Yahoo: A Kosovo-born man was charged with plotting to attack Tampa-area nightclubs and a sheriff’s office with bombs and an assault rifle to avenge wrongs done to Muslims, federal authorities said Monday. According to a federal complaint, 25-year-old Sami Osmakac recorded an eight-minute video shortly before his arrest explaining why he wanted to bring terror [...]
AJC: The Obama administration denied on Monday that an American man sentenced to death in Iran was a CIA spy, and sharply criticized the Islamic republic in Tehran for what it called a pattern of arresting innocent people for political reasons. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said officials were still trying to learn the details [...]
…because we all know how well they managed to control their border with Afghanistan Generational Dynamics: Under pressure from the al-Qaeda linked Turkestani Islamic Party (TIP), which has conducted numerous terrorist attacks in Xinjiang province, China is putting increasing pressure on Pakistan to control the militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where TIP [...]
MSNBC: Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced an American to death for spying for the CIA, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday. “Amir Mirza Hekmati was sentenced to death … for cooperating with the hostile country (the United States) and spying for the CIA,” Fars said, without giving a source. “The court found him Corrupt [...]
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NYTimes: With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new Parliament, the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests. The administration’s overtures — including high-level meetings in [...]
DailyMailUK: A German man with a shoulder-length ponytail was last night arrested as authorities hoped to have ended the astonishing four-day run of arson attacks across America’s second largest city. Harry Burkhart, 24, was described by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca as ‘the most dangerous arsonist’ he could remember in the area, after more [...]
Fox: Prominent Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, militant commanders said Monday. The meetings were held in Pakistan’s tribal region in November and December at the request of the [...]
LATimes: The “person of interest” detained for questioning in a string of arson fires is a native of Germany who may have been in dispute with federal immigration officials, sources said. The man appears to have been battling the U.S. government over the immigration status of a relative, but the officials said they don’t know [...]
NYDailyNews: Cops are investigating a rash of Molotov cocktail attacks in Queens late Sunday, including one on an Islamic mosque and another that set off a major house fire. Police are handling the four bottle-bombings as possible hate crimes, officials said. The homemade explosives were hurled at a bodega, the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center in [...]
(Austin) – As Americans look upon this treacherous legislation, it it should first be remembered that the very bill President Obama threatened to veto was controversial due to the language the Obama White House pressured Congress to add to the bill, according to Sen. Carl Levin. Second, Signing Statements are not law, and are not [...]
USA Today: A man was detained Saturday after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with explosives in military-grade wrapping, federal and local officials said. The man was stopped at a security checkpoint at the Midland International Airport about 9 a.m. and taken into custody by the FBI, they said. FBI [...]
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“One of the homes damaged by the arson fires was in Laurel Canyon where Morrison and his girlfriend once lived, neighbors said.” CBS: An arsonist set numerous vehicle fires early Friday that spread to nearby houses and apartment buildings in Hollywood and neighboring West Hollywood, including a home once occupied by Doors frontman Jim Morrison. [...]
(CNN) — Al Qaeda’s leadership has sent experienced jihadists to Libya in an effort to build a fighting force there, according to a Libyan source briefed by Western counter-terrorism officials. The jihadists include one veteran fighter who had been detained in Britain on suspicion of terrorism. The source describes him as committed to al Qaeda’s [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a long-shot bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters has learned. The potential hand-over of Mohammed Fazl, a ‘high-risk detainee’ held at the Guantanamo Bay [...]
