From the New Duranty Times: LONDON – Less than a month before the London bombings, Britain’s top intelligence and law enforcement officials concluded that “at present there is not a group with both the current intent and the capability to attack the U.K.,” according to a confidential terror threat assessment report. The previously undisclosed report […]
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London Bombers ‘met chief plotter’ in Karachi
A Pakistani link is becoming clear. From the TimesOnline, : STARING confidently ahead as he arrives in Pakistan for what is believed to be a rendezvous with the mastermind who plotted the London attacks, one of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, hands his British passport to immigration officials. Behind him in the queue of arrivals […]
Iraq’s Christians Fearful of Islamic Law
We have posted many stories here over the last year and a half about the persecution of Iraqi Christians by a resurgent pro-Sharia militancy. This one comes from the Zenit News Agency, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: LONDON, JULY 16, 2005 (Zenit) – The long-awaited constitution now being prepared in Iraq could effectively turn […]
Canadian Islamic organization retracts smears of Daniel Pipes
One of the chief weapons that American Muslim advocacy groups use to control the public debate about Islamic terrorism is argument by slur: those who dare to defend the equality of dignity of all people against the threat posed by Sharia and jihad are routinely called “bigoted,” “hatemongering,” “reckless,” etc. This is a very clever […]
Mamoun Tamimi: “Blair Will Fall Just Like Aznar”
Palestinian National Council Member Mamoun Tamimi on the London Bombings from MEMRI: The following are excerpts from an Al-Jazeera television interview on the London bombings, with Palestinian National Council member Mamoun Al-Tamimi…The interview aired on July 12, 2005 on Al-Jazeera TV. Host: We heard the British Home Secretary say that what happened in London has […]
Nelson: Time to rethink our multicultural society
We may well think about reviving the melting pot ideal ourselves as Fraser Nelson writing in the Scotsman suggests for the British. TONY BLAIR faces two enemies in his new war against British terrorism: the seed of jihad, and the fertile ground on which it is sown. The last mission of his premiership will be […]
Akhtar: The backlash has begun, and I fear for the innocent
Rajnaara C Akhtar, a British Muslim activist and the acting chair of the Assembly for the Protection of Hijab, writes in the Independent, with thanks to Nobody’s Business. When the reports of the bombings initially emerged on 7/7, sadness was followed by anger, a sinking heart and a silent prayer: “Please don’t let it be […]
Tancredo: If They Nuke Us, Bomb Mecca
We at Jihad Watch think that there are many other ways to put pressure on jihadists short of this and that these other tactics should be tried first. We hope and pray that Muslims repudiate and renounce jihad ideology before it comes to this. From Fox News: DENVER “” A Colorado congressman told a radio […]
Teacher is identified as ‘Mr K’ who inspired other suicide-bombers
More on Mohammed Sidique Khan from the Independent: The Edgware Road bomber had international terrorist connections, helped fund terrorism and may have been an operative in Israel, yet evaded MI5’s attention last year because he was considered to be too low-level a criminal. Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, had links with an al-Qai’da operative, visited Pakistani […]
Dutch Jihadis in Iraq?
An update on this story. The Army Times reports about the soldier hit by a sniper in Iraq who then captured and medically treated the wounded sniper who had just tried to kill him. The sniper has a video rolling and now it seems the jihadi sniper is speaking Dutch with an Moroccan accent. Thanks […]