Iraq jihad update from AP: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Five car bombs targeted American and Iraqi troops across Baghdad Friday, killing as many as 20 people, and the military said two U.S. Marines had been killed the day before by a roadside bomb near the Jordanian border. In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber hit […]
UK police head to Cairo after detention of scientist
Uk Police are seeking to question former NC State grad student and Leeds chemistry teacher in Egypt. From the Financial Times: The announcement on Friday of the arrest of an Egyptian scientist in connection with last week’s bombings in London has added a fresh international dimension to the inquiry into the attacks. The UK police […]
Hamas Militants Clash with PA Troops in Gaza
From AP: Gaza City, Gaza Strip “” Militants took control of a Gaza neighbourhood Friday after a shootout with Palestinian troops left two teenagers dead, and Israeli airstrikes killed five militants in a flare-up of violence that threatened an already tattered truce. Palestinian security forces, under pressure to stop attacks against Israel, went on high […]
UK Muslim scholar denied entry to US
News from the UK’s Education Guardian. An internationally renowned British Muslim scholar was this week refused entry to the US with no explanation, it has emerged. Zaki Badawi, head of the Muslim College in London, flew to New York on Wednesday to give a high profile lecture at the city’s Chautauqua Institution. He was denied […]
Leiken: Europe’s Angry Muslims
They are dangerous and committed — and can enter the United States without a visa. So writes Robert S. Leiken in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, with thanks to Mark Krikorian. Fox News and CNN’s Lou Dobbs worry about terrorists stealing across the United States’ border with Mexico concealed among illegal immigrants. The Pentagon […]
Saudi Columnist: Terrorists Mistreat Their Wives and Children
It seems that terrorists are living, or attempting to live, according to Sharia Law. No surprises here for Jihad Watch readers. This comes to us from MEMRI: In a column titled “Women, Children, and Terrorism” in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, columnist Badriyya Al-Bashar describes terrorists’ contemptuous treatment of their wives and children. This […]
Pew Poll: Support for Terror Wanes Among Muslim Publics
A new poll by the Pew Research Center reports on “Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics,” with thanks to Mark Krikorian. Concerns over Islamic extremism, extensive in the West even before this month’s terrorist attacks in London, are shared to a considerable degree by the publics in several predominantly Muslim nations surveyed. […]
Nigeria: Man faces death for sodomy
From News.Au, with thanks to Two Stellas. A UN human rights expert raised the alarm today over the case of a man who is on death row in northern Nigeria awaiting execution by stoning after a Sharia court found him guilty of sodomy. Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, […]
Bombers may be British born
More on this report, from Timesonline, with thanks to Nicolei. LORD STEVENS, the former Metropolitan police chief who retires earlier this year, said last night that the London bombings were almost certainly masterminded by British-born terrorists. He said last week’s bombers would not fit the stereotype of a fanatic from a village in Afghanistan or […]
Terrorists’ aim is to end western civilisation, says ex-Mossad head
From the Scotsman, with thanks to Two Stellas. THE former head of Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, says we are in the throes of a new world war where the objective of the terrorist is not regime change or territorial gains but despatching western civilisation into history. Efraim Halevy, who recently stepped down as […]