Archives for 2005

From the Chicago Tribune, with thanks to Skeetstreet: CAIRO – An Internet journal purportedly issued by Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia appeared for the first time in several months Wednesday and asked why Muslims on the Arabian Peninsula have not heeded a call to hunt down Americans. The magazine Sawt al-Jihad, or Voice of Holy […]

This is the sort of problem the Saudis have been quite happy to fix in other places — and with their money comes their ideology. “Jihad jinx: J-K militants bankrupt,” from the India Monitor, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Friday April 28, 2005,New Delhi:The militants are going through a rough patch in the Valley […]

Andrew McCarthy write in NRO about how The State department plays games with terrorism statistics. “Release “Em” Terrorist attacks globally are up sharply. Perhaps by well over 300 percent. That’s bad. But it’s a fact. Given that international terrorism is the defining national-security issue of this era, shouldn’t we know the facts? In detail? The […]

Joel Mowbray writes in Frontpage about the DHS policy of “Setting Terrorists Free” The Department of Homeland Security is releasing drug smugglers and human traffickers, and perhaps even suspected terrorists and violent felons, as a matter of policy “” because it doesn’t have the resources to keep them in custody. In a classified memo issued […]

From the Washington Times, “Army says fighting likely after pullout” …In an interview in Tel Aviv this week, a senior military source told United Press International that the militant Palestinian groups’ leaders and operational commanders assume the calming-down period — or tahadiyah in Arabic — will not last long… Members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and […]

From Reuters, “Iran Says Will Restart Enrichment if Talks Fail” THE HAGUE – Iran will restart its uranium enrichment program if talks with European Union heavyweights France, Britain and Germany fail on Friday, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Thursday. “If there is no agreement and negotiations collapse, there is no choice but to restart […]

From the UAE’s 7Days, “One of just 12 women MPs in Iran’s parliament wants to stand for President – if she’s allowed” Iranian lawmaker Rafat Bayat may be bidding to be the first woman allowed to run for president since the 1979 Islamic revolution, but she rejects Western accusations that the country is oppressing its […]

It seems the Saudis have still more explaining to do. From the UK Financial Times, “Al-Qaeda suspect ‘had envoy’s passport’” A Swiss-based businessman accused by the US Treasury of providing financial help to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda carried a Saudi diplomatic passport, according to copies of documents contained in a book published today in […]

From the Scottsman, “Laptop yields al-Qaeda secrets” COALITION forces in Iraq have seized a laptop computer thought to belong to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda’s area leader, providing them with vital intelligence on the insurgency which is continuing to wreak havoc across the country. Air Force General Richard Myers, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs […]

News from Canada’s CBC, “U.S. troops may have killed Canadian in Iraq: reports” OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs is investigating whether U.S. troops killed a Canadian on the weekend in Iraq. A Foreign Affairs spokeswoman confirmed to the CBC on Tuesday that a Canadian, whom she did not identify, died on Saturday. A source told Broadcast […]