Archives for 2005

From AP: KABUL, Afghanistan — Suicide bombers rammed explosive-laden cars into NATO forces in two attacks yesterday. A German soldier and an Afghan child were among eight people killed, and at least a dozen other people were wounded. A spokesman for NATO’s peacekeeping force, Major Andrew Elmes, said the other six bodies were believed to […]

From VOA: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has brokered a broad agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on operating Gaza Strip border crossings. The deal, announced Tuesday, after marathon negotiations, would re-open the critical Rafah crossing – Gaza’s international outlet for Palestinian trade and travel. The Bush administration badly wanted the borders agreement to […]

While the more overt acts of religious intolerance in Indonesia, say the beheadings of Christian schools girls, garner the most attention, the steady but covert campaign to intimidate Indonesia’s Christian population continues with very little fanfare. The latest incarnation, from Voice of America: Christian groups in Indonesia say their right to worship freely is being […]

Australian authorities have been tightlipped concerning the target of the attack which was apparently thwarted by arrests made last week. Now, we may know, from Reuters: Eight Sydney men arrested on terrorism charges may have been planning a bomb attack against the city’s nuclear reactor, police said on Monday. Their Islamic spiritual leader, also charged […]

I am going to be “out of pocket” until November 23, starting today. I will look in here when I can, but I am not sure that I will be able to post daily. The site, however, will go on as always. The Jihad Watch News Editors will be posting here, including a new addition, […]

“Fight over cinemas kills at least 12,” from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: HEAVY fighting apparently sparked by an Islamic militia’s moves to close cinemas and video stores in the lawless Somali capital has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 21. Clashes between gunmen loyal to Mogadishu’s Islamic courts and […]

Rachel Ehrenfeld discusses the hearings on the Saudi Arabia Accountability Act and what we should do next in FrontPage: Responding to last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Saudi Arabia’s role in the war on terror, entitled “Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror?”, Riyadh’s ambassador to the U.S., Prince Turki al-Faisal, […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald calls for an end to the foreign aid through which Western governments have ended up funding the global jihad: Zarqawi has three brothers, seven sisters. A family of eleven children. No industry (in the older sense of that word — work), no entrepreneurial activity, few resources. But as […]

More detail on the riots in Pakistan from the Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The Christians of Sangla Hill in Pakistan were a community under siege last night after a Muslim mob rampaged through the town, burning churches and a Roman Catholic compound. Father Samson Dilawar, parish priest of the Roman Catholic Church of […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the recurring and persistent problems of Islamic piracy and slavery, and the dhimmitude of France and Europe: For centuries Muslim raiders went up and down the coasts of Europe, even as far as Ireland, and in one famous instance, Iceland. Rape and plunder were the intent. And […]