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US anti-Muslim rally raises fears - Americas - Al Jazeera English The US-based advocacy group, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has published a video of an anti-Muslim protest, at a fundraising event in California last month. Muslim residents say the demonstration has raised fears in their community. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Yorba Linda in California's Orange County.

Report: Saudi Facebook activist planning protest shot dead - Monsters and Critics Riyadh/Cairo - Saudi activists alleged Wednesday that state security shot dead a leading online activist, who was calling for a 'Day of Rage' on March 11 in the oil-rich kingdom. Faisal Ahmed Abdul-Ahadwas, 27, was believed to be one of the main administrators of a Facebook group that is calling for protests similar to that have swept North Africa and the Middle East.

NATO Commander In Afghanistan Apologizes Over Children's Killings (RTTNews) - The top commander of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan has apologized over the death of nine Afghan children in an air strike by the alliance's fighter planes in the country's south-east on Tuesday.

NATO Kills Nine Children in Afghan Air Strike -- News from Antiwar.com >Already facing public outrage over the killing of 65 civilians in an offensive, NATO is once again in the hot seat in the Kunar Province, with provincial police reporting that a NATO air strike killed nine children this afternoon.

Egypt agrees dates for referendum, polls: activist Egypt's military leaders will hold a referendum on constitutional change on March 19, a parliamentary election in June and a presidential poll six weeks later, a youth activist said on Monday after meeting them. Zyad El-Elaily and 16 other members of the Coalition of Revolutionary Youth which took part in protests to oust President Hosni Mubarak, said he had met three members of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Sunday.

US citizen recalls 'humiliating' post-9/11 arrest Handcuffed and marched through Washington's Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking. That scene unfolded in March 2003, a year and a half after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. One of the four planes hijacked in 2001 took off from Dulles. "I could only assume that they thought I was a terrorist," Abdullah al-Kidd recalled in an interview with The Associated Press. Al-Kidd called his airport arrest "one of the Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/02/27/state/n050729S55.DTL#ixzz1FNhn1mVr

Official: US Paying Taliban to Reduce Afghan Attacks -- News from Antiwar.com According to a well-placed but unnamed Afghan official, the United States military and other NATO allies are directly bribing Afghan warlords and even some top members of the Taliban to reduce attacks on their supply convoys and generally reduce the level of violence overall.