The Berlin state government has banned the Arab-Islamic Congress due to be held next month which was to rally support for Iraqi and Palestinian "resistance and intifada." Henrike Morgenstern, a spokeswoman for the Berlin interior ministry, said the ban is related to an advertisement for the event published in English on the Internet which expressed approval for suicide attacks against Israel and the United States.

The organizers of the event said while they have never shown approval of suicide attacks, they would respect the ban. Just last week German Interior Minister Otto Schily said the government believed the event, was a threat to security and public order. Read the press release from the Arab-Islamic Congress here. Reuters has more.