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US Congressman, Scott Perry says USAID funded Boko Haram, which carried out terror attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad.

07 May 2010 ENEMIES, BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC By A. Aaron Weisburd SNIPPET: "If nothing else, I would hope that the Times Square attack of 01 May 2010 highlights the problematic nature of efforts to categorize terrorism as either foreign or domestic. In the end all terrorism is local, regardless of the terrorist, his cause, his ideology, his religion, his place of birth, where he was raised, etc. The threat is not either foreign or domestic, it is both foreign and domestic."

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s excuses for his decision to try major terrorists in domestic courts in New York City are becoming increasingly absurd. ...For at least 10 months, Mr. Holder has been claiming that "our federal 'supermax' prisons ... hold hundreds of convicted terrorists." His logic is that if civilian trials were OK for those 300-plus convictions he claimed, they should be OK for Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other top terrorists. ... The department included in its count all its convictions for a catchall list of potential offenses that included "animal enterprise terrorism," "immigration fraud"...

Dutch police investigating report of accomplice in Northwest Flight 235 terror plot...A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience...confirmed he was on the flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday. Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in...

“Al Falojah” terrorist forum just posted ten minutes ago a press release form “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” (Yemen and Saudi Arabia) where they adopted the terrorist attempt on the plane in Detroit on December 25 2009. The thread on "Al Falojah" terrorist forum is # 97593 the author of the thread is “Mourasel Al Fajr” who is the official Al Qaeda press representative on Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist forums.

The Year in Review There were 190 acts of international terrorism in 2003, a slight decrease from the 198 attacks that occurred in 2002, and a drop of 45 percent from the level in 2001 of 346 attacks. The figure in 2003 represents the lowest annual total of international terrorist attacks since 1969. A total of 307 persons were killed in the attacks of 2003, far fewer than the 725 killed during 2002. A total of 1,593 persons were wounded in the attacks that occurred in 2003, down from 2,013 persons wounded the year before. In 2003, the highest number...

A captured Egyptian radical ratted out terror kingpin Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - but only after squeezing $27 million in reward money from American investigators, it was reported yesterday. The unnamed radical agreed to tell his captors where to find Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant after he was arrested in a Feb. 14 raid on a safehouse in Quetta, Pakistan, Newsweek magazine reports in its current edition. But the Egyptian, identified only as an Al Qaeda foot soldier, was not satisfied with the $25million bounty on Mohammed's head. He demanded - and got - $2 million more to cover...

The body of Bonnie Witheral, an American nurse who was shot dead by an unknown gunman at a clinic in Sidon AMERICANS came under attack across the Middle East yesterday, prompting fears of a new wave of terrorist strikes at vulnerable Western targets in the Arab world. An American nurse was killed by a gunman in Lebanon. Two US soldiers were shot and injured in Kuwait by a fugitive policeman. In Saudi Arabia a gunman burst into a McDonald’s restaurant and set it alight. US officials are investigating whether the incidents were isolated attacks or part of a coordinated campaign....