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<p>As if the senseless massacre of innocents in Nairobi’s Westgate mall was not horrific enough, reports are surfacing that the Islamic terrorists who seized the mall last weekend tortured, beheaded, raped, and mutilated their victims before killing them. A police doctor who entered the mall after the attack said these reports “are not allegations. Those are f***ing truths.”</p>

“German prosecutors say they have arrested a teenager on suspicion he supported a terrorist organization by posting Islamist propaganda texts and videos on the internet seeking to recruit suicide bombers and otherwise radicalize viewers. Harry M., alias Isa al Khattab, is accused of supporting the Islamic State of Iraq, the al-Qaida front group in Iraq, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan which hopes to create an Islamic state across Central Asia.” SNIPPET: “...arrested in the northern German city of Neumuenster”

SNIPPET: "Note: PWP stands for PassWord-Protected, meaning that a login is required to view - let alone participate in - discussions. Since some in the audience don't understand the significance of this, allow me to spell it out: if only members can read the forum, then anyone observed reading the forum is a member. They have zero deniability (they couldn't have accidentally "wandered into" the site), and they had to make the effort to join (an expression of intent). While the goal here is to present a range of sites, the fact is that the jihadis themselves have largely coalesced...

An Indiana grandmother who married a suspected German jihadist and converted to the Muslim religion is under investigation for possible ties to terrorists, according to FoxNews.com . Kathie Smith, 46, is a U.S. citizen and lives in Indianapolis.

Photo: http://media.npr.org/assets/news/2010/10/07/terror01.jpg?t=1286576500 Photo caption: "Adnan Shukrijumah (clockwise from left), Anwar al-Awlaki, Yousef al-Khattab and Samir Khan." SNIPPET: "The list of American terrorists is growing, and they are coming from the unlikeliest of places: Miramar, Fla.; Charlotte, N.C.; Brooklyn; Albuquerque; and Winchester, Calif." SNIPPET: "One, Adnan Shukrijumah, was born in Saudi Arabia, reared in Trinidad and came of age in Florida. He is now considered one of Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenants. Samir Khan is a North Carolina man thought to have edited and created a new English-language magazine for al-Qaida’s arm in Yemen. Yousef al-Khattab was the founder of Revolution...

SNIPPET: "It may have been one of the coldest days this season, but that did not deter angry protesters from gathering at the residence of Youssef Al-Khattab, a Jewish convert to Islam who has been tagged as an Al-Qaida sympathizer." SNIPPET: "Sunday’s protest came after Al-Khattab posted comments on his website, revolutionmuslim.com, supporting the Fort Hood attacks and other violent acts of radical Muslims. He also has made several anti-Semitic comments on his site, including saying he wants liquid drain cleaner to be thrown in Jews’ faces, and calling for the outdoor huts some build during the holiday of Sukkot...

"RevolutionMuslim.com Calls on Allah to Kill Jews" SNIPPET: "Revolutionmuslim.com, a U.S. Web site registered in Bellvue WA also incites hatred of Sufis, glorifies killings of American soldiers and other acts of terroristic violence"

A fascinating piece by Andrew Higgins and Alan Cullison recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal [July 2] with the title: “How a Secret, Failed Trip to Chechnya Turned Key Plotter’s Focus to America and bin Laden.” The key plotter in this case was 9/11 mastermind and bin Laden’s Egyptian lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The article’s title suggests that Zawahiri’s failure to settle in Chechnya (due to his “detention” by the KGB/FSB in 1996-97) led him to Afghanistan and an alliance with bin Laden. But according to ranking U.S. terrorism expert, Yossef Bodansky, Egyptian Jihad leader Zawahiri was preparing a massive...

Watching the ball drop, twirling a noisemaker, kissing your sweetheart, and making a resolution that rarely comes to pass -- everyone looks forward to the memory of a new year. But one group will be ringing in the New Year a little differently…through a children’s jihad retreat, with a guest speaker who exalts terrorists and another who is linked to al-Qaeda. The majority of Islamic organizations within the United States have, at one time or another, been cited for their connections to terrorism, whether by support of terror groups or through actual terrorist activity carried out by its members. Two...

2 Men Accused of 1999 Russian Bombing Thu May 1, 4:37 AM ET MOSCOW - Russian prosecutors said they had completed their investigation into a series of deadly bombings in fall 1999 that became a key reason for sending troops back into Chechnya (news - web sites). They said Wednesday that the masterminds of the three bombings that killed 246 people in Moscow and Volgodonsk were two Arabs who have since been killed. Two other suspects who took refuge in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, on the border with Chechnya, were arrested last year and jailed in Moscow. Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Adam...

Blast in Chechnya, at Least 10 Reported Dead Thu Oct 10, 2:29 PM ET MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed Thursday when an explosion tore through a police station in Grozny, war-ravaged capital of Russia's rebel Chechnya (news - web sites) region, Russian news agencies said. The explosion, which one city official said was almost certainly caused by a bomb, reduced the four-story building in the city's Zavodsky district to rubble and agencies said several other people were trapped in the debris. At least 12 other people were rushed to the hospital with injuries, some of them...

Notorious warlord killed in Chechnya Jordan-born warlord Khattab, one of the most notorious terrorists operating in Chechnya, was killed in a special operation in Chechnya. Alexander Zdanovich, a senior official in the Russian Federal Security Service, confirmed this information. “Evidence of Khattab’s death will be produced soon,” he told RBC. Khattab was involved in military fighting in a number of the world’s hot spots, including Afghanistan and Middle East countries. He is an expert on explosives, and he personally trained Chechen fighters. There is evidence that Khattab was involved in atrocities against Russian servicemen. According to a source in the...