From China Daily: The Pakistani military said that 17 militants gunned down near the Afghan border were all from Kazakhstan and included women and teenage youths. “We now believe the entire group was from Kazakhstan,” military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told AFP on Monday. He said the authorities recovered four passports and some documents […]
Moscow to spend $2.3b on border security project
From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to JS. MOSCOW Russia is spending 65 billion-ruble (US$2.3 billion) to strengthen its southern border security, which officials see as a weak point in the sprawling nation’s defenses, Russian news agencies reported Saturday. Border authorities briefed Putin the program’s progress on Friday during a visit to southern Russia, ITAR-Tass […]
After Iraq attacks, calls for militias grow
At least 22 Iraqis were killed by four suicide bombs Sunday, a day after more than 90 died in an attack. From the Christian Science Monitor. BAGHDAD — A devastating blast south of Baghdad, the latest in a series of suicide attacks aimed at undermining Iraq’s US-mentored political process, has raised the temperature between Sunni […]
UK: Police snipers track al-Qaeda suspects
From the TimesOnline: UNDERCOVER police sniper squads are tracking as many as a dozen Al-Qaeda suspects because security services fear they could be planning more suicide attacks, writes David Leppard. The covert armed units are under orders to shoot to kill if surveillance suggests that a terror suspect is carrying a bomb and he refuses […]
Hollywood to fete “son of al Qaida”
Tha Canadian jihadi Abdurahman Kadr cashes in on movie deal. From WND, with thanks to Maharishi Hashish Ben Yogourt. A Hollywood film in the works will depict a Canadian formerly detained at Guantanamo as a reformed young man who now rejects terrorism and his family’s ties to al-Qaida. But there’s evidence 21-year-old Abdurahman Khadr’s true […]
Egyptian Ministry Denies El-Nashar’s Al-Qaeda Link
An update on London bombing suspect El-Nashar in Egypt from Arab News: CAIRO “” The Egyptian Ministry of Interior said yesterday that Magdy El-Nashar, the 33-year-old chemist, an Egyptian who was arrested in Cairo over the London bombings, had no links with Al-Qaeda. “El-Nashar who was arrested on Thursday has no link with Al-Qaeda; so […]
MI5 judged bomber Khan ‘no threat’
From the TimesOnline: ONE of the four suicide terrorists behind the London bomb attacks was scrutinised by MI5 last year, but was judged not to be a threat to national security, a senior government official said yesterday. As a result, MI5 failed to put him under surveillance and his plans to become a suicide bomber […]
Memo lists possible border terror plot
Officials play down plan described in secret FBI bulletin from the Dallas Morning News, with thanks to Skeet Street. Dirt roads trace pale lines across a desolate landscape of bald peaks and plunging canyons near Texas’ Big Bend and bridge the border at dozens of improvised crossings. For decades, these routes have been used to […]
Man held in Ottawa may be related to London bombings
One of the few stories to use the word “jihad” – “Held without bail in Ottawa prison, this man may help Britain unravel its domestic menace,” from the Globe and Mail, with thanks to Srkrishna. Mohammad Momin Khawaja remains locked up in maximum-security detention at Ottawa’s Regional Detention Centre, as he has for more than […]
Enchin: A religion of peace vs. apologists for terrorism
Harvey Enchin writes in the Vancouver Sun, with thanks to Boomeros. Hours after the terror attacks on the London subway and a bus last week, the Canadian Islamic Congress issued a brief statement that condemned the bombing. It offered no condolences, expressed no grief, displayed no shock; it was instead a directive to the public […]