Despite our differences with the New Duranty Times, they are documenting the Iraqi situation quite well. Here is another detailed report on the growing chaos. BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 23 “” Even in a country beset by murder and death, the 16th Brigade represented a new frontier. The brigade, a 1,000-man force set up by Iraq’s […]
Iran’s president: U.S. will fail to provoke ethnic differences
Plots, plots everywhere according to Iran’s newly elected President Ahmadinejad, from AP: TEHRAN, Iran “” Iran’s president accused the United States and its allies on Wednesday of “hatching plots” to provoke ethnic tensions and destabilize Iran, a day after the government closed a state-run newspaper for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by ethnic Azeris. […]
British Police Arrest 9 in Terror Sweep
From AP: MANCHESTER, England “” Police on Wednesday arrested nine people suspected of giving support to terrorism outside Britain, Greater Manchester Police said. Police served warrants at a number of addresses beginning at 3 a.m. local time, the force said. About 500 officers were involved in the operation, and searches were continuing at several locations, […]
Bin Laden allegedly says Moussaoui had no 9/11 role
From the Boston Globe: CAIRO — Osama bin Laden allegedly said in an audiotape yesterday that Zacarias Moussaoui — the only person convicted in the United States for the Sept. 11 attacks — had nothing to do with the operation. “He had no connection at all with Sept. 11,” the speaker, claiming to be bin […]
Google dumps news sites
Search giant axes another news page, calls terrorism discussion ‘hate content’ from WND, with thanks to AD. Search engine giant Google has cut off its news relationship with a number of online news publications that include frank discussions of radical Islam — the New Media Journal becoming the latest termination, as its owner just discovered. […]
105 killed in two days of attacks in four provinces in Afghanistan
“Light-Unto-The-Muslim-Nations (Afghanistan model)” update from the Bandar Beacon, aka the Washington Post: ASADABAD, Afghanistan – Afghanistan has been rocked by some of the deadliest violence since the Taliban was driven from power in late 2001. In two days of attacks, as many as 105 people were reported killed in four provinces as insurgents torched a […]
Rival Palestinian Factions Engage in Gaza City Gun Battle
“All they want is a state of their own” update from VOA: Palestinian security forces from rival Fatah and Hamas factions have engaged in a gun battle in Gaza City. Media reports say two police officers loyal to the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were wounded in the fighting late Thursday. A member […]
Arafat used foreign aid to buy weapons
The not-so-shocking details from the Jerusalem Post Former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat ordered millions of dollars, taken from international aid funds, tax money transferred by Israel and from Arab countries, to be used to purchase weapons and ammunition, it was revealed on Wednesday These weapons were then provided to Palestinian terrorists from the Tanzim […]
British financing of “Da Vinci Code” questioned
“Will Christians pay Mohammed to attack Jesus?” by Dr. Ted Baehr in WND, with thanks to Looney Tunes. Mohammed Yusef, the founder of Invicta Capital in Great Britain, is using a government tax-incentive program to fund the movie version of the anti-Christian “Da Vinci Code” novel for Sony Pictures. According to the Times of London, […]
Muslims Kidnap, Force Christian Girls to Convert
From CBN: STONETOWN, Zanzibar – Welcome to the island of Zanzibar. Anchored in the Indian Ocean 50 miles off Africa’s east coast, Zanzibar is one of the few places that can truly be called paradise on Earth. But there is more to this tropical island than meets the eye. Zanzibar was once East Africa’s main […]
Egypt: Court Suspends Ruling Recognising Bahai Rights
From IRIN: Cairo – Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court decided on 15 May to suspend the implementation of an earlier lower court ruling that allowed Bahais to have their religion recognised on official documents. “While [we are] disappointed by the decision to suspend the administrative court ruling it is important to note that the Supreme Administrative […]
Baku Says Cemetery Still Intact
Update on our earlier report that this precious Medieval cemetary had vanished from AP: BAKU, Azerbaijan — An aide to Azerbaijan’s president on Tuesday denied a report that a centuries-old ethnic Armenian cemetery had been destroyed. The report by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting said the medieval Djulfa cemetery in the exclave of […]
Five judges injured in Turkey shooting
These judges interpret the “man-made secular” laws of the modern Turkish state. The laws can be interpreted as an “obstacle to Islam” meaning the implementation of Islamic law or Sharia on Turkish soil. From AP with thanks to Granny Weatherwax. A gunman stormed into a meeting at Turkey’s highest administrative court in Ankara today and […]
Jury deadlocks on Calif student in case linked to 9/11 hijacker
More news on the American justice front from the AP, . NEW YORK – A judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked Thursday on whether a San Diego student lied about his associations with a Sept. 11, 2001, hijacker in the days after the terrorist attacks. The jury in federal court in Manhattan could […]
U.S. Military Releases Video Showing Zarqawi Unable to Work Gun
This is an example of America’s big counter-propaganda offensive no doubt, but it’s pretty funny nonetheless. From Fox News: BAGHDAD, Iraq “” The U.S. military command Thursday released previously unseen images of a video purportedly posted by Al Qaeda in Iraq’s leader, showing him decked out in American tennis shoes and unable to operate his […]
In Iraqi town, trainees are also suspects
From the Bandar Beacon, aka The Washington Post with thanks to Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald. HAWIJAH, Iraq – After midnight on a bare stretch of highway near this ramshackle town last week, Staff Sgt. Jason Hoover saw what looked like a fishing line strung across the road and ordered his Humvee to […]
Indian Hostage Beheaded in Afghanistan
From AP, with thanks to Looney Tunes. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Police found an Indian hostage’s beheaded body in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. Taliban militants said they shot the hostage dead as he tried to escape. Escape beheading, perhaps? “The death of the Indian engineer who was working for the construction and reconstruction of […]
Hirsi Ali, The Hunted
This comes to us from Pieter Dorsman at Peaktalk: Just to show how far Dutch tolerance goes: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s neighbors have sued the Dutch state in order to get her to be removed from the apartment complex in which she is living under police protection. The request was initially rejected, but following an appeal […]
Killing of Al-Qaeda ‘Emir’ Called Blow to Insurgency
From today’s Bandar Beacon, aka The Washington Post: BAGHDAD, April 28 — U.S. forces killed a local leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and captured another in raids north of Baghdad on Thursday and Friday, dealing a blow to the insurgent organization’s leadership in the violent city of Samarra, Iraqi police and U.S. military authorities said. […]
Terrorist Escapes Raid in Indonesia but Two Militants Killed
From VOA: One of Asia’s most wanted fugitive terrorist leaders, Noordin Mohammed Top, has escaped an early morning raid by Indonesian police in a central Java town, but the police say they killed two other wanted militants. Malaysian-born Noordin Mohammed Top, believed to be one of the leaders in the regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah […]