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Our terrorist enemies are out-thinking us. It's not only embarrassing, but deadly. The Taliban's latest innovation was on display again last week, when a suicide bomber, reportedly garbed in an Afghan army uniform, killed seven Americans, including a CIA mission chief. The terrorists are "inside the wire." Everywhere. From eastern Afghanistan to Texas. And we're stalled. For all of our wealth, technology and power, our enemies have the strategic and psychological initiative. The low-tech nature of most reported combat in our recent conflicts obscures the advent of four powerful innovations in warfare. Unfortunately, three of those revolutionary techniques belong to...

RABAT, Morocco - Two brothers strapped with explosives blew themselves up near an American cultural center in Casablanca Saturday, and police arrested another three suspects — including one wearing an explosives belt — hours later, an official said. The attacks came just days after three suspected militants blew themselves up as they were cornered by police in Casablanca, and al-Qaida claimed suicide car bombings in neighboring Algeria that killed 33 people. The attacks have stoked new fears of Islamic terrorism in North Africa — especially in Morocco, long known for its stability. The Moroccan and Algerian governments have not addressed...

NEW DELHI, July 8: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers as they are commonly known, are providing military training to the Maoist rebels of Nepal in Bihar near the Nepalese borders. Some French trainers have also been hired, a Maoist rebel leader revealed to the South Asia Tribune.

I have been writing to numerous people ever since September 11, 2001. That event changed me. Before September 11, 2001 I assumed our government knew what it was doing in the world and I never questioned anything it did, but after September 11, 2001 i started to think ,why would anybody hate us so much as to try to kill as many Americans as possible. My quest for the truth lead me to one very sobering conclusion.........our policies, even before our independence in 1776, has gradually created a world in which we do not realize what people around the world...

Pakistan finds memo detailing ideas for walking bio-chem-nuke warheads Posted: September 13, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern If suicide bombers come to America, they are likely to be carrying biological, chemical or nuclear weapons with them, according to an al-Qaida memo discovered by Pakistani authorities. Pakistan President Pervez Musharaf, under heavy American pressure, has once again instructed his security and intelligence chiefs to focus on jihadi suicide volunteers – this time because of a memo showing they will be used to carry weapons of mass destruction, reveals Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The president, himself under the constant shadow of militants threatening...

U.S. Central Command says terrorist devices have been found in Iraq. At a briefing Tuesday morning, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks offered up examples of coffee tables laden with explosives and "suicide vests." Brooks also described the progress in the search for weapons of mass destruction. "The most important part of it frankly, is that with every day that goes by, we get more and more information, we have more pieces of the puzzle being revealed to us and given some of the players we are currently taking into our custody and those we continue to seek. We remain confident that...

A series of truces agreed on last month, encompassing Mr Sadr's stronghold in al-Thoura, Baghdad's eastern slum, as well as the Shia holy cities and other towns further south, are still holding. His own home turf in the capital has been more peaceful than it has been for months. Former fighters are now being paid to collect rubbish, plant trees, direct traffic and help the Iraqi police. The new government has promised to pay for a new sewage system so that the slum detritus will no longer flow past Baghdad's grimmest tenements. Outside the city, the clergy behind Mr...

Tuesday, June 10, 2003 GLOBAL JIHAD Rome imam: Destroy Islam's enemies Leader of Europe's largest mosque backs suicide bombing of Jews Posted: June 10, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 In a sermon supporting suicide bombing in Israel, the new imam of Europe's largest mosque called on Allah to help in the "destruction of the enemies of Islam." Imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa, who recently became head of the Grand Mosque of Rome, called for the "victory of Islamic fighters in Palestine, Chechnya and other areas of the world" in his sermon last Friday, the Jerusalem Post reported. In a...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - An Israeli woman whose name means "luck" said she had her third brush with death when she got off a Tel Aviv bus after spotting a man who looked like a Palestinian suicide bomber about to strike. The woman, named Mazal, told Israel's Channel 1 television the blast Thursday tore through the number 4 bus on the coastal city's tree-lined Allenby Street seconds after she disembarked. It killed at least five people. "I was sitting in the middle section, and he was near the door," said Mazal, who declined to give her last name. "He was...

Palestinian first lady Suha Arafat tells an Arab language magazine this week that she'd gladly see her son become a suicide bomber in intifada against Israel. In fact, according to numerous published reports, Mrs. Arafat said "there would be no greater honor" than having her son blow himself to smithereens while strapped to a high explosive. Alas, poor Suha Arafat doesn't have a son. How convenient. But what about her daughter, Zahawa, with whom Mrs. Arafat lives in Paris, safely removed from the ongoing Mideast violence committed in her husband's name. Surely Suha knows that two of the most celebrated...