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Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

MERIDA, Mexico (AFP) - Twelve decapitated bodies bearing signs of torture were found Thursday in eastern Mexico, authorities said, adding that they were still looking for the heads. Eleven headless male bodies were found piled on top of each other and covered with blankets in a suburb of the city of Merida, the capital of Yucatan state. Some of the cadavers also had their legs tied, an AFP photographer saw. One was completely naked, while others wore denim clothing. Some of the murdered men had tattooed arms. A twelfth body was found in a town called Buctzotz, 70 kilometers (45...

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — A man was stabbed to death then beheaded on a Greyhound bus in an apparent random act of violence, according to an eyewitness. All lanes of traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway remained closed Thursday morning west of Portage la Prairie as the RCMP investigated what they would only refer to as "a major incident" on the bus that was headed from Edmonton to Winnipeg. At about 8:45 p.m. the vehicle was stopped in the eastbound lane following an apparent assault. Garnet Caton, one of 37 passengers on the bus, said he witnessed the attack. "We...

Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S....

As pointed out by this representative of the Florida Attorney General's office, it is impossible to separate national security issues from illegal immigration, and one of the most important illegal immigration issues in Florida is the issue of human trafficking. And as Jake at Freedom Folks notes (thanks for the tip), this story doesn't appear to have been covered by the news wires. Here, a horrifying story is described of a little girl who, after being taken to the Florida panhandle from Mexico, resisted while being raped, and was subsequently made an example of by being beheaded in front of...

Cambridge University has been given £8 million by a Saudi Arabian prince to establish an Islamic studies centre. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, ranked in the top 20 richest men in the world, with a fortune of about £10 billion, has donated the cash to the university to fund a centre in his name for the study of the role of Islam in the Middle East and globally. The gift has been recommended by the university's general board and is expected to be announced in June. advertisement The grandson of King Ibn Saud and nephew of King Abudllah, the prince counts...

Suspected Al-Qaeda militants attacked a village in Diyala province north of Baghdad and beheaded five members of a local group fighting the jihadist network, police said. Police Lieutenant Colonel Najim al-Sumaidaie said the militants raided the village of Benizad, south of the provincial capital Baquba, and attacked a newly created outpost of a local anti-Qaeda "Awakening" group. "Five people from the Sahwa (Awakening) group were shot dead and later beheaded by the militants," Sumaidaie said, referring to groups of mostly Sunni Arabs who have allied with the US military to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq. "We set up the outpost with...

A MAN beheaded his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in a supermarket in Saudi Arabia apparently after a family dispute, newspapers reported. The 25-year-old Syrian national picked up a knife from the store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah yesterday and decapitated the little boy in full view of shoppers, Arab News said. The man apparently killed the little boy following a dispute with the man's sister and brother-in-law, the English-language daily said. ....

BEIJING (AP) — China has closed an understaffed zoo where a rare Siberian tiger was found beheaded and skinned last week and where seven tigers died in the last four years, state media reported Wednesday. Forestry and police officials in Yichang city in Hubei province, where the zoo is located, issued a directive closing the zoo and ordering it to take a range of measures to improve animal security and living conditions, the government's Xinhua News Agency said. The order came after wildlife officials gave details of the seven deaths after the bodies of two stillborn Bengal tiger cubs were...

Suspected separatists crucify informant in Thailand's deep South Nov 29, 2007, 3:55 GMT Pattani, Thailand - In a new spate of atrocities in Thailand's troubled deep South, suspected separatists crucified a Thai-Muslim man for being an informant and beheaded two Thai-Buddhists, military sources said Thursday. The body of Thai-Muslim Abdulloh Malohsae, an assistant headman in Rueso district, Narathiwat province, was found Wednesday nailed to a cross with his throat slashed, and a note pinned to his chest reading, 'This is how the running dogs of Thai officials come to an end.' It was the first time separatists had crucified their...

Three suspected Al Qaeda militants beheaded an Iraqi couple in front of the couple's children, Reuters reported Friday. The suspected militants were reportedly related to the victims, and told a family uncle the male victim was an infidel because he wore Western-style trousers and did not pray, according to the Reuters report. Click link for full story...

Islamic militants in the southern Philippines have killed 14 marines, beheading 10 of them, a military spokesman has said. Nine other marines were wounded and at least four rebels were killed during the incident on Basilan island. The clash took place as the marines were searching for an Italian priest. The priest was seized in June by kidnappers believed to be from either Abu Sayyaf or the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Both groups are seeking an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines. Ceasefire violation? The priest, named as Giancarlo Bossi, was seized by armed men near the coastal village...

IRAQI authorities today found the bodies of 20 beheaded men dumped on the banks of the river Tigris in the town of Salman Pak, just south of Baghdad. Locals spotted the bodies and informed authorities who have yet to identify the victims, police said. Beheadings are a common tactic usually used by radical Sunni groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq

The severed head of a town councilman was dumped outside the offices of a newspaper in Mexico's Gulf state of Tabasco in what the paper's publishers said was an attempt to intimidate reporters. The head, left outside Tabasco Hoy's offices in Villahermosa, was wrapped in newspaper inside a cooler and left by a man who stepped out of a sport utility vehicle early Saturday, the paper said on its Web site.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A 24-year-old man has been arrested, suspected of cutting the head off of a 17-year-old girl's pet dog and leaving it at her front door in a gift-wrapped box. The man, who is expected to be arraigned Friday, was being held on suspicion of terrorist threats. Police said he may be charged with animal cruelty. "I think I can sleep a lot better now," said Crystal Brown. "It will make me feel way safer. Now we can walk around the whole block." Crystal was devastated last month when Chevy, her 4-year-old Australian shepherd mix, went...

Crystal Brown hopes that her nightmares will stop now that St. Paul police have arrested the man they believe decapitated her therapy dog and left its head in a gift box on her doorstep. On Thursday, police recovered evidence that connects the man to the crime, Sgt. Jim Gray said. "He admitted to being there [when the dog was beheaded]," Gray said. The suspect, 24, was jailed Thursday on suspicion of making terroristic threats. The Star Tribune isn't using his name because he hasn't yet been charged; that may happen as early as today and could include animal cruelty charges...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A 17-year-old girl who spent weeks looking for her missing dog unwrapped a box left on her doorstep and found the pet's severed head inside, authorities said. Homicide investigators were looking into the case because of the "implied" terroristic threat, St. Paul Police Sgt. Jim Gray said. The Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday it was offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. "This was extraordinarily heinous," said Dale Bartlett, the Humane Society's deputy manager for animal cruelty issues. "I deal with hundreds and hundreds...

Vandals behead N.Y. George Washington statue POSTED: November 10, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) -- Vandals beheaded a statue of George Washington at one of the world's largest cathedrals and left a dollar bill on what was left of the neck, police said Friday. The damage was discovered Sunday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, near Columbia University, Officer Kathleen Price said. The statue, near the front of the church, is part of a church collection of historical figures spanning 20 centuries. A statue of William Shakespeare represents 17th century, Washington the 18th century, and Abraham Lincoln the 19th...

INDONESIA: Medical Update on Beheading SurvivorSeptember 21, 2006 The sole survivor of a radical Muslim attack on four Christian high school girls has successfully undergone medical treatment. When Noviana Malewa and her three friends were walking home from school on October 29, 2005, they were assaulted by a group of jihadists wielding machetes. Three of the girls were decapitated by the assailants, yet Noviana survived a severe slash to her head and neck in an unsuccessful beheading attempt. Today, Noviana still deals with emotional and physical torment from the brutal attack. Suffering from nerve damage and a dislocated jaw,...

Slain Iraq Hostages' Families Sue Syria Saturday August 26, 2006 2:01 AM By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) - Survivors of two civilian contractors taken hostage and beheaded in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit Friday against Syria, which they claim supported the group who murdered him. ``This is a step they can take to deter states who sponsor terrorists,'' said John Salter, an attorney for Jack Hensley's widow, Pati Hensley, and their teenage daughter, Sara. The plaintiffs also include Francis Gates of Michigan and Holly Pettis, now living in Canada. They are the mother and sister, respectively, of...

Acapulco, Mexico, Jun 30 (EFE).- This world-renowned resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast is being repeatedly shocked by the discovery of menacingly placed human heads separated from slain individuals linked to drug-trafficking or the fighting of that crime. Authorities found Friday two human heads in front of a government office and later located the headless bodies in a vacant lot in Acapulco, the scene in recent weeks of clashes between drug traffickers and police. The two heads were found before dawn outside the offices of the Finance Secretariat of the Guerrero state government in the vicinity of La Garita, authorities...

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Police on Thursday found a human head by the main entrance to City Hall in this Pacific resort, the fourth such grisly discovery this year. The violence comes amid a turf war among drug gangs competing for control of the region, strategically located for smuggling drugs up the coast and into the United States. A note was found signed with the letter "Z," which authorities said was an attempt to link the death to "Las Zetas," a group of former elite Mexican soldiers who now work for the Gulf drug cartel. The discovery came one day after...

Tijuana, Mexico, Jun 21 (EFE).- The decapitated bodies of four people, including three police officers, were found Wednesday in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, authorities said. The four individuals went missing Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning their bodies were found wrapped in blankets in the Pacific coast city of Rosarito and their heads in bags in Tijuana, said Rosarito police chief Valente Montijo. He identified the dead as police officers Ismael Arellano Torres, Jesus Hernandez and Adrian Ventura, and civilian Fernando Aguilar, a Mexican-American resident of Arizona. According to Montijo, the cops and the other man - who...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Apr 30, 2006 (AP)— An Indian hostage's beheaded body was found in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. Taliban militants said they shot the hostage dead as he tried to escape. An Afghan highway police patrol found the decapitated body and its head in the Hassan Kariez district of Zabul province, the same area where Indian telecommunications engineer K. Suryanarayana was abducted Friday, said provincial police chief, Ghulam Nabi Malakhail. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office confirmed the engineer's killing, the second of an Indian hostage in southern Afghanistan in the past six months. "The prime minister condemns...

Beheaded skeletons replay war history Chinese archaeologists have unearthed some 30 beheaded skeletons dating back more than 2,000 years in central China's Henan Province, a cradle of the Chinese civilization. The skeletons were obviously warriors, the tallest of whom was at least 1.85 meters, said Sun Xinmin, head of the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archeology. The human remains were found scattered in a pit in the city of Xinzheng, adjacent to a major battlefield where State Qin overthrew State Han toward the end of the Warring States Period (475 to 221 BC), said Sun. He and his...

"'I WONDERED at first whether the women were exaggerating." The writer is Pamela Bone, a noted Australian journalist and self-described ''left-leaning, feminist, agnostic, environmentalist internationalist." She is writing about a group of female Iraqi emigrees whom she met in November 2000. ''They told me that in Iraq, the country they had fled, women were beheaded with swords and their heads nailed to the front doors of their houses, as a lesson to other women. The executed women had been dishonoring their country with their sexual crimes, and this behavior could not be tolerated, the then-Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, had said...

SUSPECTED Islamic militants have beheaded a teacher in a lawless Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said today. Said Badshah, 35, who ran a private school, failed to return home yesterday in Barwan village, near Wana, the main town in restive South Waziristan tribal agency, a local administration official said. His headless body was found in a remote area this evening, the official said on condition of anonymity. Officials suspect militants were behind Mr Badshah's murder as he had no known enemies in the area and he was the son of a pro-government tribal elder. Militants believed to be linked...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Suspected Islamic separatists beheaded a man at a teashop Wednesday and then left his head in a sack on the side of the road, the latest in a series of bold attacks across southern Thailand defying government attempts to restore peace. In separate incidents also attributed to suspected Islamic militants, two bombs were detonated in Narathiwat province, injuring eight people, including two Buddhist monks. Lek Pongpla, 34, a clothes vendor from northern Thailand, was shot twice before two attackers cut off his head in the teashop in Narathiwat's Joh Irong district, said police Lt. Wattana Ketamphai,...

Politics: 23 February 2005, Wednesday. The beheaded body of a woman has been discovered in the suburbs of the town of Erbil, Northern Iraq, the Iraqi daily Sabah reported. Police say the body might of the journalist who was kidnapped two days ago in the town of Mosul. Raeda Wazzan, a journalist working for a government-funded television station, was kidnapped along with her son, aged 10.

If the Oklahoma City bombers refused to participate in a U.S. election, would the final results be considered “illegitimate?” What if the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, the Communist Party USA, or the Southern Indiana Regional Militia refused to vote in American elections? Would it matter and, really, who gives a damn? The Left-Wing, e.g. the New York Times, has been trying to hold the Iraqi elections to this type of ridiculous standard regarding Sunni participation. Granted: Sunnis make up 32-37% of Iraq’s population. While their representation is important, the majority of terrorist attacks aimed at destabilizing Iraq have...

PAU, France (Reuters) - A nurse was decapitated and another stabbed to death overnight in the psychiatric hospital where they worked in this southwestern French town, a medical source said Saturday. The head of the decapitated nurse was found on top of a television in the geriatric ward, the source said. The second nurse had been stabbed in the neck. "This is unspeakable, scandalous and horrible," said Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, who rushed to the hospital in this town just north of the Pyrenees Mountains. "It was certainly someone very sick who did this." Hospital workers arriving for the Saturday...

As we noted Saturday, Japanese hostage Shosei Koda was beheaded by the Al Qaeda-associated terrorist group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.The monsters have now released stills and video of the beheading.Al Qaeda Organization of Holy War in Iraq said Tokyo had offered a ransom of "millions of dollars" for 24-year-old Koda. It warned Japan to withdraw its forces from Iraq or "drown in the hell of the mujahideen" along with "crusader forces."Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima denied the ransom claim. "It's just groundless. We have not done that," he said, denouncing the video posting as "disgusting." ...The video showed...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A man who beheaded the German shepherd he had named for his girlfriend was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life under the state's three-strikes law. James Abernathy, 43, of La Habra, was convicted in June of felony animal cruelty for killing the dog, named Marie, after a fight with his girlfriend. Abernathy would have faced a maximum of six years if not for two prior convictions in 1986 for assault with a deadly weapon. "The community is much safer after the judge's ruling," said Deputy District Attorney Heather Brown. Defense lawyers claimed Abernathy suffered...

Concern was mounting last night over the fate of two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Baghdad a fortnight ago, after two separate statements appeared on the internet claiming that the women had been killed. Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, were seized with two of their Iraqi colleagues in daylight from their office in central Baghdad on September 7. They had been working in Iraq for several months for the aid agency Bridge to Baghdad. Statements from two separate groups appeared on different websites yesterday, each claiming the murders. Some statements, supposedly from militant groups in Iraq, have proven...

DUBAI: A second group yesterday claimed to have beheaded two women Italian aid workers held hostage in Iraq, in a statement on the Internet, following a similar unconfirmed claim from another group.The authenticity of the claims could not be verified."The heads of the two Italian criminals, Italian intelligence agents Simona Terretta and Simona Pari, were mercilessly cut off with a knife," said the latest statement attributed to a group calling itself Ansar Al Zawahiri.The group, whose name was taken from Ayman Al Zawahiri, the Egyptian number two in the Al Qaeda terror network, said a video would be released...

Sep 20, 5:42 PM (ET) By Ed Cropley BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A militant group in Iraq led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi beheaded American Eugene Armstrong and posted a video of the killing on the Internet on Monday. The hostage's body was later recovered and identified, a U.S. official in Washington told Reuters. It was not immediately clear where or when it was found. The video, broadcast on an Islamist site, showed a masked man sawing the construction contractor's head off with a knife. Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group said they had killed Armstrong because U.S. authorities had...

DUBAI (AFP) - An Islamist website ran a video which it said showed an Egyptian hostage in Iraq being beheaded by the terror group of alleged Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. The victim, named as Mohammed Fawzi Abd Aal Metwalli, is seen encircled by three hooded gunmen and confesses in the videotape to having worked as a spy for US forces in Iraq. After the man's statement, one of the men steps forward and cut his neck with a long knife. The detached head is then placed on the victim's back. The video carries the logo of Zarqawi's group, Tawhid...

(The late) Kim Sun-il, who was recently beheaded in Iraq Here is a Black and White video, taken earlier in the month, of South Korean hostage Mr. Kim Sung -il in Iraq. It is unclear who is questioning him, but it appears he is being detained by captives, and the interrogator certainly is not friendly.The captive's English is fair. In it he makes a number of provocative statements.Whether it was "Stockholm Syndrome" or not (in order to save his own skin) there are anti-Bush and anti-US comments.The man is obviously concerned for his safety. As is known now, he...

I was just given this. On the homepage is a few pictures. Then u can find the video at top by clicking any of those arabic links.. BE WARNED!!!!! BEHOLD THE FACE OF EVIL ISLAM AT WORK. http://www.hostinganime.com/iraqnews2/

~12:49pm~ EST FROM MY MOST TRUSTED PENTAGON CONTACT: I have had a long debate running in my mind. Should I or shouldn't I post pictures, information, or audio concerning the truth about terrorism. That debate ended with the Nick Berg beheading weeks ago. I am so convinced that the left in this nation is willing to sell us - average Americans - out, that they refuse to publish or debate the truth of how bad terrorism still is. John Kerry wishes to go to the U.N. to ask permission for America to defend herself... President Bush believes otherwise. I believe...

BANGKOK, May 29 (AFP) - Assailants decapitated an elderly Buddhist in Thailand's Muslim south Saturday and vowed more such killings if Muslims continued to be arrested for the months-long unrest in the region, police said. It was the first decapitation in the violence, which has claimed some 190 lives since January, police said. Sieng Patkaoe, 63, was attacked by men with machetes early Saturday as he tapped rubber trees on his plantation in the southern province of Narathiwat, district police said. Sieng's severed head was left along a village road. His body, found some 60 metres (yards) away, had a...

The Sacred Muslim Practice of BeheadingBy Andrew G. BostomFrontPageMagazine.com | May 13, 2004 Reactions to the grotesque jihadist decapitation of yet another "infidel Jew," Mr. Berg, make clear that our intelligentsia are either dangerously uninformed, or simply unwilling to come to terms with this ugly reality: such murders are consistent with sacred jihad practices, as well as Islamic attitudes towards all non-Muslim infidels, in particular, Jews, which date back to the 7th century, and the Prophet Muhammad's own example. According to Muhammad’s sacralized biography by Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza, a vanquished Jewish tribe. He appointed...

Should the Geneva Conventions apply to the men who beheaded Nicholas Berg?

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...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A Saudi drug trafficker was beheaded Sunday, a Ministry of Interior statement said. Dhaher bin Thamer al-Shimry was convicted of smuggling marijuana into the kingdom, the statement said. Al-Shimry was beheaded in the eastern province of Hafr al-Baten, bringing the number of beheadings in the kingdom this year to 41, most of them drug traffickers. At least 49 people were beheaded last year. This conservative Gulf country follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of drug trafficking, murder, rape and armed robbery are executed. Beheadings are carried out with a sword in...

Terrorists chop off villager's head in Jammu and Kashmir Press Trust of India Jammu, August 15 Terrorists chopped off head of a villager in Poonch district even as an Al-Badr commander and a BSF jawan were killed in separate incidents in Rajouri and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir since Thursday night, official sources said on Friday. A group of armed terrorists intercepted a shop owner Abdul Kareem in Hari village of Surankote tehsil of Poonch district on Thursday night and abducted him, they said. Karim was severely tortured throughout the night, they said and later his head and limbs...

PHILIPPINE soldiers have recovered headless remains believed to be those of an Indonesian sailor and a Filipino trader who were taken hostage and reportedly killed by Abu Sayyaf guerrillas on southern Jolo island, officials said today. The remains were found buried in a shallow grave in the jungle village of Panglayahan in Patikul town, 940 kilometres south of Manila. Another Indonesian hostage who managed to escape from his captors last week helped the military find the remains. Indonesian Pieter Lerrich told reporters after his escape that he understood that his colleague Munto Jacobus Winowatan had been killed by the guerrillas....

RAJOURI, Aug 24: Two days after the polling process was set in motion for twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch with notification for first phase of polling, the terrorists massacred 10 civilians including three brothers and three women in two incidents at Thanna Mandi and Manajakote areas of Rajouri district late last night. Of 10 fatalities, six were members of a Gujjar family. All of them had been beheaded brutally by the terrorists, official sources said, adding not even a single shot was fired by the ultras in killing the civilians. Father of a prominent doctor Nissar Ahmed, posted...

RAJOURI, Aug 24: Two days after the polling process was set in motion for twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch with notification for first phase of polling, the terrorists massacred 10 civilians including three brothers and three women in two incidents at Thanna Mandi and Manajakote areas of Rajouri district late last night. Of 10 fatalities, six were members of a Gujjar family. All of them had been beheaded brutally by the terrorists, official sources said, adding not even a single shot was fired by the ultras in killing the civilians. Father of a prominent doctor Nissar Ahmed, posted...

RAJOURI, July 26: Pakistan army resumed shelling in Nowshera sector last night causing damage to civilian property and killing and wounding several cattle while the terrorists beheaded a civilian in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district today. Reports said Pakistan army started shelling forward villages in Bhawani area of Nowshera sector late last night. Several shells hit the houses deserted by the people for last four months causing damage to them. Four cattle of Ashok Kumar were killed and five others were injured when two shells hit a cattle shed in Bhawani. However, no civilian casualties were reported in the shelling...