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Extremist websites have lauded Libyan immigrant Mohammed Game’ s botched bombing of a military barracks in northern Italy – the country’s first attempted suicide attack. Police have arrested two people suspected of helping Game in Monday’s attack, in which he lost a hand, his eyesight and suffered injuries to his face. An Italian soldier was slightly injured in the attack. “Well done, God will reward you,” wrote a user of an Al-Qaeda linked website who called himself ‘Abdelaziz the Algerian’. “What great men are those who are accompanied by their God. Death to the tyrants! No regrets, no recrimination, only...

"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Sun Tzu is credited with writing those words 2,500 years ago, but they could have been written as a warning to President Obama as he refuses to acknowledge who we are fighting against, Islamist extremists. He refuses to even understand how our enemy...

Over 40 Murders Reported this Week CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - New details on a deadly discovery across the border from El Paso. This morning police in Ciudad Juarez say at least 12 masked gun men opened fire inside an upscale seafood restaurant and killed at least eight people. The attack comes a day after seven men were found executed in a school soccer field in an upper class neighborhood in Juarez. In all, 40 murders were reported over the holiday week along the border near El Paso. Police say the men were armed with AK-47 and fired off more than...

Seven years ago we suffered the worst attack on the American homeland in our history. The material damage proved far greater than the 1814 British burning of Washington, the human losses more grievous than the almost 2,400 Americans lost at Pearl Harbor. Years later, we tend to forget all the dimensions of that sinister homicidal bombing of our institutions. Radical Islam brazenly signaled that it need not have missiles or sophisticated bombers to burn 16 acres in the heart of Manhattan and set the Pentagon afire. Instead, it could turn from the inside out our own technology against us, in...

Sarajevo, 27 July (AKI) - Miroslav Lajcak, the high representative of the international community in Bosnia, has called for the extradition of foreigners with suspected links to Islamic terrorist organizations, including Syrian-born Imad al-Husseini, known as Abu Hamza. Bosnian daily Nezavisne novine said on Friday that Lajcak, who took office of high representative (OHR) on July 1 warned Bosnian security chief Tarik Sadovic he would be fired if his ministry was too slow in extraditing foreigners, including Abu Hamza, whose citizenships have been revoked. Thousands of mujahadeen from Islamic countries flocked to Bosnia to fight for local Muslims in 1992-1995...

A BANGLADESH-born American artist has gone to extreme lengths to ensure he is never accused of being a terrorist. Hasan Elahi, an arts professor from New Jersey, has fitted himself with an ankle bracelet that tracks his every movement and posts them on the internet, CBS news reports. Every time he moves, he takes a picture and a GPS pinpoints his location. Then it's all posted on his website. Web wanderers can then view every airport he passes through, every meal he eats and every pit stop along the way. Plenty are watching - his site gets 160,000 hits a...

One reason for Islamic terrorism is there are too many Moslems. At least in the sense that the economies of Islamic countries cannot create enough jobs for all the young people coming of age. Consider that for the last fifty years, the population of all Moslem countries has tripled. That's population growth that is more than double the rate of the world as a whole, and about ten times the rate of Europe. It's about five times the rate in the United States. Many of those unemployed young men are angry, and making war is a typical activity of angry...

Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is sponsoring the "End Racial Profiling Act. The proposed bill is said to have been prompted by the recent removal of six imams.... The other co-sponsor is of the bill is Rep.John Conyers (D-MI) who is also preparing documents to lead to Articles of Impeachment against President Bush.

"Ideally, in the case of a right (for example, the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures) that could be asserted against government measures for protecting national security, one would like to locate the point at which a slight expansion in the scope of the right would subtract more from public safety than it would add to personal liberty and [conversely]. That is the point of balance, that determines the optimal scope of the right." -- Richard A. Posner, Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, p. 31 Judge Richard Posner's new book...

But while this might help explain Assad's blunders, an explanation for Syrian belligerency requires that one dig deeper into the nature of the regime. Assad came out strongly in favor of the armed Palestinian intifada in 2001, was dead set against the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and he opened Syria's borders up to jihadists wishing to fight the Americans there. ...his security apparatus seems to have played a major role in orchestrating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, among other violent acts. This is an impressive record for a young president after less than six...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Bush administration did not have the legal authority to go forward with military tribunals for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. The 5-3 ruling means officials will either have to come up with new procedures to prosecute at least 10 so-called enemy combatants awaiting trial, or release them from U.S. military custody. The case was a major test of President Bush's authority as commander in chief in a wartime setting. Bush has aggressively asserted the power of the government to capture, detain, and prosecute suspected...

On the Proposed AmnestyFirst of all, I don't think it makes any sense. IED makers and planters kill more Iraqis than Americans, just like the rest of the "resistance". They kill children. They kill motorists. They lack fire discipline and a certain degree of conscience. It is a fallacious belief that there exist Iraqis who make bombs destined only American stryker vehicles and none for Shi'a mosques; and that those making bombs don't collaborate with those recruiting human bombs for Iraqi neighborhoods. Secondly, I don't think it will have the desired effect: ending the insurgency. Because the amnesty is general,...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Killed In Air Raid... BAGHDAD, IRAQ (NS/AP) - I woke up early, as I do every weekday morning, around 0330 ET to the news that al-Zarqawi had been killed in an air strike in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad in the volatile province of Diyala, just east of the provincial capital of Baqouba, in a heavily forrested area... His own al-Qaida people, along with Iraqi Civilians and Jordanians helped to pinpoint where this evil man was hiding... This tells me one very important thing right off the bat, the Iraqi people have had enough...

The growth in the number of agents patrolling US borders has slowed in the 4½ years since the September 11 terrorist attacks and concerns over illegal immigration override fears of terrorist infiltration in the allocation of border resources, according to a new analysis

Reacting to a recent wave of arrests of activists and others in Syria and yesterday's sentencing of a civil society activist to five years in prison, Amnesty International today called on the Syrian government to immediately release all those arrested for peacefully expressing their opinions. "This new crackdown on suspected government opponents is deeply troubling," said Malcolm Smart, Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme. "We are particularly concerned that many of these people are being held in incommunicado detention, where they are at risk of torture." Scores have been arrested from across the social and political...

Muslim Mob 'Terrorizes' Children in Indonesian Sunday School(CNSNews.com) - Approximately 30 Christian children fled in panic after a mob of Islamic militants raided and vandalized their Sunday school class, which was being held in a private home last weekend in Curug, Indonesia, according to a Christian group called Voice of the Martyrs (VOM). The violence came less than a month after three teenaged Christian schoolgirls were attacked and beheaded as they walked through a cocoa plantation on their way to school. One girl's severed head was reportedly placed in front of a church, eight miles from where the bodies were...

In a devastating 81-page audit, released in 2005, Glenn A. Fine, the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general, described eight factors that contributed to the VCF's failure. Among them: poorly defined and slowly evolving design requirements; overly ambitious schedules; and the lack of a plan to guide hardware purchases, network deployments, and software development for the bureau. Fine concluded that four years after terrorists crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the FBI, which had been criticized for not "connecting the dots" in time to prevent the attacks, still did not have the software necessary to connect...

The US military is for the first time making its own plans for dealing with domestic terrorist attacks. Under the plans, quick-reaction forces will be prepared to deal with 15 potential scenarios, including simultaneous bomb attacks. The civilian authorities would usually expect to plan for and provide the vast majority of the resources and personnel for major domestic emergencies. Now military resources such as sniffer dogs will be easier to deploy. The Department of Defense has not traditionally taken a major role in domestic operations. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prevents the military from taking part in any law...

LES COMBES, Italy (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI decried a wave of "abominable terrorist attacks" in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and Britain and called on God to convert the hearts of those responsible for the bloodshed. Such violent attacks "offend God and humanity," the pope said after praying the Angelus July 24 from the Alpine retreat where he was vacationing. May "God stay the murderous hand" of the terrorists who are driven by "fanaticism and hatred" and may he "convert their hearts" to the ideals of reconciliation and peace, he said. Bomb blasts July 23 at the Egyptian resort town of...

The Muslim Brotherhood has struggled for more than 75 years to impose radical Islam on the nation. Successive regimes — British, Royal, Nasserite and most recently that of Hosni Mubarak — have, in their own autocratic ways, successfully kept the organization under wraps. Today’s MB leadership has adopted a moderate face, including even saying Coptic Christians are welcome as members, but the Brotherhood remains true to its Islamist core beliefs. Islamism can be defined as a movement that seeks control of government, establishment of Islam as the state religion, and imposition and enforcement of Shari’a law. The Muslim Brotherhood, established...

A funeral for a couple and their two daughters slain last week turned into a melee following the emotional services Monday, with about 35 of the 2,000 mourners shoving and punching each other. Tensions had been running high during the funeral procession and services for 47-year-old Hossam Armanious, his 37-year-old wife, Amal Garas, and their daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8. Some mourners blamed their deaths on religious tensions in the Coptic Christian family's native Egypt. A brief melee between several dozen mourners spilled onto the street and into a nearby parking garage as the services ended. Police pushed mourners...

Tsunami orphans getting recruited by Terror Organizations and relief aids not reaching those who need the same in Sri Lanka and Acheh UNICEF reported a very disturbing information. According to a report, UNICEF complained that Tamil Tigers are recruiting innocent orphaned children, victims of tsunami, into the terror camps. Similar reports are coming from Sumatra. In Acheh and other parts of Indonesia, the terrorists and the human traffickers are also targeting the children. The Indonesian Government today asked all foreign military personnel leave no later than March, 2005. In Sri Lanka, there are some major problems. Tamil Tigers control the...

By Jim Finkle -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/29/2004 3:54:00 PM Fox is under fire from at least one group for scenes in the Jan. 9 debut of drama 24 that portray a Muslim teen-ager and his parents as members of a terrorist cell plotting a mass attack on Americans. It’s the second Fox show to generate controversy in the past two weeks, following demands by the National Council for Adoption that Fox cancel Who’s Your Daddy, a guess-your-birthfather reality special the network may develop into a series. Concerns about 24 were raised by a preview of the Jan. 9 season-opener...

Malaysia's second highest court has upheld the right of government schools to bar male Muslim students from wearing turbans to class, drawing protests from the Islamic opposition. In a landmark decision, the Appeal Court ruled Monday that the headmistress of a school in Negeri Sembilan state acted within her powers by expelling three students in July 1997 for wearing Islamic turbans in violation of a state-enforced dress code. Religious rights are a sensitive subject in multiethnic Malaysia. About two-thirds of the country's 25 million people are Malay Muslims. The rest are ethnic Chinese and Indians, who are mostly Christians, Buddhists...

The siege at the school in Russia shows that terrorists are prepared to attack anyone, anywhere, Jack Straw said today. Setting out the United Kingdom's position on the reform of the United Nations, the Foreign Secretary called the siege a "horrible reminder that international terrorism is a present danger to all of us, wherever we are". "The Security Council last night was therefore absolutely correct, in calling for the unconditional release of the hostages, to reaffirm that terrorism is one of the most serious threats to international peace and security." He added that the UN needed to be able to...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - An al-Qaida-linked terrorist cell recently dismantled in Jordan was plotting to detonate a chemical bomb capable of killing thousands of people and to attack the U.S. Embassy and prime minister's office with poison gas, officials said Saturday. Officials close to the investigation told The Associated Press that several terror suspects arrested in Jordan last month have confessed the plots were hatched by Jordanian militant Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, thought to be a close associate of al-Qaida boss Osama bin Laden. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the terrorist cell was planning to attack Jordan's secret service...

AN accused terrorism financier arrested in the US last week had just returned from a trip to Australia where he is believed to have a child. But in a security blunder, the arrest took Australia's intelligence agencies, who were unaware the man was in Australia, by complete surprise. Omar Abdi Mohamed, 41, is being investigated after allegedly receiving $454,866 from a group accused by US authorities of direct links to al-Qaida. But Australian authorities were not told of any terrorist concerns surrounding Mr Mohamed before his most recent trip to Australia, which ended only last month. "Obviously this person would...

Sunday, 9, November, 2003 (14, Ramadhan, 1424)   When Will His Head Roll? Sharifa Al-Shamlan • Al-Riyadh   “The head that doesn’t roll today will definitely roll tomorrow” and “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.” These words have been proven correct many times in the past. It is true that a head wanted by many will one day cease to be unless the hunters die before reaching it. One head that almost rolled in Baghdad was that of Paul Wolfowitz, US deputy defense secretary, who escaped a rocket attack on a hotel in Baghdad where...

Utility logs start to be revealed Transcripts of telephone conversations between utility operators prior to last month's power blackout in the US and Canada were published Wednesday, so writes Wired. They include explicit mention of some unknown 'computer problems' at FirstEnergy, the Ohio utility thought to have triggered the regional power failures, in those preceding hours. Early on, a controller at the Midwest Independent System Operator asked his counterpart at FirstEnergy why it hadn't reacted to a transmission line outage. The utility's technician replied: "We have no clue. Our computer is giving us fits, too. We don't even know the...

Check the Internet Weather: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned of possible attacks against Americans in Uzbekistan on Saturday, saying extremist groups including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network could single out hotels and other "softer targets." The State Department issued a statement advising U.S. citizens to consider safety precautions before traveling to the Central Asian state, which borders Afghanistan, where U.S.-led troops are searching for remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda. The warning recommended that Americans inside Uzbekistan avoid facilities including clubs, restaurants, schools and residential neighborhoods where U.S. citizens and other Westerners congregate in large numbers. "Terrorists may be planning...

U.N. Commission Poised to Support Sudan France is teaming with Libya on the U.N. Human Rights Commission to lift international restrictions on Sudan. The commission, chaired by Libya, is scheduled to meet in Geneva on Thursday and the first item on its agenda is to give Sudan a passing grade on human rights. France, a leading member of the commission, indicated that it would support Libya's move to change the human rights status for Sudan. The deputy press counsel for the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., confirmed the report. "There are no more sanctions against Sudan," stated the French Embassy...

efreedomnews         WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE The Grand StrategyJonathan Rhodesefreedomnews 22 February 2003The United States and its willing allies have developed a Grand Strategy in the War on Terrorism to eliminate the fundamentalist Islamic terrorist hegemonists and worldwide terrorism - the tools and offspring of despotic state sponsors - and in the end to eliminate the seeds of discontent that spawned that terrorism. The elements of that strategy are: Tactically destroy al Qaida - the base - the central command for global Islamic terrorism - and associated terror groups. End state sponsorship of terrorism. Remove the...

FYI, I heard it announced on TV today that Condi will be Larry Kings guest tonight. Yes, yes I know it's CNN. Yes, I know it's Larry King. But it's also Condi Rice. Prairie

Feb. 2, 2003 Israeli Arabs protest US stance on Iraq; call for attacks on US embassies By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Leaders of the Israeli Arab Islamic Movement protested Saturday against the possible US – led war against Iraq, calling on Arabs and Muslims to attack American embassies in the Middle East. Leaders told the gathering that they should go into the streets and attack US embassies, reports Channel 1. "Push the US out of Arab and Muslim lands. Attack their embassies. Bush is the only terrorist. America is the only terrorist", said a leader at the rally.

Patty Murray – day 18 (Mike Swetnam answers). Newspapers, in reporting on Patty Murray’s comments, have reported Michael S. Swetnam, CEO and Chairman of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies has supported the accuracy of her comments. Today, in response to my e-mail inquiry, I receive the following reply:”I have received several comments today about what Sen Murray said yesterday and my quote noting that her comments were mostly accurate. Many seem to believe that Sen. Murray and I were praising bin laden for doing good in the world. Quite the reverse is true. We were both noting that we...

A quick vanity, and that is partly an attempt to clarify the status of Ambassador Mohammed Aldouri and all Iraqi diplomatic, press, or commercial personnel currently in the United States, (particularly those with diplomatic immunity), and second a warning that these individuals need to be deported at once as extreme terrorist risks.It is my understanding there are no Iraqi interests in Washington DC (except, perhaps, scraggly anti-war hippies), but that there is a Permanent Mission and delegation of the Iraqi Government in New York City posted to the United Nations. This group enjoys security in their correspondence pouches and...

"BBC Gets Caught Again" * * * HonestReporting member Mike S. is fast becoming the monitoring expert of BBC. You will recall earlier this month that Mike caught BBC publishing an anti-Israel photo caption that was unrelated to the article. BBC subsequently expressed regret and changed the caption. This time, Mike has caught BBC altering the "quoted" words of White House press secretary Ari Fleisher. In referring to a recent Palestinian homicide bombing, Fleisher said, according to the Official White House transcript: "The administration, the President condemns the most recent attack in Israel. It's another reminder of how it's so...

DENPASAR (JP): The number of casualties from the blasts in Indonesia's Bali tourist island continued to grow, with the latest report saying 60 had been confirmed dead by 1:42 a.m. Meanwhile hospitals here were busy treating the wounded. At Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar alone around 160 people had been brought in. Two more hospitals, the Army Hospital on Jl. Sudirman and Graha Asih Hospital in Nusa Dua tourist resort, had received 20 victims each. Many more bodies were expected to be found from under the rubble of destroyed buildings. The blast on Jl. Legian in the crowded Kuta tourist resort...

Turkish police on alert over possible poison gas attack Tue Sep 10,12:57 PM ET ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish police are on alert for the possibility that militants linked to al-Qaida may have smuggled poison gas into the country and could be planning attacks, officials said Tuesday. Police have also heightened security around U.S., British and Israeli diplomatic missions, businesses and military bases ahead of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the officials said. Turkey, NATO ( news - web sites)'s sole Muslim member, has backed Washington's war on terrorism in Afghanistan ( news - web sites) and leads the...

Washington Monthly September 2002 An Army Of One? In the war on terrorism, alliances are not an obstacle to victory. They're the key to it. By Gen. Wesley Clark A few days after September 11, I happened to be walking the halls of the Pentagon, the scene of so many contentious meetings during my years as commander of NATO forces in Europe, and ran into an old acquaintance, now a senior official. We chatted briefly about TV coverage of the crisis and the impending operations in Afghanistan. At his invitation, I began to share some thoughts about how we had...

KYW) (Philadelphia) Jun 7, 2002 5:05 pm US/Eastern In an Eyewitness News exclusive, KYW has obtained an FBI terror alert on Friday, warning of a potential nerve gas attack against American subway systems. On Thursday, the FBI issued the alert to state and local law enforcement officials – its an internal warning to cops around the nation, cautioning that al-Qaida supporters in the United States may use nerve gas to poison subway systems in New York, Washington D.C. and other major cities before or during the fourth of July. The alert states that "this activity is allegedly intended to bring...

American Admits Lying for Passport ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An American pleaded guilty to lying on a passport application and admitted he lied to a grand jury about losing an older passport. Mohammed Osman Idris, 24, drew the attention of federal authorities in December when he tried to enter Israel with a friend who was carrying a letter that authorities said indicated plans for a suicide attack. Because of the letter, Israeli authorities would not let Idris and Mohammed El-Yacoubi of Fairfax into the country. Written in Arabic by El-Yacoubi's brother, the letter stated: "When I heard what you are going...

Terorism Is Not A Good Thing But A Bad Thing, Jiri Dienstbier, Mar 21 Taipei Times, March 21st, 2002By Jiri DienstbierSlobodan Milosevic's trial in the Hague is a timely reminder of just how devastating terroristic violence can be. President Bush may or may not have been careless in portraying Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil," but he was correct in pointing out the many hidden links in the global terrorism chain. Within that chain Balkan terrorism remains a small but vital link, one which has continued to flourish right under the eyes of NATO and the...