Abu Hamza al-Muhajer

How did suicide Bombers detonating themselves create the damage FROM the ceilings? . http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabbah/tags/explosion/ Blasts Wreck Jordan’s Image of Calm Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for three synchronized bomb blasts at international luxury hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman, killing at least 57 and injured hundreds on Wednesday night. Elsewhere, Tony Blair suffers a legislative setback in his war on terror and George Bush proclaims World... Read Full Story

A legislator has called for an investigation into whether British secret services may have mistakenly recruited people sympathetic to al-Qaida, a newspaper reported Saturday. Patrick Mercer, a Conservative member of Parliament, says six suspect people were recruited in a rush to beef up intelligence following the suicide bomb attacks in 2005, which killed 52 people in London. The Daily Telegraph quoted Mercer as saying two men recruited by the MI5 intelligence agency had attended al-Qaida... Read Full Story

Jordan's struggle with Islamism The Jordanian government's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood has always been a difficult one - and in the closing days of the current parliamentary election campaign, the movement appears as strong as ever. The main campaign rally of the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), was an impressive event. There were thousands of people there. Men grouped at the front waved the green IAF flags which show crossed... Read Full Story

A terror suspect who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide support to al-Qaida will serve about a year in prison and then be deported to Canada. U.S. District John R. Tunheim sentenced 35-year-old Mohammed Abdullah Warsame (wur-SAH'-mee) on Thursday to 92 months in prison, but gave him credit for the time he has already spent in custody. Warsame has spent over 5 1/2 years in solitary confinement at a maximum-security prison in Minnesota while awaiting trial. Prosecutors had sought a longer... Read Full Story

Three sons of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, who is currently serving time for incitement to murder, were on Thursday jailed over their involvement in a luxury car scam in London. Hamza Kamel, 22, and Mohamed Mostafa, 27, helped run the fraudulent scheme with their step-brother Mohssin Ghailam, 28, according to prosecutors at Southwark Crown Court. Judge Gregory Stone jailed them and four others for what he called "serious criminality" over the scam, in which they used a legal loophole to... Read Full Story

The second in command of al-Qaida is warning the Pakistani people that the U.S. interference in their country's affairs poses a grave danger to its future and very existence. In an audio message in English dated July 14 and addressed to the Pakistani people, Ayman al-Zawahri said the Pakistani people are struggling against "a clique of corrupt politicians and a junta of military officers who are fighting to remain on the American pay list." The tape, whose authenticity could not immediately... Read Full Story

* Radical recruiters use prisons, apartments over mosques * Spurred by scrutiny from state surveillance, communities * Withdrawal from open agitation * Security services need solutions By William Maclean BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Prisons and private homes have taken over from mosques as recruiting hubs for Islamist radicals in Europe, a shift that cannot be tackled simply by short-term government security measures, an academic said on Wednesday. Under pressure from state surveillance and... Read Full Story

The surge has worked , indeed. The war is a task from God , indeed. The Iraq war was justified , indeed. The Iraq war is a big success , indeed. (And I could go on and on like this - but I won't) Here's something that should never be put aside for consideration, namely the chaos and hardship that has fallen upon millions of Iraqis in direct result to the U.S.' wrongful invasion and occupation of Iraq, as the following article reveals: Iraq’s Forgotten Refugees By Elizabeth Dinovella When I... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Around The World / Jordan: Which Way Will It Go? November 22, 2008 Martin McCauley writes: Jordan - the country, not the B-list celebrity former Page 3 model - does not appear often in the news, much to its relief. However, it is facing two formidable challenges: how to cope with the fallout from the war in Iraq and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Half the population of Jordan consists of Palestinian refugees. The former King Hussein was a... Read Full Story

Here's one more example of incompetence at work, folks - to whit : Today, the Pentagon announced that American troops had killed Abu Qaswarah, the No. 2 leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, in a raid in Mosul. U.S. military officials hailed the death of Qaswarah, also known as Abu Sara, as “ a major disruption to the terror network , particularly in northern Iraq,” according to the AP. However, this is at least the third time that U.S. officials have announced the capture/killing of a “No. 2″ leader... Read Full Story