Islamic Militants

German, Turkish Islamic Militants On Trial For Plotting To Kill Americans In Germany Will Confess

AP | NICOLE LANGE | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Jihad Union, Islamic Militants, Germany, The Sauerland Group, Al-Qaeda, Sauerland Terror Group, Terrorism, Sauerland, World News

DUESSELDORF, Germany — Four men accused of belonging to a radical Islamic terror cell that plotted to attack U.S. targets in Germany announced d...

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Beheaded Polish Engineer Piotr Stanczak's Body Returned From Pakistan

AP | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Piotr Stanczak, Islamic Militants, Islamic Militants Pakistan, Beheading, Taliban Beheading, Al Qaida Beheading Video, Poland, Polish Engineer Beheaded, Beheaded Polish Engineer, Polish Engineer Beheading Video, Polish Engineer, Polish Geologist Beheading, Polish Geologist Piotr, Polish Man Beheaded in Pakistan Rel Video, World News

WARSAW, Poland — The remains of a Polish geologist beheaded by Islamic militants in Pakistan were returned Wednesday to Poland in a casket drape...

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Thai Islamic Militant Attacks Escalate

BBC | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

Read More: Thai Violence, Islamic Militants, Thailand Violence, Thailand, Foreign Affairs, Thai Islamic Militants, Advocacy, World News

Nine people have died in the past 24 hours in a wave of attacks by suspected Islamic militants in southern Thailand....

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Pakistan: US Drone Attacks Weaken Government's Hold

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Apr 15 (IPS) - The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisati...

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MILF's Problem with MILFs

Keith Thomson | Posted 01.26.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, Milf, Spyware, Spying, Tina Fey, Richard Nixon, Terrorism, 30 Rock, Philippines, MILF Island, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Milfs, World News

By sticking with its current acronym, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is in a precarious position made famous by the Nixon fundraising organization, the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP).

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Kenya Slaps Sanctions On Somalia

Blog: Somewhere in Africa | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, Nur Hassan Hussein, Kenya, Africa, Kenya Somalia Sanctions, Somali Pirates, Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf, Kenya Somalia, World News

Kenya is starting to flex some muscle on Somalia. Today the Kenyan government slapped sanctions on Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, accusing him o...

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Somalia: Bloody, 'Warlordism' Coming Back

New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, Somali Pirates, Africa, Somalia Collapse, Ethiopians, Pirates, Somalia, Warlords Somalia, Somali Government, Ethiopia Somalia, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somalia's transitional government looks as if it is about to flatline. The Ethiopians who have been keeping it alive for two years s...

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My Uncensored Interview with Deepak Chopra

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, India, War on Terror, Islamic Extremists, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Media, Wall Street Journal, Mumbai Hotel Shootings, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Saudi Arabia, Mumbai Deaths, American Muslims, Deepak Chopra, Muslims, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Mumbai Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, Pakistan, The View, Mumbai, Shock and Awe, Mujahideen, Mainstream Media, Iraq War, Patriot Act, Patriotism, Islamic Radicalism, Cnn, Mumbai Attacks, Deepak Chopra Mumbai, Anti-Muslim Bias, Iraq, World News

I spoke to Chopra Tuesday and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States.

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The War in Afghanistan Is A No-Win Situation

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

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The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer...

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Pakistan's Taliban Clashes Have The Country Using Tribal Militias

NY Times | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: War Wire, Islamic Militants, Terrorism, Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Taliban, Politics News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Two tribal elders lay stretched out in an orthopedic ward here last week, their plastered limbs and winces of pain grim evidence...

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US-Afghan Forces Kill At Least 43 Militants In Area Of Taliban-Led Insurgency

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Islamic Militants, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. and Afghan troops clashed and called airstrikes on a group of insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 43 militants...

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Pakistani Troops Kill 15 Militants At Afghan Border

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan, Afghanistan, War Wire, Islamic Militants, Islamic Radicalism, Asif Ali Zardari, Terrorism, Politics News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suicide attacks have killed nearly 1,200 people in Pakistan since July 2007, most of them civilians, according to military...

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Afghan Clashes Kill 25

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants attacked a supply convoy in western Afghanistan on Friday, sparking a clash that killed 10 insurgents and...

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Militant Attack On Afghan Border Kills As Many As 49 In Pakistan

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, o...

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Pakistan's Coalition Government Collapses

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Benazir Bhutto, Islamic Militants, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Politics News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The ruling coalition that just a week ago drove U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf from the presidency broke apart Monday, throwin...

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Pakistan's Ruling Coalition Collapses Amid Dissent

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Islamic Militants, Nawaz Sharif, Home News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The ruling coalition that just a week ago drove U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf from the presidency broke apart Monday, throwin...

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US Coalition In Afghanistan Kills 25 Militants, 8 Civilians In Skirmishes

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Afghanistan, Islamic Militants, US Coalition, Airstrikes, Civilian Casualties, Home News

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in Kabul on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding at least a doze...

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