Category Archives: Terrorism

May 17, 2012

Muslim converts in plot to murder British tourists in Kenya

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A widow of a 7/7 bomber is suspected of being the principal financier of a terror plot to murder hundreds of British tourists in Kenya. Samantha Lewthwaite, 28, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire intended to use a lethal cocktail of bombs to kill tourists in Mombasa, the second-largest city in Kenya, a court was told.

Detectives think Lewthwaite and British co-conspirator Jermaine Grant were primed to carry out their assault before he was arrested.

Muslim convert, Grant, went on trial for his part in the supposed Al Qaeda linked conspiracy on Thursday.

Lewthwaite was travelling in the East African region on a false passport when she was apprehended with Grant five months ago, she first gained notoriety when it was discovered she was seven months’ pregnant when her husband Jermaine Lindsay, also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, discharged a bomb that killed himself and 26 others on a train travelling on the Piccadilly line between the King’s Cross, St.Pancras and Russell Square tube stations on July 7, 2005.

She absconded and is now being hunted by the CIA, Scotland Yard and Kenyan police and is understood to be in hiding in lawless Somalia.

Islamic fundamentalist Grant, 29, from Newham, East London, refutes bomb-making allegations with intent to ‘cause loss of lives to innocent civilians’.

Their targets were thought to be the Serena Beach Hotel, usually packed with British tourists, and a shopping centre in close proximity.

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May 14, 2012

Feds Issue Terror Watch for the Texas/Mexico Border

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Security experts tell FOXNews.com that the influx of hundreds of Somalis over the U.S. border who allegedly have ties to suspected terror cells is evidence of a porous and unsecured border being exploited by groups intent on wrecking deadly havoc on American soil.

The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on the lookout for a suspected member of the Somalia-based Al Shabaab terrorist group who might be attempting to travel to the U.S. through Mexico, a security expert who has seen the memo tells FOXNews.com.

The warning follows an indictment unsealed this month in Texas federal court that accuses a Somali man in Texas of running a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” responsible for bringing hundreds of Somalis from Brazil through South America and eventually across the Mexican border. Many of the illegal immigrants, who court records say were given fake IDs, are alleged to have ties to other now-defunct Somalian terror organizations that have merged with active organizations like Al Shabaab, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami.

In 2008, the U.S. government designated Al Shabaab a terrorist organization. Al Shabaab has said its priority is to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on Somalia; the group has aligned itself with Al Qaeda and has made statements about its intent to harm the United States.

In recent years, American Somalis have been recruited by Al Shabaab to travel to Somalia, where they are often radicalized by more extremist or operational anti-American terror groups, which Al Shabaab supports. The recruiters coming through the Mexican border are the ones who could be the most dangerous, according to law enforcement officials.

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Posted in Immigration, Terrorism

May 12, 2012

How to avoid airport security: Wear a burka

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Humiliating every Howard and Hilda heading off on a package holiday, just to meet some artificial racial quota, doesn’t serve to make air travel any safer. It is witless, inconvenient and inefficient.


Checks: White air passengers are routinely stopped and searched by customs officials simply to ensure the right racial ‘mix’ of travellers

White airline passengers are routinely stopped and searched unnecessarily at Britain’s airports just so staff can prove they’re not ‘racist’.

Even when customs officials have been tipped off about a black drugs mule arriving on a plane from the Caribbean, they deliberately intercept a number of innocent white passengers so they can’t be accused of discrimination.

John Vine, chief inspector of the UK Border Agency, says staff try to ensure the right racial ‘mix’ even though they have no legal right to detain people on such grounds.

This is because they are petrified about being hammered with allegations of racism every time they stop and search someone from an ethnic minority background.

Tell us something we don’t know. Airport security operates on the same senseless basis.

We’ve all watched elderly white passengers being put through the third degree, while young Asian men wearing backpacks waft past unchallenged.

I’ve seen distressed grey-haired pensioners being patted down intimately and forced to empty all their belongings out of their hand luggage.

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Posted in Affirmative Action, Europe, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Terrorism

May 6, 2012

French CERN scientist jailed for plotting terror attacks

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A physicist based at the Cern laboratory in Geneva has been jailed for five years for plotting a terror attack with an alleged member of al-Qaeda.


Prosecutors focused on emails between Adlene Hicheur and an alleged al-Qaeda contact

Adlene Hicheur, 35, was researching the origins of the universe at Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, when he was arrested and detained in October 2009.

He had previously worked at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, a world-leading research lab in Didcot, Oxfordshire.

Police moved in after intercepting emails between Hicheur and Mustapha Debchi, thought to be a member of al-Qaeda’s north African branch, in which the scientist expressed his willingness to “work in a unit becoming active in France”.

Hicheur reportedly declined an offer to carry out a suicide bombing, but discussed “possible objectives in Europe and particularly in France” including a possible attack on a barracks at Cran-Gevrier, 20 miles from Cern.

Magistrates said the exchange of 35 messages “crossed the line of simple debate of political or religious ideas to enter the sphere of terrorist violence.”

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May 4, 2012

Al Qaeda Magazine Calls for Firebomb Campaign in US

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“In America, there are more houses built in the [countryside] than in the cities,” says the writer, who uses the pseudonym The AQ Chef. “It is difficult to choose a better place [than] in the valleys of Montana.”


Despite the deaths of leader Anwar al-Awlaki (left) and editor Samir Khan (right), al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has published two new issues of “Inspire” magazine.

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The men who launched al Qaeda’s English-language magazine may have died in a U.S. missile strike last fall, but “Inspire” magazine lives on without them — and continues to promote jihadi attacks on Western targets, offering detailed advice on how to start huge forest fires in America with timed explosives and how to build remote-controlled bombs.

Two new issues of “Inspire” magazine have surfaced on jihadi forums, the first since radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and chief Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula propagandist Samir Khan were killed by missiles from a U.S. drone over Yemen on September 30, 2011. The magazines eulogize Awlaki and Khan as the “spirit” and the “tongue” of “Inspire” respectively, but deny that their deaths will stop the magazine or jihad.

The second of the two issues seems to have been prepared after Khan and Awlaki’s deaths. “To the disappointment of our enemies,” says one of the articles, “issue 9 of Inspire magazine is out against all odds … The Zionists and the Crusaders thought that the magazine was gone with the martyrdom of Shaykh Anwar and brother Samir. Yet again, they have failed to come to terms with the fact that the Muslim ummah is the most fertile and most generous mother that gives birth to thousands and thousands of the likes of Shaykh Anwar and brother Samir.”

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May 1, 2012

Occupy Leaders Apparently Involved in Bridge Bomb Plot, Suspects Named

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One of the leaders of the Occupy Cleveland movement, Brandon Baxter, is one of those arrested for today’s terrorist plot to bomb a bridge in Cleveland. Occupier Brandon Baxter appears to have gotten the guidance he sought.

One of the leaders of the Occupy Cleveland movement, Brandon Baxter, is one of those arrested for today’s terrorist plot to bomb a bridge in Cleveland. Occupier Brandon Baxter appears to have gotten the guidance he sought.

OCCUPIED — Occupy Cleveland organizer Brandon Baxter gets some shade in the Occupy Cleveland tent in downtown Cleveland on March 21, 2012. Baxter, one of the few remaining members of Occupy Cleveland’s physical presence downtown, said the group has seen a sharp decline in numbers since last October because of increasing disorganization. “We need guidance,” he said.

Another of today’s suspects is Anthony Hayne, named previously in a report on Occupy Cleveland.

“I just want to be very clear: we are not occupying Lakewood,” said Anthony Hayne, who is organizing the information session. Hayne, a Lakewood resident since 2001, said there will be about six or seven members of Occupy Cleveland, which stems from the Occupy Wall Street movement, at the table Saturday.

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April 21, 2012

Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all

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Mr Janabi, speaking in a two-part series, Modern Spies, starting tomorrow on BBC2, says none of it was true. When it is put to him “we went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie”, he simply replies: “Yes.”


Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi

A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.

“Curveball”, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi’s lies used to justify the Iraq war.

He tries to defend his actions: “My main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regime’s oppression.”

The chemical engineer claimed to have overseen the building of a mobile biological laboratory when he sought political asylum in Germany in 1999. His lies were presented as “facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence” by Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, when making the case for war at the UN Security Council in February 2003.

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Posted in Espionage, Fraud, Government, Military, Terrorism

April 6, 2012

Latino who converted to Islam convicted in bomb plot

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The FBI first learned of Martinez’s radical leanings through his Facebook postings, then had an undercover agent join his plot and supplied him with a fake car bomb, federal officials said.


Antonio Martinez aka Muhammad Hussain

The Baltimore man who plotted to attack an Armed Forces recruiting station because he thought the U.S. was “waging war” against Islam was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison.

Antonio Martinez, a U.S. citizen who converted to Islam and began using the name Muhammad Hussain, had pleaded guilty in January to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal property. Martinez admitted he tried to detonate what he thought was a working car bomb at a Catonsville recruiting station in December 2010.

“Mr. Martinez was sentenced today and fully accepted responsibility for his acts,” his lawyer, Maryland Deputy Federal Public Defender Joseph A. Balter said. “He made a statement to the court in which he renounced violence and terrorism.”

The FBI first learned of Martinez’s radical leanings through his Facebook postings, then had an undercover agent join his plot and supplied him with a fake car bomb, federal officials said.

During conversations with a confidental informant and the undercover agent, Martinez “spoke about his anger toward America, his belief that Muslims were being unjustly targeted and killed by the American military and his desire to commit jihad to send a message that American soldiers would be killed unless the country stopped its ‘war’ against Islam,” according to his plea agreement.

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April 2, 2012

U.S. Joins Effort to Equip and Pay Rebels in Syria

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Mrs. Clinton announced an additional $12 million in humanitarian assistance for international organizations aiding the Syrians, bringing the American total so far to $25 million, according to the State Department.

The United States and dozens of other countries moved closer on Sunday to direct intervention in the fighting in Syria, with Arab nations pledging $100 million to pay opposition fighters and the Obama administration agreeing to send communications equipment to help rebels organize and evade Syria’s military, according to participants gathered here.

The moves reflected a growing consensus, at least among the officials who met here this weekend under the rubric “Friends of Syria,” that mediation efforts by the United Nations peace envoy, Kofi Annan, were failing to halt the violence that is heading into its second year in Syria and that more forceful action was needed.

With Russia and China blocking United Nations measures that could open the way for military action, the countries lined up against the government of President Bashar al-Assad sought to bolster Syria’s beleaguered opposition through means that seemed to stretch the definition of humanitarian assistance and blur the line between so-called lethal and nonlethal support.

There remains no agreement on arming the rebels, as countries like Saudi Arabia and some members of Congress have called for, largely because of the uncertainty regarding who exactly would receive the arms.

Still, the offer to provide salaries and communications equipment to rebel fighters known as the Free Syrian Army — with the hopes that the money might encourage government soldiers to defect, officials said — is bringing the loose Friends of Syria coalition to the edge of a proxy war against Mr. Assad’s government and its international supporters, principally Iran and Russia.

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Posted in Islam, Middle East, Terrorism

April 1, 2012

‘Counterterrorism Czar’ Says Every U.S. Company Has Been Infiltrated by China

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Who is it we should be most afraid of when it comes to cyber attacks? According to Clarke: China. He said that the countless amount of electronic material imported by the U.S. from China could be implanted with “‘logic bombs,‘ trapdoors and ’Trojan horses’”.


Richard Clarke claims every U.S. company has been penetrated by the Chinese.

The April issue of Smithsonian Magazine focuses on Richard Clarke, a man who has served as the “counterterrorism czar” under three presidential administrations. In the feature, Clarke makes some strong claims, the most notable of which are that every U.S. company has been penetrated by China through cyberspace and remains vulnerable to attack, and that the United States made and launched the infamous Stuxnet worm.

Clarke, who is famously known for warning the White House to expect a “spectacular attack on American soil” from Al Qaeda and after 9/11 said “Your government failed you,” is now issuing another warning. Ron Rosenbaum for Smithsonian writes:

Clarke now wants to warn us, urgently, that we are being failed again, being left defenseless against a cyberattack that could bring down our nation’s entire electronic infrastructure, including the power grid, banking and telecommunications, and even our military command system.

“Are we as a nation living in denial about the danger we’re in?” I asked Clarke as we sat across a conference table in his office suite.

“I think we’re living in the world of non-response. Where you know that there’s a problem, but you don’t do anything about it. If that’s denial, then that’s denial.”

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