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Iraq Political "Surge" Uplifts U.S. Officials -- Politics has broken out in Baghdad. Long derided as dysfunctional, Iraq's parliament in recent weeks has passed a package of laws on the budget, elections and sectarian reconciliation that have given cautious hope to U.S. officials and private analysts that the gains from President Bush's military surge are finally being matched by a political surge as well. |
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Sweden And Norway Hold Suspects After Terror Raids -- Police in Sweden and Norway detained six people on Thursday on suspicion of offences related to terrorism after carrying out coordinated raids. The move comes just over a week after Norway's intelligence agency said that the threat of terror attacks by Islamic radicals was rising in part because of the country's military presence in Afghanistan. Norway has about 500 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO mission.
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FBI Warns Of Possible Hizballah Revenge In U.S. -- The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin Friday to state and local law enforcement authorities advising them to watch for potential retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah, one day after the Lebanese militia group vowed to avenge the death of a top commander by attacking Israeli and Jewish targets around the world. |
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The 14 Muslims Running For Public Office -- This page is provided to inform visitors about candidates for public office who identify themselves as Muslim. |
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The Muslim Brotherhood's Infiltration of the West -- The Muslim Brotherhood, today widely regarded as the largest Islamic movement in the world, was founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928. Its member groups are dedicated to the motto: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." |
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Pakistani Jihadists Fueling Jihad In Europe -- "In my opinion, the jihadi threat from Pakistan is the biggest emerging threat we are facing in Europe. Pakistan is an ideological and training hotbed for jihadists, and they are being exported here." |
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Germany |
Al-Qaeda Has Moved Germany Up On Hit List -- Germany has become a prime target for Al-Qaeda, whose commanders in Afghanistan and Pakistan have ordered terror attacks on the country, senior government officials said. "Germany is at the centre of Al-Qaeda's attention and in their line of fire."
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United States |
Al Qaeda Seen Planning Attack On U.S. -- Senior al Qaeda leaders have diverted operatives from Iraq across the globe and are increasing preparations to strike the United States, senior intelligence officials told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday. They said the terrorists had plans to attack the White House as recently as 2006. |
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Australia |
Mosque Group "In A Line To Jihad" -- The Islamic group accused of trying to seize control of Sydney's Sefton mosque is part of a movement described as a recruiting ground for al-Qa'ida in a new terrorism intelligence report. The group attempting the takeover has members who follow the Tablighi Jamaat stream of Islam, described this week bythe private US intelligence group Stratfor as an "indirect line to terrorism".
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Pakistan |
Pakistani Jihad Leader -- "We want to eradicate Britain and America...We pray that Allah will enable us to destroy the White House, New York, and London" |
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Germany |
Frankfurt Islamist Group Planned Attack -- A group of Islamist extremists in Frankfurt was planning an attack in Germany, according to a would-be suicide bomber captured by police in Spain, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday. |
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United Kingdom |
Al-Qaeda Threatens Attack On Brown -- Al-Qaeda in Britain has threatened suicide attacks on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and predecessor Tony Blair unless London withdraws its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. The message was posted in English to an al-Qaeda-affiliated online forum by "Umar Rabie al-Khalaila." |
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What Influence Does Saudi Money Buy? -- An Islamic group came to Temple University last spring with an offer to provide $1.5 million for an endowed chair in Islamic studies to honor religion professor Mahmoud Ayoub. After months of talks, the deal never got off the ground, once trustees and others raised concerns about the contributor, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a nonprofit research group that had been under scrutiny as part of a government probe into the funding of suspected terrorists. |
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Bin Laden's Son Wants To Be Peace Activist -- Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father—except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket. The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is better way to defend Islam than militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West. |
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U. S. Fears Europe-Based Terrorism -- One of the biggest threats to US security may now come from within Europe, US Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff has told the BBC. He said militant attacks and plots in Europe over recent years had made the US aware of the "real risk that Europe will become a platform for terrorists". |
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Fears Of Terror Attack In Germany -- Lebanese authorities have warned of terrorist attacks being planned on targets within Germany, prompting the Justice Ministry in Berlin to increase its security measures. "There was a tip from Lebanon, a warning tip," said a spokeswoman for German federal police. She said that the threat was related to the worldwide terrorism threat, and "It is known that Germany is part of this worldwide threat."
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The Dentist Terrorist -- British Muslim who planned to murder UK troops jailed. When he was stopped at Heathrow, dentist Sohail Qureshi claimed he was flying to Pakistan to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid with his family. The haul of weapons, cash and terror handbooks he was carrying however told a much more sinister story. |
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To Kill A Queen -- Misogynistic and murderous, Islamic terrorists have announced with their loudest and most recent success in Pakistan they are now in the business of killing powerful and famous women. But it was not their first attempt. As part of its jihad to destroy the West, and only weeks before the death of Pakistan ’s Benazir Bhutto, Islamist terrorists had targeted the world’s most famous female political figure: Britain ’s Queen Elizabeth II. |
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United States |
Al Qaeda Seen Planning Attack On U.S. -- Senior al Qaeda leaders have diverted operatives from Iraq across the globe and are increasing preparations to strike the United States, senior intelligence officials told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday. They said the terrorists had plans to attack the White House as recently as 2006. |
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3 Held On Dutch Violence Fears -- Dutch police raided five homes in Rotterdam early Monday, arresting three men suspected of planning an imminent act of violence, according to a spokeswoman for the Netherlands' Justice Department. Two of the suspects, aged 31 and 32, are Dutch-Moroccan and the third is a 39-year-old Sudanese man.
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Cleric’s Chilling Warning To U. K. -- A fanatical Pakistani cleric told The Sun yesterday of his chilling dream to turn the world Muslim, by force if necessary. Qari Hifzur Rehamn, 60, spoke openly of imposing Islamic law’s stoning and beheading on Britain – as Pakistan was rocked by unrest over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He warned: "We want Islamic law for all Pakistan and then the world. We would like to do this by preaching. But if not then we would use force." |
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News Flash For Osama Bin Laden -- I have directly observed how more and more Iraqis have grown to hate al Qaeda as much as Americans do. Al Qaeda has lost all credibility there, both from a religious standpoint as well as strategically. Even Western media seems to be gradually awakening to the realization that al Qaeda press releases on the topic of Iraq are about as well-informed as the post-invasion rantings of Baghdad Bob. |
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Saudi Arabia |
Saudis Bust Ring Planning Hajj Attack -- Saudi authorities have arrested an Al-Qaeda linked group planning to carry out terrorist attacks during the annual hajj pilgrimage, Al-Arabiya television quoted security officials as saying Friday. |
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Man Arrested With "Christmas Day" Bomb -- POLICE in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato have arrested an Egyptian man allegedly plotting a bomb attack on Christmas day. The suspect, identified as Egyptian national Mohamad Sayed, was arrested during a raid on an apartment inside the Majad Islamic School in Cotabato. |
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Celebrating Anniversary, Hamas Warns of Intifada -- Hamas threatened to launch a new uprising against Israel on Saturday when hundreds of thousands of Islamist supporters rallied in Gaza City to mark the group's 20th anniversary. |
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United States |
Islamic Extremist Convention 2007 -- Starting December 21st, Rosemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, will play host to two organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the inspiration for so many of the world’s worst terror groups. The organizations, the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), have an extremist history of their own. Soon Chicago, December 2007, will become a part of that history, as the Hyatt Regency O’Hare packs in thousands of Muslims that refuse to speak out against those that use their religion as a means to commit violence. |
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Beware Islamist Plants In Debates -- Muslim activists are in a full-court press to influence the presidential debates — and war policy. No matter what they say, they don't represent ordinary Muslim citizens.
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Iraq |
Iraq's Sadr Uses Lull to Rebuild Army -- Moqtada al-Sadr's Shiite militia aims to return leaner, stronger. |
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Airport Air Freshener Jihad? -- On 14 November 2007, an identified individual on the public side of the (BWI) airport reportedly asked a behavior detection officer questions regarding security procedures, training, and security cameras. Additionally, the subject was caught photographing a motorized room freshener located near the ceiling in the men’s room. Of the incident, my law enforcement source noted that this is the second incident involving an air freshener at a major east coast airport — in the last three months. It should be noted that the internal components removed from the deodorizer could all be used in the construction of an improvised explosive device. |
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Azerbaijan Sentences 15 Islamists for Plot Attempt -- An Azeri court on Monday sentenced 15 members of an Islamist group to long terms in prison for a foiled plot to overthrow the government. Led by 32-year-old Said Dadashbeily, and known as "Said's Group", they were detained last January and court procedures started in October. Dadashbeily, who used to work for a foreign company in Baku, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Other members of the group received lesser terms. |
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The Sunni-Shia War in America -- I want to talk to you today, among other things, about the Sunni-Shia conflict that is now breaking out on our shores, but first let’s talk a about the Mapping Shari’a Project that you direct. What is it about? |
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United Kingdom |
No to the Mega-Mosque -- The plan is for a huge and imposing edifice, financed by Wahhabi money and implemented through the proselytizing organization Tablighi Jamaat. The structure will dominate the London skyline adjacent to the site of the Olympics. To an infidel, this is an obvious declaration by Islam: “We are the future of Britain. Get used to it.” |
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France |
The Parisian Intifada and "The Project" -- Paris is burning, yet again. The Muslim immigrant “youths” in the banlieues have taken to the streets to expand a Western front in the global jihad. This time, however, instead of just burning cars and throwing rocks, this week they have taken up arms against French police. As the Associated Press reported on the violence around Paris late Tuesday, noting the escalation beyond the car-burning intifada of November 2005, such that even apologetic Associated Press reporters are forced to describe the present rioters as “urban guerillas." |
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World Faces "Cyber Cold War" Threat -- A "cyber cold war" waged over the world's computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade, according to a report published on Thursday. About 120 countries are developing ways to use the Internet as a weapon to target financial markets, government computer systems and utilities,
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Palestinian Territories |
Day after Annapolis -- Palestinian Authority TV shows "Palestine" map erasing Israel. |
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Slovakia |
Three Arrested in Radioactive Sale Bid -- More than 2 pounds of radioactive material was seized by Slovakian police. |
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23-Year-Old Pleads Guilty to "Jihad" Plot at Rockford Mall -- Derrick Shareef pleaded guilty today to plotting a hand grenade attack on a Rockford mall crowded with Christmas shoppers. |
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"Seas of Blood" for Jihad Extolled in Articles to Jury -- A Boston Muslim newspaper promoted the virtue of giving up one’s life for jihad and was critical of those who speak against it.
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Hezbollah Will Avenge Iran Strike -- Terrorist group Hezbollah is poised to launch bloody reprisals in Britain for any Western attack on Iran, a former intelligence chief has warned.
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Afghanistan |
Taleban Makes Regular Contact and Wants Peace -- Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said yesterday Taleban insurgent leaders were increasingly contacting him to try to find ways of making peace. Afghan and western military leaders and diplomats recognise talks will ultimately have to be held to end the insurgency which has claimed about 5,000 lives this year alone. But, they say, talks should be held from a position of strength.
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Australia |
Bali bomber warns: Australia is next -- One of the key Bali Bombers has issued a chilling warning from his death row prison cell, warning Australia "will be down next year". |
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Syria |
Inside Intel: Not a Reactor,Something Far More Vicious -- A nuclear site built by the Syrians was attacked, and there was some connection to know-how and technology transferred from North Korea. The prevailing assumption is that it was a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor that was in stages of construction, that would have enabled Syria to produce plutonium to manufacture a nuclear bomb.
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Kosovo |
Platform For a Terrorist -- Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article on Kosovo’s impending unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia. The piece attested to the inevitability and rightness of this independence. It was also penned by a terrorist. Specifically, by the “former” terrorist and current “prime minister” of the province, Agim Ceku. |
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Somalia |
Fugitive Somali Islamist Urges Jihad on African Union Troops -- A Somali Islamist commander, thought to be al Qaeda's man in Mogadishu, has ordered his fighters to attack African Union (AU) peacekeepers in rare taped comments intended to bolster an anti-government insurgency. |
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New NEFA Report -- “The 1993 Philadelphia Meeting: A Roadmap for Future Muslim Brotherhood Actions in the U.S.” |
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Police Arrest Man Who Urged Terror Groups to Kidnap Danes -- According to PET, the domestic intelligence agency, the 22-year-old suspect has links to two men arrested on 4 September on suspicion that they were preparing explosives for use in a terror attack. PET officials stated that the man arrested Sunday in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen apparently had hoped that by kidnapping Danes abroad, pressure could be exerted on Danish authorities to release the two suspects.
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DC Imam Wants To Establish an "Islamic State of North America No Later Than 2050" -- As-Sabiqun is an Islamic movement that believes in the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050. Those who engage in this great effort require a high level of commitment and determination. We are sending out a call to the believers: Join with us in this great struggle to change the world! |
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Imam Wants Islamic State of North America by 2050 -- Imam Abdul Alim Musa's organization, As-Sabiqun, wants to establish an Islamic State of North America by 2050, as reported by Markedmanner and Jihad Watch. Musa’s Web site says, “As-Sabiqun is an Islamic movement that believes in the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050. Those who engage in this great effort require a high level of commitment and determination. We are sending out a call to the believers: Join with us in this great struggle to change the world |
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Chechen Jihadists Proclaim Islamic State -- In a statement to Chechen press, Sheikh Dokku Khamatovich Umarov, Amir of the North Caucasus has declared the Islamic State of the Caucasian Emirate and the implementation of Shariah Law while acknowledging that the United States, the UK and Israel are all legitimate targets of the global jihad. |
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Japanese Minister Reveals al-Qaida Link -- Japan's justice minister said Monday a "friend of a friend" who belonged to al-Qaida had entered the country repeatedly with false passports and disguises, a disconcerting revelation in a nation that fears its support of the United States makes it vulnerable to a terror attack. |
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Ali Al-Timimi, al-Qaeda and Anthrax -- Ali al-Timimi will be serving life for sedition. Specifically he was recruiting for al-Qaeda from the US. Scary enough, but read the whole article. It appears al-Qaeda had infiltrated US biodefense and has supporters/agents with access to the Ames strain of anthrax and the know how to make dried concentrated forms of the spores. |
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Terrorists: Vote Hillary; Kill Rudy -- "I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq," said Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian terror group. "President Clinton wanted to give the Palestinians 98 percent of the West Bank territories. I hope Hillary will move a step forward and will give the Palestinians all their rights." Senakreh and other top Islamo-fascists want Hillary in the Oval Office. These mass murders also have "gone negative." They want GOP contender Rudy Giuliani dead. |
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Photos Show Cleansing of Suspect Syrian Site -- New commercial satellite photos (at link) show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor. |
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Intelligence Chief: New Terror Threat Is Real -- Charles E. Allen, chief of intelligence at DHS, would not disclose details of the threat. But his office focuses on a wide range of threats to the homeland, including the oil and gas industry, the electrical industry, the financial and banking industries, ports, airports, and commercial facilities such as theme parks. |
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Judge Rules Muslim Dowries Unenforcable by Ohio Law -- At last, an anti-Sharia ruling by a U.S. Court. This ruling is significant far beyond this particular case, because there is always more Sharia to accommodate, and someone has to draw the line somewhere if we don't want to end up accommodating the whole thing. |
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Iran To Fire "11,000 Rockets in Minute" If Attacked -- In the first minute of an invasion by the enemy, 11,000 rockets and cannons would be fired at enemy bases," said a brigadier general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi. |
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Germany Indicts Man for Plans to Found Terrorism School -- A Jordanian has been indicted in Germany over a plot to set up a school for terrorists in Sudan, prosecutors said Tuesday. Thaer A, aged 33, who was picked up by Swedish police in March and extradited to Germany the following month, is the second member of the alleged ring of five men to face trial. |
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Farrakhan in Atlanta: Blacks Must Separate from Mainstream Society -- Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is still alive, and still preaching separatist hatred in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Hamas Video: A Two-Year Old Jihadi -- Sheer evil, from a debased death cult society that condemns its own children to a life of violence and murder. |
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The "Islam Is Peace" Campaign -- This campaign, costing no doubt many tens of millions of dollars, is an important weapon of the attempt to fool English people and prolong their unwariness and confusion and even diffidence about discussing their entirely justified fears of and suspicions about Islam. |
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The Islamist Head Fake -- It's now believed that several leaders of the Muslim establishment in America last decade conspired to infiltrate the U.S. political system, change Middle East policy and gradually Islamize America. At the same time, they hatched a plot to fund overseas terrorists. |
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Al Qaeda Targets Our Schoolchildren -- While Democrats prepare witless campaign slogans blaming Republicans for millions of children not protected by health insurance, al Qaeda's blatant threat to exterminate 2 million American kids remains unheeded. And it will likely continue to be, notwithstanding mounting evidence that there exists no peril on Earth our young need greater protection from today than merciless jihadist monsters. |
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Austrian Jihadist Cell Eyed Politicians in Europe -- "The member of the cell enumerated several physical targets to attack, specifically mentioning the Euro 2008 championships to be held in Austria and Switzerland, UN buildings in Vienna and Geneva, and OPEC's headquarters in Vienna," the SITE Intelligence Group said in a statement.
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The Sleeper Cell Next Door -- I am not sure how the DNI is using the term, "sleeper cells." Historically, sleeper cells were agents of a foreign government or organization infiltrated into the target country or recruited inside the country. The cells would remain dormant -- they "sleep" -- until awakened by their masters to carry out acts of espionage or sabotage. We have very little evidence of classic sleeper cells waiting to be awakened by al Qaeda, although some fear that al Qaeda may be gradually deploying a secret terrorist army that will rise up in some future terrorist surge. |
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Bin Laden Tape to Declare War on Musharraf -- Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaida announced Thursday. |
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New al-Qaida Video Released -- Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in a new video released Thursday, the latest in a series put out by the terror network. |
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Why Not Have a Caliphate in Indonesia? -- The Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) hosted the International Khilafah Conference last month. Since this event, Indonesian mass media has been discussing the pros and cons of implementing a caliphate system in Indonesia which involves the formal application of shari'a as the legal code for the umma - Muslim community, under a head of state, or a caliph, who traditionally had both political and spiritual authority. |
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Pakistani President to Give Up Army Post -- President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. |
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Dozens Died in Syria-Iran Missile Test -- Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria. |
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Muslim Brotherhood's Papers Detail Plan to Seize U.S. -- Amid the mountain of evidence released in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, the most provocative has turned out to be a handful of previously classified evidence detailing Islamist extremists' ambitious plans for a U.S. takeover. |
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Hizb Ut-Tahrir's Renaissance -- Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Party of Islamic Liberation) is undergoing a dramatic increase in activity both worldwide and locally. Founded in Jerusalem 54 years ago, the Sunni pan-Islamic Party seeks to establish a Middle Eastern Caliphate to promote further expansion of Islam. Active in 40 countries from Asia to the US, Hizb ut-Tahrir urges its membership to "kill Jews wherever you find them." One of Hizb ut-Tahrir's most active cells is stationed the United Kingdom, where a proposal is currently on the table to ban the organization. The party is not only fervently anti-Zionist, but it also endorses the murder of any other "Infidel" in its path. |
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Al-Qaeda Urges "Acts of Mass Extermination" in Western Countries -- Al-Qaeda called on Islamists to sow terror in the West to create a climate of fear, in a third video marking the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States which was posted on the Internet on Monday. Called "reasons and motives for the attacks on New York and Washington," the video features a montage of images of the burning World Trade Centre towers and scenes from Islamist training camps.
"We must take Islamist terrorism to Western countries so that it becomes a normal part of life like natural disasters," a voiceover says. |
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What the Muslim Brotherhood Means for America: Memo Reveals Plan to Destroy U.S. from Within -- In a Texas courtroom, perhaps the most important case ever to be tried in our country is unfolding. FSM Contributing Editor Rod Dreher reports on what is revealed there: the Jihadis’ shocking 40-year plan to destroy America from within, having succeeded thus far without most of America even aware.
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Terrorism Arrests Made on Texas Border -- Texas' top homeland security official said Wednesday that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing the Texas border with Mexico in recent years. "Has there ever been anyone linked to terrorism arrested?" Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw said in a speech to the North Texas Crime Commission. "Yes, there was." |
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A Word from Norman Podhoretz -- Today is the publication date of World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz. As he states in his acknowledgements, the book updates, adapts, reworks, and integrates several of his Commentary essays into new material. I am a long-time admirer of his work and accordingly invited him to explain what he is up to in his new book. He kindly responded. |
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What the Muslim Brotherhood Means for the U.S. -- Memo lays bare group's plans to destroy U.S. from within. |
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What the Muslim Brotherhood means for the U.S. -- The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack. |
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Our Followers "Must Live in Peace until Strong Enough to Wage Jihad" -- One of the world’s most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims "to establish the supremacy of Islam" worldwide. Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle. |
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Briton released by Pakistan arrested in London -- A Briton released from Pakistan after more than a year in custody was arrested minutes after his plane touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport on Friday, police said. Rangzieb Ahmed arrived around 1:30pm at the airport aboard a scheduled flight from Islamabad. Armed police waiting for Ahmed boarded the plane as soon as its doors opened, pulling the bearded 32-year-old from the aircraft in handcuffs. |
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Osama bin Chomsky -- The transcript of Osama bin Laden's newest video, in which he speaks directly to American listeners, is available here. It is intensely interesting, for a number of reasons. |
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Osama's Invitation to Islam -- "I invite you to embrace Islam," says Osama, and yes, that is a prerequisite for an observant Muslim before he can commit an act of violence against an unbeliever. Muhammad directs Muslims to issue this invitation first, and if they refuse, to invite non-Muslims to enter the Islamic social order as second-class dhimmis, and if they refuse both, to go to war with them. |
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American Perceptions of the "Gathering Storm" -- Voters are much more aware of the threats posed by radical Islam than anticipated. Indeed, a plurality of Americans believes the threat from Islamic fundamentalism is greater than either Soviet Communism in the 1960s or Nazism in the 1930s. However, the public is less aware of the strategic partnerships being developed between radical Islamic regimes and other countries, especially Venezuela. |
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Iraqis in Secret Finland Talks -- Representatives from Iraq's Sunni and Shia groups attending secret talks in Finland have agreed a set of principles aimed at ending sectarian violence. |
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Malaysia Considers Switch to Islamic Law -- Hardline Islamic law could be introduced across Malaysia under reforms proposed by the country's chief justice. |
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Muslims Battle Buddhists in Thailand's Troubled South -- Muslim separatists in the south of Thailand want to secede from the Buddhist north and have targeted monks and other representatives of the state. But they also claim to have been victims of government atrocities. |
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Ferry Plots and Filipino Muslim Converts -- The FBI is still sifting through hundreds of tips on the two suspicious men in Seattle whom ferry employees witnessed photographing restricted areas and pacing several ferry routes, "as if trying to measure distances," over the past several weeks. I have learned that these men have been the subject of much investigative energy within homeland security bureaucracies for quite some time. Indeed, one source told me that until the FBI released the photos of the men, the snapshots had been handled as classified material. |
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Islamic Group Incites War on West -- Sunday’s national meeting for the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir included incitement to destroy Israel and a re-establishment of the Caliphate Islamic empire. |
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Pakistan’s Islamist Press Calls for Jihad Against India -- Pakistan’s Islamist media published a series of explicit calls for violence against India in the six weeks before the Hyderabad bombings — a development that analysts believe reflects the weakening of General Pervez Musharraf’s regime, and raises fears of a renewed wave of terror strikes. |
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"We Are Going to Get Hit Again" -- Al Qaeda has an active plot to hit the West. The United States knows about it but doesn’t have enough tactical detail to issue a precise warning or raise the threat level, says Vice Admiral (ret.) John Scott Redd, who heads the government’s National Counterterrorism Center. In an interview at his headquarters near Washington, D.C., Redd told Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball and Jeffrey Bartholet that the country is better prepared than ever to counter such threats. But he also believes another successful terror attack on the U.S. homeland is inevitable. |
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Pakistan Frees Man Tied To NYC Terror Plot -- A Pakistani man linked to a plot to bomb buildings in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., was set free this week by Pakistani authorities, U.S. law enforcement officials said. Muhammad Noor Khan was in custody in Pakistan after his computer was allegedly found with plans to target buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange, the Citicorp Building, the Prudential building in Newark and the International Monetary Fund building in Washington, D.C. |
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Somalia |
UN Vows To Defend Somalia Regime -- The United Nations Security Council has warned it will "take measures" against anyone threatening Somalia’s western-backed transitional government and told Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general, to draw up plans for a possible UN takeover from African Union troops there. |
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Afghanistan |
Mullah Omar Urges Afghans to Join Hands against Western Troops -- Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has appealed to fellow Afghans to shun their differences and join hands for a jihad to drive western troops out of the country. |
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United States |
Abraham Lincoln once famously observed, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next." The truth of Lincoln's observation is, no doubt, at the core of the apprehensions that New Yorkers have expressed about the Khalil Gibran International Academy scheduled to open next month in Brooklyn. Adding to their apprehensions is the fact that KGIA is just three blocks from a mosque which has a history of employing radical imams and which was frequented by one of the terrorists implicated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. |
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Iran |
Iran's Guards: "We'll Punch" U. S. -- Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they would not bow to pressure and threatened to "punch" the U.S., in their first response to Washington's plan to list them as a terrorist organization, newspapers reported Saturday. |
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World Wide |
How to be a jihadi: Taliban's Training Secrets -- "In a situation where infidels and their crooks are ruling the world, it is the prime duty of all the Muslims to take arms and crush those who are bent upon crushing the Muslims throughout the world." |
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Lebanon |
Hizbullah Has Big Surprises in Store -- Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said his organization was not interested in another bout of fighting with Israel, but, that if such a conflict were to break out, the Israelis would be faced with "larger surprises" than in last year's war. |
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Philippines |
Philippines Braces for Escalation -- A major military escalation on Jolo island in the southern Philippines threatens to undermine fragile relations with major insurgent groups and contribute to rising regional inter-faith tensions. A decision to end the policy of rapprochement with the rebels could unravel earlier post-peace deal achievements, and as such, planned August peace talks in Malaysia should be welcomed and encouraged by all stakeholders. |
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United States |
Exclusive: U.S. Studying Two Dozen "Clusters" of Possible Homegrown Terrorists -- U.S. law enforcement officials say they have identified more than two dozen "clusters" of young Muslim men in the northeast United States who are on a path that could lead to homegrown terror. |
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United States |
President: Rule of Islam Only Way for Salvation of Mankind --President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Tuesday that rule of Islam on mankind is the only way for salvation of human beings. "There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind," said Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Afghan Sunni and Shiite ulama at Iranian Embassy in Kabul. |
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Indonesia |
Hizb ut-Tahrir Propaganda Videos -- In the spirit of the late Leni Riefenstahl and Michael Moore, Hizb ut-Tahrir has utilized slick professionally produced propaganda videos like the ones you see below to spread their message calling for the return of a global caliphate. Videos like the ones below, are being distributed and sold in VCD format in the night markets and outside the mosques in Southeast Asia for less than US1.50 a piece. |
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