Jihadists

In Defense of Jihadist Internet Forums

Aki Peritz | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Jihadists, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Counterterrorism, National Security, Terrorism, Cybersecurity, Islamic Extremists, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Defacing and darkening extremist websites is immensely satisfying. However, the U.S. and others should not keep reminding terrorists and their followers that they are being monitored online.

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Smuggled: Iraqi Weapons And Soldiers

Reuters | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Jihadists, Iraq Weapons, Iraqi Soldiers, Iraq Militants, Video, Iraqi Weapons, Syria Weapons, Reuters, Iraq-Arms, Iraqi Arms, Iraq, Syria, Iraq Soldiers, World News

By Khalid al-Taie MOSUL, Iraq, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Weapons and Sunni Muslim insurgents are seeping from Iraq into Syria, Iraqi officia...

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High School Student In 'Jihad Jane' Terror Case Pleads Not Guilty

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, Maryland Schools, Terror Suspect, Pakistani Immigrant, Jihadists, Ali Charaf Damache, Federal Custody, Maryland High Schools, Colleen Larose, Mohammad Hassan Khalid, Terrorism, Jihad Jane, Education News, Jihad, Juvenile Justice, Education News

PHILADELPHIA — A high school honors student pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he helped the American terrorist dubbed "Jihad Jane" raise mone...

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High School Honors Student Charged In 'Jihad Jane' Terror Plot

AP | By MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Jihad Jane, Jihad, Ali Charaf Damache, Terror Suspect, Maryland High Schools, Federal Custody, Terrorism, Colleen Larose, Maryland Schools, Mohammad Hassan Khalid, Pakistani Immigrant, Juvenile Justice, Al Qaeda, Education News

PHILADELPHIA -- A high school honors student from Maryland helped the American terror suspect dubbed "Jihad Jane" plot to kill a Swedish artist and us...

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Letterman's Tongue and the Jihadist

Shahid Mahmood | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Matt Taibbi, Michele Bachmann, President Bashar Al-Assad, President Obama, Ali-Ferzat, Kim Kardashian, Syria Protests, Republican Party, David Letterman, Comedy News

Irony highlights our human shortcomings in the arena of ridicule. As a result, purveyors of humor are often targeted, beaten, and killed for their ability to make audiences laugh and think.

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The Death of Bin Laden a Definite Game Changer Maybe

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Jihadist-Terrorism-Threat, Osama Bin Laden, Mission Accomplished, Afghanistan, World Trade Center, Islamist, September 11th, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Osama Bin Laden Death, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Politics News

These events could be a game changer, not just for Obama's presidency but for U.S. foreign policy as well, or they could become another excuse to keep doing the same thing.

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Channeling Erik: The Insider's Guide To Death And The Afterlife

Elisa Medhus, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Quantum Physics, Jihadists, Atheism, Physics, Mediums, Psychic, Suicide, Afterlife, Death, Religion, Bereavement, Channeling, Baptists, Consciousness, Grief, Atheists, Skepticism, Spirituality, Heaven, Hell, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News

As a scientist and physician, I thought I had it all figured out. You live; you die; you're done. My entire paradigm, however, underwent a cataclysmic transformation soon after the death of my son, Erik.

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US Bases Abroad Trigger Suicide Terrorism: Are There Other Options?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Pape, US Military Bases, Pentagon, Occupation, Pakistan, Jihadists, Taliban, Afghanistan, James Feldman, Suicide Terrorism, Radical Islam, Foreign Military Occupation, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Can it be that American military bases abroad, usually thought of as "stabilizers" in tough neighborhoods, are really the primary cause of radical terrorism against the US and its allies?

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Ground Zero Mosque Sensitivity and Terrorism: Mosque Opponents Good For Terrorism, Bad for America

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Islamophobia, Gop, Soft Power, Ground Zero Mosque, Right Wing, Corporate Media, Terrorism, Media News

The game the right and their corporate media enablers are playing goes like this. "We support religious freedom but these nasty Muslims are not being sensitive to the feelings of the 911 survivors.

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Pakistan: Are We Facing a Flood of Jihadists?

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Jihadists, Cia, Unicef, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, International Crisis Group, Taliban, Un, World News

Jihadi groups are moving into the flood areas with a ruthless efficiency, providing basic needs for the population. Is this new? No. Is it cause for concern? Absolutely.

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Drink, Pray, Love: New Yorkers and Pacific Islanders Eschew Interference in Favor of Tolerance.

Philip Smucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Religion, Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Spice-Islands, Eat, Indonesia, Eat Pray Love, Christianity, Muslim, Tolerance, Peace, World News, Al Qaeda, Allah, World News

A strange tale from the remote Spice Islands seems oddly prescient today, particularly as I think of the cataclysmic violence that rocked New York City nearly nine years ago.

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My Brother, My Enemy: A Video Tour Behind the Front Lines of the Battle of Ideas in the Islamic World

Philip Smucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holy Land, Palestine, Politics, Islam, Rory Stewart, Afghanistan, Jihadists, Pakistan, Lords-of-the-Land, Israel, West Point, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Books News

I've traveled through the Holy Land, Africa, and Asia on a quest to understand what Muslims think about America and to discover what motivates young men and women to take up arms against my own nation. Here's what I found.

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The Global Village of Terrorism

Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, Times Square, Counter-Insurgency, Jihadists, Pakistan, Ahl as-Sunnah Wa?L-Jam??Ah, ASJ, U.S., Iraq, Afghanistan, Taliban, Faisal Shahzad, New York City, Home News

As facts unfold in the Times Square incident, we quickly learn that terrorism training and execution has no geographical boundaries. Terror suspect Fa...

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Could Jihadists Overthrow The Syrian Government?

The New Republic | Nibras Kazimi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Jihad, Syria Government, Syra, Jihadists, Syria Regime, World News

The Obama administration has signaled in word and deed that a policy change is in the offing, a change that would accommodate the Syrian regime and no...

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The New Wannabe Jihadis

Eboo Patel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Jihad Jane, Jihad, Jihadists, Chechen Separatists, Moscow Subway Attacks, Islamic Extremists, Chechen Rebels, Jihadis, Moscow Subway Bombing, Islamic Extremism, Radical Islam, Islamic Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Islam, Religion News

Call them Chechen separatists or new world order gangstas, but don't call them jihadis. They're just wannabes who have adopted the glamorous guise of Muslim extremism.

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God Is Good For You ... But Ask For The Non-Steroidal, Generic Brand

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Crusades, Fox News, Science, Religion, God, Depression, Mental Health, Religion News

The Washington Times and Fox News report on a couple of studies concluding that belief in a God is associated with relief of depression. I find it plausible that such an association exists.

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Yousef Al-Khattab, Pedicab Driver, Promotes Jihad

nypost.com | Chuck Bennett | Posted 05.25.2011

This jihadist wannabe is a "terror" on the road. Yousef al-Khattab is a Jewish-born, Jersey-raised convert to Islam who schleps tourists on his pedica...

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Islamist Terrorists Take Page From US Hate Groups' Internet PlayBook

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Al-Qaeda, White Supremacists, Pakistan, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Internet, Tom Metzger, Hate Groups, Youtube, Afpak, Myspace, War on Terrorism, World News

Islamist terrorist arrests across this country since last January run the gamut. White and black, young and middle-aged, single and married, homegrown and foreign born, and legal and illegal immigrants.

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Reading the Pictures: This Kid Abdulmutallab

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Pictures circulating of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on a school trip to London in '03 is making it near impossible for the right-wing to hype his danger.

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Afghanistan, Again: The Thicket Obama's Not Getting Out Of

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.

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India's Civil Wars

Mira Kamdar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Indian Caste System, Human Rights, Tata Motors, Manmohan Singh, Maoists, Pakistan, Nobel Peace Prize, India, Buried Evidence, Kashmir Conflict, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Bihar, World News

The Maoists have flourished in areas where the government of India has virtually abandoned the rural poor. These populations are completely cut off from the economically vibrant, rapidly growing India.

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'World's Youngest Jihadi,' Age 11, Arrested

Times Of India | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Jihad, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Jihadism, World's Youngest Jihadi, Islamic Jihadists, Advocacy, World News

Abdullah laughs like any other 11-year-old, but he is no schoolboy. He is being touted as the world's youngest terrorist following his arrest. ...

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Turkey: Not the Usual Geopolitical Sandwich

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Britain, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey, Bosporus, Afghanistan, France, Pakistan, George W. Bush, European Union, Prague, G-20, London, Istanbul, Nato, Barack Obama, Germany, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Ankara, Jihadists, Cold War, Erdogan, Islam, Winston Churchill, Byzantine Empire, Neoconservative, Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mohammed Cartoons, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Roman Empire, Soviet Union, 100 Days, World News

Obama seems to see Turkey, which has friendly relations with Israel, as potentially a much stronger partner than any other NATO nation, perhaps even Britain.

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