http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alqaeda/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:20:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051361/posts He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with. I don't think we'd have any difficulty in devising an international -- internationally supported mechanism that would mete out justice. There's no problem there." McCain said it would be a "good thing to reveal to the world the enormity of this guy's crimes, and his intentions, which are still there." CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051361/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:20:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051275/posts From an original article at Maggie's Notebookhttp://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/07/video-chills-to-bone-muslim-americans.html H/T to ztruth who asked "are there machine-gun sounds at the end of it?"Check-out the link to No Compromise after the video: questions asked by Muslim Americans for Obama and answered by them, along with some pithy commentary from No Compromise.Thanks to YouTube.com From Radarsite: Some months ago, Radarsite posted an article on the disquieting similarities between Barack Obama's plans for Iraq and al Qaeda's plans for Iraq [see below]. At that time, I made the conjecture that Obama was either a pro-Islamist working in coordination with our enemies or a bumbling... Radarsite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051275/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:02:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051099/posts Whistling Past the Graveyard   By John PerazzoFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 25, 2008 Last week, columnist Paul Weyrich reported that there is credible evidence that Osama bin Laden has acquired twenty suitcase-sized nuclear bombs from Chechen rebels in the former Soviet Union and smuggled them into the United States by way of the Mexican border. If that is true, the al Qaeda kingpin has laid the groundwork for an “American Hiroshima” plan that he intends to carry out in the very near future. Once bin Laden gives the signal, his henchmen will proceed to detonate their explosives in a... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051099/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:38:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051098/posts Whistling Past the Graveyard   By John PerazzoFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 25, 2008 Last week, columnist Paul Weyrich reported that there is credible evidence that Osama bin Laden has acquired twenty suitcase-sized nuclear bombs from Chechen rebels in the former Soviet Union and smuggled them into the United States by way of the Mexican border. If that is true, the al Qaeda kingpin has laid the groundwork for an “American Hiroshima” plan that he intends to carry out in the very near future. Once bin Laden gives the signal, his henchmen will proceed to detonate their explosives in a... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051098/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048186/posts Everything was on fire. The trucks. The bazaar. The grass. It looked surreal. It looked like a movie. That was what Spc. Tyler Stafford remembered thinking as he stepped onto the medical evacuation helicopter. The 23-year-old soldier would have been loaded onto the bird, but the poncho that was hastily employed as his stretcher broke. His body speckled with grenade and RPG shrapnel, the Vicenza, Italy, infantryman walked the last few feet to the waiting Black Hawk. That was Sunday morning in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province. At a forward operating base — maybe as big as a football field —... Stars and Stripes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048186/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:35:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050884/posts Islamofascism: A new study confirms our "ally" Saudi Arabia is still poisoning young Muslim minds with anti-Western textbooks. So? Its hate-filled graduates are enrolling at our colleges.The Hudson Institute reviewed the 2007-08 textbooks distributed by the Saudi Ministry of Education and found that, despite promised reforms, the kingdom still teaches students to "hate the infidels." The texts assert that it's "permissible" for a Muslim to kill an "apostate," an "adulterer," a "homosexual," as well as non-Muslims practicing "polytheism," or Christianity. The violent ideology is introduced in a religion textbook in the first grade and reinforced and developed in following years... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050884/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050892/posts WASHINGTON, July 24, 2008 – Al-Qaida terrorists have been largely marginalized in Iraq’s Babil province, thanks to the joint efforts of Iraqi and U.S. security forces, as well as local “Sons of Iraq” citizen security groups, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today. “The organization related to al-Qaida is severely disrupted, … as well as the [extremist] militia” in Babil province,” Army Col. Tom James, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, said during a satellite-carried news conference with Pentagon reporters. “Overall, we are extremely optimistic about the security situation in Babil province, because... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050892/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050891/posts WASHINGTON, July 24, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces detained five suspected terrorists and found weapons caches during recent operations in Iraq, military officials said. Yesterday in Baghdad, coalition and Iraqi forces captured five suspected terrorists and uncovered an insurgent rocket-launch site, officials said. Iraqi troops discovered and blocked off the site after spotting a rocket and rail system in the city’s Jihad neighborhood. Soldiers from 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team searched the surrounding communities, eventually detaining the suspects – three in the Saydiyah neighborhood and two in the Zubaida community, officials said. Coalition troops found two roadside... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050891/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:23:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050201/posts BAGHDAD – The 33rd Iraqi Army confiscated more than 4,000 pounds of homemade explosives made of fertilizer and diesel fuel from a farm near Karbala, Iraq July 22.  Four men were detained and taken to the Karbala Police Directorate for questioning.-30- Multi-National Corps – Iraq Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050201/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:10:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050278/posts BALAD, Iraq – Since the beginning of July, three highly sought after suspected terrorists have surrendered to Iraqi Security and Coalition forces. An emir of the Sinjar area Islamic State of Iraq, a front organization for al-Qaeda in Iraq, surrendered to the Iraqi Army for reconciliation in Kisik July 5, about 43 km west of Mosul. The suspect is reportedly involved in terrorist and foreign fighter facilitation and a leader of rocket and improvised explosive device cells. In Rutbah, a suspected AQI emir of the Rutbah region turned himself in to Coalition forces. The suspect is known to facilitate foreign... Multi-National Corps – Iraq Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050278/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:15:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050385/posts WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda allies running terror camps for tots on the Afghan-Pakistan border are using video of a boy “martyred” in combat to recruit jihadis. The apparently lifeless body of the child, an Uzbek boy younger than 11, is the focus of the grisly half-hour video by the Islamic Jihad Union — a radical Uzbek group practically indistinguishable from Osama Bin Laden’s network, according to U.S. officials. "In a fierce battle in Waziristan between the soldiers of Allah and the friends of Satan, Abd al-Rahim was wounded by an arrow," says an Uzbek narrator, referring to a bullet or... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050385/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050250/posts n a rare move, one of al-Qaida's highest-ranking leaders has conducted an on-camera interview with a journalist and, in the process, called for the destruction of Pakistan's government. It was the first time since 2002 that any top al-Qaida official has taken the security risk of sitting down for an interview with a bonafide journalist.Abu Mustafa al-Yazid, an Egyptian whom U.S. intelligence officials have identified as the al-Qaeda's third highest-ranking official, sat for an interview with Najeeb Ahmad, a reporter for Geo TV. Geo TV is a private Pakistani television channel.  In the interview, Yazid, also known as Sheikh Saeed,... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050250/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:21:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050206/posts WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces caught five suspected terrorists and seized two weapons caches in Iraq over the past three days, military officials said. In separate raids in Baghdad today, troops captured a suspected kidnapping cell member and nabbed a man with alleged ties to al-Qaida leaders in Iraq and other countries. The operations targeted al-Qaida in Iraq's financial infrastructure around the Iraqi capital, military officials said. In a related operation yesterday, coalition forces detained an alleged al-Qaida in Iraq financier and one additional suspect during a raid near Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad. Elsewhere... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050206/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050185/posts Coalition partners meeting: ‘Foreign attacks on Pakistan won’t be tolerated’ * Pakistan’s territory will not be used for terrorist attacks * Issues of militancy, extremism will be brought before parliament for discussion By Zulfiqar Ghuman ISLAMABAD: The government’s coalition partners unanimously agreed on Wednesday that no foreign attacks would be tolerated on the country’s sovereign soil. During a seven-hour meeting between the heads of the ruling parties at Prime Minister’s House, the coalition partners said that no one would be allowed to use Pakistan’s territory to stage terrorist attacks on foreign countries, and challenge the writ of state. The meeting... Daily Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050185/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050178/posts Bill Roggio checks in with Brett to talk about the latest on the visit to the Middle East by Barack Obama, plus Bill's take on the latest in Iraq, Pakistan and also Yemen. Interesting revelations and analysis by Bill Roggio as always. Covert Radio Show.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050178/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:21:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050058/posts Bin Laden happy with September 11 toll, war court told Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:58pm EDT By Jim Loney GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's driver overheard the al Qaeda leader saying he was happy about the death toll in the September 11 attacks and thought the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was shot down, according to one of the driver's interrogators. The evidence by Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent, was meant to support the case by prosecutors at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal that the driver, Salim Hamdan, was close to... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050058/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:13:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049951/posts Barack Obama said: "We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there." Mr. Obama should have supported the surge in Iraq, but that doesn't mean that advocating one in Afghanistan makes sense ==== snip ====== Regional Command East has been applying a standard formula in 14 Afghan provinces, usually with great success. Even privates can tell you that it's about living among the people, building projects for them, and, in the Pashtun belt, getting the tribes on your side >==== snip ====== Nuristanis -- who were converted from paganism to Islam only... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049951/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:48:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049826/posts The Afghan government believes that key leaders in the Pakistani army and intelligence service (the ISI) are still making deals, some of them secret, with the Taliban and Islamic radical groups, to make it easier for Afghanistan to be attacked, while providing Pakistan some immunity from terrorism. This kind of cynical arrangement is a staple of politics, especially in the Moslem world. Islamic radical groups will grant such immunity from attack in return for favors, then later resume attacks. So while the Afghan accusations may sound bizarre to Western ears, they make a lot of sense along the Afghan-Pakistan border.... Strategy Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049826/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:54:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049821/posts AMMAN: The US Democratic candidate Barack Obama said that a conspiracy is being planned in tribal areas for attacking the United States. Talking with journalists on arriving in Jordan from Iraq, Barack Obama said that the situation in tribal areas is deteriorating and more US troops are needed in Afghanistan. Obama said that he is willing for the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan within 16 months after he becomes the US president. King Abdullah warmly received him on arriving in Jordan. geo.tv (Pakistan) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049821/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:04:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049790/posts GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the September 11 attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in an attempt to draw a link between Salim Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. REUTERS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049790/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:05:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049652/posts WASHINGTON, July 22, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces detained 14 suspected terrorists and found weapon caches during recent operations in Iraq, military officials said. Today in northern Iraq, coalition and Iraqi forces captured seven suspected terrorists, including an alleged al-Qaida kidnapping cell leader, officials said. U.S. and Iraqi troops detained the alleged cell leader and another suspect in Kirkuk after receiving tips from previously captured associates of the suspects. The alleged cell leader reportedly is tied to kidnappings and terrorist activities in Kirkuk and Salahuddin provinces, officials said. Coalition forces captured five other suspected terrorists during an operation near... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049652/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:48:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049595/posts Current Biological Threat The risk of a large-scale biological attack on the Nation is significant. We know that our terrorist enemies have sought to use biological agents as instruments of their warfare, and we believe that capability is within their reach. I know many here today recall the anthrax attacks of 2001. As you know, Mr. Chairman, certain buildings occupied by Members of the Legislative Branch were temporarily closed while they were decontaminated. The magnitude of that terrorist attack is miniscule compared to the larger, anthrax release envisioned by our enemies. It is nonetheless exemplary of the potential health and... Department of Homeland Security Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049595/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:50:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049531/posts The son of Egyptian and Palestinian parents who raised their son on a steady diet of anti-Western mantra, the Holy blessings of the act of martyrdom, and other radical Islamic virtues, Khadr was captured by U.S. troops far from his Toronto home..... The Moderate Separatist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049531/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:42:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049494/posts The man believed to be al-Qaeda's commander of operations in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, has given a rare television interview. He confirmed to the Pakistani TV station Geo that al-Qaeda carried out the June bombing of the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Geo say the interview was carried out in the Afghan province of Khost. This is the first interview granted by a senior al-Qaeda member to the independent media since 2002. It was conducted by Geo TV's reporter Najib Ahmad in an undisclosed location in Khost, in the east of the country. 'Proud' Mustafa Abu al-Yazid is... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049494/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:21:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049471/posts Islamist Radicals Working To Implement New Golden Rule: He Who Has the Gold, Makes the RulesWhile liberal pols’ and journalists’ antagonist in their ongoing demon of the week drama is currently oil speculators, other more insidious market actors could be in action causing deeper and more lasting harm.According to a recent post on the Terror Finance blog by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, the war on Islamic Fascism should also include an understanding of Shari’a finance and its role in subverting Western economies. Money quotes: Rising oil prices and the West’s dependency on Middle East oil, combined with... Lone Star Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049471/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:52 GMT