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Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a British rapper, is suspected by UK's SAS to be John, the man with an English accent who beheaded American journalist James Foley last week, the New York Post reports. In early August, Bary tweeted a photo of himself wearing a camouflage and black hood, while holding on his left hand a decapitated head. The 24-year-old rapper is the son of an Egypt-born militant now waiting for trial in Manhattan on terror charges for the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. He is one of the jihadists named by former hostages as member...

Intelligence officials have disclosed a new detailed timeline of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, acknowledging the CIA played a greater role in responding to the attack than has previously been disclosed.  A senior U.S. intelligence official also insisted that the CIA security team that initially responded to the attack was not given orders “to stand down in providing support,” as had been suggested in media reports.

On a Monday morning, March 29, suicide bombers attacked two metro stations in the heart of Moscow. The detonations, timed 40 minutes apart during rush hour for maximum damage, in some ways resembled the 2004 commuter-train attack in Madrid, the July 7 bombings in London a year later and numerous other public acts of terrorism around the globe. These similarities were not lost on world leaders, who were quick to express not just sympathy but also empathy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, "When Moscow is attacked, we are all attacked." In June, just days before the exposure of a U.S.-based...

Most people know Andrew McCarthy as a prolific commentator, author and all around expert on the subject of the world-wide terrorist threat, excuse me, the world-wide threat of man-made disasters. Mr. McCarthy became an expert as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York. It was McCarthy who led the prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and others for the 1993 World Trade Center. After 9/11 the supervised the Justice Department’s Command Post near Ground Zero in New York City. So it was no surprise that the Justice department invited Mr. McCarthy to participate in their May...

The Palo Verde Nuclear Power Station has been locked down for investigation, however officials say there’s no immediate threat to public safety. The incident this morning is being described as an “unusual event,” which is the lowest of four emergency categories the plant can declare. A contract worker with the Nuclear Generating Station triggered the lockdown when he showed up with a suspicious package inside his vehicle, authorities said. The incident reportedly involves a suspicious-looking pipe inside the worker’s truck. “This is not a threat to the public,” said Jim McDonald, a spokesman for plant operator Arizona Public Service Co....

The European Parliament yesterday passed a resolution calling on the United States to close its detention center at its base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The vote took place after most of the Euro-MPs had left for the afternoon, and was passed by 80 votes in favor to 1 against, with one abstaining. However, the Europarliament consists of 732 members, meaning that 650 of them did not vote on the resolution. According to the text, "All the prisoners should receive treatment conforming with international humanitarian legislation, and be tried as soon as possible after a public hearing by a competent, independent,...

The same ABC Radio news that called terrorists “Iraqi resistance”, now calls the terrorists “Guerilla Fighters” You all just heard it. They called the terrorists "guerilla fighters". Four weeks ago, the ABC radio news took to calling the Islamic terrorists who are congregating in Iraq from all parts of the Islamic terrorist world to murder Iraqi police, terrorize and massacre civilians, assassinate politicians and attack democracy, and commit fanatical terrorist acts on international troops and non-combatant international organizations, as “Iraqi resistance fighters” - putting these terrorists, who go into school houses to blow up children because they don’t like to...

17:20 Feb-25-03, 23 Adar 5763 Two Defendants Convicted In Connection to Meiron Suicide Bombing(IsraelNN.com) Ibrahim and Yassin Bakri, residents of Kfar Ana, admitted to the charges against them , assisting the suicide bomber responsible for the Meiron Junction bombing attack on 4 August 2002. An Egged No. 361 bus was blown up. Nine persons were murdered and 53 injured. The two were convicted of nine counts of murder and 53 counts of attempted murder.

The US has credible intelligence that al Qaeda had an attack or multiple attacks set to begin at some point last week and that members of the Congress could have been the terrorist outfit's likely target, a media report said today. Counter-terrorism officials were today quoted as saying that they had received a phone tip that members of the United States Congress could have beene targets of assassination attempts by Islamic fundamentalists. Intelligence reports gathered from human and electronic sources around the world suggested what intelligence officials had suspected for weeks- al Qaeda operatives "Are in the execution phase of...

Boeing film shows attack on Muslims By Michael Paterson (Filed: 02/12/2002) A promotional film made by Boeing that shows an attack on a fictional Islamic city has been condemned as "irresponsible" and "insensitive" by Muslims. The film, titled "The Army - Objective Force: Realising the Vision", is being shown to British firms to promote the next generation of battle technology. It shows buildings being blown up by unmanned aircraft and tiny high-speed robot tanks. Mosques are clearly seen in the film, which resembles a video game and features a heavy assault in the year 2016 on a fictitious town called...

FBI Warns of Fuel Tank Attacks WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is advising law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for terrorists who possibly are plotting to use fuel tankers in attacks against Jewish neighborhoods and synagogues, a federal law enforcement official said. This official, who asked not to be identified, said the warning was sent out to local police agencies Friday. Another official, also speaking on grounds of anonymity, said the warning was not based on a specific threat, but on interviews with captured al-Qaida and Taliban fighters who indicated such a plot had been discussed. The interviews...