Small business as cover for Hizbullah in Ecuador. From AP via the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Two Stellas. Police broke up an international cocaine ring led by a Lebanese restaurant owner suspected of raising money for Hezbollah. Ecuadorean authorities declined to elaborate Tuesday on the group’s alleged links to terrorist activities “until further investigation.” […]
Malaysia says has dismantled Islamic terror cells
From Reuters, with thanks to Jefffrey Imm. KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia declared victory on Tuesday in its internal campaign against Southeast Asia’s most feared Islamic militant group, but said there was room for improved U.S. cooperation in the global war on terror. “We have dismantled the JI basic structure,” Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak told […]
Mexico Detains Man Thought Tied to Terror
From AP: CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico – A Lebanese-born man detained this week on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula is believed linked to extremist organizations with ties to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Mexican prosecutors said. Amer Haykel told acquaintances he was a pilot who was wandering the world on a tight budget. He seemed like […]
Saudi police kill two suspected terrorists accused of killing security officer
From CBS News . RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi security forces on Tuesday killed two suspected terrorists accused of fatally shooting a senior security official outside his home, the government said. The suspects were killed in a shootout in the Red Sea city of Jiddah, the official Saudi Press Agency quoted the Interior Ministry as […]
Who are the foreign fighters in Iraq?
An NBC News analysis finds 55 percent hail from Saudi Arabia. From NBC News, with thanks to Two Stellas. Lisa Myers reports. An NBC News analysis of hundreds of foreign fighters who died in Iraq over the last two years reveals that a majority came from the same country as most of the 9/11 hijackers […]
Fallaci: “The trial is nothing else but a demonstration that everything I’ve written is true”
From the Wall Street Journal, “Prophet of Decline: An interview with Oriana Fallaci” NEW YORK–Oriana Fallaci faces jail. In her mid-70s, stricken with a cancer that, for the moment, permits only the consumption of liquids–so yes, we drank champagne in the course of a three-hour interview–one of the most renowned journalists of the modern era […]
Jordan Islamists want Hamas leaders back
From UPI, . Jordan’s Islamic legislators have asked King Abdullah to allow Hamas leaders who were evicted six years ago to return to Jordan, a legislator said Wednesday. Azzam Honeidi, head of the Islamic bloc in Parliament, told UPI that the 17 legislators made the request at a meeting with the Jordanian monarch Tuesday night. […]
Al-Qaida Announces Iraqi Suicide Squad
From AP, with thanks to EPG. CAIRO, Egypt – Iraq’s most feared terror group said Tuesday that it has formed a unit of potential suicide attackers who are exclusively Iraqis, an apparent bid to deflect criticism that most suicide bombers in Iraq are foreigners. Al-Qaida in Iraq announced the unit in an Internet posting signed […]
Afghans say 64 Taliban killed in heavy fighting
From Reuters: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Afghan and U.S. troops backed by warplanes blasted Taliban hideouts for a second day on Wednesday, killing scores of militants in some of the bloodiest fighting in years, officials said. Kandahar’s deputy police chief, General Salim Khan, leading about 400 police troops, said by satellite telephone from the scene that […]
Queens Muslim Group Says It Opposes Violence, and America
From the New Duranty Times, with thanks to all who sent this in. The young Muslim men, with beards and bullhorns, work the streets of Jackson Heights on the weekends. They surface at parades and protests around the city, loudly declaring America the enemy and advocating for an Islamic state. Several weeks ago, they publicly […]