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Airplane shoe bomber Richard C. Reid no longer faces severe limits on his prison activities or communications after the Obama administration quietly ended years of hard-nosed curbs against the British-born al-Qaeda terrorist. This summer the Justice Department halted six years of measures that kept Reid from associating or praying with fellow jailed Muslim terrorists, and limited his access to the news media and pen pals. That move has outraged victims of al-Qaeda and security experts. The recommendation to lift the restrictions was made with input from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, which prosecuted Reid in 2002, federal officials said......

This story comes from Karl Denninger at Market Ticker. It seems the admitted Afghan Al-Qaeda operative currently being questioned by the FBI for a possible attack against NY targets, Najibullah Zazi, had obtained unsecured credit cards amounting to $50,000 by the time he declared bankruptcy this past March. As the NY Daily News reported yesterday: Between 2005 and 2008, he opened credit card accounts with Bank of America, Chase, Capital One, Discover and Citibank and ran up a debt of more than $50,000. When he filed for bankruptcy, Zazi said he hadn't worked in two months.

Venezuelan site could give Hezbollah door to atomic mischief Iran may consider a proposal from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to build a backup "nuclear village" in his nation to produce nuclear energy and also to have a safe fall-back production capability in case there is an attack by Israel or the United States on nuclear facilities in Iran, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Chavez, in a visit last week to Iran, proposed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the idea of building a project in Venezuela. Security sources have confirmed such a "nuclear village" could become the...

September 18: Second video collection of pro-Democracy demonstrations in Iran today. Demonstrators used Qud's day as a reason to demonstrate against Ahmadinejad/Khamenei changing slogans of 'Down with Israel' to 'Down to dictator' and 'Down with Russia'. Karroubi, Khatami and Moussavi were present and each was reported attacked by Basiji supporters of Ahmadinejad. Collection here & videos added as they arrive:

IT was supposed to be the week President Barack Obama saved the world. More than 100 heads of state are preparing to descend on New York for talks on halting climate change, promoting nuclear disarmament, defeating terrorism in Pakistan and tackling poverty in sub-Saharan Africa — all before a G20 meeting in Pittsburgh on Friday aimed at reaching agreements on global financial regulation and curbing bankers’ bonuses. The headline-grabber was expected to be the relaunch of the stalled Middle East peace process, to be followed a week later by America’s first direct talks with Iran since the Islamic revolution in...

For Immediate Release SNIPPET: “Enforcement action threatened at Tablighi Jamaat mega-mosque site Newham Council “doing the right thing at last” says Cllr Alan Craig. “Compulsory purchase of site must be next step” Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), some of whose supporters in Walthamstow were convicted of planning airline terrorist atrocities last week (see note below), has been threatened with enforcement action by Newham Council over its continued unlawful use of the ‘mega-mosque’ site at West Ham, close to the London 2012 Olympic stadium. TJ has erected a temporary structure on site and has been using it daily without planning permission...

In a little noticed interview with the Daily Beast (presumably little noticed because serious people don't read the Daily Beast), Zbigniew Brzezinski suggests that Barack Obama do more than just refuse to support an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites -- the American president must give the order to shoot down Israeli aircraft as they cross Iraqi airspace: DB: How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest? Brzezinski: We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going...

Al-Qaeda warned Germans on Friday to change their government in the September 27 election, saying they will face a "bad awakening" if they do not, according to two intelligence monitoring services. Germany was also told to withdraw its 4,200 troops from Afghanistan or face being attacked at home, the US-based groups said.

Here is a video report on a new message that has surfaced on a website that is purported to be from Taliban Leader Mullah Omar. In the message he warns U.S. Forces to leave Afghanistan because they "will not be successful." (VIDEO)

Federal authorities were preparing to file criminal charges on Saturday night against a 24-year-old Denver shuttle bus driver, and two others as part of an ongoing federal terrorism investigation stretching from New York to Colorado to overseas, government officials said.

Fox News's "Special Report" on Friday featured Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlining the Obama administration's Iran policy, and she may as well have begun, "Stop me if you've heard this one before...." Her speech could have been culled from any official statement on the topic for at least three years. "Our message will be clear," said Hillary. "We are serious, and we will soon see if the Iranians are serious. This is not about process for the sake of process.... We have no appetite for talks without action." Discerning whether Iran is "serious" has been the official, do-nothing euphemism...

Video and Photo included. RevolutionMuslim.com: “Wahhabi to Have You Visit Us” SNIPPET: "The title of this post is a quote from Yousef al-Khattab at his wittiest. Here’s another favorite photo of Yousef." SNIPPET: "Here is a video from 4 September 09 of Yousef ‘preaching’ a ‘Ramadan’ message in NYC. This is radicalization in its rawest form. You’ll see people sitting down on the stairs across listening, then one will get up and grab a CD that has recorded lectures from Abdullah Faisal (RM.com’s spiritual advisor – and a firebreathing cleric in the UK who was amain inspiration of Jermaine Lindsay,...

Most Iranians favor ties with US but distrust Obama: poll 11 mins ago WASHINGTON (AFP) – Most Iranians favor restored ties with Washington after three decades of hostility but distrust President Barack Obama despite his outreach to Muslims worldwide, a poll found Saturday. Eight in 10 Iranians also say they consider President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be the country's legitimate president despite mass protests following the disputed June 12 vote, according to the survey by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO). Sixty-three percent of the 1,003 people surveyed across Iran favored restoring diplomatic relations with the United States, a position at odds with the stance...

This is pretty interesting... and infuriating. Remember the "scare" recently when The FBI descended on Queens NY on some sort of terrorism tip? The FBI is grilling this guy, a Denver man: The Afghan national at the center of a reputed Al Qaeda terror cell probe was trying to cut a deal Friday after two days of FBI grilling, sources told the Daily News. Ok, good enough. Except for this... Between 2005 and 2008, he opened credit card accounts with Bank of America, Chase, Capital One, Discover and Citibank and ran up a debt of more than $50,000. When he...

The following text (minus the graphics) is a quote: ‘Eid gifts from the Jihadi Media that we can expect September 19, 2009 Posted by admin in : Al-Fallujah, Ansar al-Mujahideen Network, As-Sahab Media, Global Islamic Media Front, Jihad, Shabaab al-Mujahideen, Videos,trackback Here are some of the officially announced ‘Eid gifts from the Jihadi Media: We can also expect something to come from al-Furqan Media, In Sha’ Allah.

Terror Suspect's Computer Said to Show Sports Stadiums, Fashion Sites Officials Report Denver Man Sent Texts Suggesting Attack Coming; 'Wedding Cake' Is Ready By RICHARD ESPOSITO, BRIAN ROSS and CLAYTON SANDELL Sept. 19, 2009— --snip-- A computer belonging to alleged al Qaeda suspect Najibullah Zazi showed he had researched baseball and football stadiums and sites used in the recent Fashion Week event in New York City, law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com. Zazi, 24, had been scheduled to spend a fourth day today being questioned by the FBI but his lawyer, Arthur Folsom, canceled the session. "He has taken the day...

Freedom Haters! On September 25, at the Nation’s capital, Muslims are planning, en masse, to pray to their pagan moon god, allah, (MHBIHF). If you are a praying Christian and Jew, please pray against this call to action to take down America and install Islamic Shariah against freedom loving Americans! Islam is not peaceful, is not a religion, according to Muslim imams and so called “scholars” of islam and is hell bent on taking over America and installing Shari’ah Law in our legal, education and political systems. According to un-indicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,  Siraj Wahaj,...

This morning I posted an article about Pastor Brian McLaren, who has disgraced Christianity by celebrating Islam and fasting for the month of Ramadan. A couple of weeks ago, I had read about this and I wrote him this email. Mr. McLaren, I was reading your article, and Eboo Patel's article, about the two of you being fasting partners.

Nice audio by Apache pilot.

(Page 1 of 273, totaling 1363 entries) » next page Corruption: Banks Lending UNSECURED To Terrorists? This is pretty interesting... and infuriating. Remember the "scare" recently when The FBI descended on Queens NY on some sort of terrorism tip? The FBI is grilling this guy, a Denver man: The Afghan national at the center of a reputed Al Qaeda terror cell probe was trying to cut a deal Friday after two days of FBI grilling, sources told the Daily News. Ok, good enough. Except for this... Between 2005 and 2008, he opened credit card accounts with Bank of America, Chase,...