Terrorism Archives Digest
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August 23, 2007
I don't want to get into the issue of the two persons who supposedly have been exhibiting "unusual behavior" on a ferry in the Seattle area except to point out that the photos (seattle.fbi.gov/pressrel/2007/public082007.htm) to me seem to say "We are from a land or neighboring lands formerly associated with...
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June 21, 2007
From this: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released new documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") related to the "expeditious departure" of Saudi nationals, including members of the bin Laden family, from the United States following the 9/11 attacks. According to...
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March 14, 2007
Neil MacFarquhar of the NYT offers a two-screener about unnamed sources running down CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations). That's the organization whose spokesman said in 1993 that he'd like to see the U.S. adopt sharia law; the NYT fails to include that quote, and they also fail to find any...
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January 02, 2007
Via this long article we learn that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has issued a press release (shown above) with the wonderful news that the TSA has received "sensitivity training" from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in regards to travelers on the Hajj. The release at the TSA's...
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The level of discourse swirling around Virgil Goode's comments regarding Muslim immigration is abysmally low. All of the sources that I've seen a) deliberatly misunderstand what Goode was saying by pointing out that Keith Ellison is not an immigrant, and b) deliberately avoid the main issue. The main issue is...
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December 22, 2006
As many other sources have discussed, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) recently sent a letter with the following: "...We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to...
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December 09, 2006
Is al Qaeda Sunni or Shia? What about Hezbollah, are they Sunni or Shia? Many bloggers could get those right (Sunni and Shia, respectively). However, Democrat Silvestre Reyes - Nancy Pelosi's choice to be the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee - did not know the answer to either...
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August 18, 2006
From this: ...Reports of large numbers of cell phones purchased have occurred this month in Caro, Mich.; and Midland, Texas. Suspicious parties in those instances were of Middle Eastern descent. Another incident under suspicion occurred on April 21 in Huachuca City. At 3:30 p.m., town police responded to the Dollar...
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August 12, 2006
There have been a few recent cases of those generally of Middle Eastern descent being detained or arrested with large numbers of cell phones in their possession. The case of the Georgian illegal alien in Pennsylvania from a few days ago. And, from Caro, Michigan: Three men - apparently naturalized...
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July 30, 2006
Try to ignore the editorializing from a typically idiotic Wired writer in the following: During a recent briefing at the time-honored Royal United Service Institute – the oldest military think tank in the world, founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington – Parry imagined a future, circa 2030, in...
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June 20, 2006
From this: It's been more than three months since Dubai Ports World agreed to sell its port operations at 22 U.S. ports. But as of today, all 22 of these terminal facilities remained under the control of Dubai Ports and the government of Dubai. You thought we weren't watching, didn't...
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March 06, 2006
From this: While Congress and the media focus on the potential dangers of a UAE-owned company running American port operations, any possible threat is dwarfed by the current insecurity of the US government's computer infrastructure, which has been compromised by a company with multiple connections to terrorist financing. The company,...
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March 05, 2006
Unfortunately, Drudge is threatening to "break" the news that Indianapolis Airport is run by the British company BAA, which also runs Heathrow, Gatwick, and other airports: Since October 1, 1995, BAA Indianapolis LLC has had full operating responsibility for the six airports owned by the Indianapolis Airport Authority under a...
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March 04, 2006
From this: Former President Bill Clinton is up to his eyeballs in dealings with Dubai, his former top political adviser has revealed. According to Dick Morris, author of the best-selling book, "Condi vs, Hillary," Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, now involved in a firestorm...
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March 02, 2006
At the same time as Hillary was complaining about the UAE ports deal, Bill "Bubba" Clinton was working behind the scenes to push it through and to get his friend and former press secretary, Joe Lockhart, to represent Dubai Ports World. link, link. Anyone hear crickets? Unlike others, this blog...
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From this: A review of a United Arab Emirates-owned company's plan to take over a portion of operations at key U.S. ports never looked into whether the company had ties to al Qaeda or other terrorists, a key Republican lawmaker told CNN on Wednesday. Rep. Peter King of New York,...
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February 27, 2006
The Coast Guard - at least initially - had questions on the deal (nofollowpolicy). The USCG says that it had all its questions answered by various intelligence agencies. That causes Bush cheerleader Insty to once again ask what the problem could be. As does co-idiot Kevin Drum. And: Lou Dobbs...
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February 25, 2006
Our "American" president continues to sell out this country: "22 ports in Arab deal, not just 6 as reported": According to the website of P&O Ports, the port-operations subsidiary of the London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (P&O), DPW will pick up stevedore services at 12 East Coast ports...
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February 24, 2006
Here's more on our new port partners: Before President Bush gets anywhere near casting his first veto to ensure that the government of the United Arab Emirates can manage elements of six U.S. ports, someone ought to put before him pages 137-139 of "The 9/11 Commission Report... The story the...
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February 22, 2006
Instapundit reports that the port deal was much ado about nothing. Whew! I'm relieved that we don't need to worry about yet more Bush administration corruption and attempts to sell this country out to the globalist agenda. Everyone: relax! Extra-special bonus: co-idiot Kevin Drum weighs in. Previously: "Dubai company set...
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I already reported this, but now that the MSM is covering it I guess it's official: The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House. One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose department heads the federal panel...
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I think this tells you all you need to know (nofollowpolicy): Donald Rumsfeld, as Secretary of Defense, is a member of Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. As such, he was one of the people who, according to the Treasury Department, unanimously approved the sale on February 13....
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February 21, 2006
I've just done a complete 180 on this whole deal of the Bush administration turning control of key ports over to a company controlled by a questionable foreign country with links to terrorism. I now fully support the deal. What changed my mind was this post over at what I...
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February 20, 2006
As discussed here (nofollowpolicy), the Bush scheme to sell off port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates has even more downsides than originally thought: A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked....
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Yes, I know it's Reuters, but broken clocks and all they seem to have gotten this right: The Bush administration has failed to put adequate security conditions on a deal for a state-owned Dubai company to manage major U.S. ports, and it should not go forward pending a full investigation,...
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October 12, 2005
Believe it or don't! MMFA is taking issue with a Fox graphic. In case it disappears, here's the full post: Only on Fox: USMC captain in Control Room film labeled "TRAITOR?" for taking job at Aljazeera During the October 11 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, the network suggested...
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September 17, 2005
Monsoor Ijaz: What if terrorism's global operating system has evolved into a much more sophisticated nexus — untraceable state sponsorship acting in concert with highly intelligent, well-trained, and carefully chosen foot soldiers who Western analysts would never conceive as partners? What if its new operating software is like the AIDS...
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September 12, 2005
The Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, has decided to abolish religious tribunals completely. Thus, there will be no Sharia law tribunals: "I've come to the conclusion that the debate has gone on long enough," he said. "There will be no Shariah law in Ontario. There will...
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September 11, 2005
Canadian and European women are going to march against the use of Sharia law tribunals in Canada on Thursday, the BBC reports: Islamic law could be used to settle civil and marital disputes under a proposal made by former Ontario Attorney General Marion Boyd. Roman Catholic and Jewish arbitration tribunals...
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September 10, 2005
WaPo: An American student was charged yesterday in an al Qaeda plot to kill President Bush, with prosecutors alleging that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali and his confederates planned to use multiple snipers to shoot Bush or to blow him up in a suicide bombing. The expanded indictment of Abu Ali,...
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August 22, 2005
ABC Radio has fired talk show host Michael Graham because of comments he made on his show about Islam. Graham worked at 630 WMAL in Washington D.C. From his site: On July 25th, the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded that I be "punished" for my on-air statements regarding Islam and...
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August 19, 2005
The DU (yes, I know) thread has some links and this official blurb: "Accompanied by Zanzibar's First Lady, Shadya Karume, Mrs. Bush first visited the Al-Rahma Madrasa, where the two First Ladies met with school children and their teachers. The Madrasa is one of several pre-schools scattered around various villages...
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July 22, 2005
Earlier this month Torrance police arrested two South L.A. residents for a series of armed robberies. However, after searching their apartment the cops found a list of possible terrorism targets, including three National Guard facilities. Over to the NBC4 Investigative Unit and July 15th's "Possible Terror Evidence In Robbery Probe":...
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July 18, 2005
An al-Guardian "trainee journalist", Dilpazier Aslam, appears to be involved or have been involved with the Islamist extremist group Hizb Ut Tahrir. Details here, via this....
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July 07, 2005
Al Guardian via UPI: A British defense expert says Thursday's bombings in London were executed by at least 24 people and designed to mirror bombings last year in Madrid......
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Post news links and well-founded speculation regarding the bombs that appear to have been detonated on buses and in subway stations in London. Apparently there were six explosions in stations and three on buses. At post time, the most detailed reports seem to be "'Multiple explosions' rock London", "London in...
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June 23, 2005
From the NYT's "U.S. Borders Vulnerable, Witnesses Say": The federal government's efforts to prevent terrorists from smuggling a nuclear weapon into the United States are so poorly managed and reliant on ineffective equipment that the nation remains extremely vulnerable to a catastrophic attack, scientists and a government auditor warned a...
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June 21, 2005
From "Ecuador Police Bust Alleged Cocaine Ring Suspected of Financing Hezbollah": QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Police broke up an international cocaine ring led by a Lebanese restaurant owner suspected of raising money for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, which the U.S. government classifies as a terrorist organization. Ecuadorean authorities declined...
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June 13, 2005
The WaPo analyzes this statement from Our Leader: "federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of those charged have been convicted." And finds: Among all the people charged as a result of terrorism probes in the three years after the Sept....
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May 25, 2005
From Reuters: A judge has ordered best-selling writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci to stand trial in her native Italy on charges she defamed Islam in a recent book. The decision angered Italy's justice minister but delighted Muslim activists, who accused Fallaci of inciting religious hatred in her 2004 work "La...
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April 11, 2005
So far all that's been discovered is 30,000 Euros worth, but there might be more. The details are in Remember the Maine? Spain's Europa Press news agency reports that Venezuela purchased "biological and nerve agents" as well as dual-use materials from Spain sometime during the first half of 2004. According...
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March 10, 2005
WND has a scoop: The giant Hezbollah rally that drew nearly half a million purported supporters of Syria's occupation of Lebanon included non-Lebanese citizens, Syrian workers, students and municipal employees coerced into joining the protest, former Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview this morning... [Aoun...
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January 27, 2005
There was a recent ABCNBCCBS report (I forget which) on the DHS or a similar agency releasing their latest terrorist profiling information. The report said that for the first time the government had indicated that terrorists could use scuba diving to perpetrate attacks or that scuba lessons could be one...
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January 23, 2005
AP: Nearly three decades before the September 11 attacks, a high-level government panel developed plans to protect the nation against terrorist acts ranging from radiological "dirty bombs" to airline missile attacks, according to declassified documents. "Unless governments take basic precautions, we will continue to stand at the edge of an...
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January 16, 2005
January 16, 2005 -- The father of a murdered New Jersey family was threatened for making anti-Muslim remarks online — and the gruesome quadruple slaying may have been the hateful retaliation, sources told The Post yesterday. Hossam Armanious, 47, who along with his wife and two daughters was found stabbed...
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January 07, 2005
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — An extremist Islamic group with alleged Al Qaeda has set up a relief camp on Indonesia's tsunami-stricken Sumatra island, raising concerns it could stir up sentiment against U.S. and Australian troops helping distribute aid. The Laskar Mujahidin group posted a sign at its camp that read...
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November 17, 2004
From The rise of terrorism leaves much of world off-limits to Westerners": LARGE swaths of the globe have become too dangerous for Westerners to visit or do business in, according to a report by a group of security experts. The Middle East, much of the Islamic world and large parts...
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October 07, 2004
From the 9/30 San Diego Union-Tribune story "No threat seen to district; children are safe, police say": A man arrested by U.S. authorities in Iraq had a computer disk in his possession containing a public report downloaded from a U.S. Department of Education Web site on crisis planning in school...
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October 04, 2004
Here's an AP backgrounder on the tri-border area in South America: ...Such chaotic scenes give life to the city's reputation of lawlessness and U.S. officials' description of the tri-border area where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet as a key South American point for Islamic terrorist fund raising to the tune...
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September 30, 2004
OK, enough debate coverage. From this: Danish authorities said yesterday they might have to return a recently-released Guantanamo Bay prisoner to US custody after he said cabinet ministers were fair targets and vowed to travel to fight Russian forces in Chechnya... Mr Abderahmane said the Danish prime minister and defence...
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September 25, 2004
From this: [Lt. Col. Asad Khan, 44, of Avon, Conn.,] who commanded 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit in Afghanistan was removed from command Friday, a military spokesman said... No other details were released. No specific reason for the action was given... From just nine...
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September 22, 2004
This page has the details which are rather scary: [This ships that will transport the plutonium across the Atlantic] each boast three 30mm cannons capable of tackling attacking boats and aircraft. Armed officers from the UK Atomic Energy Constabulary are also on guard against boarders... Jane's Foreign Report concluded that...
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September 20, 2004
Bearing in mind this is the Moscow Times relying on a Chechen website: Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the Beslan hostage-taking and four other recent attacks and defiantly threatened to carry out more. Basayev said in a statement posted on a rebel web site Friday that the attacks...
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September 15, 2004
Berlin, Germany, Sep. 15 (UPI) -- Syrian special forces used chemical weapons in June to kill dozens of people in Darfur, Sudan, the German newspaper Die Welt reported... The Die Welt article is here (in German). It wasn't on their front page for some reason....
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September 12, 2004
BBC: N Korea says it blew up mountain: North Korea has given its first explanation for the huge blast last week which prompted speculation that it had carried out a nuclear test. The country's foreign minister, Paek Nam-sun, said the blast was in fact the deliberate demolition of a mountain...
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August 22, 2004
The head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep has been found hanging in his holiday home. Professor John Clark, who was believed to have been suffering from depression was found in his remote cottage in the village of Cove, north of Eyemouth, on the Berwickshire coast. Prof...
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August 11, 2004
Annie Jacobsen is back with "Another Passenger from Flight 327 Steps Forward With Disturbing New Details": A few days ago, WomensWallStreet.com received an important email. It was from Billie Jo Rodriguez, another passenger who was on Northwest Airlines flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29. Billie Jo...
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August 10, 2004
Guess who's back in the news: US House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, on Thursday called for an end to racial and religious profiling of American Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States. [via various legislation including: the End Racial Profiling Act, the Security...
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August 09, 2004
From USA Today's "U.S. didn't warn Las Vegas of terror threats": A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department obtained video surveillance tapes suggesting terrorists were targeting Las Vegas casinos but authorities never alerted the public as they discussed whether a warning might hurt tourism or increase the...
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August 05, 2004
Annie Jacobsen is back with a new roundup. At the end of that article, she mentions Stuart Taylor's "Rashomon in the Skies: The Tangled Tale of Flight 327." I just scanned the first part of both, but I'd strongly suggest starting with Taylor's article before reading Jacobsen's. He provides a...
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July 29, 2004
From the WashTimes: The second passenger, a frequent business traveler who asked not to be identified, provided a copy of her itinerary confirming she was on the June 29 Northwest Airlines Detroit-to-Los Angeles Flight 327... The passenger, who was riding in first class, said the constant foot traffic and strange...
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July 26, 2004
Here's the blogosphere's latest craze. Can you fill in the blanks in the following quote from the COUNTERTERRORISM ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY section of the 9/11 Commission Report? The [________] Extremist CT Operations Group, the CTC operational arm, tracks al-Qa’ida and other [________] radical groups. In 1996, the CTC...
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From Snopes: Claim: Reporter encounters terrorists on airline flight who are making a dry run at assembling a bomb on-board. Status: False. Really. As I wrote in a letter to Snopes, does that mean that the Snopes organization has done a thorough background check on the musicians and determined that...
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July 23, 2004
Or, they may not have. The L.A. Times spends an article offering speculation but no real scary bits. The first visit to the U.S. by two of the 9/11 hijackers was to Los Angeles. Their first two weeks here are a mystery. However, they appear to have made acquaintances at...
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No kidding: The convictions of dozens of Islamists involved in the Bali bombings two years ago could be overturned after Indonesia's highest court ruled that the laws under which they were tried were unconstitutional. The constitutional court in Jakarta yesterday declared that the terrorism legislation was invalid as it had...
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July 13, 2004
Daniel Pipes discusses CAIR's "Not in the Name of Islam" petition, calling it "CAIR's Phony Petition": The petition indeed won CAIR a fistful of kudos. Among others, the Associated Press, United Press International, Religion News Service, Washington Post , and Philadelphia Inquirer wrote admiringly of it. I found not a...
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July 12, 2004
From CNSNews: Fourteen miles from the U.S. Capitol, a basement-run organization with alleged ties to Hamas and al Qaeda is a crucial link in the planning of any future terrorist attacks against the United States, according to several terrorism experts who analyzed documents and other information obtained in a CNSNews.com...
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June 20, 2004
From this: State Department and CIA officials have quietly told reporters that they believe Saddam Hussein trained his elite troops in airline hijacking techniques before the 9/11 attacks – but they accept the Iraqi dictator's explanation that the drills were counterterrorism operations. Speaking on condition of anonymity to the Knight...
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June 13, 2004
The Chicago Tribune has an overview of Abu Hamza, al-Muhajiroun, and the general problems Europe is having accepting its new role as the future Eurabia....
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June 10, 2004
From 'Protest rises over Islamic law in Ontario': When Britain's Muslim community requested the right to use Islamic law to settle family disputes, the government's refusal was unequivocal. No, the petitioners were told: This is one nation, with one justice system for all. Until last fall, no Western jurisdiction allowed...
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May 21, 2004
From this: Action News has learned that last week SEPTA police recovered an infrared sensor that was carefully concealed along SEPTA's track bed near 34th and Powelton. The device, a commercially available wireless infrared transmitter made for home security use was discovered spray-painted black and tucked neatly in the trackside...
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From this: An American lawyer who was arrested two weeks ago in connection with the terror attacks in Spain was set free Thursday after evidence pointed to another suspect in the deadly train bombings. Brandon Mayfield, 37, was released soon after Spanish officials said fingerprints found on a bag near...
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May 17, 2004
WND has excerpts from the Berg video in 'Berg video called how-to-kill demo: Translator-expert sees jihadist message to Muslims worldwide'. The translation was done by "Joel Cohen, with a master's degree in Semitic languages from Princeton University and a student of the Quran at the University of Chicago." I'm going...
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May 16, 2004
Top scientists have been having an awful lot of "accidents" these past few years. Not just Russians or Iraqis, but Americans and British as well. The latest is Dr. Eugene Mallove, who received one or two doctorates from Harvard and "also taught science journalism at MIT and Boston University and...
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May 15, 2004
I haven't seen the Nicholas Berg video, but I did scan through some of the many conspiracy theories. One of the more popular pages is this. That has aztlan.net as its source. While I usually completely trust aztlan.net as a news site, in this one case (and this one case...
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May 14, 2004
From the AP: Against the backdrop of war in Iraq, world leaders will issue "a message of peace" when they gather in France next month to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the French war veterans minister said in an interview... "There's a desire to gather on...
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May 09, 2004
Details here. Previous coverage of Jihad in Europa here, here, here, here, and elsewhere in the blog....
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May 07, 2004
It turns out that American 3/11 suspect Brandon Mayfield is an immigration lawyer, or at least took immigration cases. His fingerprints were found on bags containing detonators used in 3/11, although according to his wife it was only a partial print. More here. UPDATE: The NYT is saying there's been...
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May 06, 2004
From Newsweek's 'An American Connection': FBI agents today detained a Portland, Ore., lawyer after receiving evidence from Spanish authorities that the man’s fingerprints allegedly were found on bomb-related evidence associated with the March 11 railway attack in Madrid... The man was identified as Brandon Mayfield, a convert to Islam who...
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May 04, 2004
From the NYT: Groups promoting extremist brands of Islam have gained a foothold in American prisons, and counterterrorism officials believe Al Qaeda are likely to try to use the prisons "to radicalize and recruit inmates," according to a Justice Department investigation... A classified addendum to the report details cases in...
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Michelle Malkin discusses CAIR's latest cries of victimization: ...The most recent target of CAIR's campaign to stifle critics of radical Islam is Boston-based radio talk show veteran Jay Severin. On April 23, CAIR issued a press release headlined: "Boston Radio Host Says Kill All Muslims; Islamic Civil Rights Group Calls...
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April 25, 2004
From this: Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Laboratory guard post near classified facilities... U.S. officials said the incident involving the two diplomats was an intelligence-gathering mission, with the men probably testing Los Alamos security to see...
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April 23, 2004
The French have reversed themselves: A Muslim preacher who was ejected from France on Wednesday for saying men should beat their wives is free to return, a Lyon court has ruled......
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April 22, 2004
From Reuters: France must tackle the issue of training Muslim prayer leaders in a moderate "French Islam" that respects human rights and rejects terrorism, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin says. Speaking a day after he deported an Algerian imam for saying Islam let husbands beat adulterous wives, Villepin urged the...
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April 21, 2004
From this: Abu Hamza, the extremist Muslim cleric, has applied for legal aid to contest an attempt by the Home Office to strip him of British citizenship. The Government had originally rejected his request for public funds to fight the case, which begins next Monday. But a review committee has...
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April 20, 2004
Interesting article about British Muslim extremists and their dreams of committing terrorism in Britain: 'Terror on the dole'. It includes the following: The question is: how worried should we be? Is al-Muhajiroun nothing more than a repository for disaffected Muslim youths who have adopted an extreme interpretation of Islam -...
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April 17, 2004
From WND: A University of California at Berkeley lecturer speaking at an anti-war rally Saturday called for a Palestinian-style intifada, or uprising, against the United States in response to American actions in the Middle East... An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people attended the "emergency" action organized by the radical anti-war...
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April 15, 2004
Predictions made at 4/15/04 8pm PST: - a poll will be held in Europe: "should Europe accept OBL offer of peace?" 33% will answer :yes"; 50% will answer "NO"; 17% will be undecided - "peace" groups in the U.S. - including A.N.S.W.E.R. and NION - will formally announce their request...
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April 10, 2004
NewsMax lays all out the terrorist threats that were reported on during the Clinton era, ending with: The above information is far more specific than anything reportedly revealed in the Aug. 6, 2001 briefing given to President Bush - and was available to President Clinton via published reports [if not...
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The text of the 8/6/01 PDB has been released. This paragraph implies that the CIA and FBI are diligently working away: The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in...
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April 08, 2004
From this: The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a $1.35 million lawsuit against the founder of a website that accuses the controversial lobby group of supporting terrorism. The Washington, D.C.-based CAIR charges five statements made by its Internet critic, Anti-CAIR, amount to "libelous defamation." Daniel Pipes is not affiliated...
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April 02, 2004
It supposedly was made out of "10-12 kilograms (22-26 pounds) of what appeared to be the Spanish-made Goma 2 Eco explosive, which was used in the Madrid bombings and is widely used in mining operations..." Recall that 200lbs. of Goma 2 was allegedly given to the Madrid bombers by a...
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March 31, 2004
The Reuters headline 'Spain Seeks Two-Time Bomb Suspect in Madrid Blasts' is a bit misleading. Mejjati was not one of those named on the arrest warrants: Spanish investigators chasing suspects in the Madrid train bombings have identified as the suspected organizer a wealthy Moroccan also being sought in connection with...
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From Reuters: Spain refused to comment on Tuesday on the possible role of an FBI-wanted militant who is reported to be under suspicion in the Madrid bombings. Interior Minister Angel Acebes confirmed on Tuesday that investigators were examining the bombers' ties to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), an extremist...
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March 28, 2004
I already linked to the LeMonde report saying that the alleged "orchestrator" of the attacks, Abdelkrim Thami Mejjati/Karim El Mejjati, was French-Moroccan. No other news source appears to be reporting about this. This old El Mundo story mentions him in relation to the Casablanca attacks. One of the Madrid suspects...
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March 25, 2004
So reports LeMonde. French version here, translated version here. LeMonde reports that the Moroccans suspect him of involvement in the Casablanca attacks. After those attacks, he went to Spain, where they suspect him of having orchestrated the attacks. He was not the "inspirer" of the attacks, that was Zarqawi. His...
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March 23, 2004
Remember the picture above of OBL with his henchman Bert from Sesame Street? Well, Ernie and the rest of the Sesame Street gang are now working against Bert and working for peace: ...A programing experiment using the Muppet characters was launched six months ago and was widely welcomed by...
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Earlier I posted about the declassified documents from the Spanish government. They are large PDFs, and only in Espanol. However, here is a translation of some of them. I haven't verified the translation. See this page (in Spanish, but HTML) referenced in the comments at that post....
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March 19, 2004
According to the NYT's 'Spanish Judge Holds 3 Moroccans on Murder Charges': A Spanish judge ordered Friday that three Moroccans be held on multiple provisional charges of terrorism and murder in the Madrid train bombings, as investigators uncovered new details suggesting that Europe's deadliest terrorist attack in 25 years was...
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According to the about-as-credible-as-Pravda source DebkaFile: DEBKAfile Reports Exclusively: Pakistan red-faced on discovering “high value” terrorist target its troops surrounded in Waziristan was not bin Laden’s No. 2 Zuwahiri but chief of Pushtun Ahmadi tribal federation. DEBKA sources estimate that any harm to Pushtun chief would spark wholesale tribal war...
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March 18, 2004
From the Reuters: Spain declassified intelligence reports on Thursday in a bid to show it told the truth about deadly train bombings it initially attributed to Basque guerrillas but which are now suspected to be al Qaeda-linked. Street demonstrations accusing the government of hiding the truth on election eve were...
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March 17, 2004
From Deutsche Welle: In the days following the March 11 terror attacks that killed 201 people in Madrid, Spain's intelligence authorities kept a tight seal on evidence related to the investigation and misled allied intelligence services by providing false information pointing to involvement by the ETA, German public television reported...
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This just in from the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades: A group claiming to have links with al Qaeda said Wednesday it was calling a truce in its Spanish operations to see if the new government would withdraw its troops from Iraq , a pan-Arab newspaper said. In a statement sent...
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Developing......
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From this: Spanish authorities knew as early as 2001 that Jamal Zougam, a central suspect in the Madrid bombings, had contacts with accused terrorists linked to al-Qaida, an investigator told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Despite his suspicious ties, Zougam maneuvered with ease in Spain while making extensive contacts with...
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UPI has a "nuanced" analysis of the Spanish elections here: In fact, Islamist fundamentalists may well think they have won, and that Thursday's slaughter moved the Spanish electorate to vote the way they intended them to. However, believing that would be wrong. Thanks for your thoughts. However, don't tell us...
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Sully fisks an al-Guardian editorial here. The fisked article is here....
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March 16, 2004
Here's a description from a guy who heard a radio interview with Dean Wheeler: ...I never had listened to him before, but he had on a guy named Dean Wheeler (sp?) from the Northern California Peace Symposium (couldn't find it on google). The two of them were talking about the...
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From this February 25 article: PARIS: French anti-terrorism experts are taking seriously a new warning from Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man who accused France of “crusader enmity” for its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools. Although the Al Qaeda number two, Ayman Zawahri, did not threaten “jihad,” or holy struggle...
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March 15, 2004
From the WaPo editorial 'The Spanish Response': SPANISH VOTERS no doubt wished to rebuke the ruling Popular Party for its wrong-footed reaction to last week's terrorist bombing in Madrid, and its support for the United States in Iraq. Fair enough -- but it's hard not to be concerned about how...
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This AP report details several links between members of various AQ-related groups, including one of the suspects in the Madrid bombing. There are other links listed here....
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From al-Guardian: For the first time since the 1976 Montreal games, [Olympic] athletes from "high-risk" countries, including Britain, will be accompanied by armed guards. The Olympics join a long list of potential targets for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida or one of its satellite groups: the Nato summit in Istanbul, the...
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From this: LONDON (Reuters) - Islamic militants will see the defeat of Spain's Popular Party and the country's planned withdrawal from Iraq as a victory for their cause, encouraging more attacks aimed at political ends, security experts say... "Clearly, they thought very hard about the way in which they might...
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Tacitus has a good post concerning al Andalus here. See the previous post for some raw material relating to the same topic....
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From 'ANALYSIS-Al Qaeda Hijacks Spanish Election' If al Qaeda did mastermind Spain's bloodiest bomb attacks, its militants could claim to have caused a spectacular election upset in Madrid, but some analysts said the defeated government only had itself to blame... "If the al Qaeda network is behind these attacks, then...
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March 14, 2004
From the AP: MADRID, Spain (AP)--One of the three Moroccans arrested in the Madrid train bombings is linked to a suspected al-Qaida member jailed in Spain for allegedly helping plan the Sept. 11 attack in the United States, according to court documents reviewed by The Associated Press. It was the...
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Apparently, the socialists in Spain have declared victory. Analysts from the The Neville Chamberlain Institute for World Peace (calpundit.com/archives/003489.html) could not be reached for comment. From this: Many voters blamed outgoing Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's staunch support of the U.S.-led war in Iraq for [the terror attacks]. The government's...
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March 13, 2004
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Interior Minister Angel Acebes is set to announce the arrest of at least four Muslims in connection with a series of deadly bombings in Madrid, the web site of newspaper El Mundo says. According to El Mundo, they've arrested three Moroccans and two East Indians, and...
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March 12, 2004
From the SMH via AFP: Norwegian defence researchers had come across documents that could link al-Qaeda to the Madrid train bombings that killed 199 people, Norwegian television reported today. Researchers with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment who have specialised in digging up original al-Qaeda releases and interviews, told the NRK...
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Here's more information on the white van found outside Madrid: SPANISH police last night established a direct link between the white “Koran van” and an unexploded train bomb in Madrid... Investigators found a mobile phone in the van — and have proved a link to another phone found in a...
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'Who's responsible - Eta or al-Qa'eda?' has some ideas, as does 'Was it ETA or Al Qaeda?'. 'Al Qaeda has had a long presence in Spain' has some background. 'Madrid detonators not commonly used by ETA - report' might be significant if true: Rucksack bombs used in deadly Madrid train...
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March 11, 2004
From the wires: Police probing the Madrid terrorist attacks found a van with detonators and an Arabic-language tape with Koranic verses, and officials said they were not ruling out any line of investigation. The van was found in the town of Alcala de Henares outside Madrid after a tip from...
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March 04, 2004
Story here: A 14-month investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard and FBI has uncovered nine merchant mariners with possible terrorist links, raising renewed concerns that U.S. ships and ports are vulnerable to attack......
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March 02, 2004
I've heard a couple things lately about the strange deaths of scuba divers or incidents involving scuba divers, but no details were provided and I didn't find anything with google. This is interesting due to al Queda's reported interest in diving: see 'Fears Persist of Al Qaeda Link to PADI...
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From WND: The world's "most notorious" terrorist groups continue to operate in Canada, says a classified intelligence report written two years after Parliament gave police new powers and money to dismantle the country's deadly terror networks, reports the National Post. In a 22-page assessment of the security threats facing the...
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June 17, 2003
TalkLeft links to the NYT article "Bush Issues Federal Ban on Racial Profiling", which includes this line: Arab-American and civil rights groups said the exemptions in the White House policy would give the authorities legal justification to single out Middle Easterners and others who may fall under suspicion, and they...
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June 16, 2003
Here's a good backgrounder on the "undesirable influence" that CAIR and other "mainstream" groups have: Readers of this column were not surprised by the news article that led the front page of Wall Street Journal last Wednesday. They are already aware that a number of Arab- and Muslim-American organizations and...
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June 05, 2003
From this: French authorities investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States have arrested two men - a Moroccan and a German believed to be a top al-Qaida recruiter - in the last two days at the Paris airport, judicial officials said Thursday. The officials said they...
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May 29, 2003
Interesting column from Paul Weyrich here: Leading Islamic organizations have started a drive to change the term "Judeo-Christian" to one that will mainstream their own religion. If the Islamic lobby has its way with this Politically Correct agenda item, we will soon be talking about how our country's society is...
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May 26, 2003
According to this: Student journalists at the University of Southern California have backed off, ever so slightly, from an April 14 report on former California Republican Party Chairman Shawn Steel's supposedly anti-Islam remarks at a campus rally. Steel was quoted as saying that Islam "has a cancer growing inside it,...
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May 21, 2003
From this: The FBI made secret plans to capture and arrest Osama bin Laden five years ago... federal agents seeking bin Laden had developed a plan to have a plane fly in and attack a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where the terror leader was believed to have been holed up...
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May 11, 2003
According to this: The University of California at Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies runs two programs funded by groups and individuals the U.S. State Department links to terrorism, according to a campus student magazine... In addition to his role as deputy prime minister and minister of defense, Al Saud...
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April 22, 2003
Straight from IRNA. She's in her 50s, he's a former student of her late husband, she kissed him on the forehead at an awards ceremony, street protest, she apologized, lashes were suspended, the wheel rolls on....
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April 20, 2003
I predict we're going to be seeing a lot more stories like this in the future, and not just of Iranians....
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April 05, 2003
From this: CAIRO, 6 April 2003 — Suicide attacks on the US-led coalition in Iraq are “permitted under (Islamic) religious law,” the sheikh of Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni Muslim spiritual authority, Muhammad Sayed Tantawi, said here yesterday... He also indirectly criticized the Iraqi and the Kuwaiti leaders. Saddam Hussein should...
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April 04, 2003
The British government is starting proceedings to strip Abu Hamza of his citizenship and expel him. Earlier in the year, the Finsbury Park mosque was raided and closed. He's since been preaching out front of it....
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April 03, 2003
Article here. Was there a point in time that it wasn't a major threat? "I don't think anybody above the assistant secretary level is paying any attention to this (problem)," Teresita C. Schaffer, director of the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told United Press...
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From SharkBlog comes the story 'Sowing seeds of hatred': Textbooks widely used in New York's Islamic schools contain passages that are blatantly anti-Semitic, condemning Jews as a people, repeating old canards about the Jews wanting to kill Christ and faking their Holy Scriptures to mock God. As you might have...
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April 02, 2003
Nothing like a good fatwa to start the day. Of course, when one sees a line like "Ulema belonging to various schools of thoughts describe Fidayee (suicide) attacks by Iraqis against coalition forces as in line with Sharia and say killed Fidayeen were "martyrs," one realizes where much of the...
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This article cites several MidEast newspapers saying, in effect, "don't do what you apparently plan to do, even if right now you say you aren't going to do it."...
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April 01, 2003
Sometimes it seems like all I do is read Insty and then link it here. Like, this link to a Dan Gillmore column about the 'Free Mike Hawash!' movement....
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March 27, 2003
According to this: The man who confessed to killing Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn told a panel of judges Thursday that he acted out of concern for the country's Muslim minority. Van der Graaf said he followed Fortuyn's career as a columnist for a popular national magazine and was concerned...
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March 26, 2003
Here. They'll just be patrolling the perimeter, not inside the airport itself....
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March 20, 2003
More here and here. No word on why they opened the locker; perhaps it was abandoned or they got a tip. UPDATE: There's more here....
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March 12, 2003
That's what this says: Some of the terrorists who helped with the September 11th attacks are now reported to have entered the country through Hidalgo County. State Representative Kino Flores, who sits on the state homeland security board, in an exclusive with Newschannel Five tells us these terrorists are said...
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March 11, 2003
According to this: Nevertheless, Michigan's (former) Congressman David Bonior employed Abdullah al-Arian as an intern -- even though he was a Florida resident going to college in North Carolina. Any sins of the father should not be visited on his children. But it is not every day a congressman hires...
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March 09, 2003
I read this article before about the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including this part: Those held included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and 41-year-old Pakistani Ahmed Quddus... "Actually, he's a bit slow, he's not very clever, so I can't even begin to...
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March 05, 2003
Here's a followup to the story of WA legislator McMahan not attending the Muslim prayer: She said she did it as a patriotic act to protest U.S. Muslim leaders who she said did not condemn strongly enough the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. After a barrage of media calls from around...
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February 25, 2003
To be sorted: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31206 http://www.usf.edu/News/2001/arain/bushstate.htm http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24738 http://democrats.com/search.cfm?term=al-arian http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44894-2003Feb21.html http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/diary022103.asp http://www.bushwatch.com/e-mail.htm http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/54944.htm http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0798/9807028.html http://www.freeman.org/m_online/sep96/emerson.htm http://membersites.namezero.com/tbcjp.yahoo.com/academicfreespeech3/id13.html http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:wBxfwW0ntTcC:www.tnr.com/111201/foer111201.html+Dr.+Yahya+Basha%3B+terrorist&hl=en&ie=UTF-8...
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February 20, 2003
According to this: A Florida professor and seven other men were charged Thursday with operating a global terrorist organization that the federal government says is responsible for the deaths of 100 people in and around Israel. University of South Florida computer engineering professor Sami Al-Arian is the North American leader...
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February 19, 2003
The Department of Homeland Security's website about preparedness is now available at ready.gov. It includes the bit about duct tape, as well as water, food, communications and other tips....
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The article 'Al Qaeda's Nightmare Scenario Emerges' thinks OBL is still alive, and that, realizing AQ has been badly damaged, is planning to go out with a bang: AQ has explosives expertise that is unsurpassed in non-military circles. It gets military-grade C4 charges from China and Iran; it employs Hezbollah...
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February 13, 2003
The jokes about duct tape were going so well. Now, I find out it was all disinformation?...
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February 11, 2003
According to 'Feds Urge Americans Be Able To Seal Homes': Insisting that the suggestion that Americans stockpile water, nonperishable food, and cash among other items was motivated by caution -- not specific information -- the feds also suggested ensuring houses have duct tape and plastic sheeting on hand to cover...
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Drudge links to the article 'Exclusive: U.S. has al Qaida backers' list'. Some of this information is old, like the Batterjee link. However, this part appears to be new: one donation made by the "bin Laden brothers," according to the court document. The bin Laden family controls a huge conglomerate...
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There are conflicting reports, and the libs are all agog over those that leave some things out, and those that leave some things in. Here's one report: In an interview with al-Jazeera aired after the tape, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the recording shows that Iraq and al-Qaida...
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February 07, 2003
Also from Volokh, comes this letter to Arafat from... PETA. I can imagine the brays of laughter this letter produced....
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January 30, 2003
So sayeth this: British officials have presented evidence which they claim shows that al-Qaeda has been trying to assemble radioactive material to build a so-called dirty bomb. They have shown the BBC previously undisclosed material backing up their claim... For a second opinion, the BBC showed some of the material...
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A Judicial Watch client is suing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for allegedly sending $1 million to OBL right after 9/11. The complaint is here. As to why the complaint brings up Cuba, socialism, and communism, I don't know. How is that relevant? Also, while it mentions the $1 million that...
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January 19, 2003
Either that, or the Finsbury Park mosque is no longer useful to them: Anti-terror police raid London mosque. Geez louise, read this Q&A: North African terror in the UK : The reason why a lot of Algerians are here in the first place, why there is a network, is that...
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January 15, 2003
Relax. They're only going to go after the Bad Guys....
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UPDATE 2: The chief of the infectious diseases division of the department of internal medicine, was arrested late Wednesday on a complaint of making a false statement to a federal agent UPDATE: They found the friggin' vials. Plague samples were stolen from Texas Tech. It's also treatable with antibiotics. Presumably,...
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January 13, 2003
According to this, "Palestinian Archbishop tells Christians to take part in Suicide attacks against Israel." LA Times columnist Steve "Where's downtown?" Lopez has a column about the peace protest I covered Saturday. Perhaps he and the "middle-class" people he interviewed for the article would benefit from reading about the people...
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January 09, 2003
This article has the details. It's not a French-bashing article; it appears the French and the Brits were working together on the case. However, the details of the British handling of teenage asylum-seekers (a.k.a., "children") is somewhat alarming: London plays host to 3,700 unaccompanied children, who are automatically put into...
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Here's a funny cartoon....
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January 07, 2003
The Prof includes a few links about the arrests of North Africans in London who had small amounts of ricin. Somehow, he wants to tie this together with al Queda and Iraq. There might be a connection, but if the only connection they can find is the ricin, it's a...
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January 06, 2003
"The FBI has concluded the information that led to a nationwide hunt for five men suspected of infiltrating the United States on Christmas Eve was fabricated by the informant, sources told ABCNEWS" The Atriosians are going mad with delight, thinking that the terror alert was simply designed to distract us...
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January 04, 2003
The reason I went to CAIR's site last night was looking for the article that Ken Layne has since covered. I suggest writing the editor and letting him know what you think. This article has a bit more information, including this: CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper indicated in a 1993 interview...
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January 03, 2003
The CAIR home page includes a link to the story "With missionaries spreading, Muslims' anger is following": As evangelical Christian emissaries have spread throughout the Muslim world, their presence has increasingly proved to be a lightning rod for anti-American sentiment while provoking the anger of native Christian sects and Islamic...
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January 02, 2003
According to this article: High-level military defectors reveal new terrorist links between Al Qaeda and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. The man who controls the largest oil reserves in the Western hemisphere gave $1 million to the world's most wanted terrorist right after the 9/11 attacks. Consider the source, which is...
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December 28, 2002
Instapundit has a post with that rather shocking supposition. Of course, I covered this 10 days ago, but never mind that....
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December 19, 2002
Sometimes the ACLU does good, sometimes it does bad. For instance, read this article: Hundreds of Muslim Immigrants Rounded Up in Calif.: The head of the southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) compared the arrests to the internment of Japanese Americans in camps...
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December 18, 2002
Apparently, one or more governments had foreknowledge of 9/11, as discussed by Senator Bob Graham, and analyzed here. Could he mean someone in those governments, but not everyone? For instance, a security service who failed to inform anyone else in the government? Could he be referring to Iraq or Afghanistan,...
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This short article lists a few of the things foreign McDonald's restaurants have done to deflect local anti-Americanism. Example: Egypt 2001 Problem: Anti-American boycott sparked by U.S. support for Israel. McSpin: Local outlets introduce the McFalafel, rolled out behind an ad jingle sung by Shabaan Abdel Rahim, best known for...
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December 06, 2002
This article discusses the: State Department's "speakers program," which sends U.S. specialists abroad or arranges for them to speak to foreign audiences via digital video conference... Nine officers from the New York City Police and Fire departments were dispatched abroad to talk about their moving 9/11 experiences, but none was...
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December 05, 2002
According to this article: Russian security officials suspect that the Chechens who seized a Moscow theatre in October had wealthy Arab sponsors in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states... Senior officials say they have traced a series of telephone calls from the gunmen to their "sponsors" in the Gulf. During...
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November 25, 2002
According to Miss World President Julia Morley, "What was a mistake was a journalist making a remark he shouldn't have made" Of course she's going to disclaim pageant responsibility, but you'd think she'd be able to place the blame where it truly lies. Miss Wales, in her own way, has...
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November 24, 2002
LGF has more on the Miss World contest's move to London, Arab News' (predictable) response to the violence, and Nigeria's attempt to get the World Cup. Is this just an isolated incident, or part of a disturbing trend? Slate had an article that was much more upbeat, in its own...
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November 22, 2002
The Miss World contest has been moved to London: "Muslim opposition had already prompted organizers to postpone the finale until after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan." Chanting 'Down With Beauty,' Nigerian Muslims Kill Dozens Will London be any better?...
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November 16, 2002
Let's say a shadowy figure, like, say, a former high up spy happened to privately make the highly unofficial statement to someone high up along the lines of "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Medina, Mecca." Highly plausible deniability, and perhaps something very good might come from it. Like, the end of money being...
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Swordpoint conversions are so, like 14th Century. But: A statement attributed to al-Qaida threatened more attacks in New York and Washington unless America stops supporting Israel and converts to Islam Saying "Convert this" is left as an exercise....
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November 14, 2002
This article says: [The] head of Germany's international counter-terrorism unit... told a meeting of the German-Atlantic Society in Berlin last week that Abu Musab Zarqawi, an al Qaeda leader trained in the use of toxins, could be planning an attack in Europe. "Something big is in the air," said Beth,...
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November 07, 2002
(We'd like to take the opportunity to introduce our newest guest blogger, Oprah Winfrey. Oprah will take time out from her busy broadcasting schedule to make occasional entries here.) CNN reports that Al Queda has claimed responsibility for the Bali bombing. Other reports have one of the perps confessing. Someone...
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November 01, 2002
Debbie Schlussel is representing Michigan Citizens Against Terrorism in their IRS Complaint against the ACCESS 501(c)3 org mentioned in this article. Phyllis Schafly has an interesting article here. The Fox poll she mentions might be this or this....
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