**September 17, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

Brown, Stephen. \"Pope Tells Muslims He\'s \'Deeply Sorry\' for
Crisis.\" Reuters, 17 Sep 2006. At:

<http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060917/2006-09-17T152424Z_01_L16121346_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-POPE-ISLAM-DC.html>

\[Excerpt: \"But angry Muslim leaders flung what they saw as allegations
of violence back at the West, referring to the medieval crusades against
Islam and to the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have
fanned the flames of Muslim resentment.\"\]

Cito, Pier Paolo. \"Pope Sorry for Reaction to His Remarks.\" Associated
Press, September 17, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060917/D8K6N4780.html]{.underline}](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060917/D8K6N4780.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Despite the statement, protests and violence persisted
across the Muslim world, with churches set ablaze in the West Bank and a
hard-line Iranian cleric saying the pope was united with President Bush
to \'repeat the Crusades\'. An Italian nun also was gunned down in a
Somali hospital where she worked, and the Vatican expressed concern that
the attack was related to the outrage over the pope\'s remarks.\"\]

Dawn (Pakistan). \"Linking Islam With Terror Wrong: Aziz.\" September
16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/17/top8.htm]{.underline}](http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/17/top8.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"ISLAMABAD\...Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday
reiterated that the erroneous linking of Islam with terrorism should be
discouraged as \'Islam is a religion of peace and propagates tolerance,
inter-faith harmony and compassion\'.\"\]

Dawn (Pakistan). \"NA, Senate Condemn Pope\'s Remarks: Demand For
Retraction, Apology.\" September 15, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/16/top4.htm]{.underline}](http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/16/top4.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"ISLAMABAD\...The National Assembly and the Senate on Friday
unanimously condemned remarks of Pope Benedict XVI against the concept
of Jihad, Islam as a religion and the Holy Prophet (PBUH), and demanded
withdrawal of the remarks in the interest of inter-faith harmony\....No
fireworks were witnessed in the house on the issue except for Muttahida
Qaumi Movement\'s Abdul Qadir Pirzada who spoke furiously and declared
that the entire Ummah would rise to protect the sanctity of Islam if the
Pope did not withdraw his remarks. He said the Pope had confronted the
largest spreading religion of Islam while all his predecessors paid
great respect to Islam and the Holy Prophet (PBUH).\"\]

De Quetteville, Harry. \"Palestine Gunmen Seize Excuse To Attack
Churches.\" Telegraph (UK),

17 Sep 2006. At:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/17/wpope317.xml>

Hirst, Michael. \"\`Pope Must Withdraw His Ugly Remarks\'.\" Telegraph
(UK), September 17, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/17/wpope117.xml>

\[Excerpt: \"Turkey\'s prime minister, Recep Erdogan, is one of the
world\'s most moderate Muslim politicians. But as the leader of the
Muslim population with the closest links to Europe, his words of protest
at the Pope\'s apparently disparaging remarks about Islam were
particularly potent. \'I believe it is a must for the Pope to retract
his erroneous, ugly and unfortunate remarks and apologise both to the
Islamic world and Muslims\', said Mr Erdogan, in a televised address to
the nation.\"\]

Hirst, Michael and Nick Pisa. \"Pope\'s Apology Fails To Halt Islamic
Uproar.\" Telegraph (UK), 17Sep2006. At:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/17/wpope17.xml>

\[Excerpts: \"Muslims leaders around the world demanded a more personal
apology from the Pope last night after the Vatican said he \"sincerely
regrets\" the offence caused by remarks which they claimed had insulted
Islam\.... {Meanwhile} A cleric linked to Somalia\'s powerful Islamist
movement last night called for Muslims to \'hunt down\' and kill the
Pope.\"

Thompson, Damian. \"Vatican Limits The Fall-Out.\" Telegraph (UK).

September 17, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/17/wpope417.xml>

\[Excerpt: \"But nothing in the Vatican announcement indicates that
Benedict - a student of Islam for many years, who is familiar with every
verse in the Koran - is about to water down his objections to aspects of
the teachings of Mohammed\.... The Pope believes that the concept of
holy war is both integral to Islam and morally wrong - and this
weekend\'s furious row will not alter his opinion one iota. Indeed, he
would rather call off his forthcoming trip to Turkey than reiterate the
platitudes of Christian liberals who present Islam as an entirely
peaceful creed\.... In the end, the Vatican response can be summarised
as follows: the Holy Father may have walked into an avoidable trap but
the real villains of the piece are agitators and journalists who have
maliciously twisted his words.\"\]

Wilkinson, Tracy. \"Pope Is Regretful That His Speech Angered Muslims.\"

LA Times, 17Sep2006. At:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pope17sep17,0,5146612.story?track=tottext>

\[Excerpts: \"It did not seem likely that the expression of regret would
satisfy clamor from many corners of the world that the pope apologize.
He distanced himself from the language that Muslims found objectionable,
but he did not retract the words or ask for forgiveness\.... Vatican
experts were divided over whether Benedict miscalculated the depth of
anger his words would inspire, or whether he might not care. As a
consummate theologian, the role he played for the last quarter-century,
he is not averse to debate and controversy, and he clearly wanted to
stake out his positions in stark and dramatic terms\.... Perhaps more
important, the Regensburg speech reflected Benedict\'s conviction that
Christianity is a superior religion and that Islam must be treated more
cautiously\.... In Regensburg, \'the pope was thinking he was writing an
academic treatise, but in writing an academic treatise, his deep
mistrust of at least part of Islam came to the surface\', said Marco
Politi, Vatican specialist for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.\"\]

\(2\) NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE:

Bernstein, Sharon. \"Most L.A. Buildings Not Checked For Damage From
Northridge Quake.\" LA Times, 17Sep06. At:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quake17sep17,0,3174645,print.story>

\(3\) WAR ON TERROR:

Los Angeles Times. \"No Rubber Stamp For Bush - The President Deserves
Even More Resistance to His Method of Waging War on Terror.\" September
17, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-torture17sep17,0,1376597.story?track=tottext>

Zegart, Amy. \"American Intelligence - Still Stupid (We haven\'t been
attacked since 2001, but don\'t thank the country\'s cumbersome,
redundant intelligence bureaucracy).\" LA Times, 17Sep2006. At:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-zegart17sep17,0,1494764.story?track=tottext>

\(4\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AFGHANISTAN:

Iqbal, Anwar. \"US Endorses Waziristan Peace Deal.\" Dawn (Pakistan),
September 15, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/16/top1.htm]{.underline}](http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/16/top1.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"The United States believes that the agreement the
government recently signed with pro-Taliban tribal chiefs in Waziristan
has the \'potential to work\'. In a policy speech at the School of
Advanced International Studies here {Washington DC}, Assistant Secretary
of State Richard Boucher endorsed the deal as an effort to get tribal
support to defeat terrorism.\"\]

Wilkinson, Isambard. \"US Outraged As Pakistan Frees Taliban Fighters.\"

The Telegraph (UK), 15 Sept. 2006. At:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/15/wpak15.xml>

\[Excerpt: \"Five years after American-led coalition forces overthrew
the Taliban during Operation Enduring Freedom, United States officials
have been horrified to discover that thousands of foreign fighters
detained by Pakistan after fleeing the battleground in Afghanistan have
been quietly released and allowed to return to their home countries.

Pakistani lawyers acting for the militants claim they have freed 2,500
foreigners who were originally held on suspicion of having links to
al-Qa\'eda or the Taliban over the past four years\.... On the question
of whether released militants would return to jihad, Hazrat Aman, a
field officer of the al-Khidmat Foundation, said: \'If they react like
that it is a natural phenomenon. Some of these people spent two to three
years in jail. Some of them will live peacefully and others will join
jihad again\'.\"\]

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, N-430

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

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