Word just in from Nidra Poller on France’s vote on the EU charter: 55% NON 45% OUI Let’s hope it continues this way.
Archives for 2005
Financial Jihad Against the Infidels
Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi writes in IMRA, “What Drives Saudi Arabia to Persist in Terrorist Financing?” The U.S. offensive against terrorism has succeeded in reducing the extent of global terrorism. However, under the surface, the financial channels that are the arteries of radical Islamic movements from Hamas to the Chechens continue to operate. U.S. […]
Houser: French Muslims battle internal, external strife
Mark Houser continues his series in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, with thanks to KAOSKTRL. PARIS — Waiting for his train in a metro station named for the battle of Stalingrad, Moun R’Quibe spoke with pride of the men he considers heroes fighting in another bloody conflict — Iraq. R’Quibe, 20, born in France of Moroccan […]
Many Iraqis See Sectarian Roots in New Killings
An unsurprising assessment from the New Duranty Times. BAGHDAD – No one knows who tortured and killed Hassan al-Nuaimi, a Sunni Arab cleric whose body was found in an empty lot here last week, with a hole drilled in his head and both eyes missing. But the various theories have a distinctly sectarian tinge. The […]
Review May Shift Terror Policies
A long-overdue reassessment. “U.S. Is Expected to Look Beyond Al Qaeda,” from the Washington Post, . The Bush administration has launched a high-level internal review of its efforts to battle international terrorism, aimed at moving away from a policy that has stressed efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda leaders since Sept. 11, 2001, and […]
Pakistanis Have Head, Seek Bomber’s Identity
A update on this story from the Washington Post, “Pakistanis Find Bloodied Head of Suicide Bomber,” . ISLAMABAD, Investigators have found the head of a suicide bomber who attacked a Muslim festival in the Pakistani capital, killing at least 19 people, and are trying to establish his identity, officials said on Saturday. The attack occurred […]
US: Critics Want Probe of Islamic School in Virginia
From the Washington Times, “Critics want probe of Alexandria Islamic school” The Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria is an outpost of militant Islam, say critics who point out that the school’s 1999 valedictorian is charged with joining al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush. Two other persons connected to the academy also have been […]
Syria Arrests 300 Saudis
From Arab News, “Syria Arrests 300 Saudis: Report,” . JEDDAH “” More than 300 Saudis have been arrested at the airport in Damascus and along the Syrian border on suspicion they were en route to Iraq to fight alongside insurgents, press reports said yesterday. Relatives of some of the arrested told Al-Watan Arabic daily that […]
Brothers took different paths to violence
From Boston Globe, with thanks to Skeet Street. BAGHDAD, Iraq — The younger brother was slender and serious, a former bodyguard for Saddam Hussein. He became a Muslim fundamentalist, grew his beard, and prayed five times a day. The older brother was a used-car salesman who told off-color jokes and made regular trips to a […]
Elbaz: Dangerous Liaisons Part III
Michel Elbaz, general coordinator of AxisGlobal writes about “the covert ‘love affair’ between Russia and Hezbollah.” Moscow Base for Recruiting “Shahids`” With the collapse of Soviet rule, hundreds of Islamic extremists from all over the Muslim world spread across Russia. Emissaries of the different Sunni organizations started to compete for influence among the ex-Soviet Muslims. […]