Our Iraq update comes from the Lebanese Daily Star. Thousands of Iraqi forces on Sunday threw a security net over Baghdad to snare insurgents, who quickly struck back with a string of car bombings said to have been masterminded by Al-Qaeda’s Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Operation Lightning came a day after two of Iraq’s most influential […]
5 More Iraqis Killed in Suicide Bombings
Jihad bombings not only in Indonesia, but Iraq today. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Two suicide attackers detonated car bombs in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least five Iraqis, and the government confirmed the death of a Japanese hostage abducted earlier this month…. At least 23 people have been killed in fighting in the past […]
Univ. of Michigan: Islam is not linked to terror
Mindboggling incomprehension disguised as science from Eurekalert, “U-M study shows devotion to Islam is not linked to terror,” ANN ARBOR, Mich.–Islam is not to blame for suicide bombings, a University of Michigan study shows. Personal devotion to Islam is unrelated to support for suicide bombing among Palestinian Muslims, according to the study, which will be […]
Pakistani Muslim clerics: suicide attacks in Kashmir OK
Did you hear about the Pakistani fatwa the other day saying that suicide attacks were against Islam? Well, it didn’t please everyone: note that here it is a question of against whom the attacks are directed. The acts are good if they kill the right people. “Suicide attacks in J&K justified: Pak clerics,” from ANI, […]
Saudi ‘martyrs’ fuel Iraq’s insurgency
A religious awakening led Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani to become “an anonymous fireball.” (An intriguing contrast to Pentecost.) Yet we are still to believe that to examine the workings and causes of such religious awakenings would be irrelevant. How long will the media (left and right) continue this masquerade? From the Washington Post via MSNBC, […]
More Iraq Violence
Our Iraq jihad update comes from Reuters, “Nine dead in U.S. assault, blasts hit Baghdad” BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said on Saturday nine of its troops were killed in an offensive against insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq, and guerrillas struck again in Baghdad, leaving at least five people dead. Backed by air […]
More Car Bombings in Iraq
Our Iraq jihad update from AP via the Washington Times, “Iraq Car Bombings Kill 21, Injure 90,” : BAGHDAD, Iraq – A car bomb exploded in a jammed commercial district Thursday, devastating the area and turning the sky gray as shops and restaurants caught fire in the most deadly of a string of attacks that […]
Three Bombings in Muslim Southern Thailand
From CNN, “Three bombs explode in Thai south,” & Two Stellas: YALA, Thailand – Three bombs exploded in Thailand’s restive Muslim south on Thursday, police said, wounding at least nine people in a region where more than 600 people have died in 17 months of violence… The largely Malay-speaking southern region, where separatists fought low-key […]
Iraq: Four suicide attacks kill at least 66
Today’s Iraq jihad update: four suicide attacks. It’s a good thing the Qur’an forbids suicide, or I guess we would be seeing even more of these. From Reuters: BAGHDAD – Four suicide bombs killed at least 66 people in Iraq on Wednesday, the latest attacks in an escalating campaign of guerrilla violence that has killed […]
Bomber Kills 50 at Iraqi Police Center
Today’s Iraqi jihad update. From AP, : IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — An Iraqi carrying hidden explosives set them off outside a police recruitment center Wednesday where people were applying for jobs, police said. The U.S. military said at least 50 Iraqis were killed, making it the deadliest insurgent attack in Iraq in more than two […]