Reuters International AUG 26, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch Police remove the body of a suicide bomber from the scene of an attack in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia on July 5, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Maulana Surya/via REUTERS/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Randy Fabi and Kanupriya Kapoor SOLO, […]
How come a Muslim can be a terrorist in Europe but a mere ‘attacker’ in south-west Asia? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Monday 25 July 2016 377 comments The frightful and bloody […]
cbc.ca http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/terrorism-rcmp-1.3508257 Kevin Omar Mohamed is alleged to have encouraged terrorist activity through social media, his lawyer says A man has been detained in a “preventive” arrest on fears of terrorism following an RCMP national security investigation in Toronto that police say is unrelated to the attacks in Brussels. Kevin Omar […]
Voices ‘Criminals’ are our chaps, while ‘terrorists’ are dark-skinned Muslims Robert Fisk @indyvoice 73 comments How do we decide who’s a terrorist and who’s just a criminal? PA Cops and reporters have a lot in common. Both are students of human folly. They have an osmotic-parasitic relationship. And so I […]
Source: Independent By Robert Fisk @indyvoices Reactions to Paris and Mali have been militaristic rhetoric brought about by ignorance and refusal to understand the injustices of the Middle East Eisenhower famously sent […]
Oct 03,2015 – JORDAN TIMES MAHMOUD ZIDAN “If it looks like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist.” Thus spoke Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a UN General Assembly press conference. Several […]
Fears Grow Over Islamic State’s Influence in Southeast Asia Indonesia’s president says radical group is his country’s greatest international concern ENLARGE Armed antiterror police conducted a raid at the house of a suspected Islamic State member in Petukangan district in Jakarta in March.PHOTO: REUTERS By RICHARD C. PADDOCK And I-MADE […]
There’s a certain ritual that each and every one of the world’s billion-plus Muslims, especially those living in Western countries, is expected to go through immediately following any incident of violence involving a Muslim perpetrator. It’s a ritual that is continuing now with the Sydney hostage crisis, in which a deranged self-styled sheikh […]
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Switzerland said it foiled a terrorist attack in Europe by detaining three Islamic State extremists. The Iraqi citizens are suspected of “misuse of explosives and toxic gases with criminal intent, acts preparatory to criminal offenses, pornography, and encouraging illegal entry to, exit from and residence in […]
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal attends the opening of an Arab foreign ministers emergency meeting to discuss the Syrian crisis and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Sunday. (Reuters) CAIRO: ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 10 March 2014 […]
By SULIMAN ALI ZWAY and KAREEM FAHIM Published: December 5, 2013 THE NEW YORK TIMES BENGHAZI, Libya — Gunmen on Thursday shot and killed a United States citizen who had been working as a teacher in an English-language school here, according to Libyan security officials and residents of the neighborhood […]
BOSTON (AP) — Police in Worcester (WUS’-tur), Mass., say the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM’-ehr-lun tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) has been buried outside of the city. Police said in […]
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: Even the world’s most wanted terrorist could not escape the bribery dragnet. Osama bin Laden’s safe-house in Pakistan’s garrison city Abbottabad was built after paying a bribe of Rs 50,000 to a revenue official, a media report said on Wednesday.The bribe was paid to the ‘patwari’ so […]
By Rania Abouzeid / Outside Aleppo TIME WORLD Abu Adnan smirked from behind his black balaclava, his auburn whiskers peeking through the fabric as the corners of his mouth rose. […]
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – An informant recruited by the New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic militants has quit and denounced his police handlers, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case. The informant, a 19-year-old American citizen of Bangladeshi descent, was recruited by the […]
Source: Standard.Net by Colleen Long, Tom Hays The Associated Press staff NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in […]
Norway’s Ila prison will hire trained ‘friends’ to keep confessed mass killer Anders Breivik company, as he is deemed too dangerous to mingle with ordinary prisoners. “It could be anything […]
Theresa May did get Abu Qatada’s appeal deadline date wrong, judges have ruled, but had a narrow escape after they rejected his case anyway. The European Court of Human Rights […]
Huff Post It doesn’t take much to look around and see that there is a need for understanding and love, instead of fear and hate. Still reeling from the death of Trayvon Martin, the resulting protests and revelations, and stories that abound about people who die every day in this […]