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ecent intelligence indicates that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has a "heart complaint," according to a senior official involved in international counterterrorism efforts. The official said the information suggests Zawahiri had a potentially serious condition but cautioned it was difficult to ascertain the severity of his health problems and what effect they might have on his longevity. The possibility that Zawahiri, who just turned 68, is seriously ill increases uncertainty over al Qaeda's long-term leadership succession plans. Osama bin Laden's son Hamza bin Laden had been widely tipped to one day take over command of al Qaeda but a US...

Chattanooga aftermath: Why do major television networks continue to get away with mollycoddling murdering radical terrorists in the very wake of their evil carnage? Within four days of the attack that claimed the lives of four US Marines and a Navy sailors slaughtered in the Chattanooga shooting spree, ABC is portraying poor Mohammod Abdulazeez—not as a radical Islamic terrorist—but as a “disturbed, suicidal young man using drugs, preparing for bankruptcy and facing an appearance in criminal court”. While their loved ones are in tearful mourning, the mainstream media’s crying killer Abdulazeez a river and getting über maudlin with the violins....

One reason for the ongoing battle between Sen. Chuck Grassley and the Department of Justice over the identities of as many as 13 to 16 current Obama Administration political appointees who provided legal counsel to suspected or convicted terrorists and enemy combatants being held in detention, is not so much what these lawyers did before joining the administration. Rather, says a Department of Justice source, it stems from the administration's own attempts to identify any official paper or email trails of those DOJ attorneys that would reveal not just past but current efforts -- since their appointment, in other words...

The Founding Bloggers article shows how INEPT the State of Illinois is in receiving terrorists from Gitmo. Maybe Obama ought to re-think this? These two headlines, both currently on Chicago Breaking News, should strike fear in your heart – unless you are a Progressive Democrat, in which case it will inspire denial. State panel votes in favor of Illinois Gitmo planThree federal prisoners escape downstate facilityImpeach the Democrats at the polls in 2010 UPDATE: The map below [found here] effectively illustrates why people in these parts are a tad concerned about the unfathomably reckless decision Obama’s Progressive government is making....

Senate has voted to block transfer of Gitmo prisoners to U.S.A.

No disruptions at Ayers' visit By AD CRABLE, Staff Writer There were no hecklers inside where Bill Ayers spoke. And the couple dozen students and people who supported or protested the former radical's appearance outside politely agreed to disagree. With a massive police presence and tight security, feared confrontations, speech disruptions and even possible violence did not materialize, and Ayers' entire visit on Millersville University's campus Thursday took place in peace. Not that people didn't feel strongly about a man who admitted to bombing government buildings during the Vietnam War being invited here. "What he did was so wrong," said...

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2007 – Soldiers of Multinational Division - Baghdad saved two Iraqi civilians while discovering two insurgent safe houses, one of which contained two car bombs, in the West Rashid district of the Iraqi capital Monday. Upon entering a building Monday evening, soldiers of Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, rescued a man who was handcuffed to a pipe in a bathroom. Two suspects were detained. The troops had received information from residents that an extremist group was using the house as a base from which to launch a campaign of intimidation in northwest Rashid. Troops from...

A senior figure in Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's al-Mahdi army was killed Thursday morning by unidentified gunmen north of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, an eyewitness said. "Unidentified gunmen driving a modern car opened fire against a person near his home in al-Ablah area, al-Maaqel district, killing him on the spot," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The slain was a leading figure in al-Mahdi army in Basra," an eyewitness said.

Eight people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Birmingham in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap a member of the armed forces.

Nahariya, Israel -- Dr. Uri Rehany picked his way through the wreckage of his hospital department and shook his head in sorrow. "This is not a war with a country," he said. "It's a war with a terrorist organization." A Hezbollah rocket smashed into the eye department on the fourth floor of the surgical wing of the Western Galilee Hospital, near Nahariya in northern Israel on Friday, destroying the entire floor and causing more than $200,000 worth of damage. Rehany, the 59-year-old director of the eye department, was first on the scene. "We heard an enormous explosion," he said. "We...

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2006 – Iraqi and coalition troops detained suspects and seized weapons caches throughout Iraq, and an Iraqi review board recommended the release of a number of male detainees being held in the country, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported. In Salah Ad Din province today, Iraqi Army and Task Force Band of Brothers units continued "Operation Swarmer." The operation was launched March 18 to clear a suspected insurgent operating area northeast of Samarra, military officials reported. Today's operation yielded an additional three caches of small-arms ammunition and rocket-propelled grenades. The combined forces also detained three men suspected of...

Geostrategy Direct Subscribe @ http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/cuttingedge.html Syria might have distanced itself from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but Bashar Assad remains best buddies with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world and a leading subcontractor of Iran and Syria. The PFLP-GC is an arm of the Syrian military — the terrorist army. It has been training Hamas and a range of terrorists aligned with Syria. The organization still retains terrorist camps in Lebanon, particularly in the Bekaa Valley. Osama Matar knows a lot about PFLP-GC methods. He trained in a terrorist...

Britain's release of insurgent scares Algerians, MI5 agent Monday, February 7, 2005 Britain's plans to release a leading Islamic insurgent with ties to Al Qaida after a court ruled anti-terror laws violated human rights.http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453408.311111111.html Algerian officials said the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to free Abu Qatada after nearly four years in prison. Abu Qatada is regarded as being aligned with Al Qaida. Officials said Abu Qatada was suspected of being Osama Bin Laden's envoy in Britain during the 1990s. The planned release of Abu Qatada has alarmed Algerians in Britain as well as in Europe. This has...

BBB: Grant Scam In Midtown May Be Slush Fund For Middle East Updated 4:21 PM, Tuesday, September 17 By Andy Wise MIDTOWN MEMPHIS -- Pass the filthy walkways, the broken windows and there it is -- a locked door with a greasy doorknob. You knock -- no one answers. You call -- no one answers. But the maintenance man of the Midtown Apartments at 1434 Jefferson Avenue says behind the door of "Apartment #1" is expensive computer equipment. The Mid-South Better Business Bureau says the equipment is being used in an elaborate cash grant scheme that's stealing customers' cash and...