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Iraqi MP: God Bless America posted at 11:35 am on February 13, 2007 by Bryan Send to a Friend | printer-friendly He sounds a lot like the Shia sheik that Michelle and I interviewed in January–full-throated praise for the US for taking out Saddam and for pushing one-eyed Mullah Omar off his perch in Afghanistan. In this guy’s case, he also gets to knock back at a snivelling reporter. It’s a must-see. Click to watch

Mullah Omar 'hiding in Pakistan' Muhammad Hanif was seen sitting in a dimly-lit room Taleban leader Mullah Omar is living in Pakistan under the protection of its ISI intelligence agency, a captured Taleban spokesman has said. The spokesman, Muhammad Hanif, made the apparent confession to Afghan agents who videotaped the questioning. Mr Hanif is seen sitting in a dimly-lit room telling agents that Mullah Omar is in the city of Quetta. Correspondents confirm the voice is his. Mullah Omar has not been seen since 2001. Pakistan rejected the claims. 'Baseless' Afghanistan's intelligence agency distributed copies of the video CD to...

KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Associated Press that Mullah Omar, the supreme Taliban leader who headed the repressive Islamist regime ousted by U.S.-led forces five years ago, is hiding in the southeastern Pakistani city of Quetta. Despite U.S. efforts to ease acrimony between two key anti-terror allies, the Afghan leader in an interview late Monday also blamed neighboring Pakistan for a surge in Taliban violence in Afghanistan, and demanded that President Pervez Musharraf crack down on militant sanctuaries.

Has the GWOT hot war spread to Pakistan? You wouldn't know it if you've listened to the domestic media. While the MSM obsesses with returning the Democrats to power by controlling the news cycle, several news stories have largely gone un-noticed, like so many unconnected dots in this long war against the islamic fascists. For example, Musharref and Bush at a White House State Dinner, which was drowned out by the noise from The Chavez and Amadinajad UN Show. The cease-fire with the Taliban in northern Pakistan, leaks about secret prisons, domestic legislation to clarify the ROE regarding detention and...

It's common wisdom to say that the war between Hezbollah and Israel is a regional struggle that also includes Iran and Syria, who have supported and supplied Hezbollah. What seems to be less understood is that this is the first war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel, via Iran's proxy Hezbollah, and that its overarching purpose is to advance Iran's ambitions to export the Islamic revolution throughout the Middle East. Thus, while religion has always played an important role in prior Arab-Israeli wars, this time it has moved to center stage. It is the theological aspect of this...

The mullahs have had a lot of bad news in recent days — news with a particularly sinister aura, in fact. So sinister that they must be asking themselves what they have done to incur the Divine wrath. I kid you not. First is the loss of one of their terrorist stars, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the deus ex machina of the terror war against us in Iraq. Not only does that deprive the mullahs of a prime instrument for generating civil war — his constant incitement to the Sunnis to rise up against the Shiites was the cutting edge of...

Not many outside Pakistan's troubled tribal zone of Waziristan along the country's north-western border with Afghanistan will be familiar with the name of Haji Omar. But in Waziristan, it is a name that is commanding increasing respect and awe with every passing day. Haji Omar is the amir (chief) of the Pakistani Taleban that have risen over the last year to take control of large parts of Waziristan. His writ runs virtually unchallenged in South Waziristan and he seems confident that his commanders will soon establish Taleban control in North Waziristan as well. 'Al-Qaeda ally' Meeting him in Wana, South...

Counterterrorist agents pounced on five men, one in Utah and four in California, Wednesday as part of an investigation into the U.S. connections of a suspected senior al-Qaida operative imprisoned in Iraq. The Omar family has extensive ties in Jordan, where Shawqi Omar moved his family in 1995 and where he now stands accused of helping terrorist mastermind Abu Masab al-Zarqawi plot a chemical attack. Federal investigators believe Shawqi Omar acted as al-Zarqawi's "personal emissary" in several Iraqi cities. But back in Utah, Omar's brother Gus says there is no connection. "If you're a Sunni and from Jordan and in...

Attacks against invading forces to be intensified in winter, says Mulla Omer PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban Supreme leader Mulla Muhammad Omer Mujahid has said that Taliban fighters would intensify their attacks with the onset of winter season against western forces and its puppet regime in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: mollah Omar orders the execution from abroad SPIN BOLDAK - Mollah Mohammad Omar, who orders the talibans in Afghanistan, ordered the execution of four foreign hostages, three Albanians and a German, announced a spokesman of the integrist movement. They had been removed in the south of the country. "These people came to Afghanistan on order from America, they must consequently be condemned to death", ordered mollah Omar according to an official statement read Sunday evening by a spokesman of the taliban joint by telephone. On Sunday, this same spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, had declared that four Albanians and...

Kabul — President Hamid Karzai has handed intelligence to Pakistan that indicates Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme leader of the Taliban regime ousted by U.S.-led forces, and key associates are hiding in Pakistan, a senior Afghan official said Friday. The intelligence was shared during a visit by Mr. Karzai to Islamabad last week, and comes after a wave of suicide attacks that have fueled Afghan suspicions that militants are operating out of Pakistan. Afghanistan also provided information about the locations of alleged terrorist training camps along the border and in Pakistani cities, said the official, who is familiar with the...

An American with ties to the Triangle is about to face an Iraqi court for allegedly conspiring with terror suspect Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. According to a high-ranking U.S. Military Officer, when Shawqi Omar was captured in his home in Baghdad, he was in possession of numerous weapons -- materials for making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) -- and harboring Jordanian freedom fighters.

A federal court will soon sentence attorney Lynne Stewart to prison for "providing material support" to terrorists, among related charges.[1] The charges center upon her assistance to Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman who, from a federal prison cell in Minnesota, has continued his quest both to install an Islamist government in Egypt and to kill Americans and Jews around the world. Stewart's case is symbolic of a corollary battle in the war against terror and highlights the need not only to counter terrorism but also the ideology of Islamism. Her infatuation with her client's cause evolved into an example of...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! - OPPOSE GOOGLE'S PLAN Automatically send emails opposing Google's planSign a petition Introduction According to Lee Kaplan, writing for FrontPageMagazine.com: The Internet giant Google will give news agency status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), according to an anonymous source at Google. If true, the ISM—an affiliate of the anarchist/communist wing of the PLO—would be on par with professional news services such as CNN, Fox, and Associated Press. … The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) are related and interconnected organizations that have one goal: the...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed up to 50 Taliban fighters in central Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Tuesday after the latest burst of violence in the run-up to crucial September elections. A major Taliban ammunition depot was destroyed and 25 guerrillas captured in the fighting late on Monday in Deh Rawud district of Uruzgan province, Governor Jan Mohammad Khan said. "We have suffered some losses too, but I do not know how many," he told Reuters. "Between 40 and 50 Taliban men died in the fighting and bombing." U.S. and government forces have been responding...

Kandahar, 25 July (AKI) - An audio message released on Monday, said to be from the fugitive Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has called on his supporters to unite in the fight against Afghan and foreign troops. The audio casette, whose authenticity has still to be verified, was distributed to several international news agencies by an unknown person in Kandahar. "Unite, put aside your differences, continue the jihad (holy war) against the invaders and you will be victorious" said the voice, purportedly that of the Talliban leader. If it proves authentic, the message would be the first of its kind...

OTTAWA -- Canada's elite JTF2 soldiers are heading to Afghanistan as part of a 2,000-troop deployment that will target the "detestable murderers and scumbags" behind the rise in international terrorism, General Rick Hillier said yesterday. In a blunt briefing that signalled a new aggressiveness at the top of the Canadian Forces, the Chief of the Defence Staff said the impending operations are risky but necessary in light of last week's bombings in the British public-transit system. "The London attack actually tells us once more: We can't let up," Gen. Hillier told reporters. He said terrorists are ready to target Canada...

Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested five senior Taliban leaders, including a deputy to fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, a security official said tonight. The arrests were made after security agents made raids on several homes in north-west Pakistan, the official said. He identified two of the captured men as Maulvi Abdul Qadeer, a deputy to Omar, and Abdul Kabir, a former governor in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. The official would not disclose the names of the remaining three leaders, but said “they are also important Taliban leaders who are in our custody and being interrogated in Pakistan.”

Italy probes possible CIA role in abduction By John Crewdson (Chicago) Tribune senior correspondent An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy. Italian newspapers have reported that the prosecutor, Armando Spataro, is investigating the possible role of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the disappearance of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar, a popular figure in Milan's Islamic community who vanished Feb. 17, 2003....

Italy orders arrest of CIA agents over Imams abduction 6/24/2005 10:45:00 PM GMT Italian authorities ordered the arrest of 13 CIA agents accused of kidnapping a Muslim leader Italian authorities ordered the arrest of 13 agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) accused of kidnapping a Muslim leader in northern Italy, an Italian newspaper reported on Friday. The arrest warrants were issued by Italian Judge Chiara Nobili at the request of the anti-terrorist division of the state prosecutor's office, the Corriere della Sera said. The 13 agents are suspected of kidnapping Osama Mustafa Hassan, also known as Abu Omar,...