An AP story today reveals how Iraqi mosques are becoming recruitment centers for anti-American jihadists. The article quotes a preacher’s Friday sermon: “‘It’s not enough for them to defile the land, they also wanted to defile God’s book and then violate the sanctities of Muslims,’ the preacher shouted, his words carried into the street by […]
Archives for 2003
Brooklyn: ice cream shop jihad
Is your ice cream money funding global jihad? “At dawn, armed FBI (website) agents assigned to an anti-terrorism unit converged on an unlikely front in the war on terrorism: a tiny ice cream shop in Brooklyn.” They “arrested the Yemeni proprietor [Abad Elfgeeh], a naturalized U.S. citizen, who lived three floors above. Based on a […]
“It is clear to me that al Qaeda wants to take down the royal family and government of Saudi Arabia.”
So says Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, according to DEBKAfile. Also: “three or four days before the May 12 attacks, Saudi and US intelligence discovered and encircled the bombers” hideout in advance of their operation, but enough escaped to regroup at prepared alternative secret bases and pounce from there. This time too, the Americans […]
Radical Muslims rejoice
Daleel al-Mojahid, the Yahoo group that posted an early warning to Muslims to flee New York, Los Angeles, and Washington before an imminent al-Qaeda attack, is crowing about the terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia. Last night whoever runs the site posted this: “alaah akbaar “the mojahideen had struck the heart of a compound housing arab […]
Al-Qaeda to Saudis: Choose US or us
Walid Phares, one of the world’s keenest observers of Islamic terrorism, places Saturday’s bombings in the context of an Al-Qaeda ultimatum to the House of Saud: choose the USA or us. When the Saudis looked as if they were cracking down on radicals, al-Qaeda struck. Phares records the analysis of Al-Jazeera’s Washington bureau chief: “. […]
Saudis reap what they sow: new piece
In a new article at World Net Daily, “Ramadan in Saudi Arabia,” I explain how Saturday’s bombings are the fruit of years of Saudi tolerance for and even encouragement of Islamic radicalism.
The human cost of jihad
Among those murdered by Al-Qaeda jihadists yesterday in Saudi Arabia were these two Lebanese Maronite Christian children: Jad (age 4) and Raya (age 7) Mezher Here is a statement about them and the bombing from the World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU): TERRORISM MASSACRES 3, INJURES 90 OTHERS “” INCLUDING TWO LEBANESE CHILDREN IN RIYADH Source: […]
“Tomorrow O Bush is your date”
A new warning from Al-Qaeda posted at Northeast Intelligence Network: “A final warning to all of the Muslims in three sites inside the United States – Washington – New York – Los Angeles… The hit from al Qaeda is inevitable…. the complete readiness for zero day God willing depart immediately…” (Thanks to Crusader Girl at […]
“A Moderate Islamist”
A reader, Doug, has kindly pointed me to this story in which a Saudi gentleman named Mohsen al-Awajy is identified as a “moderate Islamist.” Come again? I thought “Islamist” was the term du jour for a Muslim who believes that it is part of his religious responsibility to wage war and commit acts of violence […]
Some See Ramadan As Chance for Jihad Acts
From Cairo comes more confirmation of the idea that Ramadan is seen by many Muslims as a chance to strike out in acts of “Jihad against Satan and his followers.” “‘For militant groups, Ramadan is an opportunity for escalating violence,’ Dia’a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam at Egypt’s Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic […]