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Hizb ut-Tahir America promotes supremacism as solution to Pakistan violence, poverty

In the Chicago suburb of Lombard on December 20, 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) held a recruitment event to promote its anti-democracy, Islamic supremacist views, with the focus of this event by claiming that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is not sufficiently "Islamic" enough for Hizb ut-Tahrir's goals of creating "Islamic states" in building a global Islamic supremacist caliphate.

Children in the jihadi cause - an Ansar Al-Muahideen video compilation

The following are excerpts from a compilation of videos of Jihadi children, produced by Ansar Al-Mujahideen. The compilation, titled "The Next Generation of Mujahideen," identifies the jihad groups to which the children belong, and shows them training, giving speeches, chanting, and praying.The compilation was posted on the Internet in December 2009.

Students caught in terrorism net

 A NUMBER of students who dropped out of an Australian-affiliated university in Dubai are being investigated for links to the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US aircraft.

2008 FBI audit flagged failure to place terror suspects on watchlist

While the State Department is fending off questions about why it didn’t revoke Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa and points fingers at the National Counterterrorism Center, it’s worth noting that the FBI last year was told, following an in-depth audit by its inspector general, that it had a big problem with failing to place terror suspects on the NCTC’s terror watchlists.

A civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and convictions to defend itself

Indeed, the weakness of the West is its loss of the spirit of its own culture. The West requires not only the existence of certain institutions and principles — legislatures, courts of law, free speech and freedom of religion, for example — but also a populace willing to defend those institutions and principles without apology.

Commentary - Unholy war in cyberspace

Snips: ..... it is almost mission impossible to figure out what terrorists and would-be terrorists are up to in cyberspace.