March 29 Terrorist Attacks (REUTERS) Reuters has an update on the situation in Uzbekistan (complete with quotes around the word “terrorist”, but that is just part of their “objective” “journalistic” “style”). TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (Reuters) – At least 19 people were killed in a series of explosions and shoot-outs in Uzbekistan in “terrorist” actions aimed at […]
Archives for March 2004
Mullah Omar wounded in US bombing raid
The elusive Omar This just in from Bloomberg.com: Mullah Mohammad Omar, the fugitive leader of the Taliban, was wounded in a U.S. bombing raid earlier this month that killed four of his bodyguards, Deutsche Presse- Agentur said, citing a newspaper report in Pakistan. Omar was injured in the legs and left side of his body […]
Dhimmitude in New Jersey: Jewish groups lend legitimacy to radical Muslims
Joel Mowbray shows why the standards for moderate Islam have been set too low, at least in New Jersey: Sometimes, partnering with ostensibly moderate Muslim organizations in holding interfaith events can lead to a lot of trouble and controversy if proper homework isn’t done in advance. Just ask two Jewish groups in New Jersey. The […]
The Secret Pictures of Senior Airman Ahmad al Halabi
Halabi being escorted to his arraignment (AP) Daniel Pipes reveals some extraordinary information about Guantanamo interpreter and US Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad al Halabi at FrontPage: Halabi, a 25-year-old translator of Syrian origins, says he was naturalized as a U.S. citizen after joining the Air Force in January 2000, though this is a disputed […]
Lee Kuan Yew: Moderate Muslims need to make stand on terror
Lee Kuan Yew (newshub) Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew notes that while radical Muslims operate in terror groups worldwide, “at the moment, the moderate Muslims are keeping out of sight.” From The Star, with thanks to Nicolei: IN an interview with the BBC’s East Asia Today programme, broadcast last night, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew addressed […]
Warnings from Islam’s ‘messianic whirlpool’
More threats of destruction, this time with an apocalyptic twist. From WND, : An Israeli intelligence analyst sees a frenzy of jihadist Internet communications as part of a “dangerous Islamic messianic whirlpool” featuring a number of prophecies culminating in the coming of the “Mahdi,” reports the latest issue of the premium online intelligence newsletter Joseph […]
Jihad in Uzbekistan
Islam Karimov (Vestnik.com) That is, jihad in an Uzbeki market. From AP, : An explosion has ripped through the Uzbek capital Tashkent, killing at least two people, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry has blamed terrorists. Ministry spokesman Ilkhom Zakirov said that there were “several terrorist acts,” arrests had been made and […]
PA and Hamas: Find the differences
In Onward Muslim Soldiers I detail the jihad ideology held by Hamas, which prevents them from entering into negotiations for a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Now Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of Palestinian Media Watch explain in the Jerusalem Post why there is not all that much difference between the PA and […]
Musharraf: “I want to eliminate all of them”
Taunted by Al-Qaeda (CNN) From CNN, : Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accused Osama bin Laden’s top deputy of taunting him and vowed to press on with an offensive against al Qaeda, saying, “I want to eliminate all of them.” Musharraf made his comment just days after Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s second-in-command, urged Pakistani tribes […]
Financing jihad in Canada
More on Canada’s usefulness to terrorists, from The Globe and Mail (): Canada’s anti-money-laundering centre uncovered $35-million in suspected terrorist financing in the first nine months of the fiscal year, outstripping the tally for the entire previous year. The amount reflects the total detected by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre from April through […]
Why no Richard Clarke here?
Clarke: You probably won’t see him here again (CBS) I have been asked why Jihad Watch is not covering the Richard Clarke foofaw. The answer is simple: I agree with Neil Cavuto’s view (thanks to Ruth): I am focused not so much on threats, real or imagined, before Sept. 11, but on threats very real […]
‘We’re at Your Service,’ Hizbollah Tells Hamas
From Reuters, with thanks to Ruth: Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told Hamas’s new leader on Saturday to consider the Lebanese guerrilla group under his command following the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin this week. In a show of unity between the two Islamist groups, Hamas new chief Khaled Meshaal also addressed thousands of Hizbollah […]
Spencer on the jihad against Christians
A new article by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, “Islam’s Anti-Christian Jihad,” is available at FrontPage today.
Tiny minority of extremists update: 65% Pakistanis support Osama
A popular man An interesting report on polling in Pakistan, from Mid Day: Nearly two thirds of people in Pakistan hold favourable views of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and 86 per cent approve of President Pervez Musharraf, according to a survey by a major American organisation. Nearly half of those interviewed said suicide bombings […]
What’s in those books?
Mahdi Karrubi In Tehran a ceremony to honor Sheikh Yassin of Hamas was attended by high-level officials, according to Persian Journal. Apparently Iranian officials were undeterred by Yassin’s ordering of targeted murders of civilians on buses and restaurants. A ceremony to commemorate Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, teroorist Leader of Hamas was held in the Ark mosque […]
Dhimmitude in Britain: Muslims angry at plan to bring back historic statue of wild pig
A headless statue of a pig has become the focal point of an attempt to Islamize a park in Derby. From IndustryWatch, with thanks to LGF: FOR more than 100 years it stood proudly as the centrepiece of England’s oldest public park before being decapitated during a Second World War air raid. Now a row […]
Al-Qaeda and Jean Chretien
Chretien: pleading on behalf of a terrorist This Independent puff piece on the heroic wives of heroic Al-Qaeda men would be notable only for its sympathy with those who would destroy us were it not for one detail: former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien personally intervened to gain the freedom of an associate of Osama […]
“We thirst for martyrdom”
From the Boston Globe, with thanks to Mackie, a glimpse inside a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad: Alternately raucous and sober, yesterday’s prayers offered a stark glimpse of how Shi’ite clerics get their followers to speak in one voice on the social and political issues of the day. “We thirst for martyrdom,” said 24-year-old Abdul Allah […]
The war on terror has no boundaries
Good observations from The Australian, with thanks to Jean-Luc: ANYBODY who still doubts the appalling lengths Islamic terrorists will go to achieve their evil ends should check the news coverage of Thursday’s failed suicide bombing on the West Bank. The human bomb, a boy in his early teens, lost his nerve, broke down and pleaded […]
Hamas leader: Bush ‘enemy’ of God and Islam
Rantisi ranting Maybe Hamas really did mean it. From AP, : The new leader of the militant group Hamas on Sunday called President Bush the enemy of Islam and said that “God declared war” against Bush, the United States and Israel. In a speech at Gaza’s Islamic University, Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi said he […]