Prominent British Muslims warned over 'Shebab' video
ET: LONDON: Several prominent British Muslims said Friday that police have warned they may be in danger, after they were named as enemies of Islam in a video purportedly made by […]
Prominent British Muslims warned over ‘Shebab’ video
ET: LONDON: Several prominent British Muslims said Friday that police have warned they may be in danger, after they were named as enemies of Islam in a video purportedly made by […]
Al Qaeda leader urges restraint in first ‘guidelines for jihad’
Reuters | Sep 17, 2013 | 00:35 LONDON — Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri has issued his first specific guidelines for jihad, urging restraint in attacking other Muslim sects and non-Muslims and in starting conflicts in countries where jihadis might find a safe base to promote their ideas. The […]
Israel’s Undisputed Role In Training Middle East Terrorists
With the recent controversy surrounding decisions by the “secret Congress” and White House to openly arm, train, and assist the death squads wreaking havoc across Syria (commonly known as the […]
Robert Fisk: Once Washington made the Middle East tremble – now no one there takes it seriously Our present leaders are paying the price for the dishonesty of Bush and Blair
By Robert Fisk, The Independent Watershed. It’s the only word for it. Once Lebanon and Syria and Egypt trembled when Washington spoke. Now they laugh. It’s not just a question of what happened to the statesmen of the past. No one believed that Cameron was Churchill or that the silly […]
Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side? ‘All for one and one for all’ should be the battle cry if the West goes to war against Assad’s Syrian regime
If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida. BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Quite an alliance! Was it not the Three Musketeers who shouted “All […]
Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out
By Kareem Raheem and Ziad al-Sinjary BAGHDAD/MOSUL, Iraq | Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:51pm EDT (Reuters) – Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday. The deadly raid on […]
Kurds drive Al-Qaeda fighters out of Ras al-Ain
STORY SUMMARY Kurdish fighters expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain and the nearby border crossing with Turkey, activists said Wednesday, in escalating fighting that could signal another front in Syria’s fractious civil war.Kurdish fighters took total control of Ras al-Ain “after 24 hours of fighting. […]
Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11
We Created Al Qaeda to Fight the Soviets in Afghanistan Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted on CNN that the U.S. organized and supported Bin Laden and the […]
Saudi Arabia: 166 ‘reformed’ militants freed
RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Monday 6 May 2013 Saudi Arabia released yesterday 166 former Al-Qaeda members and repentant militants after they underwent a long-term state-sponsored counseling program (Munasaha) aimed at reintegrating them into society, said Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman of the Ministry of Interior. The rehabilitation program and release […]
Haven’t We Seen This Movie Before? The Open-Ended Global War on Terrorism
by PEPE ESCOBAR COUNTERPUNCH.ORG And the winner of the Oscar for Best Sequel of 2013 goes to… The Global War on Terror (GWOT), a Pentagon production. Abandon all hope those who thought the whole thing was over with the cinematographic snuffing out of “Geronimo”, aka Osama bin Laden, further reduced […]
Uncertainty over missing Algeria hostages
Fate of hostages unclear after reports that at least 30 were killed in military operation that ended a 36-hour standoff. SOURCE: ALJAZEERA At least 30 hostages and 11 members of […]
Jordanian tapped to lead jihadist forces in Syria
by Taylor Luck | Dec 13, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A Jordanian national has been tapped to lead jihadist forces in Syria, Islamist sources unveiled on Thursday. According to a Syrian Islamist source, the Jabhat Al Nusra Li Ahl Al Sham coalition has named Mustafa Abdul Latif Al […]
Jordanian jihadist killed in Syria as gov’t ups border security
by Taylor Luck | Nov 11, 2012 | 22:48 AMMAN — A Jordanian jihadist has been killed in southern Syria, to Islamist sources, as the government reportedly increased security along the northern border to curb the rising flow of Islamist militants. The local jihadist movement said 37-year-old Amad Natour was […]
Chaos among Syrian rebels allows jihadists to thrive
October 10, 2012 12:43 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star Leading the fight in Sakhour on the eastern side of the embattled city of Aleppo is the Tawafuk Battalion […]
Libyan Islamist militia swept out of Benghazi bases
By Peter Graff and Suleiman Al-Khalidi SWISSINFO.CH BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – An Islamist militia was driven out of the city of Benghazi early on Saturday in a surge of anger against the armed groups that control large parts of Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. […]
“Al-Qaeda planning attack in The Hague”
Al-Qaeda has reportedly recruited two Somali men in Pakistan to carry out a suicide attack in The Hague. According to the Pakistani weekly Friday Times, al-Qaeda has recruited two Somali students in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The terrorist organisation trained them in the use of weapons and explosives and […]
The circle of global criminals expands
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star A noteworthy but troubling recent development across the Middle East and North Africa has been the quiet resurgence of Al-Qaeda affiliates and Salafist militants confronting established regimes. This has occurred alongside the emergence of nonviolent Salafist movements taking the opposite route of engaging […]
Nothing ‘accidental’ in Mali — more misery awaits
RAMZY BAROUD ARABNEWS Tuesday 31 July 2012 NORTHERN Mali promises to be the graveyard for scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. The Republic of Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The reference is being applied with growing enthusiasm by […]
Iraq: … and the killing continues: Suicide bomber kills 7 of his own family in Iraq
AP | Jul 07, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt at a gathering of his own family in western Iraq, killing his pro-government cousin and six other relatives, officials said Saturday. The killing is part of a surge in violence in Iraq six […]