INTERNET HAGANAH.com: "Thank You Mr. Kohlmann..." (SNIPPET: "NEFA Foundation has made available a collection of the 2005-2007 postings at gawaher.com by Farouk1986, generally believed to be Nigerian ball bomber Abdulmutallab." SNIPPET: "I find this one intriguing:") (December 30, 2009) (Read More...)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - For The Record - blog: "'HUNDREDS' MORE AL QAEDA OPERATIVES IN YEMEN PLANNING ATTACKS, FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS" (SNIPPET: ""Of course there are a number of Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen and some of their leaders. We realize this danger," Al-Qirbi said. "They may actually plan attacks like the one we have just had in Detroit. There are maybe hundreds of them - 200, 300."") (December 29, 2009, 3:32) (Read More...)
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "AL-QAIDA IN YEMEN CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHRISTMAS DAY AIRLINE TERROR PLOT" by Evan Kohlmann (SNIPPET: "The group acknowledged that the device had failed to properly detonate, but promised that it would "continue on this path until we achieve success."") (December 28, 2009, 08:51 pm) (Read More...)
THE SUN.co.uk: "25 BRITS IN JET BOMB PLOTS Cops fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb airliners." (SNIPPET: "The 25 suspects, of Pakistani and Somali descent, were radicalised in UK mosques. Some had been to university and studied engineering or computer sciences. Others were former street gang members. Special Branch monitored them as they flew to Yemen, in the Middle East, from British airports in the spring and summer. In almost every case, their tickets were paid for in cash and bought less than a week before travel. The source added: "Imams would have promised them rewards in heaven for becoming suicide bombers prepared to kill Westerners."") (December 27, 2009) (Read More...)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "MERRY CHRISTMAS, PRIVATE BERGDAHL" (SNIPPET: "Private Bergdahl - assuming he's still alive - is spending Christmas as a captive of the Taliban. His captors spent the last day or two uploading a video showing Private Bergdahl reading a statement.") (December 25, 2009) (Read More...)
INTERNET HAGANAH.com: "THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIVATE MESSAGES" (SNIPPET: "It speaks to the importance the private messaging feature of jihadi forums that the brothers have developed and released a program that will enable you to download your messages and read them offline. This is necessary - among other reasons - because you can usually only store a few dozen messages in your Inbox on the forum.") (December 25, 2009) (Read More...)
WASHINGTON POST.com: "SIX YEMENI DETAINEES AT GUANTANAMO BAY TO BE REPATRIATED" (SNIPPET: "The Obama administration is planning to repatriate six Yemenis held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a transfer that could be a prelude to the release of dozens more detainees to Yemen, according to sources with independent knowledge of the matter.") (December 18, 2009, 5:04 am) (Read More...)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "ICT JIHADI WEBSITES MONITORING GROUP..." (SNIPPET: "One of the surfers suggests using a low power laser in order to bring planes down. Several surfers show enthusiasm for this suggestion, but one surfer doubts it, including suggestions made by other surfers to use higher powered lasers, such as those appearing on the website of the...") (December 23, 2009) (Read More...)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "Would Everyone Take A Deep Breath..." (SNIPPET: "In short, for every move the jihadis make online, we have a countermeasure or can rapidly develop and deploy a countermeasure. There is no hiding place. Our biggest challenge, frankly, is not identifying who is doing what online, but in our assessment of who is, or who will become, a threat.") (December 23, 2009) (Read More...)
US DOJ.gov - Justice.gov/opa - Press Release: "UNITED STATES TRASFERS 12 GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES TO AFGHANISTAN, YEMEN AND THE SOMALILAND REGION" (SNIPPET: "Over the weekend, four Afghan detainees, Abdul Hafiz, Sharifullah, Mohamed Rahim and Mohammed Hashim, were transferred to the Government of Afghanistan. In addition, two Somali detainees, Mohammed Soliman Barre and Ismael Arale, were transferred to regional authorities in Somaliland. Finally, six Yemeni detainees, Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mari, Farouq Ali Ahmed, Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher, Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami and Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al Haf, were transferred to the Government of Yemen.") (December 20, 2009) (Read More...)
HUMAN EVENTS.com: "DO YOU KNOW HOW RADICAL KEVIN JENNINGS IS?" by David Limbaugh (SNIPPET: "I'm wondering whether there's anyone out there with the guts to pretend that it's insignificant that President Barack Obama keeps appointing radical after radical to his czar positions. Can anyone honestly say Obama's appointments don't tell us a great deal about Obama himself -- as if we needed any further proof he is a left-wing extremist? I don't need to make a list of his radical appointees and detail proof of their extremism. Anyone paying attention knows it's irrefutably true that this has become a deliberate pattern.") (December 19, 2009) (Read More...)
PAJAMAS MEDIA.com - blog: "TSA DODGES CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF BREACH Twelve of Osama bin Laden's half-siblings have a pilot's license. An that's not even the most embarrassing TSA news lately." by Annie Jacobsen (December 19, 2009) (Read More...)
PAJAMAS MEDIA.com - blog: "TSA HANDS AL-QAEDA ITS PLAYBOOK Terrorists were surely rejoicing when the Transportation Security Administration posted one of its most sensitive documents online." by Annie Jacobsen (December 10, 2009) (Read More...)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "INISDE THE RING - Nuke Modernization" by Bill Gertz (SNIPPET: "A Republican Senate aide said the letter is intended to put the White House on notice that formal ratification of a new START accord must include specific plans and funding for upgrading U.S. nuclear weapons outlined in Section 1251 of the Democrat-drafted 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law by Mr. Obama on Oct. 28. A White House National Security Council spokesman had no immediate comment on the letter.") (December 17, 2009) (Read More...)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "OVERALL STRATEGY IS NEEDED" -Opinion-Commentary by Lawrence J. Korb, Sean Duggan and Laura Conley (SNIPPET: "A new strategy is not only a practical requirement; it's a legal obligation. Congress mandates that a new president issue an NSS within five months of taking office, and annually thereafter. Mr. Obama has passed the deadline without delivering, yet several Cabinet agencies are developing key tactical documents, such as the Defense, Homeland Security and State departments' quadrennial reviews, which should be based on the White House's overall strategy.") (December 17, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (FOX NEWS, December 14, 2009): "OF 30 HOMEGROWN TERROR PLOTS SINCE 9/11, TEN SURFACED IN 2009 ALONE" (SNIPPET: "That puts "the level of activity in 2009 much higher than that of previous years," Rand Senior Adviser Brian Jenkins told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last month. "There's definitely a rise in jihad recruits and volunteers in the United States, whether they're concerning plots here in the U.S. or whether they involve material support to terror plots overseas," says counterterrorism analyst Steve Emerson, author of "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us." Danny Coulson, former deputy assistant director of the FBI, agrees.") (December 15, 2009) (Read More...)
THE MEMRI BLOG.org ("Source: Fars, Iran, December 18, 2009"): "IRAN WORKING ON NEW CENTRIFUGES" (SNIPPET: "Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi has said that Iran is working on a new generation of centrifuges, IR3 and IR4, for uranium enrichment, and expressed hope that the new centrifuges would be in use by March 2011.") (Posted December 18, 2009) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com (AP): Tehran, Iran - "IRAN MAKING NEW MODEL CENTRIFUGES FOR NUKES" (SNIPPET: "Salehi said that more than 6,000 centrifuges are currently enriching uranium..." SNIPPET: "The IAEA has reported that it is watching Iran's efforts to improve its centrifuges. Iran says it will install more than 50,000 centrifuges at Natanz, but currently they have installed fewer than 9,000, so there could easily be room for more advanced models in the future, a Vienna nuclear expert said.") (December 18, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "REPORT: IRAN TEST-FIRES IMPROVED SEJIL2 MISSILE" (SNIPPET: "Islamic republic's Arabic-language satellite television says tested missile has longer range than Shahab, which Iranian officials have said can reach targets 2,000 kilometers away, putting Israel and US bases in Gulf within reach.") (Published December 16, 2009, 09:55/Israel News) (Read More...)
TIMESonline.CO.UK: "SECRET DOCUMENT EXPOSES IRAN'S NUCLEAR TRIGGER" (SNIPPET: "The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the material used in Pakistan's bomb, from where Iran obtained its blueprint.") (December 14, 2009) (Read More...)
CORNER.nationalreview.com: "YOU CAN'T MAKE IT UP -- or Si, Se Puede" by Andy McCarthy (SNIPPET: "The White House has announced that Mari Del Carmen Aponte will be nominated by the President to become the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador." SNIPPET: "...as detailed on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, it turned out that she had "co-habited" with an agent of the Cuban intelligence service. In fact, a confidential U.S. intelligence memo alleged that she had been recruited to become a Cuban spy in her own right.") (December 16, 2009) (Read More...)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "THE SOUND OF AL-QAIDA CHOKING ON THE BLOOD THEY HAVE SPILT" (SNIPPET: "It remains unclear whether as-Sahab is really on the skids, but signs increasingly point to yes.") (December 13, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org: "SOMALIA: SUICIDE BOMBER IN ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT MINISTERS HAD BEEN LIVING IN DENMARK" (SNIPPET: "Not all who travel to join the jihad in Somalia will become suicide bombers. Some will return to their prior country of residence, trained, experienced, and looking to apply what they have learned.") (December 10, 2009) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "IRAQI TROOPS CAPTURE MAHDI ARMY MILITARY LEADER" by Bill Roggio (SNIPPET: "Iran has backed a host of Shia terror groups in Iraq, including the Mahdi Army and the Promised Day Brigade, the Asaib al Haq, and the Hezbollah Brigades [see LWJ report, "Iraqi forces search for Qods Force agents" and "Ramazan Corps and the ratlines into Iraq" for more details on Iran's involvement in Iraq]. List of Promised Day Brigade and Mahdi Army operatives detained since November:") (December 9, 2009, 1:40 pm) (Read More...)
ABC NEWS.go.com: "BATTLING THE HOMEGROWN JIHAD THREAT" by Stephanie Sy (SNIPPET: "...experts say jihadist propaganda is gaining a foothold in the United States, with hundreds of English-language Web sites.") (December 12, 2009) (Read More...)
SOFIR.org: "RESPONSA: THE PROS AND CONS WITH 'JIHOBBYISM'" (SNIPPET: "The Internet provides many opportunities for people to participate in the jihad in a meaningful way. Online jihadi activism is enabling, it is a chance for the aspiring jihadi to actually do something and see how it feels. No matter how illegal that online activism might be, he will at least think he has gotten away with something - because the wheels of justice turn slowly even on a good day. So while we are belittling them, they are getting stronger.") (December 8, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org - Email: ""THIS IS AN OPEN THREAT TO YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION TO STAY AWAY FROM MUSLIMS AND ISLAM IF YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU."" (SNIPPET: "The email comes from Dawood Bhaila...") (December 8, 2009, 12:08 pm) (Read More...)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "AUTHORITIES SEARCH FOR FIVE MISSING D.C.-AREA MUSLIM MEN" (SNIPPET: "Federal investigators are searching for a Howard University dental student and four other missing Muslim men reported missing from the Washington, D.C. area, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned. There is concern they may have been sent abroad to train for jihad. The five were last seen November 29. The identities of two of the missing men, Howard student Ramy Zamzam and Waqar Khan, have been mentioned in online postings, including a Facebook page that was set up Monday for friends to offer their support. Some of those pages, however, appear restricted to friends and associates. It is not clear where the men are believed to have gone, but an informed source told the IPT that at least one left behind a farewell video.") (December 8, 2009) (Read More...) [UPDATE: Subjects located in Pakistan.]
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "RADICAL MOVEMENT'S LEADER FORECASTS AMERICA'S DEMISE" (SNIPPET: "As-Sabiqun has repeatedly predicted the demise of the United States and dreams of "the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050." It has openly declared support for terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hizbullah, and even claimed it funded anti-American militants. With concerns growing over radical Islamist propaganda in the United States, As-Sabiqun is one of the leading organizations building a bridge between international Islamism and its developing American counterpart. As-Sabiqun is headquartered in Washington D.C., but has branches in Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Philadelphia. Its leader, Imam Abdul Alim Musa, is well-known in Islamist circles for spreading anti-American propaganda and militancy.") (December 4, 2009) (Read More...)
OTTAWA SUN.com: "PARLIAMENT PROTEST ENDS; QUESTIONS REMAIN Greenpeace climate change activists create major security breach" by Scott Taylor (SNIPPET: "RCMP and parliamentary security officials are at a loss to explain how 19 Greenpeace activists sauntered onto Parliament Hill and found their way to the tops of the Centre Block and West Block buildings early yesterday morning.") (Last updated December 7, 2009, 7:21 pm) (Read More...)
LATIMES.com - LOS ANGELES TIMES: "U.S. SEES HOMEGROWN MUSLIM EXTREMISM AS RISING THREAT This may have been the most dangerous year since 9/11, anti-terrorism experts say" by Sebastian Rotella (December 7, 2009) (Read More...)
JPOST.com - THE JERUSALEM POST: "'Iran can now produce nuclear bomb'" (SNIPPET: "Iran now has the technical capability to build a nuclear bomb and the only thing separating it from the bomb is the decision to go ahead and build one, said Brig. -Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of Military Intelligence's research division, on Monday.") (Updated December 7, 2009, 21:16) (Read More...)
DEFENSE.gov (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "COMBINED FORCES ARREST SUSPECTS IN IRAQ" (SNIPPET: "Acting on combined security team intelligence, Iraqi security forces and U.S. advisors searched a building in Sadr City where the suspect was located. He is suspected of transporting explosives and weapons from Iran into Baghdad. The man is believed to have been staging multiple attacks on security forces in Iraq.") (December 7, 2009) (Read More...)
HERALD SUN.com: "FRENCH TO FREE OZ TERRORIST" by Charles Miranda, London (SNIPPET: "Australia's most notorious terrorist Willie Brigitte will be free from jail next year having served less than half his sentence for conspiring to blow up the nation's only nuclear reactor and the power grid." SNIPPET: "It was then revealed Brigitte had had military training in Pakistan and France with an al-Qaida backed group. He had also spent time training in pariah state Yemen.") (December 1, 2009, 11:41 pm; Last updated December 5, 2009) (Read More...)
JPOST.com - THE JERUSALEM POST: "'IRAN BUIDLING TERROR NETWORK IN SOUTH AMERICA'" by Hilary Leila Krieger (SNIPPET: "The Argentinean prosecutor who ferreted out Iranian links to Argentina's largest terror attack warned Wednesday of Teheran's growing terror network in Latin America. "The Iranians are moving fast," assessed Alberto Nisman...") (Updated December 3, 2009, 15:48) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "FORMER GUANTANAMO DETAINEE NOW AL QAEDA IN ARABIAN PENINSULA'S MUFTI" (SNIPPET: "Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish was captured by Pakistani authorities in late 2001 and then handed over to American officials who transferred him to Guantanamo. Rubaish was held there until Dec. 13, 2006, when he was transferred to Saudi Arabia and placed in the Saudi rehabilitation program for jihadists. At some point, Rubaish escaped from Saudi Arabia by fleeing south to Yemen. In February 2009, the Saudi Kingdom placed Rubaish, along with at least 10 other former Gitmo detainees, on its list of 85 most-wanted terrorists. One of the former Gitmo detainees Rubaish fled to Yemen with, Said Ali al Shihri, is now the deputy of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which was formed when the al Qaeda branches in Yemen and Saudi Arabia merged. Two other former Gitmo detainees who fled to Yemen along with Rubaish have been killed in shootouts.") (December 3, 2009) (Read More...)
Corner.NATIONAL REVIEW.com: "Somebody at Fort Hood Should Be Walking the Plank" by Andy McCarthy (SNIPPET: "It's been brought to my attention by several reliable sources that the Defense Department has brought Louay Safi to Fort Hood as an instructor, and that he has been lecturing on Islam to our troops in Fort Hood who are about to deploy to Afghanistan. Safi is a top official of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and served as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). Worse, last evening, Safi was apparently permitted to present a check (evidently on behalf of ISNA) to the families of the victims of last month's Fort Hood massacre. A military source told the blogger Barbarossa at the Jawa Report: "This is nothing short of blood money. This is criminal and the Ft. Hood base commander should be fired right now.") (December 3, 2009) (Read More...)
NY POST.com Opinion/OpEd: "ANOTHER SPYING SCANDAL AT GITMO" by Paul Sperry (SNIPPET: "A number of Arabic and Pashtu interpreters at the terror-war detention center at Guantanamo Bay are under active investigation for omitting valuable intelligence from their translations of detainee interrogations, among other security breaches. This could taint some of the evidence at the "9/11 trial" in New York and proceedings against other detainees." SNIPPET: "Six years later comes a new problem with Muslim personnel who have virtually unfettered access to detainees and intelligence at Gitmo. Professional military security and intelligence officials at Gitmo did the preliminary probe, then prepared a classified summary and are now briefing top officials and members of Congress in Washington. An active FBI criminal probe is also under way. The possible new spy ring involves several Arabic linguists, some also Egyptian and Syrian immigrants. They're suspected of, among other things:") (Updated December 1, 2009, 5:07 am) (Read More...)
US DOJ.gov - Justice.gov: Washington - "UNITED STATES TRANSFERS A GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE TO FRANCE" (SNIPPET: "...Sabir Lahmar, a native of Algeria...") (December 1, 2009) (Read More...)
US DOJ.gov - Justice.gov: Washington - "UNITED STATES TRANSFERS A GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE TO HUNGARY" (SNIPPET: "Late last night, a detainee originally from the West Bank was transferred to the government of Hungary. The government of Hungary has requested that the detainee's identity be withheld for security and privacy reasons.") (December 1, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (AP): "2 GUANTANAMO DETAINEES ARRIVE IN ITALY" (SNIPPET: "Adel Ben Mabrouk, 39, and Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri, 43, are suspected of being members of a terror group with ties to al-Qaida. They were immediately taken into custody upon arrival in Milan and will be interrogated, a prosecutor told The Associated Press.") (Published November 30, 2009, 23:45/Israel News) (Read More...)
INVESTORS.com _ IBD Editorials: "10 REASONS NUCLEAR IRAN IS NO JOKE" (SNIPPET: "Terror State: A dithering world has for years underestimated the costs of appeasement toward Iran. Tehran's aggressive plans for 10 new nuclear plants show they want dominance, not just a bomb or two.") (November 30, 2009) (Read More...)
ICSR.info - FREEradicals - blog: "JIHADISM IN GERMANY: AN UPDATE" by Peter Neumann (SNIPPET: "With the elections over, the immediate danger seems to have passed. The jihadist threat, however, continues to be high on the BfV's agenda. The BfV speaker at the symposium highlighted the following trends: *An increasing number of 'home-grown' cells *The rising number of converts involved in jihadist activities *The increasing attractiveness of jihadism to Muslims of Turkish descent, who - for years - had been considered 'immune' to the jihadist message. The last point was backed up by an excellent speaker from the Hamburg state office. who provided extensive data on the ethnic affiliations and socio-economic characteristics of Hamburg-based jihadists, as well as Germany's leading expert on Islamist terrorism, Guido Steinberg of the German Institute for Security and International Affairs.") (November 30, 2009, 17:41) (Read More...)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "HIDDEN THREAT FROM AL-QAEDA SLEEPER CELLS Al-Qaeda terrorists are exploiting loose visa and immigration rules to enter Britain, the security services fear" by Duncan Gardham (SNIPPET: "Counter-terrorism police and Whitehall officials believe dozens of extremists could have arrived here by posing as students or legitimate visitors. They are concerned both by the relatively lax checks that are made on the visitors before they arrive and by the ease with which they can outstay their visas without anyone noticing. As many as 13,000 visa applicants may have entered the country from Pakistan in a seven month period since October last year without any checks on their supporting documentation. The security services fear that because most do not mix with home grown terrorists, they are able to operate under the intelligence radar, acting as sleeper cells until ready to launch attacks in Britain. Every year around 100,000 visitors arrive in Britain from Pakistan alone, which has been described by the Prime Minister as being part of a "crucible of terror" along with Afghanistan.") (Published November 27, 2009, 10:00 pm GMT) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (AFP): "IRANIAN PILGRIMS SHOUT 'DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO ISRAEL' AT HAJJ" (SNIPPET: ""Death to America, death to Israel," thousands of Iranians chanted inside a huge tent on the Arafat plain. No Saudi security forces were evident as Ayatollah Muhammed Rishari, the representative of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led the Iranian delegation.") (November 26, 2009) (Read More...)
