Egypt tourist bombings update: “Egypt Detains 70 People for Resort Attacks,” from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt – Egyptian police searched for clues Sunday and struggled to identify bodies from the 88 people killed in three bomb blasts that rocked this Red Sea resort, sending foreign tourists scrambling to catch […]
Archives for 2005
Man Killed in Subway Not Linked to Blasts
A tragic update to this story from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: LONDON – Police identified the man who was chased down in a subway and shot to death by plainclothes officers as a Brazilian and said Saturday they no longer believed he was tied to the recent terror bombings. Friday’s shooting before […]
Claim: Mossad behind Sharm attacks
88 people are reported dead in the Egyptian resort town. From the Jerusalem Post: Several Egyptian “security experts” and “political analysts” interviewed by Arab TV stations in the aftermath of the Sharm e-Sheikh bombings on Saturday claimed that Israel and Jews were behind the carnage. The accusations that Israel was responsible for the deadly attacks […]
Bolt: Importing hatred
Andrew Bolt writes in Australia’s Herald Sun, with thanks to Looney Tunes. It’s time we accepted the difficult truth: many of the Muslims we invite to live in Australia want to destroy us. FOR four years, since the September 11 attacks, I’ve begged our Islamic leaders to drive extremists from their mosques. For four years […]
Why it’s time for Dutch justice to get tough
Expatica takes a tough editorial line, with thanks to Dutch Cares. Mohammed B. is a scary individual and society must take whatever measures necessary to ensure he never gets another opportunity to menace the public. He has made very clear this is precisely what he intends to do if he is ever gets the chance […]
Shoot-to-Kill Policy Worries UK Muslims
They needn’t worry about the shoot to kill policy if they stop when called upon to do so. It does now appear that the man shot by police near the subway was not connected with the bombings and they admit to shooting the wrong man. From Arab News, with thanks to Skeet Street. LONDON “” […]
U.N. seeks first political definition of terrorism
World body’s blueprint for reform will address the terrorism issue, from AP, with thanks to Skeet Street. UNITED NATIONS – U.N. diplomats have revised their blueprint for reforming the world body to include a definition of terrorism, indicating nations are moving toward consensus on a contentious global issue. World leaders are to consider the plan […]
Resurgence of piracy highlights terror risk
Southeast Asia struggles to protect vulnerable waterway from terrorist threats from MSNBC, with thanks to Skeet Street. When 35 pirates carrying machine guns and rocket launchers boarded a tanker laden with methane in the Malacca Strait in March, it sent a shudder through the crew, and a ripple of fear from Tokyo to Washington. The […]
One in four British Muslims sympathises with motives of terrorists
From the UK Telegraph, with thanks to all who sent this in. The group portrait of British Muslims painted by YouGov’s survey for The Daily Telegraph is at once reassuring and disturbing, in some ways even alarming. The vast majority of British Muslims condemn the London bombings but a substantial minority are clearly alienated from […]
Canada: Imams won’t let woman leader use mosque’s front entrance
Sharia alert from the Daily Times, with thanks to Twostellas: WASHINGTON: Canadian imams who gathered in a Toronto mosque on Thursday to denounce London bombings and distance themselves from extremism, refused to allow the woman president of a progressive Muslim organisation to enter the mosque through the front door. They insisted that Niaz Salimi, president […]