Toshiba will launch iPad challenger in Europe
By Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it will start marketing the Folio 100 touch-display tablet with a wide range of online connectivity functions including music downloads and storage, and ebook reader, in Europe, the Middle East and Africa between October and December.
Toshiba is also considering marketing the product in Japan and the United States, but the timing of its release in the two markets has yet to be decided, the consumer electronics manufacturer said.
Toshiba is keen on competing with Apple Inc. of the United States which released the iPad in April and enjoyed instant success, as a growing number of electronics companies are gearing up to enter the market of multifunctional tablet computers, analysts said.
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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100903p2g00m0bu003000c.html
Questions abound about Rauf’s mystery mosque
By IPT
The federal government considers the Muslim group founded by Ground Zero Mosque leader Feisal Abdul Rauf to be a tax-exempt church. But federal records show the group obtained that status by claiming to hold prayer services for up to 500 people in a Manhattan apartment building that has no space to hold that many people.
The application for tax exempt status from the American Sufi Muslim Association (ASMA) in 1998 claimed the group had an established place of worship at 201 W. 85th St. in New York. That is a 17-floor apartment building.
The 1998 tax filing, called a 1023 form, is required for any institution that wants to be considered a religious house of worship and therefore exempt from taxation. In the filing, Rauf is identified as ASMA’s founder. The application said the group was already operating as a prayer center for between 450 and 500 daily worshipers.
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2150/questions-raised-about-raufs-nonexistent-mosque
Mexican army claims 27 kills in fight with drug cartel
By BBC
The Mexican army says it has killed 27 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a clash near the US border.
The army said a patrol came under fire as it approached an apparent training camp that had been spotted during an aerial search.
Two soldiers were wounded in the fighting in Tamaulipas state.
Tamaulipas has been a major focus of violence between drug cartels competing for control of smuggling routes into the US.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11173279
Report says nation’s pipeline security is uncertain
By Anthony Kimery
Al Qaeda and its associated movements (AQAM) have made it very clear for a very long time that US and Western oil and gas interests are prime targets for attack. Osama Bin Laden himself has said that jhad on Western oil infrastructure can wreak unimaginable economic and social havoc on Islam’s principal enemy – the infidel West. And to this end, AQAM terrorist cells in the US, Europe – and even in “apostate” Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia – have attempted to blow up oil and gas distribution pipelines and other facilities.
In the United States, Homeland Security Today has reported, it’s no secret that vital pipelines and distribution nodes are vulnerable to terrorist attack and remain unsecured, as do a variety of critical oil and gas infrastructure. A successful terrorist attack on key pipeline arteries for the transportation and storage of crude oil, natural gas and fuel could cause lengthy societal damaging disruptions of these vital energy supplies.
Indeed, GAO emphasized that “the United States depends on a vast network of pipelines to transport energy.”
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http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/14575/149/
Australia’s election still not decided
By Michael Carl and ABC (Australia)
The seat count for Australia’s lower house stands at 73 for the conservative coalition, 72 for Labor, 1 Green and the four independents. Green MP Adam Bandt says he will support Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard, but that leaves the three independents, who say they will decide which side to support early next week.
The ABC report…
The three independent MPs who hold the balance of power in the House of Representatives say they will wait until next week at the earliest before deciding which party to back.
Labor now has the backing of 74 MPs, with independent MP Andrew Wilkie the latest to sign up yesterday afternoon.
Tony Abbott’s Coalition has 73 seats, including Western Australia National Tony Crook.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/03/3001292.htm
Arabs in Saudi Arabia and Israel work for Israel’s demise
By Michael Carl and MEMRI
An Arab member of Israel’s Knesset says she represents the interest of the Palestinian Arabs, not the nation of Israel. In a statement to Elaph.com, Hanin Zou’bi says she supports the Palestinian Arabs in their ‘struggle.’
“I represent the Balad party and its platform. Therefore, it is natural that I should address the Palestinian people’s issues and the legitimacy of [their] struggle, since we [Israeli Arabs] are among the original inhabitants [of the land]. We [represent] not only the direct national concerns [of the Israeli Arabs], but also general Palestinian concerns. If this were not the case, my statements regarding my belonging to the Palestinian people would be meaningless,” Zou’bi said in the interview.
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http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4576.htm
Op-Ed in Saudi newspaper claims support for Israel is a mental disorder
By MEMRI
In an August 23, 2010 op-ed in the Saudi daily Arab News, titled ‘A Terrible Disease of the Mind’, Zaid Nabulsi, whom the paper says is an attorney who worked for years for the United Nations in Geneva, stated that not even “a single credible Jewish teapot or tablespoon” has ever been found by “Zionist archeologists” in Israel. The article referenced Israeli professor Shlomo Sand in claiming that there is no genetic connection between modern Jews and Biblical Jews, and compared Jewish marriage law to the Nuremburg Laws, saying that “Adolf Hitler is turning in his grave.”
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http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4579.htm
US 7th Court upholds Wisconsin Catholic group’s right to receive university funding
By ADF
CHICAGO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled Wednesday that University of Wisconsin-Madison officials violated the First Amendment by refusing to fund events of a student Catholic organization while providing funding for the events of other student organizations. The university refused funds from student activity fees because the student group’s events contained religious expression, including prayer, worship, and proselytization. The court affirmed lower court rulings that concluded the funding refusal amounted to unconstitutional discrimination based on viewpoint.
ADF filed suit after the university violated the terms of a settlement agreement reached in a previous lawsuit ADF filed on behalf of the same group, Badger Catholic, formerly known as the Roman Catholic Foundation.
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http://adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/18621?search=1
And from FindLaw.com…
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/summary/opinion/us-7th-circuit/2010/09/01/251744.html
Iranians making more anti-Israel noise
By MEMRI
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says that Israel has no fate other than annihilation, and urges a massive turnout for World Qods (Jerusalem) Day rallies. “Incontrovertibly, the fake and inhuman Zionist regime has no other destiny than annihilation and destruction,” the IRGC said in a statement yesterday, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency.
Further, Iranian Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission deputy leader Hossein Sobhani-Nia said today that efforts to preserve Israel’s existence are futile, and that the regime should give the Palestinians their rights. He said, “Israel should give in to the rights of Palestinian nation, although the fate of the regime [i.e. Israel] is annihilation,” the Iranian lawmaker noted.
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http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/29967.htm
Border Patrol in Nogales, AZ area says border agent shot at from Mexican side
By J. B. Miller
The U.S. Border Patrol told the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office that one of its agents working in the Nogales area was shot at from the Mexican side of the international boundary early Monday morning.
Dispatch received the call at 4:23 a.m., said Lupita Perez of the Sheriff’s Office. She said the Border Patrol contacted her office “out of courtesy,” and that the actual incident occurred around 2 a.m. on the Buena Vista Ranch near Kino Springs.
“It was approximately five gun shots coming from Mexico towards his direction,” said Perez, who added that the agent said he could hear the bullets whizzing past him. She said the shots came from a vehicle. “Nobody was hurt and no property was damaged.”
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http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2010/08/27/news/doc4c77d7250eff1337335127.txt
Nation’s nuke plants get ready for cyber-attacks
By Martin Matishack
The threat to digital systems at the country’s nuclear power plants is considerable, but the sector is better prepared to defend against potentially devastating cyberattacks than most other utilities, according to government and industry officials and experts.
Cyberattacks have been an increasing source of concern in recent years but the threat was highlighted in July by the first discovery of malicious code specifically formulated to target the systems that direct the inner operations of industrial plants. To date the malware is thought to have infected more than 15,000 computers worldwide, mostly in Iran, Indonesia and India.
The issue is critically important for new nuclear power facilities that would be built in the United States and throughout the world as control rooms would employ digital systems to operate the plants. Those state-of-the-art instruments and systems make them targets for hackers.
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