SUNDAY MERCURY.net: "BIRMINGHAM IS HOME TO AL QAIDA LINKED TERROR SUSPECTS" by Ben Goldby (SNIPPET: "Abd'rabbah Ghuma, 51, Abdulbaqi Mohammed Khaled, 51, and Mohammed Benhammedi, 42, also appear on a United Nation's list of Al Qaida and Taliban associates.") (February 8, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com: "ISRAELIS RECEIVE THREATENING EMAIL FROM HAMAS" by Erez Ronen (SNIPPET: "This is not the first time Hamas or people on its behalf use electronic means in order to threaten Israelis.") (February 7, 2009, 8:51 pm) (Read More...)
DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "BIDEN CALLS FOR ALLIED COOPERATION TO MEET MUTUAL CHALLENGES" (SNIPPET: "Iran has acted in ways that are not conducive to peace in the region or to the prosperity of its people. Its illicit nuclear program is but one manifestation," he said.") (February 7, 2009) (Read More...)
NEWS.com.au (Australia): "BRUSHFIRES IN VICTORIA KILL 50, DEATH TOLL WILL RISE" (SNIPPET: "640 houses have been destroyed. While firebugs are being blamed for several blazes ravaging Victoria, the Country Fire Authority has confirmed that several fires are being deliberately relit by arsonists.") (February 8, 2009, 3:35 pm) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (CNN, February 5, 2009): Washington - "YEMEN ON HIGH ALERT FOR JIHADIST ATTACK" (SNIPPET: "Over the last several weeks a growing number of al Qaeda operatives have entered Yemen from Saudi Arabia and have established a renewed network that potentially threatens U.S. and Saudi targets in the region, both U.S. and Yemeni officials have told CNN.") (February 6, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "CIA: "The British Pakistani community is recognised as probably al-Qaeda's best mechanism for launching an attack against North America"" (SNIPPET: "American spy chiefs have told the President that the CIA has launched a vast spying operation in the UK to prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks being launched from Britain. They believe that a British-born Pakistani extremist entering the US under the visa waiver programme is the most likely source of another terrorist spectacular on American soil.") (February 7, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "PAKISTANI COURT DECLARES NUCLEAR SCIENTIST FREE" (SNIPPET: "Khan, lionised by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, was pardoned but placed under house arrest in 2004 by the then president, Pervez Musharraf, soon after he made a televised confession to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya.") (Published February 6, 2009, 11:34) (Read More...)
DAILY STAR.co.uk: "'We will kill MPs in their own homes'" (SNIPPET: "The plot was found on a password-protected internet message board on a site which has carried an interview with Osama bin Laden's No 2 Ayman al Zawahiri, 57. A user named Paganslayer asks what the mood is for another round of deadly attacks on the continent. There follows a warped discussion about the 7/7 London bombings, which killed 52 innocent people.") (February 5, 2009) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com: Seoul, South Korea - "NORTH KOREA TO 'TEST MISSILE CAPABLE OF STRIKING U.S.'" (SNIPPET: "The sinister object has been identified as a Taepodong-2, an intercontinental missile with a range of more than 4000 miles, capable of crossing the Pacific and striking targets in Hawaii or Alaska.") (February 2, 2009) (Read More...)
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org: "THE SECOND GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA" by Lee Ellis (SNIPPET: "Decapitation has also become a favorite tactic of warring drug gangs that have contended for control over smuggling routes.") (February 2, 2009) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog: "SAUDI ARABIA'S MOST-WANTED" by Thomas Joscelyn (SNIPPET: "But, the unclassified files created by the U.S. government at Guantanamo contain dozens of details concerning the al Qaeda network operating inside Iran. The Long War Journal reviewed the files and identified more than 50 current and former Guantanamo detainees who had some association with Iran. Most of these transited al Qaeda's facilitation points in eastern Iran. In addition to Tehran, the eastern Iranian cities of Mashhad, Zahedan and Tayyebat were regularly identified as al Qaeda transit points in the unclassified Guantanamo files.") (February 4, 2009, 7:00 am)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "SAUDI ISSUES WANTED LIST OF 83 MILITANTS OVERSEAS" (SNIPPET: "Saudi television read the names and showed photographs of the wanted men, all Saudis except for two Yemenis, who it said had "adopted the straying ideology", a reference to al-Qaeda. The announcement followed a move last month by al-Qaeda's wing in neighbouring Yemen to name two Saudis released from the US military prison camp in Guantanamo as commanders.") (Published February 2, 2009, 23:36) (Read More...)
NYPOST.com: "OBAMA: SURE, GITMO DETAINEES COULD ATTACK US" (SNIPPET: ""Can we guarantee that they're not going to try to participate in another attack? No," Obama said in an NBC interview that aired today. "But what I can guarantee is that if we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaeda."") (Posted February 2, 2009) (Read More...)
FreeRepublic.com - Discussion Forum (MEMRI: The Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor): "ALERTS, PLANNING & TRAINING" (SNIPPET: "Islamist Forum Member Suggests Using Dogs Instead of Suicide Bombers A recent message on the Islamist forum Ma'arik Al-Salafiyya suggested using dogs instead of suicide bombers to carry out attacks on U.S.... January 28, 2009") (January 28, 2009) (Read More...)
METIMES.com - MIDDLE EAST TIMES: "AL-QAIDA AND THE PLAGUE" by Olivier Guitta (SNIPPET: "Whatever the explanation, it seems that there have been unexplained deaths among AQIM operatives. At this point, the developments of this story and its possible implications need to be closely monitored. Indeed a nightmarish scenario could unfold if one of the infected individuals boarded a flight to Paris, London or New York. This person could become de-facto the means of "delivering" the weapon.") (Published January 27, 2009) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com: "U.S. CONSULATE MISTAKENLY SELLS SECRET FILES IN JERUSALEM" by Reena Ninan (SNIPPET: "EXCLUSIVE: Hundereds of files -- with social security numbers, bank account numbers and other sensitive U.S. government information -- were found in a filing cabinet purchased from the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem through a local auction.") (January 27, 2009) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog: "SHABAAB TAKES CONTROL OF SOMALIA'S SEAT OF GOVERNMENT" by Bill Roggio (SNIPPET: "Al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia took control of the last stronghold of Somalia's troubled Transitional Federal Government today, just hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew.") (January 26, 2009, 7:28 pm) (Read More...)
THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "Four AMERICANS Arrested in Somaliland" (SNIPPET: "UPDATE: Make that 15. Eleven more Americans arrested in Somaliland.") (January 26, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (TIMES OF INDIA, January 24, 2009): "WOMAN LIVING IN 'HAMAS STRONGHOLD' MARRIES TO RAISE 'MARTYRS'" (SNIPPET: "The latest form of jihad: Jihad al-Ziwaj, or 'Marriage Jihad'"... SNIPPET: "There were no regrets either -- she said she was marrying to raise 'fighters' and asked only that she might die as a 'martyr' in Israel.") (January 25, 2009) (Read More...)
AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "SOCIAL NETWORKING ARAB HATRED OF ISRAEL" -Rick Moran (SNIPPET: "This month, hundreds of Egyptian Facebook members, in private homes and at Internet cafes, have set up Gaza-related "groups." Most expressed hatred for Israel and the United States, but each one had its own focus.") (January 25, 2009) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog: "RETURN TO JIHAD" by Thomas Joscelyn (SNIPPET: ""By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al Shihri says.") (January 25, 2009, 10:30 am) (Read More...)
ZEE NEWS.com - India Edition: Washington - "RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEE NEW YEMEN AL QAEDA COMMANDER" (SNIPPET: "...Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed at Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda." SNIPPET: "That announcement, which carried the video post of al-Shihri, also included a second video of a second militant who identified himself as Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi and claimed he had also been a Guantanamo captive, later released.") (January 24, 2009) (Read More...)
TOWNHALL.com: "CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER" by Oliver North (SNIPPET: "Item No. 1 ought to be preventing the world's No. 1 exporter of radical Islamic terror from obtaining nuclear weapons: Iran. Unfortunately, the new administration is not off to an auspicious start.") (January 23, 2009) (Read More...)
THE MEMRI BLOG.org ("Source: Shahab News, Iran, January 19, 2009"): "IRANIAN MAJLIS DISCUSSES BILL TO ESTABLISH 'ISLAMIC WORLD ARMY'" (SNIPPET: "It was proposed that this army would be part of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.") (Posted January 22, 2009) (Read More...)
Knoxville.FBI.gov - Press Release: "SUSPICIOUS WHITE POWDER LETTERS POSTMARKED FROM KNOXVILLE RECEIVED IN NEW YORK AND MASSACHUSETTS" (SNIPPET: "An additional letter was also received today at Harvard Law School addressed to Alan Dershowitz. This letter was also postmarked Knoxville, Tennessee.") (January 21, 2009) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com: "CIA DIRECTOR: AL QAEDA IS JOB 1 OF TOP 10 SECURITY CHALLENGES IN 2009" (SNIPPET: "Iran, North Korea and Al Qaeda are still top concerns for the intelligence community, but Iraq is out of the top 10 list of national security threats facing the U.S. this year, says the outgoing CIA chief.") (February 2, 2009) (Read More...)
CIA.gov: "Transcript of Director Hayden's Interview with Fox News" (SNIPPET: "Fox Correspondent Catherine Herridge interviewed CIA Director Mike Hayden on January 15, 2009") (January 21, 2009) (Read More...)
SERBIANNA.com - blog: "BIN LADEN MESSAGE ON BOSNIAN MUSLIM SITE" (SNIPPET: "The Muslims of Gornja Maoca have been involved in several terror attack plans on Europe, including the attempted bomb attack on the Pope John.") (January 26, 2009) (Read More...)
CHICAGO JOURNAL.org: $20,000 REWARD OFFERED FOR ARRESTS IN VANDALISM OF SYNAGOGUES, SCHOOLS Jewish organizations seek leads to hate crimes in West Ridge, Lake View" by Lorrain Swanson (SNIPPET: "Benn asked that anyone with information about the attacks call the Anti-Defamation League at 312-782-5080. Rottner said the Belmont and Western Area 3 hate crimes unit can take calls at 312-744-8320.") (January 19, 2009, 7:43 pm) (Read More...)
STRAITS TIMES.com: Berlin - "AL-QAEDA VIDEO CREATOR NAMED" (SNIPPET: "... was identified on Monday by the interior ministry here as Morocco-born Bekkay Harrach." SNIPPET: "...August Hanning said on Monday that Harrach - who called himself Abu Talha Al-Alamani - was 'a very serious Islamist'.") (January 20, 2009) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch No. 2193: "Egyptian Clerics Encourage Martyrdom in Gaza: 'We Must Love Death'; 'There Are Black-Eyed Virgins Ready For You'; 'We Must Teach Our Children to... Hate the Jews'" (January 16, 2009) (Read More...)
