From AP: DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected Islamic militants triggered a bomb near a police van Sunday in northwestern Pakistan, killing seven people and wounding four others, an official said. The remote control bomb shattered the police vehicle while it was on a routine patrol in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in northwestern Pakistan, […]

From Reuters: TEHRAN – Iran’s most prominent political dissident, Akbar Ganji, has been released from prison after six years behind bars for criticising some of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic. Ganji, a journalist, was jailed in 2000 after writing articles linking senior officials to the serial killings of political dissidents in 1998. […]

Secretary of State Rice has emerged as the chief architect of American foreign policy since the last election. She seems to be hopelessly out of her depth dealing with Islam and Islamic nations and has articulated no clear strategy for dealing with them in over a year as Secretary of State. From AP: MELBOURNE, Australia […]

Are we witnessing the attempted creation of a “Shia bloc” consisting of Iran and Iraq? From CNN: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is willing to hold talks with the United States on Iraq, a top Iranian official said Thursday, according to a report by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). Ali Larijani, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator […]

Secretary Rice stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that there could be anything wrong with arming more and more Muslims and Indonesia seems to be her new found “moderate Muslim” country: the shining example Iraq refuses to become in her “Light Unto The Muslim Nations” scheme. From the Sydney Morning Herald: THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza […]

From Al-Jazeera.net: The Palestinian territories have come to a halt during a general strike called in protest against an Israeli siege of a West Bank jail. The Palestinian Authority is already in a heightened state of alert after the raid on the Jericho jail provoked a wave of abductions and threats of revenge against the […]

From AP: Baghdad, Iraq-The interior minister said Tuesday authorities had foiled an al-Qaida plot that would have put hundreds of its men at critical guard posts around Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. and other foreign embassies as well as the Iraqi government. A senior Defense Ministry official said the 421 al-Qaida […]

From AP: Police found four hanged men dangling from electricity pylons in a Baghdad Shiite slum Monday, hours after car bombs and mortars shells ripped through teeming market streets, killing at least 58 people and wounding more than 200. The grim scene underscored fears Sunday’s bloody assault on a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada […]

Wafa Sultan speaks to Tovia Singer. Audio here. “They (i.e., Muslims) have been hostages of their own beliefs for 14 centuries” “I used to believe Jewish people were not human creatures” Interviewer: “Is the problem rooted in religion?” Sultan: “Yes it is.”…

Threat of 2 operations designed to bring Americans ‘to your knees’ From WND: WASHINGTON — Islamic websites yesterday posted a “last warning” warning by Rakan Ben Williams, who describes himself as an “al-Qaida undercover soldier” in the U.S., threatening two major operations designed to bring Americans “to your knees.” According to the Middle East Media […]

From Al-Jazeera.net: Hamas’s draft government programme has left the question of recognising Israel to the Palestinian people – leaving the door open for a possible referendum. Hamas published a draft of its government programme on its website on Saturday. The fifth article in the programme says: “The question of recognising Israel is not the jurisdiction […]

Another fine example of peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, from AP: KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide car bomb exploded Sunday into the convoy of an Afghan politician leading reconciliation efforts with the Taliban militia, injuring him and killing four other people. Sibghatullah Mujaddedi, the head of the upper house of the Afghan Parliament, said he […]

From Reuters: March 11, 2006 — An Iraqi television station reports that gunmen today shot dead one of its senior editors. Al-Iraqiya TV says Amjad Hameed had just left his house in central Baghdad when a car blocked his way and gunmen shot him in the head. Hameed’s driver was wounded in the attack. Hameed […]

One result of reaching out to hearts and minds at a Shura council (and removing one’s helmet as a gesture of trust) from CTV: The Canadian soldier who was attacked with an axe in Afghanistan on March 4 is showing some improvement. Capt. Greene, 41, is described as being in serious, but stable condition in […]

“Iran says Russian atomic deal no longer an option,” from Reuters: TEHRAN – Iran said on Sunday it was no longer considering a Russian compromise deal intended to overcome an international dispute over whether Tehran is seeking to build an atomic bomb. Russia had proposed making nuclear fuel for Iran to ensure uranium was enriched […]

From the LA Times: AMMAN, Jordan “” Two men convicted of killing an American official were hanged before dawn Saturday in Jordan’s first execution of militants linked to Al Qaeda. Salem Saad Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Freihat, a Jordanian, were executed for gunning down Laurence Foley, a 60-year-old administrator with the U.S. Agency for […]

Making Mormon and by pure coincidence, Muslim polygamy acceptable to the masses, Burbank is doing its part. From the Salt Lake Tribune: PASADENA, Calif. – Imagine a Hollywood meeting where the pitch is ” ‘The Brady Bunch’ times three!” and you see why polygamy has never been the subject of a TV series or movie. […]

Andrew McCarthy asks the tough questions at NRO no one in the Bush administration or its defenders wants to answer about that little Dubai port deal. Bush was re-elected in large measure due to public support for the Bush doctrine, a doctrine that seems to have been abandoned the day after the election. Here’s McCarthy: […]

Here are two stories that reveal how “fighting insurgents” while ignoring Islamization is a losing strategy, even in Pakistan. The first story, “Up to 30 Islamist rebels killed in Pakistan” is from Reuters. PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Up to 30 foreign militants and their local supporters were killed in an air and ground attack by Pakistani […]

From AKI, . Madrid, 10 March – Almost two years to the day since al-Qaeda linked bombers killed 191 passengers and injured almost 1,000 in devastating train bombings the Spanish capital on 11 March, 2004, it has emerged that the bombers had planned to carry out further attacks in Spain, according to disclosures published on […]