From Reuters: KABUL – Pakistan has assured Afghanistan of its support and cooperation in the war on terror after angry words between the neighbours over accusations Pakistan is not doing enough to stop Taliban violence. The assurance comes as fears mount that Taliban fighters launching attacks from Pakistan will disrupt a September parliamentary election in […]
Vincent: Baffled in Basra
Steven Vincent writes an interesting article on the situation in Basra in National Review Online: …Basra’s police force isn’t the only example of the social and psychological dysfunctionalities that plague this city of 1.5 million residents. Even as brave and dedicated people here begin to reconstruct their lives in the face of daunting problems “” […]
Kahn: When “academic freedom” justifies academic terror
Tzvi Kahn writes in The American Thinker: According to the logic of a recent report issued by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), denying accused criminals a job constitutes an unethical breach of “academic freedom.” So, if Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had doctorates and respectable publication records, could they receive teaching positions […]
New U.S. Ambassador ‘Horrified’ By Iraq Violence
From Radio Free Europe: Baghdad — The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, said today he is horrified at the level of violence wracking the country, and that Islamic extremists and former members of Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Ba’ath Party are trying to start a civil war in Iraq. Khalilzad said after meeting in Baghdad […]
UK: Manchester arrest ‘connected to Iraq suicide attacks’
From the UK TimesOnline: The housemate of a man who allegedly travelled to Iraq to carry out a suicide bomb attack has been arrested in Manchester, police said. The 40-year-old man was arrested under the Terrorism Act after a dawn raid in the Moss Side area of the city. It is believed that another man […]
‘Palestinian prisoner destroyed Quran’
Another silly story of Qur’an abuse. Prison Service says female security prisoner goes on rampage during body search, tosses Quran pages toward toilet. From YNet News: ASHKELON – A female Palestinian security prisoner in Ashkelon’s Shikma Prison tore up pages from a copy of the Quran and threw them toward the toilet during a routine […]
Anti-Syrian Critic Killed in Lebanon Blast
From AP via The Guardian: BEIRUT, Lebanon – A bomb Tuesday killed a politician who was a harsh critic of Syria’s power in Lebanon, police said, the second slaying of an anti-Syrian figure this month. The explosion that killed former Communist Party chief George Hawi as he rode in his car came two days after […]
‘Bloody good’ to be home, says Wood
An interesting update on the claims the Australian Mufti is making concerning Wood’s captors and his release. From the New Zealand Herald: CANBERRA – Douglas Wood, the 63-year-old Australian engineer rescued last week from kidnappers in Iraq, flew into Melbourne yesterday to a joyful reunion with his family but with questions still surrounding his release… […]
Latest Al-Zawahiri Video on Al-Jazeera: “Reform and Expelling the Invaders from the Lands of Islam will Only be Accomplished by Fighting for the Sake of Allah”
From MEMRI: On Friday June 17, 2005, Al-Jazeera TV released a tape of an address by Al-Qa’ida deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The following are excerpts from the speech by Al-Zawahiri aired by Al-Jazeera: Al-Zawahiri: “True reform is based on three principles: “The first principle is the rule of Shari’a[Islamic law], because Shari’a, which was given […]
How U.S. could be beat
EMP Threat. Something more to worry about from the G2 Bulletin (subscription only). Joining Sen. John Kyl, who warned of how an electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says an EMP attack — even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist group — has the potential to […]