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The wife of the Uzbeki national accused of murdering eight people in Manhattan denied any knowledge of her husband’s carefully planned rampage, according to a report. A person who spoke to Sayfullo Saipov’s 24-year-old wife, Nozima Odilova, on Tuesday evening said she seemed “shocked and horrified and scared and sad” after being grilled by the FBI, a source told the Washington Post. At the time, the feds were at her Paterson, NJ, house, where they encouraged her to cooperate to make sure no one else was harmed. Meanwhile, neighbor Carlos Batista recounted that Saipov had occasionally driven a Home Depot...

The continuing movement of young Muslims from the UK to ISIS in Syria and Iraq has David Cameron concerned to the point of demanding more action from Muslim communities to fight radicalization. In a speech today, Cameron accused British Muslim leaders of “quietly condoning” the radical theology of ISIS and other Islamist terror groups. In response, leaders from those communities said that radicalization has been amplified by “rampant Islamophobia” in British society, and that Cameron needs to stop lecturing them on citizenship: Speaking at a security conference in Slovakia, Cameron urged British Muslims to do more to stop the...

Every few years, Hamas' rocket fire into southern Israel intensifies to the point where Israel has little choice but to respond, and every few years a shooting war erupts that usually ends with Israeli troops in Gaza and the world demanding a cease-fire from both sides. Those calls actually produced a cease-fire that lasted about three hours before Hamas sent more rockets out of Gaza again, unleashing longer-range rockets that took aim at Israel's commercial center of Tel Aviv.Today, however, Hamas ratcheted up the stakes by aiming for the first time at Jerusalem, the holy city for Jews, Christians, and...

David Rivkin joins Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio to talk about Ali Musa Daqduq, a Hezbollah fighter that was dispatched to Iraq on behalf of the Iranian government and in 2007 he kidnapped, brutality tortured and killed five American soldiers. U.S. forces have since apprehended him and the Obama Administration is ready to hand him over to the Iraqi government who will undoubtedly give him to the Iranians where he will be hailed a hero. At first, Obama wanted to bring him to America and try him in a civilian court and when Congress denied that request, the president...

The James case is only one example of how the violent Islamist terrorist threat has evolved and expanded since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks and recruited the hijackers abroad before sending them to the United States to make final preparations for the operation. The 9/11 hijackers were indoctrinated into the violent Islamist mindset long before they set foot in the United States. The James case and others illustrate, however, radicalization is no longer confined to training camps in Afghanistan or other locations far from our shores; it is also occurring right here in...

Authorities say a person has been arrested in the Baltimore area for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center. Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore, tells The Associated Press the person will appear in court Wednesday afternoon. An FBI spokesman also confirmed the arrest. They did not provide any more details. An official who was briefed on the arrest told AP on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information that the person was given a phony bomb and was arrested after trying to detonate it. The official says...

It will be awhile before anything "official" is decided regarding the attack that killed and wounded American military personel at Fort Hood but investigations by journalists have resulted in some very disturbing news: From the Telegraph (UK): Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists," by Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius - Telegraph (UK) Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His...

Just finished watching Scottish Chief Constable Willie Rae's press conference regarding the Glasgow airport terrorist attack. Near the end of his prepared statement he warned, in so many words, that retaliatory harassment of any "minority" group wouldn't be tolerated. Perhaps I missed it but I didn't hear Constable Rae warning terrorists not to attack Scotland. This is so typical in the West. Islamic terrorists attack us and and government reacts by warning the victims not to offend Muslims.

Martti Ahtisaari and Finland’s Nazi Past At the time of the illegal NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 when Martti Ahtisaari was the President of Finland, his government sought to commemorate and to honor Finland’s Nazi SS volunteers from the Holocaust. This offers irrefutable evidence of Ahtisaari’s direct links for support of Nazism and Nazi revisionism. If Ahtisaari had bothered to check the decisions of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals, he would have found that that court held that all Waffen SS troops were war criminals guilty of war crimes and guilty of committing crimes against humanity, namely the mass...

All four failed London bomb suspects are reported to be in custody following armed raids in the UK capital and Rome. Two London arrests are thought to be the men wanted for the 21 July Oval Tube and No 26 bus attacks. A third bomb suspect was already being held. The fourth suspect, wanted for the attempted Shepherd's Bush Tube attack, has been arrested in Rome and named as Somali-born UK citizen Osman Hussain. Police arrested three people in raids in Notting Hill and north Kensington. Officers have also arrested two women at Liverpool Street station. Police are still questioning...

Last Update: 21/01/2005 13:29 Russia slams U.S. for accusing Syria of terror ties By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent, and Reuters Russia criticized the United States on Friday for accusing Syria of having ties to terrorism, saying such an approach would harm security in the Middle East. "It's well known that slapping labels on countries and unilaterally describing certain states as part of the 'axis of evil' has not improved anyone's security," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told Interfax news agency. "Syria is one of the key players in the region and resumption of talks with Israel on the Syrian question...

12 wanted Palestinians arrested Maariv News Service Security forces have arrested 12 wanted men in the West Bank, suspected of terrorist activities. A large explosive device was discovered near Ramallah. Sappers neutralized it. (2004-12-10 14:52:26.0)

ARLINGTON, VA -- Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman issued the following statement:"On the eve of Prime Minister Allawi's visit to the United States, John Kerry's military advisor is preaching defeat and suggesting retreat in Iraq.  Such a withdrawal would be a victory for the terrorists and a defeat for freedom everywhere.  John Kerry must explain if this is his new position on Iraq."Our troops deserve better than to constantly hear the Kerry campaign's pessimism and lack of faith in the value of the mission from America's leaders."Since John Kerry first called our allies 'window dressing,' he has been pushing...

"James Kopp is as much a terrorist as Osama bin Laden. Whether it’s killing a doctor in Amherst or 6,000 people, they are killing to accomplish their mission" — FBI special agent John P. Culhane, as quoted by Lou Michel in The Buffalo News, October 24, 2001. Approximately halfway between the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, engineered by the famous "blind sheik," Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman, and the April 19, 1995 truck-bombing of the Federal Murrah building in Oklahoma City, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno established, in August 1994, a secret, and probably illegal,...

frame grab taken from web site video footage May 11, 2004, shows a man, who identified himself as Nick Berg of Philadelphia (C) seated in front of his five masked captors moments before he was executed. Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday. After one of the masked men read out a statement, they pushed Berg to the floor and shouted 'God is greatest' above his screams as one of them sawed his head off with a large knife...

Video on Islamic militant Web site appears to show beheading of American

SUDAN ORDERS SYRIAN WMD OUT OF COUNTRY LONDON [MENL] -- Sudan has ordered the removal of Syrian missiles and weapons of mass destruction out of the African country. Arab diplomatic and Sudanese government sources said the regime of Sudanese President Omar Bashir has ordered that Syria remove its Scud C and Scud D medium-range ballistic missiles as well as components for chemical weapons stored in warehouses in Khartoum. The sources said the Sudanese demand was issued after the Defense Ministry and Interior Ministry confirmed a report published earlier this month that Syria has been secretly flying Scud-class missiles and WMD...

Arab MK Suspected of Terror Contacts 09:06 Nov 26, '03 / 1 Kislev 5764 The Shabak suspects Arab MK Abdel Malek Dehamshe of having incited, encouraged and possibly even aided Palestinian terrorist prisoners during his many visits to them in jail. The Shabak (General Security Service) suspects Arab MK Abdel Malek Dehamshe, who has been in the Knesset since 1996, of having incited, encouraged and possibly even aided Palestinian terrorist prisoners during his visits to them in jail. Dehamshe is a regular visitor to Israeli prisons, having filed more than 80 requests to visit top terrorists just this year. Their...

May. 20, 2003 US supports Palestinian premier despite terror wave By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington A rash of deadly terror attacks on Israel has not shaken the Bush administration's confidence in Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas as a leader who will strive to get the violence under control. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Monday that he had "seen nothing to put in doubt his commitment," although he urged Abbas to take immediate and decisive action to eradicate the terrorism infrastructure. "We recognize that this is a very difficult task," Boucher said. And yet, he said, "it's imperative that the...

I just heard on BBC radio 5 live, that police in Israel have discovered a body, believed to be that of suicide bomber at large, Omar Sharif