Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $15,421
19%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 19%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: namouh

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Quebec terror plotter undone by online activities

    10/13/2009 12:00:57 PM PDT · by Cindy · 12 replies · 683+ views
    CANADA.com - NATIONAL POST ^ | September 30, 2009 | BY GRAEME HAMILTON, NATIONAL POST
    SNIPPET: "MONTREAL -- Saïd Namouh thought his apartment in Trois-Rivières was an ideal location to plot jihad, far from the prying eyes of anti-terrorism investigators. But the Internet that allowed him to spread hatred from the boondocks also proved his undoing, and on Thursday — largely on the strength of his online activity — the 36-year-old Moroccan was convicted of four terrorism charges. Quebec Court Judge Claude Leblond ruled that far from simply exercising free speech, as the defence had argued, Namouh participated with “zeal and enthusiasm” in the planning of terrorist acts and the distribution of jihadist propaganda. The...
  • NEFA Foundation: Army of Islam Issues Message to the Austrian Government

    02/11/2009 2:52:27 AM PST · by Cindy · 5 replies · 417+ views
    COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org ^ | February 9, 2009 11:12 PM | By Evan Kohlmann
    The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqué from the Army of Islam in Gaza, in which the group urges the Austrian government to release Muhammad Shawqi Mahmoud from jail. In March 2008, Mahmoud was sentenced to four years in prison for belonging to a terrorist organization. Mahmoud, a central figure in the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), was involved in producing a March 2007 GIMF video that threatened Austria and Germany if the countries did not withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.