Radical Islam
9/12/2007 | Radical Islam
Ignore bin Laden Rantings at our Peril
TheConservativeVoice
The leader of al Qaeda released a video tape for the second time in less than a week chiding the American people for not recognizing that our mistakes in foreign policy and our lack of conversion to part of the would-be world wide caliphate will be our demise. As Osama bin Laden rears his ugly head on the anniversary of the airline attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania he urges his followers to continue killing. Praising the 9-11 hijackers bin Laden says, “So I tell every young man among the youth of Islam: It is your duty to join the caravan (of martyrs) until the sufficiency is complete.” Unlike the video tape released just days before the anniversary of 9-11 that was a hodgepodge of wrist slaps for the Democratic Party to lessons in tax policy for Islamic states – the video on September 11, 2007 is more what followers of bin Laden’s ideology of Jihadist extremism enjoy.
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9/11/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
New Bin Laden Audio Marks 9/11 Anniversary
CBS News - Message From Al Qaeda Leader Introduces Video Showing Last Will Of Flight 11 Hijacker
(CBS/AP) Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged sympathizers to join the "caravan" of martyrs as he praised one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Al Qaeda traditionally issues a video every year on the anniversary, with the last testament of one of the 19 hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This year's video showed hijacker Waleed al-Shehri, addressing the camera and warning the U.S., "We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left." The new message came days after the world got its first current look at bin Laden in nearly three years, with the release of a video Saturday in which the terror leader addressed the American people. The latest videotape, of the hijacker's testament, had not yet been posted on extremist Web sites. But IntelCenter, a monitoring group in suburban Washington, said it had obtained the 47-minute video and provided it to Associated Press Television News. It begins with an audiotape introduction by bin Laden. While his voice is heard, the video shows a still image of him, raising his finger. In the image, bin Laden has the same dyed-black beard and the same clothes - a white robe and cap and beige cloak - that he had in Saturday's video.
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9/10/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Al-Qaida Announces New Bin Laden Video
Breitbart
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida said Monday that it will release a new video of Osama bin Laden presenting the last testament of one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers, marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks. The announcement from the terror group's media arm came only days after bin Laden appeared in his first video in three years, giving an address to the American people, lecturing them to abandon capitalism and democracy and convert to Islam. The announcement came in a banner advertisement posted on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida often releases messages and was signed by Al-Sahab, the media arm of bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network. "Coming soon, God willing, the testament of the attacks on New York and Washington, Abu Musab Waleed al-Shehri, presented by Sheik Osama bin Laden, God preserve him," the banner read. It showed an image of bin Laden wearing the same black beard and clothes as in the most recent video.
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9/7/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Bin Laden Plans to Release New Video
MyWayNews
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The first new images of Osama bin Laden in nearly three years will be released ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida's media arm announced, a move that would end the terror mastermind's longest period without a message. The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it had no credible information warning of an imminent threat to the United States, and analysts noted that al-Qaida tends to mark the Sept. 11 anniversary with a slew of messages. Still, bin Laden's appearance would be significant. The al-Qaida leader has not appeared in new video footage since October 2004, and he has not put out a new audiotape in more than a year. The announcement and photo appeared in a banner advertisement on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, frequently posts messages. "Soon, God willing, a videotape from the lion sheik Osama bin Laden, God preserve him," the advertisement read, signed by Al-Sahab. Such announcements are usually put out one to three days before the video is posted on the Web.
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9/5/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam, Governmental Control
German Police Arrest 3 Men Plotting Terror Attacks on U.S. Facilities
FoxNews
BERLIN — Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an Al Qaeda-influenced group nursing a "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicioun of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday. The three men had some 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide -- easily enough to make a bomb with the explosive power of 1,200 pounds of TNT, prosecutors said at a news conference. "We were able to succeed in recognizing and preventing the most serious and massive bombings," Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms told reporters. She declined to name specific targets but said the suspects had an eye on institutions and establishments frequented by Americans in Germany, including discos, pubs and airports. Earlier, Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung was quoted by ARD television as saying Frankfurt International Airport and the large U.S. air base at Ramstein, in southwestern Germany, were targets. Harms would not confirm the report.
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8/16/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
NYPD warns of homegrown terror threat
USA Today
NEW YORK (AP) — Average citizens who quietly band together and adopt radical ways pose a mounting threat to American security that could exceed that of established terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, a new police analysis has concluded. The New York Police Department report released Wednesday describes a process in which young men — often legal immigrants from the Middle East who are frustrated with their lives in their adopted country — adopt a philosophy that puts them on a path to violence. The report was intended to explain how people become radicalized rather than to lay out specific strategies for thwarting terror plots. It calls for more intelligence gathering, and argues that local law enforcement agencies are in the best position to monitor potential terrorists.
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8/8/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Pakistan's Next Red Mosque Problem?
Time
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1650518,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
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7/25/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Taliban: Patience running out
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/afghanistan.hostages.reut/index.html?eref=rss_world
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7/19/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Radical Islam grows among Iraq's Sunnis
CSM News
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0728/p01s04-woiq.html
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7/17/2007 | Iraq, Radical Islam, Terrorism
Report: Al-Qaeda may use Iraqi network to attack U.S.
USA Today
WASHINGTON — The terrorist network al-Qaeda will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the United States. The declassified key findings, to be released publicly on Tuesday, were obtained in advance by the Associated Press.
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7/17/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Report: "Evolving" Terror Threat For U.S.
CBS News
(CBS/AP) The terrorist network Al Qaeda will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the American homeland. The declassified key findings, to be released publicly on Tuesday, were obtained in advance by The Associated Press.
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7/16/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Jury Selection Starts in Case Against Muslim Charity
NPR
Morning Edition, July 16, 2007 · A federal trial in Dallas pits the United States against the Holy Land Foundation, of Richardson, Texas. The Foundation was once North America's largest Muslim charity but the government closed it in 2001, calling it a terrorist organization. Three years ago an indictment accused it and 7 officers of supporting the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Five defendants and 2 fugitives face several charges, including conspiracy, money laundering, and engaging in prohibited financial transactions.
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7/13/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Al Qaeda sharpening U.S. focus, officials fear
CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Al Qaeda is increasing its efforts to get operatives into the United States for an attack and has nearly all the resources it needs to carry out such a mission, a draft of a new U.S. government intelligence analysis says, according to two government officials familiar with it. Those resources include a safe haven along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border from which the terrorist organization's leaders can operate, the officials told CNN. The classified report, called a National Intelligence Estimate, represents the combined analyses of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Officials spoke to CNN anonymously because the report is not final.
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7/12/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Al-Qaida has regained strength, US warns
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A new threat assessment from U.S. counterterrorism analysts says that al-Qaida has used its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to restore its operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before Sept. 11, 2001. A counterterrorism official familiar with a five-page summary of the document — titled "Al-Qaida better positioned to strike the West" — called it a stark appraisal. The analysis will be part of a broader meeting at the White House on Thursday about an upcoming National Intelligence Estimate. The official and others spoke to The Associated Press on condition they not be identified because the report remains classified. The findings suggests that the network that launched the most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil has been able to regroup despite nearly six years of bombings, war and other tactics aimed at dismantling it. The threat assessment focuses on the terror
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7/10/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Pakistani rebel cleric 'killed'
BBC NEWS
A Pakistani cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by troops in the capital, Islamabad, has been killed, Interior Ministry officials say. Abdul Rashid Ghazi's body was found in the basement of the Red Mosque where he had barricaded himself, officials said. The army says up to 50 militants and eight soldiers have been killed, and about 50 women and children rescued. Students at the mosque and its attached religious schools have waged a campaign for months pressing for Sharia law. Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said Mr Ghazi was killed as troops were flushing out militants still inside a madrassa (religious school) for women and girls inside the mosque compound.
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7/9/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Pakistan Says Ringleaders in Red Mosque Are Wanted Terrorists
FoxNews.com
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Monday gave clerics more time to persuade defiant militants to lay down their arms and surrender a mosque they have defended against thousands of government troops, security officials said. The decision came at a high-level meeting grappling with how to crack the weeklong armed resistance at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in the heart of the capital. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said among the mediators would be Taqi Usmani, a former teacher of the besieged mosque's senior cleric, Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Some clerics, including Usmani, have attempted without success to persuade Ghazi to end the siege peacefully since the crisis erupted. The government claims the mosque is being defended by wanted terrorists. Click here for FOXNews.com's Asia center. A group of about 20 lawmakers from radical religious parties were stopped by soldiers from approaching the mosque as intense gunfire again erupted in the area mid-afternoon. The group was attempting to also act as mediators.
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7/6/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam
'Jihadist James Bond' Gets 10 Years for Running Extremist Web Sites
FoxNews.com
LONDON — An Al Qaeda-inspired computer expert who dubbed himself "the jihadist James Bond" was imprisoned for 10 years Thursday for running a network of extremist Web sites and hoarding videos of the murders of Americans Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl. Morocco-born Younis Tsouli, 23, who prosecutors said had uploaded guides to building suicide vests on to the Internet, used the online ID "irhabi007" — the Arabic word for terrorist and the code name of the fictional British spy. With accomplices Tariq al-Daour and Waseem Mughal — who were also jailed Thursday — Tsouli offered advice and motivation to would-be terrorists on a myriad of Web pages run from their London homes, prosecutors said. The group was the leading distributor of terrorist material on the Internet prior to the three being arrested in 2005, said Evan Kohlmann, a U.S.-based terrorism consultant who gave evidence in the case. "There are people, including law enforcers, who initially thought these guys were computer geeks or hackers," Kohlmann told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C. "But they were a lot more dangerous
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4/30/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam, Iraq
Terrorists Ecstatic With Dem Debate
World Net Daily
Democratic presidential hopefuls flashing their anti-war credentials last night at a national debate by stating they would immediately withdraw from Iraq, encouraged Palestinian terrorist leaders here, who labeled the debate a victory for Iraqi insurgents and "resistance movements" throughout the world.
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4/22/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam
Al-Qaeda Seeks To Expand Its Operations
Financial Times
Al-Qaeda is reaching out from its base in Pakistan to turn militant Islamist groups in the Middle East and Africa into franchises charged with intensifying attacks on western targets, according to European officials and terrorism specialists. The development could see radical groups use al-Qaeda expertise to switch their attention from local targets to western interests in their countries and abroad. “For al-Qaeda, this is a force multiplier,” said a British official who follows terrorism.
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4/13/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam
Terrorists' Talk At Stanford Raises Controversy
CBS5.com
(CBS 5) STANFORD Three men who call themselves "ex-terrorists" are scheduled to speak on the Stanford campus next week. But the Stanford College Republicans, who was given permission by the university to sponsor Walid Shoebat and two other speakers say the university has placed numerous restrictions on their talk. The President of the student group has accused Stanford officials of censorship.
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