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WikiLeaks: Montreal mosque listed as al-Qaeda ‘recruiting’ center

The leaked documents claim members of al-Qaeda were recruited and trained at the Montreal mosque. (CBC)

The Al Sunnah Al Nabawiah Mosque in Montreal was among nine houses of prayer or Islamic institutes worldwide considered by the U.S. military to be places where “known al-Qaeda members were recruited, facilitated or trained,” according to leaked classified American intelligence documents.

According to the Pentagon’s Matrix of Threat Indicators for Enemy Combatants, among documents from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, posted by the New York Times on Sunday, the other mosques or Islamic centres included:

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U.S. Government Contemplated Using False Flag Attacks & Live Ammunition Against Wisconsin Protesters (via LeakSource)

WisconsinWatch: An Indiana deputy prosecutor and Republican activist resigned Thursday after the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism uncovered an email to Gov. Scott Walker in which he suggested a fake attack on the governor to discredit union protesters. Carlos F. Lam submitted his resignation shortly before the Center published a story quoting his Feb. 19 email, which praised Walker for standing up to unions but went on to say that th … Read More

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250,000+ Protest In London (via LeakSource)

More than 250,000 people came from across the U.K. to protest in central London against public spending cuts and other issues on Saturday. In the largest public protest since the Iraq war rally in 2003, activists set off from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park. The march began at 12:00 GMT, and it took more than four hours for the protesters to file past the Houses of Parliament on their way to the park. The TUC organized the event, and said so man … Read More

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Afghanistan Updates: March 8, 2011

Gates says U.S. ‘well-positioned’ for Troop Reductions in Afghanistan by July
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, heartened by recent military operations to push back the Taliban from major population centers, said the U.S. was likely to begin pulling out some troops from Afghanistan this summer.

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“Climate of Fear” heating up in Turkey: More journalists arrested

Over the course of the past 2 days, a Turkish court has reportedly ordered a writer and 6 journalists to be remanded in custody for alleged membership in an anti-government terrorist organization (Ergenekon). Odatv.com reports that a total of 15 journalists who write for the Turkish anti-government web site have been detained as a result of the “Odatv raid,” which apparently revealed connections with Ergenekon. Yet Odatv reporters insist that the relationship between the suspects and Ergenekon is one of friendship and not active involvement.

Others, including academics and independent journalists, are said to “have welcomed the investigations as part of an overdue process of strengthening democracy, the rule of law and civilian control over the armed forces.”

Independent sources at 2 major Turkish universities have said that some detained individuals were likely directly associated with anti-government coups planning violent attacks, but that most of the individuals detained and arrested are likely innocent.

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