Islamikazes continue to target Iraqi “collaborators” and Sunnis suspended their participation in the writing of the constitution after yesterday’s assassination. From MSNBC: BAGHDAD, Iraq – A suicide attacker wearing an explosives belt detonated himself Wednesday outside an army recruiting center in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, police and army officials said. The attacker blew […]
London bomber’s uncle defends nephew’s ‘sacrifice’: Report
From ZeeNews, with thanks to Romy. London, July 17, The uncle of Shahzad Tanweer, one of the four London bomb suspects, has defended his nephew’s actions as a desperate “sacrifice” in an interview with the British tabloid newspaper ‘The News of thee World’. “These suicide bombers are desperate people,” Bashir Ahmed told the Sunday Paper. […]
London mayor defends the use of Palestinian suicide bombers
Moral equivalence from “Red Ken” brought to us by Haaretz, with thanks to Sr. Soph. Less than two weeks since the London terror attacks, the city’s Mayor Ken Livingstone has sparked controversy by defending the use of suicide bombers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and charging that Israel had indiscriminately slaughtered Palestinians in acts that “border […]
Indonesia bans Ahmadiyah teachings
The people mustn’t be allowed to learn about a reformed form of Islam. From Antara News, GOVT BANS AHMADIYAH TEACHINGS IN INDONESIA, MINISTER SAYS, with thanks to Two Stellas. Jakarta – The government has banned the Ahmadiyah, a splinter group of Islam which believes Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a prophet after Prophet Muhammad, from propagating […]
Hardline Muslim cleric Qardawi scraps plans to visit Britain
They say he scrapped his plans because of pressure from the Daily Express newspaper. From ZeeNews: London – A hardline Muslim cleric based in Qatar has scrapped plans to speak to Muslims in Britain following an outcry in the wake of the July 7 London terror attacks, a newspaper reported. Qatar-based Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, a […]
Egypt Clears El-Nashar of Complicity
An update on the alleged accomplice to the London bombings who conveniently turned up in Egypt. It is not known whether the Egyptian government allowed British investigators to interrogate him or not. Egypt has no extradition treaty with the UK. From Arab News: CAIRO “” Egyptian authorities said yesterday that investigations have proved so far […]
Lebanese Cabinet includes Hezbollah member
From AP: BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s prime minister-designate announced his new Cabinet on Tuesday, a government dominated by opponents of Syria but including a member of the militant Hezbollah group, which Washington brands a terrorist organization. The 24-member Cabinet, the first since Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon, omits prominent Christian representation of followers of […]
Survey counts 25,000 civilian deaths in Iraq
After a lot of speculation on this number, it’s good to finally see some hard facts. Note that of the 25,000 total, only 37%, or approx. 9,250 were caused by coalition forces and of those only 20%, or approx. 1850, were women and children. A far cry from the vague “hundreds of thousands” of civilian […]
Sunnis Drafting Constitution Gunned Down In Iraq
Iraq jihad update from Radio Free Europe: Prague — Three Sunni men connected to the Iraqi National Assembly’s constitutional drafting committee were gunned down outside a Baghdad restaurant today, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq reported. Gunmen shot and killed Mijbal al-Sheikh Issa, Thamir Husayn al-Ubaydi, and Aziz Ibrahim Ilaywi as they left a restaurant in the […]
London Bomb suspect visited mom in Cleveland
More on London suicide bomber Jermaine Lindsay‘s US connections from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, with thanks to JBT. Jermaine Maurice Lindsay was only about 14 the last time he visited his mother in Cleveland… Lindsay was born in Jamaica in 1985…His mother later moved to Cleveland without him. Sources close to the investigation said he […]