TUNIS, Tunisia -- Nearly 30 Islamic extremists involved in a deadly gunbattle with police in this North African country had blueprints of foreign embassies and documents naming foreign envoys, the interior minister said Friday.
Haj Kacem described the 27 people involved in the Jan. 3 clash as "Salafist terrorists," referring to the hardline movement among Muslim fundamentalists, the official news agency TAP reported.
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Morocco sentences Belgian on terrorism charges
01.12.07
A Belgian man who was arrested in Syria and extradited to Morocco was sentenced Friday to three years imprisonment on terrorism charges, the state news agency said.
MAP identified the man as Khalid Oussayeh, and said he was of Moroccan origin. He was accused of having links to foreign terrorist organizations, of aiming to prepare terror attacks and of belonging to a group that MAP identified as the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.
Algiers, 12 Jan. 2007 - The former leader of Algeria's outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) Anwar Haddam has announced he will form a new party to be called Movement for Freedom and Social Justice. In a statement published Friday by Algerian daily 'Al-Bayane', Haddam also announced his support for a government national reconciliation plan granting an amnesty to Islamist militants who give up armed guerrilla fighting.
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.375770131&par=0
Left Behind Leaves Wal-Mart Ahead (Wal-Mart Stands Up To CAIR)
Wal-Mart may be the first corporation to not cave in to Muslim offense-taking and demand-making. The retailer is continuing to sell the “Left Behind: Eternal Forces” video game despite CAIR’s complaints — rather than pull the product and put employees through sensitivity training like every other company has done so far when confronted with even a single complaint by a Muslim.
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Islamic Terror Group Posts Video Appearing to Show Chemical Rocket Attack Against U.S. Base in Iraq
Friday, January 12, 2007
A video was posted Thursday on the Web that graphically shows members of a well-known and highly organized Islamic insurgent group preparing and launching four rockets loaded with chemicals at a U.S. military base near Samarra, Iraq.
The video, which is posted on several Islamic Web sites, appears to show the attack being carried out by members of the self-proclaimed Salahaldin Al-Ayoubi Brigades, the military wing of Al Jabha Al-Islamiyya l'il-Muqawama Al-'Iraqiyya (JAMI), which has carried out numerous bombing and rocket attacks against U.S. military installations, including a mortar attack last October 10 that destroyed a major military ammunitions dump and lit up the sky on the outskirts of Baghdad.
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