TagsTagsAccording to the right wing blogosphere, President Barack Obama keeps sending signals to the Islamic world that he's weak, and that he encourages the spread of creeping shariah. He has a novel technique for telegraphing this weakness: systematically, relentlessly killing the leaders of Al Qaeda. SANA, Yemen — Anwar al-Awlaki, the ...
Major clashes in Iran between protesters and government forces: Iranian police have fired tear gas at opposition supporters participating in a rally in the centre of the capital, Tehran, called in solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. A BBC producer, who was affected by the gas, said there ...
Egypt, Tunisia, Protests, Demonstrations, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran
Signs of anti-government unrest are appearing throughout the Middle East, in places like Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. This is an amazing moment in history.
Egypt, Tunisia, Protests, Demonstrations, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan
A suspicious package discovered on a UPS plane in Britain has put two US airports on high alert. (CNN) -- At least two U.S. airports were on high alert Friday after investigators found a suspicious package on a plane in the United Kingdom the night before, a law enforcement source ...
New details on the attempted Christmas Day terror attack: The plot to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit was organized and launched by al Qaeda leaders in Yemen who apparently sewed bomb materials into the suspect’s underwear before sending him on his mission, federal authorities tell ABC News. Investigators ...
The New York Times has a story on the scene aboard Northwest flight 253, as passengers acted quickly to avert disaster. During 19 hours of travel, aboard two flights across three continents, law enforcement officials said, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab bided his time. Then, just as Northwest Flight 253 finally began ...
An air strike by Yemeni forces has killed at least 30 Al Qaeda terrorists, possibly including the radical Islamic cleric linked to Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. (CNN) — Yemeni jets launched an aerial assault Thursday against suspected senior al Qaeda operatives meeting in a remote location, and about ...
The Islamic extremists who run the country of Yemen have released 170 al-Qaida suspects; but don’t worry, they signed disclaimers that they’re not going to be terrorists any more. SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — Yemen released 170 men it had arrested on suspicion of having ties to al-Qaida, security officials said ...
There was a shooting attack today at a checkpoint near the US embassy in Yemen: Yemen: Gunshots fired near US embassy. SAN’A, Yemen – Gunmen in a car exchanged fire Monday with police at a checkpoint near the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital, an Interior Ministry official said, hours after ...
The US embassy in Yemen was attacked by an Islamic terrorist group today, and 10 people were killed—six Yemeni soldiers and four civilians. This AFP article says “16 killed,” because they’re including the six terrorists. A shadowy group calling itself Islamic Jihad in Yemen claimed responsibility and threatened similar strikes ...
Yesterday the media reported that Hamas and Fatah had signed a reconciliation deal in Yemen. That really sounds like a party, doesn’t it? Today, the deal’s off. This is how these pathetic thugs convince the “international community” they’re really statesmen in disguise, with pointless maneuvers that mimic “diplomacy” seen through a warped ...
Jaber Elbaneh, who lived in Lackawanna, New York, before traveling to Afghanistan to train with Osama bin Laden, appeared in court in Yemen today—then walked free. SAN`A, Yemen - A Yemeni-American who is among the FBI’s most wanted terrorism suspects appeared in a Yemeni court Saturday and then walked free, ...
Al-Qaeda terrorist Jamal al-Badawi, who particpated in the attack on the USS Cole and has a bounty on his head from the United States, surrendered to authorities in Yemen—and was promptly released after making a promise not to do any more nasty terror stuff: Revolving Door Justice For Al Qaeda ...
A car bomb attack on a tourist convoy has killed six Spanish citizens and one Yemeni: Six Spaniards, Yemeni killed in Yemen blast. SANAA (AFP) - Six Spanish tourists and a Yemeni driver were killed and seven other tourists wounded when a blast hit their convoy at a Yemeni historical site ...
Here’s an interesting bit of news for those still tempted to believe the global jihad is being perpetrated by a tiny minority of poverty-stricken misunderstanders of Islam. Five Al Qaeda freakazoids were killed today in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, and among them was a Yemeni prince. (Hat tip: AJStrata.) Iraqi National – WNA ...
Here’s more information about two of the Australians arrested in Yemen for an Al Qaeda plot to smuggle arms to Somalia: The mother, her sons and their terrorist dad. (Hat tip: Aussiemagpie.) TWO of the Australian men arrested in Yemen on terrorism charges are the sons of Abdul Rahim Ayub, the ...
Here’s a very weird story from Yemen, where they claim to have arrested eight foreigners who just happen to be recent converts to Islam, and just happen to be linked to Al Qaeda, and also just happen to be smuggling weapons to Somalia: Yemen says arrests 8 Qaeda-linked arms smugglers. SANAA ...
Did you know that the State Department has an official program to encourage the use and development of civilian nuclear power around the world? Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). This explains recent reports that Yemen and Egypt are expanding their nuclear programs.
Yemen, Nuclear Proliferation, Radical Islam, State Department, Egypt
If this report is true, it’s got to be one of the stupidest ideas of the last hundred years: US to help Yemen go nuclear: Saleh. Yemen will go nuclear to make up for the shortcomings in the electricity supply in the country, said President Ali Abdullah Saleh Monday evening, at ...
A Yemeni newspaper editor is on trial for his life after publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons: Yemen editor ‘faces death calls’. Yemeni prosecutors have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says. Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the ...