It was all for love: “The FBI affidavit alleged that Bell regularly used encrypted apps to communicate with a Nusra member with whom she had an online relationship.” “American woman charged with transferring money to Syria-based terrorists,” Reuters, November 25, 2020: U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a New Jersey woman with concealing multiple efforts to […]
Al-Qaeda affiliate changes its name, escapes US and Canada terror lists
Osama bin Laden foresaw how this would fool the establishment Infidel counterterror “experts”: “In the years immediately after 9/11, bin Laden knew worldwide sentiment fell in favor of the United States so he spread al Qaeda’s mission of hate — all while avoiding using the words ‘al Qaeda,’ said terror analyst Ali Soufan. “So each […]
100 al-Qaeda jihadis killed in U.S. airstrikes in Syria
Just as Obama got ready to leave office, he authorized a groundbreaking strike against an al-Qaeda training camp in Syria, killing 100 jihadists, perhaps in a last ditch effort to salvage some of his legacy. The strikes came on the heels of stealth bombings blasting two Islamic State training camps in Libya yesterday, killing some […]
CFR’s Max Abrahms claims Syrian jihad groups growing because they’re moderate
Max Abrahms, “#Terrorism Theorist / Northeastern Prof / Council on Foreign Relations / Center for Cyber & Homeland Security,” is the very epitome of the vacuous contemporary intellectual, thumping his chest about his “research” and “scholarship” but unwilling and unable to defend them in a public forum, and retailing absurd and defeatist views that appeal […]
Al-Qaeda jihadis seize bases, weapons from U.S.-backed “moderate” Syrian rebels
“The Nusra Front arrested U.S.-supplied fighters belonging to FSA’s 30th division last summer and seized their weapons in a major embarrassment to the U.S. government’s train-and-equip program which was meant to support carefully vetted ‘moderate’ rebels,” says this report. That echoes the President’s language: “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that […]
Islamic State kills two in jihad-martyrdom suicide attacks after Syria ceasefire begins
A ceasefire so restricted and circumscribed as to be meaningless. “Report: Car bomb kills 2 after Syria cease-fire begins,” by Bassem Mroue, Associated Press, February 27, 2016: BEIRUT (AP) – A U.S. and Russia-brokered cease-fire brought relative calm to parts of Syria for the first time in years on Saturday, but the war against the […]