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"Three British soldiers were killed and a fourth was critically injured when their patrol came under attack in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today. (…) The servicemen, from the Parachute Regiment, died after their Jackal armoured vehicle was hit by an explosion north of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province early yesterday afternoon."
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Isn't it really curious that this happens after twitter confronted both Iranian elections' result and Chávez's decision to end with all opposition?
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"last year, Mr Chávez issued a diktat that mandated the formation of community monitoring groups for citizens to report on their neightbours if anyone said something fishy. Supreme Tribunal Justice Blanca Rosa Mármol de León called it "a step towards the creation of a society of informers".
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"Ismaili (31) caused a scandal in 2008 as a district councillor for the PvdA (Labor Party). She signed a petition for the Muslim organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, with phrases such as "It's time to rid ourselves of a culture which damages Islam." Additionally she wrote hate-email. The PvdA fraction in the Charlois district dropped her and Ismaili continued as a one-man fraction. Ismaili, popular in her neighborhood of Carnisse, refused to apologize." Speaking about hatred and politicians…
Daily Archives: 08/07/2009
Islamic terror history: the GIA’s Paris plot (1994), the 9/11 precedent often forgotten
“The terrorists’ true end was to crash the plane into Paris’ Tor Eiffel“. It was a suicide mission. Passengers didn’t know that, for the hijackers, the plane was going to become a weapon of mass destruction.
Never forget. History always repeats itself, though normally not exactly the same.
technorati tags: Islamic_terrorism, GIA, AQNA, Al-Qaeda, 1994′s_GIA_terrorist_plot, terrorism,
Pakistan: seeks Interpol help to track Mumbai suspects
Pakistan has asked Interpol to issue a global alert for 13 suspects wanted for the attacks in Mumbai of November 2008, the international police agency said Thursday.
The alert asks member countries to help locate the fugitives and notify Pakistani authorities who will then issue arrest warrants and seek their extradition, an Interpol statement said.
“The authorities in Pakistan are to be commended for making full use of Interpol’s global network and tools,” said secretary general Ron Noble in the statement issued from the agency’s headquarters in Lyon.
Let’s hope that really they want to track them. The press release doesn’t say who or where are these 13 suspects.
technorati tags: Pakistan, Mumbai_terrorist_attacks, Islamism, Islamic_terrorism, India
US: NC bomb plotters had “consignments of weapons and 27,000 bullets”
“Evidence shown to this tribunal includes a consignment of weapons and 27,000 bullets“, Webb said, who underlined that there has been already in the Tribunal “a lot of discussion about the sense of Jihad and violent Jihad”, but insisted that this is a case which “refers to a conspiration to commit terrorist acts”.
Meaning that: whatever you call it at home, this is terrorism here. And you’re gonna be nailed for that, if found responsible. Even if you laugh about it.
Someone left me a comment here about a blog here, named “supportdanielboyd” here in worpress dot com, to support Daniel Boyd and his codefendants, where they say:
It is possible in the USA? It is possible in the USA to be a faithful practicing Muslim as the USA constitution and NC state laws allow, to purchase and own firearms as the USA constitution and NC state law allow, to fire these legal firearms on USA soil on private property as the USA constitution and NC state law allow, and to travel overseas to visit family (one went to see pregnant wife) and friends and sight see lands of Muslim heritage (like the Holy Land) as the USA constitution and NC state law allow, and then become indicted on embellished, trumped up charges for alleged crimes of terrorism, punishable by life imprisonment? It is possible in the USA? Some are trying to make this a sorrowful reality.
He, if that’s true, why on earth do you need 27,000 bullets for? Are you going to shoot the marines, the polcie force, the President’s Secret Service??? Everyone who knows something about shooting, knows that is an absolute disproportionate quantity of bullets for a private owner, too. Even if you have two young sons who can shoot.
But that disproportionate quantity of weapons can be used both for a terrorist attacks similar to Mumbai‘s or the Somali/Lebanese Jihadists wanted to make in Australia. This is as when someone is caught with 10 kilos of cocaine and says: no, of course, not, it’s for personal use…. Yeah, right, what do you have? 200 noses?
Revolution Muslim dot com also supports these guys:
One of them, according to the speaker, went actually to Afghanistan to have a little Jihadi training.
NOTE: Whoever you are, I don’t want any kind of messages of support of anyone who has been recorded praising Jihad. Your comment was considered as spam when you left it here and, as it’s this blog’s policy, all spammers’ comments are erased. Yes, I know there is the presumption of innocence, but for me, someone recorded and the record played in a court of justice praising Jihad (I insist), without him or his lawyer contradicting it’s his voice, but rather with that expression of contempt, like if he is mocking the police, the judges and so on, is not innocent anymore. Period.
technorati tags: Boyd, US, terrorism, Raleigh, North_Carolina, homegrown_Jihad, Jihad
Afghanistan: Taliban Chief Believed Killed
Yesterday Mehsud’s wife was killed by a predator attack. It seems he was killed too.
A U.S. official also said there was reason to believe Mehsud was dead.
“There is reason to believe that reports of his death may be true, but it can’t be confirmed at this time,” said the official, providing the information on condition of anonymity.
This is not the first time, by the way, that Baitullah Mehsud is believed to be dead…
Pakistan is trying to verify these reports:
”Information is coming from that area that he is dead,” said the interior minister, Rehman Malik.
“The good news is that the information is coming from his group,” said Mr Malik, but added: “I am unable to confirm unless I have solid evidence.”
Technorati Tags: Baitullah_Mehsud, Pakistan, US, terrorism, Taliban
Afghanistan: Bomb Kills 21 En Route to Wedding
A roadside bomb hit civilians riding a tractor to a wedding in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people, officials said Thursday.
Helmand provincial police chief Assadullah Sherzad said women and children were among the 21 dead and five wounded in Garmser district, where roadside bombs are frequently used to attack foreign and Afghan forces.
The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that the roadside bomb Wednesday morning killed at least 20 people.
Thousands of U.S. Marines and British soldiers are pushing into Helmand, one of the centers of the Taliban insurgency, in attempt to extend government control and ensure stability ahead of the Aug. 20 presidential elections.
Rasmussen, new NATO chief, has said that “he is determined to reduce civilian casualties in Afghanistan to an absolute minimum“. He has to realize however that 2009 has been the first year where the Taliban have killed more civilians than the NATO allies. Those are good news, indeed, although we have to ask how they want to reduce civilian casualties.
technorati tags: Afghanistan, Civilian_Deaths, NATO, Afghan_Ministry_of_Defense, US_Marines, Hellmand, British_soldiers, Taliban, terrorism, Afghan_presidential_elections, Rasmussen.
India: 2003′s Mumbai bombers sentenced to death
An Indian court sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting bombs that killed 52 people in the financial capital of Mumbai in 2003.
Judge M.R. Puranik told a special anti-terrorism court that Hanif Sayed, 46, his wife Fehmida Sayed, 43, and Ashrat Ansari, aged 32, “should be hanged by the neck until dead” for murder, criminal conspiracy and terrorism, Agence France-Presse reported. The three were found guilty on July 27 for two explosions that also injured more than 100.
(…) The special prosecutor in the case said all three belong to the banned Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
That is, the same group responsible for last year’s terrible attacks…
technorati tags: India, terrorism, Mumbai, Hanif_Sayed, Fehmida_Sayed, Ashrat_Ansari
