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What’s the 411 on it Velveeta? Is it to monitor/report USA threats?
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Happy New Year to you too Vel. And thanks for the ping!
Great job.
How is LGF still on the blogroll? Most people have dropped them from the blogrolls since charles johnson lost it & became some kind of left/lib.
Hizb ut-Tahir America promotes supremacism as solution to Pakistan violence, poverty
In the Chicago suburb of Lombard on December 20, 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) held a recruitment event to promote its anti-democracy, Islamic supremacist views, with the focus of this event by claiming that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is not sufficiently "Islamic" enough for Hizb ut-Tahrir's goals of creating "Islamic states" in building a global Islamic supremacist caliphate.
Children in the jihadi cause - an Ansar Al-Muahideen video compilation
The following are excerpts from a compilation of videos of Jihadi children, produced by Ansar Al-Mujahideen. The compilation, titled "The Next Generation of Mujahideen," identifies the jihad groups to which the children belong, and shows them training, giving speeches, chanting, and praying.The compilation was posted on the Internet in December 2009.
Students caught in terrorism net
A NUMBER of students who dropped out of an Australian-affiliated university in Dubai are being investigated for links to the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US aircraft.
2008 FBI audit flagged failure to place terror suspects on watchlist
While the State Department is fending off questions about why it didnt revoke Umar Farouk Abdulmutallabs visa and points fingers at the National Counterterrorism Center, its worth noting that the FBI last year was told, following an in-depth audit by its inspector general, that it had a big problem with failing to place terror suspects on the NCTCs terror watchlists.
Indeed, the weakness of the West is its loss of the spirit of its own culture. The West requires not only the existence of certain institutions and principles legislatures, courts of law, free speech and freedom of religion, for example but also a populace willing to defend those institutions and principles without apology.
Commentary - Unholy war in cyberspace
Snips: ..... it is almost mission impossible to figure out what terrorists and would-be terrorists are up to in cyberspace.
http://www.criticalthreats.org/yemen/christmas-day-attack-manifestation-aqap-shift-targeting-america
Lots of good background info here.
Thank you and all who keep this going.
Happy New year and may God Bless each of you.
Links today very interesting indeed, Memri has video (#2322) of Shite Woman dedicating their infants to Jihad....Very large group with children smiling and saying they will carry on Jihad. Indeed culture of death from the cradle to the grave.
Took me a very long time understanding how and why these woman allow themselves to be used as incubators for the future warriors of Islam Jihad. They do not see children as we do by any means.
Examining indoctrinations of Islam helped me to accept why God told the Israelites to destroy the people, woman and children as well. That was a tough one to accept! But when you look closely at Islams movement, and that which this video, among many depict, I can understand better God's wisdom...and if it still disturbs me greatly that woman of Islam do this to their children..how much more is God affected.
Not sure if I can mention God here, hummm.. well I'm sure someone will advise me soon enough.
Happy New Year all, and may we always see thru the deceptions that now plague our nation in this coming year.
Wow V! You sure were busy at work today, I shall get busy, although I’m behind. Just got in from work. Great job sweetie
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Hey Velveeta, all:
First, apologies for disappearing. 2009 started really badly for me, my mother died unexpectedly and that threw me for a loop for much of the year.. not an excuse per se but hopefully people can understand.
Things have been good recently. I got a new job at work and am doing heavy research on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. I am expecting to have a co-authored piece published in the NYT this Sunday on the subject, so be on the lookout!
I am in Florida with my dad for the holidays, but will try to check back in from time to time. Trust me, you all have been on my mind when things have come up recently. I have just been scared to make my return after running off.
All the best and hope everyone has a happy new year.
Ian
Please, for the love of God, someone take LGF out of the links in the big linkdump in the thread header.
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December 30, 2009 The attempt to destroy Northwest Airlines flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day underscores the growing ambition of al Qaeda's Yemen franchise, which has grown from a largely Yemeni agenda to become a player in the global Islamic jihad in the last year.
What a difference a year makes. . .but 'who' is counting?
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