N.S. Rajaram writes in The American Thinker, with thanks to Looney Tunes. Jihad is the “˜evil ideology” that is driving terrorism. Muslims should take the lead in rooting out this barbarism. Early reports indicate that there were no fatalities from four coordinated explosions that again targeted Londons” transit system yesterday, July 21, 2005, exactly two […]
Teacher is identified as ‘Mr K’ who inspired other suicide-bombers
More on Mohammed Sidique Khan from the Independent: The Edgware Road bomber had international terrorist connections, helped fund terrorism and may have been an operative in Israel, yet evaded MI5’s attention last year because he was considered to be too low-level a criminal. Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, had links with an al-Qai’da operative, visited Pakistani […]
Iraq ‘made Britain vulnerable’
From News 24: London – British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under fresh pressure on Monday for supporting the war in Iraq after a respected think-tank linked the invasion to Britain’s worst terrorist attack, in which at least 55 people died. The comments – rejected by the government – came as interior minister Charles Clarke […]
After Iraq attacks, calls for militias grow
At least 22 Iraqis were killed by four suicide bombs Sunday, a day after more than 90 died in an attack. From the Christian Science Monitor. BAGHDAD — A devastating blast south of Baghdad, the latest in a series of suicide attacks aimed at undermining Iraq’s US-mentored political process, has raised the temperature between Sunni […]
UK: Police snipers track al-Qaeda suspects
From the TimesOnline: UNDERCOVER police sniper squads are tracking as many as a dozen Al-Qaeda suspects because security services fear they could be planning more suicide attacks, writes David Leppard. The covert armed units are under orders to shoot to kill if surveillance suggests that a terror suspect is carrying a bomb and he refuses […]
MI5 judged bomber Khan ‘no threat’
From the TimesOnline: ONE of the four suicide terrorists behind the London bomb attacks was scrutinised by MI5 last year, but was judged not to be a threat to national security, a senior government official said yesterday. As a result, MI5 failed to put him under surveillance and his plans to become a suicide bomber […]
Dozens Killed in Iraqi Gas Station Bombing
From AP via Fox News: BAGHDAD, Iraq “” A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body Saturday at a gas station near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, triggering a huge explosion in a fuel tanker and killing at least 54 people, police said. Eighty-two people were injured. Police Capt. Muthanna Khaled Ali said […]
Minibus Explosion in Turkey Leaves 5 Dead
Two bombings in Turkey to report. The minibus explosion could have been perpetrated by Kurdish separatists, but the one in Kusadasi, featuring a female suicide bomber, was almost certainly jihad motivated. From AP: ANKARA, Turkey – A bomb destroyed a minibus Saturday near a popular Aegean Sea beach in western Turkey, killing five people, including […]
UAE Scholar Says London Bombers Infidels
Suicide bombers are inhibiting the spread of Islam by “turning people against us,” so according to Mr.Al-Mazruhi, they must be infidels. Once again, this denunciation does not stem from the essential immorality of the bombings. From the Arab News, with thanks to Skeet Street. ABU DHABI “” A prominent UAE scholar denounced yesterday as infidels […]
Cleric who defended suicide bombers allowed into Britain
Qaradawi, of course. Another sign that Britain simply isn’t facing this threat in its fullness. From the TimesOnline, with thanks to a tea-loving snail: A MUSLIM cleric who has defended suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq is to be allowed into Britain next month for an international conference. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 79, who has a visa […]