FreeRepublic.com - Discussion Forum (MEMRI: The Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor): "ALERTS, PLANNING & TRAINING" (SNIPPET: "Islamist Forum Member Suggests Using Dogs Instead of Suicide Bombers A recent message on the Islamist forum Ma'arik Al-Salafiyya suggested using dogs instead of suicide bombers to carry out attacks on U.S.... January 28, 2009") (January 28, 2009) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com: "U.S. CONSULATE MISTAKENLY SELLS SECRET FILES IN JERUSALEM" by Reena Ninan (SNIPPET: "EXCLUSIVE: Hundereds of files -- with social security numbers, bank account numbers and other sensitive U.S. government information -- were found in a filing cabinet purchased from the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem through a local auction.") (January 27, 2009) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog: "SHABAAB TAKES CONTROL OF SOMALIA'S SEAT OF GOVERNMENT" by Bill Roggio (SNIPPET: "Al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia took control of the last stronghold of Somalia's troubled Transitional Federal Government today, just hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew.") (January 26, 2009, 7:28 pm) (Read More...)
THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "Four AMERICANS Arrested in Somaliland" (SNIPPET: "UPDATE: Make that 15. Eleven more Americans arrested in Somaliland.") (January 26, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (TIMES OF INDIA, January 24, 2009): "WOMAN LIVING IN 'HAMAS STRONGHOLD' MARRIES TO RAISE 'MARTYRS'" (SNIPPET: "The latest form of jihad: Jihad al-Ziwaj, or 'Marriage Jihad'"... SNIPPET: "There were no regrets either -- she said she was marrying to raise 'fighters' and asked only that she might die as a 'martyr' in Israel.") (January 25, 2009) (Read More...)
AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "SOCIAL NETWORKING ARAB HATRED OF ISRAEL" -Rick Moran (SNIPPET: "This month, hundreds of Egyptian Facebook members, in private homes and at Internet cafes, have set up Gaza-related "groups." Most expressed hatred for Israel and the United States, but each one had its own focus.") (January 25, 2009) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog: "RETURN TO JIHAD" by Thomas Joscelyn (SNIPPET: ""By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al Shihri says.") (January 25, 2009, 10:30 am) (Read More...)
ZEE NEWS.com - India Edition: Washington - "RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEE NEW YEMEN AL QAEDA COMMANDER" (SNIPPET: "...Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed at Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda." SNIPPET: "That announcement, which carried the video post of al-Shihri, also included a second video of a second militant who identified himself as Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi and claimed he had also been a Guantanamo captive, later released.") (January 24, 2009) (Read More...)
TOWNHALL.com: "CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER" by Oliver North (SNIPPET: "Item No. 1 ought to be preventing the world's No. 1 exporter of radical Islamic terror from obtaining nuclear weapons: Iran. Unfortunately, the new administration is not off to an auspicious start.") (January 23, 2009) (Read More...)
THE MEMRI BLOG.org ("Source: Shahab News, Iran, January 19, 2009"): "IRANIAN MAJLIS DISCUSSES BILL TO ESTABLISH 'ISLAMIC WORLD ARMY'" (SNIPPET: "It was proposed that this army would be part of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.") (Posted January 22, 2009) (Read More...)
Knoxville.FBI.gov - Press Release: "SUSPICIOUS WHITE POWDER LETTERS POSTMARKED FROM KNOXVILLE RECEIVED IN NEW YORK AND MASSACHUSETTS" (SNIPPET: "An additional letter was also received today at Harvard Law School addressed to Alan Dershowitz. This letter was also postmarked Knoxville, Tennessee.") (January 21, 2009) (Read More...)
SERBIANNA.com - blog: "BIN LADEN MESSAGE ON BOSNIAN MUSLIM SITE" (SNIPPET: "The Muslims of Gornja Maoca have been involved in several terror attack plans on Europe, including the attempted bomb attack on the Pope John.") (January 26, 2009) (Read More...)
CHICAGO JOURNAL.org: $20,000 REWARD OFFERED FOR ARRESTS IN VANDALISM OF SYNAGOGUES, SCHOOLS Jewish organizations seek leads to hate crimes in West Ridge, Lake View" by Lorrain Swanson (SNIPPET: "Benn asked that anyone with information about the attacks call the Anti-Defamation League at 312-782-5080. Rottner said the Belmont and Western Area 3 hate crimes unit can take calls at 312-744-8320.") (January 19, 2009, 7:43 pm) (Read More...)
STRAITS TIMES.com: Berlin - "AL-QAEDA VIDEO CREATOR NAMED" (SNIPPET: "... was identified on Monday by the interior ministry here as Morocco-born Bekkay Harrach." SNIPPET: "...August Hanning said on Monday that Harrach - who called himself Abu Talha Al-Alamani - was 'a very serious Islamist'.") (January 20, 2009) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch No. 2193: "Egyptian Clerics Encourage Martyrdom in Gaza: 'We Must Love Death'; 'There Are Black-Eyed Virgins Ready For You'; 'We Must Teach Our Children to... Hate the Jews'" (January 16, 2009) (Read More...)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "ISNA's MATTSON TO SPEAK AT INAUGURAL PRAYER SERVICE IPT Report Documents Her Troubling History" (January 20, 2009) (Read More...)
ONE NEWS NOW.com: "EQUIPPING CHURCHES FOR DANGER, VIOLENT ATTACKS" by Allie Martin (SNIPPET: "A faith-based security expert says many churches and ministries are not prepared to respond to emergencies.") (January 15, 2009, 4:40 am) (Read More...)
CANADA EAST.com (THE CANADIAN PRESS): Ottawa - "MORE GUANTANAMO INMATES MAY LOOK TO CANADA" by Jim Brown (SNIPPET: "Omar Khadr isn't the only Guantanamo inmate who could look northward if the incoming Obama administration carries through on its promise to shut the military prison. Three other men who once lived in Canada are being held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba and could be candidates to return to this country if they're released.") (January 14, 2009) (Read More...)
THE JAWA REPORT: "AN AMERICAN JIHADI IN SOMALIA AND HIS WASHINGTON FRIENDS IN AL QAEDA" (SNIPPET: "But perhaps the most important piece of the story is an admission that Shumpert turned to the Salafi strand of Islam after he met with some Muslims in Washington who had recently returned from fighting the jihad in Chechnya..." SNIPPET: "So, who are Ruben Shumpert's friends who had been to Chechnya and are they still on the loose in Washington?") (January 13, 2009) (Read More...)
SECRET SERVICE.gov - Press Release: "NO EVIDENCE OF THREATS TO INAUGURATION, REPORTS SECRET SERVICE" by Nicholas Ballasy (SNIPPET: ""As Secretary Chertoff has stated, we have no credible intelligence to suggest that there is a threat to any of the inaugural events," said Sullivan. "Nevertheless, given its historic nature, its importance to our democratic process and the large number of people expected to attend, collectively we have endeavored to make this inauguration as safe and secure as possible."") (January 13, 2009) (Read More...)
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "FEDS CITE RACIST CHATTER FOR 'HIGHER STATE OF ALERT' IN INAUGURATION" by James Gordon Meek (SNIPPET: ""Everybody in law enforcement dealing with that particular (white supremacist) 'clientele' is on a higher state of alert," a senior agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told The News. The ATF has expertise infiltrating white supremacist groups. A classified threat assessment for the Inauguration by the FBI and Homeland Security Department citing agitated hate groups was sent to police agencies this week. Counterterrorism officials have also picked up chatter from Islamic militants, but the agitated domestic hate groups are "the big concern," said another FBI official") (January 13, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org: "AFGHAN JIHADIST TO OBAMA: "You should also cause one more addition to the U.S. history by becoming the first president to accept the Truth and by adopting the true faith of Islam"" (January 10, 2009) (Read More...)
TOORABORA.com: "By the name of Allah the most gracious and most merciful An Open Letter from the Peaks of Tora Bora to the White House The president of United States Barak Husain Obama!" (December 27, 2008)
CIA.gov - Press Release: "DIRECTORS STATEMENT: Transition at CIA Statement to Employees by Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Hayden" (SNIPPET: "President-elect Obama has chosen Leon Panetta to succeed me here at the Agency.") (Last Reviewed: Jan 09, 2009 11:51 AM) (Read More...)
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com (NEW YORK POST): "INTELLIGENCE FAILURE" by Ralph Peters (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WOULD you ask your accountant to perform brain surgery on your child? That's the closest analogy I can find to the choice of Democratic Party hack Leon Panetta to head the CIA.") (January 8, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "BUSH AIDE: MUMBAI-LIKE ATTACK COULD HAPPEN IN U.S." (SNIPPET: "Ken Wainstein told a Washington think tank that the Mumbai attacks in November showed the effectiveness of a low-technology coordinated assault on an open city.") (Published January 8, 2009, 04:01) (Read More...)
WHITEHOUSE.gov - News Release: "REMARKS BY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR STEPHEN HADLEY at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS Washington, D.C." (SNIPPET: "America is a nation at war. And in the post-9/11 world, we face complex challenges that will not pause for a change in administrations.") (January 7, 2009) (Read More...)
THE AGE.com.au: "CIA TRACKING 4000 UK TERROR SUSPECTS" by Tim Shipman, Washington (SNIPPET: "THE CIA has begun an unprecedented intelligence-gathering operation in Britain to help MI5 monitor 4000 terrorist suspects. More than four out of 10 CIA operations to prevent attacks on US soil are now conducted against targets in Britain.") (January 5, 2009) (Read More...)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "TERRORISTS COULD USE 'INSECT-BASED' BIOLOGICAL WEAPON" by John Adams (SNIPPET: "Terrorists would find it "relatively easy" to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease, an academic has warned.") (Last updated January 5, 2009, 2:43 pm GMT) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch - No. 2165: "As Gaza Fighting Continues, Egyptian Clerics Intensify Antisemitic Statements; Columbus, Ohio Muslim Scholar/Leader Dr. Salah Sultan: Muhammad Said That Judgment Day Will Not Come Until Muslims Fight the Jews and Kill Them; America Will Suffer Destruction" (December 30, 2008) (Read More...)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "SOMALIS IN U.S. DRAW FBI ATTENTION War at home seen as lure" by Sara A. Carter (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Many members of the Somali community are concerned over disappearances, he said.") (December 29, 2008) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (AP): "INTEL REPORT: HIZBULLAH MAY STRIKE IN US" (SNIPPET: "Homeland Security Threat Assessment for the years 2008-2013 says Hizbullah may foment terror attack in US if there is some kind of 'triggering' event. 'The threat of terrorism and the threat of extremist ideologies have not abated," Chertoff says.") (Published December 25, 2008, 23:52) (Read More...)
