Radical Islam in Ethiopia

By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and MALKHADIR MUHUMED, Associated Press Writers Mohamed Olad Hassan And Malkhadir Muhumed, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 26 mins ago MOGADISHU, Somalia – The Somali militants who formed the hardline terror group al-Shabab carried out their first suicide attack in 2006, during the height of violence in Iraq. The world hardly noticed. This week al-Shabab become the world's newest international terror group, after claiming twin blasts in Uganda's capital Kampala during the World Cup final that killed 76 people. Ugandan officials on Tuesday showed off an unexploded suicide belt, suggesting the militants had hoped for a third explosion and more carnage. Ugandan officials arrested five people and hinted that Somali nationals were among those detained.

March 21, 2010 9:53 PM   |   No Comments By some counts, there are about 600,000 Muslim and Arab-Americans living in greater  Chicago . Other estimates put the number closer to 250,000. No one knows for sure, which is why Muslim leaders today encouraged their community to participate in the 2010 census, so they can have an official count. "If we keep isolated, no one will know about us," said Yousif Marei, president of the Islamic and Arab Community Service Office in  Chicago 's  Albany Park  neighborhood. "It is time for us to let them know who we are." Muslim and Arab leaders have had to quell concerns within the community that personal information relayed on the census may be used to track people as part of anti-terrorism measures.

( VOA News ) Ethiopian Airlines officials are closely following a report that a captured terrorism suspect has told of a bomb aboard a plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon in January. Investigators have not determined the cause more than two months after the crash. A report on a U.S. Internet Web site says British intelligence agents have reopened their investigation into the mysterious crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet January 25. The Boeing 737 plunged into the Mediterranean Sea minutes after takeoff from Beirut airport, killing all 90 people aboard.

MOSCOW – Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up Monday in twin attacks on Moscow subway stations jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 37 people and wounding 65, officials said. They blamed the carnage on rebels from the Caucasus region. The blasts come six years after Caucasus Islamic separatists carried out a pair of deadly Moscow subway strikes and raise concerns that the war has once again come to Russia's capital, amid militants' warnings of a renewed determination to push their fight.

( ChristianToday ) Twenty-three Coptic Christians were injured by Muslim extremists Friday after an attack on a church community centre, said an Egyptian bishop. The attack occurred after a sermon by a radical sheikh and lasted 10 hours before security forces put a stop to it, said Bishop Bejemy to The Associated Press on Saturday. The group of young Muslim men threw firebombs at the Coptic center and at nearby homes in Marsa Matruh, a seaport city in northern Egypt.

By Chuck Colson  CBN.com  –  In the earlt March, more than 500 Christians in Jos, Nigeria were killed by what the New York Times called "rampaging Muslim herdsmen."  The killings were only the latest outbreak of violence in Nigeria’s Plateau State, which sits on the dividing line between the country’s mainly Christian south and Muslim north.