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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Suspected al-Qaida and Taliban militants hiding out in this country's tribal belt have ignored an April 30 deadline for foreigners to lay down their arms. Pakistani authorities this weekend extended the amnesty offer a week, expressing hope that it would convince the militants to live in harmony with the federal government, and to stop attacking U.S. troops over the Afghan border. ''This has been a farce from the start,'' says Ahmed Rashid, author of The Taliban. ''I think it won't be long before we see some action from the Americans on this.'' Diplomats and analysts say the...

Insurgents Attack From Mosque as Fallujah Peace Talks Continue By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, APRIL 20, 2004 -- Even as coalition and Iraqi officials are trying to move forward with peace talks in Fallujah, U.S. Central Command reported today that insurgents attacked coalition forces from a mosque in the city April 18. A CENTCOM news release reported that anti-coalition forces fired on the crew of an M1-A1 tank from a building next to the mosque. The tank crew returned fire, destroying the building and killing an insurgent who was armed with a rocket-...

I'm getting quite bored with reading the opinion section and seeing people try to state facts. Supposed facts like Israel is a democratic state, John Bice is wrong, Michael Moore is wrong, etc. How about this fact? I'm sick of going into lecture halls and seeing them trashed. How old is the college population? Have we gotten so lazy that we decide the custodians exist to serve us? Mohammad Haydar accounting and economics senior

In 1997-1998, I became aware of clearly observable warnings of hostile terrorist intentions against America, by Osama bin Laden. For over eighteen months -- as part of an investigation for Reader's Digest -- I had been learning from a variety of former U.S. intelligence officers and foreign sources about a vast, world wide network of Islamist radicals, who had emerged from the U.S.-backed war to drive the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. At their head was the shadowy Saudi renegade, Osama bin Laden, whom his followers referred to as the "Prince of Jihad." What made bin Laden unusual was his background....

In a previous press release, Anti-CAIR (ACAIR), documented the relationship between the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington DCUnited States and Canada. based organization that claims to protect the civil rights of Muslims in the As part of a continuing investigation into the sources of CAIR’s funding, we have come across Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali, the first, and present, president of the IDB.  Why is Dr. Ali noteworthy?  Dr. Ali served as Secretary General of the Muslim World League, (MWL), from 1993 to 1995.  He was charged with “restructuring the MWL.”     ...

LONDON: The British Home Office is considering legal action to deport the hardline cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammad, who told Muslims yesterday they must not help police to identify terrorist threats in their communities. Senior British officials are urgently reviewing the immigration status of the fundamentalist Syrian-born cleric and that of other radical Muslim leaders as the Government tries to curb their activities. Sheikh Bakri, whose militant al-Muhajiroun group has been blamed for sending young Britons to fight abroad, caused outrage by ridiculing moderate Muslim leaders who are urging Britain's mosques to take a lead in the fight against terrorism....

<p>LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.</p>

AN accused terrorism financier arrested in the US last week had just returned from a trip to Australia where he is believed to have a child. But in a security blunder, the arrest took Australia's intelligence agencies, who were unaware the man was in Australia, by complete surprise. Omar Abdi Mohamed, 41, is being investigated after allegedly receiving $454,866 from a group accused by US authorities of direct links to al-Qaida. But Australian authorities were not told of any terrorist concerns surrounding Mr Mohamed before his most recent trip to Australia, which ended only last month. "Obviously this person would...

<p>CHESAPEAKE - When Linda Franklin was shot and killed last fall, Lee Boyd Malvo suffered from a "dissociative disorder," a "substantial impairment" that qualifies as a mental disease, a forensic psychologist told jurors during the teen's capital-murder trial yesterday.</p> <p>Dewey G. Cornell, a University of Virginia psychology professor who has testified at dozens of criminal trials, said Malvo "is, in my experience, a very unusual, rare case."</p>

Posted on Fri, Jul. 18, 2003 U.N. Leader Denies Iran-Uranium Report Associated Press VIENNA, Austria - The head of the U.N.'s energy agency has denied reports that inspectors found enriched uranium in samples taken recently in Iran, calling it "pure speculation at this stage." Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told The Associated Press, "there's a lot of analysis we need to discuss ... with Iran." "We are not in any way ready to come up with a conclusion on that issue before we discuss all the results with the Iranian authorities." ElBaradei pressed Iran for "substantial...

PALESTINE - As Pfc. Jessica Lynch celebrated her 20th birthday Saturday in Washington D.C., people in her hometown were commemorating the man who helped rescue the former prisoner of war from an Iraqi hospital earlier this month. The Friends of Mohammad, a Malden-based organization, dedicated a friendship garden at the Palestine post office Saturday to honor Lynch and the man whose tips led U.S. forces to the Wirt County High School graduate. Lynch was captured March 23 after her 507th Maintenance Co. convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. She was rescued by U.S. commandos April 1...

Well, now that the fat lady did her thing in Iraq, a bit of humor at the expense of Mohammad Said al-Sahaf, (former) Iraqi Information Minister. I found this webpage (click here) where, inspired by his version of events during the war, some talented people photoshopped him into other "news" scenarios. Some of the humor is obscure (a lot of video game references) but enough are downright hilarious that I'm just posing the whole link. There's 17 pages total, so enjoy!

U.S. citizenship sought for 'Mohammad' Ex-Marine wants Iraqi who helped rescue Pfc. Lynch honored http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=31941 fair use for discussion purposes... Posted: April 8, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A former Marine has begun an online petition drive to urge Congress to give United States citizenship to the Iraqi lawyer who helped U.S. forces rescue ex-POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch from captivity last week, reports the Parkersburg, W.Va., News and Sentinel. Richard DeMarco of North Royalton, Ohio, says something more should be done for the man known only as "Mohammad" who risked his life to pass information about Lynch's condition...

An Iraqi lawyer and his family provided the U.S. military with critical information about the whereabouts of former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch, enabling her to be rescued, according to a report on the Marines website. The Iraqi is being identified only as "Mohammad" for his own protection.

A former Marine has begun an online petition drive to urge Congress to give United States citizenship to the Iraqi lawyer who helped U.S. forces rescue ex-POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch from captivity last week, reports the Parkersburg, W.Va., News and Sentinel. Richard DeMarco of North Royalton, Ohio, says something more should be done for the man known only as "Mohammad" who risked his life to pass information about Lynch's condition and whereabouts to U.S. Marines.

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio - A former Marine has started an online petition to bestow American citizenship upon the man who led U.S. forces to Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Richard DeMarco, who lives in this suburb north of Cleveland, said he felt something had to be done to thank the Iraqi lawyer, known to the public only by his first name of Mohammad. Mohammad drew maps of the hospital where Lynch, a Palestine native, was being held and reported to soldiers on security measures in place around her. "He literally gave us back one of our daughters," DeMarco said. According to a...

Unknown Hero Aided in Rescue of POW Jessica Lynch BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida businessman Jonathan Larkin of Busy Body Gyms To Go has offered a $10,000 trust fund to be set up in the name of the Iraqi man named "Mohammed" whose last name has not been released for security purposes. Mohammed walked miles to give word to US- directed coalition troops as to the whereabouts of Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Lynch was rescued from the hospital in Nasiriyah where Mohammed's wife was a nurse. "Mohammed saw the mistreatment of Jessica and did not view her as...

<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazilian police confirm that accused Al-Qaida terrorist Khalid Shaikh Mohammad visited their country in the 1990s, and U.S. intelligence suggests he may have hidden out in the region.</p> <p>Mohammad's visit -- the first confirmed Al-Qaida presence in South America -- renews fears that Osama bin Laden's organization may have ``sleeper cells'' in South America. There have been numerous unconfirmed reports of Al-Qaida training camps on Paraguay's border with Brazil.</p>

There is absolutely nothing trivial about the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (who will be referred to as KSM for the sake of convenience in the rest of this article) in Rawalpindi day before yesterday. It is the culmination of six months of painstaking monitoring and many close misses by US federal agencies in conjunction with Pakistani authorities. Some typically overenthusiastic news reports have described KSM as al-Qaeda’s ‘number three man’ while others habitually given to interpretations that diminish or denigrate the achievements of the Coalition have already begun a revisionist campaign to brand KSM as ‘over the hill’ or...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Canadian admits to role in hunt for 'White Meat': Confessions to the FBI Stewart Bell National Post (f/k/a The Financial Post) News; Exclusive; Pg. A1 January 18, 2003 Saturday National Edition After finishing high school in Ontario, Mohammed Mansour Jabarah became an al-Qaeda terrorist. Now detained in the U.S., the 21-year-old is revealing his secrets: He met with the architects of the World Trade Center and Bali bombings, convinced Osama bin Laden of his worth as an operative and planned several attacks of...