http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ansaralislam/ en-us Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:50:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040466/posts An Islamist group has sent threatening letters to Assyrian churches in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, asking them not to cooperate with US forces. The letter sent by The Batallion of Just Punishment, Jihad Base in Mesopotamia, also opposes the establishment of a sectarian Assyrian-Christian police force, reported the Assyrian International News Agency on Wednesday. "We caution and warn anyone who tries to rob us through dealings with the Americans or through the spreading of American forces and/or police to protect the Holy Shrines in the Islamic Republic of Iraq, that these shrines would remain target of the freedom... AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040466/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:50:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003489/posts After months of quiet diplomacy, the Norwegian government has given up on efforts to send former terrorist-group leader Mullah Krekar back to his homeland. Krekar, who has been under an expulsion order after being determined a threat to Norway's national security, initially came to Norway as a refugee from Iraq in the early 1990s. It later emerged that he was the head of guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam and he repeatedly violated the terms of his asylum by travelling back to northern Iraq to lead guerrilla activities. Krekar is the only person in Norway ever to have been sentenced to deportation... Aftenposten http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003489/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993470/posts The Liberal media has been focused on a so called Gaffe John McCain has made recently in the press. Example is this IPS news story http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41693 POLITICS-US: McCain's Gaffes Reflect Bush's Iran-Qaeda Myth Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (IPS) - Sen. John McCain's confusion in recent allegations of Iranian training of al Qaeda fighters in Iraq is the result of a drumbeat of official propaganda about close Iran-al Qaeda ties that the George W. Bush administration and neoconservatives have promoted ever since early 2002. Funny how the left-wing press is eager to point out a McCain Gaffe when... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993470/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:30:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880462/posts Insight News Television presents a film on Ansar al-Islam - the radical Islamic militia named by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in his speach to the UN. He said it was one of the missing links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Our reporter, Jonathan Miller, spent two days with Ansar's leader, Mullah Krekar. Krekar's an Iraqi Kurd, but is today living in Norway, which granted his family political asylum ten years ago. Refugee status hasn't stopped him from returning regularly to Northern Iraq to wage jihad and commit human rights abuses against his own people. Krekar set... Insight News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880462/posts#comment Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:14:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812188/posts A former Defense and Finance Minister of post-invasion Iraq, Ali A. Allawi has completed and just released a book titled "The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace" that talks about the inner workings of many things that took place in post-invasion Iraqi government. Amir Taheri's review of the book for Asharq al Alawsat reveals that Allawi's points to some of the roots of today's violence in Iraq going back over a decade to when Saddam Hussein used violent groups for his own domestic purposes. One of the most interesting revelations in this book is Allawi's account of... Regime of Terror http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812188/posts#comment Thu, 5 Apr 2007 01:08:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808229/posts The Iranian Revolution in Iraq KOMALAH COMPOUND, NORTHERN IRAQ ? They were supposed to be social democrats, the people Patrick Lasswell and I met yesterday in a compound outside the city of Suleimaniya, the cultural capital of Northern Iraqi Kurdistan. We had it all set up. We were to meet Abu Bakr Mudarisy and his associates for lunch at 11:00 A.M. and learn what we could about the anti-government resistance a few miles away in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Our driver Yusef misunderstood and took us to the wrong place. He did drop us off where we met left-wing... michaeltotten.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808229/posts#comment Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:26:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774210/posts ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - A Turkish court on Friday sentenced seven men caught in 2004 while allegedly planning to assassinate visiting U.S. President George W. Bush , CNN-Turk reported. The seven were said to be members of the Ansar al-Islam radical Islamic group, which prosecutors said has ties to al-Qaida. They were caught in a raid before a June 2004 NATO Summit in Istanbul, which Bush attended. The leader of the group, Alpaslan Toprak, was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison, while the other six defendants each received six years and three months, CNN-Turk reported. They were... AOL News/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774210/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:54:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251779/posts Globalterroralert.com 10/21/04http://www.globalterroralert.com/ansarsunnah1004-4.pdf "Those of us from the Ansar Al-Sunnah Army celebrate and congratulate the Muslims and all of our mujahideen brothers in the Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement on the occasion of their inclusion on the list of terrorists... Praise be to Allah, it increased the joy in our hearts that John Kerry, the presidential candidate, has criticized the Bush government for taking so long in making this declaration. The one who may become the president of America is already struck with terror by our brothers from the Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement. The repeated attacks that have targeted the evil Bush are now... Globalterroralert.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251779/posts#comment Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748553/posts Lt. General Michael DeLong discusses intelligence behind U.S. concern over Ansar al-Islam terror/poison camp in Northern IraqA recent conversation Lt. General Michael DeLong revealed new information on prewar intelligence on Iraq that has received little, if any, public attention thus far. General DeLong was the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and was directly involved with the pre-invasion preparation for Operation Iraqi Freedom. He offered the observation that Bush administration officials appear to have been reluctant thus far in explaining the prewar intelligence and evidence tying members of Saddam Hussein’s regime to the... Regime of Terror http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748553/posts#comment Tue, 5 Dec 2006 04:53:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748205/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - Three undercover CIA officers arrived in Norway in the spring of 2003 as part of a possible secret operation targeting for rendition an Islamic militant living in Oslo known as Mullah Krekar, The Washington Post reported. Citing lawyers and unnamed European investigators, the newspaper said shortly after the agents arrived, Krekar received a warning from an anonymous Norwegian official that Krekar, then head of a Kurdish insurgent group, was a CIA target and should watch his back. The spies left Norway by the end of the summer, the report said. If the CIA was planning to abduct... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748205/posts#comment Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:32:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189238/posts ALBANY - A mosque leader charged with helping launder money in a missile plot thought all the weapon talk was a joke, his lawyer said yesterday - but prosecutors were not laughing. Imam Yassin Muhiddin Aref was jailed without bail after prosecutors questioned why his name was found in a notebook in a terrorist camp listed as "Commander Yassin, United States." They also unveiled a photo of the imam's co-defendant watching as an informant shouldered a real surface-to-air missile in the back room of an Albany-area convenience store. That was among the evidence cited by prosecutors in Albany Federal Court... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189238/posts#comment Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:37:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700835/posts ALBANY -- Jurors heard three opening statements this morning in the federal trial of two Albany men facing terrorism-related charges. Yassin M. Aref, 36, the jailed spiritual leader of a Central Avenue mosque, and Mohammed M. Hossain, 51, a city pizza shop owner, are accused of taking part in a plot to sell missile launchers to terrorists during an FBI sting that began in July 2003. The men face up to 400 years in prison if convicted. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Pericak for the government; Kent Sprotbery for Aref; and Kevin Luibrand for Hossain made brief opening statements in U.S.... Times Union http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700835/posts#comment Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:24:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706362/posts Sheikh Zana’ gang became the first group that have formally been executed by the Kurdistan Regional Government’s authorities, reported local media in Kurdistan on Thursday. The group of 11 people were hanged in the capital of Kurdistan, Arbil on Thursday. The group was named after their leader Zana Nasrat Sheikh Abdulkarim Barzinji, known as Sheikh Zana. The group members confessed to their crimes on Kurdistan’s TV few months ago. KurdishMedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706362/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:40:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1679692/posts Revisiting Ansar al Islam's CBW capabilities kurdmap (Back-to-Iraq photo) With the upcoming Senate Intelligence report due shortly, perhaps the question of where and how Ansar al Islam received CBW know-how (which included ricin, botulinum and possibly cyanide) and equipment will finally be answered. Initial reports from American media outlets mentioned the findings of the Ansar al Islam camps in Northern Iraq included directions on making high grade explosives and Iraqi military grade TNT in addition to the CBW starter kit. As mentioned by both the 9-11 Commission and Senate Intelligence Committee, the group's support from Saddam Hussein's regime included various... Regime of Terror http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1679692/posts#comment Tue, 8 Aug 2006 05:13:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668426/posts A Norwegian newspaper is reporting that several agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been present and operating in Norway, in an effort to spirit Mullah Krekar out of the country. US officials have long suspected Krekar of having terrorist links. As the former head of guerrilla group Ansar al-Islam, Krekar also is accused of murders back in Iraq, and he has voiced support for Islamic terrorists on Arabic television. Newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad has reported that the US government tried to spirit Krekar out of Norway three years ago. The newspaper said it had information showing that several... www.aftenposten.no http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668426/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:43:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1654149/posts Ansar al-Islam and Saddam Hussein's regime Much has been written about Iraq's possible state-sponsorship of the Islamic militant group , who resided in Northern Iraq between 2001 and 2003, referred to by an assortment of names (Jund al-Islam, Ansar al-Islam, later Ansar al-Sunnah, etc.). Now that some of the people involved in the possible relationship have been caught and interrogated, and the region has been secured and analyzed, the story should be reevaluated. What allegations of support can be better confirmed or denied 3 years after the start of the U.S. led invasion? markeichenlaub.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1654149/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:26:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1651329/posts How [radical] Islam makes one into a fascist, whether you are Arab, black, etc. The broader view of the deep & wide reality of Islamofascism What do the Arab Muslim massacre in NYC WTC, The Pakistani Muslim bombing in London, the Arab Muslim bombing in Madrid, an Indonesian attack on Australians in Bali, an Arab Muslim racist attack on an ordinary Jew in Paris, Arabs' onslaught in the genocide campaign in Sudan, WW2's Bosnian Muslims attacking Christian Serbs, Jordanian Arab murderer: Zarqawi that seperated (Nazi style) between Shiite & Sunni kids on a bus, Arab slave masters in Mauritania, a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1651329/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:56:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628506/posts TERRORIST CHEMICAL EXPERT KILLED IN BAGHDAD RAID Release Date: 5/8/2006 Release Number: 06-05-08P Description: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Ansar al-Islam member and chemical expert, Ali Wali, was killed May 6th at approximately 1 p.m. during a counterterrorist raid in the Mansur district of Baghdad. Iraqi civilians transported the two bodies to the morgue where Coalition forces later confirmed the identity of the wanted terrorist, Ali Wali. Neither Iraqi nor Coalition forces were able to confirm the identity of the driver, who was killed. Ali Wali, full name believed to be Abbas bin Farnas bin Qafqas, was a 37 or 38-year-old Iraqi... Centcom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628506/posts#comment Mon, 8 May 2006 12:19:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611023/posts Iraqi Ansar Al-Islam Commander Mullah Krekar in Norway: "No Peace Between West & Islam Until Islamic Caliphate is Re-established; Bin Laden & Al-Zawahiri are Good People; Muslims in Europe Increase Like Mosquitoes – By 2050 Europe Will Be 30% Muslim" In the aftermath of the controversy over the cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the Internet edition of the Norwegian daily Dagbladet interviewed Kurdish Iraqi Islamist Mullah Krekar. In it, Krekar expounded his views on relations between Islam and the West. Krekar, whose real name is Najm Al-Din Faraj Ahmad, came to Norway as a refugee in 1991, where he established... MEMRI.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611023/posts#comment Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:09:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609451/posts ARBIL, (Southern Kurdistan), April 4, 2006 (AFP) - A court in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region Tuesday sentenced to death 12 members of militant group Ansar Al-Islam for numerous killings and explosions, an Arbil judiciary official said. "Zana Nusrat Abdel Karim, the chief of a cell of Ansar al-Islam and 11 other members were condemned to death by the criminal court of Arbil," the official told AFP. The 12 were convicted of numerous "terrorist" activities and killings of civilians in Kurdistan's Arbil and Dahuk regions, the official said. Karim, 35, a mechanical engineer and resident of Arbil used to carry out... AFP via Kurdistan Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609451/posts#comment Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:05:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602088/posts ALBANY -- The spiritual leader of an Albany mosque repeatedly called a phone number in Syria that an FBI report indicates had been used to gather terrorist intelligence for Osama bin Laden, according to classified documents unsealed late Tuesday in U.S. District Court. The FBI report, which was based on information from a confidential informant, was among several once-secret documents that federal authorities say raise questions about Yassin Aref's connections to terrorist organizations across the Middle East. Aref, 35, a Kurdish refugee who moved to Albany with his family in 1999, is in jail without bond while awaiting trial on... timesunion.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602088/posts#comment Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:01:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576687/posts In the coded language of Lokman Amin Mohammed's smuggling network, fighters and suicide bombers sent to Iraq were called "workers" for "the firm." When one band of fighters he smuggled from Germany launched its first attack, Mohammed exclaimed in a phone conversation: "They have celebrated their first feast." Last month, the 33-year-old was sentenced in Munich to seven years in prison for smuggling fighters to and from Iraq, and for membership in "the firm," better known as Ansar al-Islam, an Al Qaeda-linked group responsible for suicide attacks against civilians and U.S. soldiers. During sentencing, Justice Bernd von Heintschel-Heinegg said Mohammed's... Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576687/posts#comment Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:51:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574117/posts An American citizen held in Iraq since 2004 allegedly worked with terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and helped plan insurgent attacks on foreigners in Iraq, NBC News has learned. msnbc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574117/posts#comment Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:20:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524762/posts Brescia and Naples, 18 Nov. (AKI) - The three Algerians detained on Tuesday in the Italian cities of Brescia and Naples were planning a massive terror attack - "on a ship as big as the Titanic, packed with explosives" - that aimed to kill "at least 10,000 people", as well as an attack on "Italian citizens and interests" in Tunisia, according phone conversations between the three men, which Italian anti-terror police say they intercepted after al-Qaeda's deadly 7 July attacks on London and on the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. In their tapped phone conversations, Yamine Bouhrama, Mohamed... adnkronosInternational http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524762/posts#comment Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538470/posts Twisting the Al-Qaida Connection Posted by Mithridate Ombud on November 28, 2005 - 15:22. Robyn Blumner, former ACLU Director and current St. Petersburg Times columnist retreads this old leftist tire: Fox News gives its audience what it wants, too. That's why, in 2003, a survey from the Program on International Policy Attitudes found that 67 percent of its loyal viewers believed the fallacy that Saddam Hussein was connected to al-Qaida, whereas only 40 percent of those who relied on print media were confused on that point. Welcome to the "informed" electorate of a newspaper-free world. It's already starting to give... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538470/posts#comment Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:54:23 GMT