An insurgent group, the Victorious Army Group, has extended a deadline for a Web design contest, according to an Internet posting. The group has set a Jan. 15 deadline for submissions of a design «worthy of the group’s reputation and the reputation of the jihad and the mujahedeen,» according to a translation provided by the […]
Les mer»Kairo: In a tape that surfaced Sunday, Osama bin Laden’s deputy urged all Muslims to take up arms, saying a refusal to join the fight against »the Cross and Zionism» was a »malignant illness» that would lead to the defeat of militant Islam. Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri said the global Islamic community had »no hope for […]
Les mer»Bangladesh: Police have detained nearly 70 suspected militants following the latest bomb attack which took the number of people killed by suspected suicide bombers to 28 in three weeks, including judges, lawyers and policemen. At least 150 people have been wounded. Bangladesh is the world’s third-most-populous Muslim country after Indonesia and Pakistan. State Minister for […]
Les mer»Ian McEwan: Blind fanatisme koblet med troen på at det egentlige livet finnes et annet sted er svært farlige krefter. Og det er dypt tragisk å se deler av venstresiden gå sammen med radikal islamisme. Den tror at en felles fiende i USA gjør alliansen nyttig. Men de inngår en allianse med djevelen. aftenposten
Les mer»BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 — An Iraqi police commander said Sunday that U.S. and Iraqi officials were certain that seven men who fought to the death in a house in northern Iraq were members of al Qaeda but were still trying to determine whether one of them was Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian insurgent leader.Officials Probing […]
Les mer»Al Qaida i Irak beklager at bombene i Amman gikk ut over et bryllup: In a message posted on an Islamist website often used by insurgent groups in Iraq, al-Zarqawi struck a rare defensive tone, insisting that al-Qaeda had checked the hotels and found they were «nests» of US, Israeli and Jordanian spies. «We ask […]
Les mer»Klar tale: «We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization,» declared Hassan Abbasi, formerly director of the Revolutionary Guard’s Center for Security Doctrines Research, and now chief foreign policy adviser to the new President. In Tehran, he is spoken of as «the Kissinger of Islam.» UPI
Les mer»As many as 3,000 foreigners are fighting US and coalition forces in Iraq, a US military analyst reported Thursday, citing a study drawing on Saudi and other regional intelligence reports. Algerians constituted the highest percentage of the foreign fighters — about 20 percent — followed by Syrians, Yemenis, Sudanese, Egyptians, and Saudis, said Anthony Cordesman […]
Les mer»Penger fra Saddam: One of France’s most distinguished diplomats has confessed to an investigating judge that he accepted oil allocations from Saddam Hussein. (…) Jean-Bernard Mérimée, who holds the title «ambassador for life», told authorities that he regretted taking payments amounting to $156,000 (then worth about £108,000) in 2002. The money was used to renovate […]
Les mer»THE HAGUE, Nov 16– Dutch police were hunting Wednesday the killer of a leftwing activist known for his criticism of police and intelligence-gathering practices. Louis Seveke, 41, was gunned down on Tuesday night in a street in the eastern town of Nijmegen by an attacker who approached him, shot him twice in the head and […]
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