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More Incidents of Denying Islamist Terrorism by Daniel Pipes February 8, 2005 updated Tue, 21 Apr 2009

Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S....

SAN FRANCISCO -- The 29-year-old Fremont man accused of 18 counts of attempted murder stemming from a hit-and-run rampage last week entered a not-guilty plea today, but his attorney quickly withdrew it pending the outcome of a psychiatric evaluation. Omeed Aziz Popal was chained at the waist and ankles and looked bewildered during his brief appearance in San Francisco Superior Court before Judge Donna Little. At one point, he looked around the courtroom and slowly raised his right hand as if in prayer. He then put his hand down and bowed his head. The court was packed with Popal's family...

"Everyone needs to be killed,'' Omeed Aziz Popal calmly told officers as he sat in the back of a police car after a hit-and-run rampage that left one person dead in Fremont and 19 injured in San Francisco. Just why the 29-year-old unemployed automotive worker allegedly said that remains a mystery. His family says he is mentally ill. But his comments, as recorded in police reports filed by three officers who spoke with Popal, suggest a level of planning that may belie claims of mental illness, authorities say. ................................................... Popal told one officer that he "wanted to come to San...

The man accused of speeding through the streets of Fremont and San Francisco killing one man and injuring 19 others did not make his scheduled court appearance Thursday because he remains in the psychiatric ward at San Francisco General Hospital. Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, whose arraignment was scheduled for 9 a.m. at the San Francisco Superior Court Thursday, is accused of driving his SUV into 54-year-old Stephen J. Wilson of Fremont, killing him, and then driving into San Francisco and hitting as many as 14 to 19 people. The number of victims and criminal charges continues to change in the...

What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids? Insanity, shrugs the mainstream media. Omeed Aziz Popal was taken into custody Tuesday after a hit-and-run spree that terrorized pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists for a full hour, killing one and injuring 14. The news treated the bloody rampage like a random act of violence. Those in the media who didn't brush it off as an "inexplicable tragedy" before moving on to the next story focused on the alleged mental illness and not the religion of suspect...

From KTVU in San Francisco, here’s a little bit of information that somehow failed to make it into any of the media reports on yesterday’s hit and run attacks in San Francisco. Watch as reporter Rob Roth says a witness heard the suspect refer to himself as a “terrorist,” then without taking a breath tells us this was not an act of terrorism.

Claim: San Fran killer called himself 'terrorist' 14 injured, 1 dead, in hit-and-run rampage by man recently returned from Afghanistan Posted: August 30, 2006 2:22 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com   Omeed Aziz Popal in wedding photo believed to be two weeks old (San Francisco Chronicle) A woman claims she heard the man who drove into 14 people, killing one, in a violent hit-and-run rampage in San Francisco yesterday refer to himself as a terrorist. KTVU-TV San Francisco reporter Rob Roth told WND the witness at the scene of Omeed Aziz Popal's arrest heard the 29-year-old man say, to...

In an urban nightmare that enveloped two sides of San Francisco Bay, a Fremont man on Tuesday allegedly killed a pedestrian near his home with his SUV before continuing his rampage on San Francisco streets. There, he mowed down at least 13 others, including a teen on a bike and an elderly man with a cane, police said. The San Francisco victims were expected to survive, but for a harrowing 14 minutes, a man driving a black Honda Pilot sport-utility vehicle veered onto sidewalks, over lawns and appeared to target pedestrians crossing popular shopping streets in several city neighborhoods. At...

SAN FRANCISCO – The driver in a bloody hit-and-run spree that killed one man and injured more than a dozen people was mentally unstable and had been undergoing stress from a recent arranged marriage, according to relatives. Omeed A. Popal, 29, of Fremont, was taken into custody Tuesday following a 20-minute rampage that terrorized pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists throughout San Francisco. Authorities believe it began more than an hour earlier when his black Honda Pilot fatally struck a man in Fremont. -snip- A woman who identified herself as Popal's cousin said he had been having recurring nightmares about someone coming...

Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree 7 critical; driver believed to have struck, killed a man in Fremont earlier Jaxon Van Derbeken, Steve Rubenstein and Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writers Tuesday, August 29, 2006 More... Printable Version Email This Article SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco deliberately running them down before being arrested by police, who believe the same driver struck and killed a man earlier today in Fremont. At least one hit-and-run victim remained in critical condition this evening. Reports of the incidents...

One person was killed and at least 14 others injured when a rampaging man intentionally targeted pedestrians with his sport utility vehicle in San Francisco and Fremont on Tuesday afternoon, according to police. The driver, Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, of Fremont, was taken into custody on suspicion of 14 counts of attempted murder and one count of willful flight after causing serious injury or death, according to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens. The spree apparently began around noon across the bay, where Fremont Police Sgt. Chris Mazzone said a 55-year old man was struck and killed by a black...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco deliberately running them down before being arrested by police, who believe the same driver struck and killed a man earlier today in Fremont. At least one hit-and-run victim remained in critical condition this evening. Reports of the incidents began pouring in at 12:47 p.m., police said. Within a half-hour, San Francisco police had cornered and arrested 29-year-old Omeed Aziz Popal, who has addresses in Ceres (Stanislaus County) and Fremont. Authorities suspect Popal was the same driver who ran over and...

From the Bay area Mercury News [excerpted]: Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed over weddingBy James Hohmann and Katherine CorcoranRelatives of a Fremont man connected to Tuesday's deadly driving rampage said he may have been distraught after returning recently from Afghanistan without his newlywed wife who is waiting for a visa.Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, who sources said was being held by the San Francisco police, was normally a kind and gentle person, said Hamid Nekrawesh, 43, a first cousin in Fremont.But a recent trip to Afghanistan to participate in an arranged marriage could have caused him a lot of...

One person has been killed and at least 14 injured in the San Francisco area on Tuesday after a driver targeted pedestrians on crosswalks and sidewalks, police allege. Pedro Adluguv, 70, is carried to an ambulance after he was hit by a car while crossing a street in San Francisco, Tuesday. (Penni Gladstone/San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press) Seven people were in critical condition in the series of hit-and-run incidents, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The spree began around noon in the Fremont district, where a 55-year-old man walking on the side of the road was struck. He was thrown into a...

One man has died and at least 14 people were injured when a Fremont man purposefully drove his sport-utility vehicle onto sidewalks and crosswalks in San Francisco and Fremont today, according to San Francisco police. The victims appear to include a Fremont man, a 78-year-old man who was using a cane to cross the street when he was struck, and a woman in her 70s. Earlier reports that a child was injured was incorrect.

(08-29) 15:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said. Seven of those injured were in critical condition, police and firefighters said. Authorities have identified the man who was arrested as Ohmeed Aziz Popal, who has an address in Ceres. Authorities said they believe Popal was the same driver who ran over a 55-year-old man walking in a bicycle lane in Fremont, at Fremont Boulevard near Ferry Lane, just after noon. That victim died. Popal was arrested at...

The guy had mens' wigs, binoculars, cameras, video camera and tapes. He didn't have a green card and is a suspected terrorist. Breaking now on Fox News Channel

Illegal Afghani Picked up near Limerick Nuclear Power Plant. Items include binoculars, videocamera, adhesive solvent........ ......curious.

<p>July 8, 2002 -- READING, Pa.- Federal agents whisked away an Afghan man wanted since 1997 after local cops arrested him near a nuclear plant, authorities said yesterday.</p> <p>Mohomad Omar Popal, was stopped Saturday near the Limerick nuclear-power plant while driving toward Philadelphia, about 50 miles away.</p>