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alJazeera.net, Pakistan recovery ‘to take years’, 25 Aug 2010

BBC News, In Pictures: The struggle to survive Pakistan floods

Caleb Daniloff, BUToday, Pakistan’s Floods: ‘Katrina on Steroids’ "BU Today caught up with Pakistani native and climate change expert Adil Najam, the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy and director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the
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All Things Pakistan, Children of Pakistani Floods
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Jassim Alghamdi, Saudi Gazette – Scholar calls for boycott of hypermarket, 25 Aug 2010: "Despite a Royal Decree to restrict the issuing of Fatwas to the Board of Senior Ulema and authorized Islamic scholars, a university professor was recently seen on YouTube calling for the mass boycott of a famous Saudi hypermarket which has hired female cashiers as an experimental program."
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Press release: I-Newswire, Halalify.org Goes Live To Kick-Start The “Halalification” Of The Internet, August 23, 2010 "Webmasters from all over the world can support add a “Halalify” button on their website to start making the Internet more Halal.

"Halalify.org(www.halalify.org) is an initiative launched by I’mHalal(www.imhalal.com) aims to make the World Wide Web a better place."

Further
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Times of India, JuD goes online to woo friends, Aug 21, 2010

"Hardline groups in Pakistan are plugging into Western online favourites Facebook and Twitter in a bid to win friends and influence people."
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Ikhwanweb, [Muslim Brotherhood Official Website], "Al-Qaradawi to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2", 17 Aug 2010

"According to the president of the Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town, Ihsan Hendricks, the chairman of the international union of Muslim scholars (IUMS) Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradawi, would take part in a marine convoy to Gaza Strip""

I’d be interested to see verification of this.
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ikhwanweb [Muslim Brotherhood Official English site], Israel turns to Facebook to recruit informers, 17 Aug 2010

"According to the Palestinian resistance, Hamas, Israel has been using the social networking website Facebook for recruiting spies. Israel has been notorious for its network of informers in the West bank and Gaza in an effort to overturn the activities of Hamas.

"Users are led to
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Rachel Shabi & Jemima Kiss, Guardian, Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups, 18 Aug 2010

"Two Israeli groups set up training courses in Wikipedia editing with aims to ‘show the other side’ over borders and culture."
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ArabCrunch, eKayf: The Arabic eHow that We Need, 16 Aug 2010 "Low quality English content might be a true case for eHow, but for the Arabic Internet, there is no content to start with. Thats is why a startup like eKayf which is a copy of eHow but in Arabic is very useful, at least there is now some Arabic content that has some editor behind it rather than content coming from Forums as 90% of
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My Pen Pal, the Jihadist – Jarret Brachman | Foreign Policy "Zachary Adam Chesser, better known by his Internet sobriquet of "Abu Talhah al-Amrikee," is the 20-year-old Virginia man who was indicted this month for supporting a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabab. Most Americans learned of him in April 2010, when Chesser’s media stunt wishing death upon the creators of the South Park
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