Al-Qaeda

Al Qaeda's Message Spreading Through English-Language Sites

Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading Al Qaeda's message to Muslims in the West.

• 200 Web sites spread al-Qaida's message in English - Examiner
• 200 Web sites spread al-Qaida's message in English - Boston Globe
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Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel and the U.S. PJM Earlier this month al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s dangerous Somalian proxy, threatened to attack Israel. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” an al-Shabaab commander named Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur...

Al Qaeda chief who joined US forces sentenced to death

Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

An al-Qaeda chief who switched sides, joining US forces to fight his former compatriots, has been sentenced to death for killing a young girl in a revenge attack, court officials said on Thursday. Telegraph | Nov 19, 2009 Adel Mashhadani headed the Sahwa (Awakening) militia of mostly Sunni former insurgents trained and financed by US and Iraqi [...]

• Al Qaeda chief who joined US forces sentenced to death - Islamization Watch

Democrats lose independents on al Qaeda trials

PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday

Fox News: A slim majority of Americans think five accused Sept. 11 plotters should be tried by a military tribunal rather than a civilian court -- and nearly half are concerned that their federal trial will "turn into a circus," a Fox News poll finds. ... The latest Fox News national poll finds 52 percent of Americans think the appropriate place to try the five detainees is in a military...

• Fox News Poll: 52 Percent Think 9/11 Trial Should be in Military Tribunal - Fox News

'Unreasonable' to Expect al Qaeda to Ignore Success of Somali Pirates

The Agonist (Free subscription) | yesterday

In charting how far afield (or a'sea) that Somali pirates are venturing into the Indian Ocean, Gadahn at maritime blog Information Dissemination also points out. . . With Army Generals in Afghanistan now pointing out that Al Qaeda has almost entirely shifted out of Afghanistan to Pakistan and Somalia, Somalia should be treated as an emerging asylum for the global jihad with intent to attack the United...

Yemen Becoming New Front Between Al Qaeda & Hezbollah?

Dave's World (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

I was Political Officer in Jidda in the late '70s in the US Embassy and was accustomed to receiving long missives from the US Amb to Yemen, Tom Scotes, who would dash off three half-dozen page analyses of the Yemeni political situation [which I also covered from a Pol/Mil slant] every week, or so it seemed. Finally, Amb Tom Pickering from Jordan arrived in Jidda with three black Chevy Suburbans armed...

ABC and others continue harassing CIA, newest: Lithuanian Al Qaeda interrogation facility

Cao's Blog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

This is disgusting. ABC somehow got a hold of some documents regarding a black ops location in Lithuania, and under the Eric Holder template of “justice”, spread the news far and wide. It’s not bad enough that the ACLU has been chasing after CIA people in order to take their pictures. Or that [...]

Al Qaeda-linked jihadis based in US plotted...

Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Al Qaeda-linked jihadis based in US plotted overseas opsDEBKA-Net-Weekly ExlcusiveNovember 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago.More

Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan By William...

Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday

Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan By William McGurn Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2009 When it comes to terrorists, you would think that an al Qaeda operative who targets an American mom sitting in her office or a child on a flight back home is many degrees worse than a Taliban soldier picked up after a firefight with U.S. Army troops.Your instinct would be correct, because at the heart

Al Qaeda chief who joined US forces sentenced to death

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

An alQaeda chief who switched sides joining US forces to fight his former compatriots has been sentenced to death for killing a young girl in a revenge attack court officials said on Thursday.

Al Qaeda in Iraq becoming less foreign

Iraqi Mojo (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

'Al Qaeda in Iraq is becoming more Iraqi and less dominated by foreigners as the insurgent group increasingly joins forces with Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party, the commander of U.S. forces said on Wednesday. Investigations into massive suicide bombings in Baghdad on Oct. 25, in which more than 150 people died, indicated that explosives or fighters were coming across from Syria, U.S. General...

We've Met the Enemy ... And They're Reps From Texas

Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Jon Stewart warns about two scary men plotting al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the floor of the House of Reps. Alas, they're GOP reps from Texas and Arizona....

TEMS: Kerry Picket, Amy Alkon, Andrew McCarthy

Hot Air (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we have such a great show, I'm not sure when I'll end it! First comes Kerry Picket of the Washington Times, who will talk about her story of Chuck Schumer's flip-flop on federal trials for al-Qaeda terrorists. After Kerry, ...

Abu Sayyaf commander killed in southern Philippines

Hunt of the Sea Wolves (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

MA News TV A sub-commander of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf linked to various kidnapping and bombing incidents in the past was killed in a special military operation in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, a regional military commander said Friday.Major General Ben Dolorfino, chief of the Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom), identified the slain bandit [...]

Mullah Omar flees to Karchi to avoid Hellfires

PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Washington Times: Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former U.S. intelligence officials said. Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda...

• Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi: Report - Sify
• ISI helped Taliban supremo Mullah Omar flee from Quetta to Karachi - Times of India

Drug Rehab Center - Mountainside Cites That Heroin And Opiate Use Is On The Rise. Heroin Use And Prevalence Increases As Does The Number Of Deaths From It's Use

eprnetwork | 11/02/2009

The numbers of individuals entering inpatient drug rehab for heroin and opiate addiction continues to increase. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the opium (heroin) trade is tightly controlled by al Qaeda and the Taliban, and despite the war the efforts, the production of heroin and opium has dramatically increased - heroin is still dirt-cheap and readily purchased on the streets of Kabul and sold in short

Obama vows to battle Al-Qaeda on September 11 anniversary

tamilselvan1 | 09/12/2009

President Barack Obama vowed Friday to renew the battle against Al-Qaeda as he marked the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2001 amid rising public anxiety over the Afghan war.

World Trade Center 8th Anniversary

petermark | 09/11/2009

On 9/11/2001, the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorist group Al-Qaeda upon the United States and the series of attacks like coordinate suicide. In the attcked, total 2,993 people, including the hijackers, died in the attacks. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 90 countries.