Archives for 2005

Adel al-Jubeir has been selling his snake oil in Washington for quite some time. This is not the first time his polished words have rung hollow. When is fighting terrorism not fighting terrorism? When wanton jihadist murders of civilian non-combatants in one particular country are not condemned. From Globes Online, with thanks to Nicolei and […]

From Reuters, with thanks to RB: DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda Organization in Iraq has slammed as a gathering of infidels an international conference to mark the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, and said Islam will prevail. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the three-day conference in the Spanish capital Thursday the world […]

Tiny Minority of Extremists and Where Does Abbas Really Stand updates, from AP, with thanks to RB: NABLUS,(West Bank)–Hamas announced Saturday it would participate in the upcoming Palestinian Authority parliamentary election, a decision that could undermine Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ attempts to renew peacemaking with Israel. In recent municipal elections in the Gaza Strip, Hamas won […]

It seems that those Iranian protesters are now engaged in a hunger stike. From AP, with thanks to Kemaste and RB: A spokesman for a group of unarmed Iranian protesters holed up on a Lufthansa airliner at Brussels airport said tonight they are on a hunger strike and are prepared to die for their cause […]

“Terrorist Website Drops Dirty Bomb,” from Arab News, with thanks to Jay and RB: JEDDAH, 11 March 2005 – A terrorist group has published a do-it-yourself plan to make a dirty bomb on its Internet site. Named Alma’sadah Al-Jihadiah, the site is run by a group whose aim is to promote and propagate terror activities […]

More “charitable” activity — and jihadist expansion in South America. From WND, with thanks to EPG and RB: With Islamic “charities” under increasing international pressure and scrutiny to cut ties with terrorists, al-Qaida and other allied organizations are expanding operations in Latin America, establishing both legitimate and criminal enterprises to fund future operations, reports Joseph […]

Kathryn Jean Lopez of NRO (thanks to RB) recently interviewed Barbara Newman, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and coauthor of Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil: National Review Online: I did a double take when I saw that Kofi Annan was encouraging serious people to accept […]

Details of a secret FBI report, from ABC News, and RB: “Al-Qa’ida leadership’s intention to attack the United States is not in question,” the report reads. (All spellings are as rendered in the original report.) “However, their capability to do so is unclear, particularly in regard to ‘spectacular’ operations. We believe al-Qa’ida’s capability to launch […]

An anti-dhimmitude protest. From World Net Daily, with thanks to EPG and RB: About 90 police officers removed 56 Iranian activists from an airplane at the Brussels airport after a 15-hour standoff in protest of Western accommodation of Tehran’s cleric-led Islamic regime. The activists, who refused to disembark a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt yesterday, were […]

Soul-searching at CBS? Well, we’ll see what happens to Fenton. From Accuracy in Media, with thanks to Nicolei and RB: “We know we could have saved thousands of lives if we had done more to bring the public’s attention to the threat of an Al-Qaeda attack in the years before 9/11. What we must ask […]