From the UK TimesOnline,”Man burns wife to death after family row over prostitute” WHEN Zarina Bibi lost her battle for life in a Rawalpindi hospital on Wednesday night she became just another statistic in Pakistan’s appalling record of violent crime against women. And behind that statistic lay yet another horror story. Before she died from […]
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Iraq Jihad: Car Bombs Hit Market & Convoy
From Fox News, “Car Bomb at Iraqi Market Kills 24” BAGHDAD, Iraq “” At least 24 people died and 40 were injured after a car bomb detonated outside a busy market just south of Baghdad on Friday. The explosion ripped through crowds in the town of Suwayra. This area 25 miles south of the capital […]
Lebanon: Bombing in Christian City
From Fox News, “Blast Rocks Lebanon; One Dead” BEIRUT, Lebanon “” The interior minister said Saturday that Lebanese demanding national unity in recent weeks will not be cowed by the overnight bombing that ravaged a shopping area in a Christian city north of Beirut, killing a Sri Lankan woman and wounding two dozen. President Emile […]
Senior Al Qaeda Leader’s Notebook Seized
“Al-Libbi’s Notebook Believed to Contain Valuable Contact Information, Source Says,” from ABCNews, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: U.S. officials are working feverishly to decipher numbers and apparent codes in a notebook retrieved from suspected al Qaeda leader Abu Faraj al-Libbi, ABC News has learned. Al-Libbi — believed to be third in command of al […]
Three out of four Iraqis say Islam should be source of law
We haven’t had an I told you so update for awhile, and I hate to interfere with all the “We Won!” celebrations, but unlike many, I would rather assess the situation realistically. This just in from AFP (thanks to Doc Washburn): BAGHDAD (AFP) – Three out of four Iraqis believe Islam should be the main […]
Gaza lull shaky as Palestinians fire rocket at settlers’ school bus
School bus jihad. From Haaretz, with thanks to Twostellas: Palestinians on Friday morning fired an anti-tank rocket on Friday morning at school bus carrying children outside the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom, shaking the fragile lull in violence. The rocket failed to hit the bus. A mortar shell also hit a Gush Katif […]
Jihad Watch’s Spencer on Scarborough Country tonight–CANCELLED
I will be discussing the new dhimmi blockbuster Kingdom of Heaven on MSNBC’s Scarborough Country tonight. The show airs at 10; I don’t know when they’re planning to put on the “Kingdom of Heaven” segment. At that time I will be guest-hosting the Laurie Roth Show — through the magic of videotape, I’ll be in […]
Bomb damages shops in Pakistan town; hard-liners rally against US
News from our friend and ally, from AP, with thanks to Twostellas: MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan – A bomb exploded in a town bazaar near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan on Friday, damaging several music and video shops, days after purported militants circulated pamphlets warning against selling such goods. Also Friday, about 5,000 supporters of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, […]
Jihad Watch’s Spencer guest-hosting the Laurie Roth Show again tonight
I gave a talk to a closed group in Allentown, Pennsylvania last night, and will be flying in to Secure Undisclosed Locationville today in time to appear on “Florida Talks” with Lynne Breidenbach and then to guest-host the Laurie Roth Show tonight. When I guest-hosted last week, callers included Thomas Haidon and DC Watson — […]
Sperry: It’s Pakistan, Stupid
Paul Sperry, whose book Infiltration should be required reading for all Americans, writes in Frontpage: Law enforcement has a term for the period after a crisis when things revert to norm — condition white. Well, the American people are just about there, three-and-a-half years after the 9/11 attacks. But as the media obsess over Michael […]