http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/yassin/ en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:17:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392928/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Terror Charges Unsealed in Minnesota Against Eight Defendants, Justice Department Announces The Justice Department announced that terrorism charges have been unsealed today in the District of Minnesota against eight defendants. According to the charging documents, the offenses include providing financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization; attending terrorist training camps operated by al-Shabaab; and fighting on behalf of al-Shabaab. Thus far, 14 defendants have been charged in the District of Minnesota in indictments or criminal complaints that have been unsealed and... Minneapolis.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392928/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215650/posts SNIPPET: "For all his public activity, Bray has rarely, if ever, discussed his life story in detail. His own MAS biography offers vague descriptions of his work as "a long time civil and human rights advocate." A charismatic African-American convert to Islam, Bray spent this entire decade working for Islamist organizations. Prior to joining MAS, Bray was political director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Those jobs have helped him build a growing public profile and given him access to politicians and policy makers. And that may explain his reluctance to discuss his life before political activism. The Investigative... IPT News - An IPT Investigation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215650/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:34:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294125/posts Former Ptech Officer Arrested for SBA Loan Fraud Indictment Unsealed Charges Former Ptech President with Dealing in Assets of Specially Designated Global Terrorist BOSTON—A former resident of Somerville, Mass. who has been living in South Korea was arrested today after arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. An indictment, originally returned on March 1, 2007, was unsealed today charging Buford George Peterson and Oussama Abdul Ziade, both former officers of Ptech, Inc., a computer software company that was principally located in Quincy, Mass., with making false statements to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in connection with a... Boston.FBI.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294125/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:47:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242427/posts MAS' Esam Omeish Seeks Virginia Office Campaign Mum on MAS Ties, Radical Omeish Speeches IPT News May 1, 2009 The last time the public got a good look at Esam Omeish, he was resigning from a Virginia immigration panel, claiming that the posting of videos showing him praising Palestinians who chose "the jihad way" to liberate their land was part of a smear campaign against him. Now Omeish is diving into the deep end of smear campaigns, offering himself as a candidate for a partisan legislative seat in Northern Virginia. Omeish is among four Democrats vying to win their party's... IPT News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242427/posts#comment Fri, 1 May 2009 23:45:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835433/posts When Your Doctor is a Muslim: Medical Terrorism Comes to America By Debbie Schlussel www.debbieschlussel.com May 17, 2007 Sometimes--so many times--diversity is not what it's cracked up to be. Just ask Joseph Applebaum. Well, you could ask him. But you won't get an answer. He's dead. And he's dead because he was a Jew, and his doctor is a Muslim and grad of "Ayman Al-Zawahiri" Medical School. But Applebaum wasn't denied treatment for being a Jew in Egypt. Or elsewhere in the Muslim world. It happened right here on U.S. soil. In Chicago. As Muslim doctors continue to flood into... debbieschlussel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835433/posts#comment Thu, 17 May 2007 23:42:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1777052/posts A woman is in critical condition after a wild chain of events in north Minneapolis Wednesday morning. Police said around 7:55 a.m., Ismail Yassin Mohammed, 22, was driving a black Chevy Cavalier when he began intentionally ramming a blue and white taxi for several blocks until the cab crashed. The cab driver and the passenger tried to escape, when the female passenger was critically injured somehow. Later, she was taken to HCMC. After the cab crashed, police said Mohammed took off in the Cavalier and then crashed into a business. He got out of the car and then stole a... KSTP 5 Eyewitness News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1777052/posts#comment Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:00:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739324/posts Testimony in the trial of Chicago resident Muhammad Salah and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar of Northern Virginia, continued yesterday. FBI Agents gave testimony focusing on items found in Ashqar's home during a search of his Oxford Mississippi residence on December 26, 1993, in addition to wiretaps of his phone and fax lines. Special Agent Bradley Benabidez testified that the FBI acquired over 2400 hours of audio during the year that they maintained a wiretap. Benabidez further described the December 1993 search of Ashqar’s home where a team of agents from the FBI photographed over 1600 documents. A few of those documents which... Counterterrorism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739324/posts#comment Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:11:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1699214/posts A collection of 9/11 tributes I’ll add to the list below, and if you have any you’d like to add to this (or any other sort of tribute/remembrance), please do so here. Either leave a comment with the link, or link to this post and send a trackback. 9/11: The 5th Year Anniversary Tribute Blood of Heroes September 11th, Uncensored From Brain Terminal: Crystal Morning: September 11th, 2001 From William Teach: 9/11 Plus 5 From Crusader: WTC Tribute More from YouTube: 911 tribute September 11th - Five Years Later: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 September 11th - Flash... bamapachyderm. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1699214/posts#comment Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:12:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692981/posts Top 10 Reasons Islam Might Not Be a Religion of Peace Written by Don Feder Thursday, August 31, 2006 A passenger revolt occurred on a Malaga-Manchester flight.  Vacationing Brits refused to fly with two Arabic-speaking men.  This came in the wake of arrests of 21 British-born Muslims who were plotting to blow up as many as 11 trans-Atlantic flights. A spokesman for Britain’s opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into “behaving irrationally.”  Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up.  Oh, how irrational! Within days of this incident, a Lebanese student... Chron Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692981/posts#comment Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:51:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692976/posts Islamofascism the term (article by WSJ)Islamofascism's 1936What Is 'Islamofascism'?Yes, the problem is 'Islamic fascism'Islamic Fascism the Enemy, Not Terror, Says Santorum -- 07/21/2006Oriana Fallaci and the War Against IslamofascismThe Meaning of 'Islamofascism'Michael Ledeen on Fascism & War on TerrorIslamic Fascism The only proper response to Islamofascism is total warThe Devilfish of Islamofascism Neo-Nazi becomes fanatical Muslim (24/5/2006)Lebanon, Islamofascism and democracyRogmios on IslamofascismIslamo-Nazis, The Historical Collaboration of Nazis with Muslims/Arabs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692976/posts#comment Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:22:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015671/posts By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal. Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct an independent search. They also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015671/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1440001/posts "In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."  U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, CubaFOR MANY, the debate over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1440001/posts#comment Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:39:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1428195/posts In an official statement, White House Spokesman Scott McClellan stated that Hamas associates that deal with politics "may be members of organizations, but are not terrorists, versus terrorists, people who have blood on their hands."[1] Is this distinction enough to convince us that Hamas only makes wine and honey and provides social welfare? And does the Bush administration not know what Hamas really is?Hamas is the Arabic acronym for "The Islamic Resistance Movement" (Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya) and connotes heat, zeal and passion for a cause, the cause here being the destruction of Israel. Hamas was legally registered in Israel in... http://netwmd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1428195/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303300/posts Teen pleads guilty to Jewish school firebombing CTV.ca News Staff One of the main suspects in the firebombing of a Jewish school in Montreal has pleaded guilty to arson. In exchange, the conspiracy charge against him has been dropped. Sleiman Elmerhebi, now 19, made the plea in a Quebec courtroom on Thursday. The arson "was an emotional response," Elmerhebi told the court. "I was reacting to acts of violence in the Middle East that I saw on television." Three people were originally charged in connection with the April attack on the United Talmud Torahs school. Charges were dropped against one... ctv.ca http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303300/posts#comment Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302224/posts Salam al-Marayati, the executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), represents himself and his organization as stalwart opponents of terrorism who are actively working with the FBI and California law enforcement agencies to combat it. At a joint press conference with representatives of the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department on October 14 of this year, Marayati waxed expansive and almost poetic in his glowing account of his organization’s cooperation with law enforcement agencies in the war against terrorism. MPAC has announced a “National Anti-Terrorism Campaign,” and is holding its 4th annual conference (see its poster here)... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302224/posts#comment Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:42:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143602/posts May 27, 2004 | Filmmaker Michael Moore filmed an interview with American Nicholas Berg in the course of producing his documentary film "Fahrenheit 9/11" before Berg left for Iraq, where he was taken hostage and killed, Moore confirmed to Salon in a statement Thursday. The 20 minutes of footage does not appear in the final version of "Fahrenheit 911," according to the statement. Word of the footage reached Salon through a source unaffiliated with Moore or his film "Fahrenheit 9/11," which is reported to feature stark images of U.S. civilians and soldiers grappling with conditions in war-torn Iraq, as well... Salon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143602/posts#comment Fri, 28 May 2004 04:26:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141323/posts 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... Maariv - Debka File http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141323/posts#comment Mon, 24 May 2004 18:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127405/posts <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> W-Times Opinion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127405/posts#comment Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127323/posts Arafat's $Billions in Assets and Investments (Mideast Newswire Archive) Arafat's Wife's Spends Millions While Palestinian Children Starve (Irish Blog Via FR Forum) (02/11/04) ------------------------------------------------------------- On the eve of the famous "hand shake" on the White House lawn which rewarded Rabin and Arafat with the Nobel Prize for Peace, the PLO made Britain's most dangerous terrorist/criminal organizations list. The British National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) also reported that the PLO had world-wide assets approaching $10 billion and an additional annual income of about $1.5 to 2 billion, generated from illegal activities. Surprisingly, the report was not picked up by the media.... ACPR.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127323/posts#comment Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:23:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127314/posts ALSO SEE: Arafat's Wife on a Luxury Trip NY DAILY NEWS (11/06/03)---------------------------------------------Last week we were told that "Malnutrition in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is as bad as in sub-Saharan Africa because the Palestinian economy has all but collapsed under Israeli restrictions." (Irish Times February 6, 2004) A report by the cross-party International Development Select Committee also called on Britain to press the European Union to impose trade sanctions on Israel until it lifts its restrictions on Palestinian trade. The World Bank said last year that the Palestinian economy was in steep decline after the Israeli army blockaded and... Irish Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127314/posts#comment Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:08:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127262/posts CommentsTHE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT TRY to play a "neutral arbiter" in the Israeli/Palestinian dispute. We should, in fact, be doing our best to make the Palestinians suffer until they change their ways, because, to put it bluntly, they are our enemies. Read this to see how they feel about America. And read this piece by Amir Taheri on the Iraqi "resistance," which notes Palestinian terror connections by the Iraqi insurgents, and features a Palestinian "journalist" egging them on. These folks are our enemies, and deserve to be treated as such. They don't deserve a state of their own. It's... INN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127262/posts#comment Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:53:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127202/posts The author is a professor of law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. With the simple press of a button, the pilot of an Israeli helicopter gunship unleashed three missiles, instantly killing Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas, as he was being driven home from prayers at his local mosque in the Gaza Strip. Yassin had not been sentenced to death by any court, nor was he on a battlefield in any conventional sense. Seven others died in the attack. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made no apologies,... WP-via abs-cbnnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127202/posts#comment Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:30:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125922/posts JERUSALEM — Israel's response to Palestinian violence after a pullout from the Gaza Strip would be even harsher than it is now, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday. Interviewed on Israel's Channel 10 television for Israel's independence day, Sharon defended his "unilateral disengagement" plan, including a pullout from the Gaza Strip. Members of his Likud Party vote on the plan in a referendum Sunday. After a pullout, Palestinians could no longer explain violence by saying that Israel was occupying their land, Sharon said, "and Israel's responses (to violence) would be much harsher." He refused to give specifics beyond noting... AP- via Daily ST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125922/posts#comment Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:41:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125535/posts The top figures in the militant group Hamas after the assassination Sunday of its leader, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. _Mahmoud Zahar: A Hamas spokesman, the 53-year-old Zahar is considered a hard-liner. Zahar was the personal physician of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, who was killed by the Israelis on March 22. Zahar served as Hamas' liaison with the PLO in the mid-1990s but now opposes compromise with the Palestinian Authority. Zahar has been imprisoned by Israel and has been jailed repeatedly by the Palestinian Authority. _Ismail Hanieh: A top aide to Yassin and like Zahar he is a member of Hamas'... AP- Star Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125535/posts#comment Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125065/posts Translation from Hebrew to English by me Even though the leaders of Hamas, the Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Avad Al-Aziz Al-Rantisi, have moved on to a new world their popularity continues. Take for example Mazen Al-Natzar, a Hamas man (36) from Schem. Al-Natzar decided to call his twins that were born two days ago on the name of the Hamas leaders who were eliminated by Israel. Al-Natzar, who works as a communications clerk in the Palestinian Communications Company (PalTel), told the French Agency Press that he decided to call his two kids Yassin and Rantisi as a sign of his... Maariv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125065/posts#comment Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:10:10 GMT