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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday officially designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, returning the rogue nation to a list from which it had been removed during the George W. Bush administration. North Korea had been removed from the list under the George W. Bush administration in an attempt to salvage negotiations for a nuclear deal. The president made the announcement at the White House on Monday morning. North Korea will join Sudan, Syria and Iran as countries that the State Department identifies as ones that have “repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.” Administration officials...

Despite its ostensible position as one of the West's key allies in fighting Islamic terror, it turns out, via Wikileaks, that Saudi Arabia is the source of the lion's share of funding for the world's worst terror groups – including Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hamas, and others. Much of the rest of the money these organizations get comes from other Gulf states, including Qatar and Kuwait. Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf states, has expressed very little interest in changing the situation. The information came to light in the latest round of documents released Sunday by Wikileaks. In their...

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has gotten an angry thumbs-down from 9/11 family members who say she played a key role in quashing a lawsuit that accused the Saudi kingdom of helping finance the terror attacks. "Kagan is the main reason why the Supreme Court ruled against the 9/11 families," said William Doyle, who lost his son in the Twin Towers. Doyle and thousands of other 9/11 relatives had joined in a suit that traced funding for the 19 hijackers to certain Saudi royals, along with banks, corporations and Islamic charities. The royals were let off the hook last year...

Azam Amir, the terrorist who was held by the Mumbai Police, has made some striking revelations regarding the Mumbai terror attacks. Azam has disclosed that the Pakistan Navy had trained the terrorists in boating and swimming to carry out the attacks in Mumbai. Azam was arrested on Wednesday from Girgaum Chowpatty in an encounter with the police. Ismail Khan, an accomplice of Amir, reportedly died in the gunbattle.

US says North Korea will remain on terror list Date : 24 January 2008 0106 hrs (SST) WASHINGTON : The United States warned on Wednesday that North Korea will stay on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism until it fully discloses its nuclear activities, as promised. "The ball is in North Korea's court right now," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters. "I would say it's definitely not imminent. We need to have that declaration before we can talk about any next steps." Perino's comments clashed with remarks on Tuesday by the US State Department's counter-terrorism coordinator -...

I am a high school junior and currently have a teacher who believes Al Qaeda and Iraq are not linked. I would like documents proving links between Al Qaeda and Iraq, documents of democrats declaring Iraq as dangerous, documents listing numbers of terrorists (islamo-fascitsts) killed, documents with numbers of Iraqis killed under Saddam, and documents of foreign inteligence agencies declaring Iraq was seeking WMD's. I want to thankyou all for all your help, and of course it would be nice if the sources were well-respected, but any documents can be helpful. Also documents proving bias of the MSM would also...

Senate: No Prewar Saddam-al-Qaida Ties By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush's justification for invading Iraq. Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none. Republicans countered that there was little new in the report and Democrats were trying to score election-year points with it. The declassified document released Friday by the intelligence committee also explores the role that...

In document ISGP-2003-00026334 there are two top secret memo dated September 24 2001 one of them (page 57 of the pdf document) talks about military urgent preparations for a US attack against Iraq and the other (page 6 of the pdf document) talks for urgent military preparations in case of US attacks against Afghanistan. These memos which came from the Iraq Air Force Command asked their troops to prepare as if “There is no way but a US attack against the country” and of course by country they mean Iraq. Beginning of Translation of page 57 of document document ISGP-2003-00026334...

Even as US forces launched a first salvo of missiles against Iraq, Saddam Hussein distributed more funds - $ 210,000 - Thursday to the families of Palestinians killed in fighting with Israel. Throughout nearly 30 months of battles, Iraq has paid more than US$35 million to the families of Palestinians killed in the conflict, including relatives of scores of bombers as well as Palestinian civilians. Via a tiny pro-Iraq faction in the West Bank and Gaza, Saddam on Thursday doled out US$10,000 checks to the families of 21 Palestinians, including a member of the Hamas, an Islamic militant group that...