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www.qatarairways.com/hk . From now until September 30th 2010, passengers booking tickets through the website will be able to participate in a lucky draw, with winners entitled to enjoy extraordinary d…
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Time.com – Wide, long and not very satisfying was the yawn that greeted news that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will resume direct peace talks in Washington next month.
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Negar Azimi , NYTimes.com, Islam’s Answer to MTV, 13 Aug 2010 "“The media is changing everything,” Abu Haiba told me. “Television, the Internet, Facebook. We have to think faster, move faster. Time flies! 4Shbab is part of that change. It’s more than music. We have 25,000 members in the 4Shbab Forum. We get 3,000 S.M.S. a day from viewers. I have fans in Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Iraq — you name it.
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Time.com – The Shi’ite militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah presents evidence he says implies a dirty-tricks operation to stir up trouble in Lebanon
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Dawn.com, Reality show judging young Muslim leaders eyes expansion, 2 Aug 2010 "Producers of a Islamic reality TV show which set out to find the best young Muslim leader are hoping other Muslim countries will adopt the program’s format after a successful first series in Malaysia.

"Religious scholar Muhammad Asyraf Ridzuan, 26, from Penang, was named the winner of Malaysia’s “Imam Muda” or “Young
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Jarret Brachman, Lions, SalafiMedia.Com, Oh My…, "SalafiMedia.com is one of the leading English-language online promulgators of the next generation of hardline Jihadi-Salafi media. I’d like to focus your attention on their primary logo: a ferocious lion." Find out what’s the connection between this and a major literary figure(!??)
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Time.com – The Israeli-Palestinian tussle over proposed direct peace talks may be more about gaming the deadlock than settling the conflict. But don’t expect the U.S. to force the issue in an election season
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Kumar Ramakrishna, eurasiareview.com, Self-Radicalisation And The Awlaki Connection, 13 Jul 2010 "Thanks to the Internet, jihadist ideologues such as the charismatic Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, enjoy a global reach. That this reach extends even into Singapore’s homes has been underlined by the news that a full-time national serviceman has been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA),
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AFP/mysinchew.com, Singapore detains ‘radicalised’ army trainee, 6 Jul 2010 "The MHA said Muhammad Fadil had "initiated online communication" with the radical cleric and "expressed his desire to fight alongside Anwar" in places like the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Afghanistan.

"He then "made online contact with a suspected Al-Qaeda recruiter who encouraged him to fight in Afghanistan,"
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