From Reuters: BAGHDAD – Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq, expected to become the first Arab ambassador in Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein, was kidnapped late on Saturday, an Egyptian diplomat said on Sunday. “He was buying a newspaper on Saturday evening when two BMWs full of gunmen blocked his way and kidnapped him,” […]
Watson: America’s Day
D.C. Watson reflects on the meaning of the Fourth of July, America’s Day: July 4th, 1776 The United States of America declares its independence, and a new nation is born. A new nation whose independence was won through war and sacrifice. Independence certainly earned. As we celebrate our 229th birthday, it gives all of us […]
Priest: Help from France key in covert operations
Dana Priest explains how Paris”s shadowy “˜Alliance Base” aids U.S. in terror fight in the Washington Post via MSNBC: PARIS – When Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam, boarded an Air France flight from Riyadh on June 3, 2003, he knew only that the Saudi government had put him under house arrest for an […]
Riyadh Professor Objects to Woman Pilot
From Arab News, with thanks to Skeet Street. RIYADH “” An associate professor of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh has objected to the hiring of a Muslim woman as a pilot. In a statement issued in response to a full-page advertisement by Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Co., congratulating […]
Bahraini Shiites Protest Al Ayam Cartoon
From Arab News, with thanks to all who sent this in. MANAMA “” Close to a thousand Bahraini Shiites took to the streets Friday afternoon to protest the publication of a caricature in Al Ayam newspaper that appeared on June 27 depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “manipulating” the results of the recent Iranian […]
U.S. Military: Religious Freedom Is Not Regulation
Documenting dhimmitude in the military, U.S. serviceman Allen Wall writes a disturbing account from Iraq in Frontpage. As an American soldier stationed in Iraq, with my National Guard unit, I read with interest Paul Sperry’s article “Closing the Book on Koran Abuse.” Sperry ends the article with this summary statement: “So the bad guys behind […]
Imrana Rape Case Triggers a Storm in India
Another update on Imrana from Arab News, with thanks to all who sent this in. PUNE – The rape case and plight of the 28-year-old Indian Muslim woman, Imrana, is slowly turning into a political drama with, both Muslims and non-Muslims pitching in their worth. While the fatwa issued by Ulemas of the Deoband and […]
Saudi Forces Kill al-Qaida Leader
Another one bites the dust in Saudi Arabia. From AP, with thanks to Skeet Street. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Security forces killed the al-Qaida terrorist group’s leader in Saudi Arabia during a fierce gun battle Sunday in the capital, Riyadh, an Interior Ministry official told this country’s official news agency. Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, a […]
Afghans say closing in on senior Taliban commanders
We’ve heard this before. Our forces seem to be closing in on Mullah Omar or even Bin Laden himself, only to have them elude capture. From Reuters: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Afghan and U.S. forces surrounded an area in Afghanistan on Thursday where senior commanders of elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were thought to be […]
Saudi terror suspect said killed in Iraq
From the Miami Herald: BAGHDAD, Iraq – One of Saudi Arabia’s most-wanted suspected terrorists was killed by a U.S. airstrike in northwestern Iraq, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq said, and two car bombs outside Shiite mosques in central Baghdad killed 15 and wounded 28 Thursday, police said. The latest violence followed a series of […]