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End-to-end encryption vexing to some officials . Facebook says it has begun to offer users the option of securing their messages with end-to-end encryption, a service that soon may allow more than a billion account holders — potentially including jihad and other terror groups — to message one another below the radar of law enforcement surveillance. ... By implementing end-to-end encryption, Facebook aims to give its users a way of communicating over the network’s proprietary Messenger application in a manner intended to make correspondence undecipherable to anyone other than the sender and recipient, a possibility that alarms law enforcement officials....

We who follow the Islamist movement fell off our collective chair on Nov. 15 when the news came that the United Arab Emirates' ministerial cabinet had listed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as one of 83 proscribed terrorist organizations, up there with the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. This came as a surprise because the UAE authorities themselves have a record of promoting Islamism; because CAIR has a history of raising funds in the UAE; and because the UAE embassy in Washington had previously praised CAIR. On reflection, however, the listing makes sense for, in recent years, the Islamist movement...

Trading American lives in exchange for amnesty for illegal aliens in the United States. That is the reality that exists according to the information contained in this video report. The southern border is a sieve which is leaking not only illegals from Mexico, but “Other Than Mexicans” (OTMs) as well. That information is not new, but this video indicates that the severity of the problem is much worse than what has previously been acknowledged by the authorities charged with our protection. Individuals from terrorist nations are called SIAs, Special Interest Aliens and many are known to be in the United...

Human Events recently editorialized that Eric Holder should have never been confirmed as attorney general and that his priorities are dangerous. Here are the Top 10 Reasons Eric Holder Should Not Be Attorney General: 1. Wants special rights for Muslims: Holder’s Justice Department filed suit against the Berkeley School District in Illinois for denying a request for a 19-day leave of absence in the middle of the semester by a Muslim computer lab teacher who wanted to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Justice Department wants a federal court to grant Safoorah Khan back pay with interest, reinstatement, and award...

Israel has become concerned over declining stability in neighboring Jordan. Government sources said the intelligence community has detected a sharp increase in Islamic unrest as well as insurgency activity. The sources said several opposition groups were believed to be cooperating to destabilize the Hashemite regime. "The situation in the kingdom is not stable and the friction between the government and the terror groups there is growing," former Mossad director Danny Yatom said. In 2010, Israel has come under at least two attacks in Jordan. In April, two Katyusha-class rockets were fired from the area around the southern Jordanian port of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on two individuals in Europe it said were supporting and plotting attacks with Islamic Jihad Union and al-Qaeda in Iraq. British and German citizens Ahmad Khalaf Shabib al-Dulaymi and Attila Selek were named by Treasury under an executive order that freezes any assets the pair may have under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits Americans from having any dealings with them. Treasury said al-Dulaymi provided financial, material and technological support to al Qaeda in Iraq while Selek was a member of the Islamic Jihad Union and had been involved in a plot...

CARO, Mich. - The FBI said Monday it had no information to indicate that the three Texas men arrested with about 1,000 cell phones in their van had any direct connection to known terrorist groups. Authorities had increased patrols on Michigan's 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge after local prosecutors said investigators believed the men were targeting the span. Local authorities didn't say what they believed the men intended to do with the phones, most of which were prepaid TracFones, but Caro's police chief noted that cell phones can be untraceable and used as detonators. The FBI issued a news release Monday saying...

A ban on 15 international groups believed to be terrorist organisations has been approved by Parliament. The decision means the ban will come into force on Friday, bringing the total number of banned groups to 40. The groups have links in Iraq, Uzbekistan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Morocco. Concerns were raised by some MPs, who said evidence of the groups' activities should be revealed and argued decisions must be made on an individual basis. 'Allegiances' The Home Office believes the selected groups are "concerned in terrorism". Some 25 international organisations are already proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000,...

Monday July 04, 2005 By BETH DUFF-BROWN Associated Press Writer TORONTO (AP) Though many view Canada as an unassuming neutral nation that has skirted terrorist attacks, it has suffered its share of aggression, and intelligence officials believe at least 50 terror groups now have some presence here. They are from Sri Lanka, Kurdistan and points between and include supporters of some of the best-known Mideast groups, including al-Qaida, authorities say. Osama bin Laden named Canada one of five so-called Christian nations that should be targeted for acts of terror. The others, reaffirmed last year by his al-Qaida network, were the...

Back in July, the Justice Department held a bells-‘n-whistles press conference to announce a major case: a 42-count indictment, charging seven men and an ostensible charity with underwriting Hamas to the tune of nearly $60 million. Hamas, a ruthless terrorist organization dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and responsible for numerous gruesome attacks that have claimed the lives of hundreds of victims — including Americans — has been formally designated as a terrorist organization under various U.S. laws for many years. In announcing the indictment, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft could not have been more straightforward: “To those who exploit good...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me The IDF and the Shabak (Shin Bet) have foiled numerous attempts by terrorists in the Gaza strip to smuggle hand grenades inside the behinds of sheep. The new method was foiled about a month ago after the arrest in the Kahn Younis area of a Arab cell identified with the "Abu Rish" faction of the Tanzim terrorist group. The Arabs tried to smuggle through the Mousai road in the southern Gaza Strip hand grenades inside four sheep belonging to them. In the last few days Abrihim Draj'am, one of the members of the...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: The Islamic Jihad organization has called upon the loyal followers of the Shiite radical leader, Muqata Al Sadr, to continue and hit oil pipelines in Iraq. "Al-Sadr has to continue his resistance and call upon his men to continue to hit the oil sources which provide revenue for the occupies," the words of the organization went. Yesterday Al-Sadr's men struck a oil pipeline using an explosive device in the south of the country.

A row has erupted between Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah over last week's attack on the IDF armored vehicle in the Zeitun neighborhood of Gaza City in which six soldiers were killed. Each one of the three groups has claimed that its men carried out the attack, triggering an unprecedented "war of leaflets" and mutual accusations in the Gaza Strip. The attack was initially claimed by Izz Addin Kassam, the armed wing of Hamas, which said its members planted the bomb that destroyed the IDF vehicle. Later, two other groups – Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades and Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades...

Fateh's Revolutionary Council Convenes For the First Time in Three Years www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_02/104.html RAMALLAH, Palestine, February 26, 2004 (IPC + Agencies)-- The Revolutionary Council of the Palestinian Liberation Movement (Fateh) held its first of three meetings in the 23rd session in Ramallah City on Tuesday, after three years of the previous session caused by the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. The meetings were called by the Secretariat-General of the council, and the senior figures included the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who is also the Chairman of the Fateh movement, as well as the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahamd Qurei' and members...

An Arab diplomat in the Jordanian capital is quoted as saying Thursday by al Siyasah newspaper that Palestinian and Islamist groups have decided in a meeting earlier this month to launch huge attacks within Israel and against its interests in Asia, Africa and Mideast countries. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper, the scope of the attacks will resemble the latest attacks in Iraq that claimed the lives of hundreds of US soldiers and Iraqis. It added that the new decision was taken in order to stop growing criticism on the Arab street about their "silence" towards Israeli activities. The diplomat told...

Palestinians debated cease-fire proposals in Cairo on Friday, but Hamas, the main Islamic terror group, reportedly was resisting a comprehensive truce and holding out instead for a limited plan to halt attacks only inside Israel. A senior Islamic Jihad member - on the other hand - said that his group might agree to a one year cease fire, to begin with. Egyptian intelligence chief Gen. Omar Suleiman told participants that he doesn't want to impose his prepared plan, but he is pressed to form some kind of agreement before his scheduled trip to Washington, Sunday. No truce was likely to...

The corrupt Saudi leadership has a vicious "tiger by the tail" named al-Qaeda, a beast that they assiduously cultivated without compunction. The heart of the matter is this - there is a palpable belief among many Americans that the ruling Saudi royals are a duplicitous bunch that cannot be trusted. And, despite Saudi Arabia's public relations endeavors, there's a sense that Saudi royals are profoundly entrenched in extremist ideology and in league with al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations as money trails have demonstrated. That said, even prior Saudi funding of al-Qaeda is indicative of complicity in heinous deeds, including the...

Investigators talk of a 'new generation' who adopted radical views in Europe BRUSSELS After 12 months of intensive investigations into terrorist networks in Europe, the police are increasingly focusing on the North African diaspora as a recruitment pool for terrorist groups. Young men from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria have been involved in a series of incidents in the last year, among them alleged plots to attack the U.S. embassies in Paris and Rome and the deadly bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April. That members of the North African diaspora are involved in terrorism in Europe is nothing new....