Terrorism
Insurgents: Obama Must ‘Embrace Islam’
Leader of Somalia’s Islamist insurgency threatens to attack America if Obama does not ‘embrace Islam’ amidst fears of an attack by Western intelligence because the group has targeted young Somali-Americans for recruitment
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A Somali-born teen tried to blow up a van at a crowded Christmas tree lighting, the FBI says
A Somali-born teen tried to blow up a van at a crowded Christmas tree lighting, the FBI says
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Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Oregon (Breaking News)
PORTLAND, Ore. – Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.
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TSA Pat-Down Leaves Bladder Cancer Survivor Covered In Urine, Humiliated
A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
“I was absolutely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” said Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, 61, of Lansing, Mich.
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Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber (Sympathy for Muslim Terrorist?)
The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
In a filing this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department said that “no charges are […]
U.S. citizen admits funding al Qaeda
A Moroccan native living in Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to providing funds to the al Qaeda terrorist organization.Khalid Ouazzani, 32, admitted providing more than $23,000 to al Qaeda, to which he had pledged an oath of allegiance in 2008, federal officials said.
Ouazzani, a naturalized U.S. citizen, also pleaded guilty to […]
DEATH BY DRONE: Controversy after CIA authorized to kill U.S. citizen
The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism.
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Breaking:White House orders Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial
White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.
The decision came after Mayor Bloomberg and other politicians across the state railed against President Obama’s plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan Federal Court….
It […]
Shocking News:US ’stopped Dutch Installation of Full Body Scanners’
US ’stopped Dutch Installation of Full Body Scanners’
Joanna Sugden
The United States prevented Dutch authorities from installing full body scanners before the suspected Christmas Day bomb plotter passed through security at Amsterdam’s airport, the Dutch government claimed today.
The Dutch claimed that they had been trying to install the machines for flights to the US since 2008 […]
Obama War:8 Americans die in suicide blast in Afghanistan
KABUL – Eight Americans died Wednesday in a suicide bombing at a military base in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. “Eight Americans were killed in an attack on a U.S. military base in Regional Command East in Afghanistan,” State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said. “We mourn the loss of life in this attack, and are […]
Obama Describes Nigerian Terrorist As ‘Isolated Extremist’
Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist’ Tuesday, December 29, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as “an isolated extremist,” despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, […]
U.S. Authorities Missed Terror-Threat Signs (US State Department Drops Ball)
U.S. authorities didn’t pursue leads that might have brought alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab under further scrutiny, according to congressional investigators and U.S. officials. The State Department forwarded Mr. Abdulmutallab’s name to a basic U.S. terrorist watch list earlier this month, but didn’t revoke his visa after Mr. Abdulmutallab’s father alerted U.S. officials […]
Bomb Suspect’s Journey Traced to Detroit
This is a partial timeline of events showing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s whereabouts since 2005. Abdulmutallab was charged with trying to detonate an explosive device on board Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day. The events were compiled by CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar and CBSNews.com.
June 2005: Graduates British International School, Lome, Togo
June 16, 2005: Posts […]
Pakistan discovers ‘village’ of white German al-Qaeda insurgents (Calm Down America: Nothing to fear, Brother Obama Is Now In Power)
Investigators have discovered a “Jihadi village” of white German al-Qaeda insurgents, including Muslim converts, in Pakistan’s tribal areas close to the Afghan border.
The village, in Taliban-controlled Waziristan, is run by the notorious al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which plots raids on Nato forces in Afghanistan.
A recruitment video presents life in the village as a desirable […]
Al-Qaida releases new 9/11 video predicting Obama’s downfall at the hands of Muslims
Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new 106-minute long video predicting President Barack Obama’s downfall at the hands of the Muslim world.
The Arabic-language video, entitled “The West and the Dark Tunnel,” is part of series of messages by the organization marking the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Bin Laden released a short message of […]
Terrorist Getting Bailout Loan:Al Qaeda operative had $50k in unsecured loans from bailout banks
Al Qaeda operative had $50k in unsecured loans from bailout banks
This story comes from Karl Denninger at Market Ticker. It seems the admitted Afghan Al-Qaeda operative currently being questioned by the FBI for a possible attack against NY targets, Najibullah Zazi, had obtained unsecured credit cards amounting to $50,000 by the time he declared bankruptcy […]
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Vows Israel Will Not Last Long, …Rejects Holocaust As A Lie
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil. “The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie […]
New York homes raided in terrorism probe
No imminent danger, congressmen say * Focus on one man who met with people in Queens
* Apartment shared by five Afghan men searched - witness
* Militant ideology sympathetic to al Qaeda detected - NYT
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Osama to Obama: “…Obama is a powerless man”
A new tape purported to be an “address to the American public” from Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, has been released by the militant network’s media branch, according to a US-based terror monitoring group.
When Barack Obama became president and retained many of the Bush administration’s military leaders, such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, […]
Al Qaeda Cell ‘Beheads British Hostage’
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has condemned the apparent “barbaric” killing of a British hostage held in the Sahara by an al Qaeda cell.
Tourist Edwin Dyer was captured on the border between Niger and Mali and held hostage for more than four months before claims of his murder emerged.
The Briton and three tourists - two Swiss […]