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Russian jets have struck a terrorist training camp northeast of Palmyra, destroying 24 vehicles and half a ton of explosive materials while killing up to 200 militants, the Russian military has announced. After confirming intelligence about a camouflaged terrorist camp in the Syrian desert, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out the airstrike, and destroyed two terrorist structures, “up to to 200 militants, 24 pickups with heavy machine guns, as well as about 500 kg of ammunition and components for creating improvised explosive devices,” Rear Admiral Aleksandr Karpov, deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria [RRCS], told reporters on...

Judicial Activism: Earlier this month New Mexico police raided what many believe was a terrorist training camp on U.S. soil after the FBI refused to act in a timely manner. Islamic extremist Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was arrested last week because he was allegedly training children to commit school shootings. Siraj ibn Wahhaj is the son of a Brooklyn imam who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. But despite these very serious allegations — and despite the fact that prosecutors in the case provided more than enough evidence to keep these alleged terrorists locked...

ANOTHER SCREW UP: New Mexico Police Entered Terror Compound On Their Own After Being Tired of FBI Stalling. ( Full title ). ... New Mexico police entered a dangerous Islamist terrorist camp in New Mexico this month after they grew tired of FBI stalling. .... The FBI refused to act. Instead the FBI told a neighbor to wear a hidden camera and risk his life by approaching an armed Islamist extremist compound. This lack of urgency by the FBI forced the local police action. ... Siraj ibn Wahhaj is the son of a Brooklyn imam who was named as a...

As President Obama frees droves of terrorists—including five Yemenis this week—from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo news reports confirm that a Gitmo alum who once led a Taliban unit has established the first Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) base in Afghanistan. His name is Mullah Abdul Rauf and international and domestic media reports say he’s operating in Helmand province, actively recruiting fighters for ISIS. Citing local sources, a British newspaper writes that Rauf set up a base and is offering good wages to anyone willing to fight for the Islamic State. Rauf was a corps commander during...

Jury selection started yesterday for the trial of an ice cream vendor and his son who are charged in a federal terrorism investigation. Umer Hayat, 47, and Hamid Hayat, 23, are among five members of the Sacramento, Calif. area's Pakistani community arrested last summer after a nearly three-year terrorism investigation. The others, two local imams and a son of one of the religious leaders, have since been deported to Pakistan on immigration violations. The case has had people in suspense in Lodi, Calif., a quiet agricultural city just south of Sacramento that is known for its wines and annual grape...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A father and son from Lodi were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that they lied to authorities investigating links to Pakistani terrorist training camps connected to al-Qaida. Hamid Hayat, 22, allegedly lied to the FBI earlier this month when he said he did not attend a terrorism camp in Pakistan last year and in 2003, prosecutors said. He was charged with two counts of lying to the FBI. His father, Umer Hayat, 47, was charged with a single count of lying to investigators when he denied that his son had attended such camps....

A terrorist training camp at Salman Pak was shut down by military operations in Iraq, a White House report disclosed last week.It was the first time that the camp located 25 miles outside of Baghdad had been offically mentioned. A second camp used by the Al Qaeda affiliated group Ansar al Islam was shut down in Northern Iraq.'Many terrorist groups' used the Salman Pak camp for training, the report stated.U.S. Officials said that satellite photographs of the camp disclosed a commerical jetliner at the site, an indication that terrorists were using the camp to practice hijacking techniques.Iraqi military defectors disclosed...