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Terry Nichols, Philippines, bombs, etc. See Mark Tapscott here: “Before Able Danger and Mohamed Atta, There Was Murrah Building Bombing and Hussain Al-Hussaini; Journalist Uncovers OKC Links to 9/11, which links to this L.A. Weekly article: “The Rohrabacher Test: Congressman questions Terry Nichols about Oklahoma City bombing”. The Mark Tapscott link also has a comprehensive statement from Jayna Davis, who has pursued this story for ten long years and has now written a book entitled “The Third Terrorist”. One interesting quote — among many — in the L.A. Weekly piece is from Richard Clarke: Clarke wrote that the theory of...

Philly Cleric Sentenced for Corruption By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer Mon Sep 19, 2:12 PM ET A prominent Muslim cleric on Monday was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on racketeering and other charges, the latest in a string of convictions stemming from the FBI's sweeping probe of municipal corruption. Prosecutors said that Shamsud-din Ali, 67, used his political connections to obtain dubious loans, donations and city contracts. In addition to his 87-month sentence, Ali was ordered to pay restitution. He was released pending an appeal. The investigation of the so-called "pay to play" culture in Philadelphia's...

The following are excerpts from a speech by the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi.... "...This battle came at this time in order to cover up the scandal of Allah's enemy, Bush, in dealing with what was left behind by one of Allah's soldiers – the devastating Hurricane Katrina, which revealed to the entire world the great helplessness in dealing with the destruction caused by this hurricane, because of the tremendous attrition of the American army's resources in Iraq and Afghanistan. This hurricane has once again brought to mind the manifestations of racial discrimination among the American people,...

Red Army's 'ghosts' of Afghanistan By Tom Coghlan BBC News, Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan To the men of the Red Army who fought in Afghanistan, their elusive mujahideen enemy were always called simply the "Dukhi" - the ghosts. But when their last tank rolled back across the Oxus river in February 1989, the then Soviets left behind some Cold War ghosts of their own. In the hills of northern Afghanistan, there are still men with pale skin who talk Russian when they are together. Until 1981, Nasratullah was a soldier in the Red Army called Nikolai. Together with two others,...

Director of London's Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies Hani Sibai: There are No "Civilians" in Islamic Law;The Bombing is a Great Victory for Al-Qa'ida, Which "Rubbed the Noses of the World's 8 Most Powerful Countries in the Mud" The following are excerpts from interviews with the director of the Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies, Dr. Hani Al-Siba'i. The first aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 8, 2005; in it, Al-Siba'i discussed the London bombings. (To view this clip, visit http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=748. ) It is followed by an interview he gave on AMB TV which aired on February 22, 2005. (To view...

Serbs, Lies, and Videotape By Julia Gorin FrontPageMagazine.com | June 17, 2005 Recently, “Hannity & Colmes”, of the usually less-easily-fooled-than-other-networks Fox News Channel, treated us masses to a “genocide” video that’s just been handed over to the Hague’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Pouring even more gasoline onto the carefully cultivated and long accepted caricature of the evil Serb, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes were of one mind when Hannity called the actions of the Bosnian Serb soldiers in the video “pure evil” and “evil incarnate.” Without being wrong about evil on display in the video, the...

SANCTUARY (part 1) (If you're new here, welcome. The regulars usually grab some coffee and relax. This will take about an hour, and, as usual, the end point of our journey is not visible from the beginning.) What’s worse than crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage? NOT crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage. I’ve been away for a while, doing a little thinking. Usually, my thoughts for these past few years have started at home and then taken me to Iraq, and...

What’s worse than crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage? NOT crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage. I’ve been away for a while, doing a little thinking. Usually, my thoughts for these past few years have started at home and then taken me to Iraq, and the war. Lately, though, I have been thinking about Iraq, and my thoughts turn more and more to home. I started thinking along these lines six months ago, after a young Marine shot and killed a wounded...

What’s worse than crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage? NOT crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage. I’ve been away for a while, doing a little thinking. Usually, my thoughts for these past few years have started at home and then taken me to Iraq, and the war. Lately, though, I have been thinking about Iraq, and my thoughts turn more and more to home. I started thinking along these lines six months ago, after a young Marine shot and killed a wounded...

SANCTUARY (part 1) (If you're new here, welcome. The regulars usually grab some coffee and relax. This will take about an hour, and, as usual, the end point of our journey is not visible from the beginning.) What’s worse than crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage? NOT crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage. I’ve been away for a while, doing a little thinking. Usually, my thoughts for these past few years have started at home and then taken me to Iraq, and...

It happened again this week. I came out of the office to find a flyer under my windshield wipers inviting me to a special informational presentation on God and family values, and how to bring them back to the forefront in America. I'm a parent so the flyer caught my interest. But as an analyst for the Northeast Intelligence Network, my eyes were riveted to the address on the flyer: The session was being held at a nearby mosque. Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided it would be a good time for some onsite investigations of the...

The differences between the sessions were striking. Clearly the second session was a recruiting session. Were the women aware of what was being taught in the first session? Certainly those women who spoke Arabic should have been. The reason for concern is obvious: Two different doctrines are being promoted. One peaceful, friendly, warm and fuzzy doctrine is being used to draw people in, with a focus on the well-being of their children. But the Arabic-speaking sessions clearly have an anti-American tone. It shows clearly that as much as we'd like to pretend it hasn't, jihad has reached Small-Town, USA. This...

  _______________________________________________________________________________   Official Transcript of Communiqué No.7   Letter to the American People   People of America   We wish to share with you our thoughts on the events we experienced, as well as what the future may bear, & despite the madness we have endured & still, we see no harm in presenting you the criminal nature of your newly re-elected Emperor.   Despite our belief, that the elections were flawed, we know now that when there is a close tie between the candidates, there is something wrong. Some in our ranks, believe that any candidate from any...

Al-Qaeda on Trial: The Hague and Bosnian Muslim War Crimes, Part II By Carl K. Savich The continuation of yesterday’s piece on the war crimes trials of Bosnian Muslim commanders at the Hague, this article provides vivid examples of mujahedin tactics as well as the fallout of supporting their cause for the US, up to and including the war in Iraq. The El Mujahed Unit: Makeup, Objectives and Tactics The mujahedin in Bosnia were “incorporated and subordinated” within the 7th Muslim Brigade when it was formed on November 19, 1992. On August 13 of the following year these holy warriors...

ISLAMABAD (dpa) - Pakistani authorities have released the chief of an outlawed militant group, after he was interrogated for about eight months for his alleged links with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan's Taliban regime, a news report said Monday. The Urdu-language daily Ausaf quoted sources in the banned Harkatul Mujahideen group as saying that Maulana Fazalur Rehman Khalil had been held and questioned and then released. "Security agencies interrogated Maulana (Khalil) thoroughly but failed to prove that he sent militants to Afghanistan," Ausaf said. Khalil, who was active in the Afghan war against the former Soviet Union in...

This op-ed was inspired by the D.C. Watson piece, (Tuesday AFP), which was a real eye-opener. [Posted on FR:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297063/posts] Hopefully by now, all who read his piece have become acutely aware that the threat is real. Prior to 9/11, I had never heard of a man named Dr. Daniel Pipes. Then again, most of us hadn't. For years prior to 9/11, Dr. Pipes was discussing Islamism - the rise of Islamic fundamentalism against the West, via books and articles. While we were aiding the Mujahideen by giving them arms and logistics in Afghanistan against the invading Soviet Union, Dr. Pipes...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Moqtada Sadr Ready to Support Mujahideens in Fallujah The radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has expressed his readiness to support 'the Mujahideens in Fallujah,' the Sunnite stronghold north of Baghdad, which has been under US Forces pressure for the past several weeks, AFP reported.'I am ready to assist the Mujahideens in Fallujah. I denounce the attacks on Iraqi cities and I am ready to put an end to that,' reads Sadr's statement, distributed in Baghdad and Najaf.'The invaders have no mercy, that is why our resistance would continue,' the announcement also reads. The agent also reminded readers in the statement...

used without permission, for "fair use" only FILE Naser Oric, war criminal Murderer From Srebrenica Muslim soldiers describe him as a man who demanded unquestioning obedience and iron discipline from his men. Mirsad Sulejmanovic "Skejo" remembers that "after the attack on Kravica, Naser's soldiers caught five or six Serbs in the village of Kajici and they slit their throats" by "REPORTER'S" INVESTIGATIVE TEAM Reporter, Banja Luka, Srpska, B-H, April 10, 2001 During testimony in the case against General Radislav Krstic, accused on the basis of command responsibility for war crimes against the Bosniak population of Srebrenica in July 1995, the...

On June 2, 2004, the following message was posted on an Islamic Website considered to be a mouthpiece of Al Qaeda. This important and dangerous message questions the Mujahideen’s focus on Saudi Arabia alone and instigates a wake-up call for Muslims to attack other countries that are harboring Americans such as Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. NOTE: The following materials are for informational purposes only and may not be copied, reproduced, or transmitted without the explicit permission of the SITE Institute nor without specific attribution to the SITE Institute. To the Mujahideen: Why aren’t we seeing any Jihadi activity in Qatar...

Four young British Muslims in their twenties - a social worker, an IT specialist, a security guard and a financial adviser - occupy a table at a fast-food chicken restaurant in Luton. Perched on their plastic chairs, wolfing down their dinner, they seem just ordinary young men. Yet out of their mouths pour heated words of revolution. "As far as I'm concerned, when they bomb London, the bigger the better," says Abdul Haq, the social worker. "I know it's going to happen because Sheikh bin Laden said so. Like Bali, like Turkey, like Madrid - I pray for it, I...

An Iraqi blogger in Baghdad has posted on his site, THE MESOPOTAMIAN, a letter or an "urgent message to the American people and the Coalition, on behalf of the Baghdadis": Greetings Friends, Firmness must not be equated with intransigence. As our Book says, “ If they veer towards peace you do likewise” (Bad translation of the Qoranic verse). There is a very thin line that separates the two methodologies. Firmness must be exercised towards a political end, and must not be allowed to become counterproductive. Now the moderates from all parties who can exert real influence must be given support...

The Iraqi rebels show me their latest victim: a German in a pool of blood By Lee Gordon (Filed: 11/04/2004) A young Iraqi mujahideen fighter poses in triumph by the smouldering wreck, his face obscured by a red and white kaffiyeh scarf, his high-powered sniper's rifle ready for action. It is only minutes since a white Japanese 4x4 vehicle was forced off the road and its two occupants, both German, killed in a firefight and their bodies dragged from the vehicle when it burst into flames. Now, a mile away, I have been brought to the scene of their deaths...

<p>It was some of the other team names that raised eyebrows: Intifada, Soldiers of Allah and Mujahideen.</p> <p>The furor that followed has forced some teams to change their names and a handful of players to quit. It also sparked a debate that threatens to overshadow the tournament, which was planned primarily for young Muslims and scheduled for January 4.</p>

How we trained al-Qa’eda Brendan O’Neill says the Bosnian war taught Islamic terrorists to operate abroad For all the millions of words written about al-Qa’eda since the 9/11 attacks two years ago, one phenomenon is consistently overlooked — the role of the Bosnian war in transforming the mujahedin of the 1980s into the roving Islamic terrorists of today. Many writers and reporters have traced al-Qa’eda and other terror groups’ origins back to the Afghan war of 1979–1992, that last gasp of the Cold War when US-backed mujahedin forces fought against the invading Soviet army. It is well documented that America...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The government of a volatile southern Afghan province urged U.S. forces on Sunday to deal with resurgent Taliban guerrillas and said hundreds of them were roaming around freely. A Taliban official said its elusive leader Mullah Omar had approved a new deputy for the south on Saturday to assist a notorious commander suffering from wounds, and ordered him to intensify attacks on U.S. and government forces. In a further sign of stepped up Taliban activity, residents of a southern town close to the Pakistani border woke on Sunday to posters threatening death to 25 "informers" accused...

ISTANBUL, June 20 -- When French riot police stormed the suburban Paris headquarters of the People's Mujaheddin earlier this week, the Iranian dissident group put up little resistance. Officers seized satellite phones and $1.3 million in cash, and detained 159 people, including the wife of the group's leader. But in days following the arrest, members retaliated with self-immolations. One after the other, nine people set themselves on fire, often as TV cameras rolled, to protest the continued holding of Maryam Rajavi. One of them died, others were severely burned. The group shrank during exile into an isolated band of a...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera on Thursday reported it had received a statement and videotape from an Iraqi resistance group that claimed responsibility for attacks on American forces and threatened more. It was believed to be the first such claim, and the first time a group said it had organized the increasingly bloody offensive. The Pentagon repeatedly has said the attacks - that have killed at least 18 American lives since May 1 when President Bush declared the major fighting over - were not the work of any organized resistance. Six British soldiers were...

French raid on Mujahideen Khalq welcomed by Tehran Police seize dozens ­ and $1.3 million Compiled by Daily Star staff Tehran thanked Paris for clamping down on Mujahideen Khalq activists in France Tuesday as the Iranian clergy?s fight against dissidents at home spilled over to exile communities in Europe. Up to 165 members of Iran?s largest opposition group were arrested in the surprise raids in 13 sites north and west of Paris. Among those arrested was a top symbol of the group, Maryam Rajavi, the wife of Iraq-based mujahideen leader Massoud Rajavi, as well as Rajavi?s brother, Saleh. US currency...

Saudi nationals have joined the Sunni insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq. At least one U.S. soldier daily has been killed over the last few weeks. Meanwhile, a U.S.based Saudi opposition organization has reported that two Saudi nationals have been killed in the sporadic fighting, Middle East Newsline reported. Last week, the U.S. Army's Third Division sent its 2nd Brigade to launch an operation in several Sunni cities to quell the insurgency. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health insurance for the self-employed: Special offer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. officials confirmed that Saudi nationals have financed and participated in the Sunni insurgency. They said elements in Saudi...

This is statement #6 from the Supreme Command of the Mujahideen In Iraq. For more info on the link between the Iraqi Mujahedin and al Qaeda and an analysis of the first five statements, or leaflets, please see the ICT's The Iraqi Mujahidin: a foothold for al-Qaida. Hat Tip to Dan Darling (Angelus Arrare) for the ICT piece. Cairo, Egypt: Al-Sha'b (Internet Version-WWW) in Arabic 23 May 03 [Statement Number Six Issued by the Supreme Command of the Mujahideen In Iraq on Operations Against US Forces; statement is dated on 16 May 2003 but venue is not given] [Passage omitted...

Ultras attack police station in Doda Jammu: Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) ultras attacked Bhaderwah police station in Doda district with the grenades early this morning. Police said a group of heavily armed ultras attacked Bhaderwah police station at around 4:00 a.m. After the ultras fired at least four to six rifles grenades on the police station, police personnel retaliated by firing at the ultras. However, the militants managed to escape under the cover of darkness, sources said. The windowpanes of police station were smashed in the exchange of fire, the sources added.

DUBAI, April 25 (Reuters) - After years of shunning the Iraq-based People's Mujahideen as "terrorists", the United States might use Iran's main rebel group to pressure Tehran as tensions rise between the two countries over post-Saddam Iraq. Washington has warned Shi'ite Muslim power Iran, which it has labelled as part of an "axis of evil", not to try to exploit a power vacuum left after the fall of Saddam Hussein. And to make Tehran listen, some analysts say Washington may use the heavily armed Mujahideen as a sobering reminder. Shi'ites form at least 60 percent of Iraq's population and many...

An Iranian opposition group said yesterday that it had captured four Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders in the eastern Iraqi city of Mandali. The claim came amid White House demands that Iran not interfere in Iraq as it struggles toward democracy after years of brutal dictatorship. "We've made clear to Iran that we would oppose any outside organization's interference in Iraq's road to democracy," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. "Infiltration of agents to destabilize the Shi'ite population clearly fall into that category." The People's Mojahedin of Iran claimed it had captured the four commanders of the Iranian 3rd Brigade after...

A Message From The Amir Of The Mujahideen In Baghdad We remind our viewers that the statements, opinions and points of view expressed in this article are those of the author and shall not be deemed to mean that they are those of Jihad Unspun, the publisher, editor, writers, contributors or staff. My brothers Assalamualaikum warahmutallahi wabara katuhu, salutation from Allah I send to all of you. My brothers I am sorry for the delay in sending this message to you; in the time when you want to know what's going on because we were extremely busy in a matter...

<p>U.S. Special Forces and Marines yesterday captured another of Saddam Hussein's half brothers, a former head of Iraqi intelligence, as teams of coalition forces focused on finding chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.</p> <p>Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, the second relative of Saddam to be captured, was snatched in a nighttime raid and has extensive knowledge of the regime's inner workings, Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations for the U.S. Central Command, told reporters in Qatar.</p>

<p>A Moscow-based organization was training Iraqi intelligence agents as recently as last September -- at the same time Russia was resisting the Bush administration's push for a tough stand against Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi documents discovered by The Chronicle show.</p>

RUSSIA SPIED ON BLAIR FOR SADDAM... // Top secret documents obtained by the Sunday Telegraph in Baghdad show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders... MORE...

op secret documents obtained by The Telegraph in Baghdad show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders. Moscow also provided Saddam with lists of assassins available for "hits" in the West and details of arms deals to neighbouring countries. The two countries also signed agreements to share intelligence, help each other to "obtain" visas for agents to go to other countries and to exchange information on the activities of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qa'eda leader. The documents detailing...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Marines pulled back from a dense slum area of Baghdad on Saturday to allow local people to hunt down non-Iraqi "Mujahideen" volunteer fighters holed up in the district. "The locals said they wanted to take charge of Saddam City and we said: 'Roger that'," Lieutenant-Colonel Lew Craparotta, commander of a Marine unit that moved back from the fringes of the suburb, told Reuters. Local leaders told U.S. officers that Syrians, Palestinians and Jordanians who volunteered to defend Iraq against U.S. and British forces were still a threat on the streets of Saddam City in northeastern Baghdad....

Iran says scores of Iraq-based rebels defected TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Scores of Iraq-based Iranian rebels have defected and returned to Iran over recent months, taking advantage of an amnesty offered by Tehran, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying Monday. Iran has said members of the People's Mujahideen, listed as a "terrorist organization" by the United States and the European Union, can return if they voice regret for their actions against the Islamic Republic. "Around 100 defected members of the organization have returned to Iran in the past two or three months and were handed over to their...

WASHINGTON - If the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks introduced many Americans to the "mujahideen" fighters of Afghanistan, the war in Iraq is acquainting them with an equally deadly group: the Fedayeen Saddam. For months during the long lead-up to the war, Americans heard a lot about the Republican Guard, Saddam Hussein's elite military force. But there was little advance warning about a more shadowy brigade of black-robed killers who bypass Iraq's military command and report directly to the dictator's eldest son. In recent days, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, other senior Pentagon officials and top military commanders have struggled...

Sixteen US commandos were killed when Afghan mujahideen launched a ferocious missile attack targetting Khost's Sahara Garden Airbase on the night of Friday 18 October. In total 5 missiles were fired, all of which successfully hit the airport's inner portion and left a devastating aftermath. Many more were seriously injured. Coalition warplanes immediately made concentrated flights over the airport to locate the attackers, all of which were in vain. The attack was planned and carried out with precision resulting in chaos and mayhem among the US troops as the missiles hit their targets. An eye witnesses reported of a loud...

Translated by Jihad Unspun Unknown assailants attacked a house in Barel in the Afghan province of Paktia, inflicting a heavy number of losses. The house is used by American forces as a camp, known locally as Macha Dad Khan’. The attack was launched from nearby mountains and lasted two hours. In response US warplanes bombed the area and, the whole area was surrounded by American and coalition forces, However the attackers managed to flee safely. Taliban News reports that two American troops have been killed in the Nakayee Village of Khost Province whilst attempting to forcefully search a house. On...

<p>In July 2000, the last edition of Assirat Al-Mustaqeem, an Arabic-language magazine published in Pittsburgh, advocated jihad – "holy war" – against the West.</p> <p>Ten months later – and four months before Sept. 11 – the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) posted Web-site justifications of "martyrdom operations," such as crashing an airplane "on a crucial enemy target."</p>

More than 10 US soldiers have been killed a new Mujahideen operation at a remote air base south of Kandahar. The attack was carried out on Monday morning and although US troops conducted extensive search operations in Kandahar, no clues regarding the attackers or their whereabouts have been found. Sources say that the airport that was attacked is located in a desert region south of Kandahar and was built there by money from Arab sheikhs due to its remoteness. The Americans made it a permanent base because they believed it to be well protected and out of the reach of...

Prince Salman Ibn Abdul Aziz, the Governor of Riyadh region and Chairman of the Popular Committee for helping the Palestinian Mujahideen has directed to transfer donations worth SR. 1,933,468 for the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Saudi Committee is carrying out a number of relief projects in the Palestinian territories including extending assistance to members of families of the martyrs, and of Palestinians detained at Israeli prisons. Director General of the Committee's offices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abdul Raheem Mahmoud Jamous said that this is the second transfer from the committee to PLO during the current Hijra year. The...

Signs of ar-Rahman - Shaykh Azzam Excerpts from Shaykh Abdullah Azzam(ra)'s book, detailing miracles witnessed and experienced by the Mujahideen during the Soviet inasion and occupation of Afghanistan: These incidents [which are going to be narrated] are, in reality, more extraordinary than one can possibly imagine, and appear to resemble fairytales. I have personally heard them with my own ears; and have written them with my own hands from those Mujahideen who themselves were present. I have heard these miracles from such men who are trustworthy and reliable, and who have been constantly on the battlefield. The miracles are many,...

US Army Gradually Awakens to Mujahideen in the Balkans US Army's magazine Stars and Stripes provides useful classification of mujahideen in the Balkans. Main types: holy wariors, criminals, fundamentalists. West feeling the fallout of efforts to aid Bosnian Muslims a decade ago By Gregory Piatt, Stars and StripesStripes Sunday magazine, April 14, 2002 Many of the foreign Muslim fighters who participated in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina flowed into the region with U.S. and NATO knowledge through an arms pipeline that evaded a U.N. embargo. Ivana Avramovic / S&SMujahedeen used to live in this house in the village...