Archives for 2003

From Bahrain’s Gulf News comes a story headlined “Islamic activists held in Pakistan.” “Islamic activists,” eh? Were they working to get out the vote? Or to fluoridate the water? Not quite: “A police official said that Sajid Ali Naqvi, head of Islami Tehrik-e-Pakistan and accused over the killing of Maulana Azam Tariq, the leader of […]

MSNBC says that for Ramadan, “Yemen’s government on Sunday freed 92 followers of the al-Qaida terrorist network who have repented, a Yemeni judge responsible for dialogue with suspected terrorists said.” This isn’t the first time this has happened. “At least 70 repentant militants have been released by Yemen in the last two years.” How do […]

Not just Japan, but Australia, Italy, and Britain are now being threatened by Al-Qaeda. We can hope it’s more empty bluster, but it does seem as if this small group of discredited fanatics has a global reach. (Thanks to LGF.)

This report comes from World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty researcher and writer, Elizabeth Kendal, courtesy Freedom Now News: EGYPT: CHRISTIANS IMPRISONED – ISLAMISTS RELEASED ——————————————————————– The Egyptian government recently released around 1,000 members of the Islamist fundamentalist group Gammaa el-Islamiya, and then moved to detain and torture Christians (apostates; i.e. former Muslims) for changing their […]

“A London-based Saudi newspaper, Al-Majallah, said it has received a statement from Al-Qaeda warning of an attack in Tokyo and claiming responsibility for last week’s anti-Italian bombing in Iraq.” This from AFP. Why Tokyo? Because they may send troops to Iraq. “Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, purported to be an Al-Qaeda leader, warned the Japanese against sending […]

“An Arab newspaper reported Sunday that it received a claim of responsibility from the al-Qaida terrorist group for the car bomb attacks that killed 23 people in two Istanbul synagogues a day earlier.” So says AP. Of course, Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the great East Coast blackout, too. But over 100,000 men went through their […]

“The Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein’s long-range missile program has fled to neighboring Iran, a country identified as a state sponsor of terrorism with a successful missile program and nuclear ambitions, U.S. officers involved in the weapons hunt told The Associated Press. “Dr. Modher Sadeq-Saba al-Tamimi’s departure comes as top weapons makers from Saddam’s […]

“Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali has said that international terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are hiding in the north-western province of Pakistan. ‘They are most likely hiding in Pakistan’s north-western province bordering Afghanistan,’ Jalali told RIA Novosti news agency at the end of his three-day visit to Moscow.” Jalali […]

“An audiotape purportedly made by Saddam Hussein told Iraqis on Sunday to step up their resistance to the U.S.-led occupation, saying the United States and its allies misjudged the difficulty of occupying Iraq.” Thus says AP. This message, like many of Saddam’s messages toward the end of his rule, urges resistance in the name of […]

A reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, traveling in Istanbul, records some tourists’ reactions to the Istanbul synagogue bombings: “Americans touring Turkey’s largest city Saturday reacted with disbelief that terrorism had shattered a peaceful religious and ethnic co-existence that is foreign to many other Muslim countries.” President Bush said it too: “I condemn in the […]