From Zaman.com, with thanks to Jeffery Imm and The One Who Must Not Be Named. The Turkish Security General Directorate has disclosed that Al Qaeda had attempted attacks in Italy was formerly prevented, which is one of the possible targets of the terrorist organization. An intelligence report compiled from foreign secret services by the Directorate […]

Salman Rushdie writes in the New Duranty Times, with thanks to all who sent this in. IN honor-and-shame cultures like those of India and Pakistan, male honor resides in the sexual probity of women, and the “shaming” of women dishonors all men. So it is that five men of Pakistan’s powerful Mastoi tribe were disgracefully […]

Another jihad front opening up in Russia. Oliver Bullough writes in Dawn, with thanks to Two Stellas. MOSCOW: Take Chechnya’s embattled police force, corrupt government, poor population and violent Islamists, then add dozens of feuding ethnic groups. Welcome to Dagestan, the new front in Russia’s spreading Caucasus war. Unlike the Chechens, who have fought Moscow’s […]

Iraq jihad update from AP via Fox News, . BAGHDAD, Iraq “” A man strapped with explosives blew himself at an Iraqi military recruiting center in Baghdad as homicide bombers attacked three times in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 33 people and breaking a relative lull in violence in recent days. The attacks pushed […]

From AP via Fox News: ROME “” Police said Saturday they had arrested 142 people in a two-day anti-terrorism security sweep around Milan prompted by the bombings two days earlier in London. Some 2,000 carabinieri fanned out across the Lombardy region, stepping up patrols around train stations, subways, commercial centers and other sensitive sites, the […]

Another Episode in the War between Christendom and Islam. Here’s Bruce Thornton in Victor Hanson’s Private Papers, with thanks to all who sent this in. The slaughter in London is another grisly wake-up call that likely will go as unheeded as earlier ones. Already the standard narrative is being trotted out: evildoers created by what […]

From AP, with thanks to Skeet Street. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Suspected Taliban gunmen ambushed an Afghani government border patrol in the desert near the frontier with Pakistan, killing 10 soldiers and beheading their bodies, a provincial governor said Sunday. The victims served on a 25-member patrol in southern Helmand province that was attacked late Saturday […]

Abu Hamza trial update from The Washington Post, . LONDON, July 9 — On the morning after bombs ripped through the London Underground and crumpled a double-decker bus, four security guards escorted a one-eyed, Egyptian-born cleric, his arms amputated below the elbows from Afghan war injuries, onto the elevated dock of Courtroom No. 1 in […]

These British ministers are ignoring the likelihood that even if the perpetrators were foreign, they very likely received aid and comfort from British Muslims. From the Telegraph, “‘Foreign terrorist cell’ was behind London bombings,” . Police were last night searching for a foreign-based Islamic terrorist cell after it was disclosed that three of the four […]

Why don’t UK Muslims fear more terrorist attacks? Why don’t they concentrate on rooting out jihad terrorists from their ranks? If they did, they would find a great deal less to fear from any backlash. From AP, with thanks to Anthony. Thousands of Muslims crowded London mosques for Friday prayers, condemning the bombings, but also […]