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Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television has aired a video of Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri vowing to avenge the death of the network's Iraq frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi was killed in a United States air raid in Iraq on June 7. In the video, Zawahiri is seated in front of a picture of Zarqawi. He addresses US President George W Bush directly. "Yes O Bush, none of us is killed without us avenging him, with the help of God," he said. "Do you remember, O Bush, how the lion of Islam, the mujahed [holy warrior] Osama bin Laden, God keep...

Letters from a mujahid From the letters: a detailed Qur'anic justification for killing in Allah's nameMohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the Tarheel jihadist, has written six letters to the Daily Tar Heel, student newspaper of the University of North Carolina (thanks to Joseph), where he tried to kill students for Allah by running them over in an SUV.The letters are revealing on many levels. Pdfs of them are available here, here, here, here, and here.There is a strong apologetic content to these letters. He is engaging in da'wa, trying to convert those who read them to Islam. They are also revealing of...

Jane JewellAl-Jazeerah, February 25, 2006Dear Muslims in America,May I suggest that it is time you got yourselves established as part of the American Way of Life, and not people of a religion that belongs to ‘them’ and not to ‘us’.I have been sending the following email to various calendar makers. You may like to do the same and get your holidays included in the 2007 calendars. I have noticed that many calendars in the USA list the Christian and the Jewish holidays, but not the Muslim ones.As there are now 8 million Muslims in the USA, exceeding the 6 million...

A lawyer defending al Qaida-linked suspects standing trial for the 2003 suicide bombings in Istanbul told a court that jihad, or holy war, was an obligation for Muslims and his clients should not be prosecuted. "If you punish them for this, tomorrow, will you punish them for fasting or for praying?" Osman Karahan -- a lawyer representing 14 of the 72 suspects -- asked during a nearly four-hour speech in which he read religious texts from an encyclopedia of Islam. The November 2003 blasts targeted two synagogues, the British Consulate and the local headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank, killing...

Insurgents kill 5 to bait trap for policeClick the PicStay Angry U.S. hits suspected terror base in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes launched multiple airstrikes Friday against a suspected "terrorist safe house" in the western Anbar province, destroying the building where up to 50 militants were believed to be hiding, the U.S. military said. Coalition ground forces were alerted by local residents that a number of members of the terror group Al-Qaida in Iraq had gathered in an abandoned building northeast of Husaybah, near the Syrian border about 200 miles west of Baghdad.More.. Saudi says arrests militants, stops...

According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S) many celebrations of Israeli retreat are being organized by the Palestinian Authority, but numerous terror organizations are holding their own, separate celebrations. According to the report, the terror groups are awarding themselves and their terrorist activities the prize for having brought about the evacuation of the Israeli settlements. The report says that while PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas is speaking about further withdrawals through negotiations, both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are reiterating that they have no intention of disarming, that their weapons are legal and...

Imam Mohamed Lunat helps debunk common myths about his religion The image of Imam Mohamed Lunat as he walks in the doors of the Islamic Center of Elizabethtown looks like one from the evening news. He is medium height and thin, with dark, intense eyes and a fist-length beard with no mustache. He has a prayer cap on his head, an ankle-length robe and sheds his shoes as he enters. Based solely on appearance he could, to biased eyes, be mistaken as the cliché of any of the Middle-Eastern terrorists who scream into shoddy video cameras around the world about...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American Muslims have launched an advertising campaign to denounce acts of terrorism after bombers believed to be British Muslims killed at least 54 people in attacks on London. "Any effort by terrorists to hide their criminal activities under the mask of religious piety is being categorically and unequivocally rejected by mainstream Muslims," said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He said the television ad, which will air nationwide by July 19, is an attempt to detach Islam from the "heinous" acts of a few Muslims. Police believe the attacks are linked to al Qaeda,...

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The United States has revoked the diplomatic visas of seven Saudis as part of a tightening of visitor controls after the Sept. 11 attacks that involved mainly Saudi perpetrators, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. None of the Saudis was suspected of any wrongdoing other than a visa irregularity. They worked as teachers at an Arab institute outside Washington and were not employed by the Saudi Embassy, meaning they were not entitled to diplomatic visas, the officials said. "They (the Saudi Embassy) got a diplomatic visa for people better suited for a work visa," one...

Blood Donations Halted From Personnel Deployed To Iraq By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTION, Oct. 21, 2003, — A parasitic disease being spread by sand flies in Iraq has prompted officials who oversee the military's blood supply to implement a one-year donor deferral for military personnel serving in that country. The reason for the deferral is a form of the disease Leishmaniasis, which causes sores or lesions on the skin, and which in its most serious form can cause death. Since 2002, military health officials have reported 22 cases of the disease, with the...

<p>LAFAYETTE — Linda LeBlanc got one of the best birthday presents she could have wished for April 15: A phone call from her son, Stevan J. Melancon III, who is serving with the U.S. Marine Reserves in Iraq.</p> <p>“We hadn’t heard from him since March 10, and he called me on tax day, and I was ecstatic,” his mother said.</p>