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As we learn more about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, it’s clear that he was throwing off warning signals right and left — but nobody wanted to step up and take action about him until it was too late: Hasan’s Supervisor Warned Army In 2007. Two years ago, a top ...
Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas, Walter Reed, Militant Islam
The Washington Post has published the presentation given to senior Army doctors in June 2007 by alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Malik Hasan. Instead of lecturing about a medical subject as expected, Hasan recited a litany of standard justifications for militant Islam. It’s amazing (and not in a good way) ...
A lot of the early reporting in the Fort Hood mass murder story turned out to be false, and here’s another detail that the press got wrong: Sgt. Kimberly Munley, applauded as a hero for shooting Nidal Malik Hasan after being wounded herself, apparently didn’t even fire her weapon. The ...
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) has told the press there’s evidence that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan may have wired money to Pakistan. WASHINGTON – Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one ...
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Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas, Walter Reed, Militant Islam, Barack Obama, Eulogy, Video
As information comes out that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter, was possibly trying to make contact with Al Qaeda, the real question becomes: how did the military miss all the warning signs Hasan was emitting? Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, Officials Say. ...
Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas, Walter Reed, Militant Islam
This is the Associated Press video report on an FBI raid in the Detroit area that resulted in a shootout, in which the leader of an extremist Sunni group was killed. [Video] UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:44:34 am: A more detailed video from CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group ...
There’s been another terror-related arrest today, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where a man was allegedly planning attacks on politicians and a shopping mall. As with all the recent terror-related arrests, Tarek Mehanna apparently never even got close to carrying out any attacks; the FBI was on to him every step of ...
A major Al Qaeda leader thought to be the mastermind of the terror attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has reportedly been killed in Somalia. A senior al Qaeda operative behind the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania is believed to have been ...
The United Nations, for the first time, is planning to introduce lessons about the Nazi Holocaust to Palestinian students in Gaza. In the twisted world of Hamas, however, this amounts to a war crime. Hamas spiritual leader Younis al-Astal lashed out after hearing that the U.N. Relief and Works ...
In Afghanistan’s North Helmand Province, where Michael Yon is embedded with the Brits, the elections didn’t turn out very well. This dispatch has been dictated by satellite phone due to communications difficulties. My satellite gear has failed on election day. I do not know how well the ...
Afghanistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Military, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Election
As Afghanistan holds presidential elections, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the war — and there’s a stark difference on party lines. A majority of Americans now see the war in Afghanistan as not worth fighting, and just a quarter say more U.S. troops should ...
Afghanistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Military, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda
A video report from North Carolina's WRAL TV, on the detention hearing for Daniel Patrick Boyd and six other alleged homegrown jihadis arrested last week: WRAL Video
Imagine world reaction if Israel responded to Palestinian terror attacks like this.
A militant Islamic group called the “Nigerian Taliban” has killed dozens of people with coordinated attacks in the northern part of Nigeria, with the goal of overthrowing the government, imposing strict sharia law, and abolishing “Western-style education.” Especially that whole “rain” concept. They don’t accept that rain is evaporated water. ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, discovery institute, Darwinism, Nigeria, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Nigerian Taliban
Seven men, all but one of them US citizens, have been arrested in North Carolina in a homegrown jihad plot: 7 arrested in North Carolina on terrorism charges. [Video] Federal authorities in North Carolina on Monday arrested seven men who they said had trained with high-powered weapons as part ...
A 26-year old American man who converted to Islam at a Long Island mosque has been charged with joining Al Qaeda and taking part in a rocket attack on a US base in Afghanistan. A 26-year-old American-born Long Island man who traveled to Pakistan and trained in a Qaeda ...
Afghanistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Long Island
Here’s an ABC News report on the bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, with footage of one of the explosions from a hotel surveillance camera. [Video]
Indonesia, Terrorism, Jakarta, Militant Islam, Jemaah Islamiya
The Investigative Project has a report on shadowy Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and their planned meeting this weekend in Chicago: Hizb Ut-Tahrir In America: Preaching Hate, Building A Caliphate. Hizb ut-Tahrir, (HT) the pro-jihadist organization meeting this weekend in suburban Chicago, has been waging a below-the-radar campaign to ...
investigative project, Terrorism, Militant Islam, Jihad, Hizb ut-Tahrir
Simultaneous bombing attacks at two hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, have killed at least four people. JAKARTA, July 17 (Bernama) — Two explosions occurred in Ritz Carlton and Marriott hotels in Jakarta on Friday morning, killing at least four people and wounding tens of others, China’s Xinhua news agency reported ...
Andrea Elliott of the New York Times has a good in-depth report on the disturbing number of Somali Muslim refugees living in Minnesota who have returned to Somalia to join the jihad: A Call to Jihad, Answered in America. In November, Mr. Hassan and two other students dropped out ...
Somalia, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Militant Islam, Minnesota, Jihad
Antisemitic conspiracies and hate speech were at the ISNA Convention — along with Barack Obama’s Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and International Affairs, Valerie Jarrett: ’Mainstream’ Islamist Convention Features Hate Speech and Hezbollah Defense.
Radical Islam, ISNA, Holy Land Foundation, Militant Islam, Valerie Jarrett, Protocols of the Elders of Zion
This is a welcome development, but I’m sure Putin has his own reasons for agreeing to it: Russia Opens Route for U.S. to Fly Arms to Afghanistan. MOSCOW — The Russian government has agreed to allow American troops and weapons bound for Afghanistan to fly over Russian territory, providing ...
Afghanistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Military, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Russia
A massive military offensive is under way in Afghanistan against the Taliban. NAWA, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and ...
Afghanistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Military, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda
The Investigative Project has a chilling report on the increasingly sophisticated jihad propaganda aimed at children in the Middle East: ’Birds of Paradise’ – Martyrdom Recruitment as Children’s Entertainment.
Militant Islam, investigative project, Children, Propaganda, Jihad