Abu Hamza al-Muhajer

Is anyone in D.C. listening, or are they too busy playing politics and putting the supposed symbolism of the trial over the array of obvious security concerns? Louis Pepe Update, and an update on this story. "Blinded Prison Guard: Don't House Terror Suspects in NYC," by Joseph Abrams for Fox...  

Al-Qaeda leaders are promoting ‘jihad’ from inside the high-security prisons in Britain by smuggling out propaganda for the internet and finding recruits, a Home Office-funded think tank has claimed. In an authoritative report, Quilliam, the think tank, said “mismanagement” by the Prison Service is helping al-Qaeda gain recruits and risks “strengthening jihadist movements”. According to the report, Abu Qatada, described by Britain’s...  

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin calls Mark Kirk the “Crybaby Candidate” for senator Martin says Kirk’s pandering to public fears about bringing Al-Qaeda prisoners to Illinois is “nauseating” NEWS FROM: ANDY MARTIN /2010 “The name you can trust” Republican for U. S. Senator 30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406 Chicago, IL 60611-4723 (312) 440-4124 www.AndyforUSSenator.com www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com...  

Iraq's Camp Bucca, the US-run jail where around 100,000 prisoners were kept over six years, was a breeding ground for the Al-Qaeda terror network, according to police and former inmates.Bucca, located in an isolated desert north of the border with Kuwait, was a school for scores of Takfiris, or Sunni extremists who usually ended up in Al-Qaeda, said Abu Mohammed, freed in 2008 after 26 months behind its bars.  

Iraqi security forces, aided by U.S. advisors, arrested terrorism suspects and a suspected terrorist cell leader in Iraq in recent days, according to a Defense Department report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Iraqi ...  

Our pal Raymond Ibrahim reviews Al Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, over at the Middle East Quarterly: Al Qaeda in Its Own Words provides the translated writings of four jihadis—Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musab Zarqawi. Edited by five people with Kepel, a French sociologist of Islam, as lead editor, it contains a wealth of data that, unfortunately, is presented in a rather...  

while "telling Muslims that the jihad must persevere until the globe is governed according to Islamic law [is] ignored"Our pal Raymond Ibrahim reviews Al Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, over at the Middle East Quarterly: Al Qaeda in Its Own Words provides the translated writings of four jihadis--Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musab Zarqawi. Edited by five people with Kepel, a...  

Posted: Nov 13, 2009 3:14 PM Updated: Nov 13, 2009 3:15 PM MARION, IL (KFVS) - SNIPPET: "Ali Al-Marri, 43, is serving an eight year sentence for being a so called "sleeper agent." He has admitted to training in Al-Qaeda camps and having contact with the alleged planner of the September 11th attacks."  

WASHINGTON — Not long after he was rousted from bed and seized in a predawn raid in Pakistan in March 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave his captors two demands: He wanted a lawyer, and he wanted to be taken to New York. After a nearly seven-year ...  

Candidate Barack Obama urged a return to pre-9/11 counterterrorism-by-courts. President Obama’s Justice Department overflows with lawyers who spent the last eight years representing America’s enemies. Thus, Friday’s announcement that top al-Qaeda terrorists will be brought to New York City for a civilian trial is no surprise. That doesn’t make it any less inexcusable.The treatment of jihadist terror as a mere law-enforcement issue, fit for...  

Candidate Barack Obama urged a return to pre-9/11 counterterrorism-by-courts. President Obama’s Justice Department overflows with lawyers who spent the last eight years representing America’s enemies. Thus, Friday’s announcement that top al-Qaeda terrorists will be brought to New York City for a civilian trial is no surprise. That doesn’t make it any less inexcusable. The treatment of jihadist terror as a mere law-enforcement issue, fit for...  

My colleague Spencer Ackerman pokes fun at Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan over his release of classified information concerning whose communications are being intercepted by the NSA. Check out Rachel Maddow going hard on Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) for publicly revealing that the U.S. intelligence community is intercepting the communications of al-Qaeda-sympathetic cleric Anwar Aulaqi, a former U.S. preacher now in Yemen whom Fort Hood...  

As violence rises in Afghanistan, the power balance between insurgent groups has shifted, with a weakened al-Qaida relying increasingly on the Taliban. Afghanistan - Taliban - Al-Qaeda - War in Afghanistan - Asia  

JOBS-Before the President left for Asia this morning, he talked about a subject near and dear to tens of millions of Americans…not health-care reform….not Afghanistan…not the housing crisis…just jobs. Rachel Martin: “President Obama today ... But the nationwide demand for teachers in 60 out of 61 subjects has declined from a year earlier, according to an annual report issued this week by the American Association for Employment in Education...  

A known al-Qaeda leader has called on militants to attack airports and trains in the West. Abu Basir Nasser al-Wahayshi, the terror group's apparent chief in the Arabian Peninsula, has urged followers to make bombs from household materials. In an ...