Iraq jihad update from AP via Fox News, . BAGHDAD, Iraq “” A man strapped with explosives blew himself at an Iraqi military recruiting center in Baghdad as homicide bombers attacked three times in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 33 people and breaking a relative lull in violence in recent days. The attacks pushed […]
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Italy Arrests 142 in Anti-Terror Sweep
From AP via Fox News: ROME “” Police said Saturday they had arrested 142 people in a two-day anti-terrorism security sweep around Milan prompted by the bombings two days earlier in London. Some 2,000 carabinieri fanned out across the Lombardy region, stepping up patrols around train stations, subways, commercial centers and other sensitive sites, the […]
Thornton: Jihad Is Knocking
Another Episode in the War between Christendom and Islam. Here’s Bruce Thornton in Victor Hanson’s Private Papers, with thanks to all who sent this in. The slaughter in London is another grisly wake-up call that likely will go as unheeded as earlier ones. Already the standard narrative is being trotted out: evildoers created by what […]
Ten Afghan Soldiers Beheaded by Militants
From AP, with thanks to Skeet Street. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Suspected Taliban gunmen ambushed an Afghani government border patrol in the desert near the frontier with Pakistan, killing 10 soldiers and beheading their bodies, a provincial governor said Sunday. The victims served on a 25-member patrol in southern Helmand province that was attacked late Saturday […]
In London, Islamic Radicals Found a Haven
Abu Hamza trial update from The Washington Post, . LONDON, July 9 — On the morning after bombs ripped through the London Underground and crumpled a double-decker bus, four security guards escorted a one-eyed, Egyptian-born cleric, his arms amputated below the elbows from Afghan war injuries, onto the elevated dock of Courtroom No. 1 in […]
A “very, very small number” of foreign extremists…
These British ministers are ignoring the likelihood that even if the perpetrators were foreign, they very likely received aid and comfort from British Muslims. From the Telegraph, “‘Foreign terrorist cell’ was behind London bombings,” . Police were last night searching for a foreign-based Islamic terrorist cell after it was disclosed that three of the four […]
London Muslims Fear Backlash After Bombs
Why don’t UK Muslims fear more terrorist attacks? Why don’t they concentrate on rooting out jihad terrorists from their ranks? If they did, they would find a great deal less to fear from any backlash. From AP, with thanks to Anthony. Thousands of Muslims crowded London mosques for Friday prayers, condemning the bombings, but also […]
Birmingham reopens after security scare
More on suspicious packages everywhere and an update on this story. From CBC, with thanks to PRCS. British authorities reopened parts of Birmingham on Sunday after clearing as many as 30,000 people out of the downtown on the previous evening because of a reported threat. Police officers continued to search into the morning in some […]
Four people killed in Algeria violence
From UPI, . Security sources Saturday said an armed group slaughtered three soldiers and killed a civilian in an ambush in eastern Algeria. About 50 gunmen dressed in military fatigues Wednesday night stopped a number of cars at a bogus checkpoint they set up on a road 62 miles east of the capital. Officials in […]
Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits
Regular readers of Jihad Watch will not be surprised by this report. From the TimesOnline, with thanks to all who sent this in. AL-QAEDA is secretly recruiting affluent, middle-class Muslims in British universities and colleges to carry out terrorist attacks in this country, leaked Whitehall documents reveal. A network of “extremist recruiters” is circulating on […]