Pakistani duplicity update from Reuters, with thanks to Fanabba: KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan security forces have arrested three Pakistanis for allegedly planning to assassinate the U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan government official said on Monday. The Pakistanis, who were suspected of being linked to a Pakistani Islamic militant group, were arrested in the eastern […]
Archives for June 2005
Sculpture banned from the Venice Biennale
Because it might offend Muslims, of course. From Index, with thanks to Susan: A sculpture by German artist Gregor Schneider was banned from the 51st Venice Biennale because the event’s organisers said it might be offensive to Muslims. The sculpture was a 15-metre-high cube covered in black fabric modelled after the Ka’ba in Mecca and […]
Pakistan: Terror Camps Scatter, Persist
More on Pakistani duplicity from the LA Times, with thanks to Looney Tunes: WASHINGTON “” U.S. counter-terrorism authorities say that the detention of a Lodi, Calif.-based group of Pakistani men this month underscores a serious problem: the Islamabad government’s failure to dismantle hundreds of jihadist training camps. Long before the FBI arrested Hamid Hayat and […]
Jordan: Siham Qandah victory sealed
A most welcome update on the Siham Qandah saga. But note that she still has to select a Muslim guardian for her children, since her husband putatively converted to Islam before his death, without telling her a word about it. “Jordan: Widow wins final Court Battle,” from CompassDirect: June 16 — A Jordanian court of […]
FBI warns of possible threat to power plants
More empty threats? Probably. The problem is that years can go by that are utterly filled with empty threats, and then the jihadists can strike again. Remember the interval between the 1993 WTC attack and the one in 2001. From the Stamford Advocate, with thanks to A Friend: The FBI has alerted police about vague, […]
UK: Railway jihad?
Maybe, maybe not. Not the work of “yobs,” say the British police. And I know of one group within Britain that has declared war against it, and that is the jihadists. “Railway signals damage was sabotage,” from EDP24, with thanks to A Friend: Police investigating the cutting of railway signals between London and Norwich said […]
University of Arkansas student arrested on suspicion of jihadist activity
“FBI Takes U Of A Student Into Custody On Terrorism Suspicion,” from the HometownChannel.com, with thanks to A Friend: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A University of Arkansas graduate student was taken into custody by the FBI on Friday after agents received reports that he could be involved in a terrorist organization. Agents arrested Arwah Jaber after […]
Anti-Jewish propaganda film shown in Dutch mosques
In December I posted about an anti-Semitic propaganda film, “Zahra’s Blue Eyes,” which depicts the vile slander of Jewish doctors stealing the eyes of a Palestinian child. It was being shown in Iran at that time. But now it is being shown in Holland. Here is a somewhat rough English translation of this Dutch article, […]
“The Koran Doesn’t Oppose Women Driving”
An interview with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Feisal. “Saudi Arabia is changing at an incredibly quick pace,” he says. Looks as if he’s right, eh? Wow! Women drivers! Of course, it isn’t legal yet. From Spiegel Online, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater: SPIEGEL ONLINE: Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Saudi Arabia has continually […]
Al-Qaida said angry at Sudan for passing data to US
From the Who’s Side Are You On Department, via London’s Al-Sharq al-Awsat, : LONDON, June 18, 2005 (Al-Sharq al-Awsat) — Fundamentalists in London say that the unprecedented attack on the Sudanese government by Ayman al-Zawahri, the number one ally of the leader of Al-Qaida Organization Osama bin Ladin, in his new tape that was broadcast […]