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COPS fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners. The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet. The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London. They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await internet instructions from al-Qaeda on when to strike. A Scotland Yard source said: "The great fear is Abdulmutallab is the first of...

Accused Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri on Thursday pleaded guilty to supporting the architects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a plea agreement entered before U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm in Peoria, Ill., Marri admitted to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. "Ali al-Marri today admitted that he came here . . . as an Al Qaeda operative the day before the Sept. 11 attacks to plan and prepare for future acts of terrorism within the United States," said Jeffrey Lang, acting U.S. attorney for the Central...

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." *snip* According to the note obtained by NBC News, a "recently discovered audio recording of al-Qa‘ida training sessions conducted several years ago provides instruction to potential suicide terrorists on...

Until her arrest in Afghanistan this summer, Aafia Siddiqui was the FBI's most wanted woman in the world. Now the U.S.-educated, Pakistani mother of three is being held in New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center facing attempted murder charges. Aafia Siddiqui holds biology and neuroscience degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and Brandeis University. In 2003, she vanished from Pakistan and reappeared on July 17, 2008, outside the governor's compound in Ghazni, Afghanistan. According to the FBI indictment against her, Siddiqui was carrying "various documents, various chemicals, and a computer thumb drive." Aafia Siddiqui is believed to be an al-Qaeda...

Excerpt - All flights in Pakistan have been suspended after a major security alert at Islamabad airport, according to reports. The country's civil aviation authority is said to have instituted a state of emergency. A huge search is underway at Islamabad airport after a phone call saying the building would be blown up at 12.40pm local time (7.40pm UK time), say local TV reports. ~ snip ~

Terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda may be planning to buy former NHS ambulances and police cars to mount suicide bomb attacks in Britain, MI5 has warned. They may import a tactic already used in Iraq and Israel, according to a report by MI5’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre to chief constables. In a statement to The Sunday Times, the Association of Chief Police Officers also warned of the risk of such an attack. It said ministers must legislate to stop the sale of such vehicles. Its move has been backed by Lord Carlile of Berriew, the government’s terrorism watchdog. He said he...

When the next president takes office in January, he or she will likely receive an intelligence brief warning that Islamic terrorists will attempt to exploit the transition in power by planning an attack on America, intelligence experts say. Read more at http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080525/FOREIGN/541243918/1001

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Suspected Islamic extremists arrested last week in Barcelona were planning al Qaeda-style attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant who "infiltrated" the group, Spain's El Pais newspaper reports. "If we attack the metro [subway system in Barcelona], the emergency services can't get there," one of the suspected suicide bombers told the informant, El Pais reported on Saturday. "Our preference is public transport, especially the metro." El Pais reported that it had access to the informant's testimony to Spanish officials. CNN has confirmed that authorities have given high importance to an informant's...

LONDON - Extremists are grooming children and teenagers to plot terrorist attacks against Britain, the director of the domestic spy agency said Monday. But Jonathan Evans, making his first public speech since becoming director-general of Britain's MI5 agency in April, said vital resources needed to tackle terrorism are being diverted to counter the espionage threat from Russia and China. "Terrorists are methodically and intentionally targeting young people and children in this country," Evans said, according to a text of his speech in Manchester, England. "They are radicalizing, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism." Testimony...

Chertoff should take a deep breath The Montreal Gazette: Editorial Published: Friday, July 13, 2007 Perhaps Michael Chertoff should take an antacid. Certainly he should be careful what he says before he causes Canadians to need a Tylenol. The U.S. Homeland Security chief has been popping off about his suspicions, hunches and worries, but if he has facts to back up any of this, he's keeping those to himself. Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune this week that he has a "gut feeling" that the U.S. faces an increased risk of terror attack this summer. The next day, he said...

LONDON — A Scottish house had been used as a makeshift bomb factory to carry out the terror attacks in London and Scotland, British media reported Thursday. Meanwhile, a subway derailed in the capital during rush-hour, raising jitters in the wake of the foiled terror plots and the Saturday's anniversary of the deadly 2005 suicide bombings. Police said the train derailment on London's Central line was unrelated to the terror plots. At least one person was injured in the accident, which was reportedly caused because of an obstruction on the tracks. Britain's terrorism threat level has been lowered following the...

LONDON (AP) -- The threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than any time since the Sept. 11 attacks, a British Sunday newspaper reported, citing a leaked intelligence document. More than 2,000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks, according to a government threat assessment prepared this month that The Sunday Telegraph said it had seen. "The scale of al-Qaida's ambitions toward attacking the U.K. and the number of U.K. extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged," the newspaper quoted the document as saying. It said the document was being...

Twice as many Islamist terror plots have been disrupted since the July 7 suicide bombings as has previously been made public, Britain's security services insist. A further six plots, which have been kept secret until now for security reasons, had been planned by groups across Britain since the London Underground and bus bombings in 2005. Whitehall sources refused to provide precise details on security grounds. The revelation demonstrates the scale of the task facing MI5 and the police, who are now discovering or disrupting some kind of terrorist plot in the United Kingdom every six weeks. Up to 12 plots...

Excerpt - Intelligence agencies have been warned that al Qaeda may be planning to attack air and rail travel in Europe in actions that may occur during the busy holiday travel season, CBS News has learned exclusively. In separate interviews with Arab and other intelligence sources, CBS News has been told that the warnings come from interrogations of al Qaeda suspects who recently left Afghanistan and Pakistan. "One suspect said plans for repeating the Heathrow attempt (a reference to the failed 'liquid bomb' plot interrupted in August) were all prepared. It is now a matter of taking action," said one...

Israel's war with Hizbullah guerrillas opened the door to accusations on both sides of war crimes. But can anyone be prosecuted? Israeli aircraft and artillery killed more than 850 Lebanese during the 34-day conflict, most of them civilians, and left a moonscape of ruin. Hizbullah pummeled northern Israel with thousands of rockets that killed 39 civilians among the total Israeli war dead of 159. Now human rights groups in Lebanon are collecting evidence that could be used in cases filed under a legal principle known as universal jurisdiction, which says that war crimes are so serious they can be prosecuted...

RABAT, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Morocco said on Thursday the number of arrests it has made after cracking a militant Islamist cell that planned attacks on government targets has risen to 56, including four women, in five towns across the country. Security services broke up the cell and seized explosives and propaganda materials in early August. The government has said the group was planning a far bigger attack than the Casablanca bombings in May 2003, which killed 45 people. "The latest arrest was made 24 hours ago. It was a woman," Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa told a rare news conference....

Intelligence analysts are urging a heightened awareness by citizens of the US and Canada, especially within the transportation sectors, schools, and in locations beyond those cities commonly named as potential targets of al Qaeda attacks. 1 September 2006: In classic al Qaeda fashion, As Sahab Productions, the media (propaganda) arm of al Qaeda announced yesterday that a new video featuring the terror group's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri along with Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American (or Azzam al-Amriki), will be released shortly. The message, reportedly titled "An Invitation to Islam" is causing concern among intelligence analysts in the United...

LONDON (Reuters) - The threat of an al Qaeda attack from the sea remains an "absolute concern" and could intensify as operations on land are countered, the U.S. Navy's top commander in the Gulf told Reuters on Monday. Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, governments and security experts have repeatedly voiced fears about the vulnerability of the maritime industry, which carries more than 90 percent of the world's traded goods. "I don't think there is any question that as we thwart their attacks and disrupt their operations on land, that we should expect them to turn to...

Terror plots accelerating, warns police chief By John Steele (Filed: 04/07/2006) Anti-terrorist police are tackling an "accelerating" number of plots by violent Muslim Jihadi extremists, according to Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer. Scotland Yard anti-terrorism branch is involved in an "unprecedented" 70 investigations, Peter Clarke the head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch and national co-ordinator for anti-terrorist investigations, warned yesterday. More than 60 people are facing trial on terrorist allegations. Two-thirds of those have been charged since last July. In one of the most sombre and detailed statements yet on the threat to Britain from Islamic extremist terrorists, Mr...

POLICE are locking down parts of Melbourne as part of Commonwealth Games security preparations, with a week still to go before the opening ceremony. Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon said security for the Games was now in full swing, with venues locked down following security sweeps in preparation for the opening next Wednesday. Police will evaluate security at the MCG later this week when they begin using airport-style screening to check spectators entering two dress rehearsals for the Games opening ceremony. In the largest security operation ever seen in Australia, more than 2500 military personnel will join Victoria's 13,000...

An international effort that includes the U.S. Navy has prevented potential terrorist attacks in Asian seas and waterways aimed at disrupting global commerce, a high-ranking Naval officer said Monday in Pittsburgh. "There has been planning that has been thwarted, so we have to be on the guard," said Vice Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, a Butler County native and commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet since August 2004. Although the fleet operates on the other side of the world, the trade it helps protect has a large impact on the U.S. economy, he said. "There is a strain of al-Qaida in...

Dana Priest of The Washington Post sounds shocked - shocked! - to discover that George W. Bush ordered a complete remobilization and reinvigoration of the CIA immediately after September 11th: "The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al-Qaida has grown into the largest CIA covert-action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over clandestine tactics . . . ." This is news? Isn't this just what W. told the country he would do in the aftermath of September 11th? "Ours will...

The Bush Administration's use of warrantless wiretaps in the war on terrorism continues to generate controversy, and Congress is planning hearings. The issue is not about circumventing normal civilian Constitutional protections, after all. The debate concerns surveillance for military purposes during wartime. But what the critics are really insisting on here is that the President get a warrant the minute a terrorist communicates with an associate who may be inside in the U.S. That's a loophole only a terrorist could love. Jimmy Carter's Attorney General, Griffin Bell, emphasized when FISA passed that the law "does not take away the power...

Iraq Interior Minister Bayan Jabir said terror attacks in the country decreased by 70 percent and no escapee has been arrested at Syrian borders for two weeks. In the statement to Kuwaiti reporters, Jabir indicates this figure was based on the latest statistics. The decrease in the number of these attacks is a big success, the minister noted, declaring by the end of next year Iraqi army could take over security. The US Army had declared after the months long operations against insurgents, suicide attacks had decreased to the lowest level in November and roadside bombings had been at its...

Lebanon is sending an urgent complaint to the United Nations over Israeli land, sea and air space violations, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi announced Thursday. It would be the second such complaint in just over a month. The Foreign Ministry has been instructed to ask the world community, the UN and Secretary General Kofi Annan to pressure Israel to stop such violations "in order to prevent further deterioration of the tense situation along the border" between Lebanon and Israel, Aridi said. Aridi was reading a statement following a four-hour Cabinet meeting.

Jakarta, 17 Nov. (AKI) - Britain, Italy, Australia and America have been warned "you will be the target of our next attack", in a video found in Indonesia featuring a masked man believed to be a key leader from the group accused of organising the Bali bombings. The video, which Indonesia's top police chief said appeared, from the man's accent, to show Noordin Mohamad Top from the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group, was found, along with several other tapes, during a raid on a recently-abandoned hideout in the central Java province. "As long as you keep your troops in Iraq and...

CANBERRA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Sydney's harbour bridge and Opera House are among a range of possible targets linked to intelligence about potential terror attacks in Australia, newspapers said on Friday. Prime Minister John Howard has said Australia received intelligence this week about a "terrorist threat", but refused to give any details on Friday, saying to do so would compromise police and security agency investigations. Australia, a staunch U.S. ally with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, has never suffered a major peacetime attack on home soil. The country has been on medium security alert since shortly after the Sept. 11,...

More than 50 people died in the London bomb attacks, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said. Sir Ian Blair said the final death toll was unlikely to top 100, but warned an unknown number of bodies remain in the blast-hit Tube train at Russell Square. The police chief confirmed that 13 people were killed in the bus blast at Tavistock Square. The police had an "implacable resolve" to track down those responsible for the bombings, the Met Commissioner said. The blasts on three Tubes and a bus left 700 hurt, with 100 held overnight in hospital and 22...

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A quirk in how the U.S. government defined terrorism meant that when Chechen rebels blew up two airliners almost simultaneously over Russia last year, only one was counted in an annual tally of terrorist attacks. On board one plane were 46 Russians. But the other had 43 Russians and an Israeli citizen - a foreign national that allowed the explosion to meet the U.S. criteria for international terrorism. A new database assembled by the National Counterterrorism Center that was to go online early Wednesday has broadened the definition of terrorism to include both bombings. In the process, the center has...

Jan. 18, 2005 21:19 Zubeidi: Al Aksa will halt attacks against Israel By ASSOCIATED PRESS Zachariya Zubeidi, Jenin leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, announced Tuesday that his group would stop attacks inside Israel as a gesture to Mahmoud Abbas. Zubeidi announced the halt as Abbas was in Gaza, trying to negotiate a cease-fire to be honored by the various organizations. Shortly after Abbas arrived in Gaza on Tuesday, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up there, wounding eight Israelis. Hamas took responsibility. The Al Aksa group has been behind dozens of shooting attacks and some suicide bombings in...

At least 63 people were killed and dozens were wounded Sunday, in two bombings in the Shi'ite cities of Najaf and Karbala and a shooting attack in Baghdad. Iraqi Shi'ite leaders called on their people to show restraint saying the Sunday attacks were intended to disrupt the coming elections. Shi'ite leaders accuse Sunni Muslim militants of carrying out the attacks. The Shi'ites suspect militants known as Salafists or Wahabis, and former ruling Baath Party members, of seeking to draw Shi'ites into a violence cycle that would spark a civil war and prevent the coming elections from taking place. Wahabis are...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Suicide car bombs struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 14 people, wounding dozens, and again demonstrating the lethal reach of Iraq's insurgency just weeks ahead of crucial elections. The U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. John Abizaid, acknowledged that the country's homegrown forces aren't yet up to the task of ensuring secure elections, necessitating the planned increase in U.S. troops. More than 40 Iraqis have been killed in the last two days alone. But U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi criticized the military's hardline approach to the insurgency and...

Iraqi insurgents launched two major attacks Friday against a Shi'ite mosque and a police station in Baghdad, killing 30 people, including at least 16 police officers, in the deadliest insurgent attack in weeks. US military spokesman Lt. Col. Jim Hutton said gunmen in 11 cars attacked the station with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. He said a US military Humvee was also damaged. There were no American casualties. There was no word on the insurgents' casualties. Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Sunni rebel group, al-Qaida in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the attack on the police station in Baghdad's western...

SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded north of Baghdad Saturday, killing eight people and wounding at least 20, police at the scene said. They said the blasts in the city of Samarra, 62 miles north of the Iraqi capital, targeted the town hall and a nearby joint Iraqi police and National Guard checkpoint. "I saw a dead National Guard burning on the ground," said one witness. "I saw people carrying away another corpse." Most of the those killed in the blast, which took place at 9 a.m. (0600 GMT), appeared to be Iraqi civilians, police said. Insurgents bent...

(IsraelNN.com) ZAKA Rescue & Recovery organization Chief Yehuda Meshi-Zahav is confirming reports that Egyptian officials are not giving the green light to move ahead with their work – seeking to tend to the tens of bodies at the scene of the Taba Hilton Hotel. Meshi-Zahav describes the scene at the hotel as unorganized and chaotic, explaining Egyptian officials do not even have a line to speak directly with government officials in Cairo. Reports indicate the Egyptian tourism minister is expected on the scene, hopefully to permit recovery efforts to get underway.

Zayneb Abu Salem, 18, of the Askar refugee camp in Nablus was the eighth female suicide bomber to blow herself up since the outbreak of violence four years ago, and the 41st female recruited by terror organizations to perpetrate attacks. Wednesday's bombing occurred despite the general closure imposed on Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip imposed two weeks ago. Security officials said that no specific warning of plans by a suicide bomber to blow up in Jerusalem was received. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz held consultations on the phone with military and security officials following the attack, but security officials said...

WASHINGTON - Fatal traffic accidents increase sharply in Israel on the third day after a terrorist attack, and researchers are searching for an explanation why. An 18-month study found no notable change in fatal accidents on the day of an attack or the first or second day after. But fatalities jumped 35 percent on the third day, or a startling 69 percent after a terror attack that killed 10 people or more. "Why traffic fatalities increase on the third day after a terror attack remains a puzzle," Guy Stecklov of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Joshua R. Goldstein of...

AMMAN (AFP) - Two Jordanians were charged here with planning to carry out attacks on diplomats in the country, according to their charge sheet. In a separate case, another man was accused of having links with fellow Jordanian Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, considered to be the leader in Iraqof Osama bin Laden 's Al-Qaeda terror network. Student Khaled Abdelrahman Jibran, 20, and shop employee Abdelhamid Ezzat Mahmoud Yassin, 31, were charged by the state security court prosecutor with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts." They were also charged with planning "military operations against foreign diplomats as revenge on their countries for...

I don't think anyone with a conscience will ever forget where they were and what they were doing when the events of 9/11 unfolded. Me, I was in the American politics chatroom. I didn't have to work that day until 2pm and I woke up about 9:20 and the first thing I did was light a cigarette and log into chat. When I got there, one of the chatters said "Billy, did you hear about the plane that just crashed?" - I said No... and then i turned on FOX - just moments after I turned it on, I heard...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: snip Over 100 casualties, including 15 murdered, 4 critically, 21 medium, and 47 lightly. All evacuated to Saroka Hospital in Beer Sheva. First reports indicate Hamas, harbored by the Palestinian Authority terrorist regime in Hebron, committed the attack. The site of the terror attacks shows, from first reports, the bodies of the two suicide terrorists.

What John Kerry's America will look like Ben Shapiro townhall.com July 14, 2004 This week, I began to think for the first time about what I would write if Sen. John Kerry were elected president in November. But then, I realized I should write that column now. What good would it do to awaken people to the dangers of a Kerry administration after that administration had been elected? Here, then, are a few predictions of what will transpire in the unlikely event that John Kerry becomes the most powerful man on Earth. Major terrorist attacks will occur in the United...

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush for listening to Sarasota second-graders read a story for nearly seven minutes after learning the nation was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001. But Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, says Bush handled himself properly. "I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?" "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at last month's Cannes Film...

The radical left group Gush-Shalom has a catch-phrase about the security fence: No Separation, No Security, Just a Land Grab. They're also fond of saying, along with their comrades from around the world and Saeb Erekat, that there is no military solution to terrorism. And although I agree that military solutions alone will not solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I think it's hard to escape the efficacy of the fence and the military solution (a.k.a. Operation Defensive Shield). Check it out:

Jerusalem police have arrested three Palestinian teenagers suspected of carrying out two lethal shooting attacks in the city over the last month, and planning a series of other attacks against Jews, police announced Sunday. The three suspects were caught red handed in their vehicle on Friday night as they planned to shoot another Israeli in the city's Ramat Eshkol neighborhood. A court gag order which was in place on the case at police's request was lifted late Sunday afternoon, after the suspects reenacted the crimes. The three men, Sajid Abu-Alous, 18, and his cousin Amar Abu-Alous, 19, from the Jerusalem...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: Explosions were heard at 3 different police stations in Basra, which is in Iraq. A police spokesman in the city said that there are many injured people.

Police: Shin Bet, security forces prevented five terror attacks in Jerusalem over past two weeks

An Open Letter to the People of Spain by Laura Mansfield, Analyst The terrorist attack that massacred 200 of your countrymen, and injured over a thousand, was a horrific act. The world grieves with you. We all know it could have happened to our people in our countries just as easily as it happened in Madrid last Thursday. But no matter how tragic and horrible that act was, it was not a victory for the terrorists. The victory for the terrorists in Spain came on Sunday. The professed goal of the attack, according to numerous Al Qaeda communiques, was to...

UNITED NATIONS, March 11 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday condemned the Basque separatist group ETA as the perpetrators of the deadly bombings in Spain, although members had no way of determining the veracity of the charge. Despite some hesitations over the resolution, members voted 15-0 to accept the word of the Spanish government, which immediately blamed the ETA for the simultaneous explosions that killed 190 people and injured more than 1,200 on packed trains in Madrid. The resolution "condemns in the strongest terms the bomb attacks in Madrid, Spain, perpetrated by the terrorist group ETA on 11...

Israel News Agency Honors Terror Victims, IDF with Hatikva By Israel News Agency Staff Jerusalem----February 29....The Israel News Agency, the first Internet source for breaking news from Israel since 1995, again is revolutionizing the Internet as Israel steps up it's PR and information campaign. "We have a very potent tool which Israel has kept in it's arsenal since 1948, it's called 'Hatikva', and it's about time we start using it," said Joel Leyden, publisher of the Israel News Agency and CEO of Leyden Communications (Israel). "The national anthem of Israel provokes Zionist thought and stirs deep emotional feelings among us...