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Adam Gadahn killed in airstrike?
Al-Qaeda's propaganda chief "may have fallen victim to an expanded programme of predator assassinations," according to The Daily Telegraph....
Forest fire jihad
In postings online by a group called the Al-Ikhlas Islamic Network, Muslims are urged to deliberately start forest fires because "scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels' forest...
Suicide bomber disguised as beggar kills six
Reported by AFP: "A suicide bomber disguised as a beggar blew himself up inside a government building in Afghanistan Saturday, killing a state prosecutor and five other people, a provincial governor s...
Interview with Brigitte Gabriel
At the right-wing FrontPage Magazine site, here. Gabriel is the author of a new book, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It....
Walid Phares: 10 questions about al-Qaeda and its Jihadi nebulous
Here....
Somali terrorists to double their attacks during Ramadan
It is "in compliance with the guidance of our prophet Mohammed": An Islamist militia commander said Monday his fighters will intensify attacks against government and Ethiopian forces even during the ...
Taliban will continue attacks during Ramadan
Canwest News Service: "Pakistani Taliban will continue attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, rejecting a government announcement that it would halt military action in the northwest, a Ta...
Wahhabi hate preachers in the Regent's Park Mosque
Islam, as it is taught by female preachers to Muslim women at the notorious Regent's Park Mosque in London: What should be done to a Muslim who converts to another faith? "We kill him," she says, "ki...
A. C. Grayling on religion and its history of self-inflicted pain
For The Times: "Now in a Manchester courtroom a Shia Muslim has been found guilty of child cruelty because he made two teenage boys take part in a self-flagellation ritual using a whip made of knife b...
Hezbollah promises "revenge" against Israel
Hezbollah deputy secretary-thug Sheikh Na'im Kassem swears revenge for the killing of terrorist mastermind Imad Mughniyeh (assassinated in February, presumably by Israel, possibly with Arab help, alth...
Islamic Jihad threatens "the fires of hell" against Israel
The thugs staged a military parade in the Gaza Strip, complete with venomous, hate-dripping rhetoric (reported by AFP): "We will unleash the fires of hell if the Zionist enemy continues its crimes," ...
Two executions by sword in Saudi Arabia
Yesterday, the head of a Pakistani man, convicted of murder "with stones," went flying in Mecca, and today (the Ministry of Beheadings announced) a man from Mali was executed (in Riyadh, probably) for...
Nine killed, one beheaded in Algeria
Reported by the Associated Press: "Islamist militants raided a bootleg bar in Algeria and beheaded one of its patrons because he was a prison guard, Algerian media reported Saturday, and a security of...
At least 43 killed in Algerian suicide bomb attack
The attack (obviously by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) targeted a police school in the town of Issers....
At least 23 killed in Pakistan hospital bomb
Muslim brothers, living peacefully: A bombing outside the emergency gate of a hospital crowded with Shiite Muslim mourners in Pakistan's volatile northwest killed at least 23 people and wounded 15 Tu...
Hezbollah signs pact with Salafist groups to "confront America"
Special report by Walid Phares....
Islamic terrorists plotted to attack the British royal family
Reported by The Daily Telegraph: "A terror cell caught with details of bomb-making and suicide vests may have been plotting to attack the Queen and members of the Royal family." Too bad they didn't ge...
Four teenagers to be hanged in Iran
Reported by AKI: "Four young people, who were minors at the time their alleged crimes were committed, are expected to be hanged in the next few days."...
Taliban used human shields again
Reported by The Daily Telegraph: "Taliban forces deliberately used a compound sheltering civilians for an attack that led to British troops bombing the home and killing an Afghan woman and two childre...
Latest "spy" beheaded by the Taliban
Reported here: "Militants beheaded a man accused of spying for the United States-led NATO forces late on Saturday in Shawaal, 70 kilometres from Miranshah in North Waziristan. The beheaded body of 40-...
How strong is al-Qaeda at 20?
Analysis by Peter Bergen for The Washington Post....
Ten arrested for the Ahmedabad blasts
The arrested terrorists are members of Indian Mujahideen, which the Indian authorities say is another name for the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. Two of the arrested, Mufti Abu Bashir and ...
Woman sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery
In Iran, reported by Amnesty International: "An Iranian woman has been sentenced to 100 lashes, after being found guilty of adultery at a retrial. The woman, Shamaheh Ghorbani, claims that she only sa...
Third straight day of bomb attacks on Shi'ite pilgrims
Today at least six people were killed when a car bomb exploded as pilgrims were boarding minibuses in Baghdad. Related posts Female suicide bomber attacks Shi'ite pilgrims ...
The Taliban tax to fund holy war
Reported by the Daily Times in Pakistan: "The Taliban are financing their 'jihad' against the United States and supporting the families of the militants killed in the war with private taxation." Addit...
The Taliban war on aid organizations
Report by Anand Gopal for The Christian Science Monitor. Related posts Three female aid workers killed in Taliban ambush ...
Three female aid workers killed in Taliban ambush
In Afghanistan: "They were traveling in a car towards Kabul," said Abdullah Wardak, the governor of Logar province south of Kabul where the incident took place. "Three foreign women employees of IRC ...
Al-Qaeda's Mata Hari
ABC News report on Aafia Siddique, "the most significant capture in five years," according to former CIA officer John Kiriakou....
Woman arrested for driving
Where else but in Saudi Arabia......
Al-Qaeda calls for jihad in Mauritania
First this from Reuters: Mauritania's new military leaders will take a harder line on al Qaeda militants than the democratic civilian administration they deposed last week, the country's new ruler Mo...