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....I initially had mixed feelings about Everybody Draws Mohammed Day. Provocation for its own sake is one of the dreariest features of contemporary culture, but that's not what this is about. Nick Gillespie's post reminds us that the three most offensive of the "Danish cartoons" - including the one showing Mohammed as a pig - were not by any Jyllands-Posten cartoonists but were actually faked by Scandinavian imams for the purposes of stirring up outrage among Muslims.As Mr Gillespie says: It is nothing less than amazing that holy men decrying the desecration of their religion would create such foul images,...

SNIPPET: "There is linkage on a personal level between individuals in Indonesia associated with the sites listed below, and the following US-based al-Qaida supporting operations: http://www.themujahidblogforum.com/ http://themujahidblog.com/ http://revolutionmuslim.com/ There is also linkage on a personal level to the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum."

SNIPPET: "Abu Baseer al-Wuhayshi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), encouraged support for Anwar al-Awlaki in an audio message..." SNIPPET: "AQAP threatens attacks in US if any harm comes to Awlaki."

SNIPPET: "And thus ends the saga of "Shiekh Umar Rabie, Emir of al Qaeda in the UK". I haven't commented publicly on this for some time because I was involved in the case. I testified at Ishaq Kanmi's terrorism trial last year and was asked not to comment publicly, but now that he's plead guilty that commitment has passed. I don't think I'm giving away too much when I say that long before UK authorities had "The Blackburn Resistance " under surveillance, they were on our radar screens. Why? Because a year before the "Emir of al Qaeda in the...

“Special Message to Jarret Brachman” and “Brachman’s Response” SNIPPET: "Special Message to Jarret Brachman Peace be upon those who follow the righteous path. Listen to me, you son of an infidel woman: You follow what we write in our jihadist forums and give it to your bosses." SNIPPET: "We are fighting you, O enemy, not for the land and not for the fuel… we are fighting you because our religion demands us to defend ourselves and to uphold our religion against those who assault it. Searching within this religion would be better for you than searching for a way to...

..."abduction [of the] family [of] hero captive Faisal Shehzad accused of trying to blow up New York.."

Times Square Is Evacuated in Bomb Scare The scene at Times Square on Saturday night after police found a suspicious package inside a Pathfinder on West 45th Street. RAY RIVERA and KARIN HENRY May 1, 2010 A bomb in Times Square led to the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the area on a warm and busy Saturday evening, the police said. There was no explosion. “It appears to be a car bomb left in a Pathfinder between Seventh and Eighth,” said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. The device, he said, contained “explosive...

"Jihadi-takfiri Ode to the Islamic State of Iraq's Abu 'Umar al-Baghdadi & Abu Hamza al-Muhajir Islamic State of Iraq" SNIPPET: "Jihadi-takfiri poem by cyber jihadi Asadullah al-Shishani (Lion of God, The Chechen), run without edits. Artwork and font colors (except for the title) below are in the original." SNIPPET: "Other poems by al-Shishani may be read, via previous posts, HERE."

Obama amputates our nuclear arms By: Charles Krauthammer ...snippet...Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.” Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker...

SNIPPET: "The following Top Ten list is ordered according relative importance, both to the jihadis and to those who monitor their online activities, with preference given to sites which consistently offer up content that is unique to the particular site and community of users."

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. The video was divided into four segments and uploaded to YouTube on 25 December 2009. The YouTube account is:

SNIPPET: "Since 2006 Lopez Royo has also posted more than 1,500 entries in a restricted-access web forum in which he praised al-Qaeda and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi..." SNIPPET: "The Moroccan, Fath Allah Sadaq, is charged with using Lopez Royo's drawings to accompany Islamic terror attack videos he posted on the internet."

WASHINGTON – An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. The counterterrorism official said Hussein al-Yemeni was believed killed in a strike in Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information. Drone strikes in Pakistan's border region, largely conducted by the CIA, have escalated in recent months, proving an effective way to target al-Qaida and Taliban leaders hiding in the...

SNIPPET: "PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — The young Taliban detainee, shackled at the wrists, with his head covered with a black canvas bag, was chillingly clear about his life's mission: "The Taliban have only one objective: to continue killing the Americans." The tools this particular terrorist had adopted to accomplish that goal were not suicide bombs or sniper rifles, but laptop computers and other high-tech equipment. The purpose of his Taliban cell was to reach potential recruits online over the Internet." Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Taliban-Internet-recruiting-through-the-eyes-of-a-detainee-87709987.html

SNIPPET: "I spent an hour on the phone the other day with an American jihadist in Brooklyn who believes "Osama bin Laden is not a bad man at all, he is a freedom fighter," and what struck me about this outrageous claim was that, in this man's voice, in his all-American English, his tone sounded so reasonable. In his view, America is a bully, and "bullies don't stop until you hit them back"—which is what Osama bin Laden has done, he said." SNIPPET: "And the Brooklyn jihadist, known as Younus Abdullah Muhammad, ought to know. " SNIPPET: "About two and...

SNIPPET: "1. The scorekeeper reports the following... Faloja: down Ansar: down Ma'ark: down Medad: down Global jihad online? What global jihad online? If I had to speculate, I would reckon that Jordan found the posthumous insults of Abu Dujanah al-Khorasani to be intolerable and so they cashed in a few chips. International cooperation is a beautiful thing when it works. 2. The rest is commentary... The following represent the jihadi community's response to the disappearance of Faloja and other significant forums, in as much as there is anything left online that constitutes a jihadi community..."

GRAPHIC CAPTION SNIPPET: "Location of the core membership of the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum (English section)" GRAPHIC CAPTION SNIPPET: "US location data obscured for reasons that should be obvious"

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,...

14 February 2010 "AMERICAN MALWARE TARGETING JIHADIS?" Posted on 14 February 2010 @ 20:15

"Do Exit Programs for Islamists Actually Work?" SNIPPET: "Experience Shows That Such Programs Tend Only to Work When the Militants Are Already Losing" By PETER NEUMANN Jan. 29, 2010