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Are Middle Eastern terrorists posing as Mexican immigrants? Click to watch video A warning from some Texas congressmen: Middle Eastern terrorists may be trying to pose as Mexican immigrants. But is it a warning based on fact or politics? Some people in Houston are worried about the message. You couldn’t miss it during the election. Texas politicians saying the border needed protection, not just to stop undocumented workers, but terrorists. A month before the election, Mike McCaul, a congressman from a district northwest of Houston, released a report (snip) The FBI director has confirmed that there’s Middle Easterners with known...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday his government will give weapons to local tribesmen so they can help fight the biggest increase in Taliban violence in years. [0] A U.S.-led coalition soldier and seven Afghan civilians were killed in the latest violence in the country's south, which has been hardest hit by the surge in insurgent attacks. Speaking to a group of tribal elders from eastern Afghanistan, Karzai said he did not want to form militias that could clash with rival tribes. "We just want to strengthen the districts to safeguard them from terrorist attack," he said....

Sorry it has been five months since my last update, but then, we have been busy. Let me give you the bottom-line up front (BLUF), and then catch you up on things. Feel free to forward this to whomever, since we still can’t seem to get the press to tell folks what is going on. This is how the fight is going from my foxhole, and it is much more than the bombings, US casualties, and rumors of civil war the press seems to be focused on.

The DNC's mantra that President Bush "misled the nation into war" is losing whatever clout it once had as more and more people become better informed. The massive post-invasion evidence mounts confirming that it was the mainstream media and leading Democrats -- not the Bush Administration -- who lied to the American people on the issue of pre-war ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida terrorists. We now know that during the years before 9/11/01 and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, over 8,000 terrorists were trained inside Iraq by the Iraqi military.

The U.S. Predator strike inside Pakistan's border area, aimed at al-Zawahri's possible stay in a village may or may not have missed its target. But the missile attack triggered a series of political explosions in the region. In short, the issues are out. I addressed them in a series of interviews over the weekend. Here is a summary:

Al Qaida abuses young operatives To the long list of Al Qaida's sins against humanity, add one more: child abuse. Al Qaida chief Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi abuses children. His network brainwashes them through abuse and deprivation and forces them to do any number of depraved things. U.S. forces are learning of this as they raid Al Qaida safe houses where these kids are basically held as slaves. Particularly informative was a raid of an Al Qaida safe house east of Tal Afar on Oct. 28. U.S. forces discovered that Al Zarqawi was forcing youngsters to conduct attacks against U.S....

In the middle of the War on Terror, October 15 was a great achievement of the United States, but above all an Iraqi victory. If we divide the number of US soldiers who died in the conflict till October 15, we'd realize that for each fallen hero, 4,500 Iraqi voters were given the right to vote against Terror. In the global conflict with Jihadism, U.S. efforts and sacrifices are triggering greater resources against the empire projected by Ayman Thawahiri and Usama Bin Laden.

An interesting Newsweek story this week – that references CT Blog among its sources – claims scoring a point against what it paints as a “questionable” Bush administration portrayal of Abu Azzam. In short, the authors of the article, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball claim the Administration’s leaders aggrandized the real importance of the killed al Qaida commander basing their conclusion on a number of non-identified U.S. counter-terrorism officials and a report posted by our colleague Evan Kohlman on the blog. The “charge” by Newsweek is about the hierarchy of the man. Was he or was he not the “number...

There's a lot I don't understand about the current hysteria over our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. At the top of the list is why no one has mentioned Louis Pepe or Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. Salim, a reputed top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden, was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high security federal jail in lower Manhattan. Pepe was a guard there. On November 1, 2000, Salim plunged a sharpened comb into Pepe's left eye and three inches into his brain. Salim and a compatriot also beat Pepe savagely, in their effort to get the guard's keys...

Does al-Qaida have nukes? SPECIAL REPORT Publishing date: 12.05.2005 20:03 Intelligence specialist alarmed by WMD Commission Report By LTC Joseph C. Myers Does al-Qaida have a nuclear weapon? With all of our pressing focus on events in the War on Terror overseas, that is the most important question here at home. Historically the pattern of WMD proliferation in the world has been principally state to state: China to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and possibly North Korea; or North Korea to Pakistan, and maybe a former Soviet Republic to North Korea. I would have assessed it as a “low probability” that al-Qaida...

Globalterroralert.com (4/14/05): Sources in the Arabian Peninsula are now claiming that one of the four Al-Qaida suicide bombers who attacked a U.S. base in the western Iraqi town of Al-Qaim on April 11 was Saudi national Hadi bin Mubarak al-Qahtani. According to a statement marking his death, Hadi had grown "eager to martyr himself" after witnessing the example of the "19 heroes" and their "holy attack that demolished the foolish infidel Americans and caused many young men to awaken from their deep sleep." Click to view English translation c/o Globalterroralert.com

...Even during ongoing military campaigns, Mr. Rumsfeld never wavered from his transformational objectives.... Mr. Rumsfeld, with the brilliant leadership of General Schoomaker, was able to move personnel from noncombat to combat units, enabling them with additional reorganization to create 15 newly restructured combat brigades. Also, because of Mr. Rumsfeld's successful plan, our military is more flexible, more agile and better able to fight unconventional enemies. A new civilian personnel system was designed to reward merit, reduce force stress and replace a bureaucratic culture of risk aversion with one of innovation. Moreover, he was able to move military personnel out of...

Globalterroralert.com translation and analysis Audio Excerpt #1Audio Excerpt #2 Globalterroralert.com (12/15/04): Alleged representatives of Al-Qaida's Committee in the Arabian Peninsula have released a purported audio recording of the December 6 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The audio, which appears to have been made with a cell phone or radio transmitter, captures the voices of terrorist operatives as they attempted to overwhelm security and kill "Christian" hostages.

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- An Al-Jazeera reporter indicted in Spain on charges of belonging to an al-Qaida cell has been re-arrested after spending more than a year out on bail, court officials said Friday. Tayssir Alouni was arrested Thursday evening in the southern city of Granada, where he lives. A prosecutor said he posed a flight risk because the National Court this week rejected appeals from him and 20 other terror suspects, taking them one step closer to trial. The proceedings are expected to start early next year, court officials said. Alouni was among 35 people -- including Osama bin...

http://www.globalterroralert.com/zarqawi-britbomb.wmv http://www.globalterroralert.com Globalterroralert.com (11/7/04): Al-Qaida's Committee in Mesopotamia (led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has released video footage of a November 4 suicide car bombing attack on a patrol manned by the Scottish Black Watch, one of the British military units currently deployed in central Iraq. The soldiers were manning a vehicle checkpoint on a road east of the Euphrates River when the bomber detonated his vehicle; the attack was followed shortly thereafter by insurgent mortar attacks on the same position. Three members of the Black Watch and an Iraqi translator (who had postponed his own wedding in order to serve...

http://www.globalterroralert.com/amriki911.wmvhttp://www.globalterroralert.comGlobalterroralert.com (10/31/04): The voice of an alleged American Al-Qaida terrorist operative featured in a video broadcast last week has been matched to audio taken from a previous As-Sahab video production documenting the planning behind the September 11, 2001 suicide hijackings. During the latter video from November 2001, "Azzam al-Amriki" applauds the mission of the 9/11 hijackers to "destroy the economic fortresses" of America.

Frédéric Desagneaux, consul general of France for San Francisco, is not happy with the light being shown on his country’s involvement with U.N. corruption in Iraq. Poor thing. Yesterday, the independent committee investigating corruption in the U.N.’s “oil-for-food” program for Iraq made public the names of 3,545 companies that sold goods to Saddam. Also published were the names of 248 companies which received Iraqi oil under the program. Through oil-for-food, Saddam stole “$10.1 billion through oil smuggling and kickbacks from suppliers.” Leave it to the U.N. to pull off one of the biggest scandals in world history. Evidence is emerging...

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...

After talking with some left-wing friends this weekend, I realized now more than ever that the question of whether to vote for Bush or Kerry truly boils down to another question, “A war for our lives, or a nuisance to our lifestyle?” The later question was asked on Friday by eminent historian Victor David Hanson. He answers it with honesty and erudition, but leaves out a very important point: the fear factor. Hanson correctly identifies Kerry et al’s penchant for wanting to solve our foreign policy disputes through diplomatic bureaucracy ad nauseum -- e.g., the United Nations. He hints at...

http://www.globalterroralert.com/zarqawi-bayat.pdfGlobalterroralert.com (10/17/04): Abu Maysarah al-Iraqi, official media representative of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement in Iraq has released a new statement on behalf of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. According to the document, after 8 months of tense and prolonged negotiations, Zarqawi and his loyal fighters in central Iraq have sworn an oath and officially joined "under the banner" of Usama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida. Speculation has been rampant since Zarqawi first emerged in media reports over his relationship with Bin Laden and Al-Qaida. It is significant to note that many of Zarqawi's top lieutenants have been trained in Al-Qaida military...

"Four days later [after March 11 Madrid Bombing], the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, a group claiming affiliation with Al Qaeda, sent a bombastic message to the London newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi, avowing responsibility for the train bombings. "Whose turn will it be next?" the authors taunt. "Is it Japan, America, Italy, Britain, Saudi Arabia, or Australia?" The message also addressed the speculation that the terrorists would try to replicate their political success in Spain by disrupting the November U.S. elections. "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections," the authors write. Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism" are...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkish television stations broadcast a video Friday that claimed that Habib Akdas, suspected leader of the Turkish al-Qaida cell blamed for November suicide bombings in Istanbul, was killed this week in a U.S. bombing raid in Iraq. The video, broadcast by Turkish television channels CNN-Turk and NTV, showed the body of a bearded man with a bloody face, who was wrapped in a cloth. A man who claimed to be a Turkish militant was heard in the video saying that the body was that of Akdas and that Akdas was killed in a bombing raid this...

A Pakistani official appeared via telephone on Fox News Channel about 30 minutes ago and said another top Al-Qaida operative was being questioned by Pakistani authorities. The official added that the individual being questioned was arrested in the July 25 raid that netted Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. The official also noted that the individual being questioned was one of seven persons the FBI announced in May it was seeking information on in relation to attacks on the United States. DEVELOPING

TIDES WORLD PRESS REPORTS (Internet): Ilaf WWW-Text in Arabic 29 Jul 04 [Report by Najah Muhammad Ali in Tehran: "Unconfirmed Reports of Al-Zarqawi's Arrest"] [FBIS translated text] Iraqi sources are talking about the possible arrest of "Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi", the main suspect leader of widespread bombings and assassinations inside Iraq. The "Iraquna" website reported that the arrest was made after a campaign of raids and chases by a joint force from the multinational and Iraqi security forces. Al-Zarqawi was arrested at the outskirts of Hudaythah town, which is close to the Syrian-Iraqi border. The website cited some Iraqi police commanders as...

Attawhid wal Jihad on Monday posted a 60 minute audiotape to its website. DARPA TIDES Iraq Reconstruction Report has excerpts, which I've posted here. DTIRR editor Mark Prutsalis believes tomorrow's edition will include an audio file and a full translated transcript of the statement. The statement is entitled "Important commandments to the mujahidin and in reply to the defeatists, from the amir of Jama'at al-Tawhid Wal Jihad, Shaykh Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi." Evan Kholmann has excerpts at his website Global Terror Alert. Mr. Kholman also notes that the Attawhid wal Jihad videotape given to Time Magazine this past weekend is a pre-release....

CONFUSION REIGNS IN THE KINGDOMOn Wednesday the AP, quoting an unnamed security official, reported that #24 on the Saudi most wanted terrorist list, Abdullah Mohammed Rashid Al-Roshoud, had been killed in a gunfight with Saudi security forces in Riyadh. The Arab News, also quoting an unnamed security official, later reported in great detail on the gunfight. In short: Security forces surrounded a suspected safe house in the King Fahd district of Riyadh. All roads leading to the safe house (a two-story villa) were sealed off. Spikes were strategically placed in a bid to stave off an escape bid. A gunfight...

Al Qaeda militants who kidnapped and killed American engineer Paul Johnson said Sunday on an Islamist Web site that sympathetic Saudi security forces aided their kidnapping operation with police uniforms and vehicles.

COMMUNIQUE - Subject: Denial of the death of Abdul Aziz Al Muqrin

Leader tells how they killed, then ate, slept and prayed Jason Burke, chief reporter Sunday June 6, 2004 The Observer Islamic militants who killed 22 people in a shooting spree in Saudi Arabia a week ago have posted a 3,000-word account of the operation on the internet. The account gives astonishing details of the attack, describing how the killers hunted down their victims, then slept and prayed after decapitating Westerners. It also challenges the Saudi Arabian government's version of events, claiming that pictures of Saudi troops storming a building from the air were stage-managed. The attack, in the northern port...

May 29, 2004 - Attack in Khobar - Four gunmen attacked compounds housing oil workers in Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia at about 7:30 a.m. (0430 GMT).  Hostages were being held at one compound.  Saudi officials said 16 people have been killed in the attacks.  Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility.  [more] May 27, 2004 - A top Al Qaida leader [Abdulaziz Al Muqrin] in Saudi Arabia issued a battle plan for an urban guerrilla war in the kingdom. Al Muqrin, gave a detailed list of steps militants should take to succeed in their violent campaign against the Saudi government.  [more]May 20,...

Dear Maariv Newspaper Editor, Please Publish... The following is a translation of a letter written in the Online Forum of one of Israel's major newspapers, Maariv, by a female reader named  Rachel. The letter was in response to the major online headline about The Bodies of the Six Soldiers that had died in a Gaza security offensive and how their remains had been defiled by the Palestinian terror groups. See: Palestinians Parade Israeli Soldiers’ Remains (DEBKAfile) (05/11/04) http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=843 This letter  may be one of the most popular letters ever written in this widely read forum receiving unanimous and unequivocal...

Speaking Ill of the Dead--The Media Treatment of Nick Berg and Pat TillmanPosted by Doc Farmer Wednesday, May 19, 2004 My column last week was written before the news about the horrific slaughter of Nick Berg, an innocent American contractor. I had commented on the stupidity and cowardice of the mainstream (see also: lib/dem/soc/commie) media, their fear of us doing anything remotely discomforting in this, or any, war. However, Mr. Berg’s tragic demise brought into focus the true problem of the media. Their complicity with the enemies of America. I’ve seen the video. I made a point to watch it....

<p>In the last few weeks, CNN has suffered a series of embarrassing incidents calling into question its news judgment and ability to meet the most basic standards of fairness in reporting on Israel. CNN boss Ted Turner made the following statement about the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. "I would make the case that both sides are engaged in terrorism," he told the Guardian newspaper. Although Mr. Turner subsequently apologized for suggesting that Israel was behaving this way, the damage had been done.</p>

Tel Aviv: Novosti Nedeli in Russian 18 Mar 04 p 12 [Report by Mikhail Falkov: "Al-Qa'ida Plans Mega-Attack"] [FBIS translated text] According to reliable sources in Jordan, a group of Palestinian fighting thugs is at present in Sistan Province in southeastern Iran. They are planning to enter Israel via Turkey and Jordan. Their task is to carry out mega-attacks against Jewish settlements and IDF installations in Judaea and Samaria. The sources do not exclude the use of chemical and biological poisonous substances. It is also known that Sa'if al-Adel, commander of Al-Qa'ida's military infrastructure, guided the group's training. He enjoys...

DUBAI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Following are excerpts from a statement purportedly by a unit of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network which appeared on Friday on an Islamist website, Al Mujahidoun. It was translated by Reuters from Arabic. ------------- Statement from the Jihad al Qaeda "Operation Islamic Iron Hammer" We mentioned and we promised in our earlier statement: "As for the tails of America -- especially Britain, Italy, Australia and Japan -- who did not understand what was said by mujahideen leader Sheikh Osama bin Laden before Ramadan when he threatened that martyrdom operations would not stop inside and...

A prominent Islamic scholar detained this year for promoting Al-Qaeda-style militancy has described the suicide bombers who killed 18 people in a Riyadh residential compound as “aggressors and renegades.” Speaking on Saudi Television, Sheikh Ali Al-Khudair, who was arrested in Madinah with Sheikh Nasser Al-Fuhaid following the May 12 bombing in Riyadh, apologized for his radicalism and withdrew his controversial fatwas. The dramatic turnaround of Al-Khudair, who had issued religious edicts backing Al-Qaeda, is likely to wipe out a great deal of public support for militants. Al-Khudair, popular among young Saudis, said in an interview broadcast on Monday night that...

Al-Qa'ida Claims Responsibility for Saudi Bombings GMP20031111000129 London Al-Majallah in Arabic 09 Nov 03 [Unattributed report: "Al-Qa'ida Claims Responsibility for Al-Muhayya Bombings and Threatens the Americans" -- pre-release received by email from Al-Majallah 11 Nov 03] [FBIS Translated Text] [Partial Text] Al-Qa'ida has claimed responsibility for last Saturday's Al-Muhayya bombings in Riyadh and said in an email received by our representative in Dubai that events will continue and that the next strikes will be in the Gulf, the United States, and Iraq -- in what appears to be a reference to the threats that the United States and Britain have...

Jerry Golden "REPORT" PO Box 10268 Jerusalem 91102 Israel www.TheGoldenReport.com Published 11/9/2003 Islamic Warnings! There is a small article in today’s Jerusalem Post that I felt worth elaborating on. It gives us warnings of great acts of Islamic Terror that will occur at a time of a double eclipse during the Moslem month of Ramadan. The last time that happened was in 1786, it’s happening in this month of Ramadan, and it will not happen again for another 152 years. So this is the only one that will be seen in our lifetime. It should be noted that Islam like...

Al-Qal'a (The Fortress) an Islamist Internet forum, posted the first of a two-part interview with a person who introduced himself as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, one of the Al Qaida commanders closest to Osama bin Laden.(1) The interview was conducted in Iraq, south of Faluja. The article notes that Al-Hijazi was surrounded by five masked men carrying missiles as well as personal weapons. The following are excerpts from the interview: In regard to rumors about a large-scale attack against the U.S. during the month of Ramadan, Al-Hijazi said that "a huge and very courageous strike" will take place and that the...

Al-Qa'ida Fighters On Attacks Against Americans (English Video Excerpts) A few weeks ago, Al-Qa'ida's website(1) declared it would publish the wills of the May 12, 2003 suicide bombers in Riyadh. A couple of days ago it released a new videotape(2) which includes an audio recording of the actual attack as was apparently transmitted through a cell phone, excerpts from past speeches by Osama bin Laden, songs of incitement, a speech by Sheikh Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif, and the wills of the attackers, reportedly recorded on April 29, 2003, less than two weeks before the attacks. The following are excerpts from...

In this Special Analysis feature, Dan Darling demonstrates yet again why the CIA needs to hire him, as he takes us behind the scenes for a look at The New Al-Qaeda: the players, the setbacks, and the strategies: "2003 has not been a good year so far by al-Qaeda. In the course of less than six months, key members of their military committee have been captured or killed as a result of the US-led campaign against terrorism. Their two biggest losses so far this year include that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the head of their military committee, and Hanbali, the...

Breaking News from 1998. The US released an indictment on November 4, 1998 stating bin Laden and al Qaeda were working with the Saddam and the Iraqi regime to develop weapons of mass destruction. What is all the pussyfooting about? From New York Times and Facts on File -- articles from November 1998. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company  The New York Times  View Related Topics  November 5, 1998, Thursday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 2; Foreign Desk  LENGTH: 1093 words HEADLINE: SAUDI IS INDICTED IN BOMB ATTACKS ON U.S. EMBASSIES BYLINE:  By BENJAMIN WEISER  BODY:A Federal...

Make Iraq Graveyard for U.S., Qaeda Leader Says By Firouz Sedarat DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) made a surprise appearance in a videotape aired Wednesday to mark the Sept. 11 attacks, along with his top aide who urged fighters to turn Iraq (news - web sites) into a graveyard for American troops. "To our struggling brothers in Iraq: we greet you and we pray to God to be on your side in fighting the crusaders," Ayman al-Zawahri, or someone sounding very much like him, said on the tape aired...

PESHAWAR - Al-Qaeda, "the base", is now extinct. Al-Qaeda has a brand new name: Fath-e-Islam (Victory of Islam). And Fath-e-Islam's leader, none other than Osama bin Laden, is very much alive. But not anymore in Pakistan. Osama has returned to Afghanistan. More precisely, the Kunar province. Key players in the ultra-complex Pakistan-Afghanistan game had been saying that since the fall of Kabul in November 2001 that "the last battle" in this ongoing war would be in Kunar. The scenario now seems more than likely. The Taliban and the rebranded al-Qaeda have full tribal support in Kunar - where everybody seems...

Al Qaeda Mobilizes All Its Forces for Iraq From DEBKA-Net-Weekly Aug. 22 August 26, 2003, 6:19 PM (GMT+02:00) This week, Al Qaeda came out with a claim of responsibility for the huge truck bombing at UN Baghdad headquarters on August 19, in which 23 people lost their lives including senior UN representative in Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello and some 150 were injured. The al Qaeda message appearing on an Arabic Web site accuses the United Nations of being a branch of the American State Department and against Arabs and Muslims. US officials are reporting their sense that hundreds of...

LONDON: Iran has extradited a number of Saudi members of Al Qaeda to Saudi Arabia, the official Iranian news agency Irna, monitored in London by the BBC, reported. Irna quoted Tehran's ambassador to Riyadh as saying the Al Qaeda members had been arrested in Iran after the US-led war on Afghanistan, but did not name them, or say how many had been extradited or when they had been handed over to Saudi Arabia. The envoy, speaking to Irna on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran, said Iran and Saudi Arabia, leading oil producers and both Muslim nations, had signed...

Vancouver — Two citizens of Pakistan, one of whom had a British Columbia driver's licence, are being held by U.S. authorities in Seattle after their names showed up on an antiterrorist "no-fly list" when they tried to book one-way flights to New York. They were nabbed at the Sea-Tac International Airport on Saturday night, less than 12 hours after a curious incident in Vancouver in which a drug suspect plunged to his death from a seventh-floor apartment balcony as he tried to flee a police raid. The RCMP confirmed yesterday that its antiterrorism unit is investigating whether the dead man...

Saudi Probe Leads to Travel Warnings By Jim Sciutto L O N D O N, Aug. 13 — Saudi security forces found plastic explosives, as well as written plans to attack a British Airways jetliner in Riyadh, during a raid on a suspected terrorist safe house there on Sunday, ABCNEWS has learned. Sources said the notes describe the layout of the terminal at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, including where British Airways planes are parked. Saudi intelligence officials suspect the alleged terrorists planned to hijack a plane, or attack it with explosives while the jetliner was on the ground. British...

"Amnesty International? Try Travesty International Instead" Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, May 31, 2003 Here's a newsflash. Amnesty International, that lib/dem/soc/commie group of pantywaists who complain about torture but do nothing to stop it, have declared that the U.S. has made the world more dangerous because of our war against terrorism. Their grasp of logic even weaker than the Venus de Milo's grasp of a basketball, ain't it? Amnesty International's latest drift into the realm of fantasy is entombed in their latest release, (http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/index-eng) which states that, shock of shocks, it's All America's Fault. Our war against terrorism, our war...

All is not well in the United Kingdom, it would seem. The recent suicide bombing in Tel Aviv has shed more light on the not-so-hidden fifth column of al-Qaeda operatives and supporters residing within the British Isles. As it turns out, the suicide bombing was not the work of Hamas or the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, but rather of al-Muhajiroun, a UK-based organization that serves as a recruiting front for the terrorist network. And to make things even more interesting, the suicide bomber worked at Heathrow Airport, the site of a recent terrorism alert. To further highlight the threat, al-Muhajiroun is...