March 8, 2009: Jakarta, Indonesia – A MUSLIM cleric in Indonesia was questioned on Friday over his marriage to a 12-year-old village girl, police said.
The marriage between cleric Pujianto Cahyo Widiyanto, 43, and junior high school student Lutfiana Ulfa in August sparked an outcry from civic groups in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
Widiyanto and his supporters say his actions are acceptable under Islam but others say he should abide by state law, which sets 16 as the minimum age for marriage.
‘He has been questioned since this morning,’ a police officer told AFP from Semarang in Central Java.
Although Indonesian law carries stiff penalties for paedophilia, arranged marriages between older men and girls are not uncommon, especially in poorer rural areas.
Moralizing Clerics Back Anti-Porn Law but Take Child Bride
November 28, 2008 JAKARTA ~ Muslim clerics who claim to be protecting vulnerable women by backing a new anti-pornography law have come out in defense of a fellow preacher who has married a 12-year-old village girl.
The issue of child brides for religious men in the mainly Muslim country has became a subject of national debate since little-known cleric Pujianto Cahyo Widiyanto, 43, married junior high school student Lutfiana Ulfa in August.
His case went virtually unnoticed until Muslim conservatives started lobbying parliament to pass a new anti-pornography bill that was opposed by a broad spectrum of civil society groups and non-Muslims.
Passed in October with the backing of the very clerics who are now defending Widiyanto, the law criminalizes all movements and works, including poetry and music, deemed obscene and capable of violating public morality.
“These clerics are hypocrites,” lawmaker Said Abdullah, from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, told AFP.
“They say the anti-porn law will protect young women, but yet they dehumanize them by marrying underage girls and supporting child marriage.”
Under Indonesian pedophilia laws, Widiyanto could face 15 years’ jail for having sex with a minor. He is under investigation but openly talks about his love of pubescent girls and his plans to marry more.
“There is no coercion. The girls like me and their parents have given their blessings,” Widiyanto was quoted as telling Detikcom news website.
And no one should interfere because child brides are allowed under Islam, according to Muslims such as Hilman Rosyad Syihab, the deputy head of the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party which backed the pornography law.
He said Islam allowed marriage regardless of whether a girl had reached sexual maturity.
“But the husband can only have sex with her once she reaches puberty,” he explained, in contravention of the law which sets 16 as the minimum marriage age for women and 18 as the age of consent
Some thing stinks here because according to Indonesian Marriage Law 1974 (no. 1/74)
Marriage Age: minimum marriage age 19 for males and 16 for females; provision for marriage below minimum age, subject to judicial discretion and parental consent
March 8, 2009: Bangkok, Thailand. A Russian businessman dubbed the ‘Merchant of Death’ for allegedly arming dictators and warlords said on Friday there is no proof showing he’s the world’s biggest arms dealer and accused the US of pressuring Thailand to extradite him. Viktor Bout, a former Soviet air force officer, also complained of inhumane treatment at a Thai prison that he said was cramped, hot, uncivilised and ‘worse than Guantanamo’.
The 41-year-old Bout has long been linked to some of Africa’s most notorious conflicts, allegedly supplying arms to former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
He has been jailed in Thailand since his arrest in Bangkok a year ago and is accused of conspiring to arm Colombian rebels. Bout’s extradition hearing started in June but it has been repeatedly postponed by a shifting cast of attorneys and defence witnesses who have failed to appear.
His hearing was again delayed on Friday because his wife complained she was sick and could not testify. The hearing will resume on Monday with the defence planning to call Bout to testify. Shackled at the ankles with his face pressed against the bars of a holding cell, Bout shouted to reporters ahead of Friday’s hearing. ‘If they say I am the biggest arms dealer – so, where is the proof?’
Bout said at Bangkok’s Criminal Court, calling the accusations against him ‘lies and rumours’. When asked by reporters if he felt politics were behind his arrest, Bout shouted, ‘It’s a theatre!’ Dressed in an orange prison uniform, Bout also yelled at guards who tried to prevent him from speaking during a 10-minute exchange with reporters in French, English and Russian.
One of Bout’s lawyers, Lak Nitiwatanavichan, told the court Bout was illegally detained and requested his immediate release. Judges said they would consider the motion. The United States is seeking the extradition of Bout, who was arrested March 6, 2008, at a Bangkok luxury hotel.
Agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration posed as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, looking to buy millions of dollars in weapons. Bout was charged with conspiracy for allegedly trying to smuggle missiles and rocket launchers to Farc, which is a US-designated terrorist organisation.
He was later indicted in the US of four terrorism-related charges. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.
A little about this skumbag
October 1996-Late 2001: Arms Dealer Aligns with Taliban and ISI
Russian arms merchant Victor Bout, who has been selling weapons to Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance since 1992, switches sides, and begins selling weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaeda instead.
The deal comes immediately after the Taliban captures Kabul in late October 1996 and gains the upper hand in Afghanistan’s civil war. In one trade in 1996, Bout’s company delivers at least 40 tons of Russian weapons to the Taliban, earning about $50 million.
Two intelligence agencies later confirm that Bout trades with the Taliban “on behalf of the Pakistan government.” In late 2000, several Ukrainians sell 150 to 200 T-55 and T-62 tanks to the Taliban in a deal conducted by the ISI, and Bout helps fly the tanks to Afghanistan.
Bout formerly worked for the Russian KGB, and now operates the world’s largest private weapons transport network. Based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bout operates freely there until well after 9/11.
The US becomes aware of Bout’s widespread illegal weapons trading in Africa in 1995, and of his ties to the Taliban in 1996, but they fail to take effective action against him for years. US pressure on the UAE in November 2000 to close down Bout’s operations there is ignored. Press reports calling him “the merchant of death” also fail to pressure the UAE.
After President Bush is elected, it appears the US gives up trying to get Bout, until after 9/11.
Bout moves to Russia in 2002. He is seemingly protected from prosecution by the Russian government, which in early 2002 will claim, “There are no grounds for believing that this Russian citizen has committed illegal acts.” The Guardian suggests that Bout may have worked with the CIA when he traded with the Northern Alliance, and this fact may be hampering current international efforts to catch him
1998: CIA Suspects Persian Gulf Royals and Arms Dealer Victor Bout Are Flying Heroin Out of Afghanistan
In 1998, the CIA becomes interested in the links between arms dealer Victor Bout, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. Michael Scheuer, head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, and some US counternarcotics officials are particularly intrigued by a pattern they see between the flight patterns of Bout’s airplanes to and from Afghanistan and the hunting vacations of some Persian Gulf royals.
Many of the Persian Gulf elite are known to regularly go bird hunting in Afghanistan, sometimes meeting Taliban ruler Mullah Omar and/or Osama bin Laden during their hunting trips US analysts notice that there is a surge of Bout-controlled flights to Afghanistan in February and March of each year, the same time many royal elite fly to Afghanistan on their private jets in time for the migration of thousands of houbara bustards through Afghanistan. Then, in early autumn, there is another surge of flights by both Bout’s planes and the royal jets when the bustards migrate through the country again.
Officials at the CIA’s counternarcotics center suspect some of the royals are using the hunting flights as cover to export heroin. The Bout flights increase the suspicion, since he is a known drug trafficker as well as an arms dealer. Scheuer will later comment, “They were very interested on the counternarcotics side about the patterns between Bout’s flights and the bustard-hunting season.”
British intelligence is interested in the same thing, and at one point they approach United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials for permission to sneak a team of agents aboard one of Bout’s flights to search for Afghan heroin. However, they are unable to get permission, and the CIA also does not act on these suspicions.
Viktor Bout complained of inhumane treatment at a Thai prison that he said was cramped,hot, uncivilised and ‘worse than Guantanamo’
Reports surfaced at the end of December that hundreds of Rohingya Muslim men were being detained by the Thai military as they arrived on beaches in Thailand seeking by some accounts a better life, and by other accounts have a darker mission—joining the Muslim insurgency in the South of Thailand.Thailand has long been a magnet for millions of economic migrants as well as refugees escaping persecution in Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Human traffickers often play a role in transporting both groups, exposing those on the run to egregious abuses. Thailand has a mixed record on hosting refugees.
Most Rohingya, who are denied legal rights in Burma, begin their journey in Bangladesh, where more than 200,000 live in unofficial camps. A further 28,000 are registered with the UNHCR. From there, men pay smugglers for passage across the Indian Ocean to Thailand, usually as a transit stop to reach Malaysia, a Muslim country with a sizable Rohingya population. Some Bangladeshis also travel there.
In recent years, the number of boats crossing during the winter months has risen sharply. Between 2004 and 2008, the number of Rohingya detained by police rose to 4,866, up from 2,763, says Kraisak Choonhavan, a government lawmaker.
Some of these Rohingya have been repatriated to Burma. Others have paid smugglers to complete their journey to Malaysia, or become victims of traffickers, say rights activists. That appears to have changed as the military has got involved.
In security briefings, military officials repeatedly draw a link between Rohingya refugees and separatist violence in the south,
AND NOW FROM THE BLEEDING HEARTS BRIGADE
March 8, 2009: Undiclosed Location, Malaysia. Hundreds of Burmese are being held in remote Malaysian refugee centres, locked up and handcuffed in prison-like conditions. Relatives and friends are forced to be body searched and registered; unscrupulous merchants sell goods at exorbitant prices; women are abused, humiliated and forced to strip in front of guards. All of the refugees had to flee their homeland to escape abuses by the ruling military junta. Without papers the refugees are treated like criminals, packed in rooms a hundred at a time without any basic human rights.
One source working for an NGO that is in touch with the refugees spoke to AsiaNews about one such centre, describing its horrors.
“It took us about four hours to reach there,” said the source, who preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons. “It is situated in a very remote area where public transport is not made available. [. . . ] I gave my handset and identity card to the officers whereas my friends gave their passport and handset.”
This was followed by a body check by a female officer, and a statement to a counter officer that included “the name, sex and also body number” of the person visitors wanted to see.
During the “30 minutes” of waiting the source saw episodes indicative of the type of atmosphere that prevails in the centre.
“I saw one of the female detainees walking with a handcuff and that really caught my attention. I was very surprise and upset to see what was going on. I was just thinking to myself, why handcuff a female? How can she escape? Even if she escapes how could she get away because the detention centre is so isolated and far? It doesn’t make sense. She is not a criminal. Does she deserve this treatment just because she doesn’t have a proper document?
Rohingya refugees prepare their lunch at a naval base in Indonesia’s Sabang island Rohinja is an alternative spelling for the Muslim minority from Rakhine state in the former Burma’s northwest.
Myanmar’s junta stepped into the deepening Rohingya crisis on Friday, denying any of the Muslim boat people washing up in Thailand, India and Indonesia were from its soil, but promising to take unspecified “measures.”
“The Rohinja is not included in over 100 national races of the Union of Myanmar,” it said in all state-controlled papers, its first reaction since reports surfaced two weeks ago of the Thai army towing migrants out to sea and leaving them to die.
Rohinja is an alternative spelling for the Muslim minority from Rakhine state in the former Burma’s northwest.
“Moreover, a statement released yesterday by Thailand did not mention that those who made attempt to illegally enter Thailand from the sea were from Myanmar,” the announcement added.
“Nevertheless, the departments concerned of the Government of Myanmar will take necessary measures in connection with the above matter,” it continued, without elaboration.
Narinjara News, a Dhaka-based Rakhine news agency, reported this week that a Myanmar artillery battalion had been redeployed in December from the former capital, Yangon, to Buthidaung, a town in the midst of Rohingya villages.
More than 500 Rohingya are feared to have drowned since early December after being towed out to sea by the Thai military and abandoned in rickety boats without functioning engines.
The army has admitted cutting them loose, but said they had food and water and denied the engines were sabotaged.
Thailand is trying to depict them as illegal economic migrants, and paraded a group of 78 intercepted on Monday on domestic television, showing off wounds the migrants said were inflicted by Myanmar naval officials.
Survivors of some of the Thai “push-backs” have corroborated the reports of Myanmar abuse, with one man who washed up on Indonesia’s Aceh province in early January
So how do we believe this 
A Rohingya refugee shows the wound on his back which he says he received during a beating in Thailand
More from the bleeding hearts
Thousands of poor Burmese and Bangladeshis try to reach south-east Asian nations in search of work
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Thursday called on Burma’s neighboring countries to treat Rohingya, members of Burma’s minority Muslim community, according to international standards.
Ms. Pillay, speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, said she is dismayed by the harrowing accounts of Rohingya who had taken to the sea to flee Burma.
Calling for a thorough investigation into reports that indicate the ill-treatment meted out to Rohingya, Ms. Pillay said, “I urge all neighboring countries to ensure their appropriate reception, processing and protection, in line with international standards.”
In recent months, Rohingya boatpeople have grabbed public attention in the wake of the Royal Thai Navy reportedly arresting more than 1,200 boatpeople and allegedly sending them back out to sea with little food and water and no engines for their boats.
Reports said that as a result of the Thai Navy’s actions, hundreds of Rohingya boatpeople are believed to be missing and presumed dead.
Thailand’s Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, who denies Thailand’s ill-treatment of the Rohingya, did however admit it an interview with CNN that the Army might have pushed back Rohingya boatpeople as they attempted to illegally enter the country.
The ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which includes Burma and Thailand, during last month’s summit discussed the problem of Rohingya boatpeople and agreed that it is a regional issue that would be discussed further as part of the Bali process, an international agreement aimed at combating human trafficking.
During the summit, Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win said Burma does not have a Rohingya minority, but said his country agreed to accept the boatpeople if they identify themselves as “Bengalis” born in Burma
Human rights activists have condemned Thailand’s “inhuman and brutal response” to this new wave of illegal migration. (Muslim Invaders)
Why should Thailand make muslims welcomeJan, 06; Pattani. An Islamic terror attack leaves a 47-year-old security man dead
Jan, 10; Pattani. A 54-year-old civilian is gunned down by Mujahideen
Jan, 11; Yala. Two Buddhists are among three farmers shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
Jan, 13; Pattani. Two village chiefs are shot to death in Muslim drive-by attacks
Jan, 13; Narathiwat. A local soldier succumbs to shrapnal injuries following a Religion of Peace bombing attack.
Jan, 13; Pattani. Two civilians are shot to death by Mujahideen.
Jan, 21; Pattani. An older man walking home with his cattle is shot to death by Muslim militants
Jan, 22; Pattani. A 65-year-old woman is among three civilians gunned down in separate Mujahideen drive-by attacks.
Jan, 23; Yala. A shopowner is murdered in his store by Mujahideen gunmen
Jan, 23; Narathiwat. Islamists gun down a 26-year-old civilian.
Jan, 23; Narathiwat. A factory worker is shot to death by Mujahideen while driving with his wife
Jan, 24; Yala. Four construction workers are murdered by Islamist gunmen at a building site.
Jan, 27; Pattani. A Buddhist married couple is brutally murdered by Muslim gunmen in a drive-by attack.
Feb,02; Pattani. Two security personnel are beheaded by Muslim militants, who also burn the bodies.
Feb,03; Pattani. Two civilians are shot inside their homes by Mujahideen.
Feb,03; Narathiwat. Islamic gunmen chase down a man with a pickup truck then shoot him to death.
Feb,10; Narathiwat. Mujahideen gun down a 48-year-old rubber plantation worker
Feb,07; Yala. Islamic rebels shoot a 29-year-old civilian in the head along the side of a road.
Feb,09;Narathiwat. A 26-year-old woman is shot to death by Islamic terrorists
Feb,10; Pattani. Muslim extremists murder two people is separate drive-by attacks.
Feb,11; Pattani. A 40-year-old man is gunned down in a Muslim drive-by attack.
Feb,11; Pattani. Religion of Peace terrorists shoot two men to death as they are standing in front of a school.
Feb,12; Pattani. Islamic bombers kill three policemen guarding teachers from attacks.
Soldiers and policemen walk at the site of a roadside bomb in southern Three Thai policemen were killed and one was seriously injured
Five policemen were injured in the bomb attackFeb,20; Yala. Two soldiers guarding teachers are shot and beheaded by Religion of Peace radicals.
Feb,22; Yala. A married couple are beheaded by Muslim militants on their way home from work at a rubber plantation.
Feb,23; Narathiwat. A rubber tapper is brutally shot to death by Muslim radicals, who also shoot his wife.
Feb,24; Yala. Muslim militants storm a food shop and murder the owner.
Feb,24; Yala. A 41-year-old woman is shot to death by Islamic terrorists
Feb,25; Narathiwat. Three people are beheaded by Muslim radicals.
Mar,03; Yala. Two civilians are murdered by Mujahideen gunmen while riding home from work.
Mar,04; Pattani. Two truck drivers are among three people sthot to death by Islamic terrorists.
Mar,05; Yala. Muslim terrorists murder a 33-year-old civilian in a drive-by attack.
Mar,06; Yala. The 52-year-old owner of a tea shop is shot to death at his business by Mujahideen.
Mar,07; Pattani. Two Buddhist brothers riding a motorcycle are shot and then burned by Religion of Peace militants.
Mar, 08: Pattani. Two Buddhist brothers were shot dead and set on fire by Muslim insurgents in this southern border province Saturday morning.
The two brothers – Arun Sudmas, 40 and Hiran Sudmas, 36 – were attacked by four insurgents in Muang district on the Pattani – Yala Road in the morning.
Insurgents shot them with assault rifle and pour petrol over the bodies and set fire.
The two were students of special programme of Pattani Community University and were riding their motorcycle to the university to take an exam.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, has called for Burma’s Muslim boat people to be pushed back if they attempt to land on any South-East Asian shores in search of asylum.
Mr Abdullah also criticised Burma and Thailand on the issue of the Rohingya asylum seekers, which has escalated into a problem for the region and sparked international concern. Thousands of the stateless Rohingya have fled Burma as well as refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Their plight was highlighted recently when hundreds were believed to have drowned after being pushed out to sea by the Thai military.
To-Days pic
March 8, 2009: Malmo, Sweden. Harel Levy is lifted by his teammates as they celebrate their come-from-behind 3-2 Davis Cup victory over the de-vikingized swedes in Malmo to advance to the quarterfinals. Nice oneNow let us go back in time
March 8, 1981: A gas station in Jerusalem was blasted by a hand grenade.March 8, 1983: The Islamic Terror isn’t all doom and gloom. Sometimes we have good news to report. Today in France, just outside of Marseilles, two jihadists were killed when their car, which was carrying explosives, blew up prematurely before arriving at the synagogue they wanted to destroy.March 8, 1984: Reverend Benjamin Weir was kidnapped in Lebanon and held for 16 months.
March 8, 1985: A car bomb killed over 80 people in Beirut, Lebanon. The massive and deadly device exploded outside the Beirut home of a Shia terrorist leader who had inspired the terrorist attacks on U.S. installations which had left hundreds of Americans dead. Unfortunately, the Islamic cleric escaped unharmed, and sadly, 200 more people were injured in the blast – not all of whom where associated with Islam, Hizballah, or mass murder.March 8, 1985: In the United Arab Emirates, an 18-year-old Arab Muslim admitted that he had planned a suicide mission to destroy a Jordanian airliner with 107 passengers and crew aboard. The wannabe mass murderer was arrested in Dubai following the igniting of the bomb’s detonator. The bomb itself fizzled. The explosive device had been timed to explode while the aircraft was en route to Amman, Jordan.
The young Muslim claimed that he had been recruited by a Middle Eastern country and that they had provided his false passport. He he was then sent to another Arab state, where he was trained for a month, receiving instructions on how to carry out the bombing. The bomb itself was furnished by an undisclosed terrorist association.March 8, 1986: A four-person French television crew disappeared while filming a Hizballah and Islamic Jihad rally in Lebanon. The crew consisted of Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Cornea, and Jean-Louis Normandin.
A group calling itself the Revolutionary Justice Organization, a pseudonym for Hezbollah, claimed credit for the abductions a few days later. The Iranian sponsored Islamic terrorists said that they had kidnapped the four as “a warning to France in the hope that the French people will…stop all military and political intervention in Lebanon.” Islamic Jihad also warned France to meet the group’s demands and delivered a videotape of three other kidnapped Frenchmen – diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton and journalist Jean-Paul Kauffman. If nothing else, the terrorist actions, comments, and video confirmed that the various Shia outfits were acting in unison.
Philippe Rochot and Georges Hansen were freed in Beirut on June 20, 1986. The Revolutionary Justice Organization claimed that they had released the two journalists because of “changes in France’s Middle East policy and also because of mediation by Syria, Algeria, Hezbollah, and Iran.” Truth is, France paid a multi-million-dollar ransom and returned a billion dollar advance on Iran’s nuclear program.
Georges Hansen said that Aurel Cornea and Jean-Louis Normandin were alive but that he didn’t know when they would be released. Cornea was freed December 24th, 1986 as a “Christmas goodwill gesture.” On February 6, 1987 the Revolutionary Justice Organization sent a note to Western news agencies in Beirut, accompanied by pictures of Jean-Louis Normandin and Joseph Ciccipio (an American hostage kidnapped on September 12th, 1986). The group warned that any aggression by the U.S. military would place the captives’ lives in danger. The group was also holding American Edward Tracy, who would be kidnapped on October 21st, 1986 in West Beirut. Demonstrating who they were working for, the RJO note also warned France about delivering arms to Iraq.March 8, 1986: Two employees of the American Christian relief agency, World Vision, were murdered in the dining room of their compound in Alamata. The victims were both Ethiopian nationals. According to western diplomatic sources, the attack marked the beginning of a new guerrilla offensive by the Tigre People’s Liberation Front, a well-armed rebel army that had been fighting for a decade in northern Ethiopia against the Addis Ababa government.
The Tigray movement, also known as Weyane, was formed in the mid 1970s in opposition to the Mengistu dictatorship in Addis Ababa. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front grew out of that organization. They in turn came under the influence of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front – an Islamic organization headquartered in the Sudan. The TPLF’s goals included the overthrow of the Dergue regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the establishment of a state with them in control. They were Marxist Muslims, following the Albanian and Libyan model. Their largest offensive against Ethiopian forces was in February 1988, and by May 1989, the Ethiopian Army had completely pulled out of Tigray.March 8, 1987: After their camps in northern Iraq were bombed by Turkish warplanes a week earlier, Kurdish jihadists crossed into Turkey and attacked houses near the Syrian border with hand grenades. As the occupants tried to flee, but the guerrillas sprayed them with gunfire. Eight civilians were killed in the assault.March 8, 1995: Two American employees of the American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan were killed as they commuted to work. Another American was injured. Gunmen opened fire with AK-47s on their van from both sides as they stopped at a traffic light. No group claimed responsibility.March 8, 1995: Gunmen killed two U.S. diplomats and injured a third, in an attack on a van taking them to work at the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. Muslim militants, working for the Abu Sayyat Group, said through their press agency that it was in revenge for the World Trade Center bombing convictions. Since Ramzi Yousef and his truck-bombing pals were good Muslims following Allah’s orders and Muhammad’s example, they were heroes, not villains. Crime was a matter of perspective. March 8, 1996: A North Cyprus Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 was hijacked while en route from Ercan, Cyprus to Istanbul. The plane, with 101 passengers, was redirected to Sofia, Bulgaria, and then onto Munich, Germany.
The hijacker was a 20-year-old Turkish Muslim with Chechen sympathies. The jihadists demanded the opportunity to make a statement on behalf of Chechen Muslims. After speaking with a Munich journalist he released the passengers. March 8, 2001: Two mortars were fired into the settlement of Netzarim. Shots were fired at an Israeli car on the southern Hebron bypass road. Palestinians fired at an Israeli car near Alei Zahav. They assaulted an Israeli car near Ariel on the Samaria bypass road. Shots were fired at a bus north of Ofra. And two Palestinian bombs were discovered and defused on the road to Elon More.March 8, 2001: A makeshift explosive device, made of gas bottles, exploded at the National Bank of Greece in Thessaloniki. The blast caused minor damages and was in protest to the delays in the case of Panayiotis Vasilellis, a child who was denied treatment for leukemia because of bureaucratic problems. Note: On 17 March a group calling itself, “Movement Against State Arbitrariness” claimed responsibility for this and two other explosive attacks perpetrated on this evening. A makeshift explosive device detonated at the offices of the Ministry of Health Regional Directorate in Thessaloniki. At the scene of the blast, authorities found a note stating that the attack had been in protest to the delays in the case of Panayiotis Vasilellis, a child who died of leukemia after he was denied treatment because of bureaucratic problems.March 8, 2001: In San Sebastian, Spain, a group of hooded individuals attacked a broadcast vehicle belonging to Cadena Sur in San Sebastian. The perpetrators smashed the windows of the van, warned the technician to get out and then set fire to the car.On This Day Since 9/11
March 8, 2002: al-Bleida, Algeria. Islamic attackers open fire on a civilian vehicle then set the car on fire, killing a half-dozen people.
March 8, 2002: Tulkarm, Israel. An Israelis soldier is killed by a Palestinian sniper.
March 8, 2002: Multan, Pakistan. A retired Shia banker is killed by radical Sunnis in his shop.March 8, 2003: Aish Barra, Sudan. Twelve civilians, including three children are killed by a militia group supported by the Muslim government.March 8, 2004: Grozny, Chechnya. Nine Russian soldiers are killed in separate Jihad attacks over a 24-hour period.March 8, 2005: Danyore, Pakistan. Sunni government official shot to death by Shia militants while waiting for a bus.
March 8, 2005:Jalalpur, Bangladesh. Christian pastor attacked and beheaded by Muslim extremists as he is returning home from work.March 8, 2006: Chajru, India. A villager is brutally gunned down by the Mujahideen.
March 8, 2006: Baghdad, Iraq. The bodies of eighteen men are found bound and strangled on a minibus. Five other bodies are found elsewhere.
March 8, 2006: Baghdad, Iraq. Two young boys selling gas are among four people killed in two bombings by Jihadis.
March 8, 2006: Fallujah, Iraq. Islamic terrorists kill four civilians with a remote-controlled bomb.
March 8, 2006: Tabba Takka, Pakistan. al-Qaeda militants shoot a civilian to death and pin a warning note to his body.
March 8, 2006: Awantipora, India. An SPO is kidnapped by Islamic militants and killed in captivity.March 8, 2007: Tank, Pakistan. A Sunni activist is gunned down by radical Shias while sitting in a cafe.
March 8, 2007: Hawija, Iraq. Jihadis kill two civilians with a bomb, and another in a shooting attack.
March 8, 2007: Mirwais Mena, Afghanistan. Three children are among five civilians injured by a suicide bomber. Elsewhere, a German aid worker is killed.
March 8, 2008: Helmand, Afghanistan. Two children and an old man are blown to bits by a Taliban bomb
March 8, 2008: Wajihiya, Iraq. Jihadis kill three family members with a roadside bomb.
ILLUSTRATED P.I.G TO ISLAM 