flat face with eyes directed forward, like humans, and a huge, yawning mouth."
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