The ‘summer camps,’ combining Islamic indoctrination, paramilitary training, and social activities are set to begin again this year as United Nation’s summer camps, considered competition by Hamas, are being openly denigrated by jihadists.

And a Saudi woman is held after mounting an internet campaign to get more females driving.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says if Western leaders decide to attack his country, he’ll join with al-Qaida in a “holy war,” unleashing a flood of illegal immigrants into Europe and backing known terror fomenters, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing “no mercy, no pity.”

JEDDAH: An academic at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz University (KAU) attributed the Kingdom’s political stability to the open-door policy of the rulers. “Saudi kings, since the inception of the Kingdom, have been keeping their doors open for all citizens irrespective of their social status.

As Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill this week, some analysts are saying that US aid, aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people, is not helping the military win the war.
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Israel’s naval commander said the shipment, seized on a merchant ship 200 miles off Israel’s coast, contained missiles of ‘strategic importance’ to Gaza and accompanying Farsi-language manuals.
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In Cairo today, Hillary Clinton announced $2 billion in aid to help the country rebound. But many see it as too little too late – a lesson some say the US should take to heart in Bahrain and Yemen.
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The Arab League’s call this weekend for a no-fly zone over Libya is startling news and has sent diplomats scattering. We’ll now see if the “international community” (to use the Obama Administration’s favorite phrase) decides anything before Moammar Gadhafi’s forces overrun the rebel stronghold in Benghazi. The odds favor Gadhafi.

Saudi troops and police from UAE deployed to Gulf neighbour to help protect government facilities after weeks of unrest.

Some banks spread stories about ‘unrest’ in the Kingdom with a hidden agenda. At the moment there are scare stories on a daily basis in the international press about the dangers for the world of regional unrest spreading in Saudi Arabia. They could push oil prices to $220 a barrel, it is claimed. They could trigger a new global recession.

Al Jazeera cameraman Ali Hassan al Jaber, a Qatari national, was killed Saturday in an ambush about 15 miles outside of Benghazi when gunmen presumed to be Qaddafi loyalists sprayed his vehicle with gunfire.

CAIRO: The Arab League asked the UN Security Council Saturday to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians from air attack by forces of Muammar Qaddafi’s embattled government, giving crucial backing to a key demand of the rebel forces battling to oust the Libyan leader.

(Reuters) – A Jewish couple and three of their children were stabbed to death in bed in a West Bank settlement in what Israeli officials said Saturday was an attack by one or more Palestinians who broke into their home.

A rebel position at Libya’s Ras Lanuf came under withering fire today as Muammar Qaddafi’s forces set an oil tank ablaze at a key export terminal.

Israel looks to surrender control of strategic land
Defense officials fear proposal will harm nation’s anti-terror capabilities

Arab women were integral players in the post-colonial revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, but soon lost ground. They are vowing not to be marginalized in the wake of this year’s Arab spring.

In a fundamental shift that began last year when an ideologue questioned a reliance on terror attacks and the severing of ties with international Islamic movements, al-Qaeda is positioning itself to support political Islamic parties in Libya’s rebel-held areas.

RIYADH: Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, has expressed hopes that Saudi Arabia will soon appoint a number of women as its ambassadors to foreign [...]