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Press TV - Al-Qaeda has reportedly called on its operatives to go to Lebanon and defend what it called the Sunni community of the country. The report came while some Arab media outlets described the current clashes in Lebanon as a fight between Sunni and Shia communities.Sheikh Ali al-Jozo, Mufti of the Jebel region, who is well known for his harsh stance against Hezbollah told the TV network that the clashes are a battle between Lebanon's Shia and Sunni communities and called on Arab leaders to prevent "Iran's influence in the country." The TV network reported that al-Qaeda on all of its websites urged its operatives to defend the Sunni community of Lebanon.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri. AP Servicios de inteligencia suponen que Abu Ayyub al-Masri ayudó a Zarqawi a formar la primera célula terrorista en Bagdad luego de la invasión encabezada por Estados Unidos en 2004. Milenio.com - Madrid.- El líder de Al Qaeda en Irak, Abu Ayyub al-Masri fue arrestado hoy en la norteña ciudad de Mosul, de acuerdo con reportes de prensa que citan al ministro de Defensa iraquí, Abdul Qadir. Masri, también conocido como Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, se cree que es quien formó la primera célula de Al Qaeda en Bagdad. La información no ha sido confirmada por las fuerzas militares estadunidenses basadas en Irak. El militante, nacido en Egipto, asumió el liderazgo en Irak poco después de que Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fue asesinado por un ataque aéreo estadunidense en junio

*update* I just have to post a couple comments from the commenters at Free Republic upon hearing of this news…very funny… “It can’t be true. Al Qaeda is NOT in Iraq. The MSM told me so.” “Find the water board!” “Put panties on his head.” “Not dead? Not shot? What the h*ll is this arrest sh*t??” “Hang him quick,now.” “Bush’s [...]

 What a bunch of bullshit thisis. President Bush and other government officials are going to stop calling  al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations Islamic or Muslims. On top of that they are also going to stop using the terms  jihad and mujahedeen. “There’ s a growing consensus [in the Bush administration] that we need to move away [...]

According to recent U.S. government reports and senior U.S. counterterrorism officials, contesting al-Qaeda's message is no less important than capturing or killing the group's operatives. And as the administration prioritizes its agenda for the last eight months in office, recognizing the need for a refocused communication plan to highlight the bankruptcy of al-Qaeda's ideology is a critical -- albeit overdue -- part of a reengineered counterterrorism strategy. The State Department's 2007 Country...(read more)

Scotland's new terror tsar has warned that the threat from right-wing extremism is as damaging to community relations as the menace posed by al-Qaeda.In an exclusive interview on his first day as the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland's counter terrorism co-ordinator, Allan Burnett said forces should not ignore the latent neo-Nazi presence across the UK. Fife's assistant chief constable said the public is at risk because racism is being used to unite people into violent causes. He said this also undermines police work to reassure the Muslim community following the attack on Glasgow Airport last year.Burnett said: "We've had a number of right-wing issues recently in the UK that again have raised their head in Scotland. There have been serious cases down south that have been re

(Langley, VA) The world is a dangerous place, especially if you are a child growing up in the United States of America. Oh, you might be safe in your small town, but outside that town and the U.S. border, there are literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people (including Al Qaeda, Iran and billionaire madmen) who want you DEAD.“That’s not going to happen,” said 10 year-old Billy Jones. “Not if I have anything to say about it.”

A top Al Qaeda leader in Somalia was killed along with 10 others during a 3AM missile strike.  Chalk another one up for the Infidels… Yahoo MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. military killed a man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia and 10 others in an airstrike overnight, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday. The [...]

Jihad Watch: Al-Qaeda video: "Christians and Jews are terrorists":"Al-Qaeda has released a new video attacking the US and Israel, as well as a photo display including an image ridiculing Pope Benedict XVI.Both have been released on Islamic forums on the internet in response to the controversial short film Fitna produced by right-wing Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders .The ten-minute video attacks the US and Israel and presents an historical review of what it claims their armies have done in the past 40 years.The video opens with a platoon of American soldiers with a cross on one side with the inscription, 'Jesus camp', followed by a star of David and images of conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians.In the background, a voice in Arabic, says 'Israel wants to destroy us.'"Al-Qaeda ha

My wife recently decided to try out my new paintball gun. So, I loaded it up and sent her out to the patio. After a few warmup shots, she let it rip full-auto. Immediately, I realized that we were holding something that looks and sounds like an assault rifle, in the middle [...]

“Al-Qaeda” atau “Al-CIAda”: Iran dan Teori Konspirasi 9/11 Oleh Jemala Gembala Believe or not! Sejumlah media Barat, pada sekitar 22 April 2008, melansir sebuah rekaman audio dimana “Al-Qaeda” No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, mengecam Iran dan stasiun TV Al-Manar milik Hizbullah sebagai telah menyebarkan teori konspirasi 9/11, yang menunjuk Israel berada di balik serangan teror terhadap Amerika [...]

~Snooper~Really. Who would have thought such a thing as that? The Democrats, when the label "Liberal" became anathema - no pun intended - they had to change it to "Progressive" to at least pretend that they were trying to "progress". Progress towards what is still an unspoken reality of socialist ideals. So the terrorist group Al Qaeda In Iraq changed their name to the Islamic Army of Iraq. Just like the Liberal Democrats, Al Qaeda had to change their name to give at least the impression of a credible entity. Those of us that pay attention to details know that when a group has to change their "label" or nomenclature, something is wrong with that group...they are hiding what they really are because they have zero credibility. Liberal/Progressive, AlQaeda/Islamic Army of Iraq...two pe

Osama bin Laden's chief deputy on Tuesday denied a theory that Israel carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and blamed Iran and Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea to discredit the Sunni al-Qaeda's strike against the U.S.The comments in a recording posted on an Islamic website reflected the increasing criticism by al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri against Iran. Al-Zawahri has accused Iran in recent messages of seeking to extend its power in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and through its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon. More...

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Al Qaeda anima a los marroquíes a luchar contra los españoles de Ceuta y Melilla. Leed el link porque es muy interesante.Digamos que esto no me sorprende nada. Ya ha amenazado varias veces con esta cuestión (como ya blogueé aquí, entre otras y precisamente, teneindo en cuenta la nueva franquicia de Al-Qaeda en el Magreb) y encima ahora el Plan de Reestructuración del Ejército determina que en Melilla vayan a reducirse efectivos, lo que sin embargo ha sido negado por la Ministra Chacón en una carta a Imbroda. Y además ocurre después de que se publicase que Zapatero si ganaba las elecciones iba a negociar la co-soberanía de Ceuta y Melilla.Por cierto, que en esta "histórica reivindicación" (¿?) también apoya a Marruecos la Liga Árabe... y nosotros con estos pelos... digo, pol

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When I started this website in January 2005, I never envisioned that that Al Qaeda would target us for a hit piece over the Internet. Well, voila , the blessed day has arrived. The wonderful folks at the SITE Intelligence Group found the item below on Al-Ekhlaas, one of Al-Qaida's central messaging forums on the Internet, which has begun a new series in English titled, "Watching and Monitoring the Jihad Media Watchers." They passed along the item below to Evan Kohlmann , who sent it to me, and I...(read more)

Dubai, 15 April (AKI) - A jihadist message posted to an al-Qaeda linked website urges Allah to "curse" Italy's prime minister-elect, billionaire media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, and also Pope Benedict XVI. "May Allah curse and unleash his wrath on him [Berlusconi], and the evil Pope," read the message, which recently appeared on one of the main jihadist websites, the al-Qaeda linked Al-Hesbah. The message was signed by 'al-Wahabi'. "Urgent news" read a banner headline on Al-Hesbah. "Berlusconi wins the Italian general election and becomes premier for the third time. "The message is signed by 'Qannas al-Jazira' - meaning 'Sniper from the Arabian Peninsula' in Arabic. A third message posted by 'Fursan al-Fajr' reads: "Several days ago, Berlusconi said that if he won [the elections] he would v

On the heels of CIA Director Gen. Mike Hayden's recent "Meet the Press" appearance, in which he disclosed that Al Qaeda is recruiting and training operatives who "look western" in order to penetrate the U.S., another top spook offered a few additional scraps of information about the new threat on Friday. "There is attention being given to finding people who can live in the west, have lived in the west, comfortably, and who can appear western, wear western clothing," Charlie Allen, chief of intelligence...(read more)

Fox News reports that a U.S. official confirmed that senior Al Qaeda operative and bomb expert Abu Ubaida al-Masri (a.k.a "Ubaidah" or "Obaidah") has died of natural causes. We discussed al-Masri's ascension within Al Qaeda in April 2007 as part of the shift to a second generation of leadership in the face of worldwide pressure. Al-Masri was one of the top 10 leaders in Al Qaeda and reportedly played a key role in the recruiting and training of the London 7/7/05 bombers, preparing the 2006 UK airline...(read more)

O segundo no comando das organizações Al Qaeda, disse nesta quarta-feira que a ONU é inimiga do Islão e está contra os muçulmanos e que o lider Osama Bin Laden goza de boa saude. Em um registro de audio captado pela IntelCenter,uma sociedade norte-americana especializada em vigilância e monitoração de portais islâmicos, o segundo no comando [...]

President Shimon Peres made clear “we have no intention at all of attacking Syria–Israel is not looking to go to war, and I hear that Syria says the same.” he blamed medida sources of attempting to c reate a crisis out of nothing by making inaccurate reports of Syrian forces moving up to the Israel [...]

Lo raro es que hiciera lo contrario:BBC NEWS | Middle East | Al-Qaeda deputy defends attacks:"Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri has defended attacks on the UN, describing the body as an enemy of Muslims. (don't make me laugh... a) UN forbids to make racial or religious profiling in the fight against terrorism. b) FITNA: UN, OIC and EU condemn the film. c) UN passes a resolution against the defamation of religions, which suprisingly ONLY refers inside its tet to Islam. Hmm, yes I see the etreme hate UN has for Muslims. So etreme that it has been protecting it OVER the rest of religions and creeds.)The Egyptian-born militant also used an internet message to say his leader, Osama Bin Laden, was in good health.His audio message answered questions about al-Qaeda's future solicited from website

The regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) is now regrouping with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden funding efforts to strengthen its forces in Southeast Asia, a top ranking Thai intelligence official disclosed Tuesday."The latest intelligence report we have about the JI is that they are regrouping," according to Maj. Gen. Thawip Netniyom, director of the Royal Thai Army Office for Policy and Plans.Thawip said the JI is consolidating what remains of its forces after its ranking leaders have been neutralized and arrested by regional security forces.He said Bin Laden continues to finance the JI to put it back as a potent terrorist force in the region."Osama bin Laden still has a lot of connections with the JI. The bulk of the finances of the JI for their operations comes from Bin Laden,

CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Sunday made the most definitive statement to date about an emerging threat from Al Qaeda reported exclusively by the New York Daily News in December: The ever-creative top thugs of Osama Bin Laden’s terror network have succeeded in converting a group of white Europeans and has trained them in Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Here’s how Hayden described it to NBC News’ Tim Russert on “Meet the Press:” “It’s...(read more)

CAIR's soft spot for terrorists extends well beyond the Hamas connections documented in yesterday's installment in this comprehensive series on the group. Today we focus on its portrayal of virtually any law enforcement action against radical elements as an assault on all American Muslims. · Days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, CAIR-New York Executive Director Ghazi Khankan used an online chat with the Washington Post to launch a weeks-long campaign casting them...(read more)

From Polidics.com :   BBC's killer documentary called "The Power of Nightmares". Top CIA officials openly admit, Al-qaeda is a total and complete fabrication, never having existed at any time. The Bush administration needed a reason that complied with the Laws so they could go after "the bad guy of their choice" namely laws that had been set in place to protect us from mobs and "criminal organizations" such as the Mafia. They paid Jamal al Fadl, hundreds of thousands of dollars to back the U.S. Government's story of Al-qaeda, a "group" or criminal organization they could "legally" go after. This video documentary is off the hook…   ~ video and links to Parts I and II ~

Ayman Al-Zawahri Al-Qaeda now feels the need to exploit the Gaza debacle and the Danish cartoon controversy. Al-Qaeda generally stays away from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and hasn't spent a whole lot of time obsessing over the Danish cartoons other than the occasional statement. So is this a new strategy to broaden its scope or just an act of desperation to remain relevant?On Tape, Zawahri Urges Attacks on Israel and US CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims in a new audiotape released Monday to strike Jewish and American targets in revenge for Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip. The al-Zawahri tape came on the heels of a message from Osama bin Laden, who called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian territories. Together, the two

Sajid BadatApparently blood is thicker than bomb-making materials. Michael Jacobson points out in this Washington Post article that family ties have a lot to do with the fact that some Al-Qaeda members give up their calling for jihad and simply go home to be with the wife and kids, or in Sajid Badat's case, mom and dad. They Trained. They Plotted. Then They Bailed.By Michael Jacobson For The Washington Post On Dec. 10, 2001, after completing his al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Sajid Badat returned home to Britain. Badat, a 22-year-old Muslim born in Gloucester, had an associate, a gangly man named Richard Reid, and the duo were now ready to carry out their mission: blowing up two separate aircraft traveling from Europe to the United States. Badat and Reid had been given ide

Hace algunas semanas participe en una mesa redonda sobre innovación y estrategias de futuro. Nos hallábamos en la recta final cuando alguien me hizo la pregunta que siempre espero, pero nunca llega. Y esta vez llegó, no sé si de forma ingenua o con muy mala leche, pero siempre una pregunta inteligente. ¿Consideraría los atentados de las Torres Gemelas como un ejercicio de creatividad? Tarde unos segundos en contestar, no porque no supiera qué decir, sino porque intentaba recordar cuánto llevaba esperando esa pregunta. Mi respuesta, más o menos literal, fue la que sigue: Parte de mis antepasados son gallegos, así que me va a permitir contestarle con otra pregunta: ¿Cómo sabe usted en una película quién es el bueno? En otras palabras, el blanco existe gracias al negro, el

In my opinion, the most important point in the second tape in two days by Osama Bin Laden is his reiteration of long-held Al Qaeda doctrine that victory in Iraq is critical to the long-term success of the jihad throughout the Middle East, ending in victory over and the destruction of the State of Israel. Bin Laden issues a renewed call for jihadists to win in Iraq in order to support the Palestinian cause: "The nearest Jihad (holy war) battlefield to support our people in Palestine is the battlefield...(read more)

Jihad Watch -- Hussein al-Ahmad, who was until recently one of the Gulf’s most famous pop stars, decided to join “his Mujahideen brothers in Afghanistan to support Islam and fight alongside his fellow Muslims in al-Qaeda”, reported Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai.He says: “I then informed my family and friends that I would retire from the dark world of sin (singing). Since then, my job has been to warn against arts and their sinful atmosphere.”

Al Qaeda in Iraq founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s spiritual mentor was released from prison in Jordan for “humanitarian” reasons due to supposed declining health. WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) — Jordanian authorities have quietly released one of the ideological leaders of global terrorism, [...]

Reuters -- An al Qaeda affiliate holding two captured Austrians has extended by one week, to midnight on Sunday, its deadline for Austria to meet its demands, according to an Internet posting monitored on Monday.Austria had said on Sunday the deadline had been extended for an unspecified time.The U.S.-based terrorism monitoring service SITE Institute said Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb posted the note to Jihadist forums.In a SITE translation, the group said the extension was "the final opportunity from the Mujahideen to absolve their responsibility before the families of the two hostages and the Austrian people, and to allow adequate time for the state of Austria to respond to the legitimate demands."

 McCain, at a town hall meeting in this Philadelphia suburb, was asked if he had concerns that anti-American militants in Iraq might ratchet up their activities in Iraq to try to increase casualties in September or October and tip the November election against him. "Yes, I worry about it," McCain said. "And I know they pay attention because of the intercepts we have of their communications ... The hardest thing in warfare is to counter someone or a group of individuals who are willing to take their own lives in order to take others."McCain also criticized U.S. Senate Republicans for not joining him and 28 other senators in a one-year moratorium on controversial spending projects, known as earmarks that benefit specific ci

What Good is Health Care if You’re Dead? Red Planet Cartoons, one of the finest purveyors of right cartoons, is spot on with their latest offering, “Priorities”. They start out with a quote from Sen. Lindsay Graham: WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on comments by Senators Hillary Clinton (D-New York) and [...]

What Good is Health Care if You're Dead?Red Planet Cartoons, one of the finest purveyors of right cartoons, is spot on with their latest offering, "Priorities".They start out with a quote from Sen. Lindsay Graham:WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on comments by Senators Hillary Clinton (D-New York) and Barack Obama (D-Illinois).“Senator Clinton made an interesting statement last night. She said, “We’re ready to end the war in Iraq and win the war in Afghanistan.” No one doubts we must win in Afghanistan, the country that gave rise to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. But Senator Clinton’s Iraq statement about “ending” the Iraq war was quite troubling."Troubling" is Senator-speak for "Are you kidding me?"RPC adds to the mix with a

What Good is Health Care if You’re Dead? Red Planet Cartoons, one of the finest purveyors of right cartoons, is spot on with their latest offering, “Priorities”. They start out with a quote from Sen. Lindsay Graham: WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on comments by Senators Hillary Clinton (D-New York) and [...]

The SITE Intelligence Group has released an announcement from Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, in which it stipulates demands for the release of two Austrian tourists taken hostage this week. The demands provide three days for the Tunisian and Algerian governments to release prisoners. The message includes 6 images showing one of the hostages and a woman to his side with an obscured face and headscarf, who is likely the other hostage (see two such images below, courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group)....(read more)

A través de Aurora, me entero de que las tropas aliadas han bombardeado y destruido una cámara de tortura de Al-Qaeda:O’Brian said they discovered hand cuffs, an electrocution system consisting of bare wires linked to an on/off switch running to handcuffs on a window bar, and hanging hooks used for humans. Twelve interrogation books written in Arabic were found along with several sets of female clothing. A bloody handprint was also present.O'Brian dice que encontraron esposas, un sistema de electrocución que consistía en los cables sin protección unidos a un interruptor que a su vez estaba unido a las barras de una ventana y ganchos para colgar humanos. También había dice libros de interrogatorio escritos en áraba junto con varios conjuntos de ropa femenina. También había la hu

An exhaustive Pentagon-backed study of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents seized after the 2003 US-led invasion has found no direct link between Saddam Hussein's government and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.      The alleged link was one of the main reasons given by the US for going to war with Iraq and the then defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, had said there was "bulletproof" evidence of

Supporters of the Iraq war have justified the war because of disputed claims such as that we were threatened by WMD from Iraq or that there was  a connection between Saddam and al Qaeda. Of course such claims are not limited to the right. Even Hillary Clinton has used the 9/11 attack to rationalize her [...]

Imagen de las manifestaciones del 12 M ____________________ Hoy se cumplen 4 Años del atentado de Al-Qaeda en Madrid, aquella mañana del 11 de marzo del 2004, los ciudadanos de la capital de España despertaban atonitos frente a lo que estaba sucediendo en su ciudad. Sirenas de ambulancias, bomberos y patrullas policiales iban y venian por todas partes, la radio y la television daban informaciones aun no muy claras de lo sucedido, las primeras imagenes que transmitian las televisoras eran desde la estacion de trenes de Atocha, donde aun se temia la posibilidad de otras explosiones. Frente a la incertidumbre y el caos, todos comenzaron a llamar a familiares y conocidos para verificar que de casualidad no estuvieran en alguno de los vagones destrozados por las bombas, en especial la urga

I wrote a piece for the Asia Times on Al Qaeda's triple threat. You can read it in full here . Here is an excerpt: Last November, Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union's anti-terror chief, said that al-Qaeda was the biggest threat to Europe. To confirm this, Western intelligence services have recently established operational links between al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and al-Qaeda in The Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) whose goals include striking at the heart of Europe. Al-Qaeda has not made any secret of its...(read more)

Four police officers in Britain's top force are reportedly under close secret service surveillance after being identified as Al Qaeda spies, it emerged today.MI5 are said to have homed in on the the “sleeper” agents passing secrets from Scotland Yard to the terror group only in recent weeks.The suspected spies are believed to have used methods similar to those employed by the IRA in the 1970s as they infiltrated the police and the Army in Northern Ireland.All four are understood to be Asians living in London and are feared to have links both with Islamic extremists in Britain and worldwide terror groups - including al-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.MI5 chiefs reportedly believe the suspected moles have been planted as sleepers - agents under deep cover - to keep al-Qa

Saudi security checkpoint in Jeddah.It appears that Al-Qaeda is attempting to rebuild its Saudi Arabian operations following its defeat at the hands of Saudi security forces in the spring of 2005. This plot to attack Saudi oil installations, as reported by the Khaleej Times, is the second attempt by Al-Qaeda.Al-Qaeda Plotted Attacks on Saudi Oil InstallationsKhaleej Times A senior Saudi official said Wednesday that a terror cell uncovered this week was plotting attacks on oil installations and security forces in Saudi Arabia and receiving instructions from Al Qaeda members operating from an Arab country.Saudis, three Palestinians and a Yemeni were among the 28 militants arrested Monday in a security sweep on suspicion of seeking to rebuild the Al Qaeda terrorist network in the kingdom, a

Saudi security forces.Saudi security forces and the government's intelligence branch took a while to gear up to combat Al-Qaeda attacks inside the Kingdom's own borders following the May 2003 bombing of a residential compound. But the Saudi government has done remarkably well in capturing or killing Al-Qaeda suspects in the past three years as evident in this latest security sweep reported by Agence France-Presse. Saudi security men initially shot first and asked questions later, resulting in many bloody exchanges. But their methods have been refined and the results are more arrests while plots are in the planning stages rather than reacting to an attack. Clearly the Saudi government has something to offer American military leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan to deal with Al-Qaeda cells, but

Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin's Al-Qaeda website. Bruce Riedel and Bilal Y. Saab write a compelling examination in a Brookings Institution report of Osama bin Laden's battle against Saudi Arabia. The authors characterize Saudi Arabia as Al-Qaeda's third front. The PDF file is here. Riedel and Saab outline much of what we already know about Al-Qaeda's intentions to overthrow the royal family and the group's encouragement of Saudis to fight US and allied forces in Iraq. But the report also gives us a look into Al-Qaeda's extensive operations inside the Kingdom. And although Al-Qaeda has suffered many failures it remains a threat today to Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden has long hated the royal family for allowing Western nations to carve up the Middle East following World War I and allowing the British to es

Algún Lugar, Medio Oriente - Tras finalmente enterarse que la desconexión al Internet que sufrieran varios países del Medio Oriente a principios de mes se debió no a un acto concertado por el gobierno estadounidense, sino a que un ancla de un barco accidentalmente rompió un cable subacuático en el Mediterráneo, la agrupación terrorista Al Qaeda le declaró un jihad al ancla que cometiera el acto. Los terroristas le imputan al ancla, entre otros cargos, "habernos aislado de los aconteceres noticiosos del mundo, habernos desconectado de nuestros hermanos en la lucha por el Islam, y peor aún, habernos privado de entretenimiento cibernético tal como Facebook y videos de YouTube".Vista del desierto árido donde los terroristas viven, razón por la cual se enzorran sin tener accesso al

Al-Qaeda is finally admitting what the Main Stream Media and the Democrats cannot and won't: al-Qaeda is on its way out in Iraq and victory is getting closer by the day. In their own words:Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an "extraordinary crisis". Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military "created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight". The terrorist group's security structure suffered "total collapse".These are the words not of al-Qaeda's enemies but of one of its own leaders in Anbar province once the group's stronghold. They were set down last summer in a 39 page letter seized during a US raid on an al-Qaeda base near Samarra in November.The US military released extracts from that letter yesterday along with a second seized in another November raid that

Al Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan's remote Afghan border area and begun to focus attacks on the Pakistani government and military, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday."There is no question that some of the areas in the frontier area have become areas where Al Qaeda has re-established itself," Gates said. "But so far, we haven't seen any significant consequence of that in Afghanistan itself.Gates said the Pentagon was looking for ways to improve the Pakistani army's counter-insurgency capabilities by providing training and equipment.More than 400 people have been killed in suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan in recent months, most in the North West Frontier Province.

Behold the latest phase in Al Qaeda's media strategy. The shadowy terror network is offering up Ayman al-Zawahiri, to any journalists with questions for its No. 2 man. The invitation, issued by the group's media arm, As-Sahaab (The Cloud), came at the end of a 90-minute video message from Zawahiri, posted on one of the group's various militant Web pages.In the statement, released Dec. 16, Zawahiri invites "individuals, agencies and all media" to submit written questions via one of As-Sahaab's Web forums. He calls upon the "brothers" who supervise the site "to collect the questions and transmit them without alteration, whether it is coming from someone who agrees or disagrees."This is the first time Al Qaeda has made a formal call to journalists, although it will not be the first time the radical Islamic group has granted interviews to Western media. Counterterrorism experts believe that the posting is genuine and that it is part of Al Qaeda's evolving tactics to use the Web as par

Fourteen people arrested in Belgium on suspicion of plotting to free a convicted Al-Qaeda member from jail have been released without charge. The suspects were released for lack of evidence after 24 hours in custody. They were suspected of plotting to free Tunisian national Nizar Trabelsi, jailed in Belgium in 2003 for planning to attack US targets.Unlike some other European countries, Belgium does not have anti-terrorist laws which allow suspects to be held for longer than 24 hours. (Full post)24 hours of detention only? Hmmm, a sharp contrast with Guantanamo Bay?Picture courtesy BBC News

The Iraqi interior makes the claim that 75 percent of Al-Qaeda's networks in the country had been destroyed in 12 months. Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf also stated that there have been sharp falls in the numbers of assassinations, kidnappings and death squad murders. We have destroyed 75 percent of Al-Qaeda hide-outs, and we broke up major criminal networks that supported Al-Qaeda in Baghdad, he said. After eliminating safe houses in Anbar province, which used to be Al-Qaeda's base, we moved into areas surrounding Baghdad and into Diyala province. Al-Qaeda headed north and we are pursuing them, he said.Khalaf said kidnappings were down 70 percent and that an average of three to five people killed by death squads were being found each day in Baghdad compared with 15 to 20

The Iraqi interior makes the claim that 75 percent of Al-Qaeda's networks in the country had been destroyed in 12 months. Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf also stated that there have been sharp falls in the numbers of assassinations, kidnappings and death squad murders. We have destroyed 75 percent of Al-Qaeda hide-outs, and we broke up major criminal networks that supported Al-Qaeda in Baghdad, he said. After eliminating safe houses in Anbar province, which used to be Al-Qaeda's base, we moved into areas surrounding Baghdad and into Diyala province. Al-Qaeda headed north and we are pursuing them, he said.Khalaf said kidnappings were down 70 percent and that an average of three to five people killed by death squads were being found each day in Baghdad compared with 15 to 20

I just heard the most predictable factoid: 41% of Al Qaeda fighters in Iraq are Saudi Arabians. Apparently record keeping by some Al Qaeda higher-ups has been captured by the U.S. military and careful records have revealed a detailed accounting of the social and regional makeup of the Al Qaeda operatives inside Iraq. Many of these Islamic terrorists are being recruited directly off of Islamic college campuses across the Middle East and around the world. This, again, is quite predictable. Islam demands this sort of sacrifice and its followers anticipate rewards in Paradise. How can we continue to act as if this is just a symptom of “radical” Islam and still look ourselves in the mirror? I certainly gave up that notion years ago, so I’m not surprised by any of these revelations. Similar Posts:Al-Sadr Must Be Eliminated Al Qaeda in Iraq leader al-Masri killed U.S. forces tracking Iranians in Iraq; Bush Administration waffling British Diplomats Claim Saudi Officia

Last week, the debate over waterboarding terrorists took a slippery turn when an obscure ex-CIA officer named John Kiriakou went public to disclose that the interrogation technique many consider torture was used to allegedly break the first Al Qaeda lieutenant nabbed after 9/11. Kiriakou's remarkable media blitz began on network evening news broadcasts on Dec. 10 and continued the next day on morning shows and cable nets as he recounted how Al Qaeda associate Abu Zubaydah was broken within 30 seconds of being waterboarded after his 2002 capture in Pakistan.But Kiriakou's outpouring of details about one of the most highly classified programs in the U.S. government - possibly intended to nail a book deal - may get him into hot water. Informed sources flatly denied the accuracy of one news report that CIA and Justice Department officials last week decided against investigating Kiriakou for the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.The publicity generated by the ex-operativ

Last week, the debate over waterboarding terrorists took a slippery turn when an obscure ex-CIA officer named John Kiriakou went public to disclose that the interrogation technique many consider torture was used to allegedly break the first Al Qaeda lieutenant nabbed after 9/11. Kiriakou’s remarkable media blitz began on network evening news broadcasts on Dec. 10 and continued the next day on morning shows and cable nets as he recounted how Al Qaeda associate Abu Zubaydah was broken within...(read more)

Insurgents in Diyala Province, Iraq, are turning against al-Qaeda reminiscient of al-Anbar Province. The U.S. military is maximizing this turn of events to work with the anti-al-Qaeda movement to stabilize the region.

Bizarre: Al-Qaeda To Emulate YouTube Debates?Excerpt:"The second in command of Al-Qaeda has asked for questions to be submitted to the terrorist network which he'll then answer in an online interview next month."http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/16/bizarre-al-qaeda-to-emulate-youtube-debates/

Here are few remarks about the bombings in Algeria today: An Al Qaeda link? Most experts in Algeria and the Arab world believe this terror campaign is either inspired or ordered by al Qaeda in the Maghreb. Even if the execution is perpetrated by local Jihadist groups it is part of the Salafist general offensive against Algeria's Government and an extension to the North African operations by al Qaeda Maghreb in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania and possibly later Libya. This attack in Algeria...(read more)

The latest reports on the suicide bombings in Algeria today indicate that over 60 died and scores were injured (you can see photos of the destruction ). We have reported more often than any other website on the development of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Algeria and northern Africa, and we will cover this event in depth. Here is a sample of CT Blog posts by Olivier Guitta , Evan Kohlmann , Walid Phares , and Jeffrey Imm , in chronological order starting with the most recent: New worrying signs...(read more)

French authorities have searched the home of a journalist and placed him under official investigation for publishing a document on Al Qaeda that was classified a defence secret, a judicial source said yesterday.Guillaume Dasquie was placed under official investigation overnight – one step short of pressing charges in France – after spending two nights in detention, the source said.Paris prosecutors said a second person, detained at the same time as Dasquie, had also been placed under official investigation, but declined to give the person’s name.The investigation relates to an article published in Le Monde in April entitled Sept 11, 2001 – The French knew a lot about it, in which Dasquie cited reports by the DGSE foreign intelligence service dating back to 2000 and 2001.Dasquie, an independent journalist, is accused of possessing classified defence documents and divulging classified files and information, the source said.“I’m profoundly upset by what I have gone through,”

In un messaggio audio di più di 46 minuti, diffuso via Internet dal sito integralista Al-Ikhlass, legato ad Al-Qaeda, il leader di Osama Bin Laden, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, ha implicitamente ammesso i duri colpi subiti dagli “infedeli americani” esortando poi lo “Stato Islamico in Iraq” a produrre una celere controffensiva. Al-Baghdadi - in un arabo dal forte accento saudita – avrebbe sollecitato i

Il terrorismo fa sempre più uso di nuove tecnologie e negli ultimi tempi ha scoperto internet: Messaggi sul Web, gli innumerevoli forum, i video e i messaggi audio inneggianti alla jihad !   Nella capitale Saudita , Riyadh si è tenuta la conferenza "Information Technology and National Security" . Ricordiamo che l'Arabia Saudita, il maggior esportatore mondiale di petrolio, ha individuato

According to Reuters, more than 5,600 websites are spreading Al-Qaeda’s extremist ideology worldwide, with more than 900 new ones appearing every year. A Saudi researcher has identified the Internet as a key battlefield for militants who launched a campaign to topple the U.S.-allied ruling royal family in 2003. Khaled al-Faram gave a presentation to the Information Technology and National Security conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh. The conference was organized by the Saudi intelligence agency to encourage the public to cooperate more with the government and share expertise on how to survey the Internet for militant activity. He said it was difficult to track most of the sites, though hardcore al Qaeda sites often change addresses to avoid detection or start up again elsewhere once infiltrated. “There are some 900 news sites appearing every year, and despite the retreat of some media outlets specifically run by al Qaeda, extremist Web sites are constantly on the rise.&r

A local militia calling itself the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” took over the Sunni district on the east bank of the Tigris on November 10 in a swift and audacious raid that sent Al-Qaeda fleeing from its last stronghold in Baghdad.On Friday, members of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” controlled main roads into the neighbourhood as well the square housing the famous Abu Hanifa mosque where Saddam Hussein made his last public appearance before fleeing Baghdad in 2003 as US-led forces invaded the country…“Our men seized 11 car bombs and discovered several clandestine bomb-making workshops,” said the chief of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah”, surrounded by armed bodyguards.More...

Italian daily Il Secolo XIX online edition has been claiming that Romania houses an Al-Qaeda training camp. The paper reported that 3 Al-Qaeda members, one of them the leader of the Easteuropean ramification, are hiding in Romania, where they established training camps.According to the publication, Italian authorities intercepted phone calls of several terrorist suspects including clues that Al-Qaeda members settled in Galati, Romania, where they train those who aspire to fight for the Jihad how to use explosive devices. During an inquiry by the Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale (ROS) of the Genoa Police, the investigators intercepted a conversation between two terrorist suspects, Tunisians Jameleddine Ben Mohamed Ben Moussa and Bechir Kaouana. They mentioned Al-Qaeda training camps in Romania, used for training future Jihad fighters to make and use explosive devices.Bucharest-based daily Ziua writes that the SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service) has confirmed the information, mentionin

Hotair: I have the clip, although for obvious reasons I’m not going to post it. They even kept the name of the town in which he lives onscreen for most of the segment so I can’t show you the bit with the nut in the burqa saying she wants to kill him. But here’s the strangest part, which isn’t clear from the Gates of Vienna post: Vilks is aware that they’re filming him in front of the two houses. It’s not some stock shot of the door and the light fixture; it’s him, entering the building, with the camera right in his face. Unless CNN led him to believe that they weren’t filming or weren’t going to use the footage, and there’s no reason to think that they did, it was all done with his willing participation. Which, given the bounty placed on his head by Al Qaeda in Iraq and the verdict of Swedish police that he’s not safe at home, makes him one recklessly special idiot.

Bomb Detonates in Sugar Factory in Northeast Afghanistan as School Children VisitedA bomb went off Tuesday in Baghlan province, Afganistan, at a Sugar Factory where a small group of National Legislators were meeting, along with 59 school children and their teachers for a visit.It's currently unknown if the fatal blast was caused by a suicide bomb or a detonated explosive device. It is the single deadlist terrorist attack in Afganistan since the Taliban's ouster in 2001.I'm personally in awe at this. Nuts! These Islamic Fascist Terrorist arseholes have no regard for anyone's life, not even school children! I mean come on man .. this is bad like Beslan bad. This should be getting more coverage. I know I know.. the target was the legislators, but they could've called it off, someone detonated the device or set it to go at that tme. It's just wrong, unexcusable. Whichever "Mullah" or Terrorist "Sheikh" ordered this one should get strung up and beheaded by his own boys, it's despicab

It’s not the purpose of this blog to talk about politics. However, there have recently been some outrageous press comments made about Qatar. These started after it emerged Rudy Gulliano has a security contract with the Qatar petroleum, protecting a gas processing facility, and I couldn't resist the urge to comment.This really has been some ridiculous press: Rudy Giuliani's Al Qaeda Connection? screams Radar Online, while the All Spin Zone maintains that "old Rudy Guiliani has huge connections to Al Qaeda" and that he "claims to fight terrorism while cozying up to the terrorists".The accusations of connections to Al Qaeda are based on events that took place in 1996, six years before the start of Rudy Giulani's contact with Qatar Petroleum. An Al Qaeda terrorist was hiding out in Qatar, and it is alleged that a sympathiser based in the government gave the terrorist the nod before he could be arrested.The unsubstantiated allegations may or may not be true, although Qatar strongly den

During operations in Mosul, coalition forces captured a wanted individual reported to be a judge in a terrorist illegal court system in the city...The wanted individual identified himself to the ground force, and he was detained. "The people of Iraq have chosen their future; Iraqi and coalition forces will ensure al Qaeda stays out of their way."

The FBI has released a report detailing the prospect that Al Qaeda may be plotting to strike shopping malls this holiday season. That’s taking the ‘War on Christmas’ to an entirely new level. Ho, ho, ho! Allahu Akbar! From ABC News: The FBI is warning that al Qaeda may be preparing a series of holiday attacks on U.S. shopping malls in Los Angeles and Chicago, according to an intelligence report distributed to law enforcement authorities across the country this morning. Click here for full text. The alert said al Qaeda “hoped to disrupt the U.S. economy and has been planning the attack for the past two years.” Law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com that the FBI received the information in late September and declassified it yesterday for wide distribution. The alert, like similar FBI and Department of Homeland Security terror alerts issued over the past five years at holiday times, raised questions about the credibility of the information. The bulle

The so-called Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb may adopt the strategy of recruiting illegal immigrants as it is easy to convince them in view of their difficult social situations, according to security experts. A total of 5,049 foreigners who were illegally staying in Algeria have been arrested by the National Gendarmerie services since January. Of them 3,850 have been repatriated. Most of foreign illegal immigrants come from Niger, Mali, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Libya and Syria. More...

There is up to 2,000 people in the UK who are a threat to national security because of their support for terrorism, the head of MI5 has said.Such a figure does not particularly surprise me. Recent foreign policy has served to alienate the Muslim community within Britain to some extent. Radical leaders have found their stages in mosques around the country and free from outside influence work on the minds of the weak and impressionable.What does surprise me is that Johnathan Evans (the head of MI5) claims children as young as 15 are being targeted by Al-Qaeda for terrorist-related activity. These are perhaps the most vulnerable people in society, and so potentially the biggest threats.It immediately reminds me of the Hitler Youth. The Nazi party used the Hitler Youth to infiltrate the minds

And rocket attacks are also continuing: Scores of Fatah policemen who used to serve in the Palestinian Authority security forces in the Gaza Strip have now joined the al-Qaida-affiliated group calling itself the Army of Islam, sources in the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry told The Jerusalem Post Thursday. Meanwhile, Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, claimed responsibility for

On November 3, Al Qaeda's number 2 Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri called for attacks on Western interests throughout North Africa, and called for the overthrow of leaders of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Per AP report , the latest Internet audio message from Al-Zawahiri was a 28-minute audiotape called "Unity of the Ranks". Per AFP report , Zawahiri stated in the November 3 message: "Islamic nation of resistance and jihad (holy war) in the Maghreb, see how your children are uniting under the banner...(read more)

Al Qaeda is planning a major denial-of-service attack against websites on November 11. But instead of using a bot network as one would expect for such purposes, the attack is to be based on the "Electronic Jihad 2.0" program, which is being distributed to "virtual martyrs."read more | digg story

Last August, Al Qaeda terrorists in Samara made a plan to kidnap US soldiers and to make a public spectacle of their imprisonment and murder, just two weeks before General Petraeus's internationally viewed testimony on Iraq before the U.S. They sent over 40 terrorists against an isolated 4 man sniper team.read more | digg story

Here are some excerpts from Michael Yon's latest dispatch: “Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.

Osama bin Laden’s followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites.

A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company’s Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group’s communications network.

As more than a million people escaped the flames, Fox News anchors couldn’t help speculating about a terrorism link to the blazes ravaging southern California. The more afraid the public is, the easier it is to control them and get them to willingly give up their freedoms.read more | digg story

On the heels of Tom Ricks and Karen DeYoung's excellent Washington Post piece about the internal military debate over whether to declare victory over Al Qaeda in Iraq, given its decimation, we write in today's New York Daily News about those in the intelligence community who feel it's way too soon to dance another victory jig in Baghdad's Paradise Square. CTBlog contributors Evan Kohlmann and Bill Roggio are quoted in my story, as are several intelligence officials who were curiously hesitant to...(read more)