From the San Francisco Chronicle, with thanks to Skeet Street. A Muslim cleric with ties to Lodi men caught up in an FBI terrorism investigation agreed Friday to be deported to his native Pakistan along with his son rather than fight government immigration charges. Mohammad Adil Khan, 47, and his son, Mohammad Hassan Adil, 19, […]
Incidents intensify hospital vigilance
An update on a story we posted in May on suspicious activity in and around New Jersey hospitals. From the New Jersey Star-Ledger with thanks to Lysistrata. New Jersey hospitals are on heightened alert, authorities acknowledged yesterday, as the result of several suspicious incidents involving people trying to enter hospitals under false pretenses. Bulletins have […]
Iranian Leader Sees British Hand in London Blasts
Alternate universe Islamic logic coming to us from AFP, with thanks to Skeet Street. TEHRAN “” A leading Iranian religious leader and politician charged in a nationally broadcast sermon yesterday that there was a British hand in last week’s deadly London bombings. Ahmad Jannati, who chairs the powerful Guardians Council, which vets all legislation and […]
Pakistan: Two held for planning to attack mosque
From Gulf News, with thanks to Skeet Street. Karachi – Police arrested two youth outside the US Consulate in Karachi yesterday following a terror alert that suicide bombers planned to attack a Shiite mosque, officials said. The two suspects Asim and Nasir Ali tried to dodge a police picket metres away from the consulate, but […]
UAE Scholar Says London Bombers Infidels
Suicide bombers are inhibiting the spread of Islam by “turning people against us,” so according to Mr.Al-Mazruhi, they must be infidels. Once again, this denunciation does not stem from the essential immorality of the bombings. From the Arab News, with thanks to Skeet Street. ABU DHABI “” A prominent UAE scholar denounced yesterday as infidels […]
Iraq-Bound Fighters Training in Syria
From Arab News, “Syria Training Iraq-Bound Fighters: Jordan Officials,” with thanks to Skeet Street. AMMAN “” Muslim militants are increasingly using Syria as a clandestine haven for fighters heading to Iraq, Jordanian officials said yesterday, adding that they had no proof the Damascus government condoned such activities. Security officials in US ally Jordan said interrogations […]
Iraqi PM arrives in Tehran on official visit
The lilies are in bloom and rapprochement is in the air. From Xinhuanet: TEHRAN — Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari arrived here Saturday for a three-day official visit, the first of such kind since former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. Jaafari, leading a large delegation, will hold talks with top Iranian officials […]
Bomb suspect may have Cleveland tie
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, with thanks to JBT. One of the suspects in the London bombings may have had a Cleveland connection. Lindsey Germaine, a Jamaican-born Briton believed to have been involved in one of the subway blasts last week, visited the Cleveland area several times when his mother lived here, NBC News reported […]
Phillips: A sermon of peace?
Melanie Phillips writes in her diary, with thanks to Looney Tunes. We have heard much from Muslim leaders about how Islam is a religion of peace, that it specifically rules against the taking of innocent life, that the word “˜jihad” is a media invention, that imams preach only sweetness and light and that the terrorists […]
U.S. forces kill 24 militants in Pakistan
From Reuters: MIRANSHAH, Pakistan – U.S. forces based in Afghanistan killed 24 suspected Islamist militants inside Pakistan after coming under rocket fire from across the border that killed an Afghan soldier, officials said on Friday. The fighters, believed to belong to Taliban and al Qaeda forces, were killed late on Thursday near Lowara Mandi, a […]