‘The Mormons,’ two-part documentary airing on PBS
The News Review:
- ‘The Mormons,’ two-part documentary airing on PBS
- Tiger rebels threaten more air attacks
- Castro hails China’s ‘market socialism’: Chavez
- Plotters Hoped To Rival 911 Attack (from This Is Local London)
- Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland
‘The Mormons,’ two-part documentary airing on PBS
Massachusetts Daily Collegian – The Massachusetts Daily Collegian – Apr 30, 2007
Joseph Smith’s vision of the angel Moroni led to publication of the Book of Mormon and the church’s founding in 1830. “It was religion made in the USA,” author Simon Worrall says. “For the first time, you had a home-grown religion, a home-grown prophet. “And it was a source of controversy immediately, with newspapers and traditional Christians decrying what they saw as blasphemy and fraud. The Mormons faced persecution in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois. Smith’s death at the hands of an Illinois mob could have been the end. But Brigham Young emerged as leader and guided believers to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847.
Tiger rebels threaten more air attacks
Independent Online – Apr 30, 2007
The Tigers, who want to carve out an independent state for minority Tamils in the north and east, said they had no details of any such clashes. The foes often contradict each other’s accounts of incidents in a parallel propaganda war. Analysts say the Tigers’ home-grown air wing, made up of small acrobatic propeller planes adapted to carry bombs, while tiny poses a threat that should not be taken lightly. Some experts are dumbfounded at how the rebels have managed to fly away safely after each sortie. International airlines Cathay Pacific and Emirates both suspended flights in and out of Colombo on Sunday at a time when many flights are already half full because tourists are wary to visit during a conflict that is escalating and spreading. “Although the LTTE’s acquisitions appear primitive, they have clearly demonstrated through their last four sorties the helplessness of the government to protect its own airspace,” said Iqbal Athas, an analyst with Jane’s Defence Weekly. “The air force still doesn’t appear prepared to meet with the air threat from the LTTE.
Castro hails China’s ‘market socialism’: Chavez
Times of India – Apr 30, 2007
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Chavez has
had the inside track on Castro’s health over these nine months, and is often the
principal source on the Cuban leader’s condition. Castro was conspicuous by his
absence at the trade summit, which included leftist presidents Evo Morales of
Bolivia, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Rene Preval of Haiti as an observer. The
governments of Cuba, Ecuador, Uruguay and Caribbean nations were represented at
Chavez’s beckoning to discuss his home-grown, Latin American alternative to
US-backed free-trade pacts: the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA),
which is named for Simon Bolivar, historically the liberator of northern South
America from Spain. The summit met this weekend in Barquisimeto, 250 kilometers
(150 miles) west of Caracas, three years after the trade group was founded in
Havana.
Plotters Hoped To Rival 911 Attack (from This Is Local London)
This is Local London – Apr 30, 2007
The police investigation, the year-long trial, six months of pre-trial hearings, appeals and security cost an estimated £50m. The trial at the Old Bailey was Britain’s longest and costliest terror trial. The plot involved a group of home-grown Islamic terrorists: the first to attempt to bring bloodshed to Britain. As they tried to come to grips with making explosive devices and finding ways to set them off with remote-controlled detonators, they discussed ways of using them. These included getting a London Underground worker to become a suicide bomber on a train. The defendants, mostly students of Pakistani descent, grew up in and around the Sussex town of Crawley before becoming caught up in Islamic extremism. Most of their paths started at fringe meetings at universities where they were addressed by preachers of hate, and led to groups making contacts at mosques, fundraising and then attending terror camps in Pakistan.
Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland
Bloomberg – Apr 30, 2007
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