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Volume 10 Issue 272 Dhul Hajja 26, 1431 AH / December 3, 2010 - $1
Mosque 'arson' after US bomb sting
WikiLeaks Disclosures continue to dominate headlines around the world: The release of 250,000 cables from diplomats has left the United States government scrambling for damage control with its allies. The cables exposed criticism of world governments including Canada, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Afganistan, Saudi Arabia, France, Yemen and others.
Canada shouldn't sweat WikiLeaks: ex-envoy Former U.S. ambassador David Wilkins says classified U.S. diplomatic memos depicting Canadians as whining liberals with an inferiority complex aren't worth the angst they seem to be creating. Three so-called diplomatic cables dispatched from the U.S. embassy in Ottawa while Wilkins was ambassador are among the latest classified documents being released by the online whistleblower site WikiLeaks. In an interview with CBC News late Wednesday, Wilkins characterized the leaked missives as much ado about not much. "If this is all we have, if all anyone could find offensive is a four-page cable talking about certain Canadian TV shows, it demonstrates [the two countries] have a pretty strong relationship," Wilkins said.
The former ambassador pointed out that all of the cables "say there is a very strong bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Canada." One of the cables talks about Canadians having an "almost inherent inferiority complex vis-Ă -vis their sole neighbour" to the south. Another memo from the U.S. embassy to the State Department in Washington spends four pages ranting about CBC television shows filled with what the diplomatic author claims is "anti-American melodrama." The memo takes particular aim at the comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie, and the now defunct drama The Border for offering Canadian viewers depictions of "nefarious American officials
A suspected arson attack has destroyed part of a mosque attended by a US-Somali man accused of plotting a car bomb attack on a Christmas ceremony in the US state of Oregon, investigators have said. One room in the Corvallis Mosque was gutted in the blaze on Sunday while neighbouring rooms suffered smoke damage, according to the town's fire department. Officials said there were no injuries in the blaze, which was extinguished within 10 minutes. "We do have evidence that it was arson," Carla Pusateri of Corvallis Fire Department, said. The fire occurred less than two days after Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who had attended prayers in the mosque, was arrested while attempting to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland. In what turned out to be a sting operation by the FBI, Mohamud tried to remotely detonate a fake device supplied by undercover agents who had contacted Mohamud months before and pretended to be accomplices in the plot. The 19-year-old took classes at Oregon State University in Corvallis, about 130km south of Portland, and the imam at Salman Alfarisi Islamic Centre, where the mosque was related, had previously told local television that Mohamud "occasionally" attended
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