Libya holdout towns in focus, Gaddafi son flees Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:36am GMT Reuters By Maria Golovnina and William Maclean NORTH OF BANI WALID/TRIPOLI, Libya, Sept 12 (Reuters) – – Libya’s new rulers said they were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Muamma[...]
Archive for September 11th, 2011
SUNDAY REVELATION: on 9/11
What have we learned about religion post-9/11? By Elizabeth Tenety WASHINGTON POST. 2011 (excerpted) On Faith reached out to some of the world’s most influential religious leaders and thinkers to ask about faith in a post-attack world. Below are excerpts from our expert roundtable. Click through[...]
September 11th, 2011 - 8:11 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: 9/11
The Taliban government in Afghanistan offered to present Osama bin Laden for a trial long before the 9/11 attacks, but the U.S. government showed no interest, Al-Jazeera TV reports, quoting a senior aide to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Update at 11:25 a.m. ET: Al-Jazeera says Robert Grenier, the CIA [...]
September 11th, 2011 - 7:06 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: India to outlaw some religions
Last year, a childless couple in a remote village some 675km east of Mumbai were arrested for allegedly killing five young boys because a religious mystic told them it would help the woman to conceive. A seven-year-old girl in a village near Nashik, northwest of Mumbai, was killed as part[...]
September 11th, 2011 - 6:02 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Libya
Latest developments in the Libyan conflict Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:41am GMT Reuters Sept 11 (Reuters) – Following are the latest political and military developments in the Libyan crisis. * Fighters of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) said they would resume their attack on the dese[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Bachmann Preaches
Huff Post — If you thought evangelical preaching needed longer hair, tattoos, nu-metal drumming, and a ton of hate speech directed at gays, then Bradlee Dean is your guy. He’s very much Rep. Michele Bachmann’s guy. Bachmann, whose district covers Dean’s suburban Minnesota hea[...]