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On any given day, log on to RevolutionMuslim.com and a host of startling images appear: — The Statue of Liberty, with an ax blade cutting through her side; — Video mocking the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, entitled "Daniel Pearl I am Happy Your Dead :) "; — Video of a puppet show lampooning U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq; — The latest speech from Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, an extremist Muslim cleric convicted in the UK and later deported for soliciting the murder of non-Muslims. Even more surprising is that RevolutionMuslim.com isn't being maintained in some remote safe house in...

From leaky roofs to secret agents: how the files I found in Iraq's looted foreign ministry cast light on the paranoid world of Saddam Hussein How many Iraqi officials does it take to fix the leaky roof of a diplomat's house in London? How long does a skilled translator need to convert one of George Galloway's parliamentary speeches into Arabic? In almost 1, 000 pages of Arabic prose, each stamped with the Eagle crest of Iraq, the files found inside the foreign ministry in Baghdad cast a somewhat surreal light on the questions that turned the bureaucratic wheels of Saddam...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A suspect in a 1999 apartment-building bombing that killed 64 people and helped trigger Moscow's renewed military campaign in Chechnya was brought to Russia on Saturday after being arrested in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, authorities said. Magomed Salikhov is suspected of helping organize the attack in the Dagestani city of Buinaksk — one of four apartment-house blasts that Russian authorities cited as a reason to renew their military campaign in Chechnya. Salikhov was detained in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, on Friday, Dagestani police spokeswoman Anzhela Martirosova said. NTV television showed Salikhov being led through a building...

Assailants Gun Down Chief of Saddam Hussein's TribeBy Donna Abu-Nasr Associated Press WriterPublished: Jul 1, 2003 TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - Assailants gunned down the chief of Saddam Hussein's tribe in the ousted leader's hometown of Tikrit a few weeks after he publicly disavowed Saddam. Although the motive was unclear, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khattab had many enemies, the regional governor said Tuesday. Elsewhere in Iraq, two attacks against American forces wounded at least six soldiers, U.S. troops shot and killed four people at checkpoints and a mosque explosion killed 10 people in Fallujah - further stirring anti-American sentiment in a town where...

15:46 Unidentified assailants gun down head of Saddam Hussein`s tribe in former dictator`s hometown of Tikrit

Will the real Muslims stand up? Posted: February 13, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Despite the massive efforts of the United States to remove Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida organization, they are still very much with us. I don't mean to suggest that U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and elsewhere are faulty, but rather to emphasize how complex and difficult it is to combat this new kind of enemy. In World War II, we saw how difficult it was to confront the fanatically motivated Third Reich of Nazi Germany. Their leaders and a good part of the populace...