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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 ...
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
It’s not a good sign when your national security ministers keep getting murdered: Somali security minister killed in explosion. NAIROBI, Kenya – Somalia’s national security minister and at least 24 other people were killed in a suicide attack Thursday, and an extremist Islamic group with alleged links to al-Qaida ...
Another ridiculous Internet rumor bites the dust: Obama OK’d 2 SEAL teams for pirates. President Obama dispatched two separate teams of Navy commandos to carry out last week’s rescue of a merchant ship captain held hostage by Somali pirates but left the operational details and rules of engagement to ...
Writing in the New York Times, a former United Nations security officer describes what the UN did in Somalia in 1995, in response to a hostage situation. In 1995, for example, the water supply for Mogadishu, the capital, was shut off by the United Nations humanitarian agencies until a ...
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but what the hell happened to “The buck stops here”? President Barack Obama is the Commander in Chief of the US armed forces. I certainly don’t agree with a lot of his policies, but I’ll be damned if I won’t — at the very least — respect ...
Great news in the Somali pirate standoff — it’s over: Official: US sea captain freed in swift firefight. WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Navy has rescued the American sea captain held by Somali pirates. A senior U.S. intelligence official said hostage Richard Phillips was not hurt in what appeared ...
CBS News reports that the crew of the hijacked cargo ship Maersk Alabama has possibly overpowered the Somali pirates: American Crew Battles Somali Pirates. (CBS/AP) The crew of a hijacked U.S. cargo ship is in a standoff with Somali pirates after attempting to retake the vessel, military sources told ...
CBS News has a surprisingly straightforward investigative piece on the Abubakar Islamic Center in Minneapolis; a Somali mosque with a history of turning out radicals. [Video] (Hat tip: Hot Air.)
Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali man who lived in the Twin Cities, apparently blew himself up last week in northern Somalia—and there are almost a dozen others who recently disappeared from the Minneapolis area. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal law enforcement sources believe that a Twin Cities man ...
Terrorism, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Somalia, Suicide Bombing, Militant Islam
The website of Al Qaeda’s Somalian affiliate, al-Shabaab, is being hosted by the US-based company Dotster; Rusty has details: Terrorists: Yes, Our Official Website Is Hosted in the U.S., So What?
Pirates from the lawless state of Somalia tried to attack a US Navy oil tanker earlier today. LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Wednesday it appeared pirates had tried to attack one of its big military oil tankers. A security team aboard the vessel opened fire on ...
Norwegian and Swedish police have arrested six non-Buddhists on suspicion of funding terrorism in Somalia. Oslo/Stockholm - Police in Norway and Sweden on Thursday detained six people on suspicion of funding terrorism abroad. The raids were apparently coordinated between police forces in the Nordic neighbours. Swedish security police spokesman ...
LGF, Sweden, Norway, Terrorism, Somalia, Militant Islam, Jihad
Another American working with Al Qaeda in Somalia?
An Al Jazeera report on the Islamic jihad in Somalia (with a definite air of sympathy toward the masked terrorists—notice the “peace scarf”) includes an interview with an American fighting with the jihadis against Ethiopia and the Somali government: [Video] (Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.)
A bombing at a school killed two teenaged boys in the Somalia jihad: Bomb blast kills 2 Somali schoolboys. MOGADISHU, Somalia - A bomb blast in the war-wracked Somali capital of Mogadishu killed two school boys and wounded a man on Sunday, the manager of their school said. ...
Michelle Malkin has the details of a horrific assault in a Somali neighborhood of the Twin Cities, witnessed by neighbors who did nothing to help: The ghost of Kitty Genovese in St. Paul ... and breaking the silence in Afghanistan. As many as 10 people witnessed a man raping and ...
I think this is intended to be insulting, but Abukar Arman mangles his metaphors so badly I can’t be sure: When the Politics of Polarization Prevails: Islamophobia and the Specter of Neo-McCarthyism. Again we see that the cognitive dissonance induced by the secretive name “Little Green Footballs” has tied an ...
Radical Islam, CAIR, Propaganda, LGF, Council on American Islamic Relations, Somalia, Infiltration, ICU
Reappointed for a second term to the board of the organization responsible for overseeing homeland security in central Ohio: CAIR-affiliated terror apologist, and supporter of the Islamic Courts Union jihadis in Somalia, Abukar Arman: Columbus’ Hometown Jihad. We recently noted a report that Britain’s security services had been infiltrated by ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Propaganda, Radical Islam, ICU, Somalia, Infiltration
A Norwegian-Somali woman who exposed the support for female genital mutilation in Norwegian mosques was severely beaten yesterday in downtown Oslo, by representatives of the Religion of Peace™ screaming “Allahu Akbar!”: Kadra attacked in public. (Hat tip: Ulri.) Norwegian-Somalian Kadra, who became famous in Norway for exposing imam support of ...
Daniel Joseph Maldonado (aka Daniel Al-Jughaifi, aka Abu Mohammed), arrested in Kenya after fighting for the Islamic Courts in Somalia, was an administrator at the web site Islamic Networking. Internet Haganah points out that this site is the successor to the infamous ClearGuidance.com (aka “Islam on Crack,” online home to ...
Jihad, Islam, Media, Internet, Al Qaeda, Somalia, Kenya, Maldonado, Al-Jughaifi
Last week, we noted the report that two Americans had been arrested in Kenya, fleeing the jihad in Somalia. New details are emerging tonight about one of those Americans: Ex-Texan Charged With Aiding Terrorists. HOUSTON Feb 13, 2007 (AP)— A former Houston man arrested in Kenya last month has been charged in Texas ...
Somalia, Radical Islam, Al Qaeda, Shari'a, Jihad, Kenya, US, Houston, Texas
Kenya says they’ve detained two American Muslims who were fighting for the Islamic Courts in Somalia—and one brought his 9-year old child with him: Kenya Holding 2 Americans As Suspects. (Hat tip: Ringo.) MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Two Americans were among at least 10 foreigners caught by Kenyan police at ...
Somalia, Radical Islam, Al Qaeda, Shari'a, Jihad, UK, United States, Child Abuse
One of the UK’s most unapologetic Islamic supremacists, Anjem Choudary, has been caught inciting violence (again!) on a password-protected web site: UK preacher in secret web call for jihad. ONE of Britain’s most vocal, extremist preachers has been using a false name on a secret website to incite Muslim followers ...
Somalia, Radical Islam, Al Qaeda, Shari'a, Jihad, UK, Britain
The reports of the death of senior Al Qaeda freakazoid Fazul Abdullah Mohammed appear to have been premature: No top Al-Qaeda suspects killed in Somali air strike, says US official. NAIROBI (AFP) - A US airstrike in Somalia killed “eight to 10” alleged Al-Qaeda affiliates, but none of the three ...
Somalia, Radical Islam, Al Qaeda, Shari'a, Jihad, Ethiopia, Arab League