Hamas overtook Gaza, though the fighting between two elected governments in the form of Hamas and Fatah have waged numerous battles over the past year alone. The fighting escalated in recent weeks, thus one major question has been posed. Is there a civil war in the Palestinian territories?
A civil war is loosely defined […]

Our “friend” Adam Gadahn has resurfaced in a new video that pointed at the economic “problems” as proof that “the enemies of Islam” face defeat. So, he ain’t dead (yet).

“The enemies of Islam are facing a crushing defeat, which is beginning to manifest itself in the expanding crisis their economy is experiencing,” said Gadahn, […]

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Adam Gadahn alias Azzam al-Amriki, an American convert to Islam who headed As Sahab, the propaganda wing of Al Qaeda and was missing since a missile attack by an unmanned US aircraft early in the […]

Three UK animal rights extremists received jail sentences ranging from 15 months to four years their part in an illegal campaign against companies that had business relationships with Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Mark Taylor, 39; wife Suzanne, 35; and Teresa Portwine, 48, were the first to be charged under new UK laws designed to make it easier […]

My last post asked readers several questions relating to the threat of jihadist terrorism.
As promised, I’d like to present my take on the current threat picture by answering the question I posed and elaborating further.
How do you breakdown the jihadist threat?
What was clear, from the Spiegel article I mentioned citing seven different experts, the mainstream […]

By NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press Writer
A suspected U.S. missile strike targeted two areas in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghanistan border on Thursday, killing at least nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Also Thursday, bombings targeting police killed 10 people and wounded 14 in Pakistan’s volatile northwest and the capital - reminders of the challenge […]

Despite the relative calm and void of terrorist attacks on US soil, we are nonetheless a Nation at war. We all must remain vigilent and report anything, as a DHS agent said in a recent presentation that I attended, that “Doesn’t Look Right.” I some circles, a rumor of an attack on October 7 2008 […]

The bombing outside the U.S. Embassy in Yemen is instructive for its scale and apparent failure to do anything but kill Yemeni civilians. It was certainly not a game-changing event like the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and certainly not on the scale of the 2000 USS Cole bombing. There is nothing to […]

Links of interest for September 12th 2008 through September 14th 2008:

YouTube bans terrorism training videos [SMH] - “Terrorist training videos will be banned from appearing on YouTube, under revised new guidelines being implemented by the popular video-sharing site. The Google-owned portal will ban footage that advertises terrorism or extremist causes and supporters of the change […]

Fact-finding civil society teams and their predictable findings
One would have thought that the death of the leader of the police team involved in the shootout with terrorists in New Delhi’s Jamia Nagar would silence the predictable apologists for who every “encounter” is a false one.
It turns out that Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma’s death was not […]