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Last fall, I spotlighted several terrifying shooting incidents at D.C.-area Marine buildings and military installations (see here and here). Shots were fired at the Marine Corps Museum in D.C., the Pentagon, a vacant Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly, Va, and a Coast Guard recruiting station in Woodbridge, VA. The shootings remained unsolved…until now, it seems.NBC-DC reports that the incidents have been tied to Ethiopian-born Marine reservist Yonathan Melaku, who was arrested last week near the Pentagon. InsideNoVa.com has the scoop: *snip*Update 6/23 New arrests…breaking in Seattle…AP and Fox reporting this afternoon that two have been taken into custody in...

According to a press release,  International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that two Algerian Christians are scheduled to appear in court in the Muslim-majority country on charges of proselytizing and blasphemy, and may face a five year prison sentence. The two men were arrested and briefly imprisoned in Oran on April 14 after sharing their Christian faith with their neighbors. Concern runs high since in February, during the disturbances that led to regime change in neighboring Tunisia, a Catholic priest was stabbed to death in Tunis at his residence following Islamist death threats. It was in Algeria in 1996 that...

Mohamud isn’t the first Portland individual to be investigated for intent to travel overseas to engage in violent activity. According to an affidavit filed in the Portland Seven case, two of the defendants talked about the imam of Masjid as-Saber, Muhammad Kariye, with a cooperating witness. Kariye used money raised at the mosque to finance travel for individuals to join the mujahedeen in Afghanistan, the defendants said, and made statements supportive of armed jihad. In October 2002, Jeffrey Battle, one of the defendants, told the witness that Kariye had prepared individuals to fight jihad against Russia. Kariye “told his followers...

Fort Hood commemorates the first anniversary of the deadly post shooting rampage Friday by paying tribute to the 13 who died and honoring more than 50 who went beyond the call of duty in the chaos and confusion that followed. FORT HOOD (November 5, 2010)—Few physical reminders remain of the shooting rampage a year ago at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center that left 12 soldiers and a civilian dead and dozens of others injured, but separate ceremonies Friday on post will pay tribute to the victims and will honor 54 soldiers and civilians whose actions went beyond the call of...

Responding to Republican charges that Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad's plot failed only because of luck, Rep. Ike Skelton, Missouri Democrat, said, "What's wrong with being lucky?" Nothing at all - until the luck runs out... Consider the contribution administration policies may have made to the near success of Mr. Shahzad's attack. It was reported last week that Mr. Shahzad was on the Department of Homeland Security's Traveler Enforcement Compliance System list as late as 2008. The Obama administration removed him from that list. He also was under scrutiny of the national Joint Terrorism Task Force until the Obama administration...

"Overseas, you are ready for it. But here, you can't even defend yourself," said Jerry Richard, a Fort Hood solider who was nearby when Major Nidal Hasan went on his shooting rampage. What do the Pentagon bureaucrats have to say about that? If soliders on this base had been allowed to carry the weapons they use overseas, the service weapons they train with, Hasan would have been able to shoot perhaps one or two people, not 41. (As of this writing, 13 are dead, 28 wounded.) "It's a tragedy to lose soldiers overseas and even more horrifying when they come...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum dedicated to the September 11 attacks will play "martyrdom" videos made by the hijackers but testimonials by the public would be screened to prevent sympathizers from praising the perpetrators, museum officials said. Previous attempts to put into context the motivation of the September 11 hijackers have been met with emotional public opposition, with politicians canceling plans for an "International Freedom Center" in 2005. But the president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum said videos made by some of the 19 hijackers in preparation for their suicide missions make up part of the...

This year commemorates the 93rd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In 1915, the ottoman empire under the auspices of the young turks carried out the first genocide of the 20th century and set a precedent for all future genocides. One and a half million Armenians were systematically massacred as they were evicted from their homes onto the merciless deserts of eastern turkey and into the darkness of the Black Sea.

Two police officers arrested and kept two weeks in jail after talking to the independent newspaper EL MUNDO and a girl forced to take away from her home a banner showing criticism to the 3/11 investigation are the first clear signs of breaking of Civil Rights in Spain, as the popular movement for knowing the truth on 3/11 grows.------------------------------------------------------ HE MAINTAINS THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY HIS ARRESTThe Jailed Police Officer Arrested For Meeting a EL MUNDO Journalist Requests Del Olmo to Inhibit [From His Case] Because of "Clear Lack of Jurisdiction".Inspector Parrilla is in jail since last...

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In the much talked-about Chris Wallace-Bill Clinton interview on Fox, Clinton made several pointed insistences to Wallace that "at least I tried" to confront terror. This of course implies that the Clinton administration gave a damn in the first place. But how does one reconcile that with the fact that this man allied us with al Qaeda in the Balkans? That Clinton had a tantrum over an obvious question asking why he didn't go after bin Laden, that he would consider such an interview a "hit job," is high comedy. This diva, unused to being challenged by the...

11 September 2006 | 17:22 | FOCUS News Agency Podgorica. Six US citizens together allies from Montenegro have planned to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of Malesia and Tuzi (in Montenegro) on 10 and 11 September, the Directorate of the Montenegrin police announced on Monday, cited by the independent Montenegrin news portal PCNEN. The US citizens - four of whom have been captured and two are wanted - originate from the territory of Malesia, Tuzi and Kosovo. According to the Chief of the criminal police in Montenegro Ivan Masulovic 12 people were arrested in relation to the findings....

Seattle police were protecting temples and mosques Saturday after a suspected hate killing prompted fears of the Middle East crisis spreading to the United States. Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said a Muslim gunman killed a woman and wounded five others at a Jewish center in Seattle, Washington, Friday afternoon, and police were protecting mosques as well as synagogues out of fears of retaliation. A U.S. citizen, Naveed Afzal Haq, has been arrested and booked on a charge of murder and five charges of attempted murder. (Watch armed police take aim as panicked women run -- 1:44) The 31-year-old Muslim of...

Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described Israel on Sunday as “satanic and cancerous” and praised the Lebanese group Hezbollah for its “jihad” against the Jewish state. “This regime is an infectious tumour for the entire Islamic world”, Khamenei said in a speech that was aired on state television. He rejected the demand by U.S. President George W. Bush that Hezbollah disarm, vowing, “This will never happen”. He also described the Bush administration as the “most hideous” U.S. government in recent years. Meanwhile, prominent Lebanese politician Walid Jumblat said on Sunday that Lebanon had become...

From Persia in the early fifth century BCE, to the Romans 400 years later, to the Turks, 1,600 years later, foreign invaders have had a dramatic impact on the Greeks. The Persian invasion of Greece and the Greeks’ victory over that vast empire set the foundations of the Greeks’ golden age. The Greeks directed their legitimate pride for their courage and manliness to works of permanent beauty and originality. Instead of counter attacking the defeated Persians, the Athenians in particular rebuilt their destroyed polis with gleaming marble vigorous democratic institutions, flourishing theater, Panhellenic athletic contests-celebrations of goddess Athena, schools of...

‘Al Qaeda men have been transiting Balkans for years’ * Report claims militants took advantage of Balkans’ porous borders to meet, train and possibly plot attacks in Europe SARAJEVO: Islamic militants with ties to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organisations have been crisscrossing the Balkans for more than 15 years, according to an intelligence report focusing on their activities in Bosnia. The 252-page analysis, compiled jointly by US and Croatian intelligence and obtained by The Associated Press, said extremists financed in part with cash from narcotics smuggling operations were trying to infiltrate Western Europe from Afghanistan and points further east...

Gotta love that old-time religion. Some 300 Muslim scholars and clerics met in Bahrain yesterday to map out a plan to educate us infidels about the Prophet — and a prominent sheik at the conference called for the UN to "issue strong rules that would criminalize the defamation of religion." While this sanctimonious gabfest was going on, 40-year-old Abdul Rahman was sitting in an Afghanistan jail cell facing possible execution for the capital offence of converting to Christianity. If the irony was lost on the Holy 300, it's no wonder. Muslim clerics can wring their hands to pieces about how...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Authorities say 23-year-old Mohammed Reza Taheriazar drove a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee drove into The Pit at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus around noon Friday, injuring five students and a visiting scholar.

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, March 1, 2006 (AFP) - A guerrilla group on Wednesday warned the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to leave the province, saying it was ready to fight for a "Greater Albania". The group calling itself the Albanian National Army (ANA), which is active in Kosovo, southern Serbia and Macedonia, "demands from the UN, if they are really a peace organisation, to leave Kosovo gradually," it said in a statement received by AFP. "This organisation has no democracy within itself and still governs with (the power of) veto as in the Middle Ages. It cannot build democracy anywhere," the...

PARIS (Reuters) - European leaders on Friday called for restraint as more newspapers published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, saying freedom of speech was sacrosanct, and Muslims protested against the jokes they consider blasphemous. Muslim protesters in Indonesia, Turkey and the Palestinian West Bank staged violent demonstrations against the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, one with a turban resembling a bomb.

Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen knocked on door in a farm in Patikul, Mindanao, and opened fire after asking residents if they were Christian. Six people are confirmed dead, including a nine-month baby girl, and five others are seriously wounded. Jolo (AsiaNews) – The massacre of Christians in Jolo “deals a heavy blow at hopes for peace” and is very dangerous because “any incident can now spark a war of religion,” a local Catholic source (who preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons) told AsiaNews as he commented this morning’s attack against Christians in Patikul, a small town on Sulu Island...