This one comes in addition to those already made last week. From WorldNetDaily: "Global jihad group debuts in Gaza"
A new Palestinian terror group aligned with the ideology of al-Qaida has been formed in the Gaza Strip and may plan attacks not just against Israel but also aimed at other "enemies of Islam and their collaborators among Arab regimes," the group's leader told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview.
"For the moment, our attacks are concentrated against the occupation, but I am sure that there will come a day where the Jihad operations will reach all the enemies of Islam and their collaborators among Arab regimes. The U.S. seems to do everything in order to speed this evolution," said Abu Mohammed, leader of the Palestine Army of Islam.
The Army of Islam is a splinter of the Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of terror organizations operating in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Army bills itself as the closest Palestinian organization ideologically to al-Qaida. It left the Committees earlier this year complaining the group was not "Muslim enough."
The Army of Islam is one of three terror groups that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping in June of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, prompting an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. It is led by Gaza's Dugmash clan, a family of strongmen that head several terror cells in Gaza, including the "Saladin resistance department" of the Popular Resistance Committees.
In his first-ever interview, Abu Muhammad, a senior member of the Dugmash clan, explained to WorldNetDaily why his group is different from other major Palestinian "resistance organizations."
"We believe that Muslims should participate in the jihad no matter how far the jihad field is from a geographic point of view," he said. "We are not limiting ourselves to the jihad in Palestine as the other Palestinian groups do, and we see that our duty obliges us to help Muslims and to participate in the jihad everywhere it is needed.
"For the moment, we are restricting ourselves to Palestine not because of ideological or strategic reasons, but just because Palestine is today the most important field of jihad in the world. If the situation changes, we easily see ourselves as soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere," said Abu Muhammad.
The terror leader warned attacks against U.S. interests may come soon.
"[Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice said that the U.S. wants a new Middle East, and there is no doubt that jihad, the armed jihad, will be the main tool and weapon when the day will come, and we believe that this day is not so far," Abu Muhammad said.
Asked is his group is affiliated with al-Qaida, the terror leader replied, "We respect Al Qaida. We admire Sheik Osama (bin Laden) and Dr. (Ayman) Zawahri, but we are not affiliated with them. I think that some infrastructures of al-Qaida are being built in Gaza and in the West Bank. It is not only me who is saying that. (Palestinian Authority) President (Mahmoud) Abbas said the same thing few months ago.
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"Our ultimate goal is, of course, after the liberation of Palestine, the establishment of the Islamic state where everybody, and I am emphasizing on everybody, will live in full honor and respect of its rights as those are guaranteed in our Quran," he said.
"The new Islamic state is the big state for all Muslims. The state that will be ruled by Sharia laws through a Calipha and will replace all those corrupted and artificial states which were founded by the West in order to hurt, to beat and to divide the unity of Islam and the Muslims," Abu Muhammad said.
Speaking of reported U.S. allies Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Abu Muhammad commented, "Those regimes in the Arab and Islamic world have nothing to do with Islam and must disappear and leave their places for the real Islam."
Marisol -
Some of the other news links that I found today - FYI...
September 1, 2006 Anti-Terrorism News
(Pakistan) Air Plot Suspect (Rashid Rauf) To Be Handed Over To Britain, Sources
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.335821932&par=0
(British Terror Plot) Terror arrests deadline - UK police have until Wednesday to question the remaining five terror suspects
http://www.thisisbucks.co.uk/display.var.903025.0.terror_arrests_deadline.php
U.S. feared British - Pakistan attacks early as 2003 -- In 1 plot, terrorists planned to pose as disabled travelers
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51778
Eleven Australians to stand trial on terrorism charges (my title) - arrested during raids on houses in Sydney and Melbourne last November
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20324627-1243,00.html
(Australia) Judge queries second Lodhi trial - questions whether Lodhi should stand trial on charges of lying to the national security agency
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20327796-1702,00.html
(Australia) High Court bid delays terror-training trial - Sydney man training with LeT
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20324982-1702,00.html
Death toll after attacks in Iraq at 64
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Iraq Fears of Shia reprisals after Baghdad bloodbath
http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/September/focusoniraq_September3.xml§ion=focusoniraq
("Project Strike Back") Student loans used to probe terror suspects
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4156183.html
Iran Defies U.N. on Enriching Uranium
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
Tehran enforces Islamic dress code
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060831-094600-1956r.htm
56 arrested as Moroccan 'terrorist network' dismantled
http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=4122765&p=4yzz78x&n=4122857
Morocco: (4th) Woman Arrested in Anti-Terror Probe - linked to Ansar El Mahdi terror group
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.335698133&par=0
Al Qaeda looking at Africa: Expert
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1157061023313&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
(California) Beach Is Evacuated After Pipe Bomb Is Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-ocbriefs1sep01,1,6169984.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
High terror alert for Egypt
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20315745-953,00.html
(Israel) IDF destroys Hizbullah bunkers in south Lebanon
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525984503&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hezbollah stays put in South as Lebanon's troops deploy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14609377/
Lebanon 'would welcome' German prisoner mediation
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=32714&name=Lebanon+%27would+welcome%27+German+prisoner+mediation
Annan: Syria to work with Lebanese to prevent flow of weapons to Hizbullah
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3298406,00.html
Israel: Hezbollah used shrapnel-filled rockets
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51771
(Boston) Hacker floods Web site with Hezbollah data
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060831-015318-9708r.htm
(Philippines) Man with Fake Bomb Smuggles Aboard on Philippines Airlines
http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?aid=4223
A new Palestinian terror group ????
Do the Muslims have a club called terror group of the month club??
One only has to know --if it is a Muslim group--it is a terror group
Caliphates seem to be popping up all over these days. True Believers, the followers of the Religion of Peace (tm), obviously feel that now is their time. Awash in petrodollars that they know cannot last forever, with the Pakistani nuclear bomb and the soon-to-be-unveiled Iranian nuclear bomb, with insults to Islam wherever they look (Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon) providing the justification to pull the hair-trigger, with constant responses of dhimmitude and weakness to their barrage of violence, and with Muslim emmigrants dispersed in sufficient numbers, it is time to make their move.
The only question in their mind will be who is the one true Caliphate, and which sect are the true Muslims? But those questions can be solved, in typical bloody fashion, after. After. There is business to be taken care of first. Business that all these Caliphates, all these Muslims, can agree on.
Anybody named Abu Muhammed sinks a notch or two in my book. What nonsense.
The pop culture Marxists in the West spent the 70s, 80s, and 90s severely criticizing those with negative attitudes.
Where are they in all of this?
Well, it certainly is a good thing that Islam means peace. Without the frequent affirmation about the true meaning behind the words and actions of our Islamic friends I might get worried when I read such an account.
The Jihad shark smells blood. It is our blood and it is coming from out boat. It is a strong boat, but with many holes. Do we have the will to stop the bleeding, patch the boat and repel the attack?
A bigger question I have is why now for the attack? Why not 20, 60, 100 years ago? It appears to me that we are a vulnerable society. Previous ages had respect for faith, family and children. We lack a firm commitment to faith, family and children. It is certainly not the vacuum that nature abhors, but it is weak enough for competition to flood in.
Islam has a commitment to faith, family and children. I find the demonstration of their commitment to be close to evil, but maybe God thinks that is better than no commitment to faith, family and children.