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Palestinian Gunman Kills Israeli Settler, Wounds Teenage Girl Ross Dunn Jerusalem 03 Apr 2004, 12:24 UTC A Palestinian gunman broke into a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Saturday, killing an Israeli man and wounding his teenage [12 year old] daughter. Israeli troops shot and killed the attacker, as soldiers launched raids into other parts of the territory, arresting more than 20 wanted Palestinians. A Palestinian gunman, armed with an automatic rifle, entered the Jewish settlement of Avnei Hefetz in the West Bank through a hole in the community's security fence. He approached a house and opened fire at...

Posted on Sat, Apr. 03, 2004 Blast Kills One As Spanish Seek SuspectsMAR ROMANAssociated Press MADRID, Spain - Spanish police searching for suspects in last month's Madrid train bombings cordoned off an area south of the capital, and an ensuing explosion killed one person, officials said Saturday.The explosion inside the building where the suspects were believed to be hiding also injured seven people, an emergency services spokesman said.An Interior Ministry official said on condition of anonymity, "We don't know the exact origin of the explosion. We think it was probably set off by people resisting the arrests."The police operation...

BAGHDAD : US tanks deployed in the Iraqi capital to stop hundreds of angry protestors marching on the coalition's city-centre headquarters as Shiite Muslim radicals took to the streets across central and southern Iraq. The protest in the capital turned violent as some supporters of radical leader Moqtada Sadr threw themselves at the US tanks and a police officer said at least two of the demonstrators had been crushed. Advertisement There was no immediate confirmation of the deaths from police headquarters or the US military. Huge protests were also held in the central pilgrimage city of Najaf and as far...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa man on Tuesday became the first person charged under Canada's new anti-terrorism laws when police accused him of terrorist activity in Canada and in England. Mohammad Momin Khawaja, 24, has been charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act of participating in the activity of a terrorist group and facilitating a terrorist activity. According to an RCMP news release some of the activity may have taken place in London, England. The RCMP arrested Khawaja at work on Monday. He appeared in court on Tuesday and will stay in jail until at least Friday. He is the Canadian-born son of...

<p>MADRID, Spain -- Three suspects in the Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up Saturday in a building while surrounded by police, killing one special forces agent and wounding 11 police officers, the interior minister said.</p> <p>The blast in Leganes, a southern suburb of Madrid, blew away part of the walls of the building. Police had earlier evacuated residents and cordoned off part of the town.</p>

Gliding his straight razor over a client's face, Ahmed Kadduri, of the Kadduri barber shop in the largely Sunni neighborhood of Adamiyeh, lifted his eyes long enough to spit out, "It was the Zionists and the foreign organizations that did it." He was, of course, referring to Wednesday's murder of four and the mutilation of two American contractors in Fallujah. The lynchings, referred to by many here as the "accident," remain a much-debated topic, slicing down the center of Iraq's political and ethnic divide and pitting Sunni against Shi'ite. Despite the mutilations' denunciation of by some Fallujah clerics, over the...

British Police Arrest 8 Terror Suspects, and Seize Bomb-Grade Fertilizer in Anti-Terror Sweep The Associated Press LONDON March 30 — Police arrested eight men and seized half a ton of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer compound used in the Oklahoma City bombing, in raids by hundreds of officers one of the biggest anti-terrorism operations in Britain since the Sept. 11 attacks. Home Secretary David Blunkett, who has warned for months that London is a prime terrorist target, said the arrests Tuesday were a "timely reminder" of the threat from al-Qaida. But a Muslim leader warned that the headline-grabbing dawn raids risked...

Some officials have warned that the April 13-15 Songkran holiday is a likely target date for insurgents to detonate bombs made from the stolen ammonium nitrate. The day before British police seized half a tonne of ammonium nitrate in England, ``insurgents'' in Thailand's Muslim-majority, violent South successfully stole three times that amount, enough for a bomb similar to the explosives which bloodied Istanbul, Riyadh and Bali. ``About 1,500 kilogrammes [3,300 pounds] was the stolen amount'' of ammonium nitrate taken by gunmen from a quarry in southern Thailand, said Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's spokesman, Jakrapob Penkair, in a recorded interview on...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me A human being was murdered tonight, and his daughter was injured lightly in a terror shooting attack perpetrated by a terrorist who entered the "Avni Hevetz" community in the Shomron. From a first account report by security officials, it is seen that the terrorist got to the community a little before 1AM, when he is armed in a Kalashnikov rifle, and entered the community through a opening in the fence. He got closer towards a residential house next to the synagogue and knocked on the door. When no one answered, he started to...

ROME - Videotapes of a key al-Qaida suspect urging followers to destroy Rome have reportedly been found by Italian police, heightening concerns about security in Italy and at the Vatican ahead of Easter. Tapes featuring Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric named by Britain as the spiritual inspiration for the lead Sept. 11 hijacker, were found during recent raids in the northern Italian town of Cremona, weekly news magazine Panorama reported on Friday.

A Shia militia group loyal to radical cleric Muqtada Sadr has wiped out a large village in central Iraq which refused to adhere to its puritanical creed, killing many of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Hundreds of militiamen from the Mahdi's Army group besieged the town of Kawali, 10km south of the city of Diwaniya, with mortars and smashed walls with sledgehammers three weeks ago, reducing to rubble the entire village famed for its dancers and prostitutes since the 1920s. On Friday scavengers scoured the ruins, loading bricks from houses, a school and a mosque into pickup...

Today: April 02, 2004 at 10:50:56 PST Malaysian Terrorists: Osama Inspired UsBy JASBANT SINGHASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Admitting they were part of an Islamic terrorist group, four jailed Malaysians said Friday that a string of attacks against churches and other targets in Southeast Asia - including bombings in Bali that killed 202 people - was inspired by Osama bin Laden. The claims, made in televised interviews, supported assertions that the Jemaah Islamiyah group is tied into al-Qaida. But comments by the suspects were denied by the accused leader of Jemaah Islamiyah and drew fire from human rights...

Mar. 30, 2004 9:25 Philippines: 'Madrid size' terror attack thwarted By ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines A terrorist bombing on the scale of the Madrid attacks has been averted with the arrests of four Abu Sayyaf members and the confiscation of 36 kilograms of TNT, the Philippine president said Tuesday. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who faces a tough campaign for re-election May 10, said the explosives were to have been used to bomb trains and shopping malls in Manila. "We have prevented a Madrid-level attack in the metropolis," she said, referring to the sprawling capital of more than 10 million people....

Islamic Terror Ethicist Defends Fallujah Corpse Mutilations The leader of something called The European Council for Fatwa and Research is defending the Iraqi thugs who mutilated the corpses of four U.S. businessmen killed earlier this week in the city of Fallujah, saying the barbaric practice is "permissible" under Islamic law under certain circumstances. Sourcing an April 1 report in Islam Online, the Middle East Media Research Institute noted Friday: "In response to a question about the legality of mutilating corpses of enemies during wartime, Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi of the European Council for Fatwa and Research stated that such acts are...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A strategy paper posted on a Web site sympathetic to al Qaeda lists Jews, Americans and Britons as main targets, and calls on militant cells worldwide to "turn the infidels' lands into hell." The document, describing targets militants should hit, portrays itself as "diplomacy written in blood, decorated with body parts and perfumed with gunpowder." It was in the latest issue of a guerrilla warfare manual posted on Web sites that covers subjects ranging from ideology to weapons handling. The document, entitled al-Battar (Sword) Camp, could not be independently authenticated but its tone and content resembled earlier...

A massive theft of explosives has alarmed Thai authorities. Mark Baker reports from Singapore. For more than 30 years a small but persistent band of Islamic activists in southern Thailand has waged a sporadic and occasionally violent campaign in the hope of seeing their minority Muslim enclave break away from the predominantly Buddhist kingdom. That dream might remain as distant and improbable as ever, but suddenly the stakes are a lot higher. Late on Tuesday night, a group of 10 masked men armed with automatic weapons raided a quarry at Libon, near the border with Malaysia, and made off with...

Jubilant crowds dragged the burnt and mutilated bodies of four Americans through the streets of Fallujah yesterday amid some of the most horrific scenes witnessed since the invasion of Iraq. The four were driving along the main road when they were caught in a vicious crossfire from Iraqis wearing headscarves. The spot is a favourite site for attacks in the pro-Saddam Hussein town. Yesterday, the corpses were dismembered before parts were hung from a green iron bridge over the Euphrates river, witnesses said. Other remains were hung from an electricity pole. People chanted: "We sacrifice our blood and souls for...

Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe : The Afghan-Bosnian NetworkAvailability: This item has not yet been released. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. Price: $19.95 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Pre-order this book today from Amazon June 2004 288pp bibliog, index Evan F. Kohlmann Senior Terrorism Analyst, The Investigative Project, Washington, DC Why did so many of the September 11th hijackers spend time in Germany? How did terrorist sleeper cells plant themselves in cities like London, Paris, Rome, and Hamburg? What exactly is Al Qaida’s connection to...

EU 'covered up' attacks on Jews by young Muslims By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 01/04/2004) Jewish leaders accused the European Union yesterday of covering up the true scale of anti-Semitic violence carried out by Muslim youths, reigniting a controversy over Europe's failure to confront Islamic extremism at home. A study released by the EU's racism and xenophobia monitoring centre astounded experts by concluding that the wave of anti-Jewish persecution over the last two years stemmed from neo-Nazi or other racist groups. "The largest group of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic activities appears to be young, disaffected white Europeans," said a...

<p>Cheering crowds reveled in a barbaric orgy yesterday, slaughtering four Americans with grenades and dragging their charred and dismembered bodies through the streets of Fallujah before hanging them from lampposts.</p> <p>"Yes to Islam. We make Fallujah the graveyard of the Americans," onlookers shouted, according to a witness who arrived shortly after the killings but in time to see the grisly aftermath.</p>

April 1, 2004 4 From U.S. Killed in Ambush in Iraq; Mob Drags BodiesBy JEFFREY GETTLEMAN ALLUJA, Iraq, March 31 — Four Americans working for a security company were ambushed and killed Wednesday, and an enraged mob then jubilantly dragged the burned bodies through the streets of downtown Falluja, hanging at least two corpses from a bridge over the Euphrates River.Less than 15 miles away, in the same area of the increasingly violent Sunni Triangle, five American soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb ripped through their armored personnel carrier.The violence was one of the most brutal outbursts of anti-American...

Canada has been named again in a chilling new call to arms from al Qaeda. A posting found this week on an al Qaeda website places Canada fifth on a target list. The website is believed to be published by senior al Qaeda figure, Saif al-Adel. It calls on followers to attack Canadians and other westerners at home and abroad. Experts warn it could be only a matter of time before Canada is hit. Several other countries named on the list -- such as Spain and Australia -- have already been attacked. Terror experts warn that Canadians have a false...

TASHKENT: A man who earlier set off an explosion in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent blew himself up early Thursday, in the third day of suspected terror attacks that left more than 40 people dead in Washington's key central Asia ally. The man blew himself up in a house in which he was besieged by the authorities after an explosion rocked Tashkent late Wednesday, and in which he was alone, an Uzbek national security service officer said. "One extremist blew himself up. There were no hostages" in the house with him, the officer said under condition of anonymity. (Updated at 1045 Pakistan...

(CNSNews.com) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which describes itself as a Muslim civil rights group, issued a press release on Wednesday, condemning "the mutilation of those killed in Iraq on Wednesday." However, the press release did not condemn the murders of the four American civilian contractors, who -- as CAIR put it -- "were ambushed in their SUV's, burned, mutilated, dragged through the streets and then hung from a bridge spanning the Euphrates River, according to news reports." CAIR said the mutilations of the bodies "violated both Islamic and international norms of conduct during times of war and...

Muslims cannot co-operate with local authorities against other members of the faith, the outspoken leader of an Islamic group has said. Sheikh Omar: Muslims have a unique way of life Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad was reacting to a call from the Muslim Council of Britain for the community to play its part in the fight against terrorism, following the anti-terrorism raids earlier this week in which eight men were arrested. The mainstream Council is trying to limit "rogue" Islamic preachers, blaming them for brainwashing young men and promoting holy war against the West But Sheikh Omar told BBC Radio 4's...

Madrid Names Suspected Terrorist Leader 28 minutes ago MADRID, Spain - A Tunisian being sought under an international arrest warrant is the leader of the group suspected of carrying out the March 11 railway bombings in Madrid, according to court documents released Thursday. The investigation into the bombings that killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800 has focused on the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. The court documents identify Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet as "leader and coordinator of the different people implicated" in the attacks. Sarhane was one of six men named on international arrest warrants issued by Judge Juan...

<p>TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - As many as 20 militants seized a large number of hostages Wednesday during a standoff with authorities after a grenade blast in Uzbekistan's capital, police said. A Russian television network said three people were wounded in the latest violence in the Central Asian nation. The Tashkent blast came at the end of a day when police scoured the capital in pursuit of fugitive militants, and reportedly arrested at least 30. A police official said those in custody so far were adherents of the strict Wahhabi Islamic sect, which was believed to have inspired Osama bin Laden, not members of an extremist group President Islam Karimov has implied were behind the attacks.</p>

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, the leading Palestinian polling institute, has disclosed that a majority of Palestinians, 53 percent, support terror attacks against Israeli civilians. This represents a rise in support for terror - last December, 48 percent of respondents in a poll articulated support for terror attacks. In the latest poll, 87 percent of respondents said they favor attacks on Israeli soldiers; 86 percent supported attacks on settlers in the territories. Just before the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week, 27 percent of Palestinians on the Gaza Strip supported Hamas, as opposed to just 23...

This is an email that has been sent to the MSA-listserv of my university. I just copied & pasted the message, because I want to keep the identity of the mole secret. Asalaamualaikum: If its one thing i'd like to say to All those on this listserv....keep Sh. Ahmed Yassin in your du'a. If people only knew and researched this scholar's background....subhan'Allah.This is indeed a very sad and tearful day for people who knew the caliber of this man...not as a founder, not as an activist, not as a respected scholar, not as a humanitarian, but as a devout Slave...

MANILA — Four Muslim extremists have been arrested with a cache of TNT that they intended to use in terror attacks on trains and shopping malls here in the Philippine capital, officials said Tuesday. "We have prevented a Madrid-level attack in the metropolis," President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said, referring to the March 11 train bombings in Spain that killed 191 people. The men were members of Abu Sayyaf, a group on the United States' list of terror organizations, and they reportedly trained with the Jemaah Islamiyah terror network. Both groups are said to have links to Al Qaeda. The suspects...

PA sermon "O God, show us a black day for the Jews, the Americans, and their supporters" [FBIS (US Government service) Translated Excerpt] [With thanks to www.mideastweb.org/mewnews1.htm ] Gaza Palestine TV in Arabic, official television station of the Palestinian Authority, carries on 26 March 2004 at 0956 GMT a live sermon from Zayid Bin-Sultan Al Nuhayyan mosque in Gaza. Shaykh Ibrahim Mudayris delivers the sermon, which he begins by praising God for "turning the execution of Shaykh Ahmad Yasin into a new life for the Palestinian people and making his assassination a scandal for the alleged misfit state, Israel."...