FOX NEWS.com: "GROUP LINKED TO AL QAEDA MAY HAVE KILLED MINNESOTA MAN RECRUITED IN SOMALIA" by Mike Levine (SNIPPET: "Ahmed accuses a local mosque of helping al-Shabaab recruit his nephew and others in the Minneapolis area. "Like his peers, Burhan Hassan was never interested in Somali politics, or understood Somali clan issues," Ahmed said during testimony. "These kids have no perception of Somalia except the one that was formed in their mind by their teachers at (a local mosque). We believe that these children did not travel to Somalia by themselves. There must be others who made them understand that going to Somalia and participating the fighting is the right thing to do."") (June 7, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "IRAN ADDS CENTRIFUGES; UN OVERSIGHT HARDER" (SNIPPET: "Iran has expanded the number of centrifuges enriching uranium to almost 5,000..." SNIPPET: "Friday's report also said Iran had increased its rate of production of low-enriched uranium (LEU) material, boosting its stockpile by 500 kg to 1,339 kg in the past six months. The data suggests that Iran may have accumulated enough LEU to convert into high-enriched uranium sufficient for one atom bomb.") (Published June 5, 2009, 20:22/Israel News) (Read More...)
NY DAILY NEWS.com: "PRESIDENT OBAMA TO AMERICAN MUSLIMS: I will ease the impact of post-9/11 scrutiny of charities" by Michael Saul (SNIPPET: "Ever since the World Trade Center attacks, fund-raising by American Muslims has come under repeated federal investigations for possible support of terrorism. Just last week, a federal judge in Dallas sentenced five leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development to between 15 and 65 years in prison after they were convicted of providing material support to Hamas.") (June 5, 2009, 2:38 am) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch - No. 2382: "NEW MESSAGES FROM AL-QAEDA LEADERS OSAMA BIN LADEN & AL-ZAWAHIRI Bin Laden: Obama and Administration Have 'Sown New Seeds That Will Increase Hatred And Vengeance Towards America'; 'American People... [Will] Reap What White House Leaders Are Sowing'; Ayman Al-Zawahiri: Obama, 'Global Criminal' and 'Chief of Oppressors,' Is Not Welcome in Egypt" (June 3, 2009) (Read More...)
FreeRepublic.com (NYT): "U.S. RELEASES SECRET LIST OF NUCLEAR SITES ACCIDENTALLY" (SNIPPET: "The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked "highly confidential," that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.") (June 2, 2009) (Read More...)
CHRON.com - HOUSTON CHRONICLE: "LIBERTY CO., FAA TO DISCUSS REPORT OF OBJECT NEAR PLANE" by Mike Glenn (SNIPPET: "Liberty County Sheriff's officials are expected to meet with the FAA on Tuesday to discuss what a Continental Express pilot reported as a "missile or rocket" flying near his airplane.") (June 1, 2009) (Read More...)
LA TIMES.com: "PROGRAM TO REFURBISH AGING NUCLEAR WARHEADS FACES SETBACKS" by Ralph Vartabedian (SNIPPET: "It is not yet clear how long it will take for the department to refurbish all 2,000 warheads in its current plan, but the process of gradually taking warheads out of service, refurbishing them and returning them to service could take an additional 10 years.") (May 29, 2009) (Read More...)
THE TIMES OF INDIA: "LeT PLANNING ANOTHER ATTACK" -Indrani Bagchi, TNN (SNIPPET: "Counter-terrorism officials are working on very specific intelligence that points once again to Pakistan-based LeT planning another spectacular attack in India.") (June 4, 2009, 0448 hrs IST) (Read More...)
THE SUN.co.uk: "BRIT FREED FROM GUANTANAMO CASHES IN ON XBOX" by Andrew Parker (SNIPPET: "Begg, of Sparkhill, Birmingham, is shown in the game as head of an organisation helping the suspect to escape." SNIPPET: "Begg said any money he is paid will go to a charity fighting for detainees' rights.") (May 31, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (JERUSALEM POST): "JORDAN ARRESTS FOUR JIHADISTS -- INCLUDING A GITMO RECIDIVIST -- PLOTTING TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL" (SNIPPET: "The suspects were named as Sakhr Abu Zaid, Hassan Talaq, Mohammad Abu Ourah and Osama Abu Kabir, the report continued, adding that Abu Kabir had been incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay prison for several years.") (May 29, 2009) (Read More...)
IN THE U.S.A. - San Diego County: San Diego - 10NEWS.com: "COUPLE: COUNTY TRYING TO STOP HOME BIBLE STUDIES" (SNIPPET: "Broyles said, "The county asked, 'Do you have a regular meeting in your home?' She said, 'Yes.' 'Do you say amen?' 'Yes.' 'Do you pray?' 'Yes.' 'Do you say praise the Lord?' 'Yes.' The county employee notified the couple that the small Bible study, with an average of 15 people attending, was in violation of County regulations, according to Broyles.") (Posted May 25, 2009 PDT; Updated May 28, 2009, 1:45 pm PDT) (Read More...)
GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE.org: "PAKISTAN DEVELOPING PLUTONIUM-BASED NUKES, GROUP SAYS" (SNIPPET: "The Institute for Science and International Security concluded that Islamabad appeared to be increasing its capacity to separate plutonium from spent nuclear fuel rods, potentially enabling it to produce fissile material for more compact, higher-yield nuclear weapons (see GSN, May 20).") (May 29, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHADICA.com: "JIHADI SPAM" by Scott Sanford (SNIPPET: "On 15 May 2009, the Jihadi Brigades of Internet Incursion, which appear to be a part of the Shumukh Forums, announced a successful "incursion" of over 250,000 email addresses.") (May 27, 2009) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch - No. 2372: "WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE SERVICE OF RESISTANCE" (SNIPPET: "Recently, photos of armed women and children have been circulated by terrorist organizations in Gaza - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Resistance Committees.") (May 27, 2009) (Read More...)
AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "DEFEATING A HITLER WITH NUKES: NOTHING ELSE MATTERS" by James Lewis (SNIPPET: "Like it or not, we are being dragged into the Second Age of Nuclear Terror. Nothing else matters now.") (May 27, 2009) (Read More...)
CNN.com: Rome, Italy - "PM: ITALY WILL CONSIDER ACCEPTING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES" (SNIPPET: "Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said it was too soon to tell how many detainees his country may accept.") (Updated May 25, 2009, 7:39 p.m. EDT) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (GEO, May 22, 2009): "BELGIUM TO ACCEPT GITMO INMATES" (SNIPPET: "...Karel De Gucht says it remains to be seen how many former inmates may be taken in." SNIPPET: "He says the matter is complicated by the free travel regulations within the European Union, which would allow the former prisoners to change their country of residence without informing the authorities.") (May 24, 2009) (Read More...)
CHRON.com - THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE: "FBI: TEXAS DRUG CELL TRAINS ON OWN RANCH" by Dane Schiller (SNIPPET: "The FBI is advising law enforcement officers across the country that a Texas cell of Los Zetas -- an increasingly powerful arm of the Mexican Gulf Cartel drug trafficking syndicate -- has acquired a secluded ranch where it trains its members to "neutralize" competitors in the United States.") (May 19, 2009, 7:53pm) (Read More...)
JPOST.com: "OUR WORLD: IRAN'S GLOBAL REACH" by Caroline Glick (SNIPPET: "Iran poses a direct threat to US national security through its alliances and military, intelligence and terrorist presence in South and Central America. Today Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iran's Hizbullah terror cells, and other Iranian agencies operate in open collaboration with anti-US governments throughout the Western Hemisphere. The South American lynchpin of this new and growing Iranian-centered alliance system is Hugo Chavez's regime in Venezuela.") (Updated May 19, 2009, 10:29) (Read More...)
9NEWS.com (AP): Washington - "SENSITIVE DATA MISSING FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES" (SNIPPET: "The National Archives lost a computer drive containing massive amounts of sensitive data from the Clinton administration, including Social Security numbers, addresses, and Secret Service and White House operating procedures, congressional officials said Tuesday.") (May 19, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (SUNDAY TIMES): "'A lot of people think that terrorists are recruited in special recruiting grounds, but the truth is that it actually goes on in mosques a lot of the time'" (May 17, 2009) (Read More...)
TIMESonline.co.uk: "'I was groomed for jihad in Britain' A MUSLIM TEENAGE IN LONDON GIVES FIRST INSIDE ACCOUNT OF HOW EXTREMISTS ARE LURING RECRUITS" by Kevin Dowling (SNIPPET: "The whereabouts of most of the other recruits is unknown.") (May 17, 2009) (Read More...)
