20 hours ago by K Hoffart

Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again Ever since I started meeting jihadis, I have been struck by one thing – their Britishness. I am from the East End of London, and at some point in the past decade I became used to hearing a hoarse and angry whisper of jihadism on the streets where I li ...

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23 hours ago by Roy Eappen

I think these trials are a totally insane idea. revealing secret sources of information and allowing jihadis a public platform , not to mention endangering the people of NYC are all good reasons not to do this. Our intelligence agencies have allowed some jihadis to go free rather than compromise sou ...

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7 days ago by Killian Bundy

Let’s see, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the world’s worst terrorists, has already confessed to masterminding 9/11 and tried to plead guilty multiple times to a military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Now, most right thinking people would say, fine, let the scumbag plead guilty, execute him, and be ...

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10 days ago by Collin A. Spears

Uniter Wa State Army Cambodia and Thailand - Thailand recalled its ambassador from Cambodia on November 5th over former Thai PM and wanted fugitive, Thaksin Shinawatra’s appointment as economic adviser to Cambodian PM Hun Sen. A few weeks back there were rumors that Shinawatra would be allowed to mo ...

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11 days ago by Peter Sain ley Berry

I first visited the Berlin Wall as a student back in the mid sixties. It had not then long been constructed and was far from the smooth and forbidding concrete behemoth that it later became. I was taken there by a young West German – not much older than myself – bitterly angry at what he saw had bee ...

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12 days ago by M. Simon

Senator Joe Lieberman has a few questions about the Fort Hood attack. Sen. Joe Lieberman's call for the investigation came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Whethe ...

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14 days ago by M. Simon

There is all kinds of speculation going on about Fort Hood. I'm going to do better. A wild eyed raving lunatic speculation. Here are links to some data points: Muslim Attack On Army Recruiters earlier in 2009. Then there are attacks on various targets. And then buried in this comment: Military relat ...

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18 days ago by K Hoffart

US moves on domestic jihadis In recent months, the US has experienced an alarming rise in jihadist activity. In the last two months alone, five terror plots have been foiled by the FBI, and there have been dozens of other arrests for various related crimes, such as providing material support for ter ...

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22 days ago by muslimwire

by Robert Spencer That they have broken up several major jihad plots in recent weeks is a tribute to American intelligence gathering and law enforcement. To them must go the credit for the fact that the U.S. is not this week picking up the pieces after another major terror attack. Yet just as Islami ...

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23 days ago by Killian Bundy

Remember when the Obama administration replaced the phrase “global war on terror” with the ridiculously politically correct euphemism “overseas contingency operation”? Well, here’s a counterterrorism operation that could have occurred anywhere in Afghanistan or Iraq, but it didn’t, this counterterro ...

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