Used dogs to terrorize prisoners

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

FORT MEADE, Md.– A court martial jury of four officers and
three enlisted soldiers on June 1, 2006 convicted former U.S. Army
dog handler Sergeant Santos A. Cardona of aggravated assault and
dereliction of duty.
Cardona, 32, of Fullerton, California, in 2003-2004
allegedly used his dog to terrorize inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison
in Iraq. A 12-year veteran, Cardona was acquitted of improperly
allowing his dog to bite a prisoner, and of conspiring with another
dog handler to terrify prisoners into urinating or defecating on
themselves.
More sensational allegations about U.S. troops using animals
to frighten prisoners during interrogation may surface as result of a
case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights
First against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in November
2005, on behalf of Iraqi businessmen Thahe Mohammed Sabbar, 37,
and Sherzad Kamal Khalid, 35.

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Islamic PETA attorney leads D.C. demonstration

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

WASHINGTON, D.C.–PETA attorney Bina Ahmed in early May 2006
won extensive exposure for pro-animal Islamic teachings in Arab News,
an internationally distributed print and electronic newspaper based
in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by staging a protest in Washington D.C.
against Austral-ian live exports of sheep and cattle for slaughter in
the Middle East.
Ahmed told Barbara Ferguson of Arab News that she became involved in
animal rights “because of lessons we are taught in Islam about
kindness to people and animals and all living things.”

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French veterinarian becomes legend in Saudi Arabia

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

JEDDAH–Asked by Arab News to comment about avian influenza
H5N1, Tahlia Internation-al Veterinary Clinic owner Deborah Zahid was
characteristically direct and professional.
“Most city dwellers don’t realize how much feces surround
them every day,” Zahid remarked. Then Zahid described the fecal
habits of caged pigeons.
Raised and educated in France, Zahid married into an
influential Saudi family known for investments in the travel,
transportation, and heavy equipment industries.
A small woman, she dresses conservatively, with just a wisp
of blonde hair escaping from under her head covering in a much
reprinted Arab News photo showing her with a baby bear. The photo
was taken in May 2003 when Zahid donated emergency care to the
neglected animals of the Jeddah Zoo, whose plight Arab News exposed.

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Dogs & donkeys carry bombs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

BAGHDAD–“Even the most virulent clerical opponents of the
U.S. presence in Iraq have decried the use of canines as proxies in
the war,” Los Angeles Times staff writer Borzou Daragahi reported
from Baghdad in August 2005, after several incidents in which
insurgents used dogs to carry bombs.
“Our religion does not permit us to hurt animals, either by
using them as explosive devices, or in any other manner,” Muslim
Scholars Association spokesperson Abdel Salam Kubaisi told Daragahi.
Daragahi described the MSA as “a hard-line Sunni Arab
clerical organization sympathetic to insurgents.”
The bombings by dog reportedly occurred in Latifiya, south of
Baghdad; in Baqubah, in central Iraq; and in and around the
northern city of Kirkuk. Neither the Sunnis nor the Shi’ites seemed
eager to claim the bombings.

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Center for Animal Lovers active in Iran

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

ANIMAL PEOPLE profiled the debut of the Center for Animal
Lovers in the suburbs of Tehran, Iran, in January/February 2005.
“We recently opened the first Iranian shelter for dogs in
Koosh-kezar, and the first for cats in Karadj. Both cities are
suburbs of Tehran,” wrote Center for Animal Lovers founder Fatemeh
Motamedi, whose efforts were encouraged by the Best Friends Animal
Society.
In September 2005, ANIMAL PEOPLE helped Motamedi to obtain
training from the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe,
California, and at the Conference on Homeless Animal Management &
Policy in Anaheim, sponsored by the North Shore Animal League
America.
In early 2006, political conflict obliged the Motamedi
family to relocate to Canada. Despite the disruption of leadership
and funding, the Center for Animal Lovers’ shelters remained open,
now sponsored by a U.S. support group, Friends of Center for Animal
Lovers, 3614 Fessenden St. NW, Washington, DC 20008;
<info@friendsofcal.org>.

Educational items in Arabic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

LONDON–The International Network for Humane Education in
February 2006 launched an Arabic version of the Inter-NICHE web site
providing alternatives to animal use in life science education.
First posted by InterNICHE founder Nick Jukes in 1997, with
many subsequent updates and expansions, the site is already used
worldwide, but Cairo University professor Fawzy El-Nady anticipated
that the Arabic version might reach an especially receptive audience
which has had little previous access to antivivisection materials.
“In Islam,” said El-Nady, “imprisoning animals is a sin,
and cutting or injuring animals whilst alive is also forbidden. By
analogy and inference, this applies to science and science
education. It is also specifically forbidden [in Islam] to harm
frogs,” El-Nady added. “The use of alternatives fits well with
Islamic science.”

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Turkish serum lab is caught killing horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

ANKARA–Undercover video aired in Turkey and parts of Europe
in March 2006, posted by PETA in April, showed workers at the
government-run Refik Saydam Hygiene Center in Ankara slashing the
throats of terrified horses and slowly bleeding them to death to take
blood for use in serum products.
A spokesperson for Refik Saydam told ANIMAL PEOPLE on June 6,
2006 that the video was made in 2005, and that as of October 29,
2005 the company had switched to drawing horse blood just as blood is
drawn from humans. Several litres of blood may be taken from each
horse.
The spokesperson said that the nine horses from whom blood
was drawn on October 29, 2005 are still at the center, “in natural
and proper life conditions, with regular care and feeding.” If the
horses are properly looked after, they can give blood weekly for
decades.

Brooke outreach in Pakistan, Afghanistan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

MULTAN–Often the young pro-animal organizations of the
Islamic world can do little beyond raising awareness, with
proclamations such as a June 3, 2006 resolution by the Animal Save
Movement of Multan, Pakistan, objecting to overdriving oxen,
donkeys, and horses in the summer heat.
But Pakistan is among the seven nations, four predominantly
Muslim and two others with substantial Muslim minorities, in which
the British-based Brooke Fund for Animals operates equine
clinics–including a clinic in Multan.
The Brooke began working in Pakistan in 1991 with a mobile
clinic operating out of Peshawar in 1991. That project rapidly
expanded into a base clinic, two field clinics, and six mobile
veterinary teams.

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Tuli elephant case reprised

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

Eight years after video of the capture and holding conditions
endured by 30 baby elephants became the globally notorious “Tuli
elephants” case, a similar incident occurred in April 2006 at the
Selati Game Reserve in Limpopo state, South Africa, Michele Pickover
of Xwe African Wild Life told ANIMAL PEOPLE.
“Six young elephants were cruelly separated from their
families for use by the elephant-back safari industry,” Pickover
wrote. “Helicopters, guns, and electric prods were used. The young
elephants went to Howard Blight’s Elephants for Africa Forever in
Mooketsi, near Duiwelskloof.
“On the EFAF website, Blight claims that, ‘Animal welfare
is the most critical issue,'” Pickover noted, “but this kind of
capture has nothing to do with animal welfare and certainly shows no
respect for elephant family structures.”

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