Today’s Al-Arian update: “Prosecutors work to tie together Al-Arian and co-defendants,” from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Federal prosecutors continued today the methodical task of tying together the characters in what they say was a conspiracy operating from Tampa to support and raise money for Palestinian terrorists. Nafeesah Abdurrashid, a former employee of […]
Jerusalem: Bags of explosives awaited suicide bombers
An Abbas-Will-Bring-Peace-In-Our-Time Update, from WND, with thanks to EPG: JERUSALEM — Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists left two bags filled with explosives in a suburb outside Jerusalem, and attempted several times to infiltrate the city to collect the explosives and carry out a large-scale suicide bombing, security sources told WND. The revelation follows recent comments by […]
PA releases Islamic Jihad fighters
What’s that you say? That Abbas is going to bring lasting peace? From Al-Jazeera, with thanks to Skeetstreet: Khalid Al-Batsh, a prominent Islamic Jihad leader, said the movement had reached an agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a recent meeting in Gaza on releasing nine Islamic Jihad activists detained in a Palestinian prison in […]
Sami Al-Arian’s wife: why no indictment?
It’s Al-Arian day here at the palatial poolside hedonistic offices of Jihad Watch in Secure Undisclosed Locationville, where it is always sunny and everyone shares sunscreen and equality of rights and dignity as human beings. This latest Al-Arian update is a press release from Militant Islam Monitor: The wife of Sami Al Arian is registered […]
Did Florida taxpayers pay for jihad?
Another Al-Arian update: “Sami Al-Arian’s Islamic Academy,” from Laura Mansfield in FrontPage (thanks to EPG): Florida’s tuition voucher program is designed to help improve the education level of children who attend schools which do not meet educational standards. In 2003, Florida taxpayers indirectly subsidized the Islamic Academy of Florida in Tampa, with over $350,000 in […]
Of course, it was all a misunderstanding
Here is the first of several Al-Arian updates coming today. “Attorneys say men not linked to jihad,” from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TAMPA, Fla. “” Attorneys for three terrorism defendants “” including two from the south suburbs “” told jurors Tuesday the men were never associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and […]
Why Sami Al-Arian is in jail
There are still so many people who maintain the innocence of Sami Al-Arian; for them I recommend careful study of this article, “Indictment Details Paper Trail,” from the Tampa Tribune (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): Sami Al-Arian sat with a blank expression, bowing his head, as a cleric described him as the leader of the […]
US designates Islamic Jihad as terrorist group
From AP via the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Skeet Street. The United States on Thursday designated the Islamic Jihad Group, active in Central Asia, as a global terrorist group. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the group coordinated bombing attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and the […]
Activities of Tampa Terror Cell Outlined
Sami Al-Arian walk watch from AP, with thanks to Skeet Street. TAMPA, Fla. – The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group responsible for scores of killings in suicide attacks in Israel, once had 40 percent of its overall leadership operating out of a cell in Tampa, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. The Tampa cell was […]
Spain: Engineer ‘designed missiles for attacks on Israel’
From Expatica, : ALICANTE — An aeronautical engineer has been arrested for allegedly designing missiles for the Palestinian terrorist organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Marwan Ismail Dahman, who was born in Gaza, in Palestine but is a naturalised Spaniard, was arrested in Benidorm in the Alicante province, the Spanish daily El Pais reported. He allegedly […]