Jordan: ‘Prime suspect’ arrested in U.S. warship attack. From CNN: Al Qaeda in Iraq has issued a claim of responsibility for a rocket attack in Jordan just hours after Jordanian authorities said they had arrested the “prime suspect” in the attack on two U.S. warships that left a Jordanian soldier dead. The claim of responsibility, […]
Archives for August 2005
U.S. Says Terrorists May Pose As Vagrants
In the world of jihad, not everything is as it seems. The homeless person on the corner that you passed on your way to work this morning, for example. What if he’s not “just watching all the girls go by?” From AP, . WASHINGTON – Asking for increased vigilance in the wake of the London […]
Probe fans fears of prison terror plots
American prisons are proving to be fertile ground for jihad recruitment. From the San Diego Union Tribune, with thanks to Nicolei. LOS ANGELES — On the surface, the investigation of an alleged terrorism plot involving at least one former California inmate seems to confirm the fear that the nation’s prisons may be a breeding ground […]
Female Palestinian suicide bombers on the rise
Al-Jazeera aired a glowing special on female suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, on August 16, 2005. Jaradat was responsible for the October 2003 bombing of the Arab-owned restaurant Maxim in Haifa, Israel, which killed 19. She is held up as an example for other young girls to follow. Transcribed by MEMRI: Hanadi Jaradat: “By the power […]
Police foil Al-Qaeda gas attack on British Parliament
UK jihad update. “Police foil gas attack on Commons,” from the TimesOnline, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named: SCOTLAND YARD believes it has thwarted an Al-Qaeda gas attack aimed at ministers and MPs in parliament. The plot, hatched last year, is understood to have been discovered in coded e-mails on computers […]
Prosecutors say recordings in Lodi probe detail jihad intentions
While the judge isn’t sure whether these men can really be considered dangerous. An update on this story, from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: SACRAMENTO – A federal magistrate questioned whether two Lodi men held on terror-related charges can be considered dangerous, despite prosecutors’ detailing of secret recordings they say provide further evidence […]
Graham: My CAIR-Inspired Firing
Michael Graham explains how and why he was fired by WMAL in Townhall via FrontPage, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The First Amendment and I have been evicted from ABC Radio in Washington, DC. On July 25th, the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded that I be “punished” for my on-air statements regarding Islam and […]
Ancient practices still a threat to Iraqi women
Another story about the horrific practice of female genital mutilation, or FGM, now occuring with alarming frequency in the American fostered democracy of Iraq. The Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations seems to be snuffed out before it was ever lit. From the Washington Times, with thanks to JMP. GERMIAN, Iraq – Set on the arid, pebble-strewn plain southeast of […]
Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel
Jihad Watch Readers will not be surprised at this, but the folks in the White House and State Department probably are. The Guardian gains rare access to Iraqi town and finds it fully in control of ‘mujahideen’ (with thanks to Rudolf) The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. […]
Kurds say US ‘pushed’ Islamic law
From the The Age, with thanks to Lee. KURDISH politicians negotiating a draft constitution have criticised the US ambassador to Iraq for allegedly pushing them to accept too great a role for Islamic law in the US drive to complete the charter on time. Although a Sunni delegate made similar charges, US officials declined to […]