STUFF YOU WON’T SEE REPORTED

This is condensed off the UPI wire, but you won’t see it in YOUR newspaper because it has “no relevance” to what’s going on.

•In an October 5 Kuala Lumpur datelined website posting, al-Qaida's Southeast Asian Division threatened to attack Southeast Asian nations. The 41,000-word "declaration of war" said, "All the things that we will do are savage acts against humans who do not want to believe in Allah. The world is changing, and the venue of holy war is getting greater. The war between Islam and the unbelievers is getting sharper.''

•In the wake of two November 29 suicide bomb blasts in Bangladesh, officials are worried that fundamentalists want to establish a Taliban-style Islamic state in their country. Thirteen people were killed and over 50 injured by the blasts.

A police officer said that a note found at one site on one of the suspected bombers' corpses reportedly warned the police, judges and lawyers to "stop upholding man-made laws which go against Islam."

•Iraqi Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi described Iraq's border with Syria as a "source of evil" and warned Damascus that his government's patience was running out.

During a visit to the western border town of Husaybah, al-Dulaimi said "My brothers, this is historic, national and legitimate mission. You are protecting this gate at the western border that used to be a source of evil to Iraq and a source for the entrance of vampires into Iraq. We tell our neighbors, take care of your own affairs and don't interfere in Iraq's affairs ... Iraqis are heading for the future and they will not be stopped by a car bomb or a filthy body rigged with explosives. You should not be a gate of evil to us. I hope you will be a good gate. I also tell them don't let our patience run out. This evil alliance between Muslim extremists and Baathists in Iraqi will not succeed."