http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/yousef/ en-us Sun, 12 May 2002 04:51:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/682066/posts Ever since the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, critics have contended that more people were involved than Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. A recent federal lawsuit alleges that Iraqi agents also played a role and McVeigh’s former defense attorney claims that prior to the bombing Nichols made contact with international terrorists. In a special report CBS 11’s Steve Narisi says the trail some investigators are following leads to the Philippines. “The U.S. Government has contended all along that any link between Nichols and Islamic extremists is strictly coincidental. During Nichols and McVeigh’s trial, the court didn’t allow... KTVT-TV, Dallas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/682066/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2002 04:51:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580228/posts Discrimination against Arab-American agent alleged WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee is calling for an investigation into whether the FBI retaliated against its highest-ranking Arabic-speaking agent, a new letter reveals. The public airing of the private workplace squabble is a potential embarrassment for the FBI, which faced criticism after 9/11 for its failure to hire many Arab-speaking agents and for failing to better understand the radical Islamic community inside the United States. Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate whether the FBI's treatment of agent... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580228/posts#comment Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:48:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793647/posts Gems, al-Qaida and murder. Mystery over killing of Osama Bin Laden's friend · Saudi man's death was political, say his family· US secret service was monitoring his activities Nick Fielding Friday March 2, 2007 The Guardian (UK) Pallbearers carry the coffin of Muhammad Jamal Khalifa at Ivato airport in Antananarivo, in Madagascar. Photograph: Jasleen Sethi/Reuters When Muhammad Jamal Khalifa was found dead at a remote gemstone mine in south-eastern Madagascar at the end of January, local police quickly put the murder down to a business deal gone wrong. The Saudi businessman, 49, had had to call in local police to... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793647/posts#comment Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:04:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196715/posts CALIFORNIA - A moment before beginning his dinner, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates. It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization in the West Bank, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian.... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196715/posts#comment Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:32:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158512/posts Here are all 6 Youtube video embeds of the Fox News Special Report entitled “Escape from Hamas” in which Mosab Hassan Yousef tells of his conversion to Christianity and reveals an insiders knowledge of the real Hamas. Dark Skies Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158512/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:13:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158493/posts God bless him. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158493/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158352/posts <p>What is stronger than hate and bloodshed?</p> <p>While Israel and Hamas engage in "all-out war" in the Gaza Strip, a FOX News documentary tells an extraordinary story of faith, courage, violence, betrayal and conversion.</p> <p>Correspondent Jonathan Hunt's investigation goes deep inside Hamas, through a series of stunning exclusive interviews with the son of a founding member of the Islamic terrorist group. Mosab Hassan himself became the leader of the radical Islamic Youth Movement, fought Israeli tanks and troops in the streets, celebrated suicide bombings and recruited young men to the cause.</p> FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158352/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 03:28:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157838/posts Mosab Hassan Yousef was born the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the most influential leaders of the militant Hamas organization in the West Bank. He converted to Christianity, moved to the U.S., and now provides the world an inside look behind Hamas. Dark Skies Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157838/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099235/posts FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks 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." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099235/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058344/posts A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates. It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. "I'm now called Joseph," he says... haaretz.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058344/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:36:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016690/posts The fact that receiving Hamas support does not appear to disturb Obama should worry us even more than the fact that terrorists see something in him that they really like. The 2008 Presidential campaign has already seen a number of outlandish, and patently false, attacks. The idea that Islamic terrorists are picking a side in selection of an American president might seem to be yet another for the list…if it didn’t have its basis in truth. A few weeks ago, Ahmed Yousef, a top political adviser for terrorist group Hamas, said in an interview on WABC radio in New York... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016690/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 03:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015021/posts The Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef did Barack Obama no favor recently when he said: “We like Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election.” John McCain jumped on this statement, calling it a “legitimate point of discussion,” and tied it to Obama’s putative softness on Iran, whose ever-charming president last week called Israel a “stinking corpse” and predicted its “annihilation.” The Hamas episode won’t help Obama’s attempts to win over Jewish voters, particularly those in such places as –- to pull an example from the air –- Palm Beach County, Florida, whose Jewish residents tend to appreciate... The Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015021/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 00:23:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014371/posts Are we due for an "October surprise?" Ever since October 1972, when Henry Kissinger, then Richard Nixon's national security adviser, announced that "peace is at hand" in Vietnam, an October surprise – or the impending possibility of one – has been a perennial feature of American political life. Will a dramatic foreign-policy development tip the electoral balance this year? Several factors have converged to make this more probable than in any recent election. Consider the extraordinary way foreign powers have been lining up in the election. Thus far, Barack Obama has been winning this particular nondelegate count. "We like Mr.... Opinion Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014371/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 12:36:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007245/posts Barack Obama's campaign has been "flattered" by Hamas terrorists. "Flattered." Last week a top official of the militant Palestinian group endorsed Sen. Obama. Ahmed Yousef told a New York radio station that "we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle ... ." Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, said he was "flattered" by the comparison to JFK, according to WorldNetDaily. Would Mr. Axelrod be equally flattered if Hezbollah terrorists endorsed Obama and compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Axelrod gushed just a... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007245/posts#comment Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:51:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910333/posts WASHINGTON - Muslim terrorist Ramzi Yousef once bombed the World Trade Center for Allah, but now he purports to have found Jesus and converted to Christianity, according to new reports. The Daily News recently learned that Yousef has shaved his beard, stopped reading the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and now eats pork, which is forbidden in Islam. Yousef, the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was convicted and is serving a life term for detonating a truck bomb under the twin towers in 1993 and plotting to blow up U.S.-bound airliners over the Pacific. But since his capture... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910333/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:58:15 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-news/1066910/posts KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah... AP Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066910/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:30:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/557047/posts MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES - There are so many links between the Abu Sayyaf Group of the Philippines, which beheaded an American hostage a few months ago, and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network, that on paper they look like the route map for a Peshawar-based airline. The links run from that high, bleak border city in Pakistan to terrorist dens in Afghanistan and Yemen; to murders and bombings in the Philippines; to the first attack on the World Trade Center; to a foiled attempt to assassinate the pope during a 1995 visit to Manila. A captured Abu Sayyaf guerrilla, ... Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/557047/posts#comment Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:39:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682237/posts Descriptions of the alleged plot uncovered by British authorities have distinct echoes of the so-called Operation Bojinka, an attempt by supporters of al Qaeda in the mid-1990s to simultaneously destroy airliners over the Pacific using liquid explosives. The explosives, which can be hidden in a small bottle, like those used for contact lens solution, are hard to detect, and were originally developed by Yousef, whose uncle, Mohammed, was the chief architect of the 9/11 attacks. In December 1994, Yousef tested his device using a fraction of the explosives planned for the main bombs. Halfway through the short flight, Yousef disappeared... SFC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682237/posts#comment Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608606/posts Does an obscure document, hidden among the hundreds of documents released recently from Iraq and Afghanistan, provide evidence linking Al Qaeda operative Ramzi Yousef to the Oklahoma City attack on the MurrahBuilding? The Arabic-language handwritten document, numbered AFGP-2002-801138, and available at http://www.ctc.usma.edu/aq/AFGP-2002-801138-Orig.pdf , contains a series of pages that were written in what appears to be some sort of daily planner. The daily planner appears to be a standard daily calendar/agenda book, containing a daily calendar for the year 2000. The dates within the calendar are in English, and have the Islamic dates for each day as well. The planner... LauraMansfield.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608606/posts#comment Tue, 4 Apr 2006 00:23:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169649/posts (CNSNews.com) - Fourteen miles from the U.S. Capitol, a basement-run organization with alleged ties to Hamas and al Qaeda is a crucial link in the planning of any future terrorist attacks against the United States, according to several terrorism experts who analyzed documents and other information obtained in a CNSNews.com investigation. The United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), based in Springfield, Va., is publicly identified as a Muslim think tank but has multiple ties to the terrorism underworld, according to the CNSNews.com sources, who are both inside and outside government. "UASR is a front organization for a terrorist group,"... CNSNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169649/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:52:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461535/posts don't have time to elaborate - see for yourself. This guy was the one Able Danger team briefed who decided it was not worthy of inclusion into the 9/11 report or even to the ears of comittee members since it did not fit their conclusions about Atta. THIS NEEDS TO P*O*P! google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461535/posts#comment Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969907/posts <p>A task force of federal agents has ratcheted up a two-year-old antiterrorism investigation aimed at several Virginia-based Islamic charities suspected of diverting millions of dollars to terror network al Qaeda and other militant radicals.</p> <p>Led by agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI, the task-force probe has targeted a number of people tied to several private companies and interrelated Islamic charities operating out of business fronts in Herndon and Falls Church.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969907/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:50:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1385837/posts During the 9/11 congressional hearings a year ago, there was a common question that the commissioners seemed to enjoy asking: Why was the U.S. not on “war footing” when the 9/11 attack occurred? If the government truly wanted to seek all information regarding intelligence failures leading up to 9/11, the Commission should have asked one of its own members about the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 171 lives a decade ago on April 19, 1995. In one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of the U.S., the federal government purposely avoided investigating incriminating evidence of a plot that pointed... Bizblogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1385837/posts#comment Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:46:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089006/posts On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and... Jewish Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089006/posts#comment Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:42:05 GMT