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Somali Troops Close In on 3 Wanted for U.S. Embassy Bombings

Dec 31, 2006 9:24 pm By Robert Spencer

Wanted in the 1998 Embassy bombings. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: KISMAYO, Somalia “” Fighting erupted Sunday on the outskirts of the last remaining stronghold of Somalia’s militant Islamic movement, as thousands of residents streamed from the area ahead of the feared battle with Ethiopian-backed government troops. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said the […]

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Fitzgerald: The re-primitivization of the world

Dec 31, 2006 9:21 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

As Saddam was being hung, the voices of several of those present in the room were heard crying out. They didn’t cry out “a bicameral legislature!” They didn’t cry out “checks and balances, for god’s sake let us have checks and balances.” They didn’t cry out “we want a government of limited powers.” No, they […]

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Culture Clash in Denmark

Dec 31, 2006 6:42 pm By Robert Spencer

“And yet, over the past year or so, the contented Danes have been forced to face both their greatest international crisis since World War II and the rise here of separate Muslim communities where many are unable or unwilling to enter the Danish mainstream.” By Thomas Omestad in US News, with thanks to Twostellas: COPENHAGEN–This, […]

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Iran website heralding ‘Mahdi’ by springtime

Dec 31, 2006 6:33 pm By Robert Spencer

And then the fun will begin. From WorldNetDaily.com, with thanks to Davida: An official state media website in Iran has posted a message heralding the coming of the Shiite messianic figure, Imam Mahdi, noting he could arrive by the spring equinox. “Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) will appear all of a sudden on […]

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Release of up to 80 jihadists puts Pakistan counterterror efforts ‘back to square one’

Dec 31, 2006 5:33 pm By Marisol Seibold

“As many as 80 hard-core militants are on the loose after being cleared by the courts or released on bail.” Friend and Ally Update. “Freed jihadis put Pakistan’s war on terror ‘back to square one’, say senior officers,” by Massoud Ansari and Gethin Chamberlain for the Telegraph: Anti-terrorism forces in Pakistan have been told to […]

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“The prayers of all Muslims when they cast their stones at the devil must be directed at Bush and his devilish allies in America and the Arab world”

Dec 31, 2006 4:38 pm By Robert Spencer

“The number one Satan is America.” Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: this kind of thing seems to play very well at the Hajj. “Muslim haj pilgrims perform devil-stoning ritual,” by Souhail Karam for Reuters, with thanks to LGF: MENA, Saudi Arabia, Dec 31 (Reuters) – More than 2.5 million Muslim haj pilgrims performed devil-stoning rites […]

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India: jihadists hide bombs in toys

Dec 31, 2006 4:05 pm By Robert Spencer

Will the Islamophobia never end? “Bombs found hidden in toys – police,” from Agence France-Presse, with thanks to Mao: TWO suspected Islamic militants had been arrested with explosives hidden inside toys which they planned to blow up at a busy market in New Delhi, Indian police said today. Samimullah and Ali Mohammad, both from Indian […]

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Jammu and Kashmir: Jihadist posing as woman assassinates police chief

Dec 31, 2006 8:52 am By Robert Spencer

But no one in Grand Rapids has any problem with the veil. “Police chief assassinated in Indian Kashmir by militant posing as a woman,” from The Associated Press, : SRINAGAR, India: A suspected Islamic militant gunned down a police chief after posing as a Muslim woman hidden behind a veil in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, […]

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Shi’ite-Sunni rift laid bare by hanging

Dec 31, 2006 8:46 am By Robert Spencer

As predicted here by Hugh Fitzgerald. By Lauren Frayer for AP, : BAGHDAD — As Iraqis awoke yesterday to television images of Saddam Hussein’s neck twisted by a hangman’s noose, Shi’ites cheered, Sunnis vowed revenge and at least 80 persons died from bombings and death squads — not far from the daily average. In Baghdad’s […]

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1,500 in Minneapolis protest ouster of Sharia government in Somalia

Dec 31, 2006 7:38 am By Robert Spencer

What are 1,500 supporters of Islamic jihad and Sharia law doing in Minneapolis? What are the implications of this for our own national security? Why is no one with any power or influence even asking these questions? “Area Somalis want peace for homeland: Many of the 1,500 protesters in Minneapolis were angered that the U.S. […]

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Prayer in Virginia public school: Muslim prayer, of course, prayed by non-Muslims

Dec 31, 2006 6:53 am By Robert Spencer

“Not only will he learn about the culture by wearing traditional Muslim clothing and praying five times a day, but ‘Also going without pork for 30 days, that’s going to be rough but we’ll make do,’ said Morris.” In a public school. Imagine the outcry if the teacher were having his students dress as monks […]

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U.S. agencies missing links between illegal immigration and jihad terrorism

Dec 31, 2006 6:44 am By Robert Spencer

Another story highlighting the howling need for immigration reform, and underscoring its status as a national security issue. As the embattled Congressman Goode said, illegal immigration must be stopped, and legal immigration drastically curtailed — with an eye toward keeping jihadists from entering the country. “Of special interest: U.S. agencies missing links between illegal immigration […]

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Not a shot was fired yet the Somali jihad was suddenly over…

Dec 31, 2006 6:38 am By Robert Spencer

Yes. It was sweet — although many among the Western elites would prefer a “stable” Sharia-ruled Somalia. By Xan Rice in The Guardian: Their fortress fell without a shot. After just nine days of clashes in Somalia’s hinterland, the Islamists who had vowed to fight to the death abandoned Mogadishu, the city they had governed […]

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Muslim world requires a dose of girl power

Dec 31, 2006 6:15 am By Robert Spencer

Anti-dhimmitude from Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian (thanks to Web): HER voice shaking, the young woman in the hijab sitting about five rows back from the podium was clearly angry with me. As were other women in the audience, some in hijabs, one wearing a nikab, only her eyes visible through a narrow slit. Angry […]

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Zawahri: “Those who had sold Palestine, the secular traitors, can not be your brothers”

Dec 31, 2006 6:09 am By Robert Spencer

Another religion-based appeal from Al-Qaeda’s #2 man. “A-Zawahri: Abbas sold out Palestine: Al-Qaeda No. 2 lashes out at moderate Arab leaders for being traitors for cooperating with United States in audiotape posted on Islamic Web site,” from Associated Press, with thanks to Kemaste: …Ayman a-Zawahri’s wished the Palestinian people a happy Eid al-Adha but lashed […]

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“The jihad in Iraq will be intensified and attacks on invader forces will increase”

Dec 30, 2006 10:42 pm By Robert Spencer

Reactions ranged from hailing Saddam as a hero to condemning him as another Hitler. “Jubilation and anger,” from Reuters: …”There is a feeling of surprise and disapproval that the verdict has been applied during the holy months and the first days of Eid al-Adha,” a presenter on the official al-Ikhbariya TV said after programming was […]

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Fitzgerald: Arab secularism

Dec 30, 2006 10:35 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

“Like Arafat, Nasser, and Assad, he [Saddam Hussein] was a secular Arab nationalist who lived and wielded power according to rules that were hardly uniformly Islamic.” — from the comment by Robert Spencer The phrase “secular Arab nationalist” may lead to some misunderstanding. Nasser and Saddam Hussein had pretensions to become King of the Arabs, […]

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Saddam: “I have spent my life in jihad and fighting aggression”

Dec 30, 2006 10:23 pm By Robert Spencer

One man’s jihad is not another’s. “New Videos Show Graphic Saddam Images,” by Qassim Abdul-Zahra for AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: One of the most notorious dictators of the late 20th century, his hands bound behind him, was led up the stairs of the gallows by masked men in leather coats. A few […]

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Saddam’s last words: “Muqtada al-Sadr”

Dec 30, 2006 6:50 pm By Robert Spencer

In Saddam’s last thoughts UPDATE: The cellphone execution video that is making the rounds does not seem to bear this out. (Thanks to Jesse Petrilla.) SECOND UPDATE: The incident does seem to have occurred. The shouts of “Muqtada” can clearly be heard on the video, as well as what is apparently the voice of Saddam […]

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Western media, bent on discrediting Islam and jihad, plants bomb on Iraqi bus — no, wait…

Dec 30, 2006 6:37 pm By Robert Spencer

It was Sunni jihadists, taking time out from their inner spiritual struggle to set off a bomb on a minibus full of Shi’ites. “Bomb kills 31, wounds 58 in Iraqi town,” by Lauren Frayer for Associated Press, : BAGHDAD, Iraq – A bomb planted on a minibus killed 31 people in a fish market in […]

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