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11/26/2007 | News | AFP
Bin Laden to air message to Europeans: Qaeda media
DUBAI (AFP) — Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is to address a message to the European people over the terror network's media wing Al-Sahab, SITE Intelligence Group said on Monday. "A new message is forthcoming from Osama bin Laden, the head of Al-Qaeda, addressing the European people," it said. The message has been produced by As-Sahab, the multimedia arm of Al-Qaeda, it said, without giving a date for the message or specifying if an audiotape of video was to be broadcast.
11/15/2007 | News | Nicholas Kralev
U.S. engages Muslim Brotherhood despite Rice commitment
CAIRO — The United States has resumed contacts with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood despite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's 2005 commitment not to "engage" with the banned group — a move that could strain relations with President Hosni Mubarak's government. U.S. Embassy officials said they are acting in conformity with a worldwide policy of dealing with political parties that are represented in their national parliaments. Muslim Brotherhood members can only run for Egypt's parliament as independents, and U.S. officials say they have met them only in that capacity.
11/15/2007 | News | Patrick Poole
A Grim Milestone Ignored
The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with “grim milestones” in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend. But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another “grim milestone” is reached – the 10,000th attack by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which is responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured.
11/7/2007 | News | USA Today
Yemeni court convicts 32 al-Qaeda suspects
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni court convicted Wednesday 32 al-Qaeda suspects of planning suicide attacks on oil and gas installations in the country and sentenced them to up to 15 years imprisonment. The group on trial included 36 Yemenis but four were acquitted of the charges. Six of the group remain at large — all top suspects who were tried in absentia. Three of them were sentenced to 15 years in prison each, another one got 12 years and the remaining two 10 years each. The prosecution had charged the group with "forming an armed gang aimed at carrying out sabotage attacks." They were accused of planning to attack oil installations in the Marib and Hadaramout provinces with rocket-propelled grenades in September 2006. The trial opened in March with 30 defendants in custody who all pleaded innocent to the charges. It was not clear when or how they were arrested. Three of them claimed they were tortured and forced to sign confessions, according to Yemeni official news agency SABA.
10/22/2007 | News |
Bin Laden urges Iraq insurgents to unite
DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden called on insurgent groups in Iraq to unify their ranks, in an audio recording aired by Al Jazeera television on Monday. "The interest of the Islamic nation surpasses that of a group," said the speaker who sounded like the leader of al Qaeda. "The strength of faith is in the strength of the bond between Muslims and not that of a tribe or nationalism..."
10/9/2007 | News |
Terrorists endorse Hillary in '08
With presidential primaries approaching and the race for the White House heating up, Muslim terrorist leaders in the Middle East have offered their endorsement for America's highest office, stating in a new book they hope Sen. Hillary Clinton is victorious in 2008. "I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq," stated Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group. Senakreh is one of dozens of terror leaders sounding off about American politics in the new book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!" by WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein.
10/5/2007 | News | Reuters News
Iran accuses Israel of Palestinian "genocide"
Iran's president accused Israel on Friday of using the Holocaust as a pretext for "genocide" against Palestinians. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who outraged the West in 2005 by calling Israel a "tumor" to be wiped off the map, said the truth should be told about World War Two and the Holocaust. Six million Jews were killed in the Nazi genocide. "Iran condemns fabricating such a pretext (the Holocaust) for the Zionist regime to commit genocide against the Palestinian nation and occupy Palestine," Ahmadinejad said in a live broadcast to mark the annual Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in the Islamic Republic.
10/5/2007 | News | AFP Wire
Iranians chant 'death to Israel' in mass protest
Tens of thousands of Iranians marched through Tehran on Friday proclaiming solidarity with Palestinians and chanting "Death to Israel" in the Islamic republic's annual protest against the Jewish state. Iranians of all ages began the march through the centre of the capital to Tehran University to mark Quds Day, calling for Jerusalem and Israel to be handed to the Palestinians. Coloured bibs were handed out to protestors with the legend "Death to Israel, Death to United States" while "Palestine will only be free with fighting and faith" was the slogan on one banner. Despite the heavily politicised nature of the demonstration, there was a festive mood with the numerous children present having their faces painted as cats and rabbits in entertainment laid on by the municipality.
9/24/2007 | News |
Ahmadinejad Blasts Israel, Denies Existence of Iranian Gays During Columbia Speech
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday questioned why Iran can't have a nuclear program when the United States has one, repeated his inference that historical accounts of the Holocaust are myths, and denied that there are homosexuals in Iran. In animated remarks before students and faculty at a controversial speaking engagment at Columbia university, the Iranian leader also denied that Iran sponsors terror, and instead pointed the finger at the U.S. government as a supporter of terrorism. "We don't need to resort to terrorism. We've been victims of terrorism, ourselves," he said. "Within six months, over 4,000 Iranians lost their lives, assassinated by terrorist groups. All this carried out by the hand of one single terrorist group. Regretfully, that same terrorist group now, today, in your country, is operating under the support of the U.S. administration, working freely, distributing declarations freely, and their camps in Iraq are supported by the U.S. government."
9/20/2007 | News | New York Daily News
Bin Laden calls on Pakistanis to rebel against Musharraf
Osama Bin Laden called on Pakistanis to rise up against President Perez Musharraf in a video released Thursday. In the video, the terror kingpin said Musharraf was an infidel because in July his military stormed an Islamabad mosque where militants were holed up. The attack on the Red Mosque "demonstrated Musharraf's insistence on continuing his loyalty, submissiveness and aid to America against the Muslims...and makes armed rebellion against him and removing him obligatory," Bin Laden said in the message, which was posted on militant Islamic Web sites. "So when the capability is there, it is obligatory to rebel against the apostate ruler, as is the case now," he said, according to a translation released by U.S. terrorism experts.