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5/3/2007 | Freedom of Religion, Equal Rights, Freedom of Speech, Iraq, Marriage, Terrorism
Will Bush veto 'thought police'?
WorldNetDaily
The nation's largest public policy women's group is asking President Bush to commit to a veto of a "hate crimes" plan that, as WND has reported, opponents fear would target Christians and be used to demolish both freedom of speech and religion in the United States. "Last week the House Judiciary Committee, egged on by radical homosexual groups, passed what can only be called a Thought Crimes bill," said former White House insider Chuck Colson in his Breakpoint commentary. "It's called the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. But this bill is not about hate. It's not even about crime. It's about outlawing peaceful speech – speech that asserts that homosexual behavior is morally wrong."
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5/1/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
Unconfirmed reports say al Qaeda in Iraq leader dead
CNN.com
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Unconfirmed reports Tuesday indicated that Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri had died in fighting between rival militant groups north of the Iraqi capital, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman. "We received intelligence reports of al-Masri getting killed in clashes between al-Qaeda in Iraq and other militant groups, at dawn today, in al-Niba'ie in Taji, north of Baghdad," Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf said. According to Khalaf, the reports are based on "very strong intelligence," but he added al-Masri's body has not been seen and stressed that the reported battle was an internal fight between rival militant groups -- no Iraqi troops were involved.
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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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4/24/2007 | Terrorism
British Police Arrest 6 on Terrorism Charges
FoxNews.com
LONDON — British anti-terrorist police on Tuesday arrested six people who were suspected of inciting others to commit acts of terrorism overseas and raising funds for terrorism. Five of the arrests took place in London and one in Luton, northwest of London, the Metropolitan Police said. • Get complete coverage in FOXNews.com's War on Terror Center. "The arrests form part of a long-term pro-active and complex investigation into alleged incitement and radicalization for the purposes of terrorism, as well as alleged provision of financial support for international terrorism," a police spokesman said on condition of anonymity in line with force policy. The men were being held at an unnamed central London police station. Police said a number of searches were ongoing in connection with the investigation. Police did not immediately identify the six. The British Broadcasting Corporation said, however, that one of the men was believed to be Abu Izzadeen, also known as Omar Brooks, who heckled Home Secretary John Reid last year.
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4/24/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Suicide Bombing in Iraq
New York Times
BAGHDAD, Tuesday, April 24 — A devastating suicide car bombing on Monday killed nine American soldiers near a patrol base in Diyala Province, the military announced early Tuesday morning. Today, The Islamic State of Iraq, an insurgent group that includes Al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the attack, The Associated Press reported, citing a Web statement.
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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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4/19/2007 | Gun Control, Terrorism
Gunman Sends NBC Final Message
Time
Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC headquarters in New York containing photos of him brandishing guns and video of him delivering an angry, profanity-laced tirade about rich kids and hedonism. "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone, in an excerpt shown on "NBC Nightly News." "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
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4/18/2007 | Education, Gun Control, Terrorism
Threats Rattle Schools in 10 States
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities, high schools and middle schools in at least 10 states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people. Threats in Louisiana, Montana and Washington state directly mentioned the massacre in Virginia, while others were reports of suspicious activity in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan. In Louisiana, parents picked up hundreds of students from Bogalusa's high school and middle school amid reports that a man had been arrested Tuesday morning for threatening a mass killing in a note that alluded to the murders at Virginia Tech.
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4/18/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
U.S. Kills 5 Suspects, Capture 30 in Anbar Province Raid
FoxNews.com
BAGHDAD — Two explosions rocked Baghdad at midday Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 19, police said. Meanwhile, U.S. troops killed five suspects and captured 30 others in a raid in Iraq's western Anbar province, a day after police uncovered 17 decomposing corpses beneath two school yards in the provincial capital. The U.S. military also announced a discovery made nearly a week earlier — 3,000 gallons of nitric acid hidden in a warehouse in downtown Baghdad. U.S. forces found the acid — a key component in fertilizer but also explosives — during a routine search operation last Thursday, the military said.
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4/17/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
Iraq truck bomb attack thwarted
CNN.com
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A dump truck loaded with a nitric acid and explosives overturned before carrying out an attack on a joint U.S.-Iraqi post in a small village north of Baghdad Monday, according to the U.S. military. The coalition patrol captured the driver, who confessed he had been paid to detonate a truck bomb at the Joint Security Station in the village of Mashada, 30 miles north of Baghdad, the military said in a statement released Tuesday. The coalition patrol found eight containers of nitric aid, eight explosives and two large rounds of ordnance while trying to help the driver who had wrecked the vehicle.
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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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4/12/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam
An Alleged Terrorist in Ohio -- Feds Say Man Supported Al Qaeda
ABC News
April 12, 2007 — An Ohio man has been charged with supporting al Qaeda and planning terrorist attacks overseas. According to a newly unsealed indictment, Christopher Paul, also known as Abdul Malek, traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 1990s to train for jihad. The indictment alleges Paul, a Columbus, Ohio, native, provided money and military training to radicals in Germany. The indictment alleges that Paul "provided explosive training to co-conspirators in Germany in order to assist them in preparing to conduct attacks using explosives on targets in Europe and the United States."
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4/11/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
Red Cross: Iraq situation 'ever-worsening'
CNN.com
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The situation for civilians in Iraq is "ever-worsening," even though security in some places has improved as a result of stepped-up efforts by U.S.-led multinational forces, the international Red Cross said Wednesday. It is difficult to determine the numbers of people killed in shootings, bombings and military operations, but the overall picture of what is happening the country has been steadily deteriorating, with numbers of refugees swelling, medical staff fleeing and other problems growing, a key official said. "It is clear that the security situation has improved in certain instances," especially in southern Iraq, said Pierre Kraehenbuehl, director of operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC.
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4/9/2007 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
Taliban Behead Afghan Translator
CNN
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- The kidnapped translator for an Italian journalist was beheaded in southern Afghanistan, Afghan authorities and a purported spokesman for the Taliban said. Ajmal Naqshbandi, a freelance journalist and translator, was kidnapped along with a driver and Daniele Mastrogiacomo of the Italian daily La Repubblica, in southern Helmand province on March 5. The driver, Sayed Agha, was beheaded, and Mastrogiacomo was released March 19 in a much criticized swap for five Taliban militants.
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4/8/2007 | Terrorism
U.S. congressman meets with Mubarak's banned rival
CNN.com
• House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met with leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood • Muslim Brotherhood is outlawed but tolerated by Egyptian government • Organization renounced violence in 1970s • Meeting on the heels of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria over Bush's objection CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- A top U.S. Democratic congressman met a leader of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's most powerful rival, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, U.S. officials and the Islamist group said Saturday. Visiting House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met with the head of the Muslim Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc, Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, twice on Thursday -- once at the parliament building and then at the home of the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, said Brotherhood spokesman Hamdi Hassan. U.S. Embassy spokesman John Berry would confirm only that Hoyer, who represents Maryland, met with el-Katatni at U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone's home at a reception with other politicians and parliament members. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has refused in the past to meet with the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest opposition group.
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4/7/2007 | Iran, Radical Islam, Terrorism
Iran: Sailors' Press Conference 'A Show'
Breitbat.com
Iran's state television said the British military "dictated" to its sailors what to say in a press conference on Friday. The former captives told reporters they were pressured while in custody to admit to being in Iranian waters. In its news report on the sailors, Iranian state TV said they held a "pre-organised" press conference in which "the British sailors only read from pages dictated to them." "They made statements completely different from what they had said in Iran and claimed that they were in Iraqi waters when detained," the TV newsreader said.
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4/6/2007 | Terrorism, Radical Islam
Feds May Move On Local Mosques
metroactive.com
After 23-year-old Lodi resident Hamid Hayat was convicted last year of training at a terrorist camp in Pakistan, government officials warned that terror investigations in Northern California were ongoing. Now, members of the Bay Area's Muslim community believe that the FBI is close to making additional high-profile arrests of one or more terror suspects who frequent mosques in Silicon Valley and the East Bay. According to a source informed about the investigation, one of the organizations targeted in the Bay Area terror probe is the Tablighi Jamaat, a conservative-leaning Muslim organization, founded in India during the 1920s, that boasts world-wide membership and whose primary focus is to persuade Muslims to recommit to their faith.
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4/5/2007 | Iraq, Terrorism
Iraqi PM: Some Officials Are Involved In Terrorism
USA Today
BAGHDAD (AP) — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told U.S. President George W. Bush in a recent videoconference that some Iraqi officials are involved in terrorism, government officials said Wednesday. The two leaders spoke Monday, a day after U.S. officials in Baghdad reported two suicide vests had been found near a trash bin in the "Green Zone," the highly guarded area of central Baghdad where the U.S. Embassy is located.
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4/5/2007 | Terrorism, Iran
House Democrats Offer Plan to Ban Use of 'Global War on Terror'
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader John Boehner blasted a Democrat-backed plan on Wednesday to ban the use of "global War on Terror" and "long war" in the 2008 defense budget bill. A memo sent to Democratic staffers on the House Armed Services Committee instructed the aides not to use the specific phrases, the Military Times newspaper reported. • Click here to read the memo. Erin Conaton, the committee's staff director, sent out the 15-page memo titled "Style Guide for Defense Authorization Report." "When referencing military operations throughout the world, please be as specific as possible. Please avoid using colloquialisms such as, 'the war on terrorism, or the 'Long War' Please do not use the term 'global war on terrorism,' " according to the memo. Late Wednesday afternoon, a source told FOX News that the panel had sent out a revised version making it clear that there was “no political intent behind” the wording.
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4/2/2007 | Iraq, Radical Islam, Terrorism
McCain: Iraq Strategy Working
The Philadelphia Inquirer
BAGHDAD - After a heavily guarded trip to a Baghdad market, Sen. John McCain insisted yesterday that a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the capital was working, and said Americans lacked a "full picture" of the progress. The U.S. military later reported that six soldiers were killed in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad.
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