Tashkent checkpoint (AP) More Uzbek jihad. From AP: An explosion ripped through a district of the Uzbek capital Wednesday evening and caused casualties, according to a report, apparently the latest incident in a wave of terrorist-related violence that has gripped the city. Interfax news agency reported the blast hit the Sabir-Rakhimovski district, which is in […]
Archives for March 2004
Bodies of foreigners dragged through streets of Fallujah; bomb kills five U.S. troops
From AP, and DC Watson: Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of four foreign contractors, one a woman, at least one an American through the streets Wednesday and hanged them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River. Five American soldiers died in a roadside bombing nearby. The four contract workers for the U.S.-led coalition were […]
Hezbollah, Hamas offices reported in Iraq
From The Washington Times, : The terrorist groups Hamas and Lebanon-based Hezbollah have opened offices in Iraq and are recruiting young men in the cities of Basra and Nasariyah, says the executive director of the American Islamic Congress. “They have been recruiting young people. They pay them a little money and teach them their ideology,” […]
Ottawa raids lead to terror charges
Some conflict resolution going on in Ottawa More on the Ottawa raids from CP: An Ottawa man was charged Tuesday with two terrorism-related offences after police raids at his home and office, while shocked family members insisted upon his innocence. Sounds like they’re reading the playbook. Mohammad Momim Khawaja, 29, was arrested Monday at his […]
Dhimmitude in Australia: Cardinal Pell to host Muslim cleric at Cathedral Interfaith Prayer
Feisal Abdul Rauf From Australia’s Catholic News, with thanks to Jean-Luc: Cardinal George Pell of Sydney will welcome Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to St Mary’s Cathedral tomorrow for a lunchtime Interfaith Prayer Service. Imam Feisal is visiting Sydney at the invitation of Premier Bob Carr, who will also be in attendance at the Service. Stressing […]
Australia: Sheikh called terrorist for ‘divorce advice’
Zoud: What’s the big deal? Why would Zoud have called Abu Qatada? Isn’t Abu Qatada an exponent of the tiny minority of extremists who have perverted Islam? From The Australian, with thanks to Jean-Luc: IT’S late at night and Abdul Salam Zoud has a problem. The leader of Sydney’s Islamic fundamentalists needs prompt answers to […]
Pakistan: A curriculum of hatred
A controversy in Pakistan centers over jihad in the textbooks. From HiPakistan: The religious parties in Pakistan are at loggerheads with the government on yet another issue: the so-called “exclusion” of some Quranic verses from the biology textbook for Intermediate classes. What has annoyed the MMA? It all began three weeks ago when in reply […]
Islamic Jihad promises heaven to teen recruit
Tamer Khawireh (AP) While Mohammed Dockrat dresses his 6-year-old son in a mock suicide bomber jacket and then pontificates about how Palestinians would never really use a child in a suicide attack, Islamic Jihad tried to recruit a 15-year-old for just such an attack. Nor is he the only one. From the Jerusalem Post: On […]
“My Six-Year-Old Wants to Be Martyr, Says Dad”
Uzair Dockrat, wearing his suicide bomber jacket, and his dad (Shayne Robinson, Sapa) LGF has posted a couple of revealing articles about a South Africa boy who wants to grow up to be a suicide bomber. First, from AllAfrica.com: This six-year-old boy, dressed as a Palestinian suicide bomber, complete with a belt of fake explosives […]
“They were very religious.” They had bomb-making chemicals
More on those eight terror suspects arrested near London, who, according to British officials, just happened to be Muslim and could very well have been Buddhist or Amish. From The Scotsman, with thanks to Nicolei: Police today seized more than half a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser which could have been used to carry out […]