Archives for the 'al qaeda' Category
News Flash
Published on 19 Jul 2007 at 9:47 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, media.
Terrorists lie:
Help Wanted
Published on 18 Jul 2007 at 10:11 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
Dynamic global organization seeks CEO for key subsidiary in critical market. Must enjoy a challenge, be prepared to make personal sacrifices for the good of the organization.
Enemy of Their Enemy
Published on 17 Jul 2007 at 9:42 am.
37 Comments.
Filed under Iran, al qaeda.
Eli Lake at NY Sun on a new NIE claim that Iran is hosting al-Qaeda:
Qaeda Said What?
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 11:20 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
Hoyt and Nance minimize al-Qaeda. Roggio minimizes Hoyt and Nance.
Roggio has a sneaker party all over Nance, doesn’t get into Hoyt. Re Hoyt, all I have to say is this is a precious line coming from the New York Times:
Military experts will tell you that failing to understand your enemy is a prescription for broader failure.
Mrs. Bin Laden
Published on 12 Jul 2007 at 9:49 am.
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Filed under al qaeda.
Touching tale of autumn-spring love, at the foot of the pyramids at Giza, no less:
MOULTON, England - A British granny says she met the latest love of her life on horseback in the shadow of the pyramids at Giza.
And the 51-year-old mother of three and grandmother of fivesays her sixth husband is none other than [...]
AQ Enroute
Published on 10 Jul 2007 at 11:16 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda.
The latest ABC Blotter terror alert is a lot like that last ”Spectacular” one. It doesn’t tell us much we didn’t already know:
War With Iran
Published on 9 Jul 2007 at 7:54 am.
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Filed under Iran, Iraq, al qaeda, military.
I thought us Crusaders were the hated occupier, the common enemy. Al Qaeda, on the outs with Sunnis in Iraq and eager to change the subject, declares war on Iran. Moqtada al-Sadr, on the outs with Shiites in Iraq, runs there. Fascinating topic, but first, something about Iran’s great concern over the “psychological abuse” of detainees. No, silly, not [...]
“Spectacular”
Published on 1 Jul 2007 at 11:30 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda, courage.
Al-Qaeda has summer plans for you. ABCNews.com’s Blotter:
Dadullah High, Class of 2007
Published on 19 Jun 2007 at 12:03 am.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
ABC’s Blotter: Teams of suicide bombers on their way. Including 12 year olds. Under the command of Mansoor Dadullah. Could be. I’m more worried about the ones whose graduation ceremony didn’t make the news.
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Awakening
Published on 31 May 2007 at 10:39 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
It’s not just for Anbar anymore. Roggio notes formation of councils in four provinces around Baghdad … Anbar, Diyala, Salahadin and now Babil … with a threatened al-Qaeda going after the tribal chiefs. This in addition to Sunnis voting with their cellphones in Baghdad, to call in U.S. troops.
It would be wrong to deny support to [...]
Iraq vs. Al-Qaeda
Published on 31 May 2007 at 10:36 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
Big fight in Baghdad. AP writes with a note of grudging astonishment about Iraqis who actually want American help.
Advice from Al-Qaeda
Published on 14 May 2007 at 10:35 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, military.
“Your soldiers are in our grip. If you want the safety of your soldiers then do not search for them.”
Because doing what al-Qaeda wants has always worked so well in the past.
Terror Yuks
Published on 9 May 2007 at 9:14 am.
26 Comments.
Filed under al qaeda, blogs.
Forget fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. Apparently we don’t need to fight them over here, either. At least I think that’s what this ridiculous bit of dog vomit of a post is trying to say.
Jihadi Is As Jihadi Does
Published on 8 May 2007 at 10:40 am.
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Filed under al qaeda.
NJ jihadis planned to kill as many soldiers as possible in attack on Dix. They don’t sound like very smart jihadis, though. Getting their jihadi training vid copied commercially. I kind of doubt they planned to be much smarter about acquiring their AQs.
It’s the smart jihadis I’m more worried about. Not bozos like these. You’d almost think these were [...]
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Scratch One?
Published on 1 May 2007 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, pols.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri dead? Would be good news, but not the first time we’ve heard that. CNN reports its coming from Sunni tribesmen that fought a gunbattle with al-Qaeda, and no government troops have seen the body, which could actually be better news than who got killed: Sunni tribes acting on their own to take out the [...]
Saudi’d Straight
Published on 29 Apr 2007 at 6:59 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, saudi arabia.
Saudi program pays radical youth to stay on the straight and narrow:
Most Wanted Militant Orchestrates Operations
Published on 25 Apr 2007 at 2:15 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda.
Well, look who’s toadying up to the Sheik. Last time I checked one-legged mujstar Mullah Dadullah was holed up like Butch and Sundance in a village in Uruzgon, though his flak said he was in Helmand. Now he’s on al-Jazeera stroking al-Boss:
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“This All for Masters in Tel Aviv”
Published on 24 Apr 2007 at 8:50 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, blogs.
Thunder Run posted this, Soldiers Attacked from Mosque, Two Insurgents Killed, and got the following delightful reply from some guy who’s apparently on board with this program:
mullah cimoc say ameriki dying the slow and cruel death. so many other soldier come home and take the rope of suicide for the ashamed.
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Khartoons
Published on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:33 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda, media, middle east.
Arabic newspapers run editorial cartoons slamming Islamic terrorists. More like this, please. How about some editorial cartoon support for the people who are fighting Islamic terrorists? You could protray them as, I dunno, Crusaders or something. Stay with me here, because it’s different, very edgy …
… Crusaders as good guys.
Not so fast, says reader Morton Doodslag:
Win-Win
Published on 22 Mar 2007 at 8:31 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
Pro-Taliban tribesmen vs. al-Qaeda Uzbeks in South Waziristan. At least 58 dead! It’s hard to know which side to cheer for!*
CSM.com has a roundup here. Best line, NYT:
Pakistani government officials said they had no role in the latest fighting, but watched it with considerable optimism.
“Let the tribespeople deal with the situation,” one government official said. [...]
Bad Move
Published on 17 Mar 2007 at 11:41 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
Terrorists in Iraq, and those who harbor them, are committed to killing their own people in the most heinous ways they can manage. But Omar at Iraq the Model suggests that al-Qaeda, by declaring war on the tribes of Anbar, has made a big mistake.
Nothing to Fear
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 10:57 pm.
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Filed under USA, al qaeda.
Suspected terrorists sign up to drive school buses. I don’t know about your kids, but my kids ride on school buses. FBI says nothing to fear. OK. Same agency that missed the boat on 9/11. My kids’ driver doesn’t look like al-Qaeda, but … what does al-Qaeda look like, anyway? Same agency that can’t figure [...]
“We Are Jackals Fighting In The Nights”
Published on 15 Mar 2007 at 12:05 am.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
UPDATE: in a revised transcript released today, Khalid Sheik Mohammed confesses to the murder of Daniel Pearl:
“I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan.”
Twisted dreams of death and destruction on a massive scale, boiled down into a fascinating but utterly dry, bureaucratic and [...]
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Windasskickers
Published on 12 Mar 2007 at 12:00 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, al qaeda, military.
… no sorry, that’s Shadow Wolves. US recruits Navajo, Souix and Apache trackers to hunt down al-Qaeda and Taliban crossing between the ‘Stans. They normally hunt the drug and human smugglers on the Mexican border, but this seems like a cause worthy of diverting them for.
Osama, 50?
Published on 11 Mar 2007 at 10:02 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda.
Hope not. But the Taliban whooped it up for the O birthday boy yesterday, with a prayer fest. They want Allah to give him 200 years. I want Guantanamo to give him six months in an abatoir and a length of rope.
March 11, 2004
Published on 11 Mar 2007 at 11:04 am.
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Filed under Europe, al qaeda.
Jose at Barcepundit names the names. Scroll down and you’ll see what 2 million Spaniards think about Zapatero’s anti-terrorism policies.
Secret Spy Stuff
Published on 6 Mar 2007 at 12:24 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, al qaeda.
A couple of the more intriguing items of the past few days are from ABC’s Blotter, as yet unconfirmed or run widely in the major media. Al-Qaeda compound with potential high value targets to include Osama bin Laden under attack in eastern Afghanistan.
Early Birthday Present for Osama!
Published on 4 Mar 2007 at 9:41 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, al qaeda.
Special delivery: Heavy US assault on remote part of eastern Afghanistan where OBL may be hiding. If that was the remote part of eastern Afghanistan that’s called “Pakistan” they might be on to something. Below, Fisk gets wistful on his misunderstood cavedwelling pal’s pending 50th. ABC first:
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Hoisted by His Own “Padilla”
Published on 28 Feb 2007 at 10:32 pm.
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Filed under Guantanamo, al qaeda.
Jose Padilla, not crazy enough to skate. Judge notes he was able to sign his own statement alleging torture, so he’s sane enough to stand trial and participate in his own defense.
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Pak It Up
Published on 26 Feb 2007 at 11:53 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
Cheney shows up unexpectedly and tells Musharraf what he doesn’t want to hear:
The Wondah Down Undah
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 11:43 pm.
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Filed under Cheney, Iran, Iraq, Oz, al qaeda.
Cheney, in an interview with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan, puts another shrimp on the barbie:
News So Real it Must Be True
Published on 21 Feb 2007 at 11:32 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, pols.
Cheney’s al-Qaeda swipe stings:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney’s comments that the Congressional Democrats’ plan for Iraq would “validate the Al Qaeda strategy.”
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Jihad a Change of Heart
Published on 21 Feb 2007 at 12:31 am.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
Pelham NH native Daniel Maldonado had second thoughts about global jihad, death to America, etc., before he was captured, says his public defender. Although he told the FBI after he was captured he thought 9/11 was great and he was ready to kill Americans.
But it turns out al-Qaeda is not a family friendly organization, and that gave Maldonado [...]
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Al Qaeda Spring
Published on 18 Feb 2007 at 11:28 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
NYT, citing intel sources who don’t want to discuss details, says al Qaeda is on the upswing in North Waziristan:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps [...]
Crusader Virus vs. Viral Jihad
Published on 18 Feb 2007 at 10:48 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, Islam, al qaeda, blogs.
Memri reports on an Islamist forum re online Jihad and how not to get shut down or busted.
“We are all aware of the Zionist-Crusader campaign that has been launched against the Islamist websites…
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Osama Gone?
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 10:27 am.
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Filed under al qaeda.
Funny, I’d been thinking the same thing. Stratfor wonders why the radio silence out of Osama, who doesn’t even rate a mention in the Ay-man’s latest Cave Retort. Is it possible he won’t be down for felafel, or is he just moaning on his pallet in the back of the cave?
Latest from the Cave
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 12:00 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda.
That al-Zawahiri’s a cut up. Important news flash from al-Qaeda: Bush is “an alcoholic, liar and gambler with an addictive personality.”
Ha! I know you are, but what am I? You’re rubber, I’m glue. No wait, that’s I’m rubber, you’re glue …
Al Qaeda in Japan
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 10:27 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
News reports suggest two small blasts at a US base outside Tokyo may have been rockets, and specualte about Al Qaeda in Japan. Why not? Japan is full of South Asians. Great place for unexpected flanking attack, a plave where Americans move around freely and GIs stand out like sore thumbs. Though South Asian and Middle eastern [...]
AQ: We’re Surging, Too!
Published on 7 Feb 2007 at 9:47 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
MEMRI has Al Qaeda in Iraq’s latest pronouncement. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi delivers a sort of ”State of the Jihad” speech in which he hops on the surge bandwagon. Only the AQ surge is called a “Plan of Honor.”
At last report, the “Plan of Honor” in execution seemed to call for those Sunni insurgents who weren’t busy getting killed on [...]
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Battlefield Shifts Westward
Published on 4 Feb 2007 at 10:43 am.
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Filed under Britain, GWOT, al qaeda.
The war with extremist Islam has just entered a new phase. Times of London: Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan and Iraq have issued orders for British cells to conduct a “low-tech” campaign of abductions and beheadings.
ISLAMIC terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind [...]
