Abu Hamza al-Muhajer

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...  

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...  

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...  

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  

London, Nov 9(ANI): The Scotland Yard has claimed credit for foiling an Al-Qaeda plot to blow up the New York subway three months ago after alerting the FBI. The Yard’s counter-terrorism branch was monitoring an email address uncovered in April’s abortive Operation Pathway probe into an alleged UK terror cell, when they intercepted an email, [...]  

London, Nov 9(ANI): Scotland Yard has reportedly foiled a deadly plot by Al-Qaeda to blow up the New York subway. The Yard’s counter-terrorism branch was monitoring an email address uncovered in April’s abortive Operation Pathway probe into an alleged UK terror cell, when they intercepted an email, which revealed the terror plot. It immediately alerted the [...]  

Two senior criminal investigation officers were ambushed in the Khashm al-Ein area as they were returning from the al-Wadia’ area with two of their guards. Thursday al-Qaeda announced their responsibility for the attack in a statement put on a al-Qaeda website. The statement also said that Abdullah Battis was the leader of this suicide-murder mission.  

Imagine a Christian preacher praising the killing of an abortion doctor. Just one doctor killed by a warped version of an ideology. Imagine a whole swath of Christendom staying quiet and not condemning the act of one errant believer. And yet, that’s precisely what Americans face today. The whole West is being asked to stay mute before a movement fueled by an ideology that praises murderers, glorifies death, and elevates religion over God...  

Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among Al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism.Bruguiere, now retired at 65, also describes Pakistan as the "cauldron" of terrorism and blames ex-president Pervez Musharraf for failing to address the threat of extremists during his seven years in power."Japan has become a prime target for Al-Qaeda," Bruguiere told...  

Zenpundit points to the amazing happening of al Qaeda strategist, tactician, and theorist Abu Walid al-Masri guest blogging at at All Things Counter-Terrorism. An excerpt: So we become ready for an intellectual dialogue with the security beauty and the terrorist fighter, Mrs Farrall, we take a tour with her in the different field of terrorism. She [...]  

Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism. Bruguiere, now retired at 65, also describes Pakistan as the "cauldron ...  

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 ...  

Malaysia StarAl-Qaida agent gets 8 1/2 years in prisonChicago TribunePEORIA -- A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Bradley University student and convicted al-Qaida sleeper agent to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison, asserting that he still poses a threat to the American people. ...Former 'enemy combatant' sentenced in IllinoisCNNus judge sentences al Qaeda agent to 100 monthsReutersAl-Qaeda Agent Sentenced to 8 Years in PrisonWall...