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We are a country at war. A country that has 200,000 troops fighting insurgents and terrorists throughout the Middle East. Yet as I opened the papers this morning the story that should have been on the front-page was no where to be found. US mainstream media has once again proven that they are intent on reporting only the political events or negative news stemming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the Arab newspaper Al-Hayat more than 150...

In an ABC News interview Monday Night Barack Obama when questioned stated “What we know is that in previous terrorist attacks, for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated,” Obama said adding, "And the fact that the administration has not tried to do that has created a situation where not only have we never actually put many of these folks on trial, but we have destroyed our credibility when it comes to rule of law all around the world, and...

Muslim gangs are threatening to take control of one of Britain's top security prisons where inmates include al-Qa'eda terrorists, a report reveals. Staff at Whitemoor jail, Cambs, believe a "serious incident is imminent" as several wings become dominated by Muslim prisoners. There is an on-going theme of fear and instability among employees, says the Prison Service's Directorate of High Security report. "There is much talk around the establishment about 'the Muslims'," it says.

From Bosnia to Kosovo The "Bosnian pattern" described in the 1997 Congressional RPC report was replicated in Kosovo. With the complicity of NATO and the US State Department, Mujahideen mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were recruited to fight in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war effort. Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain's Secret Intelligence Services MI6, together with "former and serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd...

Richard Holbrook (FoNet, archive) Former U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrook has once again denied he struck a deal with Hague fugitive Radovan Karadžić. Holbrook, one of the authors of the Dayton peace accord that ended the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, told Sarajevo's Dnevni Avaz Saturday that recent claims about an immunity deal the U.S. granted the former Bosnian Serb political leader, Radovan Karadžić, were "disgusting lies." Former Hague Tribunal prosecution spokeswoman, Florence Hartmann, said in a recently published book that Washington allowed Karadžić impunity in exchange for his withdrawal from the Bosnian political life. "It is amazing that there are still...

US forces in Iraq said on Sunday they have captured a suspected Al-Qaeda operative linked to the killing of Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Reesha, a key US ally in the fight against the Islamist group. The US military named the suspect as Fallah Khalifa Hiyas Fayyas al-Jumayli and said he had been involved in a plot to kill tribal leaders in the restive western province of Anbar. Abu Reesha, a Sunni sheikh, was killed when his convoy was hit by a car bomb on Thursday near his home in Ramadi, the provincial capital of the restive western province of Anbar....

By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A former al Qaeda member who led a group of Muslim volunteers in Bosnia's 1992-95 war told war crimes prosecutors on Friday that his unit, accused of atrocities, was in close contact with the Bosnian Muslim army. The testimony of Bahraini-born Ali Ahmed Ali Hamad is key in the trial of Rasim Delic, the highest-ranking Bosnian Muslim army officer indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal. He is accused of knowing that the foreign fighters killed, tortured and raped Croat and Serb soldiers and civilians, and of having failed to punish them. Hundreds...

SARAJEVO: Al-Qaida uses Bosnia as a transit point, receiving help from Islamic veterans of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, US diplomat Raffi Gregorian said in an interview with a Sarajevo daily published Saturday. "Certain intelligence agencies consider Bosnia-Hercegovina as one of the Al-Qaida's transit points," Gregorian sources. "There are sympathisers in the country who are ready to help Al-Qaida with hiding agents, providing financial support or providing false documents," he added. Gregorian is the principal deputy to Miroslav Lajcak, the top international representative in Sarajevo. Asked whether there were so-called 'sleepers' in the Balkans country, Gregorian replied "No, there are more likely...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Sweden is in danger of becoming a recruiting center for terrorists planning attacks on other countries, it was reported Monday. At least 20 Swedes, most with suspected links to Islamic extremists, have been arrested world wide on suspicion of terror since 2001, The Local reported. Sweden’s security service, Sapo, said the country could be used to recruit, finance and plan attacks elsewhere, The Local reported. Swedes arrested for terrorist activities since 2002 include Mirsad Bektasevic, jailed for eight years in Bosnia, and Oussama Kassir, suspected by U.S. authorities of helping set up a terrorist...

WASHINGTON -- John Schindler believes that Al-Qaeda was shaped as a modern terrorist organization during the war in Bosnia. Schindler, author of a book on terrorism, told CNN Al-Qaeda members were invited to Bosnia by that country’s leadership, where they set up training camps operational from 1992 until 1995. He claims Osama Bin Laden exploited the war in Bosnia for his own interests, and says there was “a worrying level of support” for the Mujahedin on the part of the U.S. administration of that time. RFE reported that the book looks into the way in which the Clinton administration cooperated...

As if Michael Vick didn't have enough troubles, he may have to fork over $63 billion — that's billion, with a B — if one Jonathan Lee Riches prevails in court. The aptly named Riches' lawsuit against Vick, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Richmond, was handwritten. That's because Riches is currently a guest of the Graybar Hotel in South Carolina (it's not clear which town; his handwriting's a little hard to read). The lawsuit does not explain what landed Riches in the clink, but does spell out a number of dastardly allegations: that Vick supposedly stole Riches'...

The U.S. military executed a strike against a suspected Al Qaeda target from a Naval warship off the coast of Somalia Friday, a U.S. official confirmed to FOX News. It is not know whether the intended target(s) were hit.

Adam Gadhan: All praise is due to Allah, creator of the heavens and the earth, and prayers and peace be upon the messenger of Allah and his companions, family, and followers until the Day of Judgment. Bush, you thought you would be remembered by history as the president who waged a series of successful crusades against the Muslims. Instead, you will go down in history not only as the president who embroiled his nation in a series of un-winnable and bloody conflicts in the Islamic world, but as the president who sent the United States off on its death march...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Tuesday formally charged Omar Khadr with murder, attempted murder and supporting al-Qaida, setting in motion long-awaited U.S. military legal proceedings against the accused Canadian terrorist. Mr. Khadr will now appear before a U.S. military tribunal within 30 days to be arraigned on the charges. He is the second "enemy combatant" to be charged under the newly constituted U.S. war crimes tribunals, following the conviction last month of Australian David Hicks. His lawyers, and human rights groups, have complained the Canadian government has done little to ensure his proper treatment. Mr. Khadr, 20, the Toronto-born son...

AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report. Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West. Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by Al-Qaeda planners as a “change in the head of the company”. The report, produced earlier this month...

One of the most dramatic moments in the 12 hours of recordings comes when Saddam predicts — during a meeting in the mid-1990s — a terrorist attack on the United States. "Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before Aug. 2 and told the British as well … that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. "In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?" But he...

17-03-2007 BELGRADE, Serbia (AP): Serbian police said Saturday they discovered the training camp of an alleged Muslim terrorist group in a tense southern region, and arrested four Serbian Muslims. In a statement, the police said they found several tents and a cave that allegedly served as a training ground for the Wahhabis — an austere brand of Sunni Islam promoted by extremists, including Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida fighters. The camp was located on a mountain near Novi Pazar, in the center of the predominantly Muslim region of Sandzak along the border with Bosnia and Montenegro, police added. In...

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Arrested Kosovo Albanian al-Qaeda mole - paperJanuary 17, 2007 -- Kosovo Albanian that was arrested last month by the Austrian authorities at a Vienna Schwechat International Airport is a sought out intermediary for terror organizations across Europe and is in service of al-Qaeda, says Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung. Dodu L. is a 55 year old Kosovo Albanian with combat experience acquired during terror attacks on Kosovo Serbs DURING 1990S. In December of 2007, he was to detonate 2 bombs inside Montenegro parliament in a plot that involves 12 other ethnic Albanians, some of them US citizens. As the bombing plot...

/ CBS) Fast Fact If prosecutors were to obtain a conviction against the two remaining counts, the maximum sentence would be 30 years. (CBS) By CBS Evening News Investigative Producer Phil Hirschkorn Federal prosecutors are asking an appeals court to reinstate a terrorism conspiracy charge against alleged al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla that could bring him a life sentence. The motion argues the Miami trial judge used “incorrect legal analysis” in finding the first count duplicated two other counts in the indictment against Padilla and four codefendants. The men are charged with being part of a North American “jihad” support...