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A man arrested as the prime suspect in the serial killing of four Muslim men in Albuquerque is believed to be a Sunni Muslim himself, it has been reported. Police named the man as 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, who lived in southeast Albuquerque. He emigrated from Afghanistan 'in the last few years', police said on Tuesday, and was twice charged with domestic violence - but charges were dropped. Court records obtained by DailyMail.com show Syed was arrested in May 2018 and charged with 'battery (household member)'. He pleaded not guilty, and prosecutors dropped the charges in August of that year. Four...

To no one’s surprise, the Australian Muslim man who used his vehicle to mow down eighteen people in Melbourne Australia had no link to terrorism, according to officials. Instead, he was allegedly suffering from mental issues, other than Islam that is. This is the new politically correct and hugely convenient excuse used by Western authorities almost every time an Islamic terrorist attack takes place. Why are they doing that? The answer is simple: to ignore reality and let the sheeple graze peacefully until the next terrorist attack. Saying that a man pertaining to a very backwards and violent ideology has...

THE man who deliberately mowed down 19 people at a busy Melbourne intersection had an appointment for mental health treatment on the day of the attack but did not show up, police said. The driver, named by the Herald Sun as Saeed Noori, 32, has been revealed as having a history of mental illness and drug use, and was on a mental health plan. Speaking on Friday morning, Victoria Police acting chief commissioner Shane Patton said the man had a medical appointment booked on Thursday. “He is on a mental health plan and he was due for an appointment yesterday,...

A 32 year old Australian citizen of Afghan descent with a history of drug problems has been arrested in Melbourne, Australia after a white Suzuki SUV was driven into a crowd of downtown Christmas shoppers at around 4:40pm. Fourteen people were injured, some critically. “There was no attempt to brake, no attempt to swerve” said witness Jim Stoupas. The BBC reports one victim was a child of preschool-age with head injuries who was taken to Royal Children’s hospital in serious condition. Witness Chris Gath told The Age he saw 60 to 100 people crossing the intersection when a car travelling...

AN OFF-DUTY police officer has been singled out for praise by the Victorian Premier following his heroic response to the Melbourne incident. Daniel Andrews said the off-duty officer that rushed in to arrest the 32-year-old man suspected of driving a car into busy afternoon crowds had selflessly come to the aid of others. “The off-duty arresting officer, a member of Victorian Police, who was prime in terms of detaining the alleged offender did suffer some injuries and is receiving hospital treatment,” he said. “I think we would be right to single him out for special praise for the way in...

BREAKING: AT least 12 people have been injured after a car plunged into pedestrians outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street station, reports say. AT least 16 people have been struck by a four-wheel-drive in the centre of Melbourne. A car reportedly hit and injured a number of pedestrians outside Melbourne’s Finders Street station, then crashed into a tram. Emergency services are at the scene. Ambulance Victoria said paramedics were assessing 12 people at the scene of the incident. “Three people have been taken to the Alfred. “Three people have been taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. “A preschool aged child with a...

The driver of a car which plowed into Christmas shoppers in Melbourne Thursday had a history of drug use and mental health issues, police said. Acting chief commissioner of Victoria Police Shane Patton told reporters that while the crash was considered to be deliberate, there was no evidence of a link to terrorism. *snip* He's an Australian citizen of Afghan descent who was known to police but only for minor offenses.

Link: http://www.thelocal.at/20161104/underage-migrants-attack-family-on-a-halloween-night-stroll

Mohammed Weiss Rasool was an Afghani who immigrated to the United States and got a job as a police officer. And then he did what you would expect him to do. Weiss Russell (he has changed his name from “Weiss Rasool,” the name under which he was convicted), is currently employed as a Financial Management Analyst in the IRS Deputy Chief Financial Officer’s office. In 2008, Russell/Rasool was prosecuted for his role in tipping off Abdullah Alnoshan, a close associate of al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and a friend of Russell’s from their mosque. According to the Justice Department’s Statement of...

A 28-year-old Afghani native wanted in connection with blasts in Manhattan and New Jersey that left 29 wounded has been caught after shooting at a police officer in New Jersey, according to a report. Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested after firing at the cop in Linden, WNBC reported. Rahami, whose fingerprint was found on an unexploded device, was hunted in connection with the explosions that sparked fears of a local terror cell, according to federal officials. Earlier Monday, FBI agents raided the Elizabeth, New Jersey, home of Rahami, a naturalized US citizen who was deemed armed and dangerous, Mayor Bill...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan – New Zealand has withdrawn its small contingent of troops from Afghanistan. The South Pacific nation had stationed about 145 soldiers in central Bamiyan province since 2003. Ten of its soldiers died during the conflict. The withdrawal came about five months earlier than initially planned. The U.S. and its allies plan to withdraw all remaining troops by the end of 2014. In a ceremony Thursday, New Zealand lowered its flag and opened a memorial to commemorate both the New Zealand troops and Afghan security forces who died in the province. About 95 Afghan interpreters and their family members...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis police said Friday morning that a 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan who has been missing since Thursday night was homesick and likely ran away. Authorities have been in contact with the U.S. State Department as the search for Mohammed Karim Azizi, 15, continues. Azizi, an exchange student who was staying with a host family in Forest, Ohio, was with a group of FFA students from his exchange school, Riverdale High School, visiting Indianapolis for the National FFA Convention. Indianapolis police Lt. Jeff Duhamell said Azizi has been in the U.S. for two months and comes from a large...

A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned. The Afghan officers and enlisted men have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, according to the lookout bulletin, "Afghan Military Deserters in CONUS [Continental U.S.]," issued by Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Dallas, and obtained by FoxNews.com. The Afghans were attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DLI program teaches...

U.S. intelligence officials appear to have obtained access to what could turn out to be a significant trove of phone numbers, photographs and documents detailing the links between Al Qaeda's leaders in northwest Pakistan and the terror group's increasingly menacing affiliate in Yemen, two counter-terrorism sources tell Declassified. In late January, an Al Qaeda operative headed from Pakistan on his way to Yemen was arrested in the Persian Gulf country of Oman, a U.S. counter-terrorism official confirmed. There has been no public announcement of the arrest. But in a possible indication of the operative's importance, just a few days later,...

Note: The following text is a quote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASES Sunday, December 20, 2009 United States Transfers 12 Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland Region Twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of each of these cases. As a result of that review, which examined a number of factors, including potential threat, mitigation measures and the likelihood of success in habeas litigation, the detainees were...

MADRID, Spain — A two-year investigation into the Madrid train bombings concludes the terrorists who carried out the blasts were homegrown radicals acting on their own rather than at the behest of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, two senior intelligence officials said.Spain still remains home to a web of radical Algerian, Moroccan and Syrian groups bent on carrying out attacks — and aiding the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq — the Spanish intelligence chief and a western official intimately involved in counterterrorism measures in Spain told The Associated Press.

FORT HUACHUCA - This Southern Arizona Army post is on a war-footing, the former deputy commander of the Intelligence Center said last week. Today's threats create the need to instill a war mindset for soldiers being trained on the fort, not unlike when the nation was engaged in combat during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Brig. Gen. Brian A. Keller said. What is critical for today's soldier is that when they leave their intelligence training they "feel more confident as they go off to war," Keller said during a Tuesday interview, the day before he...

Until modern times, there existed no form of legitimacy in the Middle East outside of Islam. Rulers ruled in the name of God; assassins struck them down in the name of God. The assassinations of the early caliphs and the struggle between the Sunni rulers and the Assassins in the Middle Ages took precisely this form: each side claimed to act in accord with divine will, revealed in divine texts. Religion played a crucial role in the rationale of assassination, but it also played a crucial role in the rationale of government, law, and warfare—indeed, of everything. This invocation of...

Top Ansar al-Islam member arrested in Iraq BAGHDAD: A senior member of a Islamist group accused of links to al Qaeda and involvement in suicide bombings in Iraq has been captured in the northern part of the country, Iraqi Kurdish sources said. A senior official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said Ayyub Afghani, a top member of the militant Ansar al-Islam group, was arrested in the city of Kirkuk and was being held by U.S. forces. He gave no details on the arrest.

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN – On a recent morning, Maj. Shawnna Paine and Capt. Kara Callaham took a rumble-tumble ride to a trio of villages to chat with local chiefs and win the war of hearts and minds. It's standard procedure for this Army civil-affairs unit, but there's a subtle feminine touch. Major Paine is a woman. So is Captain Callaham. So is the psychological operations Spc. Andrea Vivers, who hands out pro-government propaganda and Beanie Babies donated by an American Girl Scout troop. The conversation with Afghan villagers is neighborly, but the subtext is gently radical: I am woman - now,...