Naivete. “Moderate Muslims speak, but they are rarely heard,” from the Houston Chronicle, March 18:
Recently two events have occurred that describe opposing views of how some Muslims see the world. The reactions of Muslims in the United States to these two events will affect how their non-Muslim fellow citizens view this [...]
Houston Chronicle pushes Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups as “moderate”
March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Saudi Arabia wants Taliban to expel bin Laden – AP
February 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia will not get involved in peacemaking in Afghanistan unless the Taliban stops providing shelter and severs all ties with Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida movement, officials said Tuesday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting Saudi Arabia hoping for an active Saudi role in his plan to persuade Taliban [...]
Courtroom Cirque du Jihad
January 29, 2010 By 27 Comments
Welcome to the circus trial of “Lady al-Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui.
Bin Laden endorses bomb attempt on US plane – AP
January 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
CAIRO – Osama bin Laden endorsed the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and threatened new attacks against the United States in an audio message released Sunday that appeared aimed at asserting he maintains some direct command over al-Qaida-inspired offshoots. However, U.S. officials and several researchers who track terrorist groups [...]
US suspect in Pakistan defends ‘jihad’ plans – AP
January 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
SARGODHA, Pakistan – One of five Americans detained in Pakistan said their aim was to go to Afghanistan to wage jihad against Western forces, defending their intention as justified under Islam. But he denied any links to al-Qaida or plans to carry out terrorist attacks in Pakistan, as alleged by Pakistani authorities. Monday was the [...]
Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot – AP
January 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday. “This is not the first time this group has targeted us,” Obama said, reporting on some of the findings of an administration review [...]
Failed Xmas attack raises new security concerns – AP
December 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
U.S. counterterrorism officials are scrambling to assess a potential new threat from an explosive mixture that evaded detection aboard a Detroit-bound airliner but failed to bring down the plane. Multiple law enforcement officials said the suspected attacker — identified as a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab — claimed to have acted on instructions [...]
Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane – AP
December 26, 2009 By 1 Comment
ROMULUS, Mich. – An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke — sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said. The commotion began as Northwest Airlines Flight [...]
Homegrown Insurgency – by Paul Sperry
December 17, 2009 By 43 Comments
Move over Europe, radicalization is happening here.
