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BBC news 2012-09-23

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The rebel Free Syrian Army said it has moved its headquarters from Turkey into Syria. A FSA commander said the command center was now operating for what he described as a librated area in Syria. Jim Muir reports.

The statement read out by Colonel Riad al-Asaad the FSA commander who was viewed as communicate number one from the inside. It announced that in coordination with the armed factions on the ground, the commander headquarter was now operating in what he called the librated areas. That implied a certain confidents that those areas can still be held despite strenuous government efforts to regain them. It also implied an increasing degree of much needed unity among the fighting groups. The FSA also now clearly expects be able to act more independently than one was outside and subject to what it called all kinds of international regional pressures.

A Pakistani government minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has offered 100,000-dollar reward for the killing of the maker of Internet video mocking Islam. The video sparked violent demonstrations in several Muslim countries. From Islamabad, here is Aleem Maqbool.

Ghulam Ahmad Bilour is a veteran Pakistani politician and currently federal minister for railways. He called a news conference where he announced his reward for the person who killed the maker of anti-Islam video.

I will pay 100,000 dollars to whoever does it, he said, and if someone else can make such an act I will pay $100,000 to whoever kills that person. He said it was the only way to send message to blasphemies, at one point, even called on the help of Taliban and al-Qaeda in killing the video maker.

A spokesman for the prime minster told the BBC he absolutely disassociated himself from Mr. Bilour’s comments.

Police in Pakistan say they have not found any evidence that teenage Christian girl accused of blasphemy burn pages of the Koran. The police told the court that the initial investigation showed a local cleric had falsely implicated during the case. The arrest of the girl Rimsha in August was widely condemned by rights activists in Pakistan.

The Louvre Museum in Paris has opened a new wing dedicated to Islamic art. The Saudi prince Waleed Bin Talal explain why he agreed to help fund the project in the wake of the attacks on the United State in 2001.

After 9/11 events all Arab Muslims have duty and responsibility to do as much as they can to tell the wests about real Muslims, about real Islam and how peaceful our region is. And today we have this Islamic centre now functioning, and hopefully the many visitors that would come and see our culture, our heritage, and begin to understand how peaceful our religion is, and is not represented by these violent demonstrations that are meaningless and do not make sense at all.

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A United Nations special rapporteur said torture is systematically used in Morocco against anti-government demonstrators and those accused of terrorism. Juan Mendez has delivered his conclusion after spending a week visiting prisons across the country. He added  that there are appear to be a rise in incidents involving the use of excessive force by the authorities against demonstrations.

The Portuguese government has agreed to reconsider a plan for a social security tax rise following huge popular protest. The center-right government had planned the measure to help meet the terms of Portuguese international bailout. Alison Roberts sent this reports from Lisbon.

Portugal’s prime minister has been told to go away and redo his sums after his plan to sharply increase employee’s social security contribution caused an outcry. And measures’ announcement brought tens of thousands onto the streets of Lisbon last Saturday and tens of thousands more across the country. Even the leader of the junior partner in the ruling coalition said he opposed it. On Friday night, the protesters were again out in force outside the presidential palace where the head of state, Anibal Cavaco Silva, had called a meeting of the council of the state to grapple with the crisis.

The Nigerian authorities have imposed 24-hour curfew on two towns in the northeastern city of Yobe as they carry out raids on stronghold of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram. Local residents in the town of Damaturu and Potiskum told the BBC they could hear explosions and gunfire. They said they were told to remain in their homes. Boko Haram which opposes western influence in Nigeria has carried out attacks on churches and government institutions which left thousand dead in recent years.

Gunmen in the Somali capital Mogadishu have shot dead a member of parliament Mustafa Mohamed Abdullahi. He is the first MP to be targeted since Somalia’s first formal parliament in more than 20 years was convened in August.

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