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Denmark disclosed this week that its intelligence service had foiled an Iranian government plot to assassinate an opposition activist in Copenhagen. Top Danish Authorities called for sanctions against Iran over the plot. Denmark summoned its ambassador to Tehran back to Copenhagen on Wednesday for consultations, an Iranian official said. Denmark’s Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen and Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen on Tuesday both described an alleged Iranian attack in Denmark “totally unacceptable.” The country will respond and speak with European partners about “further steps,” they said in separate statements, according to the Associated Press. During a televised press conference, Borch...

Fort Lauderdale Airport terrorist Esteban Santiago registered on MySpace under the name “Aashiq Hammad” and recorded Islamic religious music on the site, 3 years before he ever deployed to Iraq as a U.S. soldier, destroying the lying mainstream media’s narrative that he was just a mentally disturbed veteran and that “Islam had nothing to do with it.” Here’s how we know all that: A search of public records database Nexis reveals that Puerto Rican Esteban Santiago has a brother named Bryan Santiago and two e-mails registered to his name:

Mohammed Merah, a 24-year-old Frenchman who is suspected for the shocking murders of three soldiers, three Jewish children and a rabbi, is expected to surrender later on Wednesday, according to French Interior Minister Claude Gueant. "The suspect told me - and I hope he told me the truth -- that he will surrender at 12 pm," Gueant said, as cited by CNN. "He claims to be a jihadist and says he belongs to al Qaeda. He wanted to avenge the Palestinian children and take revenge on the French army because of its foreign interventions," he clarified. The suspect has reportedly...

The wonderful Tom Joscelyn noticed that al Qaeda’s putative No. 2, Ayman al Zawahiri, has called on all Muslims (not just all Sunnis) to unite behind al Qaeda and specifically behind Mullah Omar, the grotesque chief of the Taliban. It is indeed noteworthy, for at least two reasons. First of all, it goes hand in hand with the calls for Muslim unity issued by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the eve of the Hadj and on subsequent occasions. Second, as Allahpundit muses, one could infer from this that Osama is no longer around, which I have believed for some...

Terrorists use the press and public relations as weapons, said a study released Wednesday by Arizona State University. . . . jihadist operations use consistent patterns of outreach that establish them socially and religiously, generate public sympathy and intimidate opponents. Threats, in fact, are part of terrorist "talking points." "Jihadis pursue these strategies using sophisticated, modern methods of communications and public relations," Mr. Corman said. "There's evidence in the documents that jihadis segment audiences and adapt their message to the audience." This week, audio and video messages from Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab Zarqawi were posted on the Internet...

A United States marine now faces possible conviction and punishment for war crimes for finishing off a wounded enemy fighter in Fallujah. An act not unique and perhaps understandable in the intense and bitter fighting for the city, but one caught on film by freelance NBC news correspondent Kevin Sites and released worldwide within hours. How this anti-war activist became a pool reporter for a variety of news organizations and embedded with the military forces he despises has not been explained but casts a dark shadow of doubt on the practice of allowing reporters and film crews on the front...

1968 - 1985 Partial list of attacks in which American citizens were killed: FATAL TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES FATAL TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS SINCE SEPTEMBER 27, 2000 PALESTINIAN UPRISING The Achille Lauro Hijacking 1968 - 1985 Partial List of major terrorist attacks against Israelis and Jews 1968 - 1985: Nov. 1968, Mahane Yehuda bomb, 12 dead, 53 wounded Dec. 1968 - attack on El Al plane in Athens airport Feb. 1969 - attack in Zurich Aug. 1969 - hijacking of plane from Rome to Tel Aviv Nov. 1969 - attack on El ...

<p>Although government and energy-industry officials have continued to state that Thursday's massive power blackout was not an act of terrorism, they are unable to rule out the possibility that a computer hacker plunged 50 million people into darkness, a source told Fox News Monday.</p>

David Blunkett has refused to give more details of the terrorist threat which has sparked a huge security alert in Britain - but insisted it was "real and serious". The Home Secretary said it would not be "responsible to provide a running public commentary" and the public must be "alert but not alarmed". Mr Blunkett was speaking after demands from Tories and Liberal Democrats to give details of the threat facing the country. He said: "We face a real and serious threat. We know that al Qaeda will try to inflict loss of human life and damage to the UK....