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 […]
Archives for 2005
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 […]
Lawyer: FBI officials clueless about terrorism
I suspect that this is true in large part because of politically correct niceties that make it impossible for the Fibbies to speak openly and honestly about the true causes and goals of Islamic terrorism. By starting with the unsupportable but also never-to-be-questioned dogma that contemporary terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, they doom […]
Latest Al-Zawahiri Video on Al-Jazeera: “Reform and Expelling the Invaders from the Lands of Islam will Only be Accomplished by Fighting for the Sake of Allah”
From MEMRI: On Friday June 17, 2005, Al-Jazeera TV released a tape of an address by Al-Qa’ida deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The following are excerpts from the speech by Al-Zawahiri aired by Al-Jazeera: Al-Zawahiri: “True reform is based on three principles: “The first principle is the rule of Shari’a[Islamic law], because Shari’a, which was given […]